HaHa Wigan . Won about 3 trophys in about 15 years which is miles behind Leeds , St.Helens and yes Bradford.
Went bankrupt and are now tennants at the local football clubs ground.
Wigan a big club ? . Dont make me laugh !

thats a biased blinkered opinion that mate im a wire fan and it grits me to say wigan are still a world famous club

Yes , and so are Widnes RL and Leeds United in football !

yeah notts forrest liverpool etc you never lose the tag of being a big club

Wigan the only full time pro team from 1985-1995????? where's the proof of this? Wigan turned full time pro in the summer of 1991 ahead of the 1991-1992 season. Leeds also turned full time pro time pro the same summer.

Read a book written call Mud, Blood and Glory(i think its that one) chronicling Wigan's season of 1990/91 where part of the book is the writer going visting the players in their day to day jobs and spending time with Maurice Lyndsay as he constantly is looking for improving income streams and sponsorship to bring in necessary funds to help the Wigan players become 'full time' in readiness for the 91/92 to help complete with Leeds who had already announced this transistion. Its pity other clubs didn't have owners/chairman with the same motivation to improve their clubs and instead just relied on the fame of Wigan to bring in Sky Sports money to help them.

IN a nutshell, Wigan only play at the DW Stadium because Dave Whelan got funding(approx 50% of the cost of the stadium) as long as it was a multi sports stadium. Dave Whelan had stalled on plans to build this stadium just for Wigan Athletic because he didn't get the funding - without Wigan RL.

What contributed to Wigan losing Central Park was because the RFL pulled the rug from under Wigan's feet by reducing income streams - reduction in home league games from 15 to 11. That's four less 14,000+ crowds a season. Scrapping of the Lancs Cup, an almost annual 3 or 4 matches of income and prize money, scrapping of the Regal Trophy, again almost guarenteed revenue streams per annum. Of course shoddy leadership from Jack Robinson and co didn't help, they sold Central Park when their was alternatives. Whelan offered around £4m to turn Central Park into a 20,000 all seater stadium(the photos and plans bring a tear to the eye) but Tesco offered £11m to turn it into a car park and the rest is history.

If Wigan aren't the biggest team in Super League, who are?

In a nutshell,you pay rent and If Whelan tells you to play somewhere else for the week,you do.

Oh and you aint even the biggest team In Wigan.

Idiot.

Shaun Wane was brilliant in the film 'Congo'.

Are you for real - Leeds are and always have been the biggest club in the country. They were for many years under achievers unlike Wigan but in all other respects Leeds were the biggest - now they are clearly both.

I am looking forward to Leeds Utd vs Wigan Athletic

You lost a few minor games and GAINED at the same time the millions of pounds of Super League funding in place of a TV deal which brought virtually no cash in. Both Wigan and Leeds were living beyond their means in the 90s. Leeds could afford it - they found the money one way or another but didn't generally make money. Wigan could afford it because they kept getting to finals and reaping the profits from that and from winning things - when that particular run came to an end, so did the business model.