Darwen Warrior wrote:
Where then would that leave us? You’ve got to think that the longer this drags on, the more advantageous the whole situation becomes for IL. If you can call it advantageous. The only option left may be for us to buy the stadium and have the Latics as tenants. Then the hard work would have to be done for us to make the whole operation viable. On our side of things, on average say 14k fans in a 25k stadium and with the football side of thinks, a paltry 4-6k rattling around in it. Not an enviable task, even for someone as astute as IL.
Or we could move. We may well have to.
This is the bit where your argument comes unstuck.
I agree with the gist of your post, but just responding to the question where would we go by arguing that 'it's down to IL to find somewhere' is pretty lame.
It's been pointed out that the last thing Wigan Council will want is an empty, decaying stadium in the middle of town, so why would they facilitate that by agreeing to see another one built? It's just not going to happen unless we leave Wigan, and even then it's very, very unlikely. All of this was discussed over and over back in the days when Whelan was our landlord and behaving like a Victorian mill-owner, but no solution was found then either.
There's no doubt that it's a problem. The Wigan Athletic experiment has ended. Even if they survive this trauma, they'll come back as a minnow club without a pot to p*ss in. But at present, no one else is available to share the stadium with. I agree that it's undesirable, but we won't have any choice. And we've surely more chance of making that arrangement work than we have abandoning the DW and wandering out of the borough.
Statistics: Posted by Cruncher — Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:09 am
