Loosing bums on seats at matches is the main concern for me . The will i wont i fan who might go to a match at the weekend will be sat on the sofa watching it on TV on a Monday night and might be lost to RL in future weeks . Mucking the fans about will also cause regular fans to drift away . I will need 6 days leave from work to watch Wigan's 3 Monday night games.

Bad for our game and only a fill in for Sky during the non football season.

You have a valid point here, but what I meant in the original post was that we have probably our most important game of the season so far (CC S/F) which could be against very tough opponents ( Warrington, Huddersfield, Catalans or Hull) 5 days after facing Saints in a tough derby - with a turnaround 3 days shorter than it should be. Hence the possibility/probability of SW using some of the "kids" and resting some of our indispensible stars ( Sam, Micky Mac, Richards, Green, Lockers) and keeping them fresh for the S/F.

Of course, we have to beat Widnes first and then we may get drawn against London or Sheffield in the S/F when all this becomes less important.

So the game against cas is not on sky so its our choice to play it on the friday isnt it?

The only thing they need to do is schedule the games for the two teams playing on Monday night to Sunday.

Monday night RL is a great idea - lots of people have nothing to do and tune in because it's on.

Posted this several weeks ago and after Friday's performance it is probably relevant to raise the issue again. Just read the other threads about Friday and yet the under par performance was almost predictable with players like Pat and Matty Smith making a lot of uncharacteristic errors.

As mentioned before, though, IL should be insisting now that Wigan's CC semi-final is on Sunday rather than Saturday to give the players an extra day's rest ( or just play almost an entire reserve team aginst Saints - that really would get Eddie and Steve going!)

A few obseravations about Friday - why let Spencer play for Leigh on Thursday when we were always going to be short of props? On the teletext it said Spencer and Logan both failed fitness tests. Logan may have but Spencer didn't - he just played on dual reg the previous evening.

It has been shown time and again that if Wigan only play with 3 props, they struggle. As they did against Warrington when to compound matters only 3 of the 4 subs were used. (A fit and fresh Williams may have made all the difference in the last 10 minutes too, but that is pure speculation!) SW may have had his reasons for not having Spencer and Greenwood in the 17, but it was a mistake in my opinion. Similarly, Green should have been on from the start - not coming on after 25/30 minutes with Wigan 12- 0 down. If he is fit to be in the 17, surely he is fit to start, help set the tempo of the game and if necessary come off for a breather. Powell as sub would then have allowed Micky Mac to have been interchanged more effectively on his first appearance in over a month.

Backing up in four days after a game as intense as the Warrington match is very hard in superleague, cas are not quite the whipping boys you think, they have made good progress since the arrival of Powell and IMO Wigan were there for the taking Friday, I backed up my opinion with a very good bet on hull kr and castle ford happy days.

I don't think you was the only one taking that double on. Two more days might have helped but instead we get two days extra rest on Bradford for next week. Swings and round abouts.

To be honest I listened Warrington today and they came across as pretty lethargic as well. Didn't score at all second half. Perhaps lucky they were playing Bradford who seemingly shot the bolt weeks ago. Only one win since April 6th and that was against Salford. It'd be disappointing if we don't bounce back with a big win on Friday!

Wire were very lacklustre today, extremely lacklustre infact to the point where they blew my coupon by conceding 12 late points as I had them with a 16 deficit.

Appalling.

whilst I agree that teams shouldn't have to back up on Fridays after playing Monday night, but isn't it down to the clubs to request the fixture change at the start of the season

I understand wigan chose not to move their fixture from the Friday to the weekend?

fc play tonight and moved the hudds fixture from this coming Friday to sunday at the start of the season when the fixtures came out

as for the KR v hudds fixture, maybe KR could be accused of poor gamesmanship or clever planning as they moved from their original sunday slot to a Friday evening knowing hudds played on the Monday, hudds should've have questioned this fixture and asked for it to be moved if they were that bothered

I was under the impression Castleford refused to change from the Friday fixture not Wigan.

The latest Sky fixtures have been announced and Warrington will be playing Widnes on Thursday 15th August, ie 9 days before the Wembley final.

Warrington fans are unhappy because of the short turnaround after playing the previous Sunday! But Widnes also play on Sunday so both teams have been equally disadvantaged - unlike last Friday where Castleford had an extra 3 days rest.

In the long run, this move to a Thursday may well favour Warrington as they will have 9 days before Wembley ( if they get there - as would Widnes, but hopefully this will not be the case with either of these 2 teams!)

Wigan, if they do get to Wembley, have the long trip to Catalans the previous weekend, which is not the ideal preparation.......

Great post