You seem to be adopting a blasé attitude to attendance at this game.

Wigan are (along with Leeds) one of the best supported teams in Super League. I would have thought that the Wakey, Leeds and Wigan games would be your biggest attendances historically. If the crowd at one of your biggest games of the season is 2,000 down on last year when it was played on a Sunday you stand to lose approx. £30,000 taking into account concessions (though Maths isn't my strong point). Good to know that Cas don't need to care about that sort of money.

Sunday games at Wigan tend to be worse for attendance than Friday night games, and I'm not sure that the size of your (usual) away support would warrant any change in kick off times to accommodate you, though a cup match would be different.

Anyway Friday or Sunday I'll be there, and your poor start to the season notwithstanding (I'm expecting Saints to beat you on Friday), I expect a tough and close game.

We obviously do care about money but we also very much care about having the best possible chance to win each game. Playing Huddersfield away on the Thursday hence wanting the extra recovery time, by the sounds of it, the coach of 2014 has made the call and asked steve gill to change it. I actually meant I thought the Salford game would be down a fair chunk. If Wigan's away support is that Stella (I'd swap hull fc with Wigan for the numbers they bring to Cas) then there should still be a good crowd but granted not as high as a Sunday.

Fair enough. The coach does what is right for his team.

I agree about Hull by the way. Very well supported, considering how poor they have been recently.

Wigan's complaint is that the change was made without them even being given the courtesy of being informed about the change. The first they knew was when Cas announced it. Basically they want the game played on Saturday and an appeal is still ongoing about that. Their argument they say is not with Cas, they understand their reasons for change, just with the RFL for making it a Friday Night.

I get the point about Wigan playing Fridays but they do declare all their fixtures as Friday Nights in the initial fixture list so everyone knows. Regardless of which teams are involved, Changing a fixture at just over 2 weeks notice when it's been known since October about playing the following Thursday is a disgrace in my view. Sometimes it can't be avoided but you expect that more late in the season, not this early.

Surely it wouldn't get moved again a week before the game?

The fixtures were known (including the Thursday game at Huddersfield) from November last year. Why has this change only just been requested?

Cos we are crapping ourselves about being 0 and 4 and playing Huddersfield 4 days later....

So if you win tonight are you going to change it again ?

We've not won at Saints since 1992 or 1993 so it'll not get changed.

Regular Friday night games at Cas Tigers - a sign of things to come in a couple of seasons time IMO.

Not with SKY and Premier league football going to Fridays, rugby league will be Tues, Weds, Thurs, or midnight Sunday no doubt.

Glad we changed it. Wigan were like a rabbit in headlights first 15 minutes, they never really got over our blistering start.

Gonna be a lot of press-ups in Goon town this week.

nice one classy cas! made my weekend listening to Wane nearly in tears =)

Yes,IF the ground gets built the location will probably lead to Friday night games. Great performance last night...even the shirts looked more amber than orange under the lights!