Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:50 am  

Both clubs HAVE to get on together otherwise the distinct possibility is that they will suffer badly in the short and medium term. Lenagan is no mug and I'm expecting a bit more "information" in the next part of his video on Wigan t.v.

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:57 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Both clubs HAVE to get on together otherwise the distinct possibility is that they will suffer badly in the short and medium term. Lenagan is no mug and I'm expecting a bit more "information" in the next part of his video on Wigan t.v.

Yeah watched 'part two' of IL's interview last night. Really confident that he has things in hand regardless of who the new football owners end up being.

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:34 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Yeah watched 'part two' of IL's interview last night. Really confident that he has things in hand regardless of who the new football owners end up being.

Very interesting interview pity its not on you tube or face book just to show the Latics fans that they are not being forgotten he wants to see both clubs at the DW. If you've not got Wigan TV its worth paying for a month just to hear whoever buys the ground he says they will have to honor the lease .

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Sun Dec 06, 2020 5:09 pm  

jaws1 wrote:

Very interesting interview pity its not on you tube or face book just to show the Latics fans that they are not being forgotten he wants to see both clubs at the DW. If you've not got Wigan TV its worth paying for a month just to hear whoever buys the ground he says they will have to honor the lease .

He also says he put 3 separate bids in for the ground plus sharpys building.

The administrator has point blank refused to sell the ground without the latics. He says he looked for 20 people to each throw in 250k to buy the latics but that simply wasn't feasible in current times . He also says he has held dialogue with the two interested parties other than the Spanish consortia

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Mon Dec 07, 2020 7:25 am  

Egg Chasing wrote:

We didn't do too bad on the field under Whelan originally we just used to bottle finals. 2005-2007 came about from poor cap management and coaching appointments. Once he sold the club he made mistakes with re-arranged fixtures but he was quite rightly concerned about his major investment and PL football. If he still owned Wigan at the time I doubt we move any fixtures.

Without DW there's every chance we wouldn't be playing in Wigan which is a pretty scary thought. I would definitely rather have Lenegan in charge though.

There was never any real intention by Robinson and his board to play outside Wigan. It was only a tactical ploy to try and force the Council to help the club find a site for the club to have a Stadium of his own.

But, the Council in its wisdom chose to support Whelan which has resulted in the present mess due to Whelan selling the Latics and the Stadium to poor owners, while he made for a fat profit for himself and departed to Barbados.

Some people actually believe that he cared about the Warriors and the town of Wigan when he only ever cared about himself!

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:23 pm  

He sacked you didn't he?

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:39 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

He sacked you didn't he?

A funny 'urban legend' Whelan story I got told years ago was around some lad who worked at the JJB factory at Martland Mill. Lad walking through the warehouse just as Whelan is being shown around. Whelan catches sight of this lad and notices that one of his shoes that the rubber sole is flapping and almost hanging off.

Whelan shouts him over angrily and demands to know why he's walking through his warehouse looking like that. The lad says he can't afford a new pair of shoes so Whelan pulls out a massive stack of fifties & twenties with a big elastic band around it.

The lad's eyes widen as he expects to be given a few quid for a new pair, until Whelan throws the elastic band at him and tells him to put it around his shoe.

How true this is I'm unsure but it's a classic!

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:44 pm  

MattyB wrote: :lol: A funny 'urban legend' Whelan story I got told years ago was around some lad who worked at the JJB factory at Martland Mill. Lad walking through the warehouse just as Whelan is being shown around. Whelan catches sight of this lad and notices that one of his shoes that the rubber sole is flapping and almost hanging off. Whelan shouts him over angrily and demands to know why he's walking through his warehouse looking like that. The lad says he can't afford a new pair of shoes so Whelan pulls out a massive stack of fifties & twenties with a big elastic band around it. The lad's eyes widen as he expects to be given a few quid for a new pair, until Whelan throws the elastic band at him and tells him to put it around his shoe. How true this is I'm unsure but it's a classic! it's an old one that, though I wouldn't put it past him! https://jokeboost.com/homeless-jokes

MattyB wrote: :lol: A funny 'urban legend' Whelan story I got told years ago was around some lad who worked at the JJB factory at Martland Mill. Lad walking through the warehouse just as Whelan is being shown around. Whelan catches sight of this lad and notices that one of his shoes that the rubber sole is flapping and almost hanging off. Whelan shouts him over angrily and demands to know why he's walking through his warehouse looking like that. The lad says he can't afford a new pair of shoes so Whelan pulls out a massive stack of fifties & twenties with a big elastic band around it. The lad's eyes widen as he expects to be given a few quid for a new pair, until Whelan throws the elastic band at him and tells him to put it around his shoe. How true this is I'm unsure but it's a classic! it's an old one that, though I wouldn't put it past him! https://jokeboost.com/homeless-jokes

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:47 pm  

Grimmy wrote: :lol: it's an old one that, though I wouldn't put it past him! https://jokeboost.com/homeless-jokes Damn... . got told this in mid nineties. Always hoped this was true.

Grimmy wrote: :lol: it's an old one that, though I wouldn't put it past him! https://jokeboost.com/homeless-jokes Damn... . got told this in mid nineties. Always hoped this was true.

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:16 pm  

Whelan told that story himself in a documentary IIRC. He may have just been joking but it wouldn’t surprise me at all. The old tales about him turning the heating/hot water off at Central Park when he first took over and getting people to count sheets on toilet rolls to ensure he wasn’t being ripped off may also have been myths but nothing would really surprise you.