Am I correct in saying that we are more expensive to watch than Wigan and saints? I've also seen the price of an adult season ticket approach the magic £200 barrier. Now this is excellent value compared to the Premiership football, but the club needs to be wary of pricing itself out of reach of some supporters.



I got my kids hooked during the days of £15 wolfpack tickets. Is there anything comparable these days?



If supporters stop going for financial reasons, they will pick the most attractive games. These normally end up televised anyway, so they might even give these a miss too.

Because that really stops people attending the NFL doesn't it? Or the NRL for that matter?



If your team can't perform in the pressure cooker of the play-offs, thats their problem...

People have had 17 years to draw the conclusion that the play offs are the part of the season that matters ? What a joke that is ! Last season,Leeds winning from 5th was unusual & it doesn't mean it will happen again this year. There are 3 lots of silverware on offer ,but it is up to the individual supporter to decide which one, or all, he or she considers to be the most important.As for attendances the playoffs will be a good indicator of the current health of the support.Judging by the Challenge Cup rounds ,supporters don't like spending extra to what they have paid for season tickets so the gates have been badly hit, which is understandable in the current economic climate .It will be interesting to see the gates for the playoffs. We are living in hard times & with the price of petrol is it any wonder that away support is down ?

I don't live in Warrington, I live far away but go to every game, one of the things that surprises me is that there are many casual fans who could go but don't because it's a tad inconvenient. I live in a town with no sporting team to support and consequently the town has no real identity, no feeling of pride in the town. Warrington is lucky it has such a team and the local population should realise how lucky they are, because without doubt if more people choose not to go to the match because it interferes with their busy lives, one day, there won't be a match to go to.

If you're a fan, you have a duty to go, inconvenient or not !

A season tickets rise of 6% shouldn't mean a corresponding rise in attendance. I would hazard a guess that most of the new season ticket people were just fans who went to almost every game last year anyway?



Attendance can also be dictated by which games are chosen by SKY as well so it's potluck. All seems very promising to me if you're saying that even for the games that are not supported well by the away fans, we did not drop under 10,000!

5% of population isnt THAT bad. Take Leeds. Using a similar proportion they would need to attract over 35k. The smaller overall increase in average compared to the increase in season tickets, to me, means that more people like what they see and have chosen to come every week.



Promoting the Wigan/Saints games (as previously stated) would be a waste of money. You would not generate a larger increase in revenue than it would cost. There have been falls in crowd this season have been in the away stand. The Wigan attendence was probably hit by people who had a) spent their money visiting langtree on the Monday, b) were away on holiday and c) saving their pennies for Wembley.

I must admit that on matters of our attendances, I'm in the glass half empty camp. Yes there appears to be a continued rise, all be it a slight one skewed by the "gift" of Widnes, but, I think we are light.



Blame the government's econimic policy, the bankers, the oil cartell, Sky TV, competition format, a drop in away fans, whatever. There has never been a better time to be a Wire and the townsfolk should back the team another 1500 on the average and sell outs v Wigan and Saints would show Moran and the players that we are behind them...sorry for my Delia Smith moment

I think the visiting fans are responsible for most of the drop in our gates , i'm sure the only time the away end was full of visiting fans this year was for the visit of Saints.

How far away do you live, and do you have a car? I rely on public transport so getting to the home games is costly and eats up a lot of time, even though I could probably manage it now. I usually go to the games in West Yorkshire, though I have to admit this season has been pretty meh and I've only been to the Leeds game (missing that would be criminal since I can [isee[/i the stadium from my top floor). I think last season really spoiled us and so this season has been disappointing in comparison, even though I used to go to plenty of games a few years ago.

it wasn't that long ago we had an average gate of 4500! Any year on year increase is fine...especially in the current economic climate.

Ah, those were the days ! No queues at half time, plenty of space for the species. Where did it go wrong ?



On a more serious note, Hull are aiming for 10,000 ST's next year and managed to sell well over 600 on their first day of sales. And no, they are not discounting prices. I suppose they have invested in new players and there has always been a big potential pool of supporters over on Humberside. Who knows, perhaps they will make it.

Someone get this man a Blue Peter badge. He's clearly our bestest ever fan of all time innit.



As for increase in season ticket sales not being exactly reflected in overall increase, well of course it isn't. Do you think those extra season ticket holders had never been to a match before, or do you think that just maybe they went to a lot of games anyway and now they have a season ticket they are reducing the number of pay on the day fans? Hardly rocket science working that out is it?