It was a Saturday late afternoon kick off. Plenty of time to get there and back.

I don't completely blame the Wigan fans though. The RFL must shoulder the blame for the stupid scheduling of the Cup rounds.

This isn't anything to be proud of and of course it should be the case but Wigan will have had the biggest following of any team at a Challenge cup semi this weekend by the sounds of how tomorrows games sales are going.

Today's crowd isn't a Wigan issue, it's an issue of the game in general.

Unless Huddersfield are involved, or has someone woke up and smelled the coffee.

With the current malaise that surrounds the challenge cup at the moment, and the common consensus that the game was going to be a walk over,then i think todays attendance wasn't that bad

Think this is bad wait for Thursday games! Especially the next one! Think attendences will drop rapidly!

You'll only hear about it if the Giants are involved!!

Laughable attendance from the best supported team in the league, no hiding from it. Neutral venue was questioned by Parliamentary committee due to being a WN postcode but it turns out most of the Loyal 18 were on the Par 3 or in the boozers of Wigan.

Lowest semi final crowd in the Wembley era.

Ancient and Loyal?

As far as excuses go, this one really is the bottom of the barrel.

Half of Wiggins supporters could get to Leigh easier that Wigan and a fair size chunk of them could walk it

To be fair to Huddersfield they took a very good following to Warrington in the quarter final

As I've just said on the other thread: let's say the semi had been against Saints at the Halliwell Jones. Wigan take 6,000 and Saints take 6,000 and suddenly we're all fairly happy there's a 12,000 crowd on in a CC semi-final. 12-13,000 is fairly average for a CC semi.

And that's a conservative hypothetical example. When given a higher quality of opposition and the prospect of a closer game, more would probably choose to go. London were never going to win today, everyone knew that and it showed.

Get a grip. When one side brings next to no-one, the attendance will be poor.

But don't let that get in the way of both those brain cells enjoying a rant.

Travelled my 100 mile round trip, enjoyed the clinical performance but not the atmosphere.
No banter, no singing, no edge, it was bizarre.
Even if we had filled the stadium, the atmosphere would still have been poor.
The Cas and Bradford games at the DW had a great edge and there weren't that many of them.