good I hope they get back to the Prem, great for the town

Feels like the energy Lenagan and his staff had when he first took over but it’s gone by the looks of things and who can blame him in many ways.

More than happy with the energy being put in to Latics. I think the seats idea is a bad one but from the sprucing up of the stadium, through to signing players of a far better standard than I expected, the start from the new owners has been really positive. I just hope they don’t plan longer term to keep putting things in place that will push the rugby clubs nose out because it’s not good for anyone.

Always a shelf life for ownership as well as players/coaches and it feels we’ve hit that now. I suppose the key to good leadership/ownership is knowing when it’s time to go and for that you need strong people around you and not just the dictatorship that ownership can often bring. It’s been a steady managed decline at the rugby, whether it’s the awfully stale match package for try music or the general malaise around the recruitment. We all want the same thing in the end.

Didn’t know that. Either way, it’s a good deal for both.

To be honest I don’t much care about the colour of the seats but I can understand the perception that removing the red could be construed as a symbolic first step of removing the rugby.

I suspect there will be a few more complaints once fans see the front of the stadium tomorrow.

Saw it on the news earlier, It didn't look good

Correct, and if people like 100% Warrior could not care less about the Stadium becoming a total Football Stadium, I can assure them that are plenty people in Wigan who do care and see the move as a kick in the teeth not only to the Warriors but to the Rugby town of Wigan.

Not to mention, the supporters of other Rugby League clubs laughing their heads off with what has happen to Wigan Warriors.

The problem today is that there are too many who do not care about anything!

That evidently was not the meeting when Whelan did stand on the platform and stated that if a joint Stadium was ever built, it would never be owned by either his beloved Latic's or the Warriors and would be owned by a independent stadium company.

That's how two faced, Whelan was with the help of his cronies like Ernie Benbow and John Martin (Resigned from the Warriors board of directors on the promise of a extra £25,000 by Whelan on top of the £250.000 compensation for the loss of the Riverside Club in the Tesco Sale)

If Whelan had anything about himself when he sold the Latic's, he would have donated the Stadium to the the town and people of Wigan and be run by the Council with sponsorship rights of the Stadium to pay for the care and maintenance of the Stadium.

And from I understand, it is not just about the colour of the seats, but the removal of everything that has anything to do with the Warriors and the game of Rugby League, including the club logo on the front of the Stadium and any pictures of past players in the foyer and corridors, etc.

The sickening part is that like the Latic's playing squad, it is being done by people who do not even live in Wigan and a owner who lives in another country.

Apart from their supporters, what true Warriors supporter can feel sorry for them now?

I like how you’ve changed what I’ve said to I’m happy with a “total football stadium”. That was never said, or implied. But then again that’s the level of you.

I said I don’t care what colour the plastic is that my occupies, nor would it bother me if a mural of Andy Liddell was to appear. It’s never bothered me in 20 odd years. It’s not something I, or you, or anyone else has even bothered with. The stadium seating was never in our colours anyway other than white! It isn’t our stadium. It never has been, or ever will be. FWIW I do think we should have our own stadium but as was pointed out yesterday; Saints and Warrington dropped on with Tesco who paid a large portion of the build costs alongside their respective councils. We won’t have that luxury. We don’t desperately need a new stadium. We could do with one but we don’t need it.

You only have to look at how critical I’ve been of the club, RFL and SL of late and that tells you I do care about our sport. You can’t try and band me in there Ruddy.

The club logo hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s still up there. But please don’t let facts distort a delusional rant.

I'll add my two penneth in. I think the deal was Tesco would pay for the shell of the stadium and then the club had to fund the fitting of the stadium. Where the shell of the stadium ended i presume was the bricks and mortar plus supporter seating. All interior works were paid for by the club. I think it was 10-15m tesco paid. I may be wrong

Either way we got a new stadium, something we needed. Tesco got a large store which hopefully they benefitted from also.

As much as we Warrington - Wigan have a rivalry. Wigan RL deserve to have there own stadium. What did happen to all the money from Central Park? Just read it was 12m that Tesco paid for Central park....