Re: Attendance - Wigan vs Saints : Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:08 pm  

{Hogan} wrote:

Dont worry....ive had a vision....

The play-offs are totally flawed if round 3 is exactly the same as the top two round 1 matches. This is garbage planning.

Re: Attendance - Wigan vs Saints : Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:03 pm  

French Ray wrote:

The play-offs are totally flawed if round 3 is exactly the same as the top two round 1 matches. This is garbage planning.

Yup. Yet more rubbish from the RFL.

Re: Attendance - Wigan vs Saints : Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:05 pm  

Last year when we had the week off we stuttered the week after and lost.

This year we NEED the week off to refresh the bodies (some of which are clearly battered and bruised) ready for two big knockout games.

Re: Attendance - Wigan vs Saints : Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:07 pm  

Come on people since when has any Wigan v Saints game been pointless, id take a win even if its a friendly played at sherdley park. Attendance should be very good i think im sure we`ll come over in numbers, of course a week off is ideal send the others to knock hell out of each other then hammer the winners, whos gona win sunday Wigan of course, we will take on Catalans then back to Wigan, cos Warrington wont have the bottle to play us, Who will win the game in 3 weeks Wigan v Saints Come on we arnt gona go a full season with out beating you.

Re: Attendance - Wigan vs Saints : Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:36 pm  

Conroy wrote:

Last year when we had the week off we stuttered the week after and lost.

This year we NEED the week off to refresh the bodies (some of which are clearly battered and bruised) ready for two big knockout games.

This, without a doubt. From the wire game the other week it's clear that the 3 extra games from last year in the WCC, cup semi and cup final have caught up with them (though I would definitely take this position every year to be competing in those games in the first place!).

Massive effort needed on Sunday to get the 2nd week off and I'm sure the lads won't disappoint!

Re: Attendance - Wigan vs Saints : Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:53 am  

Conroy wrote:

Last year when we had the week off we stuttered the week after and lost.

This year we NEED the week off to refresh the bodies (some of which are clearly battered and bruised) ready for two big knockout games.

Agree.

Last year we'd had enough weeks off to stay fresh on challenge cup weekends and having to play Hull KR in week 2 of the play offs helped us get rid of some rust.

This year we've had no breaks and due to the WCC and the exiles games our lads have had to back up a couple of times. The full squad could do with a week off as a couple look a little jaded.

We really could do with a win on Sunday.

Re: Attendance - Wigan vs Saints : Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:42 am  

Deano G wrote:

Yup. Yet more rubbish from the RFL.

In Australia it's 1 v 8, 2 v 7, etc. I don't know what happens in subsequent rounds but maybe this would be better. It does seem ridiculous that we all know that Wigan will play Saints twice.

Re: Attendance - Wigan vs Saints : Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:10 am  

Salty wrote:

It does seem ridiculous that we all know that Wigan will play Saints twice.

Yep, it's certainly a foregone conclusion you would hammer Catalans if you lose to Saints, given the beatings you dished out in the league fixtures.

Oh.

Re: Attendance - Wigan vs Saints : Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:32 am  

Ticket sales for the game have started off very well at Saints. The first allocation for the game was sold out by 11a.m. on Monday and another allocation had to be brought over from the DW. Granted the first application may have only been about 1000 or so but if sales continue as they are then we should bring quite a few. When all is said and done the game is Wigan V Saints.

Re: Attendance - Wigan vs Saints : Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:05 pm  

Looking at eticketing theres a hell of alot of ST holders not bought their seats before the deadline. There's around 9K been sold so far for the home stands. That includes any seats that were on general sale. Its hard to judge but I can't see another 10k tickets being sold before Sunday. Ill go for an attendance around 14-15k.