Just a guide for those coming over. Parking - about 1500 free spots on the site but these will go quickly, parsonage retail, Pennington flash ,and town centre only a short walk away. Food n Ale, Thomas Burke is a great spoons so any early starts make this a good point to do so, then your walk to the ground will not see you go thirsty from here. Railway pub near to Miners for those parked near to parsonage retail which has an harvester on site. Leigh East, whistling wren and Holiday inn on LSV site plus the Legends bar which is on the west stand concourse and is cheaper than the wren. Would recommend the Brittania for those heading from town but will be absolutely rammed quite early and after game but cracking privately owned proper pub.
Will be a great game that should earn a cracking lad and some good causes a few bob.
Ps bring your cameras and you can get your photo taken with John Woods, ok it's only a statue but at least you have a chance of catching him now.

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Can I have your autograph Mo?

Was the availability of the DW Stadium at least discussed for this one?

Wigan squad for Leigh Centurions
Joe Bretherton, Tony Clubb, Macauley Davies, Tom Davies, Morgan Escaré, Connor Farrell, Callum Field, Liam Forsyth, Josh Ganson, Anthony Gelling, Oliver Gildart, Willie Isa, Thomas Leuluai, Liam Marshall, Romain Navarrete, Frank-Paul Nuuausala, Sean O’Loughlin, Sam Powell, Jake Shorrocks, Ryan Sutton, Lewis Tierney, George Williams & Josh Woods.

For the Centurions, former Wigan player Ryan Hampshire joins new recruits Ben Crooks, James Green, Antoni Maria, Eloi Pelissier, Glenn Stewart & Atelea Vea with all seven players set to debut in Sunday’s game.

Leigh Squad
Jamie Acton, Mitch Brown, James Clare, Ben Crooks, Matty Dawson, Josh Drinkwater, James Green, Ryan Hampshire, Harrison Hansen, Adam Higson, Gareth Hock, Liam Hood, Sam Hopkins, Antoni Maria, Gregg McNally, Cory Paterson, Eloi Pelissier, Ben Reynolds , Glenn Stewart, Danny Tickle & Atelea Vea.

James Clare making his Leigh debut also.

I see Leigh are going full blooded as usual for their annual cup final.

Micky mac is a popular lad over these parts so the club decided to put out a full strength team less anyone carrying niggles i.e. Higham, Ridyard, Weston and Tonga
Forecast is cool but dry, so will be a great way to blow the cobwebs off before the big event

So given we don't have an academy ( yet ) which other players do you suggest we put out ?

I know, and Leyth keep winning it.




Looking forward to Sunday and hoping for a good game. Shaun Wane will field a strong team first half ,and throw some kids on the second half. Hoping for a good turn out from fans of both clubs.

Not really when you can't see the cast has hooked your own cap

Ney, Don't tell me you've seen jaws int river douglas?

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I know that it is the way we deal with pre-season friendlies but will we start the season like last year without a full strength team having played together? I know little about conditioning so perhaps someone could tell me what advantage we get from being under the cosh for so long? (honest question). In the first half in the company of some senior players some of the young lads looked good. I would have thought that that mix would have brought greatest benefits.

BTW I do not mean to sound like I am moaning because we are obviously doing something right.

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Today's game means nowt. Well other than my £29 I paid out to support Micky Mac that is!
Let's see how the SL game in March goes when two points are on offer.

I can't help but feel a little short changed with the side we played but there you go. We do it every year in this game yet year on year Leigh are getting stronger so the result gets worse.

I thought Micky Mac may have made the effort to go to the fans at the end also. A cracking crowd turned up from Wigan and I'd have expected him to acknowledge that.

I agree MattyB, but we were embarrassed today not just beaten or outclassed.

What made it worse was the group of fans more entertained by the name of a sponsor than the actual game. They sang more songs about Lisa than they did about Wigan all game, add to that the pally back slapping or whatever bromance was going on between them and Reynolds was embarrassing, he was kicking us to death, we should have been at his throats all game regardless of whether it's a friendly or not.

As a Leigh fan, it was disappointing that Shaun Wane virtually fielded a different team in the 2nd half. But I think you guys have more fiendlIes lined up (we only have 1 more v Dewsbury)
1st half was a good game, but 2nd half....Leigh v Wigan Juniors, although the 'young pies' got 'stuck in/tried their best) it should have been the scoreline that it ended up being....

Last year I got lambasted about friendlies, however I made the effort to go this year but I do wish that I could turn the clock back

Anyone that pays to attend a friendly and expects value for money really are going to be disappointed.

The worst part of today for me is most people won't bother with friendlies next year. We'all play a proper team in a game in another country next week with zero Wigan fans there.

They clearly need to do it that way due to the Catalans game being the closest to the first game but it feels like bad planning and they should have been the other way round. It'll have no bearing on our season but today was pretty frustrating.

Second half wasn't a great spectacle. Too small in the middle made it easy for Leigh. Thought the young ones gave it a good go though. When Ganson, Brevy and Field were the front row it wasn't strong enough.

Not concerned about the result. It's a good opportunity to get some of these lads out there and mingling with seasoned pro's. Stands them in good stead for when they may be called upon. We always get tonked in this fixture but every year we bring new youngsters through who end up as first teamers and for the last 4 years at least we have made every grand final. We will get beaten by Toronto too but who cares. We always start the season slowly but we all should know by now that it is a marathon not a sprint.