FORUMS FORUMS






RLFANS.COM
Celebrating
25 years service to
the Rugby League
Community!

   WWW.RLFANS.COM • View topic - IL maps out future of the club
MattyB 
RankPostsTeam
Club Owner20302
JoinedServiceReputation
Mar 06 200321 years104th
OnlineLast PostLast Page
27th Mar 24 17:5327th Mar 24 11:13LINK
Milestone Posts
20000
25000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Signature
WIGAN RLFC - SL ERA

WORLD CLUB CHAMPIONS 2017 & 2024

SUPER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 1998, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018 & 2023

CHALLENGE CUP FINAL WINNERS 2002, 2011, 2013 & 2022

LEAGUE LEADERS CHAMPIONS 2010, 2012, 2020 & 2023

ACADEMY GRAND FINAL WINNERS 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 & 2019

WOMEN’S GRAND FINAL WINNERS 2018

BEST SUPPORTED CLUB OF THE YEAR 2010, 2011 & 2012

CLUB OF THE YEAR 2010 & 2012




IL maps out future of the club : Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:45 am  
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... ngId%7E%7D

States that obviously he can't go on forever, he's 76.
Either his sons (or one of them) will take over the club or Mike Danson will.

Mentions other clubs like Hull KR have brought additional money men in as directors to 'share the load' which he believes is the way to go.

Thoughts?
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... ngId%7E%7D

States that obviously he can't go on forever, he's 76.
Either his sons (or one of them) will take over the club or Mike Danson will.

Mentions other clubs like Hull KR have brought additional money men in as directors to 'share the load' which he believes is the way to go.

Thoughts?
Last edited by MattyB on Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Zig 
RankPostsTeam
First Team Player1542No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
Jun 04 20222 years121st
OnlineLast PostLast Page
27th Mar 24 22:3227th Mar 24 18:40LINK
Milestone Posts
1000
2500
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530

Re: IL maps out future of the club : Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:30 am  
IL is 76 mate. He has been great for the Club, I am sure he will make the right decision when required.
RankPostsTeam
Club Coach15178No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
Jan 14 200618 years182nd
OnlineLast PostLast Page
27th Mar 24 13:5523rd Mar 24 14:00LINK
Milestone Posts
15000
20000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530

Re: IL maps out future of the club : Mon Jan 30, 2023 2:38 pm  
The only shadow over the future of the club as I see it, and this is not the fault of IL, is the stadium.

We still seem to be joined at the hip to a football club that lurches from one crisis to the next.

Whenever pressed on this, he talks up the contract we've got and how well the cost-share works, and I'm sure that's all true, but it's anyone's guess how long before the Latics' latest owners bail, and then we'll have to go through all that uncertainty about the DW again.

I personally think it's too big for either of us, and even though IL made a valiant effort to secure it last time the football club was facing liquidation, that was obviously out of necessity and not something he'd probably wanted.

I say again that none of this is IL's fault, but it's a damn shame that, despite the guy doing all sorts to put Wigan RL back on the map and onto a very firm financial footing, we're still haunted by this one thing that is beyond his control.
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
International Star993
JoinedServiceReputation
Aug 22 201113 years300th
OnlineLast PostLast Page
23rd Mar 24 18:0512th Mar 24 17:10LINK
Milestone Posts
500
1000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Signature
Everything is Awesome

Re: IL maps out future of the club : Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:49 pm  
Cruncher wrote:
The only shadow over the future of the club as I see it, and this is not the fault of IL, is the stadium.

We still seem to be joined at the hip to a football club that lurches from one crisis to the next.

Whenever pressed on this, he talks up the contract we've got and how well the cost-share works, and I'm sure that's all true, but it's anyone's guess how long before the Latics' latest owners bail, and then we'll have to go through all that uncertainty about the DW again.

I personally think it's too big for either of us, and even though IL made a valiant effort to secure it last time the football club was facing liquidation, that was obviously out of necessity and not something he'd probably wanted.

