I agree Friday night would be best and it is our regular slot for games. You are right about Sunday games too, always never really gets going.

It would be interesting to do survey or gather opinions of a cross section on what they days we should play home games.

The stats might prove otherwise but I feel that we get less Friday night games than we used to.

Attendances at ALL RL games are down between 5 and 20%

It's harder times and people pick games more carefully. I certainly think people are more readily willing to skip the smaller games. Why not really half the time they are boring as sin, poorly attended by the away fans which offers little atmosphere. From a financial POV it's crazy you pay the same for Wigan vs Saints as what you do for Wigan vs Wakefield etc as there's a massive difference in quality and on field product.

My original point was that we don't play on a Friday as often as we used to.

There are a couple of reasons for that though. One is tv, if SKY want to show our game on saturday or sunday or monday then it gets moved to accommodate that. The other is the marketing initiatives surrounding some games like the Community Day which involves touch rugby tournaments and such organised by the club so it has to be on a weekend day thus the game is on a sunday that week. Generally if the game can be on friday night it is.

You play Hull the Friday after so I reckon you'll want Friday best crowd option I reckon is Sunday afternoon .

Nethen Pemps there is no train as far as I know, the nearest train station to Leigh that runs services to Wigan is from Atherton. If any of my friends from Leigh ( I have 4 I think ) want me to get them from Leigh to Atherton I will arrange it so they can catch the train and will then return the hospitality they showed to me on my visits to Leigh.
( I am not talking about free ale though).

One was done a few years back, and Friday came out favourite by quite a way.

Sod resting players.

Sunday may be better as far as Leigh fans attending goes as that is when your games are normally played but we have been playing on friday nights for years. Our support in general don't seem to like sunday games anymore, attendances are often down on sundays and atmosphere is always flat. Friday would generate better crowd and atmosphere from our lot. Hopefully the rarity of this derby will help coax a few of the people who don't normally attend our cup ties into turning up and you lot will travel in good numbers so it will feel and sound like this derby should.

Agreed. Most of them have had a rest already. Those that haven't have two thirds of a league campaign left to get rested in.

What he said. Bring your best.

We don't need a crust we can us knifes forks and spoons, that's why Lobby has no crust. Be gentle with us guys.