He will need a damn sight more than 17m to run a latics

Think you may be surprised there. However, it is Oxford United where a commitment has been made to buy their ground back.

Can't see him using this money to get us a new ground. He has no reason too, As much as people don't like sharing with the tics, financially it's not a bad deal.

If the worst was to happen and IL kecked'O have we got anyone lined up to take over the club? Has there been any commitment from IL financially if he was to die?

You guys are worse than the wife dreaming up what to get with my pay check.

Let the man enjoy his money.

seriously why would you all want a new ground you have got a great ground in the DW and i love visiting when bulls are playing there. I suppose our ground isnt much but still why would you give up the DW?

Because we play second fiddle to premiership football. Next easter monday we should be at home to wakefield because latics play man u on that day we have to play on tuesday evening. imo that will loose us money and that is only one incident.

why would we want a new ground the DW is still by far the best RL stadium in SL even if it is shared with a naff footie team (sorry latics but you are dire!)- its in a prime position on the edge of town, is reasonably easy to get to, has good parking, is a ten min walk from two mainline stations and fifteen mins from the bus station, the facilities are far better than the Halliwell Jones or the Stobart and we have a crowd capacity of around 24000 - no other SL ground comes close -

but we dont own the stadium and nasty opposition fans call us for it on internet message boards

Do you seriously believe that the KC Stadium doesn't even "come close" to Dave Whelan Stadium?

In mine and I'm sure the majority of people's opinion the KC Stadium is superior to the Dave Whelan Stadium.

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Come on IL, build us a new ground because it would please internet surfers and upset Latics fans. We don't think you should enjoy your own personal money which you've worked extremely hard to get, we think you should waste it on a new stadium as ours is quite clearly not good enough and it would obviously be economically better to own a stadium.

And I'm sure you're unqualified to make such a ridiculous and unprovable statement. Not that this sort of thing generally stops you.

I'd love to have seen your face the moment Dave Whelan broke this story. Talk about kakking yourself.

Better option would be to buy latics and asset strip em to get the ground?

Blackbun were sold last year for approx £75-80m and are a bigger club than latics. You'd expect that even with them in the premiership you could buy them for circa £40-£45m. Given the silly value soccer players go for you could then sell the squad for around £20m, milk the parachoote payment when they go down, run them on a shoestring next year, sell wigan rl the ground for £5m and then flog em as a mid - bottom table championship team for £5-10m.

We'd get the staduim, latics bite the dust, costs leneghan all in all next to nowt, everyones happy bar a few skem head latics fans!!

We can but dream!