Hopefully he can walk the walk aswell as he can talk the talk. Rumblings at Leeds that he wasn’t happy with game time.

As we know O’Neill can play big minutes and has played and won big games with us.

Hope it works out but in hindsight given O’Neill development id have kept Powell for a year or 2 (presumably on less money than Leemings 4 years) and developed Forber to take over.

Nevertheless hopefully Leeming kills it!

I do hope they are doing a documentary of the behind the scenes lead up the the WCC, I'd pay to see it.

Game tomorrow Vs Midlands Hurricanes, with Chan and Eseh making their first appearances, but it doesn't look like it will be streamed on Wigan TV.

I think I'm probably going to cancel my subscription for it tbh. I kept it after the friendlies last year, but can't say I'm getting much value from it. A few post game interviews in the regular season and the two preseason update videos.

Great idea, but one the club seem half d about.

Should be used so much more IMO. The preseaon special has been great but fans want more.

How hard would it have been to have a little off-season interview with each of the 30 man squad and trying to ask non cliche questions.

Needs to be more than game highlights. 1 interview with Peet 1 player interview a week Imo.


If I remember correctly when it first launched in 2012 they had a panel show doing a full game preview.

Completely agree on all of that.

I'll say that, especially after listening to the Phil Clarke interview, the Wigan Way podcast lads are putting the club to shame. How can they produce 2 hrs a week worth of content, in their spare time too, but the club don't don't even come close to that?

I don't really know why I have a subscription. Aside from the little documentary on pre-season there's been next to no innovative content for a good while.

Might be a little harsh as she's clearly young and learning but the interviews from the newer member of staff are dull and bland.

Yeah I cancelled mine a while back and put the money into the lottery instead. It's tough because there's not loads of content you can generate, especially in off-season, but it's quite repetitive now.

I imagine we've cut down on some media roles and the budget isn't huge. We haven't done a season review since 2020, before that it was 2017. Now it's just lots of interviews and match videos/highlights.

Things that would make me re-sub are:
- weekly podcast-style preview of each week's games with some recent ex-players and a host
- post game review with some actual analysis of plays with players/coaches - literally just rip off Jon Well's touchscreen thing from Sky. I doubt anyone cares about post match interviews, they're so formulaic
- a constant live stream that just rotates the most popular content all week - old games and documentaries - sometimes you just want to flick on and not have to pick what to watch
- more behind the scenes stuff
- compilation videos (top 10 tries, assists) and put the decent ones on YouTube/social media so we can get some views from prospective fans

Felt like a few roles around the club were cut during Covid times and haven’t been brought back. The coverage of the academy and reserves used to be pretty comprehensive but it dwindled away to the only live coverage being a half time and full time score tweet and it is a source of frustration. I’d like to think they’d look to build that back up.

I think we need to be realistic, the cost for a full season of Wigan t,v. works out at less than 75p per week!

They will stream the Wakefield and Hull friendlies live with commentary. The cost of attending those two games alone would probably be more than the annual subscription.
Could it be improved, certainly but I do think it's reasonable value for money particularly the academy live games which many people find difficult to attend.

Sorry I forgot, the club can do no wrong.

I don't think it's unrealistic.

No real rugby content since Oct and a friendly game in the Midlands in Jan. It's perfect for streaming and getting new viewers + a thanks for those who keep their subscription.

The club actually said they'd do realtime updates on X, which was changed on the day to just HT/FT updates. Are we really saying no one could have put a few posts up on Twitter to say who'd scored?

Do the live games (eg Hull next week) have the facility to cast via Chromecast?

I use this method for Watch NRL and Our League. Just wondering if its available on Wigan TV

Yes, it has worked for me in the past