He has as much right as someone who is Warriors mad and follows Bolton I guess.
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He has as much right as someone who is Warriors mad and follows Bolton I guess.
I thought you'd disowned the Latics and buggered off to support Bamber bridge or Ashton, or Man Utd.
Sure:
WIGAN SPORTING CLUB LIMITED persons with significant control - Find and update company information - GOV.UK
WIGAN SPORTING CLUB LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
You will see that under "persons with significant control" Mr Danson is listed as owning more than 25% but less than 49%.
Jonnysking
Vital 1st Team Regular
Are you still here? I thought you might have toddled off when yet another Latics owner bought you out!!!!
Frank Bullitt
Vital Squad Member
Hypocrite!
This document is in the public domain and cannot be defined as 'secret'. However, as evidenced by the date, it is in fact refering to the first tranche. You stated 'more shares' have been acquired secretly by Mr Danson. Show us the evidence rather than this bluster and innuendo regarding your suspicions about Mr Danson.Sure:
WIGAN SPORTING CLUB LIMITED persons with significant control - Find and update company information - GOV.UK
WIGAN SPORTING CLUB LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity
You will see that under "persons with significant control" Mr Danson is listed as owning more than 25% but less than 49%.
garyteale
Vital Youth Team
Only just catching up on the boards after a week or so away and Jesus christ there is some shite being spouted on this post.
Don't get me wrong I'm not a lover of the rugby but a month or so ago we were pretty much facing watching us start the season on the field at the side of the soccer dome.
We've been saved by what could be described as the perfect owner, a local man who has done well and wants to see the town in general do well in both sports as well as make us sustainable and give out club a future for our children and theirs in turn.
We've both been owned by the same owner before and it's not caused us any harm. Even if we did end up with a game or 2 moved which already happens since Sky have all the clubs by the bollocks not to mention on police advice etc is it really the end of the world. If this helps us with the costs of the stadium which is lets face it a big financial burden then so be it.
Don't get me wrong I'm not a lover of the rugby but a month or so ago we were pretty much facing watching us start the season on the field at the side of the soccer dome.
We've been saved by what could be described as the perfect owner, a local man who has done well and wants to see the town in general do well in both sports as well as make us sustainable and give out club a future for our children and theirs in turn.
We've both been owned by the same owner before and it's not caused us any harm. Even if we did end up with a game or 2 moved which already happens since Sky have all the clubs by the bollocks not to mention on police advice etc is it really the end of the world. If this helps us with the costs of the stadium which is lets face it a big financial burden then so be it.
springy-park
Vital 1st Team Regular
Mr. Danson owns 100% of BOTH Clubs,
he will want both clubs to be self-supporting in the future,
he will not throw money about like Al Jasmi and Talal,
which got us on the verge of extinction!
It's 'cheaper' to run a rugby league club than a football club,
especially at Championship level, there will be 'arguments' about him spending more money on Latics than the Warriors,
but there will never be 'equality' in spending on both clubs,
unless we follow Accrington Stanley wages,
Accrington Stanley total wage bill for 2023 is:
£1,622,920 per year.
£31,210 per week.
The highest earning player in the squad is Ethan Hamilton earning £2,300 per week.
Wigan Athletic (Championship)
Total Gross Salaries for the 2022-2023 Season
£7,899,320 per year.
£151,910 per week.
Sky Sports:
The Betfred Super League salary cap has been frozen at £2.1m for the fifth year in a row,
he will want both clubs to be self-supporting in the future,
he will not throw money about like Al Jasmi and Talal,
which got us on the verge of extinction!
It's 'cheaper' to run a rugby league club than a football club,
especially at Championship level, there will be 'arguments' about him spending more money on Latics than the Warriors,
but there will never be 'equality' in spending on both clubs,
unless we follow Accrington Stanley wages,
Accrington Stanley total wage bill for 2023 is:
£1,622,920 per year.
£31,210 per week.
The highest earning player in the squad is Ethan Hamilton earning £2,300 per week.
Wigan Athletic (Championship)
Total Gross Salaries for the 2022-2023 Season
£7,899,320 per year.
£151,910 per week.
Sky Sports:
The Betfred Super League salary cap has been frozen at £2.1m for the fifth year in a row,
I keep reading these stories about both clubs being owned by the same person all the time,Who was this as I don't remember it? I'm right behind the Danson takeover by the way so this question isn't a criticism just cannot remember
TRUE BELIEVER
Vital Football Hero
Whelan owned both clubs until he sold his shares to Lenegan at the end of 2007.
RLFANS.COM - Latics in administration - Lenagan leading bid
RLFANS.COM - The World's Most Popular Rugby League Website
Wed Jun 14, 2023 10:20 pm
I'll just post this for the record now to relate to in a few months time when others try to revise history
Danson "may"
I had seen on a thread on here the "fact" that Mr Danson currently held 25% of Wigan warriors, which we can both see wasnt correct.
On checking back, I found that the poster was one Mr Frank Bullitt, master of bullshit, propaganda and lies.
Apologies.
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jeffs right
Vital Football Hero
Yes he certainly did. Saved the Worriers and brought them to the stadium because they had nowhere to play. Also dragged the Worriers fans there kicking and screaming. Those fans must be so grateful to Mr Whelan.
Edited to re-instate the airbrushing of history.
jeffs right
Vital Football Hero
I did airbrush the history pal. I missed the bit about the success that lot had with money they didn't have forcing the sale of Central Park to pay off debts before Whelan's act of kindness bailed them out.
Yea I remember that they owed a fortune jack robinson wasn't it well twice now a latics owner has bought the rugby owt
Do we own Robin Park arena as well now
Third Avenue
Vital Youth Team
Nobody rewrites history more than Wigan rugby fans many of whom are still in denial over the circumstances surrounding the sale of Central Park and the subsequent lifeline thrown to them by Whelan, so much so that I have in the past posted on other forums a chronological sequence of events to correct their deluded views on what really took place.
