Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:12 pm  

Zig wrote:

Danson has financial muscle and I am convinced that he will use it when necessary.

Even more so now he’s “Assett stripping the football club & giving it all t’ th’ugby”

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sat Feb 01, 2025 9:13 pm  

Azul wrote:

Even more so now he’s “Assett stripping the football club & giving it all t’ th’ugby”

Some of the responses to the sale of a reasonably good player for 3.5m quid this week were again embarrassing (and I support the football club). An element of the Latics fanbase are ungrateful beyond belief. In fairness though, I'd say a majority do understand the position.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:01 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

Some of the responses to the sale of a reasonably good player for 3.5m quid this week were again embarrassing (and I support the football club). An element of the Latics fanbase are ungrateful beyond belief. In fairness though, I'd say a majority do understand the position.

Hopefully soon it will sink in when Latics gets to the end of a season and it isn’t all panic stations that the club might go under. I’m not a Latics fan but keep an eye on them. I’m not sure what any arguments you can have with the player leaving as he went to Luton didn’t he? A club that was in the prem last year. It does look like some money is being invested into Latics, few players signing. Hopefully you can get to the Championship as imagine this would generate decent money to be invested into both clubs. Although im not an Latics fan, I am interested in seeing what’s going to happen with the both clubs working together.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:13 am  

I'm not a Latics fan but the day's are long gone that the town is turning blue and that we are rent boys (saints fans loved saying this but now that Liverpool Womens football team are telling St Helens RLFC to change the name of the Stadium and are bossing the club around it is very funny now that the shoe is on the other foot,so to speak) that it is a joy to watch the little team that is the Tics have a meltdown when the the far superior RL team is pulling the strings.
Reminds me of someone once wrote down "Turning blue my ar*e"
WIGAN is known as a Rugby town and always will be,not some very very good pub team as is Wigan Athletic.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:33 am  

Jason65 wrote:

I'm not a Latics fan but the day's are long gone that the town is turning blue and that we are rent boys (saints fans loved saying this but now that Liverpool Womens football team are telling St Helens RLFC to change the name of the Stadium and are bossing the club around it is very funny now that the shoe is on the other foot,so to speak) that it is a joy to watch the little team that is the Tics have a meltdown when the the far superior RL team is pulling the strings.
Reminds me of someone once wrote down "Turning blue my ar*e"
WIGAN is known as a Rugby town and always will be,not some very very good pub team as is Wigan Athletic.

Come on Jason you’ll have to do better than that. How are Liverpool women bossing us around when they pay to play there?

They call it the St Helens Stadium because they don’t want to be associated with a vaping company. No issues with that given the name hasn’t changed for rugby league and it is still OUR stadium that we own.

They pay a good fee to play there, we earn from food and drink and more importantly they paid over £1m for a state of the art pitch that we play on. It’s superb quality.

So if that’s “bossing” us around then that will do me.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:36 am  

I think the only thing that will turn Jai's head back to the NRL is his family situation.

He's spoken before about the challenge of going back to a NRL club as the starting No1 especially to a club which is challenging for honours - pretty much all the top clubs have a very dominant FB in place and he would be going as an understudy. He's also a very trusted member of the squad and has a big input both on and off the field which is something he values highly.

Wigans accommodating and trusting stance on their overseas players and understanding of the importance of their family situation has really paid off in creating a reciprocal level of trust and buy into the club. It's worth far more than just the size of the pay check.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:14 am  

Stu M wrote:

Come on Jason you’ll have to do better than that. How are Liverpool women bossing us around when they pay to play there?

They call it the St Helens Stadium because they don’t want to be associated with a vaping company. No issues with that given the name hasn’t changed for rugby league and it is still OUR stadium that we own.

They pay a good fee to play there, we earn from food and drink and more importantly they paid over £1m for a state of the art pitch that we play on. It’s superb quality.

So if that’s “bossing” us around then that will do me.

To be honest I dont need to "do any better than that" I just have to remember all the sh*t we copped from you lot and now we own our stadium and a football team (womens) is telling you to change the name of "your" stadium,as for the pitch it was re-laid for the Ladies team you just happen to play at the same stadium. I get that Liverpool pay rent but beware they are flexing their muscles to see how far they can go.
Oh and by the way you being one of the more levelled fans it is in no way having a dig at you mate.
Also we need a strong Saints team and club our greatest wins and losses have been against St Helens and I cannot wait for the next games against the 2 greatest teams in RL history with Wigan beeing number 1 and Saints number 2 of course.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:16 am  

WWste wrote:

Hopefully soon it will sink in when Latics gets to the end of a season and it isn’t all panic stations that the club might go under. I’m not a Latics fan but keep an eye on them. I’m not sure what any arguments you can have with the player leaving as he went to Luton didn’t he? A club that was in the prem last year. It does look like some money is being invested into Latics, few players signing. Hopefully you can get to the Championship as imagine this would generate decent money to be invested into both clubs. Although im not an Latics fan, I am interested in seeing what’s going to happen with the both clubs working together.

Yeah it was Luton and for a rumoured £3.5m. They've brought in that fee now and a fee for Charlie Hughes higher than that and have said that they've ridden themselves of the last of the legacy from the Bahraini's and can move forward and have a higher budget next season. To me they've played it pretty much perfectly so far and stabilised the finances and the side, to then try and progress. Some of the empty heads aren't buying it though.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:48 am  

Be interesting what Danson does when the field and french era is over.

Could he attract a top NRL player with a huge salary?

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Sun Feb 02, 2025 11:25 am  

NSW wrote:

Be interesting what Danson does when the field and french era is over.

Could he attract a top NRL player with a huge salary?

It's a good question - in a way I almost hope that we wouldn't go down that route. If a top NRL player in his prime comes here then sadly it will all be driven by money. I think we'd be better off using the marquee spots to keep the best Wigan produced players here for the bulk of their careers, or to keep any future Australian gems that we've managed to polish at the club for more than a few years.