if any club needed an input of £800k in a single year to keep going then that's a worry. when its Wigan, its even more so.

proves my points about the poor management of finances and contracts over the last few years, which I have heavily maintained on here much to everyone's amusement. funny how it is all coming to light now isn't it.

here's where I would start:

no more daft adventures, lets get the fans back where the money comes in - at home. I thought the Oz trip was a great idea, but we tried it and it didn't work as we expected. shame, but lets move on. maybe try that again in a few years.
no more stupid contract handouts or being bossed by the players and agents. the club should dictate negotiations, not a player or an agent. if they don't like it they can close the door after them.
trim your non-playing staff, and where that isn't possible take a close look at whether they have contributed in a positive or negative manner.
reduce replica / sports goods prices. a slightly lesser profit per item will surely be surpassed by a greater volume of purchases by fans.

start there, and you'll soon have your £800k a year back.

I’m hoping that there will be pre-match games/ entertainment/ refreshments in the Robin Park Arena before and after first team matches at the DW. Supporter car parking directly outside.

We need to start putting more ££ into the club coffers rather than the DW stadium company.

£5k a match at a minimum would be a start! Get them out of that bar under the South Stand and into the Arena!

Great idea have some of the junior/womens teams playing or local rl teams. I would soon put money back to the club than over pay in the ground with the club getting little or no money out of it.

That's the plan.

I genuinely don't know the answer to this but is the 800k a loss based purely on an operational level or were there one off costs that contributed to that amount?

I heard something about 600k of that figure was to do with investments/costs that were incurred on a one off type?

That doesn't make it right even if so just wondered that if the club had paid out a one off fee for something then the day to day operational costs maybe wouldn't look so bad?

The bit I've underlined is more or less what I said.

I don't expect you to go back through my posts looking for proof, but I've never been part of the anti-Wane brigade, and have rarely bagged IL (who I feel cops a ludicrous amount of negativity, given all the good stuff he's done).

I just think it's time to move on re. the coaching. I also think that certain players are not pulling their weight given the very high salaries they are enjoying (and recent events seem to imply that club bosses feel the same way).

Not sure what the agenda is there other than I want Wigan to do better than they currently are.

SW doesn't do the signing of players!
Good grief!!
Your friend IL and Rads do the recruitment and wages.

We need our Own ground!

Not sure why it matters to a Dire Troll but once again I will provide the evidence!!

"I'm the most stubborn man in the world. (Owner and chairman) Ian Lenagan and (executive director) Kris Radlinski have always been loyal to me and I pick my own players. If I want a player, they say 'great' and they go and get them for me.

Looking at the most recent public figures, when loans from Lenagan increased by £1m over a year (year ended 2016) the funding was almost entirely to cover operating losses - there was no great capital investment that required this sum, it's just a loss-making company which needs support from its owner. Like most other clubs in the league.

I believe IL has agreed finance of around £5 million for the upgrade of The Robin Park Arena. A lot of that will come from the sale of Orrell.