no i havnt read it should i? lindsey went off to the rfl when he made a cock up at wigan, why is the reason we have no money to spend at this moment

Yes, as the man who worked with him most, Monie is far from scathing.

Yes you should,

Monie puts most of the blame for Wigans demise down to Jack Robinson.

I think only Maurice Lindsay could run a club consisting of superego's Lowe , Hanley , Edwards , Gregory who all fell out at one point or another and still get them to do great things Wigan.

If ML was to be made head of the RFL now-

The international game would be awesome and we would see a great WC in 2013!

RL would be in a much better state in 10 years time than it is now!

Its sad that some people saw him as a camp, corrupt faggot and didnt really know him.

Yes, if you cant find it you can borrow mine.

And do you class yourself as one of those?

Maurice Lindsay was a visionary and an innovator who had the sport and his club at heart. He's like us - he wants Rugby League on the map as a major, professional sport. Unlike us, though, he did everything he could to put it there.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks, though, and when RL moved on, ironically due to the visions he dreamt of and the changes he implimented, he himself didn't move on, and continued to do things the old way.

You cannot fault the man's commitment, but like a lot of businessmen of a certain age, he didn't modify, and that was his downfall.

You're talking poppycock. I suggest you stop now before you make a fool of yourself.

eggsackely.

What he said, Mo was the catalyst to the modern game but wasn't able to cope with the modern game that he visioned.

Couldnt have put it better myself.

Mo has done more for British RL than any other man since they split the codes. Everything good in the last quarter of a century was down to him.

but what did he do for wigan

I guess I'm imagining that I'm reading this question. Because you just can't be for real.

The only way you can be serious is if you are quite young and only saw the bad state he left us in.

However, if thats true then mate you seriously need to do some research on how we got to our glory period. Or maybe read this thread?????

It's sig material.
I can only hope a- he's a wind up merchant or b-he's talking about Wigan Latics.

What did Moses do for the Jews?

I beg you to find out what ML did for Wigan ASAP.

Whatever people want to say about Mo there are a couple of things not to ignore or forget.

Whilst on the one hand you have all the success and all the trophies that was in no small part down to him you also have the fact that losing Central Park the way we did was also largely down to the way the club had been run and not down to the brief period that was under Jack.
Mo did some great things. No question.
We had some fantastic times on the back of his leadership.

But, and wether some like to face the fact or not is irreleavant, ultimately that route we took was ultimately our downfall. It bankrupted us.

Despite winning everythin on offer we were spending so much that in the eyes of Ernst and Young who the banks appointed to look into our finances we ended up "technically insolvent".

Lets not paint such a rosy picture and ignore the elephant in the room eh?
Not all was well.

But on the pitch it was bloody fantastic!

Without them taking so many risks Wigan would not be the biggest and most prestigeous club in world rugby.

That is a tag you cannot buy and somehow we have that title.

We now play in a wonderful stadium and our figures will be sorted soon once IL sorts everything out.

We are fine now, thats all that matters

Lets not get boggled down with the "what if's" hey?

The Whitbread /Boston Stand was the real killer. It went almost 100% over budget, and there were no grants at that time for stadium redevelopment Then came the ARL / Superleague war in Australia which put the knife in and twisted it.