WIGAN must return to the bread and butter of Super League rugby at unfashionable Halifax tomorrow after shining on the big stages of Maine Road and Twickenham.

The country's leading rugby league power switched codes with startling effect to drub Bath in the first leg of the league-union challenge in Manchester - then win the Middlesex Sevens in London.

The champion Lancastrians demolished all-comers - including three of England's top four union clubs - to run away with the sevens in an historic first visit by a league team to union headquarters on Saturday.

Harlequins, Leicester and Wasps, in the final, vanished in a torrent of tries, Wigan scoring 25 to add to the 16 they hammered in against Bath in the full league game last Wednesday.

Wigan rerturn to Twickenham for face Bath in a 15-a-side clash on Saturday week, but before that they must win at Halifax tomorrow to keep in touch with Super League leaders St Helens.

Saints, the only side to beat Wigan in a Super League match this term, opened a four-point gap by beating London 24-22 at Knowsley Road yesterday.

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