Yep! The saddle junction down to the stadium is a pain in the , and traffic ends up often being backed up towards Sainsbury's. The traffic coming from the direction of the Town centre was shocking too, but that's purely because of the bottle neck on the other side of the saddle junction. Traffic was backed up from there all the way up to the magistrates courts.

After being at the game there didnt look 23k inside that groung yesterday but why does the band go in the north stand as the supporters know its the away end and maybe better if they was in the south to try and create some kind of atmosphere as it was the worst for amosphere since we have been staging games there for a test match.

I reckon 21k tops, but i have been suprised at crowd figures given at games in the past

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The atmosphere was pants, its been better at small Wigan games against Celtic and quins.

Think that's going a [ibit[/i far, don't you? As mentioned already on this thread, it was quite a decent atmosphere in the North Stand.

I was in the North stand and couldn't understand people bagging the atmosphere. We were sat near the band and it was pretty good in there.

Never 23k on. But i'd imagine that all the free tickets sent out to Local Amateur Clubs were counted also, which would account for the big gaps in large blocks of certain stands. 23k tickets may have been dispatched, but never 23k in the ground. The atmosphere wasnt that bad - pretty flat at the end of the first half in a very 'Oh here we go again' mood. But midway through the second half everything perked up and I actually enjoyed my day. If we'd have competed in the first half we may have won.

I think the problem was everyone went in the ends of the ground and the sidelines were scattered about. They charged far too much for the touchline stands.

The North stand always gives off a better atmosphere anyways, the roof on it is solid and bounces the noise back , whereas on the South, it's clear plastic.

£50 is far far far too much to watch RL. Especially since we pay what? £20 max per game a year [For those without STs]. Internationals should have a price cap of £15-£18 with Junior tickets no more than £7.

There was IMO deffinatly no more than 20k on saturday. There was so much space in the East stand and the west stand was even worse. The prices were shocking and thats the reason!!!

I was sat on the North side of the east stand and it was good at the start but pants for the rest of it. Had the game been closer it would of been a much better atmopshere. Atmosphere is bad at any game when your time gets so dominant and the game is ove by half time.

Yet people quite happily paid £65 minimum for the American football at Wembley the previous weekend.

It doesn't make sense.

there was plenty of space were i was in the east. The atmosphere was pants, but so was the first half. Biggest raw was when maguire got subbed. Anyone else think atmosphere's are better with evening/night games?

hopefully next week will be a better first 40 and the atmosphere might pick up.

Novelty value Brian. We can watch live top class RL nearly all year round. We can even watch amateur RL through the winter but generally speaking you'll only get 1 chance a year to watch live NFL. There's a hell of a lot of fans of NFL in England too.