they will still have the "Dave Whelan do you know i broke my leg in the 19xx FA cup final trophy", so not completely empty

They are odds on for relegation to league 1.

I used to have a fondness for them and went to watch them in their premier league run.

However the cretins on twitter who make it their sole business to slag the rugby team off (check any attendance post we put on twitter), I want them to go down.


Their attendences get propped up by big away followings in the championship. Id say we get more home fans on average which seems to really really bother them.

Players and staff wages not been paid again, owners cut themselves off and apparently players told they are free to leave.

Anybody fancy a stadium for free? We could even rent it out to another sporting club if they have any money.

Where have you seen this ? Not doubting you but they’re down if it’s true, they were told last time it’s an automatic points deduction if it happened again

Quote ="apollosghost"Where have you seen this ? Not doubting you but they’re down if it’s true, they were told last time it’s an automatic points deduction if it happened again'" It was a rumour a couple of hours ago and now someone who works at the club confirms it https://forums.vitalfootball.co.uk/thre ... es.130677/

Quote ="apollosghost"Where have you seen this ? Not doubting you but they’re down if it’s true, they were told last time it’s an automatic points deduction if it happened again'" It was a rumour a couple of hours ago and now someone who works at the club confirms it https://forums.vitalfootball.co.uk/thre ... es.130677/

To be fair, your trophy cabinet is only so full because you borrowed loads of money from the bank to be the only full time rugby league teamin England. You then beat a load of part time pit miners and drunks and declared yourself the best team in the world before going bust lmao

Now look at you, surpassed by St Helens and homeless lmao

#wiganareskint
#pollardwantstosellbutnoonewantstobuy
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#rentboys

Starting to get worrying 'incel' vibes from this guy...

Diddums, have you just got battered by a bus stop in Wigan

Brave coming on here after being smashed by Wigan 'B' after raving about beating Penrith 'B'

Look at history, you got some way to go yet to surpass anyone. Have you never noticed that Wigan fans never say that we have surpassed anybody? It's because you can't do that when you already top of the tree and we already know it. More pertinently the fans of other clubs also know it hence why people like you have to keep saying it because in your deluded little head you believe it. Been on the Kestrel tonight? Rollies all rolled on standby?

https://wiganathletic.com/news/2023/mar ... nt--wages/

https://wiganathletic.com/news/2023/mar ... nt--wages/

That is very very vague. Financially sound but have liquidity issues? About 4 times in a year. They are being run by con men, the only way is down.

Leeds not full time?...we didnt declare ourselves the best in the world, everyone else did, what other job did the likes of Jonathan Davies have when he played for you as he was part time right?

Looks that way.

Where does it leave us in terms of Stadium use? (last time they went bust, we were playing at neutral stadiums due to covid)

I'm presuming the DW staff are also not getting paid and I'd rather the £55K matchday rent goes into their pockets than the owners and the football players, whose reckless actions and obscene wages have caused this.

Worrying times again. There clearly are issues with the owners and after this happening a few times before, they’re now not trying to blame it on just system issues and instead admitting it’s deeper than that. The club needs to start living within its means if these owners cannot prop up big losses, like the ones posted the other day. To do that you’re probably talking a squad paid at the level of league one or possibly lower than that. Jukesays rightly pointed out these losses were based around paying a League One squad, which is a scary thought!

All will be ok with the world when Talal changes the seats to blue and white though. Alarm bells rang in my head when the guy was so desperate to be liked by the loud minority on social media. A shrewd businessman, invested in the town would not try and push the clubs apart, they would try to bring them closer.

They wouldn't have had it. The Latics fans hate us out of pure jealousy. I have never been bothered about them until the last coupe of years. Now i am waiting with baited breath at them going back into administration and will be dancing in the street when their poxy little club ceases to exist. The town is certainly blue this morning, no sympathy whatsoever. How many times has the rugby club and fans tried to build unity. I hope Lenegan doesn't make any offers this time. Just take the stadium off them for nowt if we can get it profitable.

The town is turning blue.............. or something

The idiotic element wouldn’t have had it but it’s those he should’ve ignored. Instead he played up to them at every opportunity, including sacking a manager who was doing ok (he looks like he was over achieving if anything given how bad they’ve been since he went.

You’re absolutely entitled to feel how you do but in truth, the actions of these owners breeds attitudes like yours and that shows that it’s not the thing to do. I’ve not been going watching Latics anywhere near as much since they took over and I’ve got friends who would go to the odd game but are mainly rugby fans and they probably won’t bother again. That’s lost income for the football club but hey, at least Talal got loads of praise from some numskulls on Twitter.

I can’t wait for them to go and hopefully the club can get be bought by people with some sense.

The problem is that this will mean another huge period of disruption for us.

Last time, the administrators wouldn't sell us the ground without also selling us the football club. IL didn't bite on that, and now we know why. It's too expensive to run even a lower league professional football club these days unless you've got money to burn and you're prepared to burn it because you're a massive fan. But someone like Whelan comes along once in a lifetime. Latics' only real future is back where they started, but more likely, I fear, they'll just go out of business.

What happens to us then? Can we carry the costs of the stadium on our own? Probably not. IL wanted to put some kind of consortium together, and create a sort of Wigan Sports Club franchise - something along those lines, anyway - but he'll struggle to do that if the football aren't involved.

I hate saying this, but if I was Wigan Warriors, I'd now be considering the viability of Robin Park as a potential future stadium.

Not sure why you hate to say it - for me that's the dream.

ditto.

better still, if there is a big old empty stadium sat there with no use, just knock it down and build a new one on the same spot, that will rub it in nicely.

It's the dream for a lot of us tbh. I hate the DW with a passion, soulless, concrete block with no thought or flair put into it.

Watching the Dolphins this morning and looking at their small, but quirky looking stadium made me want something different even more.

Come on, fellas. This isn't the sort of thing that would happen smoothly or easily, and it may be the last thing we need with the IMG revamp going on.

I don't care tuppence for Wigan Athletic. They're a bloody nuisance and have been for years, but every time they threaten to go under, which seems to happen more and more regularly, I worry it will have a knock-on effect for us.

My main concern is it effecting the rugby. I always think a statement comes out from a club when there’s an issue and it usually not what they put in the statement. Once not paying staff/players is bad enough but 3/4 time now seems something is underlying.

The development of Robin Park/ taking over DW is not viable for us. Lots of dead money in DW. Even if we have the money to develope Robin Park no way we’d get permission from the council to build a stadium next to a stadium that. Also is there enough room around the RP pitch to fit the stands. Ideally we’d need it to same size as wire/saints I can’t see us having the room

There are ways and means of financing things like stadiums. It doesn't have to be one big initial outlay.

We could use the car park space and extend out in front of the fan village and have the fan village incorporated into the actual stadium, thn knock down the DW, weigh the scrap in and use the land as a car park.

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It's the uncertainty it causes us which is our problem, paying the wages they have been doing on the crowds they get was never going to end well