I have a feeling 14k home fans will be a big ask. I'm ready to be proved wrong though.

There was an editorial in this mornings Metro talking about the pitch and I was waiting for the inevitable rugby this and that but joyfully it never came. Perhaps the message is getting through

I wouldn't hold out much hope for 14k to be honest.

Considering the crowd against HKR, we'd need an extra 1500 fans to hit 14k, and then there's the away support to factor in.

Realisitically, we'd do very, very well to persuade 2500 people to turn up for Catalans when they didn't bother against Hull KR.

The weather wont help but with the team doing well easily achievable. These are fans that have probably been disillusioned the last couple of years with our bad starts

The hope in terms of getting an extra 2,500 speccies on tonight then we got for the HKR game is that this one isn't on the TV and it's on the back of that win at Wire.

I still doubt us getting them though and would be happy with a crowd of above 12k.

13k will be a more realistic target, 14k would mean 2.5k extra fans turning up as KR brought about 750, whereas catalan might bring 50 if we are lucky

The weather forecast is for it to have dried up by this evening. I hope that's accurate, because at present this is the worst kind of weather for attracting a walk-up.

Surely HKR brought 4 million speccies?

I've just seen the tries on SSN... That pitch is absolutely disgusting, in particular in the centre of the pitch.

It was awful, but the latics can't have many games left, so will only benefit us, to run in 10 tries on that pitch was a good effort.

the edges where most of the tries were scored looked fine. anyhow we wont be mentioning it again it will have been dug up by now

How are latics tickets cheaper than the rugbys ?
Apart from the three for thirty quid promotion which was a good idea by the way
Both teams put promotions on throughout the season we did it last year withe the big one and also the hienz promotion when the bought the north stand allocation
In a town like wigan were brass is tight and some of the people tighter still both clubs do ok for spectators

My seat in the East stand

Latics = £250/19 = £13.16
WRLFC = £178/13 = £13.69

And they get to watch another 10mins "entertainment" per game than I.

www.sportinglife.com/football/na ... ationwide3 winge winge winge. moan moan moan. im bored of rugby getting blamed for all this rubbish. Rochdale football club moaning about Hornets using their pitch. ""We're absolutely dismayed they're playing rugby on the pitch," he said."

www.sportinglife.com/football/na ... ationwide3 winge winge winge. moan moan moan. im bored of rugby getting blamed for all this rubbish. Rochdale football club moaning about Hornets using their pitch. ""We're absolutely dismayed they're playing rugby on the pitch," he said."

Just getting his excuses ready.

Did anyone else the footage from the England vs Aus game before the WCC?

The pitch was that immaculate i had to look twice to make sure it was the DW and that was the last game of RL played on until the crusaders game.

You can search it on youtube as well btw

Entertainment!
I would call it more like Punishment!

It is just a little bit better than England Rugby Union led by the kicking donkey SIR Jonny Wilkinson.

I heard Martinez went seeing DW during the week to ask him if he could leave the pitch as it is till after the Liverpool game as he didn't want them to have an advantage!!

That is true.

You can just image it can't you, a bowling green surface will suit Liverpool down to the ground (pun intended)



Another 4/5 niller!

Even editor of Wigan Athletic fansite says it's nothing to do with the rugby. www.cockneylatic.co.uk/index.php ... &Itemid=50 Good read that.

Even editor of Wigan Athletic fansite says it's nothing to do with the rugby. www.cockneylatic.co.uk/index.php ... &Itemid=50 Good read that.

Quote ="Catalancs"Even editor of Wigan Athletic fansite says it's nothing to do with the rugby. www.cockneylatic.co.uk/index.php ... &Itemid=50 Good read that.'" A very interesting and well written piece. This should be circulated to the uninformed media and other PL Managers. Not to mention 'tics fans

Quote ="Catalancs"Even editor of Wigan Athletic fansite says it's nothing to do with the rugby. www.cockneylatic.co.uk/index.php ... &Itemid=50 Good read that.'" A very interesting and well written piece. This should be circulated to the uninformed media and other PL Managers. Not to mention 'tics fans

The pitch has now gone as of Sunday afternoon. You can see it in this short video: www.youtube.com/user/singaporemi ... fFvG7YZofs. Yes, i do have permission.

The pitch has now gone as of Sunday afternoon. You can see it in this short video: www.youtube.com/user/singaporemi ... fFvG7YZofs. Yes, i do have permission.

The groundsman at the KC Stadium admitted live on radio "without any doubt football is far more detrimental to the pitch" and he is the groundsman that came from Hull Citys old ground. So take no notice of the fairy ball fans

Or perhaps he knows he'd get lynched if he blamed it on the rugby. That city is League mad and it's about 70 miles to the border.