That's your football mentality. The day we as Rugby League fans can't stand/sit together without it "getting messy" would be a very sad day for our game.

On the most part, RL fans are fantastic as was shown by the Hull KR fans we were talking to when we were in the Well on Sunday.

As a Wigan fan, it wouldn't enter my head to not go in the North Stand in case something happened if I was looking to buy a ticket for the game.

Overkill is definitely playing a part In the apathy towards this game.
However the fact that we are so boringly one dimensional these days Is a bigger factor IMO.
I am beginning to get concerned at my own disinterest In the game at the mo. I really hope Nathan Brown can bring back the style of Rugby that gets me counting the days down to the next game.

Your club were selling tickets in the 'Wigan End' to home fans at least a week before the Good Friday game.

And will be selling season tickets in there next year I believe.

If this situation was the other way round, there wouldn't be a thread like this on the Wigan board. 2000 max away fans for a derby, when a win for you guys secures 3rd spot isn't anything to be proud of IMO.

I fully understand their reasons for not going, but the fan in me couldn't miss a Wigna Saints game no matter how little it so called meant. It COULD be the last time we meet this year and your only win. I'd want to be there "just in case"

But that season ticket gives you a seat in the north stand for games against yourselves, Warrington and Hull KR. It's only because the only home standing end is sold out, so we need to give our fans the option of standing at games.

Anyone criticising fans for not attending this game needs to give their head a wobble.

People can only afford to go to so many rugby league matches and, with potentially 3 playoff games and a Grand Final in the next month, tonight's fixture doesn't come too high up the list.

Oh, and it's on TV.

That i think is also a silly idea.

I think that emotion can boil over in these games, both on and off the pitch. I can't imagine it taking much to grate on someone if a mouthy person starts piping up when his/her team is winning. I wouldnt say there'd be out and out brawling going on but id expect the stewards to be looking a bit closer tonight.

There is out and out brawling just amongst Saints fans in big games without the need to add another club's fans.

It's one of those situations where 99.9% of people would handle it well and behave perfectly, but there is bound to be an exception to that and it's about how much of a mess they make.

In response to the original post, not enough! Its a derby, no excuses