19k now, great effort from both sets of fans, place should be bouncing tomorrow and thankfully forecast dry all day

Leigh love to hate us and we love to act as though they're irrelevant sometimes but it's been a breath of fresh air having them back in Superleague and doing well. Give me tomorrow and the home and away games we've had against them any day over a trip to Huddersfield, Wakey etc.

Please Wigan though, don't lose this one

I live in Atherton and have family and friends from Leigh.

I feel your pain
The WhatsApps this week between Family Members has been very interesting
in fact your post highlighting Lams press conference kicked off a belter of a discussion

Looks like the crowd is going to sail past 20k - what a great effort. Not a knock but I imagine its been a few decades since Leigh played in front of a crowd this big.

Glad to be of service



It's always nice to throw a grenade in when it's the week of a big game. I'm a man who always thinks about law of averages and they say Leigh beat us at some point but it can't be this week, it just can't! The thought of being in a sea of Leopard print at Old Trafford next week terrifies me, especially on the back of a week of pi*s taking.

If we forget about the challenge cup win yeah.

Yeah you've got me there.

HKR probably deserve to make the final on the balance of the whole season, hopefully it is 1st vs 2nd next week. Warrington should've won that but their execution was poor and they probably feel robbed by that Burgess try. HKR are very well drilled though, they'll be very tough to beat for anyone, especially with an extra day rest.

I would be gutted if i was a Wire fan seeing that HKR try being allowed. Something has to change, especially in such big games.

Onto tomorrow, a great occasion and a real 'David and Goliath' feel to it but anything can happen in 80 mins. The last game of the League last season was a tense cracker and it really does depend on which Leigh team wants to turn up as tghey simply have not performed against the best Wigan side I have seen since the Hanley, Edwards and Offiah days. It really is a wonderful squad.

Hoping that the ref doesnt spoil it with a silly call, silly yellow or a silly red card and we see two committed team and two Towns with tonnes of history creating an atmosphere worth drooling over.

Good luck to Leigh. I want us to win but if they don't, I don't want us to lose on a squib of a performance. To be a realist and true RL fan though, its Wigan all the way, and to clean up at that !!

David vs Golieth where both teams spend the same salary cap.

Wigan are not the hated club they used to be in my eyes , they have a good side , likeable coach and the players that I’ve seen and spoke to when out and about have always been polite and had the crack , pretty much the opposite of what it was like in the late 90s. There are far more dislikable teams than Wigan .


Leigh could be back in the championship in a year or two and just happy to have some success while it lasts .

Think this next rotation of players is key for Leigh. I do think lam will identify the right people to bring in and give him his due Beaumont has put his money in. Hopefully a more youthful side is on the horizon competing year on year. I do think Leigh would benefit from a further investor coming in. Reign Derrick in and hopefully put more money into the club