Quote: pies-r-us "From the number of people I know who have said they are not renewing this time, I would be surprised if the club could hang on to what we had last season. The worrying thing is a lot of them are saying it’s not the money, it’s the game!'"
I've got 5 members of my close friends and family who aren't renewing this year. The reasons given from a couple of them range from occassional games on a sunday having too much impact on other plans for the weekend, to shift patterns that cause them to miss games which means a season ticket makes no financial sense.
However, others who are not renewing have mentioned general disillusionment with the game, and that they see the season ticket as a pointless expense when you also have to fork out for play offs etc as the weekly rounds ultimately decide very little.
Obviously, the reasons for people not renewing probably cover a wider range of reasons than the couple of sentences I've put above. But there does seem to be a general malaise around the game this year.
I live too far away to make it to most live games so tend to watch most of my RL on sky. I'm a life long fan of the game and was a season ticket holder at Wigan up until the time I moved away from the north west. This year though something has changed, and I didn't watch a single game that Wigan weren't involved in, where as before I watched any RL no matter who was playing. I can't put my finger on what it is that's made me not care anymore. I don't think it's the game itself, as I've started to make plans to go to as many of the RLWC games next year as possible and I'm really looking forwards to it, and things like the SOO are always a highlight of my sporting year. But I just don't really care about the domestic comps anymore.
