Wigan goes into administration
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Isn't there usually a build up of stories leading to a club going into administration 
Except Wigan had no history of note whereas Blackburn won mulitple FA cups and top League titles before the first world war. Being from Preston I hear nothing good about Blackburn Rovers, but it can't be denied they have a long and distinguished history.
The rugby team gets the same kind of attendances as the football team but it just costs more money to run a club in a more popular sport.
But there isn't a rugby team that gets the same kind of attendances in comparable towns is there? Blackpool, Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Bolton, all in Lancashire, none of them with a substantial rugby club. That and the fact that rugby has a much longer and more successful history in Wigan than football has. It's a rugby town, always has been.
The league has a responsibility to protect clubs, how this was cleared only a few weeks ago. It's not only sad but it's on to criminal. The owners knew any gate revenue would be impacted by coronavirus, something very odd about this hand over. There is a difference between a new owner squandering money over time and this. False promises by faceless shady corporation's, the security of many compromised within a matter of days. Poor Wigan, I genuinely feel for the fans.
Sorry to see Latics in this situation. But as some people have pointed out, they may be one of many to go as a result of Covid-19.
The land on which the ground is situated is owned by Wigan Council, Latics have the first lease on the land and the rugby League club is a tenant of the football club.
Before he left the club, Whelan, who had seen what happened to Bury, put in a covenant to say no development on the area, it's just for football and rugby league.
The administrator's have got to get their heads around that because half the funding will be generated by the rugby League club going forward.
The land on which the ground is situated is owned by Wigan Council, Latics have the first lease on the land and the rugby League club is a tenant of the football club.
Before he left the club, Whelan, who had seen what happened to Bury, put in a covenant to say no development on the area, it's just for football and rugby league.
The administrator's have got to get their heads around that because half the funding will be generated by the rugby League club going forward.
More so with football and rugby they are it tends to happen, there's plenty of people who like and watch both but you will get football fans taking piss of rugby and vice versa and their respective sports.
Murky murky shit, these gangsters getting involved in football is firmly on the shoulders of the useless EFL. Rick Parry should walk and the entire organisation should be overhauled.
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Horrendously racist fan base, best thing about their ground was the half time pie. Inbred feckwits for fans....
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I know the powers that be would block it but it's a shame one of the three big clubs in the North West, MANCHESTER UNITED, Liverpool and Everton couldn't help them out financially, and kinda run them like a feeder club, somewhere to put the most talented youngsters out on pre-arranged loans, and none of this one month/one year nonsense either.
I was thinking the same. It would be a great spot to send young players that are only on the fringes of the first team squad. We could loan a few together every year and help out with coaching and medical oversight. I’d imagine their debt is far too substantial to make it financially viable though. A season long loan in the championship could be the making of players like Laird Garner and Gomes. They are close to home and the parent club too.
It's far too obvious a solution, there's clubs in the NW like Bury, Rochdale, Stockport et al who would all benefit, it wouldn't even have to set in stone, you could change who backed which club every year, you could have a draw at the start of each season, imagine being the fan of one of the minnows and finding out Manchester United were gonna be your big brother for the season, and do the same in the NE, Midlands, London and the SE, everybody is a winner! Well apart from the sad saps who sit around hoping clubs get into bother so they can kick them when they are down.
can arrangements like that not be sorted out? Affiliate clubs or whatever you would call them. It would be much better than having a random club in Holland or Belgium developing our players for example. Hire a few really promising coaches for the club as a gift and stay out of it beyond that. A lot of the time these clubs are getting by on free transfers and loan moves anyway so I don’t really see the difference, everyone wins. There’s obviously a player loan limit too between clubs so it wouldn’t be our B team and they’d be taking our best youth. It could be a good spot for first dibs on players we release but want to keep an eye on too
edit: you could probably save Wigan with Alexis Sanchez’s wages alone
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Too late for Bury mate, they were thrown out of the league last summer and are expected to be officially liquidated soon.
There should definitely be an inquiry, to take over a club and then a few days later go into administration - it stinks.
Yeah remembered that the second I hit send. United used to pay them circa £250,000 a year to use Gigg Lane for Reserve matches for a while.
definitely something strange going on but the betting angle seems a bit far fetched to me
the amount of money they'd have to bet to make that worthwhile would be enormous, and bookies don't tend to take that kind of action on smaller events, for obvious reasons
the amount of money they'd have to bet to make that worthwhile would be enormous, and bookies don't tend to take that kind of action on smaller events, for obvious reasons
maybe they do in China? Fit and proper owner test. In this instance whoever sanctioned this should absolutely lose their job and the league should be held responsible. Maybe it’ll tighten things up a bit
Oh look - a flock of flying pigs
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They cost us the league to city that year. Maloney the prick.
There are brokerages who take large bespoke bets in China, but they use risk management like any bookie.
If some geezer rocks up and suddenly wants to bet a huge amount on Wigan getting relegated, who are 100/1, huge red flags would be going off. You'd have to assume it was a 6 figure bet to make this 'scheme' worthwhile to them.
It just seems a bit far fetched to me, but stranger things have happened.
Wow
<current events post> in all the aftermath of the tariff war from last year with China, bullying of the NBA, Australian swimmers and any critic, and their handling and hiding of Covid until it was too late for rest of the world; if there is one thing I would like to emerge from all this is better scrutiny of companies from China when they are either purchasing or raising money outside their home country.
There are so many Chinese corporate frauds which are listed on American exchanges and are essentially a conduit to defraud Western investors using cooked books.
Corporate Germany / BaFin isn't much better before anyone embarks on whataboutism.
There are so many Chinese corporate frauds which are listed on American exchanges and are essentially a conduit to defraud Western investors using cooked books.
Corporate Germany / BaFin isn't much better before anyone embarks on whataboutism.
Isn’t this what the fecking ownership test is meant to be for?
I’m from that ‘inbred feckwit’ town, you should be a little more careful how you generalise people.
You're from Derbyshire
Funny guy
Thats not what he said though, he said their fans are "inbred feckwits" and they have a racist fanbase.
I’m a fan, am I inbred?
