We all know if any clashes take place the fuzzball will get first dibs.

the facts are until the cup or the play-offs they cant do sweet FA

I support both cruncher
But I also realise that dw is a very untrustworthy character,if you want to keep going back and dragging up old ground lyndseys treatment of the football club in the 80s wasn't very nice either,but I tend to blame the people in charge of those clubs for creating the animosity that exists between the towns sporting clubs not the respective clubs and their supporters

Mo's treatment of Latics in 1980-whatever it was is completely irrelevant. This is not about past incidents of tit-for-tat nastiness by two bloody-minded men.

This is about the here and now. It's about an ongoing threat that Wigan RL are facing every new season [ubecause[/u of Wigan Athletic.

You may not like it, but that is the way a large number of Wigan fans feel, and why a large number of them will be quite happy to see the back of Latics when the time arrives.

Yep the 4th round is on the weekend of 17/18 of Arpil and on the 17th Latics play at home to Arsenal. Doubt they would let us play the night before seeing as its their 4th to last game.

That would not be problem as the Cup games could be played on Sunday.

cruncher your obsessed,plus how are people going to see the back of the latics,theyll always be in the town be it in the premier league,championship,division one or whatever,the only way forward is acceptance and let each team concentrate on real rivalries within thier respective sports,ie,saints,wire and bolton,pne,
there will always be both rugby and football in the town whether a few people like it or not
if warriors are drawn at home in the 4th round the game will be on the sunday,no problems

Good point, just hope they dont ruin the pitch then

the way latics are playing a ruined pitch might do them a favour against nal

Being mentioned on sky sports news now!

Poor Harry Redknapp

Pitch being relaid after Catalans match www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=5507

Pitch being relaid after Catalans match www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=5507

latics could play on hallowed turf, there still kak

Jameswk that's a fantastic and well put together post

Quote ="loobyfromorrell"Pitch being relaid after Catalans match www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=5507'" Had to look twice then as the date states 20/02/2000

Quote ="loobyfromorrell"Pitch being relaid after Catalans match www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=5507'" Had to look twice then as the date states 20/02/2000

This should put the rumour to bed for another year with regards to us being 'turfed out'.

Heard Mark Lawrenson mentioning this on Radio 5 on the way home. Part of the problem is that a lot of fottball journalists still haven't realised that RL is a summer sport, so assume that we play on it all winter & are therefore responsible for the state of the pitch. Whereas, as has already been mentioned, the pitch was in a bad state before we even played Catalans.

I also don't think Cruncher & the rest of us have an inferiority complex re. Latics - if anything we have the opposite - it's just that it's tedious to keep hearing that we're responsible for the state of the pitch every year. Even when we've not played on it. It just adds fuel to the moronic DW's fire in justifying moving any of our games at a whim. I can just see the Latics response if they weren't allowed to play crucial matches at home, and they'd be justified.

It truly is beggars belief. They were playing dire before the SL season started, and were at risk of relegation back then. So whats changed?

Oh yeah its them silly egg-chasers.

Typical footballing hypocrite who can't take off his Premier League Specs and see that Latics were dire before, dire now, and still will be dire in 3weeks.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm bound find out 'Whodunnit?'

The poor state of the pitch has nothing to do with the footballers training on it during the bad weather in December and January, has it ?

Ill tell you whodunit"it was the warriors"

They've only won 3 home games all year.... What was their excuse the rest of the time? D**kheads. They've even started a FB group.

Looks like I spoke too soon, how much does it cost to relay a pitch???

Maybe the groundsmen need to be looked at first eh?

I keep doing the same

My son is currently in trial at Wigan Athletic and last night while freezing my chudds off, one of the other parents who is from Bolton, happened to mention the damage the rugby was doing to the pitch.

He is now very well versed in local drainage problems, laying pitches on top of pitches, building stadiums in swamps, the state of said pitch prior to the RL season, etc etc. Have you ever seen that expression on someone's face that says, "I wish I'd never opened my mouth"....

Yeah but it will be in one ear and out the other.
This time next season he will STILL be blaming the pitch on the rugby.

One of you lot should take a picture of the pitch at the end of the season and then another at the start of the next. Send them to Sky and post them to as many websites as you wish when this tripe is brought up year after year. I'd be inclined to ring one of the idiot phone ins when they bring the matter up as well.