They probably cost to much. Back in the 80s football clubs saw extra games as good extra revenue. They get so much for tv rights these days they don't need that extra revenue.

Reebok would have been good though.

Football fixtures aren't confirmed (for the Premier League) until 16th June, but the season starts on August 15th. Very unlikely that any football ground would allow a rugby game to 'mess up the pitch' a week before the start of the season.

Bolton would have been a good option imo.

Its in the hight of the growing season no problem with a week for the pitch to recover

I don't buy that. Apart from your worldwide clubs like Man U, football clubs rarely make decent profits, and most, particularly your Boltons and Blackburns of this world would, I feel, love more money coming in.

Aside frm the ground issues, I just feel that the RFL are just not ambitious enough on these things. They'll throw money at Magic Weekend, but won't throw it at the semi finals of our oldest and most prestigious competition, not to mention a competition that is respected in the sporting world, is protected by law as a 'crown jewel' event and everyone has bloody heard of!

Is that when the football fixtures are announced to the public? If so then surely the fixtures are confirmed now and just under embargo?

That is correct. As i have said the Reebok is available on the Sunday My Grandsons other Granddad is on the ground staff there.

widnes will be enough. Last time we had wire there everyone was whining about tickets but the fact was it didn't sell out

Both clubs now have more season ticket holders and higher attendances and a 13.500 capacity is not a lot for a local derby

Widnes or Wire would make sense for Saints and Hudds, and Wigan v Wire should be at Galpharm or Headingley

Why on earth would 2 sides no more than 12 miles apart be made to travel all the way over to Yorkshire now that one is a No Brainer

And being against Warrington again I can see us not taking as many as we would normally do, and I don't blame those who don't go because of it.

Last time they had around 500ish in our stand and a big number of them were a disgrace during the game (Particularly HT & 2nd half).

As long as if it's all ticket we get the larger proportion equivalent to Season Ticket sales then I'm ok with Widnes!

One thing we will get at Widnes is one hell of an atmosphere!

6,500 tickets each, ram packed and it'll be bouncing.

Surely we should get a larger proportion????

i.e 1f it hold 14k and Wigan have 9k Season ticket holders to Wire 6k (Made up figures I know but you know what I mean!) then surely we should get 50% more ticket allocation???????

i.e 5750 to Wire & 8250 to Wigan??????????

Headingley has got the Ashes test the same weekend.