I say again that none of this is IL's fault, but it's a damn shame that, despite the guy doing all sorts to put Wigan RL back on the map and onto a very firm financial footing, we're still haunted by this one thing that is beyond his control.
I'd love us to be away from that largely anodyne shed, but where to? Sharing with the Leythers is like asking Workington & Whitehaven to merge (a guy nearly spontaneously combusted last week at the Haven game when I even mentioned the other place :SHOOT: ). Without mortgaging the club to the last follicle (Stainer's ground cost them £30+million over som't like 10 or 15 years) we're stuck with the hostile wendyball team's owners or whoever is next (have they fully paid wages to the Latics players & staff yet?). Unless someone with deep pockets arrives who genuinely & passionately supports league, we're going nowhere soon & we'll unfortunately just have to suck it. As off-pi$$ing that is.
IL's tenure won't last forever, but I do have trust in him with Rads et al to get the future properly sorted.
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
Club Captain1892
JoinedServiceReputation
Mar 30 20177 years205th
OnlineLast PostLast Page
27th Mar 24 22:2526th Mar 24 18:57LINK
Milestone Posts
1000
2500
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Signature
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Re: IL maps out future of the club : Mon Jan 30, 2023 4:26 pm  
CyberPieMan wrote:
I'd love us to be away from that largely anodyne shed, but where to? Sharing with the Leythers is like asking Workington & Whitehaven to merge (a guy nearly spontaneously combusted last week at the Haven game when I even mentioned the other place :SHOOT: ). Without mortgaging the club to the last follicle (Stainer's ground cost them £30+million over som't like 10 or 15 years) we're stuck with the hostile wendyball team's owners or whoever is next (have they fully paid wages to the Latics players & staff yet?). Unless someone with deep pockets arrives who genuinely & passionately supports league, we're going nowhere soon & we'll unfortunately just have to suck it. As off-pi$$ing that is.
IL's tenure won't last forever, but I do have trust in him with Rads et al to get the future properly sorted.

We own the ground next door, surely it wouldn't be as costly to redesign the spot than trying to find somewhere to build a new stadium on and infrastructure is already there, I reckon you could bang a nice lal 18k seater on there if designed properly
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
International Star993
JoinedServiceReputation
Aug 22 201113 years300th
OnlineLast PostLast Page
23rd Mar 24 18:0512th Mar 24 17:10LINK
Milestone Posts
500
1000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Signature
Everything is Awesome

Re: IL maps out future of the club : Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:12 pm  
The Whiffy Kipper wrote:
We own the ground next door, surely it wouldn't be as costly to redesign the spot than trying to find somewhere to build a new stadium on and infrastructure is already there, I reckon you could bang a nice lal 18k seater on there if designed properly
that's a good point, i'd forgot we did own that. would we get planning permission tho? also, is there a requirement buy out of the current contract? the Latics can't throw us out without comp., so it must work the other way round too, no?
Moot point, anyway, as neither is likely to happen anytime soon.
RankPostsTeam
Club Coach15178No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
Jan 14 200618 years182nd
OnlineLast PostLast Page
27th Mar 24 13:5523rd Mar 24 14:00LINK
Milestone Posts
15000
20000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530

Re: IL maps out future of the club : Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:13 pm  
The Whiffy Kipper wrote:
We own the ground next door, surely it wouldn't be as costly to redesign the spot than trying to find somewhere to build a new stadium on and infrastructure is already there, I reckon you could bang a nice lal 18k seater on there if designed properly


That Robin Park development is one of the best things to have happened off-field for quite some time. It seems to have huge potential to me.
User avatar
RankPostsTeam
Player Coach1248
JoinedServiceReputation
Oct 28 200617 years298th
OnlineLast PostLast Page
27th Mar 24 17:1613th Mar 24 23:31LINK
Milestone Posts
1000
2500
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530
Location
Standish - Wigan
Signature
Keep goin wit yed down

Re: IL maps out future of the club : Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:51 pm  
Cruncher wrote:
That Robin Park development is one of the best things to have happened off-field for quite some time. It seems to have huge potential to me.



Do we own it though?
I thought we rented it off the council.
RankPostsTeam
Club Coach15178No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
Jan 14 200618 years182nd
OnlineLast PostLast Page
27th Mar 24 13:5523rd Mar 24 14:00LINK
Milestone Posts
15000
20000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530

Re: IL maps out future of the club : Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:43 pm  
proper-shaped-balls wrote:
Do we own it though?
I thought we rented it off the council.


