Can't agree more, its quite sad and pathetic how upset some fans are over Latics winning the FA Cup.



Quite sad how it bothers you so much, and your no different to some of the Latics fans that people are bitching about on here. Hate to tell you but what they did this weekend will always be one of the greatest ever achievements for our town.

Firstly congrats to the Latics. But this post is about DW. Just because he hopes the Warriors do well doesn't make him such a hero. The guy only thinks about himself and profit. Because of him we don't own our stadium, and play in one named after him. Also thinking of the town he has wiped a top union team off the face of the earth in Orrell. What other chairman has paraded themselves before an FA cup final taking lime light of Martinez. He's not got anyone in mind only himself.

Surely that's Jack Robinson & Maurice Lyndsay's fault? It was there mismanagement that cost us our stadium. We wouldn't have anywhere to play if it wasn't for Whelan.

They sold the club to Wheelan after making it the Greatest RL club the world will ever see! I was still young and ignorant to a clubs finance in 99. I'm sure he would have still made a profit at Central Park.

This is a very good counter argument.

Totally with you on this one.

Central Park was in the dark ages as a stadium. Look how much money Odsal and Knowsley Road cost their teams. We're at a state of the art stadium that costs us very little in monetary terms.

I'm no fan of Whelan and I'm not particularly happy about the way Orrell went, but I can't pin this one on him.

As a United fan and a Wiganer, I'm delighted with Saturday's result though.

Then I suggest you do a bit of research into what the club's finances were like at that time. In any case, we didn't sell to Whelan, we sold to Tesco, to pay off the debts. The board actually turned down an offer from Whelan to redevelop Central Park instead of selling it.

Thanks for the knowledge Geoff. No research needed now. I cant recall Tescos owning the club though. The whole of Wigan knows that the land was sold to them!!! This doesn't change my opinion on DW. Maybe he'll let you have a picture with the FA and Challenge Cup(fingers crossed) for sticking up for him. But he would probably charge you for that.

Does anyone honestly believe that Whelan would have redeveloped Central Park?
Bearing in mind the over-run in cost of the Whitbread / Boston stand, I honestly believe that Whelan would have sold Central Park to Tesco, pocketed the profits and still moved to a new ground.

That's the way he has always done business, bought low and sold high.

It's an interesting one I have to admit.

Could he have gotten away with doing at Central Park what he did at Edge Hall Road?

If memory serves me right the Wigan RL board were on the verge of taking the Rugby club to play their games at the Reebok, love him or hate him if it weren't for Dave Whelan there wouldn't be a professional RL club in Wigan today.

His book is very interesting on the subject of who sold Central park, one or two of you should give it a read, it may just surprise you!

I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of his mouth tbh.

Wasn't that only for a short time until our own,new rugby stadium was built??

Yes but where would that have been built?

The council were determined that only one stadium was to be built for the use of both clubs.

Well does this mean that there is now no problem with c/cup or play off matches for us !

Back in your box wigan

the town is all ours

Any takers on bournemouth away on a tuesday night?

Don't come back Latics.

Just in case nobody is aware of this but Dave Whelan broke his leg in the 1960 FA Cup Final.

Bye bye Latics!

I reckon that this evening is a suitable time to draw a line and move on from any irrational hatred of our fellow inhabitants.

Really"..."..".............first I have heard of it

Martinez, mccarthy, kone, mcmanaman, maloney, al habsi, will all be playing in the prem next year

time to start to bring all these young wigan lads through.....

Oh wait a minute

I certainly don't hate the Tics but I do think there will be a bit of a shift in thought process re The Warriors at the DW and I will be interested to see what happens next football season, they have definately been punching above their weight, very hard to go straight back up.
Is it good for us or not ?

I think it's a shame for Lattics to go down, having two top flight sporting teams in the town is a good thing. Yes the RL club need to share, but the football team haven't been the problem.

The problem has been DW. As pointed out earlier, he stole the limelight in the FA cup and I can't believe was on TV tonight talking about how Wigan Boy's club turned his life around and he was gutted when it closed - but not enough to actually do anything like put some cash in. He is a typical self serving and self promoting nice guy, no doubt his current drive is to show how much of a nice guy he is an become Sir W. I really hope that this doesn't happen.