No it isn't. And it isn't an excuse. It is the two of these things in conjunction. Most people with families are lucky if they get opportunity to do their own thing on more than one or two occasions a month, so it can become a stark choice between going out or going to the Rugby. Friday nights allows to combine both - increasing attendances. It also allows those families that do go as a family to go on Friday night without it impacting upon the rest of their weekend plans.

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This is exactly it. For those of us with families and busy lifestyles, it becomes very difficult to lose a whole day of your weekend to Sunday rugby, which is otherwise only a few hours out of your Friday evening. Personally, i will go to only one in every two or three sunday games for this very reason, yet almost all Friday nights. Many are the same, and why our crowds are usually about 2-3k down on a sunday.

The difference in football is that in terms of fans attending games it is predominantly a male (typically 20 - late 30s) dominated sport. There is also the tradition of Saturday afternoons so it is really a standing boys day out/ down the pub day.

No wonder the crowds at the Warriors are not as good as they should be when you read some of the excuses and nonsense for not attending games on a Sunday, like some of the other Super League and Championship/Division One clubs do.

Watching Rugby League does not seem to bother them with their busy life styles, nor does it seem to bother Union and Football suporters now playing on weekend days.

As for the old chestnut, that crowds in football only consist mainly of males in the 17-35 age group, trying telling that to the many young lads and girls, women and people of all ages and gendre who are now seen in the increased attendanaces of football games.

The simple truth is that supporters of Rugby League in Wigan are no longer as interested in spending the same level of time on support for the club and the game as was the case in the days of Central Park.

No wonder, our crowds are now no better than those of the Latics who play most of their games on weekend days.

Hang on, don't we get better crowds now than we did in Central Park days?

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to be fair they were 7 years ago averages

2015 - 13,362
2016 - 13,499
2017 - 13,648
2018 - 11,528
2019 - 11,700

Not done 2020 or 2021 but the average there was up around 12,000 from when full attendances were allowed.

So still better than most of the years at Central Park?

cant include them due to covid so would be an unfair reflection

what it shows is out attendance these days is pretty average, in the CP days it was up and down massively all season as the low crowds were very low and the high very high, we used to get far more away fans then than we do these days also

Exactly, and how many of the home average Super League attandances at the DW Stadium in recent seasons been inflated by games against better away supported clubs like Leeds, Warrington and especially St Helens on Good Friday plus attendances which again been inflated by promotions of reduced and free tickets in the North Stand for games aginst low supported away clubs, especially Catalan.

If less supporters are now travelling to other clubs including Wigan, it would mean that there are now more home supporters watching Wigan which cannot be the case as the club now sells less season tickets than what it use to sell in ten years or so ago.

As for non season ticket games, they are a embarrssment to the club as shown in the recent Grand Final Semi Final game against Leeds when out of a paltry crowd of around 7,000, a third or more was from Leeds who had made a extra effort to cross the Pennines as a result of seeing that they a more than 50% chance of winning the game which turned out to be the case.

Will be intetresting to see how many season tickets will be sold this season as a result of the appoinment of the NEW coaching team, the silence of news about French coming back and the lack of signing some better quality players which has been the case at some of the other clubs since the end of the season.

To keep claiming that crowds at the DW Stadium are better than what they ever were at Central Park is nonsense as many of the quoted attendances at Central Park were far from the acual attendance announced due to various reasons which clubs no longer can get away with in a modern Stadium like the DW Stadium.

How many times did any of you go to Central Park and come off saying, "the crowd appeared to be lot bigger than whats been announced"?

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Are you saying the Gang of 4 were tax cheats and should have been prosecuted ?