Re: Why was our average crowd so poor compared to other club : Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:23 am  

Wires71 wrote:

I think the 2002 Steve Anderson season was worse than 2023 and on a par with 2022.

2002 was easily the worst I can remember. Paying good money to watch the likes of Gary Hulse, Dave Alstead, Leon Felton, Tom O'Reilly, Dale Cardoza, Danny Halliwell and Kevin Crouthers, plus of course our 'star import' Matt Rodwell, was soul-destroying.

Re: Why was our average crowd so poor compared to other club : Wed Dec 18, 2024 1:27 pm  

The Speculator wrote:

2002 was easily the worst I can remember. Paying good money to watch the likes of Gary Hulse, Dave Alstead, Leon Felton, Tom O'Reilly, Dale Cardoza, Danny Halliwell and Kevin Crouthers, plus of course our 'star import' Matt Rodwell, was soul-destroying.

You forgot "The Sturminator", Dean Busby and Warren Stevens who Cullen described "as the best forward in the Championship".

Least we got Westwood and Wood in midway and Darren Burns and Fozzard were decent.

Re: Why was our average crowd so poor compared to other club : Wed Dec 18, 2024 2:21 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

You forgot "The Sturminator", Dean Busby and Warren Stevens who Cullen described "as the best forward in the Championship".

Least we got Westwood and Wood in midway and Darren Burns and Fozzard were decent.

Sid Domic too was good for us that year.

Re: Why was our average crowd so poor compared to other club : Wed Dec 18, 2024 2:54 pm  

Alffi_7 wrote:

Sid Domic too was good for us that year.

He was indeed. Just to nudge the thread back to the subject of crowds, our average home attendance in that 2002 season was 6,270. The highest 'gate' was 9,105 (when we played Widnes), which is still well below our average home crowd for 2024. Shows how times have changed.

Re: Why was our average crowd so poor compared to other club : Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:25 pm  

Alffi_7 wrote:

Sid Domic too was good for us that year.

Yes, he was the good side of average.

He wanted to stay but we didn’t offer him a deal. He went to Wakey.
Who was it we brought it to force Domic out?

I don’t like to dwell much on that period of our club.

Re: Why was our average crowd so poor compared to other club : Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:33 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

Yes, he was the good side of average.

He wanted to stay but we didn’t offer him a deal. He went to Wakey.
Who was it we brought it to force Domic out?

I don’t like to dwell much on that period of our club.

The RFL changed the rules and reduced the number of Overseas Quota players that a club could have.

Wire didn`t bring another player to the club to replace Domic, but were forced to release a player and chose him.

Re: Why was our average crowd so poor compared to other club : Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:50 am  

I remember being at Wigan for our play-off defeat which was Sid's last game for us. The crowd were singing the "Super Sid song" and he was almost in tears.

Re: Why was our average crowd so poor compared to other club : Thu Dec 19, 2024 1:44 pm  

Boss Hog wrote:

The RFL changed the rules and reduced the number of Overseas Quota players that a club could have.

Wire didn`t bring another player to the club to replace Domic, but were forced to release a player and chose him.

Cheers. That’ll be why I couldn’t think of a replacement.