I wouldn't worry too much about their gene pool. It only seems to be just one of them who's on a one man crusade to wind wiganers up.

Unsurprisingly, your attempt at pretending to be a reasonable man with fair-minded views didn't last too long.







On reading your post last week, I thought for a very brief second that the days of Fev fans gobbing on the Wigan players when they come out onto the pitch - as happened the last time we played you - were long over. Alas, not. It seems that time moves on everywhere except in the Yorkshire Third World.

So, a Featherstone fan, rather than revel in the beating of Castleford, and the prospect of playing another SL team, in the greatest knock out cup in Rugby, chooses to spout off about bugger all.

Flatcappers of the world unite!


Poor poor poor attempt!

I think Fev will get a good "TONKIN" on Friday

So your the one in Fev who 'does the reading', well done.

I remember playing there in the late 90's, it doesn't appear that there has been any change at all in the infrastructure and it was a small ground then. So to go from a home ground with a 25k capacity to a Featherstone is definitely a change and a size reduction normal facilities at the very least.

Do they still have the railings around the edge of the pitch rather than wall etc?

The only Tonkins Fev will experience is the one they're going to receive from Wigan on Friday night.

Beat me to it.

it's got to be som't to do with all the rhubarb they grow round there - it is a laxative after all

Evidently, he didn't.

Tonkins ? Is that slang for heavy losses

Crying with laughter. Loving this thread

Rhubarb isn't always a laxative,I had some on Saturday after my tea with some custard.
I was proper bunged up for two days.

Appen yer custard wer lumpy?

Sam is right, it will be different and i for one am glad and don't take offence. We do still have the railings, we do still have the slope (not for long though) our pitch isn't long but it is wide, we still have terracing at both ends (not for long though) and overall our facilities aren't as good as some of the new SL grounds but that's what helps make post office road what it is.
It has character and your players won't feel too uncomfortable with the facilities on offer and once they're out on the pitch nothing else will matter to them than winning the game.

For some reason the railing really stick out in my mind, maybe it's just that the ground isn't that much different to any other ground other than the railings from the pitch (it's not like you spend a game looking at the facilities). I can't really remember the changing rooms, but now you mention it the pitch seemed almost square (Leeds also seemed very wide when on it).

Threads like these are just daft... lets boo 'S.Tonkins' because he believes Fevs ground will be different from the grounds hes played on in the past few years like Old Trafford, and the national stadium in Wembley.

Shame on you Sam, Shame on you.

Although, now I think of it, I do remember the England (B-team) vs Cumbria at Whitehaven...the look on the pampered SL players faces when they saw the pitch on coming out for a warm-up was priceless



It did look like they'd been practicing the Cumbria ploughing championships on it though.

An idiot over-reacting to something? Well I never.

I agree with the OP. Never liked than Tonkins.

Also an idiot who is about 15 years behind everyone else (from Fev - so go figure).

He clearly feels the fact that we rent the DW is some kind of weak chink in our armour, which he's set his stall out to hammer at daily. Not apparently realising that everyone else thought this when we first moved there, only to gradually and reluctantly realise that we are a the DW to stay - on the basis of a long-term contract that will probably outlast his natural life.

Exactly. The fact that the grounds abit of a 'throwback' is with all due respect an advantage to Fev in games like Friday. It has character and is part of the reason a lot of Wigan fans are made up with the draw.

It brings back memories from childhood and this week feels like a 'proper' cup tie.

why is this dick posting here AGAIN

Well said Phil, looking forward to our visit on Friday, will try the " Lagoon " do they sell pies in there or just from " The Shed " ?