If that's the case then its unlikely that the adminstrators could sell the stadium to anyone other than the rugby club without the council's consent, so it seems there is little to worry about if the football club become landlord, in fact if this happens and then Latics become insolvent it could well lead to the rugby club becoming the football club's landlord. Which would be a result.

Exactly, when a company goes into administration its assets will be capatalised wherever possible in the quickest and easiest way to the highest bidder. IMO what would happen in reality is Wigan Council and WRLFC as tenants would put together a package with a Stadium Trust fund (much in the same way stains are funding their new ground) to purchase the ground for the use of WRLFC. It makes no sense to buldoze a £35m stadium to sell off for land to a developer for a value of probably less than half of that figure!!.....in reality Wigan RLFC and the council would be able to obtain the stadium for probably half of its real value as even this would be worth more than the land alone and what the nearest developer would pay for it.



What would happen is Wigan RLFC would get the ground with the council for a song, while a reformed FC Latics would play in their natural division, Northern Counties 1st division etc out of the robin park arena next door in front of 500 people. Both clubs restored to their natural level and wigan get the stadium for a snip!! The sooner it happens the better

i think a lot of people are forgetting even if the latics are relegated since those last lot of accounts were printed latics have sold 41.5 million pounds worth of players and would still recieve a parachute payment of 12 million a season for two seasons

also latics players all have relegation pay cuts built into thier contracts,they are in a lot better position to withstand relegation than most clubs in the prem,theres no chance of them going bust in the forseeable future.

That would resolve the problem nicely.



I don't think anyone on here's really concerned about whether Latics do or don't disappear in the near future (though that newspaper article re. the debt must have made frightful reading for anyone who counts himself a Latics fan, regardless of parachute payments, etc).



The main issue on here is whether or not it would have ramifications for Wigan RL. Ian Lenagan himself said something at at Fans Forum about it being better for us if Latics remained solvent. So if you do stay intact, it certainly won't worry me.

it obviously makes sense financially to have two clubs paying the bills at one stadium that much is obvious

12 mil a season isnt a lot when they get 30+ mkil from tv alone in the prem.



Considering also the fans that will drop off

i assume you have facts to back up that statement.



kindly let us into a few and dont generalise.

ask yourself why a 100 million pound shopping centre was built when we already had a shopping centre bareley 20 years old has been left to rack and ruin

brown envelopes comes to mind

Facts??? you dont need facts when you are making wild accusations that happen to be flavour of the month!!

Civic reinvigoration comes to my mind.

Creating much needed new jobs in Construction and retail also springs to mind.

But don’t let that stop your conspiracy theory.

So what are we saying here - that the passing over of yet more brown envelopes would then secure the construction of a third 'white elephant' shopping centre, right next door to the Robin Park shopping mall and Asda ... and that's before you even count the real cost of such a deal, which would be the destruction of Wigan RL (as an immediate sequel to the destruction of Latics)?



Those brown envelopes would need to be bulging, I'll tell you that. Because no current Wigan councillor would ever be re-elected again.