Their biggest problem...Ban the cricket

surely the issue is the groundstaff aren't looking after their playing surface ?

If the footballers are worried about anything, it should be the fact that practically every club in the top flight is practically insolvent

Are you talking about the team that will be playing quite a large portion of their home games at widnes next year?

Maybe if it wasnt in the Wail I would give it some credence.

Is that for all cricket games at Headingley, or is it just Test matches?

The problem is, if the premier league do decide that you cant ground share then wigan football club will be kicked out of the premier league. Im pretty sure that whelan would do all he can to make the rugby club suffer. Thinking about it, that would be mint.

Just internationals, so it's at most 6 days a year.

The issue with Headingley was the compacted state of the pitch due to the original undersoil heating they put in which prevented deep forking. The undersoil has been taken out now, but the damage had already been done.

The South Stand side around to the Carnegie Stand then got hammered by construction vehicles while the latter was being built.

Add in a couple of bad winters and the fact the pitch gets year-round heavy usage from two codes of rugby and it's hardly a surprise it's ended up like it has.

Hopefully once its relaid and has chance to settle down it'll get back to something like its former glory, certainly got a good enough groundsman working on it if the awards he keeps winning are anything to go by.

I do not know about Hull FC, but Wigan Warriors have a LEGALLY BINDING contract with both Wigan Athletic and Wigan Council for the DW Stadium (formerly JJB Stadium) to be a "multi-sport venue". When it first opened even Orrell RU had a season there.

As for banning RL from Wembley, does that mean NFL/RU/motorsports (as they have had a motoring event there) etc etc be banned too? From the national stadium? Which I'm led to believe has also a legally binding contract with the Government who part-funded the stadia, to be of a multi-sport stadia?

Was this statement by the prem league? The PL is not the FA they can't ban teams
from sharing stadiums that are already shared they can however stop the promotion of teams from championship to the PL. As most PL teams font fully own their stadia there is very little that can be done in reality.

This is the PL blowing smoke up the of prem managers who use the poor pitch as an excuse for a poor display. It's just words with no possible foundation as for the fears about wembley that is not owned by the PL so they have no authority to it.

As the article stated prem rules state football must be the MAIN occupier. With most fooseball teams playing 25+ games at home including cups etc and most rl teams playing about 17 including pre season and cup there is still no problem as football is the main use

Lazy journalism at its worst. Don't expect this to be an issue for anyone.

Perhaps a barrier to clubs getting in rather than existing clubs.

Not just league the rah rahs use a few as well.

Kinda puts a spanner in the liverpool everton ground sharing arguement too.

I actually think that Wigan RL could benefit if the football club got relegated with the expensive buyout of their lease funding a new ground.

My niggling thoughts, TBH. Legally they shouldn't be able to but if mighty football need to find a way they probably will.

The solution may not be what we expect, though.