Looking very good and ideally suited for rugby league, i think the 18,000 capacity is a good figure and Saints will be looking to attract more and more supporters over the next few years.

I hope one day that Wigan can do the same.

I like the look of it and look forward to playing (whupping) them there.
How good would it be if the first time we play them there we knock seven shades of stuff out of them?



[size=50or just beat them.[/size

right, well if your coming from wigan its probably best described as being on the far side of st helens, as if your heading to widnes. Ever noticed a big silver/white Gas silo type thing in the st helens skyline? its pretty much next to that.

I think that one day Wigan Rugby will be the main team at the DW as the Latics will eventually find their level. At the moment they are punching above their weight and are existing on good money from the sale of star players. Some time in the future they will not have star players to sell and will probably end up in Division 1 or 2.
I don't wish this upon them but one has to be a realist.
They may last a few more years in the Premiership but relegation is inevitable. When that day comes Wigan R L will be oh so necessary as tenants as 4,000 fans for soccer will look ridiculous at the DW.

Quote ="bowvey"anyone any idea how much a staeium like that cost?'" Wires is in this (Page icon_cool.gif plus other sporting clubs, give you an idea. www.barr.co.uk/brochures/stadia.pdf

Quote ="bowvey"anyone any idea how much a staeium like that cost?'" Wires is in this (Page icon_cool.gif plus other sporting clubs, give you an idea. www.barr.co.uk/brochures/stadia.pdf

Salty, I remember standing on the Kop at Central Park watching Wigan play Workington in a league game one Saturday afternoon accompanied by about 2,500 other hardy souls. Thing haven't always been as rosie as they are now

Which is why Wigan fans shouldn't be jealous. Yes in an ideal world we'd have our own ground but it would have to be one big enough for Wigan. With a ground the size of Saints many fans wouldn't get to see the big matches live.

Saints' new ground is great for them, but that's because (I don't mean this to be patronising, it's just a fact) they are a smaller club than Wigan.

Wigan sell out how many times a year? once

We have had four games this year over 19k to be fair.

You must sell out every week then in your tiny stadium?

I reckon we have only had a handful of games this season where the attendance would be able to fit inside the HJ so for you to join in is rather funny

It was in response to



Not a peeing contest who has the most fans, obviously our stadium is big enough for us bar 2 games a year possibly 3 with Widnes stepping up

Damn you didn't bite. Well done

I can only assume someone has hacked into Horatio Yed's account. It would be so out of character for a Wire mod to launch a childishly insulting attack on a Wigan fan, clearly....

That's what I was thinking

You are arrogant, no mention of salary cap either now you're winning again, quel surprise, we used to have to put up with page after page of whining because you weren't winning with you being the main advocat of salary cap scrapping, now not a peep.
Your belief that Wigan should be able to buy whoever and whatever they could afford to the detriment of everyone else, that smacks of arrogance to me. Just because you have gone nearly 2 seasons without mentioning it doesn't mean i have forgotten.

That's more like it!

If our stadium was only 18k though we would lose out on a lot of ticket sales.

We have had 13 crowds over 18k in the last 5 years. 4 of those have come this season. Without the extra capacity we couldn't have those big crowds and we couldn't do things like the 'big one' etc. We probably would of had to take the WCC somewhere else.

This extra capacity will also allow our crowds to grow without having to worry about expansion of the stadium.

Extra capacity also allows for more hospitality seats, we have loads in the west stand and it is pretty much full every game from where I am sat.

Just to add, Warrington don't exactly sell-out every game.... and every single one of our home crowds this year have been above the capacity of the HJ.

Barcelona have the largest stadium in europe, the Nou Camp holds 98k, they don't actually fill it every game.

Eh? It's only a couple of months ago I was being accused on this board of "foaming at the mouth" after posting on the subject of the salary cap! I just can't win. One minute I'm an obsessive and the next I don't care. You couldn't make this stuff up.



Oh, and the idea of IL going off on a spending spree is just laughable.



Oh, and thanks for the insult. Again.

Is arrogance an insult?

crackin ground. can t wait to beat them . lets hope we are the first team to play them there. personally i think 18 - 20 thousand capacity is more than enough for any rugby league ground.........

Wigans average attendance 2011 so far, consider Cru and Bradford will probably bring this figure down lower.

16,053, concerted effort v Giants and no effort needed with Wire/Saints, take those 3 out the equation and our ground is actually big enough for Wigan.

Everyone of our games apart from Catalans has had an attendance bigger than the figure quoted as sold out for the QF at the HJ, so I dont get how that's true!

I dont know how you work that one out when all but one of our home games (Catalan) this season have had bigger attendances than the capacity of HJ Stadium.

Beat me

16,348 actually.

So ok take those 3 crowds away, why? We have them so therefore we need a bigger stadium.

Even without them.

Well over 15k against Hull FC
Well over 14k against Hull KR
Well over 16k against Leeds

Quins is the only crowd we had that would fit in your stadium, we have 18k for that in the past though.

Even 2010 taking away our 3 biggest crowds (because yed feels the need)

Still had over 15k against Hull FC
18k against Leeds
17k against bradford
14k against Cas
well over 14k against wakey

Yeh right.... a 13k stadium is big enough



You even said yourself our average is above 16k. So how could we cope with a 13k stadium.

You level of idiocy just went up higher than I have ever seen it.