If we could play on Saturday and if there were not problems then it would have been announced yesterday or certainly today. The mere fact that it has still not been announced, when the first match is only 9 days away and when other clubs also still need to organise their matches, indicates that he is being awkward. Also reading the article with mentions of the mythical 24 hour rule and Whelan saying he is happy for us to play on the Friday but absolutely no mention of the Saturday says it all.

We should be playing at home on Saturday, end of.
If this does not happen we will be a laughing stock, it can be done there is no rule in place to prevent it, the stadium can be turned round, any tips how to do it give the KC Stadium management a call.

Apparently the decision is now with the RFL so Saints and Wigan will play where they are told, when they are told. I can't see us playing at any time other than the one stipulated by the BBC as not only is the BBC a broadcasting partner, paying money into the coffers, but also playing on the BBC will get us a much, much bigger potential audience than playing on Sky and that kind of exposure is vital to RL IMO.

It's likely we will end up playing at the HJ. Why we couldn't have done that anyway - assuming Warrington's cooperation of course - I don't know. Everyone could have got on with their preparations for their respective matches then.

But the BBC have their slots sorted way before the draw AND they have the pick of the fixtures. They pay to choose who they want to show, therefore the clubs have to play when the person paying them wants them to play. No other club of the eight would have had a problem with this, it is just unfortunate that you do. They shouldn't have to reschedule/rearrange their programmes just to satisfy one man's ego.

We once both played on the same day, lunchtime and evening. Worked out fine, no issues at all.

So what would happen if Wigan Athletic, Hull City and Huddersfield Town had Premiership / play off games on Sunday and all those teams were in the quarter Finals?

Apparently Catalans stadium is being used on Saturday.

Daft scenario since that hasn't happened and the permutations aren't specified.

Its all great having these debates but its unfair on us fans who just wana make travel arrangements to get to the game, yet again shows totally no respect for the fans to let it drag on

But if Hull were in the Premiership, conditions of admittance mean Hull City would have to have primacy so it wouldn't be equal status if there was any kind of clash. However given the current situation, rugby playing Saturday and the football playing Sunday isn't a clash that needs to test that primacy status.



The problem with egomaniacs like Whelan is their mood is determined purely by which side of the bed they got out of that morning. Last season he was quite happy for Wigan RL to play Saturday and Latics play Sunday if we needed to in the play-offs. Now it seems to be a problem.

And he wonders why more people in the town don't follow Latics.

Is it?
If Horatio Yed is correct, then that's two stadia out of the reckoning for Saturday, so it would only have taken Hull and Hull City to make it through to this weekend (Hull City only just missed out) to cause even more problems.

The real problem is the fact that we have three rounds in five weeks and then a nine week break to the semis and then five weeks to the final.

Although I agree I can't see any logical reason for not playing Saturday especially if Catalan can't.

The game will be played on either Friday or Saturday, how far are you travelling from?

The real problem is DW

I am probably wrong here but after the Bolton result tonight, I feel like we will be playing on saturday at "home"

The laughing stock of Rugby League once again. But don't worry it'll be played wherever and all the gobs will do nowt only moan on here and as long as that is all you are prepared to do then it will keep on happening.