Re: Announced crowds! : Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:15 am
MadDogg wrote:
The quality is poor, Thursdays are terrible and every team seems to play in the same formulaic way.
BUT the stagnation in ST sales at Wigan don't actually reflect the trend across SL as a whole. As reported in the RL press, sales are up at Catalans, Wakefield, Salford, Hull, Hull KR, Warrington, Castleford and Toronto. You'd imagine they'd be up at St Helens plus Leeds have their new ground. Stagnant sales at Huddersfield.
It's a problem at Wigan more than a problem with the game itself. Poor entertainment value, poor atmosphere and all the bad news stories off the field across the last 12 months have all likely contributed but the decline started several years ago.
BUT the stagnation in ST sales at Wigan don't actually reflect the trend across SL as a whole. As reported in the RL press, sales are up at Catalans, Wakefield, Salford, Hull, Hull KR, Warrington, Castleford and Toronto. You'd imagine they'd be up at St Helens plus Leeds have their new ground. Stagnant sales at Huddersfield.
It's a problem at Wigan more than a problem with the game itself. Poor entertainment value, poor atmosphere and all the bad news stories off the field across the last 12 months have all likely contributed but the decline started several years ago.
Evidently, many of today's supporters were not around when games in the Floodlit Trophy, Lancashire Cup, Challenge Cup Replays were played on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at a time when the game played in Winter and in front of far bigger crowds than what we get today.