This was arranged two months in advance, the decision to change the salford game is down to latics position in the table and nothing else. If they were mid-table then we wouldn't even have this thread. This farce will continue to go on and on.

The change of day does not really affect me, I would prefer a Friday game. Rather than fans boycott and lose out on already paid tickets , fans should refuse to buy next seasons tickets until the club agree to some concessions for the fans eg a minimum time frame of 2 months on fixture changes. We should have a fans meeting prior to the new season tickets being available and have the fans concerns listened to.
We are not just fans we are paying customers and I would be all for getting some concessions from the club.

I haven't checked but as the game is on a Thursday, is it being shown on Sky? If so, a Liverpool style 'Wigan Walk' would go down a treat

Not on TV, there was already a Thursday game arranged for Sky (Hull FC v Cas). The fans could definitely do something to have their say. Not buying any food, drink, programmes, golden gamble etc next Thursday would be a starting point.

it would indeed but it wouldnt get any media recognition apart from maybe a small piece in the WEP. Something needs to be done in front of a national TV audience

Something to do with your comment "IL has turned the club" and the fact that the previous owners were Mo and Dave maybe?

From a Salford fans perspective I have a thirty-eight mile round trip to Salford.
Tried to buy tickets yesterday at the Cowboys training session and told no information yet
Just tried again at the Brisbane training session and told we haven't got tickets yet.
Add to this please consider also it could be Wednesday before I get off the Barton car park if you believe the tales we have to put up with.

We aren't the only RL club to share a ground. Hull and Hudds share with soccer teams and Salford with Sale RU.

Do they get messed about like this? I don't think so. Do they have to play away from home for weeks on end mid-season? Nope.

The fact we do is unacceptable. You could understand the midseason thing once while the situation was sorted out for good but it's clear it's now going to be every bloody season. Moving other fixtures like this Salford game is just rank bad planning. The soccer fixtures are known as are the RL fixtures before the first RL game kicks off including the dates of potential home ties in cup games.

To be having to change a fixture and give such short notice is very,very poor and reflects badly on IL and the club.

We do unfortunately, in the past we've even had to play games at Leigh because Sale were given priority. Even just last week, our home game vs Leeds was moved from a Friday night to a Saturday due to Sale progressing to the next round of the cup with that game being shown on Sky.

The argument is that IL has turned the club into a business rather than a family club, this has nothing to do with previous owners/ chairmen.

In modern sport there is an absolute requirement for a good business head to manage the day-to-day finances and turn a profit if at all possible. This farce with the wendyballers taking precedence is nothing to do with IL. The ground is owned by a company (that itself has to make a profit) that is still in part owned by the Whelan clan and their priority is soccer. Where I [iwould[/i lay blame for this is Rads. Is he not still "Rugby General Manager"? Exactly what is that supposed to be if not to keep an eye on schedules and potential pratfalls like this? Also, the RFL should know better in the first place and if any fault is to be sent in Lenagan's direction it's only insofar that he's patently not got the balls to stand up and fight our corner when the requirement is there.

Of course it does; it shows that the previous owners demonstrated that a "family club" is not viable when it keeps on losing money. That, in essence, is why we don't have Central Park anymore.