I agree....100% I agree and I have been shot down in flames by the Quins faithful for pointing this out. A 14k gate will add 1k to the average.........and fool only the RFL. I can see Salford salivating over this one....if it comes down to QRL having a better average this year.....but guess what, nothing can be done about it.
14,000 walking 1 way whilst a max of 5k walking the other isn't going to please the residents of TW2 and if they turned down pavaroti for a gig at RUHQ......they aren't going to allow this.
Sorry that you have decided to boycot games down here now, but that's your choice.

Please complain to our club about this rather than complaining about it on here (feel free to do both, but ensure the club know your feelings). I will be doing so.

"Well said. Oh and while we're at it, we will take SKY with us...."

So Sky only film because Bronquins are in it???

It will never be an exspansion sport, because its passion in play and support come from its roots, That aint London or norfolk or devon or Lincolnshire. Why??? cos they didnt play rugby when the rugby league was formed, by all means try to expand and educate people in other areas, but when do we give up on exspantion realising its not working and support the traditional clubs???

And we have a pop at Wigan because they are held to ransom by a football team...............

woops.....too much sauce...sorry

I disagree. They are investing in the community around London, along with Skolars. The amateur game in London is spreading and has never looked healthier. So they are doing a lot for 'our great game'.

I think people on here are really over-reacting. It's embarrassing.

Clearly you are happy to be ripped off in this way then?!

What a load of whining rubbish, as I have said on the Quins Site, I have paid £24 for a stand seat at Knowsley Road and then have to fight to see the try line and a dirty window at the end of the stand, that I don't think has ever been cleaned does not help!

I agree it is wrong to not offer a ticket for the League game only, but there is not that much difference in price, sad to read though the parochial sad shouts of I hope Quins fold! - every club has it's problems, 8,000 plus at Knowsley Road while just down the road the same night in Wigan 15,000 plus and it is a smaller town, so don't preach to other clubs, I live in the Borough, can you tell me when you last saw a poster advertising a Saints game?

But we didn't charge you extra to watch a RU game beforehand.




i'm embarrassed for you

It was your choice to pay £24 for a seat. You could have paid £18 to stand or even a couple of pounds less if you had booked tickets in advance.

St Helens has a population of just over 100,000 while the Wigan borough has just over 305,000. Proportionally you would expect them to get a bigger attendance, but as a % of population, St Helens are better supported (10% as opposed to 5%).

Our average attendance last season was well in excess of 10,000, one of the criteria for Franchise I believe, and has steadily increased over the last 5 years.

Given that I pay anything up to £19 to stand on concrete under a hole that drips rain on me I really don't have a problem with the charge, no. But if I did have a problem with it, I wouldn't verbally bash up the heads of Quins fans who can do nothing about it and probably feel really embarrassed about it. Also, I wouldn't storm off in a huff, cancelling hotels and God knows what. I thought the idea was to support Saints?

The reaction on here is really embarrassing.

exactly - in the grand scheme of things, its not that much more than usual, its not that much more than you pay at other grounds (£20 to stand at Wakey), so it wont affect my attendance of the game (i'm on holiday so wont be going anyway

the biggest issue for me is the way that RL in London is being run - crowds are at an all time low, schemes like this will only cause more resentment towards the club from its loyal supporters and wont exactly encourage others to turn out to watch them.