Iwas told this morning , that the Wigan 1st team Squad fly out to Florida for warm weather training on the 6th January

for 10 days , so i cant see them sending any 1st teamers to the LSV , for the friendly game , another disappointment .

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Maybe they will fly out late Sunday Evening in which case they'll be able to get over the defeat of their first team whilst on the flight.

Which would suggest most if not all the team will be18 or younger. Pointless exercise IMO

Thats Wigan for you, so Salford will be the proper test, we could however do with another friendly against one of the teams in our league, why not play Swinton, just a thought?

re arrange the fixture

You sure about that. Still no take over announced.

Agreed Saturday evening 6-30pm kick off perhaps.

A full strength Wigan side would provide our club with much needed funds.

perhaps wigan dont want to play there first team against leigh

Good point John.

Yet another Leigh stuffing of the Pies would seriously knock their confidence.

Well if they're sending there 19s, is that what it is now?,is it really worth £15/16 ? imo its not.
Perhaps the club should have had a chat with wire,saint or widnes to see if they would have sent a squad with a good sprinkling of first teamers.

Having said that,this thread is based on rumour so who knows

Makes no difference to me - Wigoon is Wigoon no matter who they send, that's clearly up to them, and when we stuff them we stuff Wigoon Full Stop! Last year I dined out on that fact all season!

The wigan sqaud are going next week for there warm weather training camp.

Lad's at work seemed to think they were going before Christmas.

Just what ive been told

, RUMOUR is you dont like Wigan

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Seems to me you got January wrong ie you were told December but got confused.

Well we accept your apology but try to be more accurate in the future.

Dont think they will send a full squad no matter what, although it depends what other friendlies they have got planned I suppose.

ASk yourself this would you rather play their 19s or Hunslet at home ie Leeds 2nd team

i was the one that started it charlie

the Wigan team go to florida December but are indeed only sending a young team (fringe players) to play us in January, this is to give Paul Rowley chance to look at some players to take on DR/loan.

If Wigan have any sense they would play the squad players minus the stars plus a few up and comers, ie 6/7 of the 1-17 plus the remainder to 25 plus 4/5 non squad numbers.

They go next month to US, i'd imagine the team will be similar to the team last year, point of interest 7/8 of those players made their first team debut last season too!

Are we likely to be watching one of your clan next season?

I must admit when I heard we was playing Wigan I fully expected that to mean we are playing Wigans reserves / youth team as usual.

I presume the Coaches at Leigh can see a advantage we get from playing such a team thus why we stick at it.
Our pre season games seemed to give us good preperation last season so i'd go for exactly the same if able.

I'd love him to be playing in a Leigh shirt next season but im not too sure, hasnt said anything