Re: 5,348 : Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:24 pm  

What was the Wigan crowd?

Re: 5,348 : Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:29 pm  

St. Rughead wrote:

What was the Wigan crowd?

They give out 12,000,but if you go on their site most of the regulars reckon the actual figure was between 6 and 8,000.

Also haveing seen a picture of the Warrington game there was nowhere near the 9000 they give out.

Re: 5,348 : Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:31 pm  

There was never 12,000 at Wigan!

Re: 5,348 : Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:53 pm  

Well they are going to get taxed on whatever attendance they officially announce, it was always felt that some clubs played it the other way to pay Less Tax!

Re: 5,348 : Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:57 pm  

BackrowSaint wrote:

The conditions in Warrington were not the same. The roads were far worse in St Helens.

I'm only 3 miles from the Warrington ground and it was bad! what was the conditions like in Wigan then? the St Helens attendance was Poor! however bad it was, but I still feel when you keep putting the announcement back of when a game is on or off then it does put supporters off travelling!

Re: 5,348 : Sun Mar 24, 2013 1:14 pm  

Don Brennan wrote: Also haveing seen a picture of the Warrington game there was nowhere near the 9000 they give out. Well I was there and I would say it was an accurate figure. Perhaps the photos you have seen were from before kick-off? Have a look at the background to this one to see a quite busy South Stand and to be fair to Huddersfield fans their numbers were hardly different to how many they normally bring, they were just all grouped together at the back of the West Stand: http://gcsports.zenfolio.com/p649796395 ... #h591aea40

Don Brennan wrote: Also haveing seen a picture of the Warrington game there was nowhere near the 9000 they give out. Well I was there and I would say it was an accurate figure. Perhaps the photos you have seen were from before kick-off? Have a look at the background to this one to see a quite busy South Stand and to be fair to Huddersfield fans their numbers were hardly different to how many they normally bring, they were just all grouped together at the back of the West Stand: http://gcsports.zenfolio.com/p649796395 ... #h591aea40

Re: 5,348 : Sun Mar 24, 2013 1:21 pm  

jaybs wrote:

I'm only 3 miles from the Warrington ground and it was bad! what was the conditions like in Wigan then? the St Helens attendance was Poor! however bad it was, but I still feel when you keep putting the announcement back of when a game is on or off then it does put supporters off travelling!

Wire v Hudds was a top of the table clash so would have been much more of a draw. The conditions at LP were Baltic to be fair. Mind you 5300 at some grounds would be about 3 times the average.

Re: 5,348 : Sun Mar 24, 2013 1:59 pm  

jaybs wrote:

I'm only 3 miles from the Warrington ground and it was bad!

Tis like that in Warrington though. The town centre can be almost snow free but the outskirts can be really bad. I've seen worse in Warrington and it wasn't as bad as St Helens, not within an hour of kick off anyway.

Re: 5,348 : Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:22 am  

I'm a season ticket holder as are the 2 people I normally go with and we didnt go. We didnt fancy getting stuck if things got worse and tbh we didnt fancy being frozen sat there. Radio and nice warm house won

Re: 5,348 : Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:20 pm  

jaybs wrote:

I'm only 3 miles from the Warrington ground and it was bad! what was the conditions like in Wigan then? the St Helens attendance was Poor! however bad it was, but I still feel when you keep putting the announcement back of when a game is on or off then it does put supporters off travelling!

I travelled to and from Cinnamon Brow (Wireland) to LP on Friday evening so feel qualified to comment on the conditions in the respective places.
Conditions were definitely a lot worse in St Helens. It was snowing quite heavily when I left at 6.40pm, but was not reallly sticking. The snow got gradually heavier and amounts on the ground deeper the nearer you got to St Helens, appreciably so from Burtonwood. Whilst the stadium surrounds were clear, approach roads and footpaths had about 1" of snow, which more than doubled over the course of the game. Return journey was a little dodgy until the Winwick side of Burtonwood, when once again conditions improved markedly.