Tuesday 24th January at 8 p.m. www.reds.co.uk/fixtures-and-results Official announcement from Wigan www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... &type=news

Tuesday 24th January at 8 p.m. www.reds.co.uk/fixtures-and-results Official announcement from Wigan www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... &type=news

Now I wonder why they picked us????

You had one last year around the same time. Maybe an agreement when you signed Andy Coley?

Just a guess but im thinking the conversation went something along the lines of

"Who should we have our first game at the new stadium against?"

"Well who would we pull the biggest crowd in against?"

"Probably Wigan...like everybody does"

Cant think for the life of me why though.....acording to other teams fans we arent famous, successful or anything anymore.

Looking forward to having a look at the new stadium.

We expecting a friendly at Saints new home as well? You'd have to think there's every chance.

I'm not too sure you are going to be the 1st friendly at the new stadium. In the press release on our official website rlhererl, it just says that you will be the 1st Super League team to visit the new stadium. As far as I know there have to be a few trial games at the ground in order for the stadium to pass the health and safety/fire regulations. I would assume that there would be a couple of friendly's against lower league teams such as Swinton and/or Leigh in order to pass these.

Looking forward to this, should have the new place bouncing.

Anyone know where they are schedulewise for the new ground? Just thinking this is only 12 weeks away and with safety checks and certificates to get think it might be a tight schedule given where they appear to be at with the ground.

Went past the ground this week on the M60 and they don't appear to be half as well advanced as St Helens, theres only about 10 seats in the main stand at present and the other stands still look incomplete. Around the ground still looks like a building site whereas saints do look almost ready to move in so you can see them being in on time. Does anyone know if they are behind / ahead of schedule with things because to an untrained eye it seems they have a great deal of work to do!

Know it might come together very quickly from the stage they're at but was thinking surely if they want a game in 12 weeks the staduim should be pretty much complete by now?

Is the willows still knocking around if it wasnt to be ready and would they switch or would they just call it off?

How many seats do they need?

The Willows was still standing last month but I doubt they'll use it. They've probably cleared out everywhere and started the removal work inside.

It'd probably just be cancelled if the ground wasn't ready but I doubt they'd bother organizing it if they didn't think the ground would be ready.

I have been driving past every day, the speed in which the stands went up was amazing. From nothing to a full stadium in about 2-3 weeks, the seats have only just started going in. I went past yesterday and there were a couple of hundred seats in the main stand. The rest is terraced. The pitch went down as soon as the stands were done, it's looking good.

So, they have almost 3 months to get the rest of the seats in (I would think that's going to be done this week), complete any cladding and then fitting out. Outside, I'm guessing it's tarmac and the like which I would hope is happening soon before we get any bad weather freezing the ground.

New buildings today are like giant mecanno sets. Large roof pieces come pre fabricated and just bolt on. I reckon the game will go ahead but a lot of the finishing touches will not be completed. It's in an ideal position, you can dump the wife at the Trafford Centre and go the match.

You and me are on the same wavelength my friend. Will be doing this every match next year.

Can't wait for this game

They did pick us partly because wigan draws a big crowd, but the stadium needs to pass certain safety tests before it can be given a licence to host events. They need to have z certain number of fans in the ground to pass and wigan will provide that number

How do u get to the stadium come of at trafford.