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?

Plus any increase in revenue from beer sales and othe rmatchday income would be offset against a huge increase in running costs - which we currently do not pay for.

I honestly cannot see how it could be financially viable even over the long term without a third party involvement (like the local authority funding the build etc or without a significant chunk of money from land sales etc as is happening at other clubs) and even then given the length of the season to make a ground pay it would have to be generating income in the off season.

So is that a no?

I take it you've not been to edgley park recently - .

one of matt diskin`s posts on twitter stated he had been in Northampton for the day , clue maybe ?

Maybe he's been asking Chris Ashton what its like at Wigan?

I've heard a rumour DWSports are sponsoring us next season. Anyone else heard anything?

Ho Ho Ho were getting closer on here lol!

up behind Taybarns is what i've been told which i beleive said controversial sign is up there aswell isn't it

rlhttp://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/archive/2010/07/17/Oxford+news+%28om_oxfordnews%29/8277653.United_half_way_to_buying_stadium__owner_tells_fans/rl

Sounds familiar