From today's Daily Mail - yet more complaining about pitch sharing! www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... attle.html

From today's Daily Mail - yet more complaining about pitch sharing! www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... attle.html

I thought the pitch looked a mess yesterday around where the goals are in football.

This is just getting annoying now.

What, so the Premier League football clubs willl pass a motion preventing Wigan RL playing at the stadium on which they have a legally binding 50-year contract?

I'd like to see them try to make that one stick in court.

Pitch article/report/drivel number 415656468461650.

We won't be kicked out of any stadium, simple as.

If some kind of rule stupid rule did come in, I honestly believe Whelan would sacrifice Latics' premiership status for our tenancy.

Even more reason for them to get relegated.

I wouldn't mind about the state of the pitch so much if Latics were actually any good.

They can pass all the parochial little rules that they want.

Until/unless they make Wigan (and most likely Hull) councils agree to change the local rulings that state that our stadium HAS to be used for both football and Rugby, and each team has a lease that reflects this, they're just willy-waving and pïssing in the wind TBH.

The only parts of our pitch that are getting worn are the goal-mouths and centre-circle.

Funny that rugby doesn't specifically take place in just those areas isn't it?

If the Premier League want to enforce a rule (that at present doesn't exist) then they will have to stump up a lot of money to build a new stadium for Latics.

with all that crap on it we should have the best pitch in the league!

What aboiut clubs like Wolves? No rugby is played on their pitch and it's still sh*te.

Non starter. Clubs have leases. Councils only grant licences for the stadiums for dual use.

Its a non story anyway, Hull are gone this year, and if Wigan cling on this season, they will be gone next.

Just another example of how football think they are above the law.

An article in the National Daily Mail claims both Hull City and Wigan are expecting a motion at the summer meeting of the Premier league to ban dual sporting use of stadiums in the top flight. The poor state of both pitches is seen by rival clubs as been caused by them sharing the ground’s with Super League Clubs www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... attle.html

An article in the National Daily Mail claims both Hull City and Wigan are expecting a motion at the summer meeting of the Premier league to ban dual sporting use of stadiums in the top flight. The poor state of both pitches is seen by rival clubs as been caused by them sharing the ground’s with Super League Clubs www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... attle.html

The state of the lower placed clubs pitches is due to them not having state of the art sun lamps that fool the grass into growing in winter. That is what the FA should be telling the clubs.

Awaits uncontrolled giddyness on Cockney Latic

No dont forget they never talk about Rugby on there apart from the 4 or 5 posts about the warriors

A truly mind boggling place that. I've never seen so much infighting in one place. No wonder there's only around 20 people who post.

So what about the football teams that share with Yawnion teams like Reading and Watford? Or West Ham's plans to use the Olympic Stadium after 2012? That will still be used as an athletics stadium after the Games. All those hammers and javelins getting chucked into the turf won't do the grass any good but will West Ham be aloowed to use it as well?

A few seasons ago Chelsea had a pitch that looked more like a cross between a ploughed field and a beach and played on it for a large part of the season. The Premier League weren't bothered. The Premier League is controlled and driven by the clubs in it, particularly the bigger clubs. I think that this proposal has more to do with finding a way to get rid of clubs like Latics and Hull City from the PL. By creating such a ruling the PL cubs will have a way of expelling clubs such as Latics who do not put as much into their coffers as more well supported clubs would. The football league used facilities as a reason to prevent clubs that won the conference from entering the football league. The PL which is a big clique will look to such a ruling as a way of getting rid of clubs like Latics that despite their poor support seem able each year to do enough to avoid relegation and are thus able to stay in the PL under the current conditions.

Sh[ii[/it-stirring Daily Wail hack succeeds in winding up some RL fans shocker.

This should worry latics and hull..the FA will know they cant stop the rugby teams sharing

along with Chelsea's pitch which is in an awful state dont see charles small minded uninformed sale comenting on their pitch

Simple solution - relegate the Lactics and keep everyone happy.