I wondered if you was saying that at the time Leeds were trying to emulate Wigans success?
"Eh up luv, we don't to be following yon Wiggins example, we'll end up wi nowt!"
Rollocks!!

As for Wigan ending up flat broke ermm, our debts were around £4M and we sold our ground for £13M. I only wished I was £9M flat broke...

And as usual, they never mention the real reason why Wigan lost so much money, which was because of the extensive repairwork caused by very serious coal mining subsidence under the Boston Stand.

Why? Because it would completely undermine (pun intended) their fantasy view of Wigan's history.

Hey, we're nearly there. We'll soon have this game over and done with then we get a break from threads like this as we look forward to the Catalan game. Some of us spoke up when the Wolves thread started last week and as a result things became fairly civilised on both sides. Such a shame that normal service has been resumed.

As an aside to the Wigan posters, don't you get tired of having to tell the same truths to different clubs every week? Constantly having to correct the myths re the stadium, our history, our supposed cheating blah blah blah wears me out and all I'm doing is reading it!

I know I have the choice of simply not reading threads like this each week but I also have the opportunity to show my annoyance. For me, the best post each week is Tiny Tim's team news. Trying to choose the worst is impossible but the search would probably start on the weekly variation of this thread.

Rant over. Apologies.

Cruncher no need to get touchy just because Wigan haven't got their own ground. My comment was nothing personal but simply stating facts, if you can't take that maybe you're the one that needs to come into the grown ups world and accept you can't argue with the truth just because its not what you wanna hear.

What 'fact' did you state?

Certainly not the bit about Wigan being shown the door any time and there being nothing they can do about it.

I'd love to know if you actually understand the meaning of the word 'fact', let alone the meaning of the word 'contract'. But then you could go and look them up in a dictionary, so it wouldn't prove anything either way.

I'm sorry if you're yet another of these juvenile trolls who assumed that Wigan RL v Premiership football would be a no-contest, and are now bitterly disappointed because after years of sharing with a Prem footy side, Wigan have grown stronger than ever. But that's reality and the sooner you deal with it the better.

At one time it was only the likes of Leigh fans who used to try to rib us about our stadium. Perhaps you Leeds fans ought to think about that.

Who would have thought, that in a small town near Manchester there would be such aggravations, between the followers of the round ball and oval ball games?

Somebody from Leeds lecturing on football aggravation.
You just wouldn't believe it.

Well you keep going on about Headingley crumbling,the club is financing A practical rebuild of the ground,and lets face it for over 100 years you were all envious of Headingley the tidiest well appointed ground in the game

What I dont get with Leeds gripes is that themselves don't even fully own their own ground! Headingley is a complex owned jointly by you guys, the union and the cricket. Now correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that mean that you Leeds Rhinos do or do not own your ground? Coz to me that looks like a shared ownership.

I think what he means Rogue, is there never has been rivalry and such animosity,between leeds utd fans and leeds rl fans,both sets while they may not attend others games ,they certainly support each other,those that are loiners of course

Say what you want about Central Park...we always gave you a roof. £20 to stand in the rain is scandalous, it is compared to £18 to sit at the DW.

the whole freehold was signed over to the rugby club by Sir Edwin Airey the milionare builder.When the club was bought by Mr Caddick he got the whole complex plus the debt he and mr Hetherington introduced the newly formed leeds rugby union club which at that time were financed by Caddick,but since then they were taken over by Leeds met university,Leeds carnegie ru club have got a tenancy agreement just like you have at that ground you play at

but when we got home our feet were always wet and muddy

That's more to do with the unspeakable acts you Yarkshire lads get upto with your woollen friends!!

Dont even know your own team do you?

The RU club is the same business as the RL club. It is one Business known as "Leeds Rugby."

See now I didn't know everything but I knew that part. So how can a tenancy agreement be signed by themselves?

You need to look it up. And btw you still haven't proved that you own the whole ground?

Whoa no need for that. The sheep sat next to them as they look at this dont need reminding!

That's what you get for looking for 'partners' over t'moors on the way home.

Like minds.

We don't need to, as only a couple of months back it was all explained in great detail on these very boards!

Perhaps someone can be d to point you in the right direction....

Don't lose yer rent book!

you see thats the misconception of small town people of a city like Leeds,we have to travel an awful long way out of the CITY before we see any kind of farm animal.
If you listen to the Authentic Leeds accent its not like the yorkshire dialect,Like the dialect that Wigan speak with it sounds rather quaint at the side of the Manchester accent

Yorkshire CountyCricket club paid rent to the rugby league club and were thinking about moving to a site in Wakefield because they were'nt making money not even from test matches,Leeds city council loaned them about 10,000000, to buy the cricket ground and to safe guard test cricket within the city.That completely wiped off any debt the rugby league club had ,Leeds Carnegie is nothing more than the arrangement quins have at the Stoop.

The Manc. accent is crap but a smidgen in front of Scouse. Most city accents are awful, yours included.

I agree ,so when talking about Leeds why do you say Yarkshire?,Iwish we did speak like north yorkshire the dales ect!oh and by the way I bet if you travelled from the town centre of wigan and I travelled out of the city centre of Leeds you would see a sheep long before me

Oh dear, before Google Maps came along you could have got away with that. God bless Google!!