Re: WIGAN HOME GAME : Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:11 pm  

No word on this date change from Wigan yet. It was announced on your site last Tuesday. I bought tickets from Wigan on Wednesday and there was no mention of it. The tickets say Sunday quite clearly. The rumour is that Cas were a bit previous announcing it as Wigan hadn't agreed.

Does anyone know any different?

Re: WIGAN HOME GAME : Mon Feb 23, 2015 3:57 pm  

wigginswarrior wrote:

Really pee'd off about this. I always look forward to the Cas away fixture every season, but I don't fancy the Friday teatime dash over the M62, then freezing my nads off stood in the open & dark behind the sticks. This will cost Cas in gate money, Wigan always bring a good crowd, but perhaps not on a Friday night in winter

If you pck some sandwiches and a flask set off about lunch time , you should be ok for the kick-off.

Re: WIGAN HOME GAME : Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:51 pm  

Lady Molestrangler wrote:

If you pck some sandwiches and a flask set off about lunch time , you should be ok for the kick-off.

Don't worry, I'll be there, I couldn't tell you the last time I missed Cas away, but van de Velde was coach! I'd just prefer a warm May Sunday afternoon for my trips to West Yorkshire.

Re: WIGAN HOME GAME : Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:52 pm  

I think its tough if you agree or not. We've had to move a Sunday game 2 week later to Friday night to benefit Salford who requested the change. Crowd will be down 2000 but nothing we can do. As far as I'm aware that's the same for Wigan. What's the big issue for Wigan anyway? You play the vast majority of your games on a Friday night? Moaning about the m62 is pretty lame as that's the same trip all away fans have to make for Wigan....

Re: WIGAN HOME GAME : Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:39 am  

Towns88 wrote:

I think its tough if you agree or not. We've had to move a Sunday game 2 week later to Friday night to benefit Salford who requested the change. Crowd will be down 2000 but nothing we can do. As far as I'm aware that's the same for Wigan. What's the big issue for Wigan anyway? You play the vast majority of your games on a Friday night? Moaning about the m62 is pretty lame as that's the same trip all away fans have to make for Wigan....

You seem to be adopting a blasé attitude to attendance at this game.

Wigan are (along with Leeds) one of the best supported teams in Super League. I would have thought that the Wakey, Leeds and Wigan games would be your biggest attendances historically. If the crowd at one of your biggest games of the season is 2,000 down on last year when it was played on a Sunday you stand to lose approx. £30,000 taking into account concessions (though Maths isn't my strong point). Good to know that Cas don't need to care about that sort of money.

Sunday games at Wigan tend to be worse for attendance than Friday night games, and I'm not sure that the size of your (usual) away support would warrant any change in kick off times to accommodate you, though a cup match would be different.

Anyway Friday or Sunday I'll be there, and your poor start to the season notwithstanding (I'm expecting Saints to beat you on Friday), I expect a tough and close game.

Re: WIGAN HOME GAME : Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:12 am  

We obviously do care about money but we also very much care about having the best possible chance to win each game. Playing Huddersfield away on the Thursday hence wanting the extra recovery time, by the sounds of it, the coach of 2014 has made the call and asked steve gill to change it. I actually meant I thought the Salford game would be down a fair chunk. If Wigan's away support is that Stella (I'd swap hull fc with Wigan for the numbers they bring to Cas) then there should still be a good crowd but granted not as high as a Sunday.

Re: WIGAN HOME GAME : Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:15 am  

Towns88 wrote:

We obviously do care about money but we also very much care about having the best possible chance to win each game. Playing Huddersfield away on the Thursday hence wanting the extra recovery time, by the sounds of it, the coach of 2014 has made the call and asked steve gill to change it. I actually meant I thought the Salford game would be down a fair chunk. If Wigan's away support is that Stella (I'd swap hull fc with Wigan for the numbers they bring to Cas) then there should still be a good crowd but granted not as high as a Sunday.

Fair enough. The coach does what is right for his team.

I agree about Hull by the way. Very well supported, considering how poor they have been recently.

Re: WIGAN HOME GAME : Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:49 pm  

Towns88 wrote:

What's the big issue for Wigan anyway?

Wigan's complaint is that the change was made without them even being given the courtesy of being informed about the change. The first they knew was when Cas announced it. Basically they want the game played on Saturday and an appeal is still ongoing about that. Their argument they say is not with Cas, they understand their reasons for change, just with the RFL for making it a Friday Night.

I get the point about Wigan playing Fridays but they do declare all their fixtures as Friday Nights in the initial fixture list so everyone knows. Regardless of which teams are involved, Changing a fixture at just over 2 weeks notice when it's been known since October about playing the following Thursday is a disgrace in my view. Sometimes it can't be avoided but you expect that more late in the season, not this early.

Re: WIGAN HOME GAME : Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:56 am  

Surely it wouldn't get moved again a week before the game?

Re: WIGAN HOME GAME : Thu Feb 26, 2015 5:56 pm  

The fixtures were known (including the Thursday game at Huddersfield) from November last year. Why has this change only just been requested?