Quote: Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy "The RFL scheduled us to play Salford this weekend while at the same time ignoring Wigan's request not to play this Friday. Had they actually taken Wigan's request into account and had us playing away somewhere this weekend or at home against another club who could play Thursday or Sunday without it causing a four day turnaround this mess wouldn't have occurred - it's not rocket science.
The reason why Wigan put this Friday down as one not to play at home was because they knew Latics were at home the following day, their fixtures had been out for over 3 months before Wigan's initial requests were put in. Why should the Latics move a fixture because the RFL couldn't organise a drink in a brewery, even when someone else had brought the drink and sent out the invitations?'"
The RFL didn't ignore Wigan's request. They looked at it and said "no" due to the four day turnaround moving it to Thursday or Sunday would entail. Wigan knew this months ago. They then suggested we moved the game to various venues some of which were available and some not. As IL explained they couldn't switch the alternate fixture because that is in June when the pitch is up (again) and if you tried to switch it with another team that is a non-starter as that has the knock on effect to their fixtures. Postponement doesn't work either as he also explained.
As to not scheduling it on Friday in the first place we do have to have a game this week and play someone. Friday is our designated home game day so suggesting they should automatically have not scheduled it originally for Friday looking at Latics fixtures is a bit rich. We play Friday. Latics are not playing that day and there is no four day turnaround for a Friday game. Wigan RL asked for this to be moved when in my view there is no need to move it. When the answer was "no" anyway, we should have just stuck with Friday. If we can play hours after they on Easter Monday, they can cope with playing a day after us.