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If I win a massive Euro millions lottery I’d buy the club and you lot could be on the board we would never agree on anything but it would be fun, see you all in the Keynes on Saturday.
Can Donnyspage be Manager???[/quote]
442. 18 friendlies and an 11 man squad.
Anybody professing to support the rugby, isn’t a genuine Latics fan. I’m sorry, but it’s not possible.They hate us, and we hate them.
If we ever do go bust and close down, there will be parties in the streets of Scholes and Whelley…make no mistake about that.
And if the stewards are so desperate to go to Wembley, don’t move our game, just get new stewards. Tough titty.
Good luck, Hull.
You’re right. I’ve played it for the past 24 years I’m not a fan really. I hate Shatics. The Scholes parties are class when they go down. Better than the ones they throw when the real pride of the town loses.
The game will change time because the owner and chairman are rugby fans as 1.19.50 here https://youtu.be/1TNu59yRI3A shows. Why celebrate at the final if he hates us?
Personally I hope the game gets shifted so I can attend the Latics game and watch the rugby on TV, hopefully with my daughter who is due that week.
Ah! So i am now presuming the 26th is the date of the challenge cup final. Sorry egg. I genuinely did not know – such is my knowledge (or lack of) of rugby league.Apologies again egg. But i do not follow the “other” sport.
I know mate
I’ve had a,season ticket since 1982 but this year is the first time I’ve been 50/50 whether me and my lads renewed them.The more and more the board get it so wrong on every level the more I can’t be arsed. Last season was as bad as it gets so I thought “Well, it can’t get any worse” and so far it seems more and more likely that all the contracted players are to leave or set to leave only to be replaced with cheaper easy to get rid of loan players. I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve made the right choice by renewing.
One more season like last and that’s it for me, I’ll do as the majority I’ve spoken to have done, don’t renew and pick your games.
I thought the previous relegation was worse personally.
The thing is, if any potential sale of the club is ever to take place, there is only one asset really that is actually owned by the club, as they don’t own the stadium, or training ground.
And that’s the players contracts.
With how the ownerships are separate, the club doesn’t own the stadium or the training ground, I struggle to see how the club could possibly be sold. If you were a potential buyer, would you be so daft enough to just buy the club and not have the stadium or training ground? I wouldn’t. Potentially, you could be setting yourself up for the cost of building a new stadium! The club…as in the only assets being the players contracts, isn’t an appealing entity at all.
So, if we do as you say, and sell off the majority of contracted players and replace them with loan players and cheap options, when the Whelans decide to pull the plug and announce that they are handing control over to the supporters as a “gesture of appreciation”, and I’ve been told this is likely to happen eventually, whoever it is who takes over the running of ‘the club’ will be left with basically an asset-less entity.
This will mean the club is in serious dire straights, and unless some serious investor moves in and chucks some daft money at it, the club will probably fold within a year or two. The stadium will still be a thriving entity, the rugby lot will gleefully get their way, and a lot of Latics fans will be left with nothing but memories, seething anger, and regarding the Whelans with so much bitterness for allowing it to happen.
ME? I’m just going to try and enjoy watching Latics this season, whilst we have a club to watch. Within the next 10 years or so, we may not have a club.
That’s the stark reality I’m afraid..and yes, it is terribly terribly worrying.
So is it a year or two or ten?[/quote]
Ha! Read again and don’t jump in so quick.
I said within a year or two of the Whelans handing the club over.
I think sometime within the next 10, or possibly even 5 years, the club will be in trouble. I’ve already been told from a knowledgeable source that Barclays, who are the clubs bank, have placed us with their ‘At Risk’ financial management team, which isn’t a very good sign. At the moment, Whelan is offsetting the debts of the club.
But what happens after they hand over the club and no longer offset those debts? I’m telling you all now, we are going to be in big big trouble.[/quote]
Your source regularly breaches data protection laws and client confidentiality do they? Think their head will roll before the clubs does if that’s the case.
McKay as we expected gone to Ross County.
Any bets who is next.
If anyone comes in with money it could be Grigg, Powell, Burn or Power but probably Woolery first.
So that in effect is two strikers gone in less than a week and half and one friendly before the season starts. Cracking preparation yet again.[/quote]Not sure what preperation you expect? With the windows working how they do its tough to do business in pre season.
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Speaking to somebody (1st time buyers) yesterday who bought 2 adults 2 kids in the South, online due to the usual hassle at the ticket office.
They had to pay for the 2 kids as the option wasn’t there for the free kids.Makes you wonder how many people have turned away over the years due to our ticketing fiasco.
Not free anymore are they? 20 quid now no matter what stand