Jonnysking
Vital 1st Team Regular
Perhaps you could post it on here for 'pie-eater aka Mutty' to read.
Third Avenue
Vital Youth Team
The Sale of Central Park
The introduction and move to summer rugby in 1996 saw Wigan become emerged in financial difficulty. They had built up debts of £3 million and the club’s board members decided the answer to the financial problems was to sell Central Park.
Local Businessman Dave Whelan, owner of Wigan Athletic Football Club, wanted to buy Central Park and have Latics share the ground with the Warriors. He offered £4.5m for the ground and pledged to spend a further £12.5m to turn it into a 20,000 all seater stadium for both clubs. Shareholders had voted for the idea but the Wigan board had another offer to consider from the Tesco Supermarket chain, which was rumoured to be closer to £10 million. If the Tesco offer was accepted, Wigan would be homeless. The idea was that Wigan would share with Bolton Wanderers’ new Reebok Stadium, which at the time was being built.
Central Park was the historic home of Wigan Rugby League and the fans were outraged at the suggestion of Wigan moving four miles out of town to Bolton’s Reebok Stadium.
In late February 1997 news emerged that Wigan were holding talks with Bolton about a ground share. Dave Whelan responded to the news by offering to virtually wipe out the club’s debts within 48 hours. In early March Tesco increased their offer to buy Central Park to £12.5 million and news broke that the ground sale was to “go-ahead”. Fans held a protest outside Central Park ahead of a pre-season friendly against Castleford whilst other fans chose to boycott the game. Some fans even travelled down to Tesco Headquarters and protested there! The Wigan fans simply did not want the club to move to Bolton, even if it was for a temporary period. They could not believe the board could sell the ground without a permanent new home being in place.
The Wigan board was made up of four people, Jack Robinson, Arthur Thomas, Tom Rathbone and Melvyn Leatherbarrow (aka John Martin). They had a vote over Whelan’s offer and Martin, who ran the Riverside Club at Central Park, was the only member of the board who voted for it. The other three voted against as they were holding out for an increased offer from Tesco and thus seeing us move out of the town to Bolton. Following the vote Martin resigned has he had become frustrated by the board’s apparent lack of urgency to agree the Whelan plan despite shareholders voting in favour of the move.
As the month wore on over 200 disgruntled shareholders met to discuss the controversial decision to sell Central Park to Tesco. They also backed a petition calling for the removal of chairman Jack Robinson and Mick Rathbone from the board immediately.
Into May 1997 and shareholders had decided they wanted to oust Jack Robinson as chairman. A shareholder’s action group claimed the board sold Central Park to Tesco without consultation after previously agreeing to accept a rescue package from millionaire Dave Whelan. Former player Phil Clarke was offered to the shareholders as the man to lead the ousting bid. The group’s next move will be a circular to the club’s 1500 shareholders seeking support for their attempt to remove Mr Robinson and his vice-chairman Tom Rathbone at an Emergency General Meeting on May 20.
A week before the shareholder’s EGM, Wigan unveiled details of a proposed new super stadium. But critics of the board feared that if the team moved out of town to Bolton Wanderers’ new stadium at Horwich they will never return to Wigan. Robinson had met the shareholders’ action group that week but their spokesman Ernie Benbow said at the time that “he was unable to give any categorical assurances about a site in Wigan.”
At the same time Dave Whelan unveiled plans to build a new 25,000 seater stadium for Wigan Athletic at Robin Park but he refused to open ground share negotiations with the Wigan board after the collapse of his Central Park rescue package earlier this year.
On 20th May Wigan shareholders held the EGM and Jack Robinson survived, for now. Robinson won a vote of confidence 484 to 400 while fellow board member, Rathbone held on by 489 to 407. So, Robinson was still chairman but Wigan was still homeless. The wrangling was far from over.
June 1997 saw the Wigan team embark on month long trip down under for the World Club Challenge. The trip had quietened the ground move saga but as they returned Jack Robinson faced a new vote of confidence from the shareholders. A newspaper reported that an associate gathered proxy votes for the original EGM in May by fraudulent methods. The paper claimed someone was instructed to fill in forms for shareholders who were believed to have died so they could be used as votes in favour of the two Wigan directors. Robinson reacted by saying “They (the claims) are totally untruthful. This is just part of a smear campaign which has been going on by a certain group of people who want me out of the club.”
On August 19th 1997 Jack Robinson and Tom Rathbone resigned from the Wigan board. Then Wigan Coach Eric Hughes revealed that the pair had their homes damaged and their lives threatened. Following the resignations the Rugby Football League’s financial department were called in by the club to investigate its cash flow position. Arthur Thomas was the only remaining board member left so it was he who became temporary chairman. With Robinson gone John Martin, who earlier had resigned from the board, offered to ease the club’s financial problems with a £750,000 interest free loan. But the offer was conditional on the Warriors staying in Wigan and rejecting a temporary move to Bolton. He made the offer to bide the club time to negotiate a deal to move to the proposed Robin Park stadium with Wigan Athletic on a permanent basis.
It was finally announced on October 29th 1997 that Wigan would not be moving to the Reebok Stadium. Mike Nolan, who owned finance and car leasing businesses in Wigan, took over as chairman of the club from Arthur Thomas. He was joined on the board by John Martin who returned after his row with the old regime. Tesco agreed to let the Warriors stay on at Central Park until the end of 1999, when they would then join up with Wigan Athletic at their new stadium which was about to be built at Robin Park.
This article was posted on the “Cherry and White Independent Wigan RLFC Website” as part of an article documenting the life and times of Wigan RLFC at Central Park.
