Also just seen that he doesn't think that it is the Swiss owners rumour that was going around either. So if he is to be believed then it could literally be anybody as it doesn't seem to have made it to public knowledge.

Does worry me as a Rugby fan only, just hope the new owners are fair and see the benefit of a good relationship with the Rugby.

Reckon we can assume there's been no bidding war, would be difficult to keep that quiet.
Hopefully whoever it is is pretty local and wants to work with. us and not carry on with all the blue seats garbage

It says that ticket office is closed today due to unforseen circumstances

I think the big question atm is whether these potential new owners have any credibility. At the moment this is just a proposal being put forward by the current owners (who have failed to back up plenty of big claims in recent months). The EFL will be equally keen to avoid further embarrassment - their 'fit and proper' assessment doesn't seem to be working too well these days.

I saw that tweet but was under the impression that Wigan RL sold their tickets via Robin Park now?

Away Tickets

So, this is the bloke currently going through the attempted takeover of the Latics Confirmed by Paul Kendrick the Wigan Today Latics reporter https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/footba ... ic-4170158 https://twitter.com/SSTInvesting/status ... 3463233536 actually no words.

So, this is the bloke currently going through the attempted takeover of the Latics Confirmed by Paul Kendrick the Wigan Today Latics reporter https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/footba ... ic-4170158 https://twitter.com/SSTInvesting/status ... 3463233536 actually no words.

Quote ="BoredWiganer"So, this is the bloke currently going through the attempted takeover of the Latics Confirmed by Paul Kendrick the Wigan Today Latics reporter https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/footba ... ic-4170158 https://twitter.com/SSTInvesting/status ... 3463233536 actually no words.'" Just read that twitter thread, I'm actually stunned. Fool me once, fool me twice.... but three times?

Quote ="BoredWiganer"So, this is the bloke currently going through the attempted takeover of the Latics Confirmed by Paul Kendrick the Wigan Today Latics reporter https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/footba ... ic-4170158 https://twitter.com/SSTInvesting/status ... 3463233536 actually no words.'" Just read that twitter thread, I'm actually stunned. Fool me once, fool me twice.... but three times?

It was the reaction to last night's statement that just blows you away. The current owners (who aren't trusted due to constant lies) are trusted by the fanbase in saying they've found a fit and proper alternative to sell to. Then the egotistical rants return - 'throw them out', 'increase the rent', 'blue seats' etc etc. When the hatred for another club (in another bloody sport!) exceeds the desire to save the club from extinction and stabilise...

Why would you trust the current owners to find someone suitable? At least when in administration there is in theory someone acting in their best interests.

Quote ="BoredWiganer"So, this is the bloke currently going through the attempted takeover of the Latics Confirmed by Paul Kendrick the Wigan Today Latics reporter https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/footba ... ic-4170158 https://twitter.com/SSTInvesting/status ... 3463233536 actually no words.'" "Ikarrntspeyk"

Quote ="BoredWiganer"So, this is the bloke currently going through the attempted takeover of the Latics Confirmed by Paul Kendrick the Wigan Today Latics reporter https://www.wigantoday.net/sport/footba ... ic-4170158 https://twitter.com/SSTInvesting/status ... 3463233536 actually no words.'" "Ikarrntspeyk"

Well should be no problem passing the EFL fit and proper test then

Those type of Latics fans just do not learn. Surely now is the time to show some humility and to be sensible and if a takeover takes place, the overriding emotion should be relief and a sense of realism, in saying that they simply have to work with the rugby club, to make things work and to bring the clubs closer together. People know I support both but I was open on here a couple of weeks back, that those type of Latics fans knock me sick. Their first reaction always seems to be one of trying to flex their muscles and claim a position of power.

Ultimately I’m still extremely worried about the position of the football club. This kid looking to take over sounds like a crook and looks unlikely to pass the fit and proper persons tests (which is saying something, given how shambolic that process is).

Latics have been though this a few times now and always seem to come out the other end worse. I just get more and more baffled in how they let their hate for the rugby cloud all logic and have a severe detest for things that would honestly be the best scenario for their club, to the point where i see many claim that if Lenagan and Danson were to be involved in running their club, then they would abandon being fans all together.

After the carcrash that has been the last 5ish years for them, would Lenagan and Danson really be such a bad scenario?

Lenagan has knowledge of football and has been involved in other clubs in the past, and also the EFL itself. An owner with a passion for sports, football and the town is something Latics fans are crying out for, Lenagan seems to tick all of them boxes along with being a proven, stable owner of other sports teams.

Latics fans are calling out for somebody who has the money to provide financial stability long term for the club and preferably somebody with local ties is something i am frequently seeing stated (understandibly after a string of dodgy, self serving foreign owners). Danson is literally the richest Wiganer there is (surely) and could provide all those things, plus already maintains a working relationship in a sporting environment with the guy who ticks all the other boxes that Latics fans want (Lenagan).

At what point do the Latics fans stop cutting off their noses to spite their faces, put aside past grieviences (that just come across as childish and petty to be honest) and accept what xould possibly be the best possible scenario for them and is sitting right under their noses. Irregardless of whether it is even a valid option, and whether both Lenagan and Danson are even interested, i couldn't imagine being a fan of a sports club and being so disgusted by the prospect.

It just comes across as so weird from an outsiders perspective.

The belief amongst Latics fans that the rugby have always tried to put them out of business. Now that Latics have the upper hand with regards to the stadium they don't want to let go out that "power" and most of them have this conspiracy theory that IL would kick them out the stadium and leave them to die.

