Re: Where did it all go wrong? : Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:56 am  

jaybs wrote: Agree I loved the days at Fulham, I liked Charlton, and have to admit the World Club Championship games at The Stoop, when it rocked, not heard what the atmosphere was ike at Millwall yesterday, would like to know how the 8,101 attending was broken down fan wise? who did it attract? Initial estimates indicate 3,500 fans travelling down from Wigan, 2,000 Wigan and general Rugby League fans from the south-east and around 2,500 non-Rugby League attendees interested in seeing a live ga Read more at http://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2015- ... gXE0TIk.99 http://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2015- ... ith-london Back in the Capital in January http://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2015- ... -challenge Regards , EW

jaybs wrote: Agree I loved the days at Fulham, I liked Charlton, and have to admit the World Club Championship games at The Stoop, when it rocked, not heard what the atmosphere was ike at Millwall yesterday, would like to know how the 8,101 attending was broken down fan wise? who did it attract? Initial estimates indicate 3,500 fans travelling down from Wigan, 2,000 Wigan and general Rugby League fans from the south-east and around 2,500 non-Rugby League attendees interested in seeing a live ga Read more at http://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2015- ... gXE0TIk.99 http://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2015- ... ith-london Back in the Capital in January http://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2015- ... -challenge Regards , EW

Re: Where did it all go wrong? : Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:59 am  

I am glad I a not alone in not believing that the attendance was over 8000. Counted all the season ticket holders as present I suppose.

Re: Where did it all go wrong? : Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:02 am  

Bostwick wrote:

I am glad I a not alone in not believing that the attendance was over 8000. Counted all the season ticket holders as present I suppose.

Think so . All the season ticket holders that applied for tickets that is . Wigan have around 9K season ticket holders .


Regards , EW

Re: Where did it all go wrong? : Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:39 am  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

A southern RL fan is tweeting 2500 southern addresses bought tickets, 2000 of them their first game. (As tickets were bought via Wigan possibly first Wigan game as I certainly wasn't on their database before this week. Always paid on the day visiting with Broncos strangely enough.)

Have to say they must have been elsewhere in the ground as my area was all Wigan. Some will have been Wigan fans down south anyway (I went to Brick Brewery pre game so approached on a north bound train, there were a surprising number of families in RL kit heading in that way suggesting they live South London-ish.)

I hope those figures are right but my experience of the day didn't reflect those figures. I was also surprised at how few Broncos faces / how little Broncos merchandise I saw. Obviously in a crowd of X thousand I may just have missed people - I didn't see Paddock for example - but it did make me think a lot of RL fans down south may have totally burnt their bridges with the sport. A good friend of mine who did numerous away games and had a season ticket for years was three miles away watching football for example.

I was there mate, but in my Catalan shirt! Of to France on Wednesday for their last game.

Re: Where did it all go wrong? : Mon Sep 07, 2015 10:00 am  

Probably why I missed you, wasn't looking for someone dressed down! I'm going in to London for Broncos last home game so won't see you there either......

In all seriousness whatever the crowd was / wasn't hopefully the day met enough of Wigan's KPI's to be deemed a success. Ian Lenigan is one of the few figures at the top to still believe London is an important market. If he loses faith.....

Edited to say I see Ian is hinting it will probably be repeated next season but with a regular season fixture so they have longer to promote it etc. Final analysis of the bottom line yet to be done but he sounds upbeat about the corporate side etc.

Re: Where did it all go wrong? : Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:21 am  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

Probably why I missed you, wasn't looking for someone dressed down! I'm going in to London for Broncos last home game so won't see you there either......

In all seriousness whatever the crowd was / wasn't hopefully the day met enough of Wigan's KPI's to be deemed a success. Ian Lenigan is one of the few figures at the top to still believe London is an important market. If he loses faith.....

Edited to say I see Ian is hinting it will probably be repeated next season but with a regular season fixture so they have longer to promote it etc. Final analysis of the bottom line yet to be done but he sounds upbeat about the corporate side etc.

Well my reading of it is that they'll try it again, the Wigan presence in London is increasing - Capital Challenge opposition for Skolars again, a tie up with Kings Colege Uni - while London continue to sink without trace with Cap'n Hughes at the helm. I suppose a lot will depend on how the crowd increases or decreases for next time , assuming there is one. Wonder if they'll play at the Den again? Think it was a pretty smart move playing at the ground of a team thst had been relegated and concerned about loss of revenue, it will surely have made Millwall more receptive to Wigan's approaches.
Will be absolutely gutted if Wigan do make a go of it when London have had so many opportunities to make it work down South! I mean how many times can one man/ club continue to shoot himself / itself in the foot?

Re: Where did it all go wrong? : Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:38 am  

Yeah, you would think St David of Hughes would get at least 1 decision right by mistake.

Re: Where did it all go wrong? : Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:51 am  

Cowgirl Nostalgist wrote:

Yeah, you would think St David of Hughes would get at least 1 decision right by mistake.

Law of averages surely?

Re: Where did it all go wrong? : Mon Sep 07, 2015 4:09 pm  

The BBC are quoting Ian as saying Wigan's line in the sand was 4000 fans. Above that was a success, below that a failure. As even the most pessimistic of those guesstimating the crowd has said it was over 4000 it seems to have passed that test.

Re: Where did it all go wrong? : Mon Sep 07, 2015 11:13 pm  

Halfdan of t'wide embrace wrote:

The BBC are quoting Ian as saying Wigan's line in the sand was 4000 fans. Above that was a success, below that a failure. As even the most pessimistic of those guesstimating the crowd has said it was over 4000 it seems to have passed that test.

They'll take Catalans regular season game next year....if they can get a decent ground and it's a decent month (not freezing)...otherwise they might go the whole hog and try to fill loftus road with a game v Leeds on a Saturday night!
I really hope this works for them because whilst I have no love of Wigan, I want that idiot Hughes to see what could have been!