Re: 2022 Betfred Super League Fixtures Announced : Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:30 am  

Jukesays wrote:

Once again, theres so many things in the post to pick holes in its untrue

The latest "All our yesterday's" is that people "Worked more" back in the day than they do now
No wonder our country has gone to rock and ruin, its because people used to work more back then (sarcasm alert).

Never mind that stopping Tues/Weds games had nothing to do with sky

Anyway

Do yo ever stop trying to be a clever sod?

Re: 2022 Betfred Super League Fixtures Announced : Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:39 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

It’s the thing that stuck out to me. It’s pretty awful that and will hurt the club financially.

I can see that the latter two are because of being on Sky but the first one doesn’t look to be. That one looks to be on a Thursday because Latics are at home on the Saturday against Sunderland.

Its exactly that reason. Yet when Latics are away on 12 March, we take a trip to the south of France.

Huddersfield Town are away on 26 February, so their stadium is available that weekend.

Whoever dreams these fixtures up needs replacing. Much easier to reverse the Huddersfield and Catalan fixtures so we play away on the weekend 26 Feb and at home on the weekend of 12 March. The comment about the pitch-laying is a smokescreen as there's a high chance the Latics will be in the L1 play-offs, which dont take place until mid-May.

Re: 2022 Betfred Super League Fixtures Announced : Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:20 am  

Ruddy Duck wrote:

Do yo ever stop trying to be a clever sod?

Perhaps, a Grammer School Education may account for it!

Re: 2022 Betfred Super League Fixtures Announced : Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:36 am  

Ruddy Duck wrote: Name the games! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC2_Floodlit_Trophy Plenty of low crowds in this competition - although Wigan's attendances are not declared, I cant see how they would have bucked the trend.

Ruddy Duck wrote: Name the games! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC2_Floodlit_Trophy Plenty of low crowds in this competition - although Wigan's attendances are not declared, I cant see how they would have bucked the trend.

Re: 2022 Betfred Super League Fixtures Announced : Sun Nov 28, 2021 9:53 am  

muttywhitedog wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC2_Floodlit_Trophy

Plenty of low crowds in this competition - although Wigan's attendances are not declared, I cant see how they would have bucked the trend.

You are talking about the seventies, when the club was in a terrible situation under the then ten man board of Directors which included Baxendale, Broome and Gostellow and were signing low cost players like Les Bolton, Cliff Sayer, Peter Smethurst from Swinton who were in a even more terrible state than Wigan.

The lowest crowd I remember at that time was around 2,500, which I recall was possibly against Batley, but like you have intimated, there were others in the 2,500 to 3,000 bracket as the crowds decline and the club was relegated.

The lowest attendance since the start of the 1980's when the gang of four had just taken over the club was a crowd of 3,146 against Dewsbury in the 1980/81 season which lasted for a long while until the more recent seasons in non season ticket games which have seen crowds as low as 5000/6000.

Hopefully, the club will never fall again to the level it did in the seventies!

Re: 2022 Betfred Super League Fixtures Announced : Sun Nov 28, 2021 11:22 am  

True, but Pieman's statement didn't specify which year (or decade), which competition, or even whether Wigan were at home. You seem to have made assumptions.

Sometimes a grammar school education doesnt help...

Re: 2022 Betfred Super League Fixtures Announced : Tue Nov 30, 2021 12:54 am  

Ruddy Duck wrote:

Perhaps, a Grammer School Education may account for it!

I hope your spelling of "Grammer" was ironic...

Re: 2022 Betfred Super League Fixtures Announced : Tue Nov 30, 2021 6:41 am  

Ruddy Duck wrote:

Name the games!

Can you count the number of times you have been proven wrong with your not so factual statements with that education? It's happening a lot recently. You are a poor WUM, Curry Steph does it better.

Re: 2022 Betfred Super League Fixtures Announced : Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:49 am  

Pie_Eyter wrote:

Can you count the number of times you have been proven wrong with your not so factual statements with that education? It's happening a lot recently. You are a poor WUM, Curry Steph does it better.

You of course, are never wrong!