For a good while perhaps. I've not looked at our fixtures, but we're away after this for two weeks right?



Are we confident Latics will be around in 4 weeks or so time?

Will the DW even have the new pitch re-laid this season? ie Has the job already been paid for? Potentially might not even happen if not.

Would we not just buy the lease? The council own the land so the stadium lease won't be sold to anyone other than WRL.

I don't know, but if we did - how long would it take? Begbies wouldn't sell the ground separately to the football club - why would it be different this time? Even if they entertained the idea, it wouldn't be the 1st option that they pursued.



I guess it's a convo for the Latics thread. My original post was just a throw away comment that it could be a while before we play at the DW again.

Well that depends if Latics are in administration or not, and if Begbies are the administrators. Even then they may have a different opinion this time.



The stadium can't be bulldozed and used for houses or a supermarket so it's pretty worthless really to anyone apart from a new buyer for Latics or WRL.



Even under administration WRL would still be able to play there just as Latics would.

Just seen the training pics of Cust. Both arms strapped up. Surely that must be hindering him playing. What’s the deal? I know he did his elbow in the CC but is he afraid he’ll do it again or is it a problem area for him?

He did it again at some point last season too didn't he? Was it Leeds in the playoff?

I think I remember him saying in an interview it was more of a mental thing - a bit like skullcap. But I might be wrong. I think you can definitely trace his drop off in form to that injury.

Leaving his biscuit elbows aside, he looks like he’s continued to work hard on his fitness going off the pictures. He looks more slight than last year and hopefully that will stand him in good stead in his comeback. He was blowing hard last year when he came back in to the side and got caught out for that winning try for Saints at Magic.

Shorrocks at halfback again...

What the actual f*ck!!! Surely that little emergency experiment as run its course?

Doesn't make sense to me - you could play one of Cust and Hampshire from the start and one off the bench if you needed to split the work.