: Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:35 pm  

Alex BP' wrote:

Over the years, our attendance figures are consistantly very good as are our season ticket sales and we have never had to embrace anything for ''survival''? In fact, they increased since the arrival of a Premiership club so your information is totally incorrect.

In general, people in Wigan do not choose between football or Rugby as they are either one sport or the other.

The ''new'' Latics supporters aren't ex-Wigan RL supporters, they are ex-Man United, Liverpool, Everton or Man City general football supporters who have now got a Premiership team or their own.

For a Premiership club, Wigan Athletics attendances are abysmal and although they might get higher gates than the Rugby, Rugby League is still the most popular sport within the town by far.

the impeccable logic of a wiganer

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:50 am  

Bedford Red wrote:

the impeccable logic of a wiganer

I have often disagreed with Alex BP on here but in this case he is spot on. Wigan is a Rugby League town, always has been, always will be. Just because you have a few bandwagoners desperate to see a bit of Premiership football doesn't make the club more popular than Wigan RL, firmly established in the local community.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:52 am  

Kelvin's Ferret wrote:

In previous years you had to be a member to buy a tie, with membership coming free with some season tickets or £10 to buy on their own. Bit silly really, as if you know a season ticket holder they can buy one for you.

That is utterly ridiculous. Unbelievable.

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:13 am  

Dave Lister wrote:

That is utterly ridiculous. Unbelievable.

Can you buy me one?

: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:37 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

:?:

I have often disagreed with Alex BP on here but in this case he is spot on. Wigan is a Rugby League town, always has been, always will be. Just because you have a few bandwagoners desperate to see a bit of Premiership football doesn't make the club more popular than Wigan RL, firmly established in the local community.

that would depend on your sense of history... and your access to objective info - to say Wigan is an RL town is odd when 20% more people show up to watch the soccer in an area completely mobbed out with premiership soccer. No one is denying that RL is significant but not all Warriors 'home' fans are from the town, and they include their own posse of bandwagoners...

Does any one has the right to be holier than thou about attendances? - the arguments are now very over rehearsed