Great little watch that, exactly what i envisioned it to be on my initial post. Leeming is just a PR delight, speaks so well and eloquently and great to see the character of some of the other players shining through also

Good work Wigan, and thank you for supplying us with this type of content, already looking forward to the next one!

Excellent viewing and great content

1. Mago looks MUCH fitter
2. Leeming seems to be getting plenty of media exposure
3. How tall is Walters!!!
4. Ive been to the fan village a fair few times and never realised that its the actual gym....

Leeming speaks really well. I’m wondering if he’ll be part of the captain team this year

Leeming looks really comfortable on camera which makes a nice change, most lads look pretty awkward.
You can imagine we'll see plenty of him this season. With online engagement forming part of IMG grading criteria having players who can inject a bit of personality to our online content is an asset in itself

Hopefully he can walk the walk aswell as he can talk the talk. Rumblings at Leeds that he wasn’t happy with game time.

As we know O’Neill can play big minutes and has played and won big games with us.

Hope it works out but in hindsight given O’Neill development id have kept Powell for a year or 2 (presumably on less money than Leemings 4 years) and developed Forber to take over.

Nevertheless hopefully Leeming kills it!

I do hope they are doing a documentary of the behind the scenes lead up the the WCC, I'd pay to see it.

Game tomorrow Vs Midlands Hurricanes, with Chan and Eseh making their first appearances, but it doesn't look like it will be streamed on Wigan TV.

I think I'm probably going to cancel my subscription for it tbh. I kept it after the friendlies last year, but can't say I'm getting much value from it. A few post game interviews in the regular season and the two preseason update videos.

Great idea, but one the club seem half d about.

Should be used so much more IMO. The preseaon special has been great but fans want more.

How hard would it have been to have a little off-season interview with each of the 30 man squad and trying to ask non cliche questions.

Needs to be more than game highlights. 1 interview with Peet 1 player interview a week Imo.


If I remember correctly when it first launched in 2012 they had a panel show doing a full game preview.

Completely agree on all of that.

I'll say that, especially after listening to the Phil Clarke interview, the Wigan Way podcast lads are putting the club to shame. How can they produce 2 hrs a week worth of content, in their spare time too, but the club don't don't even come close to that?

I don't really know why I have a subscription. Aside from the little documentary on pre-season there's been next to no innovative content for a good while.

Might be a little harsh as she's clearly young and learning but the interviews from the newer member of staff are dull and bland.

Yeah I cancelled mine a while back and put the money into the lottery instead. It's tough because there's not loads of content you can generate, especially in off-season, but it's quite repetitive now.

I imagine we've cut down on some media roles and the budget isn't huge. We haven't done a season review since 2020, before that it was 2017. Now it's just lots of interviews and match videos/highlights.

Things that would make me re-sub are:
- weekly podcast-style preview of each week's games with some recent ex-players and a host
- post game review with some actual analysis of plays with players/coaches - literally just rip off Jon Well's touchscreen thing from Sky. I doubt anyone cares about post match interviews, they're so formulaic
- a constant live stream that just rotates the most popular content all week - old games and documentaries - sometimes you just want to flick on and not have to pick what to watch
- more behind the scenes stuff
- compilation videos (top 10 tries, assists) and put the decent ones on YouTube/social media so we can get some views from prospective fans

Felt like a few roles around the club were cut during Covid times and haven’t been brought back. The coverage of the academy and reserves used to be pretty comprehensive but it dwindled away to the only live coverage being a half time and full time score tweet and it is a source of frustration. I’d like to think they’d look to build that back up.

I think we need to be realistic, the cost for a full season of Wigan t,v. works out at less than 75p per week!

They will stream the Wakefield and Hull friendlies live with commentary. The cost of attending those two games alone would probably be more than the annual subscription.
Could it be improved, certainly but I do think it's reasonable value for money particularly the academy live games which many people find difficult to attend.

Sorry I forgot, the club can do no wrong.

I don't think it's unrealistic.

No real rugby content since Oct and a friendly game in the Midlands in Jan. It's perfect for streaming and getting new viewers + a thanks for those who keep their subscription.

The club actually said they'd do realtime updates on X, which was changed on the day to just HT/FT updates. Are we really saying no one could have put a few posts up on Twitter to say who'd scored?

Do the live games (eg Hull next week) have the facility to cast via Chromecast?

I use this method for Watch NRL and Our League. Just wondering if its available on Wigan TV

Yes, it has worked for me in the past

Thank you

Couldn't see any Chromecast icon on screen. Got it working through my TV though. Didn't know it could do that, but looks fine to me. Watching last night's game now

I messaged the Wigan TV Help to ask about casting from my phone and whether it was something they would be implementing. This is their response:

"Wigan TV is supported to work on desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone, whilst we know it can be casted in numerous ways and that Wigan TV works on some smart TV browsers, it is not a supported function.

If you own an Apple TV box or Google Chromecast, it is possible to use these devices to cast from phone or laptop to your TV."

Whilst I can watch it via my smart Tv browser, its way too much bother for me I'm afraid. I'll stick with it for this weekend's game, but I'm bailing out after the initial month's subscription. Still pretty good value though compared to trailing over to Hull. I've no idea how difficult it is to add Chromecast to the service. I know that Our League didn't have it at first, but have had it for a while now. I'm hoping that SuperLeague+ has the Chromecast functionality and it just sems that the club are missing out by not having it (or even considering it apparently).

I appreciate that some of you will have found various ways to stream this to TV (HDMI cable via laptop etc), but I cba. I just want it to work with no hassle.

Sorry it didn't work for you TonyM19. I don't know for sure, but I don't think it is something Wigan can add to their website as such, I think it is the device or browser you cast the video from. What browser are you using on your phone? I set it up my dad's desktop to cast Wigan TV using the Chrome browser, to his Chromecast device plugged into a fairly old TV. Is there a Chrome browser app you could use on your phone that would cast the video?

I could also chromecast from Apple devices to the Chromecast stick using the TV Cast Chromecast app, which was free. Lots of ads on the app unless you pay, but none interrupting the stream. Hope one of those options helps you out.

On my android mobile if I pull the menu down from the top I've got an option called "Smart View - Mirror Screen" which allows me to view my mobile screen on my telly via my firestick. Does you phone not have a similar function?

I can mirror my screen to the TV, but the quality of the video on there is shocking. With Watch NRL, there is an icon on the top of the screen that you click and it just casts to the tv. I can log in via my TV and the quality is ok. It's just a pain to do it that way. Just been spoiled. No big drama, but I'm not sticking with it without this facility

Browser on firestick works fine

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Sounds promising