Hull v Catalans
Wigan v Cas
Wire v Widnes
Hudds v Wakey

Will we be able to play the game at the JJB?

No.

And it won't be the end of the world, because it never is.

We ought to be used to this by now. But no doubt there'll be a whole fanfare of melodrama in response.

How come??

Bilko has said it will be at the DW?

I didn't think we could.
Assume we will play at Leyth?

Pitch re-laying will commence straight after our home game with Hull, and the next round of the CC isn't until the last weekend of June - some 6 weeks away.

Major 'improvements' being made to DW drainage system when the ties are scheduled for unfortunately. Probably be at Leigh.

Langtree Park, it's not as if Saints will need it

Any pitch work would have been scheduled with a "worst case scenario" timescale - ie Latics only making the playoffs and having a playoff fixture which could have been as late as Fri 20th May - that's when Millwall host Bradford. The work can now be brought forward a week, which means it should be finished a week earlier than scheduled.

There must be a contingency plan. It wasn't like they didn't expect to win at Dewsbury and it was a 50/50 chance they'd be at home in the next round. You'd expect the club to announce something very soon one way or the other.

Looks like Hull FC will have to move their game as their pitch is being relaid.

What makes you expect that?

They don't exactly have a good track record for giving fans ample notice when there is a fixture change!

The club website reports the draw but carefully avoids saying where it will be played.

Really? I can only remember one example of this where the club was at fault.....?

I don't think it is as simple as that. Work will be planned months in advance and contractors booked in. They will have other contracts to finish presumably and won't be just sitting round on the off chance that Wigan will need to bring the job forward.

We've now got the ok to play at the KC .

The delay is presumably so that they can film the 20 minute video explaining why we're playing in Yeovil on a Thursday morning.

if maurice lindsay were dead he'd be turning in his grave. he one famously said on national tv that Wigan was a rugby league town, always was, always will be. Ask yourself this, do Wigan Athletic have to move ANY game to facilitate Wigan rugby and their fixtures ? have they played away games for over a month solid ? then u get cruncher saying its not the end of the world., we should be used to it. tell u what, lets take it to that corporate magnet called Millwall FC, show the world how forward thinking we are. Would be better than last summers debacle, wigan v catalan at millwall on at the same day as England v ireland at twickenham. We are bounding forward at such a rate. Went to Dewsbury sunday, cracking little club, great set up. No one will tell them to move a QF tie to batley !!!! Wigan always a rugby league town ..... I think not !

Live in the real world, mate. It's the price-tag of a shared stadium. Unhappy as we may be, all the ranting in the world won't change the economics of the situation.

And the current administration were not the ones who got us into this mess.

Also, Maurice's main contribution was to make it worse by bringing us perilously close to relegation - if that had happened, then you'd really have learned the meaning of the term 'second-class citizens'.

Well, there's Hull KR and Salford this year where the date/time of the fixtures were not made public until very late in the day. The cup tie last year at Leigh wasn't announced straight away, and I'm still awaiting news on which regular season home game will be moved to London and which stadium it will be played at, and the fixtures have been out since last November!

I can handle all the chopping and changing of fixtures venues its now part and parcel of Superleague / Cup games . Its the very late notice of these changes that is the annoying part of it all . Especially if you are not local to the Wigan area . A little bit of notice is all that is required for me anyway .

Regards , EW

Do you think they tell us when they know or are they keeping the venue secret so they can sell less tickets maybe?



Moving a venue isn't just a case of naming a date and time, presumably the Police have to okay it, then you have to arrange stewarding, carparking, food etc, get the agreement of the RFL and the visiting team and so on.

It's not a case of meeting at the local rec and putting down some jumpers for posts!

Salford home ? HKR home ? in both cases the club knew well in advance there were possible problems and said nowt (IL admitted as much on Wigan TV)

A simple please note this game could be subject to a date / time change . Would save a lot of us from buying advance transport / hotel tickets that were non refundable . But hey ho that's the life of a Rugby League fan .

As always regards , EW