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Lots of people I know are still not going because of the pandemic.

I still don't think there's an air of normality, and with the news and media reminding us at every opportunity that cases are going up etc, it won't come for quite a while.

Also, the disrupted game times are having a huge impact.

Our regular-as-clockwork Friday evening home fixture now seems a lifetime ago.

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Yesterday was a step in the right direction and at the minute it’s probably the best we can hope for. I know a lot of people picked up tickets from local amateur clubs, who had been given kids tickets to sell for a quid (my brother in law brought my two nephews). That inflated the attendance, which is a worry when it’s so low but it’s still good to see the club trying things.

One thing that really would help is a better quality of attacking rugby. I think the drab style of play is hurting us but yesterday was genuinely entertaining. Some great try’s, a good bit of biff (not everyone’s cup of tea I know) and a pretty positive feel about the place for the first time since we’ve been back in the grounds.

The club simply have to push and push and push some more when it comes to 2022 season tickets. They have to get that base of 8,000-10,000 season ticket holders back.

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I wouldn't say the lobbies brought anything decent in numbers, around 300, 400 at most. Previous visits have been well into the thousands and on one occasion more or less filled the North Stand.

I think the jump from 5.5k to 9k was pleasing. It meant there's still have a chance attendances will return to 2019 levels (I won't say 2020 as we hardly played any matches at home).

That said, our attendances have been reducing year on year for a good 3-4 years prior where they dropped from 16k down to c11k.

I feel we will only know next year when season tickets have been sold (and hopefully covid is a thing of the past for many) will we know where we are.

The litmus test is the Saints game I feel, I suppose that depends on what the team looks like on the day and performances from now until then. It's on SKY obviously so easy for many to give it a miss. That goes for Saints fans who normally fill the North.

I think anything under 16k will be seen as a poor show even though we should really be getting 20-22k+

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Aye, Leigh’s following was poor but understandable given their current position. It’s a gutter for the club though because even if they’d come here bottom but in with a sniff of staying up, I think they’d have brought 1500-2,000 and even more had they been in a good position in the table. That’s an awful lot of lost revenue at the minute.

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The last game I attended was in March last year - our last away game pre pandemic at Huddersfield. I haven’t been to the last two games as I am away but, to be honest, I am underwhelmed by the standard of rugby that most Superleague teams are dishing up and it is further aggravated by some of our mind boggling team selections and complete inability to break down good defensive structures. I am unimpressed by any defeat of the basement teams so 50 points against Leigh, whilst welcome, is not going to get me to travel over from my home in Leeds.

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It probably doesn't help that it's Salford that we're playing on Friday as they aren't doing that brilliant and probably won't bring many unless they want to see Hastings one last time icon_biggrin.gif

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I genuinely thought we’d be sold out for the first one back. In my mind we could have played Wigan Bulldogs and had a capacity on.

I can’t go as often as I’d like due to work and family life. It used to be gutting but it is what it is. I say used to be because recently with the goings on at the club I’ve had no appetite to either (even if I could). I went to the Leigh game last minute for example despite knowing I could go. I just have no desire to sit and watch drivel and be told afterwards it’s outstanding. There’s sometimes I think Alexander De Pffeffel has spiritually taken over Lam and trying to blind us with his nonsense.

I can’t go for a few weeks now, maybe even months. It may well be I’ve seen my last ‘live’ Warriors game in 2021 but the sad thing is - I’m not really that disappointed. I’m that despondent with the club and with RL in general that I’m not even bothered. It’s a sad state of affairs.

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Quote: 100% Warrior "I genuinely thought we’d be sold out for the first one back. In my mind we could have played Wigan Bulldogs and had a capacity on.'"


I thought the complete opposite to be honest. But it's not our attendances as well, a few weeks ago I went to the cinema with my lads watching the latest Marvel movie Black Widow in the first couple of days of release (normally would be well attended) we were the only ones in the screening. Not only that the cinema itself was absolutely empty, 7pm in the evening.

