Re: GAME OFF: Wigan v Widnes : Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:02 pm  

GAME ON. Fixture reversed, KO 8pm at WIdnes. £10 entrance and Wigan paying for any commercial revenue loss to WIdnes. What a farce. http://www.widnesvikings.co.uk/article/ ... n-warriors

GAME ON. Fixture reversed, KO 8pm at WIdnes. £10 entrance and Wigan paying for any commercial revenue loss to WIdnes. What a farce. http://www.widnesvikings.co.uk/article/ ... n-warriors

Re: GAME OFF: Wigan v Widnes : Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:03 pm  

Clearwing wrote: Is there any factual basis to this or is it just some froth on twitter? Here's a report from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/ ... gue-switch However I can't see anything that validates the report, it almost reads just like the collective "facts" that have been posted on these boards.

Clearwing wrote: Is there any factual basis to this or is it just some froth on twitter? Here's a report from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/ ... gue-switch However I can't see anything that validates the report, it almost reads just like the collective "facts" that have been posted on these boards.

Re: GAME OFF: Wigan v Widnes : Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:12 pm  

Statement from both Widnes and RFL. Could be an expensive night for Wigan. And I hope the reverse fixture in July fouls the newly-laid football pitch.

Re: GAME OFF: Wigan v Widnes *EDIT, back on* : Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:22 pm  

Fair play to Widnes - they've come out of this looking good.

Wigan on the other hand, regardless of the why's and wherefores, look like a shambles at absolute best, or cynical, arrogant,'bigger than the game', selfish, spectator unfriendly shytes at worst!

What is clear from this whole mess is that the RFL need to put Policies in place to protect against this type of thing. Forget this example, if the pitch/stadium of a home team is playable at the time of the game, the game simply has to go ahead as planned - if teams in SL cannot guarantee this because of ground sharing top trumps, then they should be forced to have an alternative venue available at all times, or face severe consequences. In the amateur game, the match would have been forfeited, the club fined, and repeated offences would lead to expulsion.

Re: GAME OFF: Wigan v Widnes *EDIT, back on* : Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:26 pm  

Re - Widnes "looking good"

Not sure that dropping the general admission to £10 will please their season ticket holders (i.e. the erosion of the "benefit" of being a ST holder).

Re: GAME OFF: Wigan v Widnes *EDIT, back on* : Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:55 pm  

IL wrote:

“With Wigan Athletic’s season at such a critical stage and after detailed discussions between myself and Wigan Athletic chairman, David Sharpe, it was agreed that they need to play this fixture more than we need to play ours.”

Right.

Re: GAME OFF: Wigan v Widnes *EDIT, back on* : Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:57 pm  

Superted wrote:

Fair play to Widnes - they've come out of this looking good.

Wigan on the other hand, regardless of the why's and wherefores, look like a shambles at absolute best, or cynical, arrogant,'bigger than the game', selfish, spectator unfriendly shytes at worst!

What is clear from this whole mess is that the RFL need to put Policies in place to protect against this type of thing. Forget this example, if the pitch/stadium of a home team is playable at the time of the game, the game simply has to go ahead as planned - if teams in SL cannot guarantee this because of ground sharing top trumps, then they should be forced to have an alternative venue available at all times, or face severe consequences. In the amateur game, the match would have been forfeited, the club fined, and repeated offences would lead to expulsion.

Not sure about them looking like bigger than the game. They come out of it looking like small fry in a town they thought they owned.

Re: GAME OFF: Wigan v Widnes *EDIT, back on* : Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:09 pm  

Slugger McBatt wrote:

Not sure about them looking like bigger than the game. They come out of it looking like small fry in a town they thought they owned.

That was the 'shambles' option... if they've done it cynically for the extra rest period, then that is the whole 'bigger than the game' thinking.

Re: GAME OFF: Wigan v Widnes : Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:10 pm  

Wigg'n wrote:

Why don't Cas play in a stadium fit for the 21st century?

At least its ours and we don't have to answer to anybody. Or are you just upset that DP hasn't congratulated Wane on the WCC?

Re: GAME OFF: Wigan v Widnes *EDIT, back on* : Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:13 pm  

Superted wrote:

That was the 'shambles' option... if they've done it cynically for the extra rest period, then that is the whole 'bigger than the game' thinking.

Of course they have. To quote a Saints fan I was talking to at our game at Saints last year 'They have been cheating b******s all of my life and it will never change'