Turnover in excess of £5m alledgedly (certainly £4m+ in 2007 as we got a point for it in the last licencing round 3 years ago and it certainly hasn't gone down). £1.6m to the players, a reported £1/2m to the landlords, leaves a min of £2m, maybe up to £3m, which is a lot of cash when your 2 biggest expenses are paid for

And Wigan lose half a million a year on bigger gates, spending the full cap and a similar ground-sharing arrangement AFAIK. Medical bills, running the academy, employing probably 30 odd people in admin, finance, retail, community programme not to mention the coaching staff to pay, plus consumables, transport & accommodation, running the website etc not to mention the cost of 10,000 shirts and all the merchandise we sell, sales of which go towards that £4-5m. If our retail margin is 30% (about average for clothing), that's £700k of costs against £1m of turnover before the costs of running the shop with a manager etc. National Insurance contributions on 30 players, and say 30 odd staff as well. I really don't see that the board are syphoning off huge funds from FC to live the high life when we're one of the only teams to make a profit and this generally speaking without progressing to major finals.

Peter Sharp is Andersons assistant at Parramatta.

Wigan also charge a lot less to get in then FC or most other clubs do, not sure how much there season passes are but gauging it on walk up prices and the number of special rates they do I expect its a lot less than you do. I would expect FC's gate reciepts to be more than Wigans.

I think theres a big misconception that McGuire is this supercoach that has transformed Wigan froma bottom 4 club to world beaters, Wigan were not that far off from the GF last year and got also had a good cup run, Nobby picked them up from relegation fodder and got them competetive.mcguire turned up and reaped the rewards of nobles hard work.

As someone said If Anderson was so good why are the eels binning him?

Because he fell out with Hayne.

Eels haven't had a top half back since Sterlo and with Mortimer and Mateo not only turning up for a handful of games they were also going to struggle.

What a load of b******s, have you not heard or seen the now world famous Agar PowerPoint at the first fans forum of the season that addressed this very issue.

We have a squad of world beaters, it says so in the PowerPoint.

Dont forget clearing all them directors loans, few 100k a season must have been , guess that cash is spare now

Who said anyone was "syphoning off huge funds"

wigan's business model has been nothing like ours previously. The club was propped up by whelan. They didn't have a particularly strong retail operation, didn't get a penny from their main sponsors and sold tickets at a significantly lower amount than we do. I'd be amazed if their turnover was anywhere near ours up until the time lenegan took over.

And if we're spending circa £3m on things other than the players and the stadium then it sounds like we have tooo many costs to me

We have a coach so any talk of Anderson is pointless really.

Yeah well said... Nowt to do with FC

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