Not good, giving up home advantage in the cup. If pitch needs full time span to bed in, then start after cup match and play Salford match at LSV. Surely cup match is more important than one league match.

Leigh is still in Wigan so its hardly a huge disadvantage

The travel is not the problem. Giving up home advantage and what that entails - the crowd, the familiarity and normality of ones own ground compared to a foreign one. Wigan's form away from home this season is also not the best!

As a fan I'm looking forward to it more as the atmosphere should be much better but it's not ideal for the team. They've been superb at the DW and they're giving an advantage away there.

It could work both ways though.

I will be surprised if there are more than 5k there, it's now an away game our away form will have to improve but if you want to get to Wembley these are the games you have to win.

Or delay pitch work by a week and ask Salford to postpone the game on 19th June due to " pitch being injured " !

I'd have been pleasantly surprised if 5k turned up at the DW.

Don't like that it's moved and to make it even worse it's on a Friday night. Gate will be awful. Should be played Saturday or Sunday afternoon to get more home and away fans in. The fact that we could have got a home cup draw should have been taken into account when the pitch resurfacing was scheduled.

Can't disagree with that, that's TV for you

Disgraceful...no wonder the crowds are dwindling..playing second fiddle to a division 3 football team...you couldn't make it up.

The scheduling is nothing to do with Latics, really - the pitch can't be done in [iour [/ioff-season for obvious reasons, so we have to fit it in somewhere.