Just want to know what people think at about the salford game being possibly being moved to another ground. I work at the stadium and was speaking to some of the stewards at the weekend and they have been told that the Salford game is almost certainly going to be moved with Widnes being the most likely venue.
I know that its always been a sore subject with us playing a game the day before the latics, but if this turns out to be true why should season ticket holders be forced to travel to another ground after paying out to see there club play the matches at the DW.
Im sure that not every season ticket holder has their own transport and may walk or get a lift to the stadium so how would these season ticket holders make there way to Widnes?
Even if the club provides transport this is not acceptable as people pay to see our club play our home games at home not travel to neutral venues.

Surely its too late to move the game now as its what 8 days away isnt it?

As stated in another topic its time the club started talking to the fans and letting them know what the situation is . Even if there has been no resolution to a particular problem at least give up updates along the way to keep local and far travelling fans up to speed .

The Salford and HKR (Easter Monday) games are two prime examples of lack of communication. Especially the Easter Monday situation where anyone with a pair of eyes and a pair of fixture cards knows there is a problem and has done since the Superleague 2016 fixtures were published .

Regards , EW

If it needs moving, why not switch the game to Salford and play the return fixture at the DW on 3 June. The pitch has been re-laid, so that negates the need for a 6-7 week gap in May & June.

If that isn't acceptable, why don't Latics play Sunday afternoon - its only Bury and its not like they have a global worldwide appeal that dictates they must kick off at 3pm on Saturday for overseas TV purposes any more. The only downside I see of them playing Sunday is the 15,000 "fans" who used to go wont get to see the goals on the 20 second highlights on Ch5 on Sat night!

I'd rather them just tell us when they have come up with the solution to be honest. Having said that, it would be farcical if they do move the Salford game so close to the day. Surely they knew that the pitch would be in a state because it is every year, and that Wigan Pathetic would have some games that were particularly important to them at that time.

It's ridiculous. I'm not going to Widnes, I want a refund of what my ticket is worth like they do when Sky move a game.

And I echo the thoughts about the transparency from the club.

What's ridiculous? Refund for what? They haven't even said it's moving

Of course they have, they just haven't told us yet. Stop being so naive.

No feasible
The pitch still needs a lot of work doing on it and IF Latics are in the play offs they could be playing at home until around 20th May depending on where they finish.

Sale are also at home that weekend so I'd imagine the stadium owners would have opposed it anyway, especially at this short notice.

Once again we appear to be getting shafted by a 3rd division football team

It's all about the money. Even with that shower in the lower leagues, they're still probably bringing in more than we do with a full house. One of the only ways to get our ire noticed would be to concertedly spam Lenagan and/or the main sponsors (especially the local ones) until they get so p'd off they'd have to do something - if only offer proper refunds & not just a tenner off next season's pass.
Just for the record - Sale Sharks got hold of my address from somewhere a while ago & wouldn't/couldn't remove me from their mailing so I forwarded everything I got to their chairman, FO, all the coaches I could find & everyone associated with anything insisting they get their IT in order & stop spamming me. The IT manager subsequently got so much grief she was begging me to stop. I did when they did.
Sometimes being a bit shouty and a PITA does work.

I tend to use the freepost credit card application envelopes i get to get rid of all the takeaway menu's that come through my door, usually in tiny pieces

childish but it amuses me

its been moved to thursday

Sensible option.
Wigan would have preferred Sunday but obviously Salford weren't keen as they have a Thursday game. Salford play Widnes this Sunday coming.

It would be nice to think the club would now show the game live on Wigan TV to appease those of us who can't make it up on Thursdays

Any games moved away from the DW would be a problem for me and the dozen or so kids I bring up on the train from Swinton

I don't think that will be allowed by Sky/Superleague, although it is a very good idea. See you Saturday, don't spend too long dancing in the pub on Friday night.

The only positive out of this farce is that we are not playing it on the plastic at Widnes, it is now getting beyond a joke with the Plastics calling all the shots, we need to start standing our ground ( no pun intended ), where would the DW be without rugby, shafted , we need to start looking at building our own ground,
6 Thursday night games already before any super eight or play off games, no wonder crowds will drop !

Quote ="Rogues Gallery"Sensible option. Wigan would have preferred Sunday but obviously Salford weren't keen as they have a Thursday game. Salford play Widnes this Sunday coming.'" Still means we're playing second fiddle. We can gripe about it all we like on here but nothing will ever change. (in)direct action is the only thing that might make them take notice Put a formal complaint in to the club [urlhttps://www.wiganwarriors.com/club/contact-centre/general-enquiries[/url Although there are 2 general eMail accounts on the site admin@wiganwarriors.com and info@wiganwarriors.com and the general format of addresses they seem to use is <initial>.<surname>@wiganwarriors.com

Quote ="Rogues Gallery"Sensible option. Wigan would have preferred Sunday but obviously Salford weren't keen as they have a Thursday game. Salford play Widnes this Sunday coming.'" Still means we're playing second fiddle. We can gripe about it all we like on here but nothing will ever change. (in)direct action is the only thing that might make them take notice Put a formal complaint in to the club [urlhttps://www.wiganwarriors.com/club/contact-centre/general-enquiries[/url Although there are 2 general eMail accounts on the site admin@wiganwarriors.com and info@wiganwarriors.com and the general format of addresses they seem to use is <initial>.<surname>@wiganwarriors.com

They're still playing Sunday/Thursday, just a week earlier. Surprised they agreed to this given it was a problem the following week???????

Suspect they were told to by RFL

One very simplistic solution (I'm a simple man!) - why don't Wigan Warriors buy the ground off Latics? As far as I am aware, Welan gave the ground to Latics (could be wrong) so it would be a nice cheque for them! We could then call the shots about who could play when.

The ground is still a very nice earner for Whelan. There's not a kitten in a blender's chance that he and/or the Pathetics would give that up.
There's no surprise that nothing in the announcement even indirectly refers to the soccer match as the rationale. Thus not providing any sticks for to beat them with and allowing them to hide behind marketing bovine excrement.
Already had my two-penn'orth via the sweet little anodyne "contact us" page, if everyone griping here did the same, at least they might actually realise that perhaps this is getting more than little annoying: and they'd not be able to hide behind supporter apathy.

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