Leigh Centurions can confirm that their Ladbrokes Challenge Cup fourth round tie against London Broncos will take place at Leigh Sports Village on Friday 20 March 2015 with an 8pm kick-off.

In confirming the fixture Leigh Centurions Head of Rugby Derek Beaumont said: “In considering the date and time of this cup-tie the Board of Directors considered the options available from a commercial point of view and also took into account player welfare.

“In the light of alternative local sporting attractions taking place on Saturday and Sunday we felt it was an ideal opportunity to test the water in playing a Friday night fixture.

“This will also enable the players to have quality weekend family time early in the season. We’d like to thank London Broncos for agreeing to our request. They were very co-operative in the discussions we had with them.”

The North and West Stands will be open for the game. Match-day prices are as per normal first team games:

West Stand- Adults £19, Concessions £15, Under-16s £5, Under-12s free when accompanied by an adult.

North Stand- Adults £17, Concessions £13, Under-16s £5, Under-12s free when accompanied by an adult.

Please note that Junior season-ticket holders of Leigh Centurions are entitled to free admission for this game, but must claim these from the Ticket Office at LSV.

The Club will be offering its usual hospitality packages for the game and details will be released shortly.

Sensible decision, Liverpool v United 1.30 Sunday.

Edit

I posted that before I realised Leeds v Wigan was on TV.

It states player welfare, what? Play fev sunday, then 5 days later player london, i cant see how that is looking after players.

That's me missing out... work nights

Does seem a bit of a funny one to see how Friday night games will affect our attendances now. A non-season ticket cup game against a team who won't bring many fans with them, attendance will already be down, not going to be able to tell how much is due to the fixture, how much to having to pay and how much to the mad rush to try to get to a weeknight game. I'll still be going though.

Sky 20th march Leeds v Wigan. Any floating rl fan will probably choose this, expecting a rather low crowd i'm affraid. When do miners play?

I hope Miners stick to Saturday.

3 here will be missing. We can't make Friday nights. Bad decision for me

4 going that couldn't make the Sunday game. Some you win, some you lose.

Decision made by the CLUB, not for us for the betterment of the CLUB as agreed with London now lets move on Jeepers

Friday's just do not work out for Leigh. That is evident in previous attendances.

I think the club have hinted for the reason for moving this game. Predominantly (IMO) To give all the full time staff a long over due weekend off at home with family. I can not argue with the reasoning. It is a long season after all.

Not interested in floating RL fans, they should be a bonus to any crowd - we should only concentrate on Leigh supporters, and quite frankly any self-respecting fan who chooses not to watch their own team because of the TV game that night needs to give their head a wobble.

Why this obsession with professional sportsmen having a weekend off, I would think they get more time off then the average working man? I worked a long season of 52 weeks with two weeks off when I was a young married man.