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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "They offered ex season ticket holders the same price deal as renewal of current season ticket holders. What more do you want them to do without upsetting current season ticket holders?'"
That was a good deal I agree but it's obviously not enough. The average in 2014 was about 2000 down on what it was in 2012. The attendance at the Hudds game was worrying to say the least. From Lenegan's speech at the fans forum it was almost like he was saying there is a new structure and that will automatically help the crowds but I don't think that is the case. At the minute it seems like some fans are ready to throw any excuse as to why they can't get to games. Thursday's don't help, there's now no free car parking on site, they've scrapped ancient and loyal memberships. There needs to be more done to get people back. FWIW I'm not one who has stopped going so I can't offer any suggestions but a decent number of the fan base are obviously disillusioned for various reasons and its up to the club to understand those reasons and do what they can to get the average back to the 16k plus it was. Thursday games are here to stay and the answer isn't to give tickets away for nothing. |
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As a beneficiary of the A & L last season, I fully agree. I can't believe it cost the club that much, but it was a nice gesture which said, hey, we realise you live a distance away and can't come every week, but here's a little sweetener.
BTW I've a Norweb shirt at home (somewhere, haven't worn it for years); does that makes me an 'official' part-timer? I suppose when I bought that I was, I was a Challenge Cup Final only guy.
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| Quote: CyberPieMan "I Again, with almost every ignorant BBC pundit bleating on that the format was too complicated and they didn't understand it (no matter how simplistically or slowly it was explained)'"
Fully agree about this, though. The BBC has a duty to inform, yes, and they shouldn't be saying "This is too complicated" (i.e. "The public are too thick to understand this"icon_wink.gif, they should simply be explaining it as clearly as possible, and keep the editorialising out of it. |
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| Quote: moto748 "BTW I've a Norweb shirt at home (somewhere, haven't worn it for years); does that makes me an 'official' part-timer? I suppose when I bought that I was, I was a Challenge Cup Final only guy.'"  |
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| Quote: CyberPieMan "If the WCC was a proper comp and not just 2 friendlies on an under-card to Sunday's effort then many more would have made the effort (me included - I simply can't get excited about our game & quite frankly I've got better things to do), regardless of whether it's a chance to see the "superstars" of the NRL in action.
Add to that the media coverage
The whole "Ryder Cup of RL" SL v NRL thing was a complete non starter as soon as it was opened up to whichever NRL team stuck their hand up without any qualification process. An expanded WCS will only work if all teams involved are there on merit.
But I genuinely believe there is enough to get excited about just taking our game in isolation without worrying about it being a friendly or part of a series of games. It's a game between arguably the two most famous clubs in RL, we haven't played Brisbane for almost 18 years and it will only be the 2nd time we've faced NRL opposition at the DW. There should be enough Wigan fans from the core fan-base wanting to attend this game without it needing to be heavily marketed or discounted. But as we've seen time and time again, if it doesn't count on a ST then it's not worth bothering with for quite a large minority.
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The only way they could have built up a Ryder cup feel would have been to have all three games on the same day and at the same venue. I'd even go as far to say that the players could have played in the same style kits (maybe a dream team kit) with their own club badges on at the side of a Superleague badge.
Without all that it's just two friendlies and a main event and many Wigan fans will want Saints and Wire to get beat and the same for them.
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