Do you know who plays on which date??? My birthday on the 8th an wouldnt mind watching Saints to start the celebrations off

*****Shamelessly nicked from the RFL press release*****


On Saturday 8 August Wigan Warriors will play Warrington Wolves at the Stobart Stadium, Widnes. Kick off is at 2.30pm and will be shown Live on BBC One.

In the second semi-final St Helens will face Huddersfield Giants at The Halliwell Jones stadium Warrington, in a game that is a repeat of the 2006 final. The game will be live on BBC Two, kicking off at 4.00pm.

Strangely it doesn't mention whether this is on the same day or on different ones....

I'll say nothing and anyway i am a scouser i'm use to handling nicked stuff



Hope they are both good semi's Saints and Pies final and Saints give the pie munchers a good and sounds beating....

Just found from Huddersfield paper that their semi final is on the Sunday.

Boooo i'll be hung over then

i wonder if the LSV where asked and priced themselves out of it again?

Would it suprise you if they did?????

Yes we'll ask the smaller, not fully seated ground 1st then move onto the bigger ones

It didnt rule out the HJ

LSV ruled out by the fact that the Smoggie Dome holds a whopping 600 more people, unfortunately. Still, only took the RFL three days to confirm my predictions

with a capacity of 13,350 at Widnes, wouldn't have thought it's big enough really. Knowsley Road is ugly I know, but holds 17.500. Or even a footie ground, you would think the game would attract 20,000.

13.5k seems a bit small for a W*gan/Wire semi-final!!

Still - it won't be a problem in a couple of years when we have all these new build 20k+ stadia in the game - Saints, Salford, Celtic, Cas, Wakey, etc...!!








It's a bloody good job Hull KR didn't win though........they'd have had to play it at the Nou Camp!!

2 QUALITY lines, well done Sir !!

The RFL are aware what a poor imagine a crumbling Knowsley Road would give on telly, while no football grounds are available with it being the start of the Football League that weekend, and the Premier League the following week (while Bolton are at home to Hibs on the 8th in a friendly).

Personally I think our gaff or your gaff would have fitted the bill.

When the same 2 teams played here a few years back in the semi they were all whinging about how small/inadequate it would be.

Lo and behold it wasn't a sell out - something like 600 tickets left.

I'd sooner have a full ground like yours or ours than a half full footy ground any day.

Agree to an extent, though I think with a little more ambition (and a bit of bribery to the hosting club), the likes of Deepdale would make terrific semi final venues.

That'd the bigger part!

The stadia was obvious tbh, two biggest grounds and best distance between the two!

Sorry if the mighty LSV was offended

! Football grounds are a no goer tbh, teams prob wouldn't allow or it be too expensive etc.

With a place at Wembley at stake and all the media attention, I think the RFL should fully embrace the expansion theme by playing one game in Brighton and the other in Aberdeen.

Why stop there? Guernsey and the Outer Hebrides have got decent Sky viewing figures, I hear.

The Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides would be a far greater pull with easier accessibility via the A87 and skys viewing figures are quadruple those of the outer hebrides. Allegedly they peaked at a record number during the 2nd half of Leighs recent visit to Featherstone when news of a comeback spread around the island. It was mentioned that the figures reached around 20 compared to the 5 reported on the Isle of Lewis

The Bowl, Douglas



A welcome return of the Greatest Game.

Seriously, why the dickens don't they be really brave and go to Welford Road or Kingholm? Or even St James Park Newcastle. they could do with the dosh

The pie men are moaning at work, the grounds they picked are not big enough, well last round St Helens 4,325: Shuddersfields 6,359: Warrington 7,671: Pies 9,466: bags of room

The glory hunters atrat to come out of the woodwork for later rounds though but it maybe they take the headcount 10 mins before the end of the game when they usually announce it and half the Wi*@n fans have left by then

There seem to be complaints every year that the semi final venues are too small, yet they never seem to sell out.