Other sports surely. Mods!

Good to see him giving youth a chance its a shame other clubs don't follow Wigan's example but oh no most prefer 30 plus year old foreigners to own their clubs, when will we ever learn in this country.

I'll predict that Wigan RL have bought the stadium outright within 5 years. We shall see!

Spot on!

Time for Wigan to be relegated 5 times before that

There's only one Wigan


Latics may well get relegated this year, I personally hope they don't, but I really can't see them free-falling through the leagues ala Bradford City, Leeds United.

I do. We'll be able to buy the stadium for cheap.

OR have to pay rent at a much higher rate that it currently stands. It's within Wigan Rugby's financial interest's for Latics to be in the Premier League.

I certainly think, and I still follow Latics albeit not on the terrace anyway, that if they go down once, they'll drop down again. Bigger clubs than them have done it like Man City, Leeds, Southampton, Charlton, Sheffield Wednesday to name a few. The club needs a fortune to keep it going at a high level and clearly the investment isn't there, or isn't possible anymore. No investor is going to come in and bank-roll them like Whelan has had been doing. I just fear for that club in the post whelan era. Time will tell though. Only an opinion.

That old propoganda. Think for yourself rather then believe everything Lenegan tells you. If IL has signed up for a deal such as that he wouldn't be a successful millionaire businessman.

Don't be fooled. His GS will merely be a puppet adviced & controller by Dave.

Nowt will change in the immediate future

So I should make a completely unfounded opinion because listening to an official statement is likely to be a fabricated lie?

Surely it'll be a fixed contract. Latics can't just change the rent when ever they feel like it.

No not a fabricated lie - but IL can hardly come out and say "we want the Latics to go down" even though it may be better for our club.

Has he actually handed the stadium over to Latics? I'm sure Whelco are the major shareholders in the stadium and both us and Latics pay rent to them.

Contracts have duration's so what happens if at the end of the contract Latics are struggling in the Championship or League 1 with low revenue? The simple answer would be to charge us more for rent, it's a basic concept really.

Its only so he can boast that they were in the premiership when he was in control !

Do you know what kind of deal was signed or are you thinking too much for yourself? The simple fact is you dont know whether Latics going down will impact on the Warriors finances or not.

The best thing about these forums is the number of posters having opinions on subjects they have no knowledge on at all.

And then they have the cheek to try and put people in their place with their made up tripe.

I was reading an article earlier today (although the article was actually written in 2010) stating that the stadium was to be handed over into Wigan Athletics control. Whether this actually happened or was just another one of his "promises" though I can't find out.

I remember that , but like you I can't find anything which states he has actually done it.

Unfortunately I don't know the details. But I would be surprised and dissapointed if a financial contract entered into by one party can be directly adversely affected by the playing performance of another completely seperate organisation. That would be an unusual way of doing business.

If what I am saying is tripe, kindly humour me and explain why you think that it would be bad for us if Latics went down.