Quote ="Cruncher"So speaks a Latics fan.
Sorry ... but this situation is only going to make the dislike so many rugby fans already hold for the football club even worse. And at a time when quite a few folk were gradually warming (or at least growing indifferent) towards them.'"
What goes around comes around some would say. (those being the Latics fans there back when Lindsay did similar)
The facts are that as long as Latics are in the PL Dave Whelan is going to be an a$$ about where and when Wigan RL play. It is
[size=150nothing[/size to do with the PL as there is
[size=150NO[/size 24 hour rule. It is simply all at the feet of DW who is trying to protect his investment as best he can. The myth painted by the media that rugby cuts the pitch up doesn't help either. Personally from a Wigan RL POV the next time the media blame them for the pitch I'd use this and the Widnes debacle as proof that that isn't the case.
Anyway, there are three options available to Wigan RL:
Build our own ground
Move out of Wigan and share with someone else
Suck it up and accept that that was what was agreed too.
The first one isn't viable. The second would be an absolute travesty, so the third it is. It's happened twice in 12 years when there has been 5 and 11 days notice. Not exactly a constant issue worth breaking a very favourable deal imo.