Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:18 am  

21-12 wrote:

You can argue the point all you like, I attend football as well as rugby, and can absoulutely assure you if we are talking 18-25 year old's, the amount of this age range at football compared to rugby is literally ten fold. Probably, as harsh as it sounds because its more "edgey" and cool to go to football than rugby these days.

never said it wasnt

Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Fri Feb 28, 2020 9:30 am  

21-12 wrote:

You can argue the point all you like, I attend football as well as rugby, and can absoulutely assure you if we are talking 18-25 year old's, the amount of this age range at football compared to rugby is literally ten fold. Probably, as harsh as it sounds because its more "edgey" and cool to go to football than rugby these days.

Correct, but how many of them are loyal and true supporters of a club and not just bandwagon jumpers when they get into a higher division and then disappear when relegated back into a lower division.

A example has been in our own town with the Latic's and more recently at Huddersfield and Hull.

And what about the many who after paying for a expensive ticket, leave in droves if their team is losing by more than one goal.

We may not have as many supporters in the 21-25 group, but what we do have is a more loyal and true support than in football.

Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:33 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

I've done that. Train split at Bolton and I was on wrong carriage

Did you get a split ticket ?

Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:34 pm  

rochdale warrior wrote:

Did you get a split ticket ?

Good one

Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:52 pm  

What's getting a split ticket got to do with the topic?

It's getting a split head people need to worry about!

Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:37 am  

Why are the trains always late??

Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:02 am  

If we want to attract younger supporters a good place to start would be to stop playing that awful ‘Chelsea Dagger’ when we score.

Absolute cringe.

Time has moved on, it was awful at the time and still is.

Bring in Clint Boon to overall the music.

Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:57 am  

JonnyBroad wrote:

Why are the trains always late??

If you mean around our part of the world, its because the local services have been run by Northern (Arriva) who from tomorrow will no longer have the franchise as it has been taken off them by the Rail Regulator for running trains late or not at all.

We live in hope that things will improve under the new operator.

Re: New Fan Zone open from Thursday : Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:43 pm  

dany1979 wrote:

If we want to attract younger supporters a good place to start would be to stop playing that awful ‘Chelsea Dagger’ when we score.

Absolute cringe.

Time has moved on, it was awful at the time and still is.

Bring in Clint Boon to overall the music.

Nah, have Gareth Brooks, miles better. Heard him a few times at City before European matches aswell as when he used to be on Xfm Manchester.

Also, they need a compare. City have Mike McClean who was on Nickelodeon back in the early 90s and he’s really funny.

Now some idiot will point out that ‘we are not football’ and ‘we don’t have city’s money’. All you need to do is find some local comedian who’s been around he block ideally a Wigan fan and get them to take the mic before games to keep people entertained with whatever’s competitions they want to do before a game and at half time.