No, that stand holds 4,500.

Cheers.

Nice reaction to the tie on here and the banter has already kicked in.

Let's hope the club runs with this and markets/milks it for all it's worth.

Let's face we are easy favourites to win this one BUT the higher the attendance and the more bouncing the stadium is (HAS to be a Friday night or Saturday afternoon to maximise this) the better for both clubs. It would be a MASSIVE tick for Leighs SL bid if they can draw big game atmospheres.

Probably best to avoid clashing with the tv games if they want a good crowd. A clash with a game on tv gives some people an excuse not to turn up. Whatever game the BBC choose will be on Sat afternoon so best to avoid that altogether. We do have a good marketing department and hopefully people will respond and turn up. It is our first competitive derby with Leigh for 8 years after all.

Fantastic, love a good Wigan V Leigh game, I reckon Leigh will put up a better fight against us than most teams in Super League, ill go for 54-14 Wigan win. Can't wait.

Let's hope it's a Friday night game. I can't state how much of a dislike I have for Sunday afternoon games. When we play on a Sunday there is hardly any atmosphere and it just doesn't get going.

On a slightly off topic view I'd argue the town centre pubs suffer with Sunday kick offs. I know a few bars in town get regular trade after a Friday night game and go out of their way to entice people who been to the match.

That puts us even more at the heart of the community imo.

Completely agree. Then a quick drive up to Whitehaven on the weekend for some old-fashioned biff: sod Stains & Whinos.

A good chance to give a few youngsters a crack and a desperately needed pay day for an impoverished part of Wigan. Good stuff.

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Charlie is really looking forward to this clash , 90% of my relatives are Wiganers ,i spend a lot of time in Pieland , and on the Friday before the game will be attending a Sportsmans Dinner at St Judes , a good warm up , i may even sit with my Pie relatives and chauve them .

I wouldn't go wholesale as you do have a fierce rivalry with our under 19s. Something like:

FB 1 Sam
RW 2 Charnley
RC 22 Gelling
LC 17 Thornley
LW 37 Manfredi
SO 6 Green
SH 24 Powell
P 19 Prescott
H 23 Logan
P 10 Mossop
SR 11 Hansen
SR 16 Tuson
LF 12 Farrell

S 4 Hughes
S 8 Lauaki
S 20 Dudson
S 32 Hampshire

Hoping for a Friday night game, otherwise engaged on the sunday.

Tomkins
Richards
Thornley
Goulding
Charnley
Hampshire
Smith
Mossop
Logan
Dudson
Hansen
Gelling
Lockers

Taylor
Burke
Mcilorum
Spencer

That for me is a happy mix of resting players who need it, bringing back the injured guys like Mossop, Hansen, Gelling and to a lesser extent Charnley. Other than that the majority of the above have at some point been injured for at least 2 of the 10 rounds we've seen so far.

They've had plenty of rest.

To promote this game, I will be disappointed if the billboards don't have images of Pies V Lobby instead of the usual player images

We Leythers are a very hardy bunch , there was Leythers at the Alamo , Rourkes Drift , and Dunkirk , i heard Sweeny Todd was a Wiganer .