Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:34 pm  

Has wigan ever been a rugby town? Is there even such a place?

I'd wager there are far more people in wigan watch and/or play football they just don't support latics. How many different shirts do you see around town? United, city, everton, liverpool, latics and the odd other club.

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:37 pm  

I'd also bet most people on here follow or watch a football team.

Always seemed a pretty daft argument to me.

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:58 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

I'd also bet most people on here follow or watch a football team.

Always seemed a pretty daft argument to me.

Hate the sport

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:07 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

I'd also bet most people on here follow or watch a football team.

Always seemed a pretty daft argument to me.

It's the same BS kind of argument that City put forward i.e people from Manchester only support City.

Whether it's true, false or just daft stuff like that seems to stick.

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:10 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

It's the same BS kind of argument that City put forward i.e people from Manchester only support City.

Whether it's true, false or just daft stuff like that seems to stick.

Well the media still refer to wigan as a rugby town so I think we're ok

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:10 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Has wigan ever been a rugby town? Is there even such a place?
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Yes. Junction 1 of the M6.

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:13 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Yes. Junction 1 of the M6.

Smart booty

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:38 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Smart booty

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Wed Jan 13, 2021 8:08 am  

No matter what anyone thinks about who should own the Stadium and its financial implications, the fact remains that unlike Central Park , the club and town no longer stages Challenge Cup Semi Finals, Internationals, World Cup, Amateur and Schools Finals and other non Wigan games like it use to do which is not good for a club which claims to be the most well known Rugby League club in the country and possibly the world and also not good for the image of the town of Wigan still being a bastion of the Rugby League game.

All gone pear shaped since 1999 as a result of getting involved in having a too large a capacity joint stadium and a pipe dream of one man and a Council of Wigan becoming a top Premiership football town and attracting new investment to the town.

As the song says, " things ain't what they use to be".

Re: Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid : Wed Jan 13, 2021 9:28 am  

Ruddy Duck wrote:

No matter what anyone thinks about who should own the Stadium and its financial implications, the fact remains that unlike Central Park , the club and town no longer stages Challenge Cup Semi Finals, Internationals, World Cup, Amateur and Schools Finals and other non Wigan games like it use to do which is not good for a club which claims to be the most well known Rugby League club in the country and possibly the world and also not good for the image of the town of Wigan still being a bastion of the Rugby League game.

All gone pear shaped since 1999 as a result of getting involved in having a too large a capacity joint stadium and a pipe dream of one man and a Council of Wigan becoming a top Premiership football town and attracting new investment to the town.

As the song says, " things ain't what they use to be".

Surely owning stadium would enable all of those things to come back? This is my point around the fact that running the stadium can be profitable if done correctly. ONE international - based on average £35 per ticket and rental to the RFL at 20% of ticket revenue brings 175-225k into the coffers. Challenge cup semi could bring another 100k. One concert 300k, Naming rights of the stadium 0.5-1m. That's all the current losses wiped out. Then manage the ground properly for business conferences /weddings etc (When the world is back open up)...it really isn't hard for the stadium to turn a profit IMO & be an additional income stream rather than a loss.