This board tends to be for those who prefer rugby.

Not sure why you and one or two others don't seem to get that.

By all means support both yourself, but don't be upset or surprised when others on here don't.

Moreover, if you find these sort of threads tedious, I recommend you stay off them. They're not going to go away until the football press stops insinuating that Wigan RL should not be allowed to play on their own pitch, and I suspect that will only happen when Latics get relegated.

Just to play devil's advocate though, whilst I agree with your point in principle I do sometimes wonder why Wigan rugby fans still let themselves get so wound up about this issue - it must have been going on for 10 years now.

We're not going anywhere - we have a very long lease. If the football fraternity want to have a hissy fit let them. But I don't really see the point in responding.

Especially as this debate although it may happen every year only lasts around 6 -8 weeks of the year. After that, the pitch improves in the spring and we hear no more about it until the next year.

Its getting really tedious now.

The pitch at the KC is just as bad as the DW. The Southern journalists, however, don't go on about it because they probably don't know rugby league is played on it. Wigan, however, is synonymous with rl....

The pitch, incidentally, is not playing into Latics' hands. Martinez is trying to get the team to pass from back to front. Whether the players are capable of that, even on a perfect pitch, is another matter.

Cruncher it seems like some of you have an inferiority complex where football is concerned,its all well and good saying don't post on here if I don't agree with what's being posted but I'm entitled to an opinion as are you even if what I think your saying is bullocks.
As for the issue of the pitch and the national media let's have a look at it more closely
A lot of the big papers are union orientated and the tabloids are premier leauge orientated so they kill two birds with one stone taking digs at wigan because they don't want a club like latics in th pl at the expense of a leeds or forest,
And it winds the league fraternity up by suggesting the pitches problems are all the rugby teams fault

Maybe they'll relay the pitch AGAIN eh?

In June when its back to its best.

Its all down to a very bad winter grass not growing between November and March. And Latics having to train on it because there training ground was not fit to train on again very bad winter.

Understanding why it happens is fine if what you seek is knowledge. But if what you seek is a tolerable situation then it doesn't mean diddly squat ... especially when we remember that, thanks to pressure from the FA, we were shown the door once before - on the occasion of one of our most important home play-offs.

If having an inferiority complex means getting uncomfortable every time we enter a cup draw (in case the outcome is not okay with the FA), then yeah, I probably have got one. Under those circumstances, I'm surprised you haven't.

Do we have any potientall fixture clashes when the CC is drawn

We all know if any clashes take place the fuzzball will get first dibs.

the facts are until the cup or the play-offs they cant do sweet FA

I support both cruncher
But I also realise that dw is a very untrustworthy character,if you want to keep going back and dragging up old ground lyndseys treatment of the football club in the 80s wasn't very nice either,but I tend to blame the people in charge of those clubs for creating the animosity that exists between the towns sporting clubs not the respective clubs and their supporters

Mo's treatment of Latics in 1980-whatever it was is completely irrelevant. This is not about past incidents of tit-for-tat nastiness by two bloody-minded men.

This is about the here and now. It's about an ongoing threat that Wigan RL are facing every new season because of Wigan Athletic.

You may not like it, but that is the way a large number of Wigan fans feel, and why a large number of them will be quite happy to see the back of Latics when the time arrives.

Yep the 4th round is on the weekend of 17/18 of Arpil and on the 17th Latics play at home to Arsenal. Doubt they would let us play the night before seeing as its their 4th to last game.

That would not be problem as the Cup games could be played on Sunday.

cruncher your obsessed,plus how are people going to see the back of the latics,theyll always be in the town be it in the premier league,championship,division one or whatever,the only way forward is acceptance and let each team concentrate on real rivalries within thier respective sports,ie,saints,wire and bolton,pne,
there will always be both rugby and football in the town whether a few people like it or not
if warriors are drawn at home in the 4th round the game will be on the sunday,no problems

Good point, just hope they dont ruin the pitch then