we must face reality
- Thread starter DRAGNET
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Yes moonay I understand all that. But the point is I don't want Latics to share stadium income with the rugby.
As you say we are more expensive to run so need more money to keep going at a decent level.
It could take a good few years for Latics to get over all this trouble we might even get relegated again and end up in div 2.
But we have a better chance of steadying the ship with extra income.
Ian Lenegan has already said if he gets his hands on the DW then that would lead to extra financial avenues for the rugby.
Which in turn takes money away from Latics.
Is he really bothered about us being succesful and moving back up the leagues with the increase in wages it would bring?
Or is he quite happy to give us just enough to keep us in the lower leagues while the worriers strengthen?
As you say we are more expensive to run so need more money to keep going at a decent level.
It could take a good few years for Latics to get over all this trouble we might even get relegated again and end up in div 2.
But we have a better chance of steadying the ship with extra income.
Ian Lenegan has already said if he gets his hands on the DW then that would lead to extra financial avenues for the rugby.
Which in turn takes money away from Latics.
Is he really bothered about us being succesful and moving back up the leagues with the increase in wages it would bring?
Or is he quite happy to give us just enough to keep us in the lower leagues while the worriers strengthen?
Why should anyone be expelled morally if they disagree with you over ownership going to Pollard?
The two clubs do not intertwine, we do not want to be the little brother nor do they, cant you see some things dont go well together. We are better seperate entities, theres too much jousting for top spot and the adoration of the town and so it will remain divided as it is meant to. There are a few who support both but mostly we butt heads over the “right sport”. We argue our prem significance and fa cup trumps any sporting achievement of theirs and they argue theyre history and longevity is more important. I find them the most arrogant insufferable bunch of self entitled arsehole sports fans out there. So for that Id rather not say lets “unite” fakely under pollard, but I would rather take with me all those latics fans of 50 years and those of more recent years for they are our true selves our true contingent. We are the latics family NOT the Wigan family, we are better doing our own thing.
On a further point, they dont have the money and even if they can cobble together some 50ps we will be back here again in a few years. They are not viable long term going forward it just isnt viable financially. Unless of course we lose all ambition and aspiration and agree to the insignificant little brother status. I do not want that!!!!! Too many of the older latice lot lack the ambition, cause they know where we once came from and saw it with their own eyes. Yes its good to remember that, but you cant let it define you and I think thats sometimes where the younger lot come in. Theyre unrealistic at times but dont fear anyone. Together we create our northern stick it to the big clubs identity, we co exist as a fan base and work well and contend with one another internally but with rugby lot its different. Were just not compatible at all and it shouldnt be forced on us whether you support them or the tics.
The two clubs do not intertwine, we do not want to be the little brother nor do they, cant you see some things dont go well together. We are better seperate entities, theres too much jousting for top spot and the adoration of the town and so it will remain divided as it is meant to. There are a few who support both but mostly we butt heads over the “right sport”. We argue our prem significance and fa cup trumps any sporting achievement of theirs and they argue theyre history and longevity is more important. I find them the most arrogant insufferable bunch of self entitled arsehole sports fans out there. So for that Id rather not say lets “unite” fakely under pollard, but I would rather take with me all those latics fans of 50 years and those of more recent years for they are our true selves our true contingent. We are the latics family NOT the Wigan family, we are better doing our own thing.
On a further point, they dont have the money and even if they can cobble together some 50ps we will be back here again in a few years. They are not viable long term going forward it just isnt viable financially. Unless of course we lose all ambition and aspiration and agree to the insignificant little brother status. I do not want that!!!!! Too many of the older latice lot lack the ambition, cause they know where we once came from and saw it with their own eyes. Yes its good to remember that, but you cant let it define you and I think thats sometimes where the younger lot come in. Theyre unrealistic at times but dont fear anyone. Together we create our northern stick it to the big clubs identity, we co exist as a fan base and work well and contend with one another internally but with rugby lot its different. Were just not compatible at all and it shouldnt be forced on us whether you support them or the tics.
Yon Mon, you seem to think that he'd favour the Warriors over Latics. Why?
If he's just forked out around £10m (or whatever) then why on earth do you think he'd be happy to see that investment die because it wasn't given proper ongoing financial support? It just makes no sense.
Maybe extra money is from new sources. New lines of income.
Your thought process is clouded by the same thinking as John, Norm and Danny .......... that we'd be "owned by the rugby". We wouldn't be. We'd be owned by a person who owned a football club previously, and obviously has a little ambition to bring back the success seen by the club in recent years.
Any view that he'd only be buying us for the stadium is like saying that someone would go into a shop to buy a walnut whip, only to walk outside, take the walnut off the top, eat it, and then chuck the rest (the chocolate bit) away. It's just illogical.
If he's just forked out around £10m (or whatever) then why on earth do you think he'd be happy to see that investment die because it wasn't given proper ongoing financial support? It just makes no sense.
Maybe extra money is from new sources. New lines of income.
Your thought process is clouded by the same thinking as John, Norm and Danny .......... that we'd be "owned by the rugby". We wouldn't be. We'd be owned by a person who owned a football club previously, and obviously has a little ambition to bring back the success seen by the club in recent years.
Any view that he'd only be buying us for the stadium is like saying that someone would go into a shop to buy a walnut whip, only to walk outside, take the walnut off the top, eat it, and then chuck the rest (the chocolate bit) away. It's just illogical.
