It's true, apparently.

What is?

Sunday? FML.

Only the second Saints Wigan game I'll miss in Allah knows how long.

Sunday at the Galpharm.

I hate the RFL. Bunch of ****ing idiots.

In all fairness, the HJ is just too small, and any other suitable stadia in Lancashire and the like are all football stadia, and we all know how y the Wendyball clubs get when it comes to rugby on their precious pitch.

14k tops is Wire's ground, thats 7k each for a semi. Wigan's average gate is double that, and ours at KR last season is well above (I use that as for this season, average gate wise, its a throwaway one, we're nomadic FFS!).

Shame as it is, Hudds is probably the only suitable place to hold a semi of this size.

Rather annoyed that its Sunday though, the Yorkshire two have a lot less to travel. I know its a couple of hours travel, but its a couple of hours travel on a Sunday night where most will be in the work the next day.

Preston are skint.

I'd have played it there just so it was this side of the pennines but there isn't a massive amount of difference time wise when driving to both.

Rafts of Wiganers would have got the train though with it taking only 10-15mins.

My feelings are that the HJ is too small (13.5K I believe) and it would easily sell out which is a bit of a problem for me, as not a season ticket holder it may be hard to get tickets.

However if you move the game to Huddersfield I would be surprised if you got more than 13.5k turning up. You would have a showpiece game between 2 of rugby's great clubs played in front of a half empty stadium, with little or no atmosphere and a terrible advert for the sport broadcast live on the Bbc. It would kind of be like Millennium magic but probably a bit better !

If it is a choice between these 2 venues I would say it has got to be the HJ. Full house great atmosphere. Fans can get public transport to and from the game quite easily and make a right good day of it.

Great. Travelling all the way to Huddersfield, for a "reserved seating" semi final with a rubish atmosphere. Fantastic.

I wonder if the delay is over the BBC spitting the dummy out?

The Beeb will surely want this for Saturday lunch time, but if it is at Hudds then we have to play the Sunday...

You would think Maurice Lindsay being in charge at Preston he would be pushing for some RL games! BBC have a live football game on the Sunday but that is 1pm kick off.

Huddersfield is just a joke! but sadly Warrington went for far too small a stadium to start off with they should have made it 15,000 and then had the option to go to 18,000.

It took us 6 weeks to sell 3,000 for Warrington away and Saints are hardly packing Widnes to the rafters. Get it at Warrington, electric atmosphere, packed out, terracing.

WHY it only takes 30-45mins to get there? and everyone will get tickets? a no brainer for me



HJ,Hobart and Leigh are all to small?

if its not at the HJ i'll eat my hat.

As I said last night. The 2009 semi, had it been Wigan v Saints would have been played at the HJ, and that came from a member of Wigans commercial dept.

As it turned out we played Wire at Widnes and Saints played Huddersfield at the HJ.

Perhaps you are right! which is a sad reflection on this season, I am sure Wigan could sell 10,000 and then your 3,000 lol, not sure if most of your fellow supporters would agree you can't sell at least 5,000 for a semi, but then when it is Live on TV which is the cheapest?

It is the type of decision the RFL will make to take it to Warrington if it is in the North West as too many of our matches on TV show half full stadiums.

It will not be at the Galpharm.

I would have thought the HJ was fine for this game. 13,000 sell out no worries.

Whilst we may fill the HJ, I think taking it to Huddersfield will mean a significant drop in numbers for both clubs.
Should've been the HJ.

what about prestons deepdale?

Can't see why they would take us over to the favelas when Warrington is on both teams' doorstep. It's not like we'd get a bigger gate there so we might as well sell out the HJ ( and I think we will).

The days are probably the issue not the location.

If the BBC want Cas v Leeds on the Saturday there is a problem with where to play (and if its Doncaster how the tickets get allocated).

I think if Saints v Wigan was the first choice for Saturday then it would be all done and dusted by now.

Who says it isn't?

Looks like its the HJ!!

looks like the info was dud!