Serious? I reckon it was just short of 1000.

If you go by the history though, playoff crowds have never been supported well and have always been lower than the original league game. Look at the crowd at Hull on Sat night compared to the league game.

So the crowd at the game was announced as 12,500 yet the official reported crowd was 9,987?

Are the gate receipts split 50/50 between Wigan and Leeds?

I thought gate receipts of al play off games go into a big pot and each side gets an equal cut.

Dave

Yes Leeds speccies don't like travelling do they? oh and a big thank you to all the flag collectors i hope you did very well with the collection, the flags look great in the stadium.

It was an equally, if not worse turnout by the natives of Wigan, with plenty of spaces across the three "home" stands.

Anyway, who gives a toss about how many fans travel across the Pennines. Given that you're the one with the bee in your bonnet about it, perhaps you could enlighten us? It's not our job to fill your ground and the evidence will show that Leeds didn't need the extra support last night.

The only freebie season ticket holders get is a free ticket to an early challenge cup round if at home. There are incentives like the time the club just about filled the north stand v Quins with cheap or free tickets to Heinz employees.

For season ticket holders there is a concession of £3 off the price of a play off game if you book early enough. I got mine today on-line for £23 plus £2 booking fee. That is for one adult and one junior so normal price for an east stand play off ticket is £12 junior and £17 adult as opposed to £9 and £14 with the discount. I think its quite steep after a seasons support. Spoke to one chap on leaving on Friday who said it was going to cost him another £80 this week to watch us v HKR.

Dave

Best supported team in the league. FACT.

Sportig Life is wrong - attendance is 12117 on the official Wigan site.

if you ask me - and i' haven't read half of this topic - but a home play off tie is a BONUS home game for the club / owners / whatever. any home tie in the CC or play offs isn't part of the clubs initial financial plans at the start of the season surely as there is no way to guarantee them before a ball is kicked at the start of the season.

why not charge half price tickets to all home fans and maybe the same, if not a little discount for the away support and get it rammed? even if it was 12k last night that is still a very poor attendance if you ask me considering the importance of the game.

why on earth i got random seats via the website when i booked online in the middle of nowhere in the west stand, albeit in the middle of a group of leeds fans as well, is beyond me

It's not sporting life. It's the press association that will have got it wrong. They feed most media outlets like Sporting Life who takes its reports from them and it just rolls around to everywhere incorrectly.

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Everyone can remember the league winners. If you love RL enough to remember the GF's you love it enough to remember the league.

98 Wigan
99 Bradford
00 Wigan
01 Bradford
02 Saints
03 Bradford
04 Leeds
05 Saints
06 Saints
07 Saints
08 Saints
09 Leeds
10 Wigan

I bet ive gone and got one of them wrong now! haha! But seriously, that period where Saints dominated deserved to yield more than one actual Championship. Come on be honest, even when Leeds won the GF, everyone still treated Saints as the best/no. 1 team. Why would you treat a 4 game tournament over the evidence of a 27 game tournament? No one in thier right mind would.

I posted a similar topic this morning and was told it was all 'sour grapes'. Glad to see that some people still value the full season with all its complications over a glorified Premiership which for some reason is 'more important'. I repeat - if Hull KR* go all the way and win this after gaining just 20 odd points all season are all of us expected to say that they are the true champions? Somehow I think it will be a tumbleweed moment for Rugby League.
* No disrespect intended to Hull KR, they are just an example. I actually admire their progress and coach in particular.

Cheers for the compliment Morgs as done a great job for us okay were not there at the minute 2 more seasons and team improvement then think we will be winning trophies, am dreading playing Wgan next season got an awesome team and are going to be very hard to beat..