i am refering to the warriors mate V the french. they had 7 crowds of 13k 2 of 12k (1 against us) and the famous 6,790. so maybe a 15k all seater is more app. good fri game is at dw every 2 years and the big 1. thats it.whats the point in spending an extra x million when its only gonna be full 1 good friday in every 2 years and 20k on once a season for the big one!!!!!!!!!

how can you average 17k when you looks at those figures??????

The average was 16,377.

dw saint is RODALLEGABOMB from Cockney latics

who the hell/what is he/that???????? quite a witty name though. better than my boring one

He's also DAVE WHELAN STADIUM that was banned from RLFANS last year, which means he's got ONE POST to improve his poor trolling or he'll be the same way.

Dave Whelan wanted to do this. He even had a model of it in the old JJB shop across from what was BHS. It's a crying shame that it never happened.

Think the figures I'd seen closer to 17k must have included the WCC as well. My mistake, cheers

I'd love to see us co-own the stadium and not be classed as tenants.

We can't afford and don't need a new ground

I like where it is, it's central and easy for most people to access. And for me personally, in summer when the weather is good, I can walk in 30 mins or so. If not, I can drive and get home within 10 minutes. I have a great view from my season ticket seats, and when we play Saints/Wire/Leeds the atmosphere is always really good. It's up to the fans to make the stadium a home, and this season I feel we are really getting somewhere, particularly with the effort from the flag fund/Brigantes. Financially, it wouldn't make sense to build another stadium just for us to use on our own, not only the building costs but the running costs. It is frustrating that we sometimes have to change our fixtures for the Latics but it's not the end of the world.

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This.

The days of owning and maintaining a multi-million pound sports stadium that is only used for 15 days a year are well and truly behind all but the truly rich. I'm quite happy with our arrangement at the moment, even if it means we have to change the date of a couple of games. What does annoy me though is the slowness of the club to announce these changes - the home game with Salford being a prime example from last season where the official announcer at the end of the Wakefield game even said the game would be on the Friday night!

(and before anyone tells me that was a month prior, I know, but the Sky/ESPN fixtures for the premier league had been announced by then and it was known the Latics were playing on Sat at 3pm)