I live near Cambridge. I'd love it and would be prepared to give up the wife's clothing, hairdressing & make-up allowance to pay for it.

Smiffy, glad you incorporated "allowance" into your 'kind' offer.

Regarding rights and whether it affects attendances that other posters have made, there must be plenty of up to date comparative evidence? I would probably subscribe and still go and presume that as part of the TV offer there wouldn't just be the match, but, the odd feature?

Their clubs have had that debate, I don't think many people would seriously choose to stay at home in favour of watching a one camera recording a couple of days later.

Wigan t.v. are streaming three of their friendlies live (Leigh, Saints and Workington) and the tries from todays game in London are available for viewing now. For £35 per year it's very good value.

Wire and Pies have more or less had an equal share in the spoils regarding silverware over the last 5 years and you could separate them in the top of league positioning with a credit card....

Yet the Pies RL have Wigan Rugby TV, a smaller town population with higher unemployment, a Premiership/Championship football team in competition....
but yet can on some weeks Pies can double the home attendance of what Wire can get at the HJ.

With that in mind I figure it's something else that is holding back our attendance that is far more significant than the small amount of fans we will lose from the ground with Wire TV!

How many subscribers has Wigan TV got? I've never seen a figure quoted.

Wigan have seen to lost quite a bit of money on this venture to date, it is a completely unsustainable venture for a rugby league club to offer with any sort of quality.

As I originally posted, Leigh Centurions TV has made a healthy profit. A cheque for £10,000 was handed over eight months after the service was introduced.

More silverware in the last 50 years.

There was no Pie tv 50 years ago and they were still doubling our attendances when they cheated themselves out of relegation a few years back.
And during the last season 50 years ago exactly, Warrington had the highest attendances ever seen in World team sport of any kind. Way way ahead of the Pies....so we have let up somewhere.

I think you miss Vespid's point. Though Wigan had a slightly dodgy period late 70s to mid 80s, other that from the 1950s onwards they [ihave [/ibeen for over fifty years consistently the most successful side overall in RL. That builds a 'dynastic' feel about the club which stimulates support passing on through the generations and building as time goes on. Wire have won plenty of silverware, but generally scattered in little four-five years bursts with fallow periods in between, so providing potential fans with lots of good reasons to lapse, or never to get interested at all. Another factor has to be Warrington's 70s/80s 'New Town' status , which brought valuable new development to the area, including housing and business, but the side effect was a growing population with no historic allegiance to the town, or even to Rugby League. I've lived away from Warrington since 1976, and I have been in many a Warrington taxi since with a driver who either doesn't know or doesn't care about the town's rugby team. It will take a good ten-fifteen years of consistent success ( a trophy every couple of years, always in the top four-five of the league ) before the 21st Century Wire can start to have this type of momentum.

^ Exactly what I meant but said far better than I could've done, cheers!

Look at how our attendance peaked in 2012 when we were winning trophies. 2 years without a trophy and the fair weather fans have left again.

If we win a trophy this year, they'll be back next year. It's annoying but it's true!

You both missed my point.
Pies were packing them in at the JJB when they was a drought in silverware and they bottom of the league, while we however was fairing very much better.

Of course consistancy and or success breeds growth but we have stumbled in the last 4 seasons. It says to me that something isn't quite right when attendance drops, but what is for sure, it is Wolves TV that is responsible for it.