Or delay pitch work by a week and ask Salford to postpone the game on 19th June due to " pitch being injured " !

I'd have been pleasantly surprised if 5k turned up at the DW.

Don't like that it's moved and to make it even worse it's on a Friday night. Gate will be awful. Should be played Saturday or Sunday afternoon to get more home and away fans in. The fact that we could have got a home cup draw should have been taken into account when the pitch resurfacing was scheduled.

Can't disagree with that, that's TV for you

Disgraceful...no wonder the crowds are dwindling..playing second fiddle to a division 3 football team...you couldn't make it up.

The scheduling is nothing to do with Latics, really - the pitch can't be done in [iour [/ioff-season for obvious reasons, so we have to fit it in somewhere.

I know people who took some persuading to go to the DW once Central Park had gone. They came back gradually then we switched one match to Widnes cos of a fixture clash and they haven't set foot in the DW since as far as they are concerned it isn't our home if we can't play all our home matches there. This could see even more boycott home matches.

The whole point of a cup draw is that if your name comes out of the hat first then you play at home. Switching to Leigh of all places is ridiculous. Would sooner have played at Orrel as at least we own the facilities there.

if the home ground is not available in the footy don't they just switch the fixture around so the away team are now the home team? Would make more sence

Not an issue.
All teams have issues with their grounds at times for various reasons:-
Salford played at Leigh
Leeds have played at Elland Rd
St Helens played at Widnes
Bradford played at Valley Parade
The DW Stadium is the best stadium in the super league by a country mile and if it means moving the odd fixture for essential maintenance then so be it.
Wherever Wigan play I will be there cheering them on.

It's just an inconvenience, if we can't beat KR at Leigh we don't deserve to win the cup and it's as simple as that IMO

did we moan and complain when we played London there in 2013......LOL!!!!!!!!!

I really can't believe people are making a fuss about this.

Its reporting on teletext that the new pitch won't be ready until early July so that would mean switching the Salford game.