Warrington guardian says langtree park is affected by flooding.Seeing this game wil have to be played this weekend,are we up for it to be played at the hj

This is clearly a ruse to get away from their hoodoo against us at Langtree Park



In all seriousness, have you seen the picture? It's like a lake, it's unbelievable. Met Office says more rain is likely later in the week too, so they might have to move it, although given how close we are is the HJ coping with the rain?

According to RFL rules if the game can't go ahead due to unforeseen circumstances, the winner from Week 1 goes through to the final.

Changing the venue is hardly 'cant go ahead due to unforseen circumstances'.

Rain is going to stop tomorrow evening.

Panic over.

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Is Simon Moran willing to put some barges on?

The only problem we've got is if it raining on the night we will not compete. It's just the way we are.

It's a good job we got a dry day at Wembley isn't it.

Warrington play well only when its dry is yet another myth.

The picture does look like a lake but thankfully is a good drop below the stadium, it would take some serious rainfall to climb the step to the top and would probably end up with the majority of the town being flooded too, if water levels ever rose that high.


There is a bridge on that road and the road dips down for the bridge, making the lake effect. It will stop fans getting to the stadium from that side though. So the away fans may want to bring a snorkel.

Unless the flooding outside the stadium becomes dangerous to spectators, or the pitch becomes waterlogged I can't see the game being changed, but it does bring up the serious point of 'what if'. Realistically the game cannot be postponed/delayed so I wonder when, if necessary, any decision would need to be made? They can't decide at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon to move the game to Widnes!

The could have Widnes (or the Haliwell Jones) on standby for Sunday.

If the roles were reversed, would you want to give up home advantage and play away, or would you prefer to play at a neutral venue? I'm pretty certain that IF the game was to be switched (which I seriously doubt it will be) then it would be Widnes (the iPitch is also in their favour).

I would imagine that neither Sky or the two clubs would want to delay the game, whoever won it would then have two days less to prepare than Leeds [size=50(or Wigan)[/size.

The joys of summer rugby

I wonder how much water the i-pitch can cope with before it starts to pool on the surface?

To be fair during that period of bad weather in the final we had our worst spell of the game.

I am not convinced we have enough self control in very wet conditions. We are a very impatient side (which has been a good thing more than not in good conditions).

I'll be worried if the weather is still like this on Sat. Saints have shown this year that they can do the no frills stuff very well. How many trys of theirs came from our unforced errors last week? Lots.

Move the game to Widnes now. It's ten times easier to get a train from there to Manchester after the match than it is from the town that public transport forgot.

I really hate St. Helens!

The pitch at Saints should never be waterlogged as it can handle well over 25mm of rain per hour.

Thinking about it, if there was a need to switch the match at a late stage it would have to be at a ground bigger than Saints, as most, if not all tickets would have been sold.

Wigan it is then.

It's the rain gods !

Getting a bit windy out too, hope they used a good brand of sticky tape on that roof after last time

You mean the same ones who so violently showed their displeasure at Leeds opening try at Wembley?

You don't want to go upsetting them....

With ref to my earlier post, we play poorly when its raining! We play good and great rugby when its not raining. As Wirefan stated we were poor when it was raining at wembley, when it stopped we were back on form. No myth hear just factual account of our team "when its raining"

God help you if you do get to the Grand final then. We've not had a dry one since 2006 ( Ironically the last time we won the title )