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[quote="FlexWheeler":8f22o6ue]The extent of his coaching is ''BASH EM, JUST F*CKING BASH EM. HE'S LOW ON CONFIDENCE, BASH HIM'' He's a limited coach that won't last long term.[/quote:8f22o6ue] .... [quote="rubber duckie":8f22o6ue]That would make Wigan strong favourites then. With Ratchford at FB and Patton with Cronk in the halves, I think we'll do very well without Sam.[/quote:8f22o6ue]:



On the surface it does not look good. But i'm prepared to wait for some more information to come out before jumping to a conclusion. For example, twitter is alight with the fact Wigan did this without Widnes or the RFL knowing. We don't know the rfl were not involved.

Lets wait and see what comes out.

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Quote: boomer "The John Smiths Stadium is jointly owned, neather the Giants or Town are tennants, a few years back when Town went into admin, the Giants bought them, so how could the FA insist that Town, (the tennants) take priority over the Giants, (the owners) isnt it just the case, that as usual the RFL are being bullied into axceptence, of what a court might see as unenforcable rules. l realalise we are a minority sport, but does that mean the RFL just rolls over.'"


They can set whatever rules they want for teams to be eligible and be able to host fixtures in their competition, and they do so to avoid a shambles like the Wigan Widnes debacle.

What sort of governing body allows a club to postpone a game, rather than have referee inspect and decide if the pitch is playable? That's right, the RFL.

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What sort of governing body allows a club to postpone a game, rather than have referee inspect and decide if the pitch is playable? That's right, the RFL.'"
icon_confused.gif The RFL are investigating Wigan for the unilateral actions? The RFL rules are very clear - why are you trying to paint what happened as their fault?

FWIW, clubs can own a ground but assign primacy of tenure to another side (as Leeds appear to have done in favour of the RU club even if in practice an RL game would never be moved for a RU one).

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Why investigate after the event? They should've told Wigan that they'd send an official to inspect the state of the pitch. Then when it was apparent it was just because of the football game at the weekend, then there should have been a threat of a penalty for not being able to host the game.

No problem with the game being switched to Widnes, but it should still have officially been a Wigan home game. This whole thing should've been sorted months ago when the fixtures came out.

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Quote: LeythIg "Why investigate after the event? They should've told Wigan that they'd send an official to inspect the state of the pitch. Then when it was apparent it was just because of the football game at the weekend, then there should have been a threat of a penalty for not being able to host the game.

No problem with the game being switched to Widnes, but it should still have officially been a Wigan home game. This whole thing should've been sorted months ago when the fixtures came out.'"


I've no idea what you are on about.
The Latics club said we couldn't play, why would they give a fig what some RFL bod has to say?

And the match was postponed due to the extreme weather, I didn't realise the storm was forecast last November?

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Quote: Wigg'n "I've no idea what you are on about.
The Latics club said we couldn't play, why would they give a fig what some RFL bod has to say?

And the match was postponed due to the extreme weather, I didn't realise the storm was forecast last November?'"


The game was cancelled based on what they thought the pitch would be like after a forecasted storm. This in itself is laughable. Unless Athletic ordered Wigan not to play(can't see how they could unless Wigan's tenancy states they could) , then Wigan need to be punished heavily for bringing the game into disrepute.

RL always seems to shoot itself in the foot or in this case Wigan. They do something brilliant and beat the Aussies to become WCC then throw all that positivity away by doing what they did.

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