Why is there such a petty issue in you going to Huddersfield to play Leeds. If Leeds played at any main Lancashire option it would have given Wigan an undoubted advantage, as you are not far from all.

At Huddersfield it is 38 miles for you to travel to and 23 for Leeds to travel to. Huddersfield is the nearest possible Yorkshire venue for you.

The only option that would be any fairer than the Galpharm is Oldhams Boundary Park, which is 38 miles for Leeds and 28 miles for Wigan.

Even if you went to Salfords ground it is less than 18 miles for Wigan and 38 miles for Leeds.

By contrast, Huddersfield and Warrington playing at the Salford ground is just about exactly the same for both teams for travelling to, so an absolute fair venue.

I think your whining about the venue is just simply childish and unfounded.

Advantage Leeds (as usual)

Why should we always have to put oursleves out and travel further when its supposed to be at a neutral venue? Just because we travel in numbers wherever we go and Leeds fans get a nose bleed when they go past Bradford doesnt make it right does it?

So typical Wigan fan you are suggesting it should be played in your back yard, as you are too scared to play in a neutral environment?

Where in Lancashire, considering I have given you the geographical mileage, other than Boundary Park, is a better "neutral" venue than the Galpharm?

Playing at any other Lancashire venue is akin to Leeds playing at Elland Road or Odsal. That's not neutral.

When was the last time Leeds played a CC Semi-Final at a ground in Lancashire?

So tell us which venue othe than Boundary Park is a better "neutral" venue? a venue that is actually a possiblity to use.

Obsessed with Lancashire I see. Open your eyes and put away the bias.

Galpharm is away from Leeds and short of the border to Lancashire. It makes perfect sense that a yorkshire side (other than Huddersfield) would play a "neutral" game at the Galpharm, when playing a Lancashire side.

Boundary Park is as neutral as the Galpharm according to your post

so its fine for us to travel 38 miles as you have to travel 23.........but you wont travel 38 miles as we would then only have 18 miles to go........ so those 5 miles make all the difference.....

we are used to it......since 1963 we have had 11 semis against Yorkshire teams and had to play 9 of them in Yorkshire, that's how fair the RFL are with Neutral venues

I have not said it's fine at all. But yet you find it fair that a "neutral" venue is one team travelling 20 miles further than the other team, but think it's not when it's 15 miles.



I already said that the Salford stadium is a perfect "neutral" venue for Warrington and Huddersfield as you couldn't get any more "neutral" in terms of equal mileage for both teams. But why should both semi finals be played there? Why do you think it is fair to whine like a child for Wigan playing in Lancashire, but think it is fair for both Yorkshire sides to go to Lancashire? Admit it, you are been biased.

You have to realise that there is a vast gap of hill land between Yorkshire and Lancashire, which means their is no Yorkshire ground on the border. The nearest to the border been Oldham in Lancashire, and Huddersfield in Yorkshire.

Wigan fans appear so stupid on here that they don't seem to understand the difference between "neutral" and going over the border.

Er, no. 42 miles from Wigan, 20 from Leeds. HTH

exactly.....we have travelled "over the border" 9 times in the last 11 meetings with the Yorkshire team only venturing in lancs twice......where is the neutral split in that.....

JJB Stadium.

As a wigan fan there is a lot of moaning about nothing in this thread. Like the earlier poster said Huddersfield is close enough to equidistant. Stop winging about venues who cares.

lets play in london.......same distance for both of us and it will be a neutral venue.......no yorks or lancs advantage

I prefer to play it in Catalan in July for the semi


How far is it for Wigan to get to Manchester Airport compared to us getting to Manchester Airport?

Ah. Another lost argument by a visitor to this board.

You have just confirmed exactly what I said in the sentence you highlighted. Congratualtions on that.

The comment wasn't that Wigan fans were stupid full stop, but that Wigan fans were stupid to not understand the difference between "neutral" and over the border. Your response been we have gone to Yorkshire 9 times out of 11, how is that fair. Well done.

yorkshire team playing in yorkshire against a lancs team is hardly a neutral venue even if it is on the border..........you cant have neutral if it involves teams from either side of the great divide and the match is played in either county....


What bit don't you understand....

we have had home county advantage twice in 11 meetings and had to play in the enemies domain 9 times......so on those stats it should be in Lancs........but we know the RFL will again play it in Yorkshire.

Osdal to push a bit of revenue their way?

Nice bit of spin on complete ballacks figures there. You have played a Yorkshire team 9 times in a semi final in Yorkshire since 1960. In that same period you have played a Yorkshire team 3 times in Lancashire (usually a near as possible to you).

Of the 9 times played in Yorkshire 4 of those 9 games were against Hull KR, and were played in Leeds/Bradford/Huddersfield. You really saying Hull KR had an advantage over you. One of the other games was against York, again played in Leeds.

It's kind of a different picture to the one your paint in reality. Even when you played London in the Semi Final it was played in Huddersfield. I bet non of you were complaining then.

Yawn....................................

To be fair to the RFL if they couldn't play it in Lancashire or Yorkshire to make it truely neutral we'd be pretty screwed.

Huddersfield is fine but Doncaster wouldn't be. How big is Rochdales ground? That would seem somewhere in the middle of both clubs.