Post subject: Re: 2012 season - How will you do for crowds.
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:27 pm
TFC
Player Coach
Joined: Oct 13 2005 Posts: 1763 Location: Filey
My eyes are on the London Broncos, Wakefield, Castleford, Salford and Widnes. I think we need to see good crowds for all these clubs, will be interesting to see if Salford get that new influx of supporters like we have seen through the Super League era when new stadiums have been built.
I expect Saints to have a very successful year crowds wise, good work from Huddersfield too
Post subject: Re: 2012 season - How will you do for crowds.
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:28 pm
Easty
Club Owner
Joined: Sep 23 2003 Posts: 14306 Location: East Hull
We certainly wont see more then 8750 at Craven Park this year as that's the capacity of the stadium for 2012,
"They supercede individuals, they supercede the team and they supercede the club. Our club is a traditional, working class club and the supporters are loyal and passionate and to see them go away happy really makes my day." Craig Sandercock.
Wigan should increase again IMO. The marketing team have been quality for the last 2-3 years in particular. They keep pulling rabbits out of hats.
Last year we sold out our game against saints, I see no reason why we can't do the same this year. We got 21k against wire with no offers on the table. We got 19k against Hudds for the 'big one'. 19k against Crusaders for the 'Heritage game'. Nearly 17k against Leeds with little away support.
If we can repeat crowds like that along with some good season ticket sales then I think we could break 17k.
Widnes are also back in Super league so we have potential for that fixture to be a big crowd with the history behind the game and a good Widnes following.
Away crowd will be bigger and louder than ever.
Dropkick Murphy..we actually saw and heard a mass of bouncing and scarf and flag waving to Dale Cavese that drowned out anything we could muster.. It stopped us singing our own celebratory songs, it died out seconds later when we accepted we couldn't be heard over the Wigan lot Celebrations muted from us, job done from them. Most fans who slag them off are jealous their own club's support is nowhere near that good - sally cinnamon..Why not discuss Wigan? It's a rugby league message board. Wigan are the most famous brand in rugby league - Tre Cool..Saints fans are hopeless unless it's a cup final or grand final. Wigan fans are so much more loyal and passionate - the flying biscuit..Wires havent been massively succesful over the years, but I've spoke to Brian Bevan And he spoke to me and i wouldnt swap that for Wigans History, ever - Ande..on the TV i could only hear the Wigan fans with about 10 to go - Saint94..Every team is in your feckin shadow, we all know - FIOS
Post subject: Re: 2012 season - How will you do for crowds.
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:49 pm
PopTart
Moderator
Joined: Oct 04 2008 Posts: 21372 Location: wakefield
Saddened! wrote:Yeah, I apologise for that. I may have confused you with Castleford and the endless promises and delays.
I genuinely hope Wakefield do kick on, the stronger the better.
That's actually quite gracious of you. You don't get that attitude on VT much. Most just argue whether right or wrong just to save face. You have my respect....for what it is worth.
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Post subject: Re: 2012 season - How will you do for crowds.
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:15 pm
meast
International Chairman
Joined: Jun 04 2002 Posts: 15309 Location: huddersfudlia
-VIKINGMAN- wrote:Good news for Huddersfield that, many have knocked the gates for years but to get 7,000 sold is a good effort. Just need to work on that away following now.
our support the last few seasons unfortunately has seemingly been dictated by sky, it seems our supporters wont attend games that are on sky, and/or friday/saturday nights. usually for a sunday game our away support is pretty decent though, saying that i think 4 or first 8 home games are on sky so that could significantly reduce the crowds, but also we dont have to move out so the football lot can have a nice new pitch to ruin in the winter months i would reckon 8,000 for fartown.
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Post subject: Re: 2012 season - How will you do for crowds.
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:56 pm
NickyKiss
International Board Member
Joined: Nov 08 2004 Posts: 29909 Location: WIGAN
I think we may drop slightly tbh and a lot of that will be because the Saints game is the last match of the season. If things are sewn up in terms of league positions you could see a sub 15,000 crowd for that which would be 10,000 or so down on last season.
I think we'll see the Widnes game as the big one this year and they should be the first club since Warrington were involved in that fixture to bring a reasonable away support with any luck.
Post subject: Re: 2012 season - How will you do for crowds.
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:17 pm
rover49
Player Coach
Joined: Mar 05 2007 Posts: 13190 Location: Hedon (sometimes), sometimes Premier Inn's
Easty wrote:We certainly wont see more then 8750 at Craven Park this year as that's the capacity of the stadium for 2012,
Why the low capacity. I thought the golf stand was moving to the south end, which should keep capacity the same.
I would expect us to have around the same average as last season, maybe a few hundred extra if we are performing well.
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