Wonder what the business model is with these. Do Wigan receive a flat fee from SJM concerts for use of the facility with SJM receiving ticket sales? Or would Wigan receive a percentage of ticket sales themselves?

It would be interesting to know. Whatever the set up is, you’d imagine it’ll be a money spinner. This is a smaller scale but I remember Lancashire turning themselves around from struggling financially, to making big profits on the back of them starting to host concerts. We’ve been making losses these last few years and even if we can just get back towards sustainability, that would be fantastic.

Noel Gallagher and The Lathums I believe to be announced shortly

Noel Gallager 18th July
The Lathums 19th July

Onwards and Upwards !!!!

Yeah good news.
Might take my grandson to Lathums.

Great to have a few gigs announced. Wonder what the scope would be on getting a Haigh festesc festival at Robin Park

11500

More issues on the blue side of town. United fans have been given the East Stand for the upcoming FA Cup match which has enraged a lot of Latics fans on social media.

It'll just be the vocal minority that are still miffed that a "thugby mon" has control of the club.
It's a bit like when our HKR play-off tickets went straight on general sale, loads of moaning about not being able to get their own seat when everyone new the ground would be half empty.
Wiganers are tight as cramp, fact, there's no way on god's earth that 20k are going to turn up on a Monday night for a ridiculous 8.15 kick-off time, might as well try and get as much out of Utd fans as they can.
MD isn't going to run either club like DW did with Latics and supporters are just going to have to get used to that.

I knew this was coming from the loud minority. A guy has come in and saved the club from oblivion and wants to try and get it towards self sustainability. As I pointed out to a couple of fellow Latics fans on social media yesterday, who claimed the Monday night game against Man City in 2018 sold out, it did not, there was 19,200 on, including a full away end. I would say the crowds have gone down slightly from then, so there is no reason to believe more than the 14,000 or so home fans that turned out that night, will turn out for this.

The crowd should now get up towards 22-23k IMO and maybe even sell out (United are a bigger draw) and that will bring in a lot of extra revenue, that is much needed. The loud minority moan that they’ll have to move seats, well surely just having a seat to move to and a team to watch should be enough?! Talk about ungrateful!!

It’s disrespectful to not inform the fans that this was happening. The club hierarchy have been shamed into making a statement off the back of people kicking off over it on social media. I’m grateful to have a football club to support as well as the rugby and I’m pretty sure if it had been handled more sensitively then I wouldn’t be as annoyed as I am now.

It's absolutely lovely watching them cry.

They've literally got a billionaire owner, who saved them from oblivion, but are crying because the clubs now making sound commercial decisions. Go figure that one out. Apparently the fan group said they should be consulted? Why? So they can be told it's happening face to face?

The bitterness doesn't have any limits either, there's even some tools crying on Twitter because we've got an Xmas tree and they haven't.