I think its been run very poorly and would love for it to be investigated

Now the dust has settled its time to award IL the 'Thriving little club' award.

He's put himself on the hated shelf, good attempt but he's no Maurice Lindsay.

7/10

I wonder if they'll hate him in 30 years as much as they still hate Maurice.

Possibly.

However, knowing why they hate him may elude a lot of them. As it does about why they hate Maurice.

He's connected to the rugby. That will do for most of them.

Maurice their former director. No loyalty them Latics fans.

And already, the comments are appearing on social media about making us pay back rent for a stadium we didnt use on a contract based on a percentage of gate receipts when nobody attended

Yet the same people think that its perfectly ok to pay just 25% of your outstanding debts to small businesses who have probably either gone under or will never recover.

I summed my comment up with - "If I owed you £1000, but offered you £250 just after inheriting £1m from an elderly relative, would you accept it?"

It's hardly their fault that that's the law is it?

we only played 1 game at the DW didnt we without fans? Its fine as our agreement is 10% of gate receipts, it was in the playoffs so had none so they can have 10% of nothing

You have forgotten to carry the 1 - they can have 100% of nothing

No, but to then expect Wigan Warriors to pay a season's rent for a stadium they could not and did not use for 75% of the games based on an "assumed attendance" is pretty poor form.

Showing their class, when they should have a little humility seeing where they have been over the past 9 months.

Most of them probably thought we'd get kicked out.

They will go pop again. It will keep happening. They will keep being sold on and handed around. Dave Whelan (personal feelings aside) was one of the best businessmen of his generation and he couldn't make them sustainable whilst being thrown hundreds of millions for their stay in the Premier League. Foreign chancers looking for a Premier League pay day and average Joe businessmen will not get them at a profit making point. They are in a race to the bottom, it will just take a few years to materialise. They won't get out of league 1. Well they will, but it wont be moving in the direction i think the Latics fans think they are heading in. They are billy big again now regarding us 'How much they hate us, and up the rent, and throw them out' A few months ago most of them were begging for us to help and take the stadium. Their long term future is terminal and the clock is ticking, tick tock tick tock.

As I said on the IL thread. Barely any sporting clubs are sustainable. They all lose money.

If the new owners choose to sell them on when they've had enough then they won't go pop (not that they have) in the same way we wouldn't if IL sells to Danson. If the new owners choose to try and liquidate them like the chinese then that's another matter

especially football

If what i read is true Wigan RL will have to play all home games at neutral venues because they have got no money to play?

Fosters Fields at Higher Ince, every Tuesday morning I've heard.

Get down there.

What have you read and where?
Please don't tell us it was on facebook!!!

how could they afford a neutral venue?

Don't confuse him

I'll have a bet that what your

is complete and utter rubbish

But heres an idea, why don't you buy a season ticket



Club will have some money then
Far better than throwing it in the bin

I won't be buying a season ticket this year, partly because of work and partly because I'd prefer to be vaccinated first. Will hopefully get to some games July/August onwards. Decided instead to buy more merchandise than I would normally - got a home shirt, training top and hoody this week. That plus Lotto and Wigan TV should more than replace the season ticket money.

Has anyone seen the Latics admins statement, and the Ticheads response to it?

Now I know there’s a fair few Wigan Rugby fans who aren’t the brightest, but you only need to listen to some of their lot to realise they’re another level! They make our daftest fans look intelligent



No wonder we have so much issue and negativity from them. Knuckle dragging Neanderthals, absolute thick as mince!

The admins have very clearly explained the lengths they’ve been to, to save the club from almost being wound up; likely a certainty, but for their actions to secure write off of debt from the past owner.
They’ve also clearly explained why their charge out rate is justified- namely because it’s not John the tic from DW warehouse who’s been running them for the past 9 months, but qualified accountants and businessmen who know what they’re doing and have 30 plus years of experience saving businesses.

Anyone with sense would read it and go ‘thank god for everything they’ve done to save the club rather than liquidate us’. They also tell them they’ve sold the lot for 2.3mil

which I bet leneghan and danson would have paid for the ground alone. so it would have been a lot easier for them, and probably yielded better returns, to turn the lights off! But instead they’ve done everything possible to keep them in business.

Yet instead of thanks and relief that their unsustainable club, that’s still losing 15k a DAY

, has been saved, they’ve got some ridiculous abuse and folk seriously saying if they see them they’ll put them in the canal!!
This is literally what we’re dealing with!

I think we all wanted them to come out of things and all I’ve heard on the rugby side for the last 9 months is support!! But when you hear their reaction to leneghan, Wigan rugby, anyone who’s done their best to help them, you realise what a bunch of idiots you’re dealing with. Ridiculous amounts of persecution complex!

Possibly would have been better for them to go to the wall and let these idiots go back to supporting Man U and Liverpool tbh.

to be fair the administrators are a set of lying ***** anyway so the fans have every right to say what they want

Are they really tho? Personally I think that’s more tichead nonsense because a lot haven’t been intelligent enough to understand the realities. Many still have delusions of grandeur that they’re a big club fallen on tough times, and capable of returning to the premier league in the not to distant future....something that’s now more a reality for Accrington Stanley or Forest Green Rovers (who could replace them in a couple of weeks)!!

Admins have also been trying to sell a club in almost impossible circumstances. The club are valueless, haemorrhaging money even now (15k per day

despite rationalisation). So admins have had to leverage the value of the ground as an asset for essentially throwing your money down a bottomless pit!!
It’s a miracle they’ve sold them imo.

The added challenge is who’s interested. Mostly overseas individuals who see them as a loss making operation to use as a taxsaving vehicle on profits in their home country (like the Spanish) or worse still, a business to launder money. Those individuals don’t meet the fit and proper persons test to preserve league status, so most options have been dead ends!!

They’ve also accused them of lying because of lack of updates or limited information, without realising they have NDAs with every party dealing with them!!

Add it all together I think the admins have done a phenomenal job in keeping them in business....Macclesfield and Bury were arguably in stronger positions but went the other way. You’d expect they’d show some humility and realise that tbh