Didn't hear any passion from the wigan crowd today and looking around it is clear why given the age profile. What ever happened to the Brigantes? the colour, creativity and spark has completely gone from home games now and they at least tried to provide this.

It was a fad and was never going last. That is my opinion.

Why did we need some clique with a name like Brigantes do get the crowd going? No idea.

It's not as if at CP we didn't have different stands who attracted different kinds of people.

The DW is just a terrible stadium which makes it hard to create an atmosphere when half full (or less as the case was yesterday). There's no clear singing section and attempts to create one aren't likely to succeed. At home games the fans that do make a noise at away games are too spread out.

Don't remember the home games against teams like Cas having any atmosphere with or without the brigantes anyway. If we need a load of ed up teenagers to generate noise for us it really is a sad state of affairs

Yet the attendance will almost certainly be the highest of the round. The problem is specifically with the Challenge Cup and generally with the game becoming more and more a television sport which does not generate a crowd who pay on the day.

What I don't understand is why the league game next Friday will probably have around 15k attendance while the cup game only attracted less than 9k.
I don't know what the answer is.
Why did Wigan fans chose to have a week off watching their team play in what was billed as the game of the weekend.

Same reason as Leeds fans on Friday - season ticket holders unwilling to pay watch on tv.

Well, you cant say that about the Cas fans, they certainly turned up in numbers, I just hope they all come back this Friday.

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.