Any ideas of whether its gonna be another poor crowd again Friday? I expect the Whinos to bring a decent following across the Pennines. Just hope its a reasonably healthy for the sake of rugby league

It should be 18k+, no excuses, 80 minutes from a grand final. I really dont understand RL fans at all if if its a poor turnout.

Yep, but I'd be surprised if we manage to get 12k on.

2 of us who normally going aren't so it'll be 11,998.

I expect a rather poor following from Leeds on Friday. Considering their average home crowds match ours.

Over recent years Leeds fans don't seem to come out of Leeds.

It should be a minimum of 16-17k but won't be.

I'd guess at about 11-12k. I can understand the poor crowds for the first round matches that aren't knockout but not for this.

The crowd will be missing the usual season ticket holders who cant get their head around having to pay for a game..

Doubt I'll be going. Not got very much money at all. And if we do get to the final what little I do have will be going towards a final ticket.

13k maximum i'd say, very sad

Spot on pal. Theyll think nothing about paying for a season tickets that include games v London, Salford, Castleford, Wakefield but hate paying for game versus one of our biggest rivals that gets us into the Grand final. Its feckin nuts!!
Im just hoping that it was the rain that was putting people off from getting tickets, well its forecast dry for later on in the week, so get your lazy asses down to the DW friday, FFS!!

Leeds have another allocation. They are bringing 2.5kish. We have sold about 7k I reckon.

Way to up the crowd for this gameEveryone who attends the semi final gets prioty for final tickets (should their respective teams win).

Makes me sick that people will b3 sat at home, watching on tele waiting to go on the SL website should we win to get the best tickets or will be at the front of the que in the morning decked out in cherry and white, acting like diehard fans.

Way to up the crowd for this game:

Everyone who attends the semi final gets prioty for final tickets (should their respective teams win).

Makes me sick that people will b3 sat at home, watching on tele waiting to go on the SL website should we win to get the best tickets or will be at the front of the que in the morning decked out in cherry and white, acting like diehard fans.


This!!!! Im a season ticket holder but at last years challenge cup I struggled to get tickets...1 I was punished for living out of the area and the club not selling tickets over the phone!!! And 2. All the tv fans being first in queue when I did finally manage too get to the ticket office!!!

If we do get to the final I expect the same!!!

Matt

I struggled to fork out for a season ticket, at the minute I cant afford to be paying 20 quid for a ticket a week before I (provided we win) need to be forking out £40 + for a gf ticket and transport to OT. I have no choice but to be watching it at home. does that make you sick? Why do people start crying about people who can't always go to matches and would rather watch on sky? people have familys to provide for and bills to pay.it is a lot of money and not everyone's fortunate enough to have the time or money to make Wigan RL their number one priority in life. there'll no doubt be fair weather fans turning up if we get to old trafford but isn't that the case the world over? If you have a season ticket you will have no problem getting a final ticket anyway so why start calling for semi final attendee's to get priority? what about the people who have watched every home game in the regular season but don't have the money to be paying for 3 matches in 4 weeks?

The low crowds are perhaps due to a lot of people feeling the play offs are a week too long. The first two games between us and Catalans and Wire v Saints were in effect friendlies. Win or lose and you're still in the comp.

They should go with the top eight and 1 v 8, 2 v 7 etc. First week four games and all knockout. Second week two games of semi finals with the third week for the final. I just think if every game mattered then fans are more likely to turn up than if they don't matter.

Finance is a large part of it. Families have to budget and paying for four rugby games in a month isn't part of anyone's finances if they are regular supporters as they have season tickets.

Trouble is the people who make the decisions don't pay to watch so they are out of touch with us fans.