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| Yes the atmosphere point is a big one, which comes back to the start of the thread.
I try to avoid nostalgia bias, and I remember some seasons being better than others for atmosphere, not always correlated with results (I remember the Centenary season being flat even before 80-0, and 1998 being a distinctly dead season on the terraces, but 2001 despite some shockers on the field being a real high point for atmosphere).
Through the 1990s and early 2000s though I thought the atmosphere was pretty good, and it transferred OK for the first couple of seasons at the HJ. Something changed for me around the time of signing Andrew Johns. Remember how great the atmosphere was on Johns' debut. The HJ was rocking. I don't remember that many great atmosphere at the HJ after that.
In the later part of the Cullen era the atmosphere was fractious and frustrated. It got better when TS arrived and we had some good atmospheres in games when we started putting on a run of results in TS' first season, and in the playoff after we won the League Leaders' Shield and nilled Huddersfield although that was more a celebratory-party atmosphere than the great atmospheres of games in the past.
After that, it went back to a mixture of boredom and anxiety. 2011 was our best season in terms of quality on the pitch, but my memory of that was most league games feeling like a kind of dress rehearsal while we piled up big wins waiting for the playoffs, and a nauseating anxiety in the playoff against Leeds which we lost.
It was the same a few years later when we had that big comeback against Widnes in the playoffs. Had that game been a few years earlier the HJ would have been rocking with every score we pulled back, but I remember thinking something was missing.
After that I moved away and so I don't go as often now so I can't comment on every home game but from reading the comments on here it doesn't seem like the atmosphere has got any better.
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| Quote: Superblue "Can’t say I’m angry at all this season, still buzzing after winning the cup.
We won the CC final against our local rivals in the biggest game between the two clubs in Rugby League history at Wembley stadium live on the bbc
Fantastic achievement.
For that reason alone this season will be legendary in Warrington RL folklore.
What’s there not to like?'"
Still buzzing...…….. haha. What a load of tosh. That's one of the reason your always the bridesmaid, because your content with garbage one up rugby league. As good as Wembley was, it was considered a huge upset. The term 'huge upset' should be an insult in itself. A team like Warrington shouldn't be causing huge upsets because they should be one of the top teams.
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| Quote: Targaryen_3 "Still buzzing...…….. haha. What a load of tosh. That's one of the reason your always the bridesmaid, because your content with garbage one up rugby league. As good as Wembley was, it was considered a huge upset. The term 'huge upset' should be an insult in itself. A team like Warrington shouldn't be causing huge upsets because they should be one of the top teams.'"
It's was propaganda...and you bought it.
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| Quote: rubber duckie "It's was propaganda...and you bought it.'"
Now you've come from under Superblue and had your say, get back under him whilst he finishes.
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| You need to have a look at yourselves! I've been a RL fan for over 50 years and for a vast majority of that time Warrington have been also rans! Season after season of nothingness. "Car crash" crowds of 5'600 were above average!! Now you're the reigning challenge cup holders..again. You have no divine right to any success but your club is in a fantastic position can command the attention of world stars and is probably in the best shape its ever been! Pack in whingeing! After the season you have had it grates on the nerves of us current lesser mortals!
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| Quote: Widnes Al "You need to have a look at yourselves! I've been a RL fan for over 50 years and for a vast majority of that time Warrington have been also rans! Season after season of nothingness. "Car crash" crowds of 5'600 were above average!! Now you're the reigning challenge cup holders..again. You have no divine right to any success but your club is in a fantastic position can command the attention of world stars and is probably in the best shape its ever been! Pack in whingeing! After the season you have had it grates on the nerves of us current lesser mortals!'"
No doubt what is “disappointment” can just as easily be read as “entitlement”.
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