Yes you would,they make it so for us when the pitch is being relaid with usually 5 away games on the trot.

I'd not expect a penny from the Latics, as they are joint tenants. I would however expect some, if not all, of the money paid out to the RFL and Widnes, to be covered by the owners of the Stadium Management Company - unless of course the conversation between Mr Sharp & Mr Lenaghan really was a one-way version as suggested by the Cockney Latic knuckledraggers, where Sharp told IL that the rugby are not ruining the pitch again and IL rolled over meekly, where IL should foot the bill for having such a poor tenancy agreement.

As for fixture planning and deconfliction by the RFL - don't make me laugh! This is an organisation who have spent over 100 years failing to grow the game, so why on earth would anyone expect them to take into account that some clubs now share grounds with other sports who may already have a fixture scheduled for that date - Good Friday/Easter Monday being a prime example!

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Wigan Warriors v Widnes Vikings

Sunday 2nd July 15:00

Regards EW

People blaming the RFL are embarrasing themselves - clearly you don't understand how many drafts of the fixture lists there are, lists which are prepared based on information provided by the clubs on stadium availability. But there have to be certain limits on how flexible the RFL should or can be and Wigan pose by far the most problems of any club in the league. One suggestion was that Widnes should have home games biased towards the winter - why on earth should Widnes have a totally unbalanced fixture list just because they have an ipitch? That is not in their interests or those of their fans. The governing body already ties itself in knots trying to accomodate Wigan's lack of stadium availability - if you are really suggesting that they shouldn't schedule Wigan home games for weekends when Wigan Athletic are at home, or for five weeks in mid summer, can you point out eleven weekends between February and July, excluding the cup, Magic and WCC weekends, when your stadium would actually be available? I suspect it would be difficult.

This problem is Wigan's and Wigan's alone - either you sort it out or accept that you will have to play home games away from the DW Stadium if the demands of your landlords cannot be met by further distorting the Super League fixture list to try and accomodate them.

Hull and Huddersfield manage to share no problems. The problem is the drainage and the poor system of drainage the ground has.

A town the size of Wigan cannot sustain two grounds. Simple economics really. Name a town in Britain that sustains two grounds that can hold 25,000 fans?

Leicester is as big as the Wigan borough and has 2 stadiums.

LOL.

And we/Latics have to pay untold thousands to Widnes to compensate them for loss of revenue. You think Widnes would've played the game if we hadn't bank rolled it?

The attendance at Widnes last night was higher than the corresponding fixture last season.

The attendance is only a part of it, what about the corporate side? Both Wigan and Widnes would have lost thousands as a result of the last 48hrs. The result aside it has been an utter shambles by Wigan yet we still haven't had a statement from either Lenegan or Radlinski as yet.

£10 tickets.

I hope we get a massive fine and docked points. Might help Lenagan to sort out this tenancy agreement.

It was £10 tickets last season as well.

Wasn't it on Thursday last year though?

I doesn't work like that. You can't just rip up a contract like that and change it to something that suits you better.

If the stadium management company are prepared to negotiate revised terms then I'm sure it's possible, in also sure it would cost us in rent.