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| Quote: 100% Warrior "The Latics fans are up in arms on social media. To say they want IL as a buyer is exaggerating the truth somewhat. I’ve read tweet after tweet of abuse directed towards IL, some even saying they’d rather the club end up in the North West Counties League than IL buy them. With little over a week to go before the self imposed deadline it’s little wonder they’re getting so angry and impatient, if it was us I’d certainly be shouting from the rooftops, but I wouldn’t be saying I’d rather we end up back at amateur level just because it was Latics that wanted to buy us. I can’t for the life of me understand that viewpoint, it’s embarrassing.
I do hope they get a buyer and that it is IL and his consortium, I’ve no love for Latics but to see them go would be a real shame. Having said that some fans are making it quite hard to have sympathy for them.'"
That's been the story for quite a while.
Always makes me laugh when I read how aggrieved they are about the way Maurice Lindsay 'treated them in the 80s', even though most of them probably weren't watching back then. It certainly can't be any worse than the way we've been treated by some of them ever since Whelan forced us into the stadium share. They were insufferable on this forum alone, till they call got kicked off it.
Even that should be water under the bridge by now, but it's very difficult to feel anything even approaching warmth towards a club when so vocal a quarter of its fans appear to loath and detest us so much.
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| Quote: Cruncher "That's been the story for quite a while.
Always makes me laugh when I read how aggrieved they are about the way Maurice Lindsay 'treated them in the 80s', even though most of them probably weren't watching back then. It certainly can't be any worse than the way we've been treated by some of them ever since Whelan forced us into the stadium share. They were insufferable on this forum alone, till they call got kicked off it.
Even that should be water under the bridge by now, but it's very difficult to feel anything even approaching warmth towards a club when so vocal a quarter of its fans appear to loath and detest us so much.'"
I agree. My sisters boyfriend is 24 and a lifelong Latics fan. He asked me a few weeks ago what the whole hatred was about as he had no idea. All he knew was to dislike the Warriors, he even said an uncle of his refuses to sit in his season ticket seat because it’s red. I told him about what Lindsay said, which in fairness was particularly distasteful but even he said back that it shouldn’t still be a thing.
If it were us in dire financial straits and looking at 1wk until we go boom I can bet my bottom dollar there’d be very few Latics fans with an ounce of sympathy or support. The majority would be cheering and celebrating like they’d won the league. It’s been the opposite for us, I’ve seen little Warriors fans celebrating their demise and on the most part it’s been quite sympathetic and supportive.
Sad state of affairs. It’s high time we all put the past to bed and worked together. Perhaps that’s naive of me, I realise the chances of that are as slim as the RFL organising a p*ss up in a brewery!
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| Quote: 100% Warrior "I agree. My sisters boyfriend is 24 and a lifelong Latics fan. He asked me a few weeks ago what the whole hatred was about as he had no idea. All he knew was to dislike the Warriors, he even said an uncle of his refuses to sit in his season ticket seat because it’s red. I told him about what Lindsay said, which in fairness was particularly distasteful but even he said back that it shouldn’t still be a thing.
If it were us in dire financial straits and looking at 1wk until we go boom I can bet my bottom dollar there’d be very few Latics fans with an ounce of sympathy or support. The majority would be cheering and celebrating like they’d won the league. It’s been the opposite for us, I’ve seen little Warriors fans celebrating their demise and on the most part it’s been quite sympathetic and supportive.
Sad state of affairs. It’s high time we all put the past to bed and worked together. Perhaps that’s naive of me, I realise the chances of that are as slim as the RFL organising a p*ss up in a brewery!'"
I agree. There's been very few Wigan RL supporters publicly enjoying what's going on (apart from a couple of wind up merchants on Facebook).
Had some grief over the years by certain Latics supporters so I should be enjoying this, but I don't. There's other supporters like Conroy who are big fans of both clubs.
Do I want to see Latics back in the PL, hell no. Their supporters were insufferable last time and the an imbalance of power (moving games to Widnes/Leigh), no Friday night matches... etc!
Do I want to see them go into oblivion? Not really, there's impacts on stadium ownerships and costs for us (it would be nice if we got a bigger say as well a % of food and drinks sales), but we won't be paying the regular annual rent rate either I'd expect, can we afford to upkeep the stadium on our own?
Saw some of these allegations last night about 'non football' influences into the asset stripping of Latics. Hope it's not IL (surely not after the press release from the club showing support and advising of a bid to save the club). There would be war if it was.
