Pollard now sticking his oar in. They seem very flush all of a sudden.
https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/foo...fleqCjHzlVSFCI
Pollard now sticking his oar in. They seem very flush all of a sudden.
https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/foo...fleqCjHzlVSFCI
Just write Wigan, FFS.
Hopefully IL does the business and buys the club, one for all the people involved with Latics but also keeping the Pies in a stadium and keeping them going (as much as it pains me to say given how much we've joked about them not having their own gaff)
I ate a tuna sandwich on my first day!
https://www.heraldseries.co.uk/sport...igan-athletic/
Ahead of this becoming a Wigan to the rescue story... The people behind the bid (including Lenaghan - hope that's the right spelling ) used to own Oxford United. The chance to buy a football club on the cheap may actually be the motive.
& remember our resident apologist used to claim Lenaghan's main interest was rugby despite him owning Oxford & being the Chair of the English Football League (EFL). Would be a shame if Football is still his main interest...
I can't see how the homeless ones can head up a bid to take the Latics over, it's all very strange as there's no way they have that kind of money. As someone mentioned earlier it's most likely a ploy to make sure they keep being able to play at the ground and not get battered on rent. I'm not swallowing all this "we're friends" either, neither club likes each other.
It may be more to do with the lack of rep matches full stop. We have what 3 home games every 2 years and then a world cup every 8. They are a complete afterthought which tend to be marketed as badly as they are planned, such as in 2018 a game being played at a half full Anfield, with zero atmosphere, rather than playing at a stadium they could have filled better, such as the Piedome.
I would like to reiterate that it is Lenagan led consortium who is interested. We aren't being bought by Wigan RL.
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I guess this will be resurrected very soon.
Here, if Pollard can afford to buy a football club, why can't he afford to build a ground?
Why would he want or need to build a ground. The rental costs for the DW in the last published accounts were £241K. How much would it cost to build a new ground?
Whilst a ground may look good on the balance sheet is it really worth that figure.
I guess Wigan Athletics plight will tell you. They will be sold soon for around £3 million (including the ground) If they aren't and go into liquidation then the ground will be sold for coppers.
For the sake of the true Latics fans I hope it gets sorted quickly (it will) but some of their fans on social media make you sound like Mother Teresa
What happened to the Latics was strange and out of the ordinary but that's not the point.
From a purely business point of view you're probably right, it makes financial sense but it also means you're beholden to your landlords (wedding gate) and shows a lack of prestige IMO when the "mighty" Wigan are renting a couple of offices in the ground of a struggling football club, that's before you take into account corporate/event and weekday earnings which I appreciate are zero at the moment.
And I do speak a few words of Albanian. Klloun.