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Re: Attendances - Do we need to be worried? : Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:56 pm  
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I genuinely thought we’d be sold out for the first one back. In my mind we could have played Wigan Bulldogs and had a capacity on.


I thought the complete opposite to be honest. But it's not our attendances as well, a few weeks ago I went to the cinema with my lads watching the latest Marvel movie Black Widow in the first couple of days of release (normally would be well attended) we were the only ones in the screening. Not only that the cinema itself was absolutely empty, 7pm in the evening.

Even after the initial rush (since Euro's ended) most of the pubs and restaurants I've seen/been to are now empty most days. Have people simply got used to staying at home watching TV, sitting in their newly built home bar with friends, gone out on UK day trips or weekends in the caravans? Somethings happening and it could take months for things to revert back to some sort of normality.
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Re: Attendances - Do we need to be worried? : Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:26 pm  
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I genuinely thought we’d be sold out for the first one back. In my mind we could have played Wigan Bulldogs and had a capacity on.

I can’t go as often as I’d like due to work and family life. It used to be gutting but it is what it is. I say used to be because recently with the goings on at the club I’ve had no appetite to either (even if I could). I went to the Leigh game last minute for example despite knowing I could go. I just have no desire to sit and watch drivel and be told afterwards it’s outstanding. There’s sometimes I think Alexander De Pffeffel has spiritually taken over Lam and trying to blind us with his nonsense.

I can’t go for a few weeks now, maybe even months. It may well be I’ve seen my last ‘live’ Warriors game in 2021 but the sad thing is - I’m not really that disappointed. I’m that despondent with the club and with RL in general that I’m not even bothered. It’s a sad state of affairs.


Just to put some reality into things.

Our normal eight was three for the Wire away game.

For the Leigh game, one was working, one was on holiday, one had covid and one was scared of contacting it. I suspect that is a reasonable spread of concern throughout the game.
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Re: Attendances - Do we need to be worried? : Tue Aug 03, 2021 12:09 am  
The big drop is down to the reduced uptake in season tickets. After the donation at many clubs in 2020, and the poor outlook with no return guarantees for 2021, the uptake of season tickets was well down. Around 50%? That equates to 3k+ down at Wigan?
I’d be less concerned about those 3k or so, a good chunk of those will return next season, however the general loss during the reign of Shaun Wane, of almost double that loss, is what would worry me. That envious fan base was built up over decades of top contenders RL and peaked again under Madge.
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Re: Attendances - Do we need to be worried? : Tue Aug 03, 2021 6:17 am  
Lots of people don’t want to buy tickets for games that have, at best, a 50/50 chance of being called off due to Covid.

This obviously has an impact on season ticket purchases too…..

To some people it’s a massive effort to finish work on a Mon/Wed/Thurs/Fri and drive to the game and then have to drive home……Or they can sit in the local/at home and watch the game with a beer?

As the phrase goes “People will vote with their feet…..”
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Re: Attendances - Do we need to be worried? : Tue Aug 03, 2021 7:24 am  
Several factors preventing us coming in our usual numbers at present.

Midweek matches
Possibility of matches being postponed and train tickets lost
Holidays
Covid isolation

Get to as many as we can. Missed it so much both the game and the social side

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Re: Attendances - Do we need to be worried? : Tue Aug 03, 2021 7:40 am  
Time some stop making excuses,. especially about Covid and faced the the truth about the state of the game today compared to a few seasons ago.
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Re: Attendances - Do we need to be worried? : Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:20 am  
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Time some stop making excuses,. especially about Covid..


If people are uncertain about attending because of Covid, that’s a valid excuse in my book. It will be some considerable time before things get back to normal, if at all.

Some folk in their teens, twenties and thirties are rather blasé about Covid because their chances of dying from it are extremely low. For those in their sixties and above, it’s a different matter altogether and a sizeable chunk of our support comes from that age category. Then there’s the possibility of Long Covid and facing a severe disability that’s going to hamper you for the rest of your life.

I’m sixty three, it won’t stop me watching the lads, it won’t stop me going to the pub, going on holiday or doing a whole host of other things that I do but I can well understand others being hesitant, if that’s their choice.
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Re: Attendances - Do we need to be worried? : Tue Aug 03, 2021 9:18 am  
I dont think attendances were ever going to just jump back to normal as soon as restrictions were lifted. As a family we are currently all in isolation as all 4 of us have got covid, so still lots of people in the same boat with either contracting or isolating due to contacts.
There is then the loss of habit. If you get out of the routine on going to the game every Friday night, its very easy to replace it with something else (admittedly that could only really be sat in the house recently)
I saw a friend post on twitter earlier in the week that it cost him £100 for 2 adults and 2 juniors to attend the game, so that is going to put some off. If they are looking to take the family as they cant go on holiday etc, then £100 to watch some of the stuff being dished up IMO is too much for game of RL
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Re: Attendances - Do we need to be worried? : Tue Aug 03, 2021 9:39 am  
Typical gammon comments made from our some of our supporters yet again. I had another gammon tell me that this virus doesn't exist a couple of weeks ago and was all part of the 'great reset' to move into a cashless society, Rothschilds I kid you not.

Time to stay away from the conspiracy YouTube videos and QAnon website boomers...
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Re: Attendances - Do we need to be worried? : Tue Aug 03, 2021 9:50 am  
MattyB wrote:
Typical gammon comments made from our some of our supporters yet again. I had another gammon tell me that this virus doesn't exist a couple of weeks ago and was all part of the 'great reset' to move into a cashless society, Rothschilds I kid you not.

Time to stay away from the conspiracy YouTube videos and QAnon website boomers...


Slightly racist, but whatever.
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