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How do you mean ‘Let him go’ ? I thought he still played for Utd!
Yes but it cost them £89m when they had him at the club already.
Do you really fancy a fortnightly trip to somewhere like Basingstoke to sit in your £350 a season seat alongside 15,000 curious Hampshire folk?
I wouldn’t mind to be honest. It’s only 20 odd minutes drive from where I live!!
As for the rest of it – some people are clearly winding up Wigan Rugby fans who are a little bit dumb to know that it would be very difficult &/or very costly for any new owner of Latics (& who also purchased Wigan Athletic Holdings, who in turn own most of the stadium company’s shares) to wriggle out of a legally binding lease that the rugby have.
In turn some Latics fans aren’t using all their grey matter if they actually think any new owners could just boot them out.
And you are correct in saying that if a new owner doesn’t purchase the stake in the stadium as part of the deal (although I would assume for the price of £20mill that they are) then technically the could seek to relocate the club – Its happened once so there’s little the FA are likely to do about it[/quote]
Rugby fans live on a totally different planet in the main. They still actually think they are more famous and well known than Latics.
I’m with Stu on the price though. £20m seems cheap to me. Win the Euro Millions at the weekend and I’ll buy us.
Personally I hope they pay us off and let us build on the arena. 20k mixed standing/seating would be spot on
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The rugby obviously
Pretty sure that Bruce said at a fans forum that for a club like us in the catchment area that we are, an academy is a waste of money for what it actually produces.
Personally I hope they pay us off and let us build on the arena. 20k mixed standing/seating would be spot on
Not sure I like this. Whilst we have had an up and down few years on the pitch we have been pretty solid off it due to Whelan covering debts and using personal money to give us the best facilities. New owners might throw money at us early doors but how long before they fire off and leave us in the shit like our dear friends down the road if it goes wrong?
Chorley at home would be a good one for the old timers like me if they overcome Boston United.
Get to see your local club in action then ;)[/quote]
I have only been on Victory Park once for a match not involving Latics. It was an FA Cup match and I nearly got my head kicked in when I cheered when the opposition equalised. I was about 12 at the time so my Dad protected me and after a clip around the earhole from my Dad we moved somewhere else on the ground.
A few weeks after he took me to my one and only Egg match, Orrell V London Scotttish, by eck that was shite, the highlight being the half time entertainment of half a dozen pissed up Jocks kicking a Party 7 can over the sticks.[/quote]Club rugby union is awful. I’m a big union fan but only the internationals.
