RLWC Attendance-O-Meter

[Tommygilf]

25 minutes ago, Man of Kent said:

1908…

Is that the number of days between test matches?

[Toby Chopra]

11 minutes ago, Leonard said:

What were the prices for Wembley in 2013 - for comparison?

After discounts we paid £15 each for seats near the front of the upper tier around the 20m line at Wembley. 

The equivalent seats at Arsenal are listed at £55, but if you look carefully in the Cat E drop down you can select blocks 92/93/132/133 and get £55 tickets for £30. Hopefully that's to fill the stand facing thr cameras. 

Still double the price of 2013 after discounts. 

[Exiled Wiganer]

56 minutes ago, Gomersall said:

Etihad?

Soz - Emirates! 

[overtheborder]

18 minutes ago, Damien said:

What do you mean by nothing around it? There's a huge retail park next to it and a variety of food places 2 minutes walk plus there was a fan village next door.

While I agree with your point about the retail park, I'd argue you wouldn't know the fan village existed if you were coming for the first time, and I'm a Wigan fan.

I would say though that Wigan was voted the best football away day one year (mainly due to the masses of pubs within close-ish proximity of the station I'd imagine), so it can't be all bad (although a bit useless if you're driving admittedly!).

[overtheborder]

17 minutes ago, Odsal Outlaw said:

Fair enough, I missed the fan village. I was in the north stand so maybe it was at the other end? What did they have in there? 

Also by nothing around … I guess the whole place just felt tired and uninspiring. Maybe my event expectations are too high, but if I compare it to pretty much any other sporting event I’ve been to this year it’s nowhere near.

In fairness you were at the opposite end of wherever everything is, I'm not sure where you parked but I can definitely see why you'd see basically a Greene King pub, Pizza Hut and cinema essentially and think the experience was ######!

[Dave T]

4 minutes ago, overtheborder said:

In fairness you were at the opposite end of wherever everything is, I'm not sure where you parked but I can definitely see why you'd see basically a Greene King pub, Pizza Hut and cinema essentially and think the experience was ######!

I've found that at all the grounds. Unless you do a whole lap you have no idea anything is happening, that's if they have bothered. We walked past the Fitness First gym(?) and saw nowt. 

Signage would have been helpful at them all. 

Edited November 6, 2022 by Dave T

[Archie Gordon]

32 minutes ago, Leonard said:

What were the prices for Wembley in 2013 - for comparison?

I can't remember but I've never paid more than £45 for an RL ticket until this comp so it can't have been that expensive.

I don't begrudge paying £85 for an RLWC final. I think they've got the pricing about right there - except for offering nothing for OAPs, which seems a bit poor.

[Griff]

2 hours ago, Chrispmartha said:

Ive just looked and it was £94 return from Brighouse to Kings x

I would just say that I find it over-familiar of you to sign off your posts with a x.

[Odsal Outlaw]

19 minutes ago, overtheborder said:

In fairness you were at the opposite end of wherever everything is, I'm not sure where you parked but I can definitely see why you'd see basically a Greene King pub, Pizza Hut and cinema essentially and think the experience was ######!

Parked near some houses and walked in from north stand end, walked past a ‘ninja warrior uk’ place

[Black Country Wire]

35 minutes ago, Odsal Outlaw said:

Fair enough, I missed the fan village. I was in the north stand so maybe it was at the other end? What did they have in there? 

Also by nothing around … I guess the whole place just felt tired and uninspiring. Maybe my event expectations are too high, but if I compare it to pretty much any other sporting event I’ve been to this year it’s nowhere near.

No idea what was in the Fan Village. I went to Costa at the adjacent retail park. Fairly sure there was a Gregg's as well. An Asda not far away where you could pick up snacks and things and probably has a cafe.

Also ended up in Pizza Hut after the game but that's more to do with the time it would have taken t of get off the car park.

Take your point though in that's probably nothing over and above a normal Wigan game.

[Hull Kingston Bronco]

40 minutes ago, Odsal Outlaw said:

Also by nothing around … I guess the whole place just felt tired and uninspiring.

To be fair to the organisers, they did advertise it as being in Wigan so surely that’s what people paid for?

[Odsal Outlaw]

2 minutes ago, Hull Kingston Bronco said:

To be fair to the organisers, they did advertise it as being in Wigan so surely that’s what people paid for?

Fair point

[Gomersall]

50 minutes ago, Leonard said:

What were the prices for Wembley in 2013 - for comparison?

I can’t remember what we paid but it was far from expensive. We were walking around the outside of Wembley when my wife spotted a sign pointing to Club Wembley. Don’t worry I told her we won’t be in there. Lo and behold we were in Club Wembley seats. 

[Dave T]

1 minute ago, Gomersall said:

I can’t remember what we paid but it was far from expensive. We were walking around the outside of Wembley when my wife spotted a sign pointing to Club Wembley. Don’t worry I told her we won’t be in there. Lo and behold we were in Club Wembley seats. 

IIRC it was one of the first times RL had access to CW to sell them and we sold by tier, filling it. It looked really good, as empty CW seats had become a bit of an issue at RL finals. 

[Guest]

It's not easy counting the empty seats in the Copperbox with those coloured seats.

[Archie Gordon]

25 minutes ago, Leonard said:

It's not easy counting the empty seats in the Copperbox with those coloured seats.

Child's play in comparison to your next challenge.

I think we're getting a decent turnout for this afternoon's QF. But just in case we aren't, how good are you at estimating the ratio of unused terrace space to bodies present?

[Chrispmartha]

Its packed here in the haliwell jones

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Archie Gordon said:

Child's play in comparison to your next challenge.

I think we're getting a decent turnout for this afternoon's QF. But just in case we aren't, how good are you at estimating the ratio of unused terrace space to bodies present?

Depends on the average body mass. Which could be quite high in Warrington.

[OriginalMrC]

Packed out in Warrington. As close to a sellout as you can get by the looks of things 

[Leyther_Matt]

Crowd looks great at Warrington. Gutted I’m sat at work while my Mrs and my mates are all there!

[Ragingbull]

9 minutes ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Crowd looks great at Warrington. Gutted I’m sat at work while my Mrs and my mates are all there!

If you're  watching the game as well as posting on here you can't be doing much work! 

[Leyther_Matt]

25 minutes ago, Ragingbull said:

If you're  watching the game as well as posting on here you can't be doing much work! 

I’m here in body and that’s about it  

[Skinnywinger]

It's not packed out but does look much better in these size grounds. Let's never put quarter finals in 25k seater grounds again. 

[saintspete83]

3 minutes ago, Skinnywinger said:

It's not packed out but does look much better in these size grounds. Let's never put quarter finals in 25k seater grounds again. 

Feels pretty packed in this corner. Not much room in these seats at wire.

[Damien]

3 minutes ago, Skinnywinger said:

It's not packed out but does look much better in these size grounds. Let's never put quarter finals in 25k seater grounds again. 

In the South stand it feels packed, you couldn't get anymore in that's for sure.