I have however seen another well known rugby league related name been mentioned (not Wigan RL related), if true his intentions are unknown as he's no longer actively involved in the sport.
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| All over the Latics forums that we're the new owners of the stadium, suppose we'll have to wait for confirmation but that may be were Mr Danson comes in.
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| Quote: apollosghost "All over the Latics forums that we're the new owners of the stadium, suppose we'll have to wait for confirmation but that may be were Mr Danson comes in.'"
If rumours are to be believed, we've just bought the stadium for £2.5M and latics have been bought by an American for a few million. I have missed feelings about this as it's obviously great that now no one has anything over us - rentboys etc, but I also really wanted latics to die. Hopefully we rinse them for rent.
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| we can get rent from them but also the income from the stadium which can bring in a lot of money especially if its done right
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| Quote: Pieman "we can get rent from them but also the income from the stadium which can bring in a lot of money especially if its done right'"
Stadium was previously (Before Covid) losing £120k per month approximately (1.5m per year) over the previous 3 years. It also required a lot of money spending on it to comply with H&S requirements (Not sure if this was done as it was due 2019/2020)
Getting it right is a correct statement - Getting it right Post Covid will be a lot harder than it was Pre-Covid
Not as easy owning your own stadium as a lot have been making out and it certainly isn't a simple Utopia
However, What I will say, is that if there is a chance of owning it, and the Club's management can see a way it can be done profitably then I'm all for it
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| Quote: Jukesays "Stadium was previously (Before Covid) losing £120k per month approximately (1.5m per year) over the previous 3 years. It also required a lot of money spending on it to comply with H&S requirements (Not sure if this was done as it was due 2019/2020)
Getting it right is a correct statement - Getting it right Post Covid will be a lot harder than it was Pre-Covid
Not as easy owning your own stadium as a lot have been making out and it certainly isn't a simple Utopia
However, What I will say, is that if there is a chance of owning it, and the Club's management can see a way it can be done profitably then I'm all for it'"
100% this. Oh the meltdown on the Latics forums is superb. I can't wait to have a few beers later and read through it with my feet up. 'Sorry Latics you will have to play on Sunday as we need the stadium to host a concert on the Saturday' Don't know what they are bleating on about anyway. It's not as if Wigan Athletic paid for the thing. Never paid a penny from the club.
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| IL is securing our future at the DW, irrespective of what happens with Latics. I’d much, much rather they survive with new owners. But the meltdown from some of their fans is laughable, embarrassing even. I must admit though there’s a particular person on twitter who, everytime we played at home posted “Happy rent day”. I will enjoy returning the favour.
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| Quote: Pie_Eyter "100% this. Oh the meltdown on the Latics forums is superb. I can't wait to have a few beers later and read through it with my feet up. 'Sorry Latics you will have to play on Sunday as we need the stadium to host a concert on the Saturday'
Can't happen. Under efl rules Latics still get priority over any other events.
What may change is that Wigan rugby fixtures won't be moved to protect the pitch.
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| Quote: Egg Chasing "Can't happen. Under efl rules Latics still get priority over any other events.
What may change is that Wigan rugby fixtures won't be moved to protect the pitch.'"
That is correct. Also, we might be able to play at home during the summer months.
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| Quote: Sweaty Betty's "That is correct. Also, we might be able to play at home during the summer months.'"
Only if the pitch doesn't need any work
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| Purchasing the stadium isn't the be all and end all.
All we really gain is profits from food and drink on matchdays and probably more of a say in what goes on. It just costs us a fortune in maintenance.
At least saints and wire fans can't call us rentboys though, and it would be funny to mess Latics around a bit
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[b:1wlcmlhe][color=#800000:1wlcmlhe]WIGAN RLFC - SL ERA
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CHALLENGE CUP FINAL WINNERS 2002, 2011, 2013, 2022 & 2024
LEAGUE LEADERS CHAMPIONS 2010, 2012, 2020, 2023 & 2024
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WOMEN’S GRAND FINAL WINNERS 2018
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| Still needs to happen yet (will believe it when I see it) but I'd try and look to turning North & South Stands to open terracing. Would make a massive difference to the atmosphere at games.
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| Quote: MattyB "Still needs to happen yet (will believe it when I see it) but I'd try and look to turning North & South Stands to open terracing. Would make a massive difference to the atmosphere at games.'"
That would be brilliant, i could see that working. Rip the seats out, paint the ones in the west and east red and white, change the name of the stadium to New Central Park, put Whelan's statue in the chippy and drape Wigan Warriors flags from the rafters.
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