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| I also wish this problem would go away. But it won't.
I understand that people feel they might influence things by putting pressure on Wigan to resolve this problem. And it may work that way to a degree; because of the privacy in which these negotiations are conducted, we don't know how many concessions Wigan might now have managed to wring from the football club whenever this situation has arisen in the past. I certainly remember a Wigan v Saints Saturday afternoon Cup match which Wigan won the right to host despite strong rumours that they were going to be told to play it elsewhere.
But those calling for a new stadium are totally wasting their breath and digging themselves into an ever-deeper pit of despondency. Unless some billionaire buys the club, that is not going to happen. And why would a billioinaire want to buy into British RL in its current impoverished state?
I see no point in getting furious about something that will probably not change in our lifetime.
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| Quote: [Gareth] ""Decent article which highlights what we already knew, whelan had the stadium built as cheap as possible'"
We will just have to hope that with all that Methane about none of the groundsmen have a crafty fag while they are cutting the grass. There will a large mushroom cloud appearing over that part of Wigan if they do .
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| Quote: stillinthepast "The DW Stadium pitch, will this be the last relay?
This was given to me tonight by a very very old Wigan supporter and friend .
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I think Jason Taylors article is a few years old (the clue is the 3rd relaying!), but the rest of it sounds very plausible. Rich man, with a reputation for doing things as cheaply as possible, has stadium built but leaves the poisonous subsurface intact to save a few quid.
I bet when the stadium was built Whelan was hoping he'd have sold the Latics & the stadium by now, and was a permanent resident of Barbados or some other island. Instead, he's still having to fork out for a new pitch on an annual basis and his football team are worth a fraction of what they were worth 5 years ago. He should have sold up after their 4th or 5th "great escape" from relegation (I've lost count as to how many times they just scraped out of the bottom three before finally being relegated in 2013).
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| Quote: stillinthepast "We will just have to hope that with all that Methane about none of the groundsmen have a crafty fag while they are cutting the grass. There will a large mushroom cloud appearing over that part of Wigan if they do
Maybe it could take Marsh Green with it............
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| That interview wasn't exactly a paxman type grilling was it?
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| Quote: newgroundb4wakey "That interview wasn't exactly a paxman type grilling was it?'"
And it's outrageous, because as you know, Paxman grillings are the normal form in RL coverage.
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