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Hi Ron
I think Jason has clarified it.
Wigan Athletic is now owned by a company Wigan Athletic Holdings, who also own the DW Stadium. So effectively the company that owns Latics owns the stadium. Because of the way company law works it is never going to be the case that Wigan Athletic per se own the stadium, just as I suspect most clubs are in fact subsidiaries now of a bigger business group.
For all practical purposes though the rugby team are rent payers to Wigan Athletic Holdings. They have no part in Wigan Athletic Holdings.
I expect it’s similar to how things work at Hull. The guy who owns Hull City also owns the Stadium Management Company. Therefore, Hull City don’t own the stadium but the company that owns Hull City does.
As I said on another thread, I think the amount of rent that WRLFC pay is based on their match day income and so the bigger the crowd the higher the rent. Whether that changes now we’ve been relegated I’m not sure but Ian Lenagan has always commented that it works better for WRLFC if WAFC are in the Premier League.
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