As you say, IL would be the perfect owner (or chairman) as he would keep the spending within budget and if he did overspend it would be a very manageable amount.

Baffles me at times as I'm sure it does NK.

Yes i have seen that one too about the kicking them the stadium, mind blowing thought process and pure paranoia

But yes i am sure Lenagan and Danson would be so much worse than the absolute chancer that is currently trying to buy them out. Maybe they would be better with the pop man.

Grown men hounding the Wigan evening post reporter BEGGING that it wasn’t IL being the new bidder.

Very very strange set of people.

Lenagan can't win with this lot.

Puts a bid in - "Dirty rat, only after the stadium, that's me done with them".

Doesnt put a bid in - "Knew we were desperate, on our knees and refused to help. Left it late cause he only wants the stadium anyway".

I’d love it if Lenagan pulled something together with the likes of Danson and anybody else with a genuine interest in the club and the town (and some money). I just want stability and he’d bring that. I’m more than happy to follow the club in league one/two for the next however many years, as long as it’s sustainable and you’re not wondering when the next crisis will hit. The fact that the element of Latics fans who hate Lenagan and anything at all to do with the rugby, would walk away is fine by me. Their attitudes hold the club/town back.

If the Latics fans that hate the rugby leave there'll only be about 5 of you left won't there?

Probably



In truth I just mean the real morons on social media and any others that aren’t clever enough to be sensible. Plenty of Latics fans aren’t in that bracket and if they were promised local, stable ownership, I think they’d take it (or at least warm to it in time).

Danson to own WAFC would be a result for both clubs, as long as the football club was run within its means. Latics (and football in general) have lived beyond their means for far too long, and any league club who cannot function with a 10,000 crowd needs to properly self-reflect on why this is the case, ask itself questions it really doesnt want to answer, such as "Why are we paying £15k a week for third rate footballers".

If the next ownership means they end up playing kids, getting beat and hovering around the bottom of L1 or L2, but still playing, then the Latics fans should see it as a result. Nobody in their right mind is going to bankroll this basket case of a club any more.

Perhaps they need to start saying it then instead of letting the baboons keep controlling their club's public image.

By the way, there is no possibility of IL or MD even touching Latics. You need to tell that to these mysteriously invisible Latics fans who might warm to Wigan in time.

They're now going to reap the good will they've sown. And that adds up to nothing.

Like this fella? https://twitter.com/DannyAinscough7/sta ... kZR_Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/DannyAinscough7/sta ... GY4FQ&s=19

Like this fella? https://twitter.com/DannyAinscough7/sta ... kZR_Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/DannyAinscough7/sta ... GY4FQ&s=19

Quote ="MattyB"Like this fella? https://twitter.com/DannyAinscough7/sta ... kZR_Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/DannyAinscough7/sta ... GY4FQ&s=19'" Yet another Saints fan who supports Latics. Makes it all a lot more understandable, and me even less sympathetic.

Quote ="MattyB"Like this fella? https://twitter.com/DannyAinscough7/sta ... kZR_Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/DannyAinscough7/sta ... GY4FQ&s=19'" Yet another Saints fan who supports Latics. Makes it all a lot more understandable, and me even less sympathetic.

Seems my post has now been used on a Latics Forum
Thanks to the guy who copied it, and I realise the good intentions of what you intended. I obviously left a lot of detail about stuff out of the above as it was already a boring enough post

However, because I didn't erect some kind of Shrine to DW in my post it appears I'm now an "Ungrateful Grade A F*****g A*****le" amongst other things
And even funnier, because he called me a respected "Board member" (I'll let you judge the respected bit!) they've now gone off on one and think I'm a director/Board member of the actual club!
I'm sure that'll get spun over the next few years, out on other social media platforms and become True and given as evidence that the rugby Hate Latics and this is all our fault.

Anyway
If the person who copied my post is reading this, let em know I'm nothing more than a supporter
I have personally no involvement in the club although I do know numerous people who do work there, did work there etc.
Also people involved previously with the stadium management etc.

I know it won't mean anything and it will go in 1 ear and out the other as it doesn't fit the Anti Rugby narrative myth a lot of them Try to perpetuate etc. To give their anti rugby stance meaning.

At no point did I slag Whelan off, it seems I'm not being grateful for him giving us a place to play instead of ending up in Horwich (Must have forgot about the 11m or so the club got for CP and ended uo in DWs hands).
I reiterate
The meaning of my post was only to explain that the changeover from being a Whelan play thing were balancing the books so to speak didn't matter, income from sponsorship didn't matter etc. To becoming a fully sustainable club were in the main the books have to be balanced was a real challenge.
This may seem like a dig, but Latics haven't got to that point yet and both owners have so far proved to not want to inject enough money to cover the losses they make each year on stadium and the team (losing 10million 2021/22 and possibly significantly more in 2022/23.
Up to Whelan selling the rugby we could afford to be a bit like that, and that's fine, until its not.
Whelan left the club 5 years after their relegation and the parachute payments stopped, Wise move? Would Latics trade those 20 years or so for stability now?
Each to their own

But it just was a comparison to show the pitfalls of being someone's play thing compared to being a sustainable business.

PS
Latest is the council should buy the stadium and give it to Latics, just like they "Gave" Robin Park and Taxpayers money to the rugby.
More revisionist made up clap trap.
The real truth doesn't fit the agenda again though

For those who do have a peek on said board, it is now debatable of they hate their own Supporters Club more than the Rugby now

Edit - when a few people have called for conciliation between the fans, a few of them have said they would but don't think we will as basically we hate them more than they hate us
Some (and I mean some who infect a few more) are really deluded.