Even after the initial rush (since Euro's ended) most of the pubs and restaurants I've seen/been to are now empty most days. Have people simply got used to staying at home watching TV, sitting in their newly built home bar with friends, gone out on UK day trips or weekends in the caravans? Somethings happening and it could take months for things to revert back to some sort of normality.

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Quote: 100% Warrior "I genuinely thought we’d be sold out for the first one back. In my mind we could have played Wigan Bulldogs and had a capacity on.

I can’t go as often as I’d like due to work and family life. It used to be gutting but it is what it is. I say used to be because recently with the goings on at the club I’ve had no appetite to either (even if I could). I went to the Leigh game last minute for example despite knowing I could go. I just have no desire to sit and watch drivel and be told afterwards it’s outstanding. There’s sometimes I think Alexander De Pffeffel has spiritually taken over Lam and trying to blind us with his nonsense.

I can’t go for a few weeks now, maybe even months. It may well be I’ve seen my last ‘live’ Warriors game in 2021 but the sad thing is - I’m not really that disappointed. I’m that despondent with the club and with RL in general that I’m not even bothered. It’s a sad state of affairs.'"


Just to put some reality into things.

Our normal eight was three for the Wire away game.

For the Leigh game, one was working, one was on holiday, one had covid and one was scared of contacting it. I suspect that is a reasonable spread of concern throughout the game.

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The big drop is down to the reduced uptake in season tickets. After the donation at many clubs in 2020, and the poor outlook with no return guarantees for 2021, the uptake of season tickets was well down. Around 50%? That equates to 3k+ down at Wigan?
I’d be less concerned about those 3k or so, a good chunk of those will return next season, however the general loss during the reign of Shaun Wane, of almost double that loss, is what would worry me. That envious fan base was built up over decades of top contenders RL and peaked again under Madge.

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Lots of people don’t want to buy tickets for games that have, at best, a 50/50 chance of being called off due to Covid.

This obviously has an impact on season ticket purchases too…..

To some people it’s a massive effort to finish work on a Mon/Wed/Thurs/Fri and drive to the game and then have to drive home……Or they can sit in the local/at home and watch the game with a beer?

As the phrase goes “People will vote with their feet…..”

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Several factors preventing us coming in our usual numbers at present.

Midweek matches
Possibility of matches being postponed and train tickets lost
Holidays
Covid isolation

Get to as many as we can. Missed it so much both the game and the social side

Regards EW

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Time some stop making excuses,. especially about Covid and faced the the truth about the state of the game today compared to a few seasons ago.

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Quote: Ruddy Duck "Time some stop making excuses,. especially about Covid..'"


If people are uncertain about attending because of Covid, that’s a valid excuse in my book. It will be some considerable time before things get back to normal, if at all.

Some folk in their teens, twenties and thirties are rather blasé about Covid because their chances of dying from it are extremely low. For those in their sixties and above, it’s a different matter altogether and a sizeable chunk of our support comes from that age category. Then there’s the possibility of Long Covid and facing a severe disability that’s going to hamper you for the rest of your life.

I’m sixty three, it won’t stop me watching the lads, it won’t stop me going to the pub, going on holiday or doing a whole host of other things that I do but I can well understand others being hesitant, if that’s their choice.

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I dont think attendances were ever going to just jump back to normal as soon as restrictions were lifted. As a family we are currently all in isolation as all 4 of us have got covid, so still lots of people in the same boat with either contracting or isolating due to contacts.
There is then the loss of habit. If you get out of the routine on going to the game every Friday night, its very easy to replace it with something else (admittedly that could only really be sat in the house recently)
I saw a friend post on twitter earlier in the week that it cost him £100 for 2 adults and 2 juniors to attend the game, so that is going to put some off. If they are looking to take the family as they cant go on holiday etc, then £100 to watch some of the stuff being dished up IMO is too much for game of RL

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