Oh, and I blame Whittle as well, and Mathers.

maybe thats where the 24hr rule came from becuase Mathers dropped so many high balls the ball hitting the floor caused big divets which ruined the pitch???

Quick someone tell DW we have a full back who can catch now !!!!

Someone on the saints board has finally figured out what FIOS stands for.

Fixtures In Others Stadium!!

Seeing as you asked so nicely

it did happen. Wigan refused to play on tv (or allow tv cameras into the ground) I think it was a game v Bradford.
They were fined for it, but had the support of many other clubs. I'm not sure if they weren't shown on t.v. for a while though as the Tuesday night BBC 2 floodlit competition came into force shortly after.

Always felt sorry for Whittle - got thrown in the deep end, did his best and then got pilloried for it.

Can we not change it to Moran and Mathers?

I can't believe it's midday and we still haven't got an answer. If it doesn't come in the next hour or so it'll be too late for me to get time off if it's moved to Friday.

Latest update from Phil wilkinson (Wigan observer) on twitter

@PhilWilkWIG: #rugbyleague Update for Wigan v Sts/Cup venue row.. there is no update. But Wigan been told it's 2.30pm, Sat. Onus on the club to find venue

Can't even be d with it now after all this aggro if i'm honest...

Great update!

This is becoming a real joke now the credibilty of the tie and the game is going slowly down the swanny.

May as well play it at orrell

I think the RFL need to take this out of Wigans hands and put a deadline on us. If we don't make a decision by a set time move it to Langtree Park.

This delay is laughable.

IL should have foreseen this and had his backup plan ready to roll out. It's being handled farcically and it's not just Wigan it affects.

we have a venue....our home ground.

play it on friday night and tell the BBC to stick it.

if the RFL throw us out of the comp, so be it.

i would back IL 100% if he took this stance

Or, a better idea, don't sign-up to such moronic agreements with your landlord?

Should the RFL not have forseen this and change the weekend to a free sporting weekend the next week?? Seems silly playing two big rugby league games on the same day as the final footy day?

For me people have over reacted massivly on this. Yes i would like to play the game at home and yes if we cant i would like to know where we are playing but some of the comments and pictures i have seen on FB and Twitter etc are way OTT

The BBC have paid for the right to demand when the game will be played. They obviously want the game to be played when they feel they will get the biggest tv audience, and that happens to be Saturday 2:30pm. Wigan can't just decide to play it on the Friday and stop it from being on BBC, that is a ridiculous suggestion.
The BBC are not to blame for this.

Exactly another OTT reaction. The beeb pay for the rights if they are low amounts thats not their fault its the RFL for not demanding more. We wouldnt do it if sky demanded us to play a certain time so we cant do it for the beeb

Oh yes you would and so would every club. Where do you think the money comes from to keep a 100% pro league going?

read what i put and the previous comments before quoting me



i agree an i said we wouldnt boycott sky so we shouldnt boycott the beeb

no it isnt ridiculous.

the BBC know our situation, if they cant come to a comprimise with sky, then they wont have a game to show , will they?

IL should stand his ground on this.
the RFL have caused the problem with ridiculous schedulling..let the RFL intervene to solve it.

Of course they will, just not at the DW. Which is your problem, not the BBC's.

OKAY, if we can't use the DW for the match on Saturday we would still be the "home" team if we went to HJ, Halton, Leigh, Bolton......... But if we did come to an agreement with Sts to use langtree would we still be the "home" team and hence have up to 70% of the capacity in the stands we choose...If not then we need to play anywhere but Langtree so we have the opportunity of our fans getting admitance

I wondered this too, especially since the longer this drags on without a resolution, the more I expect the RFL to step in and switch the fixture to Langtree.

What happened with Oldham there last week? The fixture continued to be listed as Oldham v St Helens; were Oldham given the home changing room etc?

I think the ticketing side of it would be irrelevant - demand didn't seem to massively outstrip supply for the Super League game there last month, so we'd probably take a similar number again; and Saints fans would treat it as a 'home' fixture regardless of designation - so if it gets switched to Langtree Park, I'm pretty sure it'll be more a case of 'Saints v Wigan' than 'Wigan v Saints' no matter what the official fixtures list says.

quality - be the home team at the Screwfix and all but kick them out of their own stadium