Me too.

with that argument how come you dont fill you ground every week without away fans? madness....

On the ground basis we put 12 million into Whelans pocket for the sale of central park and the debt was wiped clean by Tesco, bit like will happen with Saints. They put money in like we did, tesco do like we did and then some from the board like we did as Whelan had took over.

Dont start an argument on fan basis as Saints can never win the argument as Wigan and Leeds have been front runners for a few years now.

Like about 25 years+

Leeds overtook Wigan 7-8 years ago.
Wigan held it from approx 1985 to 2001.
Prior to that Hull FC had the highest average attendances.

Mr Phil Sephton will be the kind who writes strongly worded letters to his local council every week. People will moan about anything. 20K on the gate is all you need to know.

I dont see how wigan can have made more money. Wigan have around 10k season tickets, Saints around 6k, so the figures are even worse from wigan's point of veiw
10000 x 10 = £100000
or
9000 x 16 = £144000
but all that is irrelevant.


Wigan got 20k @ £10, but would have got 17k @ £15 (minus 10k season tickets), so lost very little or made some and brought alot of new supporters to the game, a great idea!

You have got to realise, for a lot of non wigan fans, no matter what we do fault has to be found!

Its quite sad, but if it makes folk happy then fair enough, personally i cant think of any ocasion that would make me so mad, that I would feel compelled to write a letter to a paper. Especially about a club that wasnt my own!

He is probably one of those "massive saints fans" who only goes to Wigan games and finals, but speaks for the majority, to anyone who will listen!

After 15 yrs since wigan's dominance was ended, why some fans still have this chip on their shoulder is beyond me?

I dont have a chip on my shoulder. Just making a point.

Possibly because many non-Wigan fans chips have got bigger as those 15 years have progressed. You're one of the more enlightened non-Wigan fans who posts on this forum, but there are precious few like you.

That's not self-pity by the way. It's a statement of fact.

And did you see the que for the caravan around the South stand? They must have made a mint that neet. BTW did you know that Wigan RL sell more merchandise in the Wigan Athletic club shop than Wigan Athletic (info courtesy of our CEO)

You are so right - his letter was also in the League Weekly so he's written to at least 2 papers complaining. Maybe he's offended that any other game could be called the 'Big One' apart from a Saints game???