The money from all play-off games and the Grand Final go to SLE (with a % taken out for hostng the game). People can complain about the format and the ticket prices but getting full grounds isn't actually the objective, strange as it sounds. This is quite literallly the business end of the season, the viewing figures are more important than the attendance, though that still makes a nice profit.

Warringtons last game probably netted circa £150k, but probably had around 220-240k people watching on Sky. It's the same reason why Magic Weekend is deemed such a sucess, some fans love it, some hate it, but enough turn up to watch it. More importantly, lots of people tune in to watch it, the broadcaster (and the game) can dominate the channel for two days at minimum cost.

The ideal would be massive attendances and huge viewing figures, but invariably you can't have both.

I agree with your stance re ticket prices but City have their own agenda for cheap tickets.

All kids tickets at United are a tenner. The problem with United though is if you are a season ticket holder you have to buy every cup ticket as well or they take your season ticket off you.

Leeds had nearly 4000 there last night and about 3500 the for the league game a couple of weeks back. For whatever reason the huddersfield fans stayed away in large numbers and there's no doubt handed us the initiative. When the leeds team ran out the players looked over and started applauding the away support, the huddersfield players probably felt like sh**e and responded accordingly for the first half hour. The huddersfield team deserve better support than what they get.

Well firstly the league has already been decided so many fans will have lost interest in the end of season playoff tournament, also this year it clashes with the World Cup so maybe people's attention is on that rather than going to watch the 'greatest game'.

Wait for it...

What do you mean? Surely their agenda is to get people in the ground, shouldn't our agenda should be the same?

Stick an extra £20 on season ticket prices which gets you in the PO games, if we don't get there, PO vouchers can be used as a £20 discount on renewal season tickets or the new seasons shirt.

Never had this problem when we were crap playing in a dump with no atmosphere.

Give me today's "problems" every year.

Similar problem for me. Last Friday cost me £18 for a ticket, £48 for petrol, add in the essentials (beer) and it's an expensive weekend. I can understand season ticket holders not going to all the play-off games because of the additional expense, but in our case next Friday is the most important game that we've had for years, so I would expect a sellout.

This.

Deary me
and the Worriers have the cheek to have a pop at OUR ground having empty spaces

they was bursting out the dw today all 6790 of them

What was our lowest attendance at home this year?

9,958 against castleford.

They should move to Orrell clearly The DW is too big for them.

With the gate they had tonight, they could've transported the crowd into the pie aisle, in the Tesco's that now occupys their old ground

As I posted on Wigans board.... Quote ="inside_man"Poor effort. But I frankly couldn't afford to go. Pay day is on Tuesday, and I've already paid for an extra game this month, genuinely couldn't afford another. And for the initial Wire poster, you got 8000 in the same game last year. And I bet there was at least 1000 Hudds fans. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 995570.stm'"

As I posted on Wigans board.... Quote ="inside_man"Poor effort. But I frankly couldn't afford to go. Pay day is on Tuesday, and I've already paid for an extra game this month, genuinely couldn't afford another. And for the initial Wire poster, you got 8000 in the same game last year. And I bet there was at least 1000 Hudds fans. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 995570.stm'"

Loyal 18, hahahahaha, classic.

the loyal 18 is a reference to how many turned up

I am 90% sure that's not right. it was just over 10k despite the reports on the web.

Updated after today's game.

Also by club from 2009 to date

Catalans +2.0%
Saints -5.6%
Hull KR -9.4%
Hull -11.9%
Wire -15.5%
Wakey -16.6%
Leeds -22.4%
Wigan -35.1%
Hudds -46.8%

Wilderspool might have been a dump, but the atmosphere on many an occasion was brilliant.

But us Wire fans don't shove it down peoples throats and bang on about immense support and being the biggest club in the world of rugby league and all of sport. The way Wigan fans go on is as if Wigan are the Dallas Cowboys or the Rags. And we don't constantly belittle other clubs about low crowds.

The subject pops up here as we see Wigan with a crowd of 6500 yet if any other club got that there'd be a whole world of ridicule from pies.

Not Being Funny there was more people in the dentist Friday Night....

And I don't think you'll see many Wigan fans trying to defend it.

But in the regular season, we have every right to. We get fantastic crowds, home and away.

I do think though that a lot of people will be in a similar position to me, 2 extra games in the one month was too much for me. If it was played again next week, I'd be there without a doubt, as I get paid on Tuesday. Just bad timing from my part, I was hoping even more than usual for a win last week as I knew I wouldn't be able to go today.