3hrs Manchester to Leigh, What did you do walk it?

Was the Dave Whelan stadium already booked

London have been a dead man walking for a while now. SKY's commentary v Sheffield was the most bias pile of I've heard in years and now this decision to play a Semi-final at a Neutral ground that is 12 miles from Wigan and 212 miles from the Stoop beggars belief.

Mixed emotions now because I really want London to on the RFL's corn flakes and make the final, but $5,000 to come home to watch Warrington rip us apart may well be a bit too much for me to slide past the Wife.

Effing livid about this. Not only is it basically in Wigan but transport is pathetic.

London fans don't show up in numbers in their own ground, never mind some neutral venue somewhere in the Midlands.

Credit to those in the minibus or two that will go to Leigh, but that's life.

Should've been at Warrington at least. Totally ridiculous decision.

wigan v London at leigh sports village, in the borough of wigan?? neutral?? I was right, the teams from west of the pennines always get "home ties" in a semi final, this one is plain ridiculous, clearly this is a massive advantage to wigan and an absolute smack in the face for London.

surely this would have been a perfect opportunity to take a big game down south or the midlands and encourage people to come out and support London? wigan fans would travel in big numbers wherever it was.
an opportunity missed or just the RFL only interested in 2 teams getting to their showcase final?

Ha, you would have been right, must've drank too much on Saturday to think that's to what it was, this is what Broncos were 100% told;

Hull would have been at Headingley
Huddersfield at he Shay
Cats at Perpignon RU
Wigan/Wids or Wire at LSV

Life it may well be, but in the spirit of the Challenge cup, the selection of Leigh is not a neutral in any way shape or form.
If Sheffield had turned us over, do you believe they would have been asked to play Wigan at Leigh? Would they !

David Hughes has gone out of his way to of the RFL in recent years....but he and his spineless gimp of a CEO need to make a stand here.....Leigh is a suburb of Wigan for christ's sake.....how is it neutral?

a cup semi final in a neutral venue in any sport should be be just that, neutral, not decided by who has more fans.
surely we should be encouraging fans from London and the south to attend a semi final not going along the lines of, their home support is rubbish so lets play the game in wigan instead.
only 6000 wigan fans turned up tonight, I wonder how many will bother going to the semi which, again for wigan, is almost a nailed on win?

Lets hope this farce puts an end to neutral semi finals.

or how about we start by having neutral venues that aren't like a home game for one team?

6,327 at Wigan
7,603 at Wire
6,500 in France
2,459 in Sheffield.

22,889 fans bought tickets from the 78,333 available pool. When are the RFL going to get a grip on the reality that unless they actually encourage fans to go to games, then the cup will become more and more of a farce.

31,728 bothered last year...London were away, Catalans were at Home and a Championship side hosted a SL team....young Billy Eve will be creaming his panties at the thought of a 38% drop.

5,722 average for the Quarter Finals of the premier knock out competition in RL in Europe.

Given Leigh only holds 11,000 and the John Smiths 24,500.....it's good to see the RFL are aiming high for the premier Knock out comp semi-finals......let's hope the fans from Hull FC and Warrington can be bothered, because Wigans fans most assuredly weren't tonight!

A home game for Wigan, really? I'm not sure the RFL could have picked a more hostile place for Wigan to play in a cup semi. Local fans against and loads of clubs in the area that ain't big fans, bit like the HJ semi against Les Cats.

I see it as the RFL doing their best to spice up the semi.

Leigh Sports Village = 7 miles from Wigan; 215 miles from London.

I just wonder how many Wigan fans will be paying for accommodation on top of very expensive public transport fares from London as the last train back will no doubt be an early departure making a day return out of the question. This decision is a complete fail and devoid of any sense of fair play to the London fans - and I mean the few fans we have left. COYB!

Train stations 3 miles away from the LSV as you very well know, but yet you continue with your tedious rants. You should do a Portilloesque review of your journeys by train to every RL ground, it would be fascinating!