Dont think the FA/PL will allow them the move the game.

Why not plenty of PL games are now on a Sunday anyway

I don't see why we cannot play Friday and Latics on the Saturday. Last time it happened Whelan said he didn't have enough notice ( ie one week) and they couldn't turn the ground around in time. This time he has got loads of notice and let's face it, it doesn't take much time to turn the ground around. We have done it before on a Friday and Saturday and remember when we went to the KC one year and Hull football had kicked off at 12 noon and they turned the ground around quick enough for us to kick off at 6pm.
I think the real reason that we got turfed out last time was because Steve Bruce was giving Whelan grief about us playing the day before they were due to play Arsenal.Whelan just used the " not enough notice" reason as an excuse when if he had been honest he would have admitted that he was backing his football manager.

We dont know how much notice we can give dw as we are not nailed on to finish top, what happens if we can only give 2/3 weeks notice ?

Thats what I think will happen. The problem will come if we finish 2nd and have to play on the Saturday. Obviously that can't happen and I don't think that is latics problem. Its up the RFL to work round it best they can. That was an issue back in 2008 as well. The RFL could have solved all problems by letting us play on the Sunday.

That's an urban myth that doesn't exist.

What does exist is thisGround Sharing 4. No Club shall have or enter into a ground-sharing agreement unless the agreement contains
a legally enforceable provision to the effect that the playing of the Club’s League Matches shall always take precedence over the activities of the other party to the agreement.

Nothing there stopping us playing one day and the Latics the next.

There are 4 playoff games in the first week - last season they were all televised and were played on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I would have thought that no matter when the football team play - Sat, Sun on Monday there is enough flexibility to accommodate us.

So really, the only thing that says is that if Latics have a game at 3pm on a Saturday and we've been scheduled to play at 3pm on Saturday as well, the football gets precedence?
Theoretically, Latics could play at 3pm and us at 7pm?

We have 3 more games before sky announce their first batch of live football matches. Win those 3 and we'll be pretty much nailed-on to be in the top 2, and I remain confident Sky will select the Wigan Sunderland game on 11 Sep for either Sunday afternoon or Monday night, meaning neither Whelan nor Leneghan has to lose face. We will then play our play-off game on Friday night.

As for 18 Sep - if we win the week before then we have a free week, and can look forward to a home tie at the DW on 25 Sep, with no clash. If we lose and find ourselves having to play a home game away from the DW, then the blame lies with the players.

so, if the worst does happen, what venue should the club be looking at to stage a play off game?? LSV is too small (although very convenient for me ) Widnes is a bit of a trek, and the reebok might have the same issues as home

here at hull, we had the same problem it was hull city v Ipswich kick off 12.30pm and hull fc v wigan kick off about half 6 and the game was also on sky sports in a play off game ( yes u won, think chalderwood broke his leg )

Remember it well. Still can't believe that two games were played in the same stadium on the same day.

Just shows it can be done. We'll just have to see where we finish, hopefully we can work something out with DW. Afterall, it's all extra money in his pocket, right?