You most of the time.

He's trying something different and if it works it will give us another competitive financial edge.

Can't see why you are so angry against it?

Serious question - in almost 8 years of owning the club have you agreed with anything IL has done? It's almost comical that when IL makes a decision there will be a post on RL Fans by DaveO finding fault with it.

Many of your prophesied 'it will never work' posts have actually done the opposite and come true but even then it's not through anything IL has done.

I'd love to know what you seem so at odds withe everything that he does. Do you just not like him?

I see no harm in this at all. The main plank of it is clearly sponsorship: IL talked about this in his last Chairman's Address, so it's hardly new.

Seems RL clubs are damned if they do and damned if they don't. This is someone thinking outside the M62 corridor; how is that a bad thing? In fact I mentioned to my son, who lives in London, that Wigan *might* be playing a game in London (and there are stadium issues to overcome before that can happen anyway), and he was certainly up for it, and would probably bring some of his friends who'd never seen live RL before.

For all the pessimism around here, it bears repeating: we have a great product, certainly the most exciting of the two rugby codes. But most people aren't even aware of it. Getting the game out there to relatively untapped markets is *always* worth doing.

Why not put greater effort into winning challenge cup matches and Wigan can play in London every year

Not keen on the idea. The RFL have been trying to promote the game down there for who knows how many years....

Think it's a good idea, if it brings in a lucrative sponsor and some new fans then it's well worth it. My group will certainly be heading down

To make it attractive for fans got to be a Saturday afternoon game anything other will severely restrict the numbers travelling down form the North West

Really dont see the problem with this, what harm can it do?

A would like it to be Catalans, apart from a couple of clubs the rest can't be bothered coming to the DW, oh and as usual it's given the RV board something to talk about!

This reduces the promoted advantage of getting a season ticket. We were told this season that there would be three 'play-off' home games, plus possibly another one. That plus possibility is now being removed, it seems. I know that none of our group (five adult season ticket holders) would go to a 'home' game in London. We just don't see the point, given the massive time and cost required. And if we were to lose the 'London' game? What if that made the difference between reaching the semi-final or not?

the complete opposite of what IL is attempting to achieve. An near empty stadium for this could be the final nail in the coffin for RL in the south. i for one hope it works but i cant see it.

What we need is a one round of Super league played on the SAT/SUN in the same city in the same stadium.... wait a minute....

How many did you usually take down to London when you played the Broncos/Quins when they were in SL?

It can't be too big an opponent like Saints, Leeds or Warrington, because firstly you wouldn't want to lose home field advantage for those games and secondly Sky would want to show those matches so that would effect how many would go travel to see it if it was on TV instead.

That's not true though is it. The season tickets were priced for a 14 home game season, and as was explained at the time Wigan may take the 15th game "on the road" if they make the top four. IL stated on Wigan t.v last month that it will not be Saints, Wire or Leeds but as yet we don't know what the fixtures will be.
Personally I would love it to be Catalan at Fulham.

The London experiment has been tried by the RFL for almost 30 years and the result is a nomad side with crowds of around 400. I hope IL is only putting his own money into this venture, and not the clubs', as its a barking mad idea. If he wants to expand, then start at Chester across to Stoke, Stockport and Sheffield before reaching Lincoln. Maybe after that try Birmingham.

"Massive time and cost"? Is it massive time and cost to go to, say, Hull, too? Wigan is just off the motorway, and well served by the rail network: London is hardly inaccessible. For one game a year...

RoguesGallery,
It definitely IS true that they dangled the prospect of an extra home game before we paid for the season tickets. The key word was 'may' (take a 15th game on the road). Not 'WILL', which now seems the case. And there was no mention of London, the most expensive city in the UK.
Would anyone like to forecast the attendance at any such London fixture? Given that we drew a lot less than 9,000 for a HOME play-off match last season. And that our away game v London last year attracted barely over 2,000... Even if they gave free tickets and free transport for all, I don't believe we could get anywhere near a reasonable turnout for a London play-off, with the prospect of empty spaces on tv unlikely to impress these apparently eager new sponsors/supporters.