I don't know but it certainly isn't owned by Latics.
RankPostsTeam
Club Captain896No
Team
Selected
JoinedServiceReputation
Aug 01 20195 years142nd
OnlineLast PostLast Page
9th Sep 23 23:299th Sep 23 23:15LINK
Milestone Posts
500
1000
Milestone Years
0510 1520 2530

Re: IL maps out future of the club : Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:14 pm  
I would love it if we could have a nice red seated stadium at Robin Park, on the sunkissed shores of the Duggie. You wouldn't be able to keep me away, i guarantee it would be nearly full every week. A good stadium with enclosed corners, let the Latics stew in their own pi$$ 'Our stadium, get the rugby out' yada yada yada, i would love nothing more than to grant them their wish. There must be a way of doing it, funding it.
Next

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: BoredWiganer, Itchy Arsenal, NickyKiss, verbatim, Zig and 334 guests

REPLY

Subject: 
Message:
   
Please note using apple style emoji's can result in posting failures.
Use the FULL EDITOR to better format content or upload images, be notified of replies etc...

Return to Wigan Warriors


RLFANS Recent Posts
FORUM
LAST
POST
TOPIC
POSTER
POSTS
3m
Game - Song Titles
Wanderer
34251
5m
The official Leon Hayes Thread
Barbed Wire
10
5m
BORED The Band Name Game
Wanderer
55965
15m
Rd 6 I Cas A
Rockinhorse
21
15m
WIRE YED Prediction Competition Catalans Home
Uncle Rico
11
15m
Saints a
Cherry_Warri
13
17m
TV Games - Not Hull
Steve0
1378
26m
Fevround 2
Wildthing
86
34m
2024 Southstandercom Prediction Competition Week 6
taxi4stevesm
23
37m
The Bulls away
Brew
7
FORUM
LAST
VIEW
TOPIC
POSTER
POSTS
42s
The Wigan Way - New Podcast - Chairman Special
Jukesays
1
49s
Game - Song Titles
Wanderer
34251
54s
No grade A for 2025 for Trinity
imwakefieldt
19
1m
Championship TV deal
Trojan Horse
18
1m
The Bulls away
Brew
7
1m
Jake Wardle 5 Year deal
Zig
22
1m
Other Championship Clubs
Trojan Horse
97
3m
Smith - should he stay or should he go
bonaire
345
4m
Dons v Swinton Lions 30 June 2024
Wanderer
1
4m
Shopping list for 2025
Tarquin Fueg
405
FORUM
NEW
TOPICS
TOPIC
POSTER
POSTS
TODAY
The Wigan Way - New Podcast - Chairman Special
Jukesays
1
TODAY
Dons v Swinton Lions 30 June 2024
Wanderer
1
TODAY
Squad for Sheffield
AdamH
1
TODAY
London Away
Fartown58
1
TODAY
The Bulls away
Brew
7
TODAY
The official Leon Hayes Thread
Barbed Wire
10
TODAY
Saints a
Cherry_Warri
13
TODAY
Leon Ruan signs on loan
Jemmo
2
TODAY
Wardle
Jo Jumbuck
3
TODAY
Huddersfield - Home
BigTime
5
TODAY
Max Wood on loan to Bradford 2 weeks
rubber ducki
7
TODAY
Jake Wardle 5 Year deal
Zig
22
TODAY
No grade A for 2025 for Trinity
imwakefieldt
19
TODAY
Cup Quarter Final TV Arrangements
RLFANS News
1
TODAY
Rd 6 I Cas A
Rockinhorse
21
TODAY
WIRE YED Prediction Competition Catalans Home
Uncle Rico
11
TODAY
Spare Tickets Friday
Azul
3
TODAY
RL Podcast
AgbriggAmble
1
TODAY
Challenge Cup
Captain Hook
34
TODAY
2024 Challenge Cup Quarter Final Draw
RLFANS News
1
NEWS ITEMS
VIEWS
Cup Quarter Final TV Arrangeme..
471
2024 Challenge Cup Quarter Fin..
584
Easy Does It For The Dragons A..
522
Warrington Demolish London For..
638
Leigh Leopards Beat Plucky Fea..
688
Saints Triumph Over Disappoint..
660
Easy Win for the Wolves Over L..
912
Dragons Condemn Castleford To ..
893
Leigh Leopards Secure First Po..
1042
St Helens Tame The Rhinos To W..
1009
Wigan Warriors Come From Behin..
1066
Betfred Championship and Leagu..
1055
2024 Challenge Cup Sixth Round..
3829
Featherstone Win Extra Time Cu..
1177
Dragons Triumph Over Hull FC t..
1057