latics are playin at the jjb the pitch looks fantastic, the comantator just said, if wigan want to go forther in this league they are going to have to seperate from the rugby league. im sorry does that not mean hull fc have to leave the kc,

everyone knows the jjb was built on crap land, during the summer the pitch is brilliant, there are 2 teams playing on it now until may and it will look in brilliant condition up until late october november, every idiot knows grass does not grow in the winter,

why do they always blame the rugby

I was just going to mention that too.



I'm hardly surprised anyway, Mark Lawrenson off the BBC is the worst for it.

The Latics reporter on BBC Manchester mentioned similar about a bare patch bottom left corner I think it is. The call commentator though is Rugby regular Phil Kinsella who said "what they've only played 3 games, they can't have done that much damage?" or words to that effect.

Not wrong with that pitch at all from what I can see on Sky.

So if we didnt share a stadium with Latics they would be a force in football?

Please.

Makes me laugh because they actually cut the grass shorter for football than they do for rugby. All their fancy boots just churn up what little grass they already have.

i know in summer the grass is alot longer, makes me laugh when before a rugby game they mark of with tape the 18 yard box, im sorry but when did wigan rl have scrums under the sticks 2 churn the field up lol

Possibly something to do with them ripping up that shiite synthetic pitch and relaying a proper one last year?

Ignorant journo's spouting cack again!

The pitch looks in good nick at the moment in comparison to years gone by and moving the rugby club out of the stadium would do nothing to improve it in future years.

Whelan would never do it anyway because he's too tight.

I was absolutely raging on Thursday when I heard Chris Kirkland on the radio saying that Latics enjoy the deterioration in the pitch when the rugby starts because it stops opposing teams from ' playing football '.

We will never shake it off.

what is the actual attendance anyone wanna take a guess il say about 15,000

Awww i have missed it, i was to busy putting my fingers in the fire.

The grass is cut like the Wigan shirt

17,689

Exactly my thoughts - it has been mown in our irregular hoops pattern

It's pathetic that the commentator said that

Quote from the groundsman..."Soccer does a lot more damage than rugby."

How many freebies

17,688.

it's around 2,000 free tickets that are given away for the games.
not sure how many hull would have brought.

Didn't look like it by any stretch of the imagination.

Looked far far less than that on Sky, I'd of guessed at around 13,000.

Thats what I was thinking.

Alan Smith was commentating on the game and he has a pitch fixation when it comes to the JJB. The fact is he's a firkin ignoramous who hasn't spent a single second researching any of his opinions on how or why the pitch gets into the state it does.

He drives me up the pi$$in' wall with it. We were to blame for the mud, and the cutting up and the huge brown stripe down the middle and now its fixed we should be fired off to keep it that way.

The man is a complete know nowt, I just think he's bitter that he gets sent "up North", when no-one else wants to do it. Pr!ck!!

There was a good 2500+ from Hull

there just scared. For some reason football fans have this irrational fear of rugby. I think they think neutral sports fans are going to wake up one day and go "oh rugby is the greatest sport ever i'm never going to watch football ever again" as i much as i know some on here agree with that, its not going to happen.

sports fans will watch both and the whole pitch things is something that gets brought up every year, we're not going to leave that ground, for a start we're the only ones who can fill it!

i'm a big football fan and let me tell you most of the commentators are not liked by most football fans, especially lawenson. He's an A class tool.

We just need to laugh at them and how insecure they really are. Plus their 7th so the pitch has hardly effect them much (help by how crap everyone else has been this year) and Kirklands quote just explains the teams attatide to how they play football, and suggest attractive football is not their plan.