Quote hula89="hula89"Theyve already proved this year that if its for a game like the WCC where he is given money by the RFL that he can get the ground turned around in time so it would be a bit rich to decide he now cant because the RFL arent paying for the game and its only us and our tenancy agreement. I know that was the other way in that they played the Saturday and we played Sunday but his excuse was always either "the ground cant be turned round in 24 hours" obviously the RFL's money changed his mind there and the other excuse was "the pitch will be affected by Rugby playing before football" now the groundsman and DW himself have both come out and said that the state of the pitch was not the Rugby teams fault so I suppose he now has to sit and take it because he will be made out to be a liar if he doesnt really.'"
Wrong.
Should we play on a Friday and Latics Saturday then the ground needs turning round in around 14-15 hours.
When Latics played Man Utd the day before the WCC they had 23-24 hours to turn around. THAT is the problem/difference that he is talking about.
The fact it used to happen all the time seems to bypass him, but now that Latics are in the PL and are seen across the World the better condition the pitch is in the better. They also can't then blame Wigan RL which works for us as well.
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