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Coming up to the weekend.
Big decisions in the pipeline.


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Chinese or Indian on Saturday night........?

To add more fuel to the Diskin rumour, on the Whinos board someone says he's heard he may be leaving.

rlhttp://www.cockneylatic.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f

Possibly just a wind-up, but with the talk of big announcements, rumours of DW shuffling his cards...

Something is brewing...

Has a year left on his contract i think. Who knows.

Wouldnt mind Diskin at all, other than world class aussies that we have no chance of getting he's probably the best we could have to organise the team before Mickey Mac is unleashed

Diskins a good hooker his organisation skills are something we will miss next season in the no9 shirt I would be pleased if we could recruit him although imo its very very unlikely seeing as IL said we have not got much room left under the cap plus would the Whinos be willing let him go? I dont think so But you never no it might be worth a shot for IL and MM to have a word with him.

Where is the land?

rlhttp://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/News/General/The-Grouch--14102010_15642.asprl

Lower part of the article. Does IL still have an interest in Sports Cafe?

I know there would need to be initial investment for the land / construction of a ground, plus we would lay out for expenses on match days / improvements..etc.
But if you look at the Whinos for instance, their turnover & profit is massive compared to ours, yet we are as big (if not bigger club).

A new ground with a hotel & conference centre / corporate facilities....etc, would bring in huge amounts. Then there's the beer sales on match days, which we don't currently get.

Then throw in that all our preseason friendlies are arranged at away grounds, we'd get them back.



All in all, I think this rumour is BS.
1) I don't think we'd get planning approval.
2) I don't think IL will shell out when we pay c£200k pa rent.

Would love to proven wrong though.

Seriously doubt we are getting our own ground, not cheap those, and look how much trouble other clubs have had and they had grounds to sell!

How about a ground share with Sale.......



Wigan Peer lights blue touchpaper and retires to a safe distance.

Get serious.
At the moment we pay around £200K per year to rent the DW.
The cost of building a new stadium is around £20 million, the equivalent of 100 YEARS rent.

It isn't going to happen, and as long as we have a good agreement for the DW it shouldn't. It's o.k looking at turnover, but you need to look at costs and profit.

How long would it take to recover the £20 million costs of building a stadium?

Not sure i undersand, as i was saying i doubt we will get our own stadium.

Its been a long morning though

Yes, I can imagine that would suit Sale very nicely. You can hear them now, can't you?

"Okay, Wigan ... does this sound like a plan? We'll take advantage of your high level adminsitrative and marketing skills, your cutting edge coaching knowledge, your century long rugby tradition, your teak tough blue-collar philosophy, your plethora of talented players (especially the young ones) and your massive crowd support. In return, you can take advantage of our middle class south Manchester location, which has been yearning for the arrival of an exciting, go-ahead club like yours. The new name of this joint venture will be 'Wigan and Sale Sharks', which of course will change again five years from now to 'Sale Sharks'. "

Let's go for it. I mean, what have we got to lose?