Agreed. Plus the fact remains that Danson has a 25% share of Wigan RL which gives us additional financial protection.

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According to IFL the editor of League Express has his personal mobile phone number,if he wanted to know if it was true he could have rung IFL to confirm this,it really is p*ss poor journalism

If IL ever wanted to see that a good % of the fans appreciate him, then he only needs to read this thread.

Bizarre piece of so-called journalism.

Surely you would at least speak to the club involved before running a story like that?

The plot thickens. The editor of League Express (Martyn Sadler) has just tweeted in response to the official statement

He’s not lying down Sadler. He posted on the Total RL forum that you can’t sell what’s already been sold and says the wording of the club press release has been cleverly put together.

Very strange.

Agreed, obviously IL isn't going to live forever but that's not how the article came over.

Absolutely.

Let's not beat around the bush here - Sadler has been personally called out and shown up as a 2nd rate journo. Instead of posting unsubstantiated rumours, why's he not reached out to IL for comment? Now he's "sticking by his sources" which means he's too proud to admit that he's dropped a clanger and will keep digging.

It's laughable really. If we take this stance we can all be gutter journalists too. In fact I'd like to take this opportunity to drop the bombshell that at some point in the future, all the current Wigan squad will one day leave the club.

All for the NRL probably knowing Lenegan.

I don’t know if it’s good news or not to be honest.

Not because I want IFL out or anything like that (the opposite is true) but because it now places the club in uncertainty and the rumours of IFL selling up aren’t going to go away. Whether Sadler has acted on a zero truth, half truth, full truth or something in between - it’s come from somewhere. There’s probably been at least a discussion surrounding it.

I’m glad IFL is staying, I really am but this conversation isn’t going to go away. As has already been pointed out, he’s no spring chicken, plans for the future for him personally will be a foot. For me this statement doesn’t add stability, if anything it creates more confusion. Just my opinion of course.

I’d probably look at it feeling a bit more confident about the future. We have a guy involved who is absolutely minted and owns 25% of us. To have a man with that wealth interested in the club is so positive and it hopefully gives us a natural succession plan when Lenagan does step away. He is nearly 20 years younger than Lenagan and is maybe getting to an age where he will have more time on his hands in future years. It certainly seems better than having nobody interested in the club and wondering where we go once Lenagans time is up.

Well, if it does cause confusion, it's entirely down to Martyn Sadler.

I'm sure there are some so-called fans out there who will already be looking at ways to twist this thing into being IL's fault. But it doesn't matter how good you think your source is, no journalist should ever publish without giving the target of gossip the opportunity to offer their own side of the story.

It's not just good ethics, it covers you against farcical situations like this ... where you're not only having to defend your front page story, but are also unable to provide evidence with which to do so.