I live in St Helens and I have been told today from loads of people that from 2012 Wigan will be paying Saints 300k a year to play at their ground. Whelan wants to up the rent by a stupid figure and that is our solution.

I initially passed it off as rediculous, but some of the people its come from are very well informed at Saints.

It will be closer for me to go but I hope this is all b******s because we need are own identity and place to play.

Has anyone heard anything similar or am I getting stung by the ultimate windup??????????????

others will know better than me, but as i understand it we have a 50 (?) year deal at our current ground on favorable terms

I was afraid this might get out... it's not definite yet, but it's an option.

I thought the lease was 99 years,

but as I understand it, Whelan wishes to double the rent on it, making it cheaper for us to pay Saints for use of their ground

as i said others on here will know more than me..

The DW stadium would be a massive unused white elephant burning a hole in Whelans pocket. Who's to say that the football team will be in the PL in 2012? Their crowds are falling year on year anyway, 14k against Chelsea is the first clear indicator that all is not well at that club - even Whelan is massively concerned about it. Quote Of bigger concern to Whelan are the club's attendances after just 14,476 turned up for Saturday's 6-0 thrashing by Chelsea, seven days after an opening 4-0 loss to Blackpool was watched by 16,152. He added: "It was very disappointing. "I know it was Saturday night and on television, but Chelsea are one of the best sides in the world and that was disappointing and a bit worrying. "We've come a long way in a short time. When I first watched Wigan we had 1,500 people. "I suppose we're building slowly, but I expected more than we got against Chelsea."'" www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 33,00.html

The DW stadium would be a massive unused white elephant burning a hole in Whelans pocket. Who's to say that the football team will be in the PL in 2012? Their crowds are falling year on year anyway, 14k against Chelsea is the first clear indicator that all is not well at that club - even Whelan is massively concerned about it. Quote Of bigger concern to Whelan are the club's attendances after just 14,476 turned up for Saturday's 6-0 thrashing by Chelsea, seven days after an opening 4-0 loss to Blackpool was watched by 16,152. He added: "It was very disappointing. "I know it was Saturday night and on television, but Chelsea are one of the best sides in the world and that was disappointing and a bit worrying. "We've come a long way in a short time. When I first watched Wigan we had 1,500 people. "I suppose we're building slowly, but I expected more than we got against Chelsea."'" www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 33,00.html

By then Latics will be down, do you really think Whelan is stupid enough to think he can survive without the income we bring?
Stupid rumour.

Indeed. Croc of $hite.

50 year lease says we stay!

Don't encourage the lunatics.

It's a fecking stupid wind-up and you're still getting stung.

They took over this particular asylum a long time ago.

If you say gullible really quickly it sounds like raspberry

Even though this is a wind up there is nothing to stop DW having a review after a specified time period and putting up the rent

And even if he did, and Wigan walked he would come crawling back.

what a load of sh*t i live round corner from knowsley rd , i work at pilks with all die hard saints fans and present players familys(cunninghams) and have never heard any rumour like this at all

. . . or sell the land.

Spoil sport

as much fun as this would be, itll never happen DW is all about the bottom line, and you make him money, so you'll stay end of

So sad this is a wind up. How I would love to travel to that hole of a town to watch my beloved Wigan play. In fact I'm sure if we did move we could actually get worse attendances than the occupants, imagine that!

Somebody in St Helens has really caught a big one



DW is hardly going to get rid of a stable income especially when Latics are falling apart. If he gets rid of us it will just make him and Latics worse off.

i can't imagine the SL or RFL allowing it anyway what with the SL licencing T's & C's.

if they want current SL teams to upgrade to better grounds, how can they allow 2 SL to share one ground?

i think wigan would seek their own home before agreeing to move in with anyone anyway, let alone stains.

would mean more home games for both of us though

I don't mean this in a horrible way but Whelen will be dead by the time our 50 years is up.

Why not? Wasn't that the preferred option for Wakefield and Castleford?

Not that it's certain that Wakey & Cas will both be in super league next year!

i thought the only reason that this idea was suggested was really a cunning plan to basically sugegst they merge, therefore it wouldn't be two teams sharing a ground