Looks like we've drawn the short straw here. Not only do we get the Friday night game, we have to travel the eighty odd miles to the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster, whilst Warrington have only a ten miles trip to Leigh on the Saturday.

Still, it'll be a new ground for me from a football perspective adding to the seventy odd I've been to over the years. Bring it on.

Not too bad for me if I go with my mate from Nottingham I guess it's just up t M1 from there

Was looking forward to it thinking it would be sat or sun afternoon. TV it is on a Friday unfortunately.

The Hull fan who mentioned it was the Friday night game on here last night was bagging us on the Hull board saying we'd all whine about it for the next month. Well in truth it's not ideal is it and it doesn't seem particularly well thought through but this is Rugby League and common sense is in short supply up at the top.

We'll have to grin and bare it. Our group will definitely be going but I wouldn't expect a huge following from our end.

We will take quite a few but nowhere near as many as we would on a Saturday afternoon.
Let's look at it this way, the North Stand is never more than a block or two full in our Friday night SL fixtures when the Yorkshire teams visit.

Plus the game will be live on TV which no doubt will knock a few off. Hull should outnumber us easily for this one I reckon.

I was right then wasn't I?

To be fair, it's like a Home match for us. Other than hull kr, our nearest away trip is cas which is about 50 miles and we took over 4000 there the other sunday. I'd expect a big Hull following but like yourselves, it would have been much bigger on a Saturday afternoon.

Could the RFL not be pressured in any way to move it to the Sunday? Surely it can be rearranged in a month.

The problem isn't the venue and most fans agree. It's the fact that it has been chosen as the Friday game. Why? If the games had to be played on Friday and Saturday surely the Wire v Wakey game should have been the Friday game just for travelling fans considerations. In reality the games should have been Saturday and Sunday. I'll be there, but as I've retired it doesn't affect me as much as most other fans.

Ha ha I thought you just suggested the rugby league using common sense. That's a good one.you Wigan fans do have a cracking sense of humour. In all seriousness I'm buzzing as have plans on the Saturday so would of missed it and I fully expected the match to be then . don't like these Friday nights for semi final. Prefer Saturday and Sunday both on bbc but it is what it is. The fact were discussing it is just another reason to be happy with our season.Is Bateman back by then? Really hope not.Probaly the only forward I would have in our pack but don't ask me who I would swap him with lol. All the best until the semi .

Hardly whining is it. I think you'd agree it isn't ideal for either set of fans? Id rather have your trip then ours and the crowd will reflect that but I'm sure both sets would have plumped for Saturday or Sunday.

As I say I don't expect a great deal of thought for the paying punter from the RFL though. It should be a good occasion regardless.

All being well he's back the week before.

It'll be interesting to see how this much lauded Hull team cope with a 'really big' game and not just a regulation weekly round fixture. With us having only the one forward who 'might' make your side it should be a comfortable victory.

Retired ! Would never have guessed it , watch your pension after Brexit , according to Mr Osborne last week , don't know where he is this week , anyway back on topic , not the brightest bit of planning by the RFL but as we all know the only bums on seats they are interested in are those in front of TVs , new ground to try been to the old football ground not the new one can't see it selling out , shame really but understandable , let's hope plenty make the effort as we will be outnumbered.

Hotel booked . Nightmare journey on a Friday afternoon but it is what it is . Needs must.

Regards , EW

Leigh are not in the Challenge Cup semi final that is the venue of the game
Would the Wakefield fans not have to endure the same problems of getting to the game on a Friday night?

most of the hull squad have been in 'really big' games before, what a strange comment!

ellis, frank, manu, fonua all played in finals in the nrl

lets not forget taylor who won the challenge cup with wigan against us, which will also be an incentive for our players who played in that game to right the wrongs of that awful final (for us and every other fan watching baring wigan and kr fans)

Booking 2 days off work so I can get there & back (Thanks to the wonders of public transport). Could have just about done Saturday afternoon in 1 day.

Wigan win, all those internationals in the England squad and favourite at the bookies. Seriously though should be a cracking game with a good atmosphere, personally I'd have had it at Hudds and it certainly should be on a weekend, but as a Hull fan I'll take. Semi final at any time or place. As someone has mentioned we have plenty of big game players, so I'd doubt we will freeze, but the game could either way, both teams should be more or less guaranteed a top 4 place by then.

BBC's choice of who plays when.

"I hate pies". You have made a typo there, a few years ago it was "I ate pies" on the old 606.
I am only pointing out you have put an h in before the ate. Cheers,

Leigh!!!

Don't be building their hopes up.

DW Stadium to Keep Moat Stadium 88.2 miles, 97.2 if you go via the M62
Belle Vue to Leigh Sports Village 54.9 miles.

It's not the venue that's the problem it's the fact that it's being played on Friday.
The games should have been Saturday and Sunday.

Ta, now edited

Ha! Ha! no probs.