Maths for dummies

[superleague]

DaveO posted:

im_a_cuckoo posted:
No just league games. But to be fair, the crowds of 11-13,000 for the League/FA Cup games against Newcastle, Bolton, Leeds and Arsenal would stand up fairly well against our Challenge Cup crowds.

It is, as thay say, all relative.

The latics home crowd for the semi final was the lowest ever recorded in the competition. That is bad.

The RL crowd V Leeds was a record by some margin for that fixture. That is good.

The actual crowd figures are not that iportant it is the trend (up or down) and how they compare to their contemporaries in theier own sports that counts.

I went to watch latics at Wembly when I was a kid when they were in the final of the FA Trophy (or was it FA Vase, anyway the thing that is/was the FA Cup equivalent for non-league sides).

They were in the NPL back then and still managed to take over 20,000 to the ground. Don't know where they all went in the intervening years!
Dave

glory hunters i think the answer is.

[im_a_cuckoo]

As one oif those few people here who wishes them well, I must correct you on two more points. Their Carling Cup semi-final attendance was not the worst ever for that fixture - that particular uwanted accolade is held by Stockport County. Also, there couldn't have been 20,000 Wiganers at the FA Trophy Final in 1973. There were only 23,000 on altogether! A more realistic estimate would be around 15,000 - the same amount they took for their 1985 Freight Rover Trophy final against Brentford. But you can't have it both ways and criticise them for having no-one watching them AND having glory hunting fans who only watch them noww they're good. Taking 27,500 down to Cardiff this weekend is pretty good. How many did we take to Murrrayfield, for example?

[jinkin jimmy]

im_a_cuckoo posted:
As one oif those few people here who wishes them well, I must correct you on two more points. Their Carling Cup semi-final attendance was not the worst ever for that fixture - that particular uwanted accolade is held by Stockport County. Also, there couldn't have been 20,000 Wiganers at the FA Trophy Final in 1973. There were only 23,000 on altogether! A more realistic estimate would be around 15,000 - the same amount they took for their 1985 Freight Rover Trophy final against Brentford. But you can't have it both ways and criticise them for having no-one watching them AND having glory hunting fans who only watch them noww they're good. Taking 27,500 down to Cardiff this weekend is pretty good. How many did we take to Murrrayfield, for example?

I wish them well also. Good post. Not been too a great a response, has there?

[Antwigan]

I bet there is 20,000 police there(Cardiff) too. I wonder how many closed pubs, fights, arrests there will be. I wonder how many trains will be half full of police shepherding the goons to the game. I heard the cardiff public enjoy the soccer fans coming and running riot in their town. Enjoy your family sport people. And before you start I've been to many footbal games. I used to be a ballball for torquay united, exeter and plymouth argyle. I've watched Latics and worked at the the old ground 'springfield park' it was called for all you 'bandwagon jumpers'. I've worked at stockport county's ground (enough to put anyone off) too. I just don't like soccer. Latics could win the european cup and i still wouldn't go. I lived in Devon for 10 years and got stick for supporting Rugby League and not Union or Soccer. So I heard ALL the arguments aimed at a notherner in the wrong part of the UK who supports a 'northern sport'. Its actually become slightly more personal as a result of this.Anyway I digress. I was given a free ticket (as were many)for the wigan v Arsenal game a couple of months ago. Sat in the Arsenal end. And to say the atmosphere was surreal would be an under statement. People were there from Sheffield, everton, Newcastle sat around me, on a day out to watch players from Arsenal. They weren't too bothered about the score. The chant of 'you should stick to the rugby, stick to the rugby, you should to the rugby' was quite amusing though. The arsenal fans that were there were shouting the most foul mouthed drivel at the Latics fans (who were approx 10 - 15 yrs old) sat at the end of the West even I got riled up and told the cockny pigs to shut there cocky cockny mouths. The game was apparently a good un by all reports. i got to see Henry and the rest of the foreigners fall about theatrically for 80 mins (missed first 10-fighting (not literally)my way passed the police!) So enjoy your day out latics. You deserve it.

[im_a_cuckoo]

And here we see why the Latics fans don't like us. There was no fighting at that game (unlike Friday night), and there won't be any at Cardiff. What city wouldn't welcome an invasion of 70,000 thirsty and hungry people looking for sustenance and a bed for the night? You seeem to have some outdated notion that all football supporters are troublemakers.

[Ruzzle]

Has anyone seen any rugby league fans bottling, stoning and rocking an ambulance with an injured opposition player in recently?......No??......thought not! :eh:

I know, I know, its a small minority....blah blah

[mike binder]

nathan G posted:
YOU TELL HIM SON!!!!!!
LATICS THEY WILL GET BEAT ON SUNDAY
ALSO ITS ONLY THIS SEASON THE CROWDS HAVE GONE UP DUE TO FOOTIE FANS COMING TO WATCH WORLD CLASS PLAYERS PLAYING FOR THE OPPOSITION.LIVERPOOL FANS LIVING IN WIGAN ETc.!!!!

man city fans living in wigan have more class

[Uncle Fester]

im_a_cuckoo posted:
In the thread 'Good Luck latics', someone called Uncle Fester states that Latics' average attendance this season is 17,408. I think, sir, you'll find the figure you're looking for is 21,131.

It's all very well the club telling us that 17,281 against Leeds was some kind of club record, but there have only been three Latics league games this season - Charlton, Fulham and Middlesboro - with less than that on (and only just). How many do you think we'll get on against Giants?

Oh dear, please go to www.wiganathletic-mad.co.uk add up the attendance figures for the twenty home games this season and divide the resultant number by twenty and you will get 17,408.25, that is the average Wigan Athletic home attendance so far this year oh and you forgot to mention the Bournemouth 3,346.

[ian.birchall]

I like to think of myself as a a kind generous soul and am quite happy for any men who want to go to watch the Lactics to be allowed to do so and then after the game they can be taken to the vets and neutered so that in future they will not be taking any of their future sons to football matches in Wigan. :sly:

[oldtimer]

Reading the reports on here makes one realise what a narrow minded lot we are.It seems the little green monster has reared its head again[jealousy]and while we are on about crowds,how many of the posters bothered to go last night?