You sound glad it's ended, you must be happy now it's a morgue every week.

The atmosphere is pi$$ poor, it's a sad reflection on our fans we get embarrassed on a weekly basis. The club deserves better, this batch of home-grown players certainly do. The club has never been in an healthier state, yet the fans turn up and don't show an ounce of passion those young players do for the badge.

I don't think the attendance was particularly bad, 8,736. Leeds only got 7,145, Widnes 5K... Wire vs Bradford won't be far off ours I imagine.

If you'd just been to an all you can eat chinese buffet, would you be hungry for chinese?

Wigan fans have been to all you can eat buffet of trophies, so it's understandable a little apathy would creep in, it's not like wigan haven't won the CC million times before.

There is apathy though out the game at the moment, not just at Wigan.

I've been away from the NW for two years.

Yesterday was my first live (non-SF/F) match in a long while. I was shocked at how subdued the atmosphere was yesterday.

Markedly different to how it was two years ago.

I love the new genteel atmosphere, let's have a string quartet at half time, and some chamber music rather than all that jitterbug stuff, so annoying.
Just let the noisy uncouth visitors get on with it,no manners, just ignore them.

The fact that you seriously, genuinely appear to have no idea why we need the type of fans who are willing to attempt to create some passion (usually by singing) tells me why we have a problem generating even an average atmosphere.

In answer to your question of 'Why did we need some clique with a name like Brigantes do get the crowd going?' - because apart from one or two hardy souls who try, no other *!%&$! can be bothered.

Challenge cup games are always poorly attended and obviously some of the season ticket holders don't go.

Maybe it's worth handing out more freebies to local schools, rugby clubs and business.

Aye.
Just over 5K at Bradford today.

What was at the Wigan v cas game?


If teams have few thousand season ticket holders that don't go, it will greatly effect the attendance. Also the fact all the games have been shown live on tv will have bearing on it.

I think all clubs should adopt the stance that any season ticket holder should get free admission to any / all home CC games. they'd certainly turn up instead of watching it on the box in my opinion.

I'm not even a ST holder, that is just my opinion and also I think part of the reason they don't attend is because, despite, being a ST holder, they feel they are being mugged into paying for another home match should they be drawn in the CC at home.

if wane is going to call out to the fans to ask us to turn up in numbers and show our support then the club (and RL in general) need to understand the reasons why we are still not doing; prices!

i'm sure there are more underlying reasons as to why this doesn't happen but take a step back and its simple really.