A massive thank you to IL. Turned the club from the joke that Whelan had turned the club in to and made us champions on multiple occasions. Put his money where his mouth was having to dip his hand in his pocket to cover debts on multiple occasions. The big thing that stood out in my memory was when we got hammered by saints in Cardiff. He and his wife came out to face the music with the fans and said spent hours chatting with us. He took a grilling of Steve-o too who ripped the team to shreads. He said give him three years to get it right bay the club. He did it in two. Another favourite of mine was before World Cup final in 2017 and he was blind drunk in Brisbane interacting with the fans of all clubs. He spent a lot of time with us and let a little too much information out. Out of respect of the man none of us posted anything he said on social media. IFL for me will go down as the greatest signing that Wigan RL ever made. Enjoy retirement Mr Lenegan.

If you don’t turn it in we’ll get Mr Danson to buy your under 12’s Rugby Union team and close it down.

Can only echo all the other (sensible) comments, and add my thanks.

The stadium ownership issue still seems unclear. That Paul Kendrick (Wigan Today reporter for Latics) claiming Latics still own the stadium but my understanding was MD bought the stadium when he bought Latics so once he’s 100% owner of Warriors, you’d like to think ownership is shared?

Kendrick has shown many times before he knows very little details - just a glorified rumour mongering fan.

Anyone got any more insights?

They may very well own the stadium as MD doesnt own the rugby club yet. I suspect all the businesess will be re-aligned in whatever way MD thinks is best once he owns everything.

To think that he will own WAFC, WWRLFC, the 'Danson Dome' and Robin Park. Quite a selection of assets

I can't see why things (on paper) would change? I'm not sure about FFP in football, but why would they move a source of income off the books? Even if us paying rent is a token accountancy gesture, it's still showing as money in.

Mike Danson owns the lot. When did we last see a curtain raiser at the DW? There are plenty of changes afoot.

He does own the rugby club.

how can they be worth zero?...IL clears the deficit every year and the players are an asset.....so go on, how?

The stadium may well stay as a legal entity owned by WAFC but the lay of the land will be very very different to what we're used to.

Danson is a Warriors fan first and he bought the Tics just to keep them alive,things are changing for the Rugby.
Did I notice flags are appearing again,curtain raisers aswell.
Great times ahead.
Corporate/food/beer sales will go back to the club.
Thankyou to Lenegan for his tenure and a possible bigger thankyou for introducing Danson to the club.

There is def a different feel about the place now,so upbeat.

What ever happened to Edge Hall Road? Not been over that way for a couple of years and not seen anything in the news recently. Last I heard they offered it back to Orrell RU to purchase but I think it was unaffordable. https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/rugby- ... ad-3120918 Another reason why Wigan RLFC are not worth Zero despite LeBron's daft comments. This site alone is worth a few million.

What ever happened to Edge Hall Road? Not been over that way for a couple of years and not seen anything in the news recently. Last I heard they offered it back to Orrell RU to purchase but I think it was unaffordable. https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/rugby- ... ad-3120918 Another reason why Wigan RLFC are not worth Zero despite LeBron's daft comments. This site alone is worth a few million.

Was it on here I read Latic's previous owners had sold the concourse rights to Sodexo for a lump sum ? I'll suppose we'll find out in due course if MD has bought out that contract and we're actually generating some cash from food/drink sales at the ground.
Also got it in the back of my head that where a ground share is in operation there's some football league rule about the football club being the senior partner ? Couldn't care less who's name is on the top line of the address as it's pretty clear that's just a box ticking exercise now.