What the hell is a cockney latic anyway? Were all the football fans from Wigan, Chelsea fans or something until Wigan got into the prem?

Dunno, but they live in 'Mudhuts'.

There's about 3 or 4 of them from Wigan on there ,the rest are from all over the place.
Look at the moderators avatar picture (jayt) he looks like a friggin umpalumpa.

Who is person that signed us up for only a 25 years lease when we moved surley what was they thinking ?

TBF JAYT seems an alreet bloke, talks some sense unlike the VAST majority of the clowns on there. Ive no problems with some of the old timers having a 'pop' at WRLFC fans as there was some 'mudslinging' going on in the 80`s and 90`s but I aint taking no sh ite from the many many post 2005 'ive been watching `em for 25 years' brigade, and im pretty sure we all know plenty of them.

Can we get this back on topic please, thanks. We all know how EVERY Latics thread ends up on here.

The question that should be asked is does the club have £2m to pay Dave Whelan.
What happens if we can't pay him?
Will we end up with a winding up petition issued by Whelan to try and get his money?
It would be nice if Ian Lenagan would come out and explain the situation. Wonder if the reason the fans forum was cancelled is so that difficult questions such as this could not be asked.

For me the big question is why is our revenue so low? I suspect the fees for matchday use are the tip of the iceberg and that very little revenue generated at the stadium on matchdays gets into the hands of the RL club, meaning that the stadium is actually a lot more expensive than 180k....

Where are you getting this info from? I can't see anything.

Just can't believe that revenue would be only £4.6m unless the club doesn't get to keep all of the ticket and corporate/hospitality revenue generated on matchdays.

Very rough calculations but 15 matches x 15,000 x £12 = £2.7m turnover. That leaves less than £2m to be covered by Sky payments, merchandising, programme sales, sponsorship etc.

I always thought the rent for both clubs was 10% of the match day income, but then I also thought we had a longer lease so have been known to be wrong!

Not sure what's going on, but I'm missing something!

Anyone know how the £4.6m breaks down? I'd be very interested to see a breakdown of the numbers into different revenue streams. I'm still surprised that a club with nearly 16k average attendance has less than £5m turnover.

Why don't you ask IL to get Dave, his boss, to explain??

I still feel the concerning issue here is do we, as a club, have £2m available to settle this debt.
What happens if the debt becomes overdue?
Is there any security held by Whelan for the debt, for instance, could he re-possess the training ground at Orrell?
Anyone got any answers?