Its not got nothing at all to do with playoffs, however, like I said earlier I would be there if I had enough money to pay for my brother too.

I do think the playoffs effect it but I think more of it is the price. For example: My brother is a student when I was a student 2 years ago my tickets were about £10 maybe even less. The ticket now is £15. Adult ticket even more. If I bought mine and his I would be spending the amount I could've paid for 2 adult tickets 2-3 years ago.

I understand how an economy works and I know why the prices have to go up but its hurting people because my wage hasnt gone up by 50% since then so I cant afford the un-necessary expenses.

I still love RL and I will stand by it even when its being run by these morons but I just cant afford to support it financially at the moment.

I imagine this is the same for a lot of people and thats the problem with it.



We are WIGAN not a little minnow of a team with disloyal fickle fans we have a great following but that following simply cant al afford it now. Its a shame but its the state of affairs at the moment. The problem is the club cant afford to take the risk of reducing the season ticket to spread further and get more in for less per ticket in case they get the same number still.

They should take a look at how a few soccer clubs are run. I support Crewe and a few years back (may still do it now) you could pay £10-£15 a season for a membership and then a ticket went from somewhere around £25 to around £18. So after 3-4 games you were laughing. It was a bit like a season ticket for people who could only make a few games a year.

If Wigan did that I would buy it and go to 4 or 5 games a year and so would my brother I think.

Unbelievable.

The only thing enthralling about it was how static it was compared to the match on Friday night. I think I watched it in a pall of disbelief, while sitting inert on our couch.

I mean we all know that RU is essentially a different game, but even by normal RU standards, nothing seemed to be happening. Conditions were poor, I'd agree, but how can those two teams justify a game in which neither side appeared to have any kind of visible attack strategy. In RL, you commence your assault upon your opponents' line the moment you gain possession. You can't always make it from one end of the field to the other in six tackles, but the tactics are overtly offensive. In RU - certainly at international level, and definitely in that game - vast swathes of the match seem to get bound up in tedious midfield rucking and mauling, tit-for-tat kicking for touch and of course a fog of technical penalties, which are the only thing that ever seem to be a deciding factor.

Mind you, 10 out of 10 to their marketing people for managing to brainwash people like your mate into thinking they are watching something exciting.

And you seem to be intent on ignoring the fact they got two bites at the cherry. Yes playing Wigan would be harder than playing Wakefield, but the advantage of winning that game is greater and the negative of losing it is lesser. Les Catalans win the progress to the elimination semi-final, Leeds win they progress to the preliminary semi-final. Les Catalans lose they go through to the preliminary semi-final, Leeds lose they are out. A game they lost. Les Catalans lost and still got the home advantage, leeds won and didn’t. Why you are insisting on pretending that getting an opportunity to progress directly to the elimination semi-final is worse than not getting that opportunity, getting two bites of the cherry is worse than getting only one, and home advantage having lost game is worse than not getting home advantage even after winning a game I don’t know.


No it isnt.

A top 5/6 system puts the team finishing top straight into a home semi with a 2nd home semi if they lose. The top 8 system doesn't even guarentee the team finishing top a semi final never mind 2 home semi finals