Just heard wigan are clsing their turnstiles at 7.55 until after the minutes silence to honour the loss of Leon Walker on friday night.


Quality move from a quality club!
no more to say.

Great move.

Lets hope everyone gets to there seats for it.

Shall we start a sweepstake on who'll be first to mention them re-opening to let people out at half time?

no lets for once hope that this gesture is met with the credibility it deserves, and the respect it deserves.


and then in 2 or 3 weeks back to normal

until then no pie gags from me.

Yep, I think it's a spot on gesture by the club.

Excellent move by the club.

Well done Wigan.

Indeed, Well done Wigan

More importantly, the stewards should be blocking all entrances to the seats from the concourse between 7:55 and 8:00pm.

Any disruption to the minutes silence will not be from late arrivals, it will be from people racing to their seats at the last minute with a pie and a pint.

Why do we need to do anything differently? Every minute's silence I've seen at the JJB (and there are too many IMO, but that is a different argument) has been impeccably respected. Mind you, I do occupy the classier West Stand!

I have never been at an RL ground anywhere where the minutes silence hasn't been respected. It's another proud tradition of TGG.

Makes sense, but as someone said, blocking the steps to the seats would be a more sensible step.

A friend of mine once spoke to me during a minute's silence for ANZAC day at a (then) Broncos match. I can think of few occasions when I've been more mortified.

I'm also in the posh end but at the last minutes silence I can recall quite a number of people coming up the steps near our seats from the concourse. A number of them were chatting away and one women was laughing hysterically. Thankfully the stewards hushed them up.

Or foreplay as i like to call it

I normally get to my seat late and if they think they're stopping me from sitting in my season ticket seat at any time i want they've got another thing coming. I will respect the minutes silence of course - like i always do.

A bit of polite advice,
Either get to your seat at 7:55 p.m or wait in the concourse until after the minutes silence.

Just for once get to your seat early or on time to show abit of respect for gods sake.

Well said.

and what you going to do when they do try and stop you? kick up a fuss while the minute silence is going on. Get a grip and get to your seat earlier or stay downstairs and have your own minute silence.

Behave yourself. You wont win the argument either on here or at the stadium.

Get a grip friend and for once think how that poor lads mum n dad are feeling at this present time it doesnt bare thinking about, lets hope they shut the bar n food outlets aswell.

As everyone else has said - have a word for yourself, it's one time where they 'might' 'delay' the access to your seat, either get there on time or wait ONE minute.

Get a grip lad and show some respect, if you`re late stay downstairs til the minute is over, if I was you I would ask for this post to be removed, really made an ar$e of yourself!

Such an occasion of RL unity will come of this lads untimely death.. it really is a breath of fresh air and something the Football world can only admire...

Im looking forward to all of us paying our respects

march 2002, widnes first match back v warrington in SL, the widnes fans were hooting and hollering and shouting anti wire crap through out the 2mins silence for the dearly departed queen mother.

Gawd bless 'er!