Play off first round
Saturday, 11th September 2010
Wigan Athletic v Sunderland

Play off second round
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Wigan Athletic v Man. City

Have they not gone bust yet?



Typical they get home games on both our possible playoff weekends.

Oh great and I suppose this isnt enough notice either

Someone should raise this issue at the next fans forum

Both games are on saturday which does not help

The second one is only a clash if we lose the first one, is it not?

It's a week off for the weekend of September 18th if, all being well, we finish in the top two and win our first play-off game.

Plenty of rugby still to be played between now and then, but fingers crossed it's just the Latics v Sunderland game that clashes. Could we play at Robin Park on the Sunday afternoon?

Means that Latics must be away for the weekend of the final eliminator, too, so there'd be no problem with that one I guess. The worst thing would've been having to cede control of that one, be it kick-off date/time or, worse, venue.

Friday 24th November, 8pm - Wigan v Crusaders, on a Brian Noble end-of-season-surge, for a place in the Grand Final. Well, we can dream!

No Problem.

Play them on Sunday at 6pm.

That should be enough notice for the RFL and SKY.

Would we not play Friday if we are still top?

I don't know if their is flexiblity but if we finish 1st were due to play Friday 8pm and if 2nd Saturday 6:00pm ish.

Sounds like a right screw up then.

Looking at next year we are fine for Good Friday.

I suspect the club won't comment on potential clashes until Sky and ESPN have picked which games will be shown by them on tv.

I think it will be less of a problem this year. It'll be far easier for the club to predict when they are likely to need to play and for the RFL and clubs to sort it out. Like I said in my match preview, a win on Sunday would surely seal a top 2 place and thus a home game.

I was just gonna say that. Plus Man City will have Europa league fixtures to sort out so that game might be postponed anyway

I hope they are not be action that weekend anyway.

It is obvious already that Wigan will be at home in the first week of the play-offs. There is plenty of time for Wigan Atheletic to re-arrange their fixture to suit. Surely your play-off match is a bigger fixture than Sunderland at home, so move that to the Sunday.

Easy fix.

Its never an easy fix with that club and owner, even with all this notice

You'd think so wouldn't you, but.......................

How difficult can it be for the RFL and the FA to work together to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen? They know which stadiums are dual use, surely it's not that hard to look at each others fixtures and work around each other?

I doubt the FA give a toss, the more problems there are, the better the argument they have to ban dual use stadiums outright

It's nothing to do with the RFL or the FA. They'll just just leave it up to Ian Leneghan and Dave Whelan to sort out between them. There's no real reason for it to be an issue. If IL has any sense he will have made sure that Whelan has a decision to make as soon as the Premier League fixtures were announced. If Whelan decides to dig his heels in he'll really show himself up as a petty little man

Of course it has something to do with the RFL and the FA. They're the ones who draw up the fixtures. It wouldn't take any effort to make a note of which dual use stadiums have fixtures on weekends and to arrange their own fixtures around them. The FA should've looked at our fixtures and seen that the DW, the KC, and the Racecourse might be needed in September. Likewise the RFL should consider the football fixtures when they arrange our fixture list in November

It'll probably get settled after Sky and ESPN announce their fixtures for Sept. It could be that Latics have a Sunday or Monday t.v. slot.

Both the FA and the RFL dont even draw the fixtures, they both pay for someone else to do them.

Oh dear.

So explain why we didnt have any games at home during May....

There was potential for two home games in May - we just got drawn away for both rounds of the Cup! The two normal Super League games we played were both at dual-use stadia, incidentally.