Headingly is used as a cricket ground car park and rugby union and rugby league so cant really use that one. Only the KC and Huddersfield are used the same as us.

and they dont suffer the same problems as the DW

When this new pitch was laid there was a video with the groundsman on the wigan website and he was saying it would stand up to anything aslong as it got treated every 6 months or so.

It had that last season when we moved our Wakefield game but theres been no sign of it since.

Penny pinching from Whelan by any chance?

The KC Stadium wasn't particularly great for Hull - Huddersfield at the weekend. Having two sports playing all year round on a pitch will have an adverse effect but as it has been said a thousand times the reason the Latics played in a bog last night is because it is built on a bog.

If the Latics ever get their way and remove us from the stadium then perhaps they - and the journalists in the press - might notice that.

Yeas but they were in far better condition compared to the DW. I dont think a terrible winter has helped anyone.

I think it's an absolutely Fantastic Gesture by the Latics not to mess up the worst areas of the Pitch (The Goalmouth's) by refusing to go anywhere near them in the 90 minutes last night!

I'm looking for my "Like" button but then realised I'm no longer on Facebook!

Blah Blah Blah, football is the darling of the media, and even if they hate it like a poxy club like Wigan have made it to the promised land, that anger, will always come second to the blame game with another sport.

The most ironic thing about it, is Martinez really believes he has a superb free flowing football team on his hands.

It still is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

as stated the ground is built on marsh land and the worst winter in decades is upon us.footballers wear longer studs which tears the pitch more than rugby,the national media treat all things wigan related as some kind of joke.
aj your comments just make you sound bitter and twisted

Penny pinching by Whelan, the so-called 500k pitch was more like 200-250k. Until they sort some out the drainage it will always be the same.

Whelan/Latics are having financial problems, Big Dave is ringing other clubs for help, first call............."Hello, is that Portsmouth "

Can you really blame him?

Every new season is tarnished for us by this cat's chorus of whining from the football press, who are apparently insensed that we are being allowed to play home matches on our own pitch.

We've had this for ten years now. You can't blame Wigan fans for feeling sore about it, or for reeling in disbelief at the arrogance of a sport that apparently thought it only had to click its fingers and Wigan folk would immediately give up their former life as a rugby league lovers in favour of something completely different.

At one time I'd have thought there would be room for both Super League and Premiership Football in Wigan. The attitude of many int he football establishment, however, is leading me to revise that opinion.

But im not, i enjoy the sport.

What I cant handle it the attitude of the press towards it and other sports. What have Wigan RL done wrong - play on their own ground, a ground that wouldnt have been built without them. But yet the media, ignore all of that, and the fact that the stadium groundsman will tell you that its the football that does the damage, just to make their own bitter point that premierleague soccer hasnt captured the imagination of a RL town.

There isn't room for both top flight sports to continue at the DW in the long term, and Wigan Athletics slow decline along with Whelans loss of interest, will slowly see normal service resumed.

Spot the journalist whos never been wigan

the telegraph can't stand Rugby League, probably because it's written by a load of yawnion loving toffs. have a look on that website and try to the RL page without typing it in the search bar. bunch of pricks

in all honesty i couldn't give 2 s if the state of the pitch affects latics chances of staying up, i just wish people would stop pinning the blame on us when the current state of it clearly has bugger all to do with us

Since when have latics been part of the football establishment
The premier leauge would love clubs like bolton,wigan,burnley,blackburn and fulham to swap places with leeds,forest,newcastle and sheff weds
Again sly digs at the towns football club from the narrower minded individuals on the board,it all gets rather tedious on this board and cockney spastic with the are sports better than your sport are crowds bigger than your crowds argument,why can't some people accept that some people prefer rugby and some prefer football and some enjoy both.

This board tends to be for those who prefer rugby.

Not sure why you and one or two others don't seem to get that.

By all means support both yourself, but don't be upset or surprised when others on here don't.

Moreover, if you find these sort of threads tedious, I recommend you stay off them. They're not going to go away until the football press stops insinuating that Wigan RL should not be allowed to play on their own pitch, and I suspect that will only happen when Latics get relegated.

Just to play devil's advocate though, whilst I agree with your point in principle I do sometimes wonder why Wigan rugby fans still let themselves get so wound up about this issue - it must have been going on for 10 years now.

We're not going anywhere - we have a very long lease. If the football fraternity want to have a hissy fit let them. But I don't really see the point in responding.

Especially as this debate although it may happen every year only lasts around 6 -8 weeks of the year. After that, the pitch improves in the spring and we hear no more about it until the next year.

Its getting really tedious now.

The pitch at the KC is just as bad as the DW. The Southern journalists, however, don't go on about it because they probably don't know rugby league is played on it. Wigan, however, is synonymous with rl....



The pitch, incidentally, is not playing into Latics' hands. Martinez is trying to get the team to pass from back to front. Whether the players are capable of that, even on a perfect pitch, is another matter.

Cruncher it seems like some of you have an inferiority complex where football is concerned,its all well and good saying don't post on here if I don't agree with what's being posted but I'm entitled to an opinion as are you even if what I think your saying is bullocks.
As for the issue of the pitch and the national media let's have a look at it more closely
A lot of the big papers are union orientated and the tabloids are premier leauge orientated so they kill two birds with one stone taking digs at wigan because they don't want a club like latics in th pl at the expense of a leeds or forest,
And it winds the league fraternity up by suggesting the pitches problems are all the rugby teams fault

Maybe they'll relay the pitch AGAIN eh?

In June when its back to its best.

Its all down to a very bad winter grass not growing between November and March. And Latics having to train on it because there training ground was not fit to train on again very bad winter.

Understanding why it happens is fine if what you seek is knowledge. But if what you seek is a tolerable situation then it doesn't mean diddly squat ... especially when we remember that, thanks to pressure from the FA, we were shown the door once before - on the occasion of one of our most important home play-offs.

If having an inferiority complex means getting uncomfortable every time we enter a cup draw (in case the outcome is not okay with the FA), then yeah, I probably have got one. Under those circumstances, I'm surprised you haven't.

Do we have any potientall fixture clashes when the CC is drawn