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| The words Edwards has used in interviews are not helpful and fuel speculation and speculation is what journalists thrive on. You only have to look at some of the headlines from various RL new sites which seemed to get more sensationalist by the day.
The idea Edwards will return to RU one day seems to have rubbed a few people up the wrong way. Why? No coach is ever going to be Wigan coach for life and all he has said is he wants a long career in coaching generally. Is this supposed to be news?
I am still of the opinion he will be coach next season. If he isn't, well that will go down in history as one of the most momentous balls ups in all my time watching Wigan. How can you parade such a high profile signing in front of the press and then not have it come off? What can that possibly do the reputations of all involved but trash them?
Edwards reputation is built on honouring his commitments which is why he's not head coach in 2019 so for him to go back on his word destroys that in an instant. If IL has decided he doesn't want him or has done something to make Edwards position untenable before he even gets here then his reputation is toast as well. As others have implied he's been economical with the truth over Bateman and I personally have never liked the way he spins things but lining up Edwards and then not employing him will be the last straw for many Wigan fans who rightly in my view are questioning how the club is being run recently particularly over recruitment of players.
The only way Edwards walks away from this with his reputation in tact is if IL shafts him and if so IL can expect a lot lower season ticket sales and I'd even go as far as saying calls for him to sell the club. If Edwards instigates not coming of his own bat then that's his reputation in Wigan destroyed but it won't do much for IL's either for being made a fool of.
So I go back to my original point of view which is he will be here as coach next season. I think there is too much to lose for both Edwards and IL for this not to happen. And in any case there is always the possibility he really does fancy the job!
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| Quote: P-J "All he's done is invest money into Wigan.
I can't fault him if he's no longer willing to do that and wants the club to be self sufficient. Attendances have dropped by 4k despite incredible success - why should he foot that bill?'"
Because we are a top flight sports club, The most famous and successful in the game, If he doesn't want to or can't afford to fund the club to the standard it deserves then he needs to bring in another big investor or sell up to somebody with the means to invest heavily in the club, or get used to more Featherstone standard signings
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| Quote: The Whiffy Kipper "Because we are a top flight sports club, The most famous and successful in the game, If he doesn't want to or can't afford to fund the club to the standard it deserves then he needs to bring in another big investor or sell up to somebody with the means to invest heavily in the club, or get used to more Featherstone standard signings'"
I agree. he'll only lose more money as fans stay away if we carry on like we have this season.
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Quote: The Whiffy Kipper "Because we are a top flight sports club, The most famous and successful in the game, If he doesn't want to or can't afford to fund the club to the standard it deserves then he needs to bring in another big investor or sell up to somebody with the means to invest heavily in the club, or get used to more Featherstone standard signings'"
There are the accounts from 2017 back to the year dot! Have a look for yourself how much IL has funded the club over the last 10 or more years. Who do you think will come in when the we're still suffering from a large recession?
Yesterday for the first time in many years I walked through Wigan town and into The Galleries, it was depressing to see so many businesses closed.
If the Wigan moaners got up off their collective backsides from their armchairs and barstools to attend games then maybe you would have a point, but at present I don't blame IL, he's put his money in, it's time the Wigan public did the same.
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Quote: The Whiffy Kipper "Because we are a top flight sports club, The most famous and successful in the game, If he doesn't want to or can't afford to fund the club to the standard it deserves then he needs to bring in another big investor or sell up to somebody with the means to invest heavily in the club, or get used to more Featherstone standard signings'"
There are the accounts from 2017 back to the year dot! Have a look for yourself how much IL has funded the club over the last 10 or more years. Who do you think will come in when the we're still suffering from a large recession?
Yesterday for the first time in many years I walked through Wigan town and into The Galleries, it was depressing to see so many businesses closed.
If the Wigan moaners got up off their collective backsides from their armchairs and barstools to attend games then maybe you would have a point, but at present I don't blame IL, he's put his money in, it's time the Wigan public did the same.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/comp ... ory?page=4
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "There are the accounts from 2017 back to the year dot! Have a look for yourself how much IL has funded the club over the last 10 or more years. Who do you think will come in when the we're still suffering from a large recession?
Yesterday for the first time in many years I walked through Wigan town Centre and into The Galleries, it was depressing to see so many businesses closed.
If the Wigan moaners got up off their collective backsides from their armchairs and barstools to attend games then maybe you would have a point, but at present I don't blame IL, he's put his money in, it's time the Wigan public did the same.
Half way through writing a similar reply on a different thread accusing IFL of being Tight when I saw your post.
He's turned the Income of the club from 3million to 7.2million over the last 10/11 years
Whelan used to write approx. £1million a year off prior to that
Our costs on average now exceed our income by approx. 500k per year and that has to come from somewhere.
If IFL wants that to come out of his own pocket like it has done for the last 3-4 years then I'm over the moon
However if he's decided to reign it in a bit then that's his prerogative.
What is critical here is that the costs of the Players haven't gone down as such
Yes - signing Hardaker instead of Tomkins may have reduced the overall wage but it still has us at maximum salary cap.
How we have chosen to spread that salary cap in terms of squad size over quality may be debatable (I'm more than happy with how it's been spread and would never want to get back to 2005/6/7 days when 6/7 of our players took 2/3rds of the salary cap - A few injuries and Poop creek along with juniors going to other clubs as we don't invest in them).
I just don't buy into the "He's Tight" brigades argument.
That argument is totally aimed at IFL relating to the playing squad, so if were still spending up to maximum cap then the argument maybe should be about "How" he spends it, the choice of "Who" he's spent it on and not that he won't spend it?
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| Quote: Rogues Gallery "There are the accounts from 2017 back to the year dot! Have a look for yourself how much IL has funded the club over the last 10 or more years. Who do you think will come in when the we're still suffering from a large recession?
Yesterday for the first time in many years I walked through Wigan town Centre and into The Galleries, it was depressing to see so many businesses closed.
If the Wigan moaners got up off their collective backsides from their armchairs and barstools to attend games then maybe you would have a point, but at present I don't blame IL, he's put his money in, it's time the Wigan public did the same.
wigan is a ghost town , IL can float wigan till the end of time but it wont fix the fundamentals that the RL has pretty much restricted the game with the cap.
I was a fan of the cap in the early days , but its served its purpose in creating steady/solvent clubs but its time for it to go .
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