i've just posted something similar about this in the rumour section

why offer a 4-5 year contract if we know there is no chance of it being honoured by the player, unless it is a short term revenue from transfer fee and that is the pure reason for the length of contract

I think it's because the players hold all the power. If the club don't offer them a long contract, then they might go elsewhere. Sadly, the only way it will be honoured in full is if the player doesn't play well enough to attract NRL interest, or gets injured. There might be little the club can do about the situation, I would just be interested to know whether anything will change following Bateman's comments on his way out and the Williams situation. Maybe they will hold players to their contracts more often, demand more in transfer fees, or put tighter contracts in place to ensure we get right if first refusal if they return to SL. I get that ideally we don't want players who don't want to be here, but we do seem to be a really soft touch.

I hope that you are successful. Personally I feel that they should be inviting people like yourself and other "influencers" from say Twitter and most definitely Phil Wilkinson. If they get this forum "wrong" they will be causing more damage than actually re-assuring dejected fans.

I believe that questions have to be submitted in advance which to a degree I can understand to avoid the "how many shredded wheat can Tony Clubb eat for his breakfast" type questions but it can also lead to questions being "selected" to potentially avoid any "difficult" questions.

I'd be asking why are they holding the forum next week (i.e. timing significance if any) and what are the objectives of holding the forum.
At the end of forum they can then ask attendees if the objectives have been achieved.

I am disappointed in the extreme that the forum will not be shown on Wigan Tv

Thanks, but these are general statements. My questions were specifically why GW was allowed to sign for Warrington for free and whether the owner of the DW can arbitarily up the rent.

I keep hearing how short of cash we are etc, but when an opportunity to get some compo from Warrington came about, we appear to have rolled over and let them tickle our bellies.

Tickets sorted

Influencers!!!!
Ha ha

At the last one beginning of 2020 I didn't ask a question in the forum, but to be honest the amount of absolutely shocking questions he was getting was unbearable.
People just giving isolated Instances of their experience buying a ticket, or getting a car park pass. And ill be honest, 80% of their statements were false (one guy complaining that his daughter who was 17 or 18 having to pay full price or 240 or summat for a season ticket in East stand, absolute bollox as my Lds were 21 and 17 at the time and they got season tickets for about 140 and 110 for example).
People just complaining

What i did do though (along with 2 others who I went with) was speak to him on a one to one basis whilst the video presentation was being presented to the audience (we couldn't be d sitting down so we stood at the back of the room where the video equipment was and IL went to the back of the room while it was on).

We had 5minutes chatting, and i/we said a few things, and then when it concluded his sister came over and we chatted to her for 5minutes and IL came over again.

Very interesting 10mins or so.
Dont agree with everything he said, and in light of the current situation he may reflect differently on a few things, but, and thisis what i think most people don't do, I would with hindsight admit I would look at things differently. I'm not in public going to go into some of the things I said or his replies.

But let's be honest, with Covid and the Latics=stadium situation the last 18months have been rather difficult

I'll say it again, last 3 seasons ask supporters their expectations of league position and most would have said top 3 on each of last 3years, most would have expected us to win something.
That says to me recruitment and squad isn't as bad as it is currently performing (and imo has been for 3 years)
I accept there are some glaring ones (the Tony club 2yr extension, mitch Clarke as of your not going to play him why sign him etc) but overall Lam has the tools.
I think the catalyst to all of this is the Edwards debacle, because without that we wouldnt have Lam (and I do have a bit of sympathy with Lam in that this isn't what he expected).
But
It was ILs job to get the Edwards thing over the line, he didn't
It was ILs decision to stick with Lam

And I think he got both wrong

I have no idea how you get selected for questions, if anyone does let me know

I think it would be a huge gamble to put it live on Wigan TV. The chances of a handful of idiots being in the audience is quite high.

I would hope that it can be shown there after the event with anything particularly nasty or unsuitable edited out.

Kind of see your point but there’s idiots everywhere. You’d like to think they’d be a rarity at a fans forum. I still think it should be on Wigan TV but happy for highlights or a re run after the fact

IL & KR will need bullet proof vests, Cas away to come yet.

My eldest said that there were few tickets left this afternoon.
Is the apathy at such levels that people can’t even be d to verbally raise their concerns?

I think that they will need more than bullet proof vests

Who do we reckon is the fastest player at the club?

They wont if there are more happy clappers there asking stupid questions about why can i not buy a car parking ticket etc.
All the questions unfortunately there will be a parliamentary answer for them.

Honestly I can’t see this fans forum going any other way than a tough night for IL and Rads. The happy clappers at the moment are like rocking horse dung. Even the usual happy clappers I speak to are furious.

My question is;

1/ Why was Shaun Edwards never given a contract to sign?
2/ When it became clear Adrian Lam wasn’t good enough (for me it was 2019), why wasn’t he replaced forthwith?
3/ Why are we (all but confirmed) doing the cheap option and appointing Matty Peet as Head Coach and not spending money on a proven quality coach to change the direction of the playing side?

A lot of angry fans might be attending and it will be a question and answer on the night will questions being sent in by people who can't make it