Will it not be 3 announcements ???
1 - John Bateman leaving
2 - Announcement that there will be an announcement
3 - Announcement at 8
Then another announcement to say someone as been sacked for breaking the announcement cap .

The marketing department are between a rock and a hard place with the Big One announcements. They can only make them once the fixtures are known in the S8's so have limited time to sell the game and yet it is quite possible the game will be pretty meaningless with a semi final place already assured. Hard to sell something that does not look that enticing but I think it just makes things worse if they then go on to over hype it. Trying to make out a game is something it is not just looks desperate.

I think the concept of the Big One is a good idea but they would be better off picking a regular season game. They would know the date well in advance and could really market it to companies for corporate hospitality and so on for months not just a few weeks.

Anyway, lets hope your source is wrong and it is the new coach being announced.

Just seen a 15 second clip about the announcement on Wigan’s Instagram page and it has Ray French’s commentary of Adrian Lam kicking a drop goal in the 2002 Challenge Cup Final playing in the background followed by some commentary of what I presume was his try in the game.

Looks like it’ll be Lam going off that.

I’ve just listened to it on Twitter (I presume it’s the same one). First one is Adrian Lam with Ray French commentating and the second is Shaun Edwards going over for his 250th Wigan try commentary by Eddie Hemmings.

This.

I heard that Twitter one too but although he got the DG, Lam certainly didn’t get 250 tries and according to good old wiki, Edwards got 226 for Wigan. Very intriguing by the club.

Just seen that myself, been trying to find his RL playing stats from somewhere else but haven’t been able to as far

Whatever it is, it’s got people talking about it and that’s a good thing. They always offset bad news with something good. This better be reaaaaalllllllyyyy good!!

No you aren't imagining it but it could be the record on the family fun day or whatever it is called.

Whatever it is, I really hope they don't do it as a cringey football style 'breaking news' announcement video