The rumoured £240k for Joel could well have been spent on Smith £35k plus Green and Taylor for around £200k combined.
Three quality players plus change!
Next year's signings so far haven't cost a penny in Hopkins, Pettybourne and maybe Sarginson who are all OOC.
If Tom Biscoe where to be signed then he wouldn't cost as he's OOC.
IL could be getting around £100k for Mossop, maybe £100k for Hock plus maybe around £150k for Sam for each of the three years of a possible deal.
That's around £350k plus the £150k for a further two years.
As our signings won't have cost then I'd willingly spend on youth development than pay tax on the money.

Developing the infrastructure of the club should not be reliant upon transfer fees. Transfer fees imo should be ringfenced and used to attract new players.

Still I guess some fans are easily pleased.

And some will complain about anything

What exactly in the deal between us and SW Scorpions? How can we employ him but then he's works as the Scorpions assistant coach???

So where do you think that money should come from? You know my views, you use what money you have where it brings the best return from wherever you get it.

IL in the past has used transfer money to bring players in, that may or may not be best use of it this time.

What Wigan need is: Quincy, Dr Kildare. Dr Hilary Jones, Dr Quinn the medicine woman, Dr McCoy, Dr Who, Dr Jekyll, Dr Evil, Dr Watson, Dr Octopus and any other doctor who can mend our players and give us a full strength squad for the play offs

And how do you propose to measure that?

How do you propose to measure the benefit of this "reinvestment"?

Pretty easy with a big name transfer in when the points are being scored. A lot harder in your "what if" scenarios.


To answer your point, this funding should come from the "day to day" income of the club, or if the chairman is willing to subsidise the club (and there is an argument that as the biggest RL club in the world, this should apply to Wigan), out of his/her pocket.

Not sure what exactly it entails but we had a partnership with South Wales Scorpions and with the Wales RL national body to help develop Scorpions and the Welsh game in general before all the changes to DR came in for this season. That is still continuing. So we provide support staff as well as DR players for the Scorpions. Their head coach (can't remember his name) is one of the Wigan staff too and took that role when the partnership began. Andy Coley's job with Wigan is connected with the Welsh partnership too IIRC.

When? Didn't he put a load of the Joel Tomkins transfer fee into that Central Park place?

He may have done or used it to fund the transfers of Matty Smith, Blake Green and Scott Taylor. The accounts don't show the actual breakdown of transfers to investment in the likes of Central Park and Wigan t.v.

Because of these investments it was planned to make a loss in the 2012 season hoping that the investments would bear fruit in the coming years.

It's called long term planning , something that some on here seem to have difficulty in understanding.

I guess we'll find out in the years to come.

BS

You cannot quantify or measure things like that so it's an easy throwaway comment.

Still waiting on your measure to ensure we get the "best return" btw. Should be interesting.

Nowadays everybody wanna' talk,
Like they got somethin' to say,
But when they move their lips,
It's just a bunch of jibberish,
Futhermuckers act like they forgot about Dre!

Dr Fox

Of course we can measure "things"
Success on the field and just as importantly success of it.

IL has turned a business round that was winning nothing and losing money year in year out.
Is that not a measure of success?

Or have we just been lucky?
Do you not think he had a five year plan when he took over the club?