I was thinking that too!

I don't think the head count can be too accurate, when having our passes scanned as we arrived into the car park behind the Coral stand the hand held scanners were not working and we were just waved through. This also happened for the Salford game. It is also possible to walk through that entrance and round to the main stand I think, so this could account for a few missing numbers but not too many.

The point has been made many times that it wasn't a head count last year, and it isn't this year. It is the number of people who buy tickets for the game so 7000 (or whatever it now is) plus the number who pay at the gate.

Looked about right to me, and of course if season tickets count, attend or not, then scanners not working would be irrelevant.

Didn't I see someone say there were 25 full coaches turn up from Wigan?

While I thought their following was excellent, that seemed a little on the exaggeration side.

25 coaches is only at max 1200 people though. They're coaches, not trains.

True, but a lot of people drive to games rather than take coaches. I wouldn't expect near to that many coming on coach to a regular away game.

We're not a regular away game. We're Bradford.

It was a good enough Wigan turnout, I'd estimate in all they probably had around 2,000 in the ground, which is not as good as some occasions in the past, but a very creditable turnout nevertheless, and better than most.

February 20th 2004, Bulls 34 Wigan 6 att 17,267
I wonder what the missing 7,368 were doing yesterday.
The fixture has lost almost half its support (42.7%) in nine years- massive drop in any sport.

I though Wigan's away support was pretty good yesterday considering the football team was at Wembley the day before. As when City were down there, I reckon a fair few might have made a weekend of it or perhaps weren't back yet.

That is, from 2004 to 2013. Yet in your pant-wetting indignance, you yourself point out that our attendance on Sunday was actually BETTER than 2007 (which fixture you say was BEFORE the Bulls downfall in your eyes began!! How's that, then?
If I use your figure, then I could equally stupidly say the fixture "has gained almost 10% support in 5 years".
In fact, the fixture also attracted crowds of
Round 21 - 19/7/2009 att. 9,487
Round 2 - 5/3/2010 att. 9,294
In this context, Sunday's gate was actually UP, wasn't it?
In any case, we happened to play Wigan TWICE at home in your "benchmark year" of 2004 and the second gate on 13/8/2004 was "only" 12,610 so your starting point is just arbitrary nonsense. You could have said that the fixture lost almost 28% of its support in six months. But you obviously overlooked the second fixture.

I think this has run it's course. Can't we have a civil debate without abusing each other?