Some Latics players not yet been paid.

I believe its the ones who are out of contract at the end of the season that havent been paid. Only paying contracted staff smells like a company about to go into Admin, as it means they cant walk away for free and remain an asset.

That's scandalous. We only had one stand open that day.
Would have been better played at Leigh.

I wonder if they have charged Kendrick £55k for his charity game.

It really is like being chained to a dying man. It's a hideous waiting game, and the next stage will be worse ... because then we'll be chained to a corpse.

If push come to shove and they do fold. What happens with the stadium? I’m guessing IL would have to pay administrators money to purchase it to continue playing there. Which is not ideal as it’s an expensive dump. Would be good to redevelop it but again a big expense on top of buying it. Not sure IL would have enough

Presumably, he'd set up some kind of consortium to acquire the stadium, and would use that as a going concern in its own right: rock concerts, conventions and other stuff. We'd continue to play there, and I suppose Latics would pay rent to do the same, assuming they can find someone to buy them.

If they literally disappear though, as in go out of business entirely, we'd have a problem for sure. Can't see that a white elephant like the DW would survive for long with only one team playing there.

What about Danson? Reported to be very wealthy.

Redevelopment of Robin Park perhaps not just a pipe dream?

The best scenario (assuming Latics went back into admin) would be to revert ownership to the 33% ratio of Council, Wigan RL, Latics (new ownership). At least that way we obtain a percentage of corporate and match day revenue.

It’s not really clear what part he’s playing atm. As far as i know is a minority share might not want to put his hand in if there is no benefit

And a percentage of the running and maintenance costs which are likely to be expensive given the state of the stadium.

OT but it would be good to read something about the rugby for once in Wigan Today. Sadly they just seem obsessed with Latics at the moment. I don't think Kendrick (the deputy sports editor) has even mentioned Wigan RL once.

Cooper talking in the mirror that he intends to play on. Radders is/was in Oz. Marquee rule discussions happening tomorrow (I think). King talking about his future etc.

Loads to talk about, but we get to hear about the latest BS from the blue side.

I guess it doesn’t help when a young lad has taken over from Wilkinson and won’t hold as much sway. The funny thing is, the Latics fans call it the rugby post and think it’s all rugby news, so nobody is happy!

I think you only need to look at the personal Twitter account of the deputy editor to see where loyalties lie.

I realise they probably don't don't want to fan the flames between the two camps, but some of the tit bits from "behind the scenes" that you hear on here would/should be reported on by any half decent hack.

Wouldn't that be better than outright ownership and being lumbered with full costs?

I think he put a tweet out stating he's on holiday so no rugby news.

I remember always reading that site when Wilkinson ran it. Always got good insight not found elsewhere, he’d break stories and put a bit of opinion on it.

Now it’s beyond boring and I feel I learn nothing new reading it.

It's embarrassingly unprofessional.

For me, the layout and sheer amount of adverts make it almost unreadable. That's before you get to the dire content

Just three separate stories about Latics so far, but nothing about our squad announcement or the game on Friday. It's all ok tho because there's "key dates for Latics diary for next season". Beggars belief.

Fair enough if the bloke is on holiday, but surely there is somebody else at Wigan Today who can bang out a squad announcement article at least. 5 min jobbie quoting the Wigan Warriors article.

I believe they kick off next season with a home game on Fosters field

With jumpers for goalposts

I've got an ad blocker so can keep reading lol

The fact that the owners have gone radio silent for a full two days following Monday's match despite assurances that out of contract players would be paid Tuesday morning (and still haven't it seems) absolutely speaks volumes.

1) Surely there can't be a future for these owners going forward now, even if they wanted to. Six times wages have been missed now.

2) It seems obvious that the owners simply aren't interested (or cannot afford) to continue and are either looking to offload quickly or simply walk away and ignore. Surely there has to be a statement before the end of the week?

I'm just glad it's not us, our takeover (from ML and Whelan to IL) was pretty much done behind the scenes following the backlash of the salary cap breaches in 2006, it makes you appreciate how good of an owner IL has been over the last 16 years and especially during the tough covid seasons.