Quote No1 Saint="No1 Saint"ok - we have debts we can cope with and we have a new stadium and business plan that will see us good in the near future - your team on the other hand sold your stadium paid your debts then realised you didnt have enough money to buy a new one.....then went begging to the local football team owner. You were spending so much on salaries you had to get permission to not comply to the cap which was fine other than the fact you wernt put on a transfer freeze (which was disgusting but typical).
[iHere's some facts for your sig
Saints - owners of a wonderful new stadium my council tax helped develop
- For Knowsley Road you get a nice wedge of cash and a new home
- For Central Park you get a great new supermarket and a timeshare in a football stadium[/i'"
HAHA! You're too fsking funny! Whelan bought Wigan RLFC as a club he saw as a sound investment, and as a fan of the club.
For Knowsley Road, you got less than asking price because Wimpey talked the board down in price!
As for Owners of a wonderful new stadium, you'll probably find that there's alot more outside investment than St Helens RLFC PLC put in, and all those investors will be taking their %age year upon year.
And with regards to the council tax, do you think its fair (or legal) that the Council should fund a private venture with public funding, especially as there are people in areas covered by St Helens council that do not support St Helens RLFC, OR show any interest in rugby. Legally if giving money to it, it could only be a community project (which has to benefit the majority of the community, which it wont), or it's a loan, which means it needs paying back (mortgage). Sorry, you dont own it! The difference is, we dont think we own a stadium that we dont!
And as for it being a fantastic stadium, someone made a serious slip up, considering your glorious new stadium can't even hold our 2011 Average Attandance, and no undersoil heating.
You can make fun all you like about the fact that Wigan play at DW Stadium, Whelan is a Rugby fan, and attends all the games, and the DW Stadium has the best looked after turf in all of Super League, with (i recall) 5 full time pitch keepers, and facilities that you could only dream of. As much as I don't like football, the advantages of sharing a stadium with a premiership football team greatly outweigh the disadvantages...
As for micking the brigantes, passionate supporters who make noise and generate new songs, and visual support, rather than singing the same old bland tosh week-in, week-out, recognised by the Wigan RLFC, The RFL, and stadium owners as a good thing. As for Saints... yawn, same old tosh each week, the Slow "When the saints" sounds like a bad church gathering, and what the frig is that "oooohhh" thing about. Certainly if you watch the sky footage from Saturday, even though Wigan got beat we were STILL louder than your shower, and stayed longer! Wigan walk my arris!
Can't beleive you actually bit at the banner...
By the way... FOREVER IN WIGANS SHADOW (not Always), jesus, typical Saints, never were learned nothing in school.
And they wonder why no one likes them
