According to the official club web site the game is on Saturday at 3 p.m. which clashes with the Latics game at the DW. https://wiganwarriors.com/fixtures/under-19s However on the RFL referees appointments page the game is listed to be played on Sunday at 2 p.m. at thee Arena, which would make more sense. https://www.rugby-league.com/governance ... pointments

According to the official club web site the game is on Saturday at 3 p.m. which clashes with the Latics game at the DW. https://wiganwarriors.com/fixtures/under-19s However on the RFL referees appointments page the game is listed to be played on Sunday at 2 p.m. at thee Arena, which would make more sense. https://www.rugby-league.com/governance ... pointments

The game is definitely Sunday 2 p.m. kick off at Robin Park Arena.

Wigan media department with their finger on the pulse once again

Sadly correct Eric.

I’m stumbled across last weeks live coverage of the 19’s game by chance, part way through the game. Not a sausage on social media about it being on from what I could see.

It has to improve that. If communicating that is beyond us as a club then things need shaking up.

It’s not hard is it? It’s a cheap easy way of generating revenue as well. A bit of free publicity via a social media post and you may well get a few extra fans. Quick, easy, cheap wins and the club just can’t be bothered with that either

Apparently a few Wigan fans turned up on Saturday for the match only to be turned away for obvious reasons . This is so poor from the clubb it defies description.

I would like to think the club will post a general apology to these fans but I won't hold my breath . They are probable still unaware of the situation

Regards EW

To provide updates on these fixtures is just so simple to do. I bet they’d have plenty of volunteers if they asked for somebody to update their social media channels for them with the date/time of these kick offs. Sadly they’d probably forget to update the volunteer.

It’s terrible, hope they took their names with the offer of some form of compensation.

Enjoyed it.
Went to watch young Nicholson and I wasn’t disappointed.
Some decent rugby and a few really good tries.
Bradford scored a couple of good tries too late on but we were just a bit too strong and fast for them.

I think the final score was 40-18 but I could be wrong.

Its the same with Wigan TV where supporters are not getting the same value for money as in as in previous seasons.

Some Academy and Women's games not shown, especially if if the team loses, some with no commentry and some played in silence.

The Women's team have just lost all four of their play off games but no games have been shown with hardly any news about the games.

Even the club website leaves a lot to be desired for a club like Wigan, especially the section on player profiles.

Everything at the club appears to have gone downhill.

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Was Junior N'Samba playing as he is not a bad player from what I have seen of him!

Completely agree.

He played left centre yesterday.

Nicholson was the standout player no doubt. I think you were sat just behind me.

Good, it's absolutely awful.

I watched the Wigan ladies game a couple of weeks ago on Sky (the same night we played Catalan) and it was a shocking standard. Absolutely shocking that I pay money to sky and they don't televise all SL games, or all NRL games but play this tripe.

I'm very much a one step at a time kinda guy. The club can't even broadcast academy games, let's not add another headache with Women's rugby.

Do you know with a couple of the anecdotes that you told me I should have guessed that it was you!!
Good to finally meet you at last. Pity that the bar wasn't open as we could have had a couple of pints to pontificate about the game.

I really should make more of an effort to attend these games. A good standard and quite a decent crowd too yesterday I thought.

I really like Nicholson. Looked for work and to offload whenever possible. As you said he's the next lad to come off the production line to go into the first team. He will put plenty of pressure on Smithies, Shorrocks, McDonnell and KPP when he does finally make his debut. As you said we have some real potential talent in the backrow.

Yes he played centre. He's a big lad who I'm sure will get even bigger.
For me a pretty quiet game but he took his try well.
He's got the habit of "dummying" a step when he first gets the ball which slows him down a bit but I'm that is something that Goulding will sort out.
I'd like to think that he has bags of potential.

A very simple but great idea.
The club and the fans should be the same community. We shouldn't be separate we should be as one.
Once SW takes over this should hopefully leave KR time to improve this area along with the new Marketing Director.

The club has really got to open up and expunge this almost siege like mentality they have at times

I had to leave early as it was my granddaughters birthday and with the stoppage in play for the Hill acl injury and subsequent delay.
We went in the Red Robin pre game, something we always do for the academy games, feel free to join us next year.

Thanks for the invite
I will definitely take you up on that.
I’m semi retired now so I’d like to think I will have more time now to watch more rugby.

Heh! As a relative newcomer here, I'd always assumed that you guys all knew each and had been friends for donkey's years!

I watched that lad Nicholson against HKR; he can certainly play a bit!

I saw something yesterday in Nicholson that I hadn't seen/noticed before. He played more of a ball playing role and I can only assume that he's been working with O'Loughlin on that part of his game.

I got the acl injury wrong, it was Harvey Makin not Harvey Hill who went off, and it looked/sounded serious.

Some tough decisions to be made down the line regards all these young backrowers. The bits I’ve seen of Nicholson suggests he’ll certainly push the ones in the first team pretty hard when his chance comes. You’ve got Faz and certainly Bateman who you would expect to be around for another 4-5 years, so spaces are at a premium.

I was saying yesterday that we didn’t need Bateman when we signed him we needed props and centres.

Anyway, young Nicholson looks the business. Don’t want to over the top on just one view but he’s big and as Rouges said looks to have an handling game coming along quite nicely.
A backrow of Isa, Bateman and Farrell for me is far too lightweight and I hope that someone like KPP or Nicholson (late 2022 or more realistically 2023 for Nicholson) will be an automatic choice for the 13 with Isa being backup or playing centre.

I suspect Smithies and Shorrocks will come under pressure for a bench spot injuries permitting, pretty quickly. I thinks Shorrocks contract is in its final year so will be interesting to see if he’s retained. I really hope we can keep Shorrocks because I’d love him to stick some of the comments from Saints fans down their throats that they came up with after the recent game.

A nice problem to have.