For all of you who want us to have our own ground of seems that Bolton Wanderers are going belly up. Just inside the Borough and with a whole new demographic to explore.


P.S I apologize in advance.

Apology not accepted

It's definitely not in the borough though

We went through this over 20 years ago when CP was being sold and we'd then no ground.
The wisdom then was that BW's stadium was not in the borough of Wigan.

So what? NRL teams play all over the place. Swinton play at Sale, Salford play at Eccles, etc.

Moving out of Wigan and taking on a big stadium ourselves rather than playing in Wigan with another big sports side helping foot the bill sounds like a great idea.

Middlebrook is in Horwich, Horwich is in Bolton borough. I would love us to have our own stadium but in Wigan and of our own making. DW is a better option than BW.

Sorry folks but I just could not resist lighting the blue touch paper. The very idea that we would want to take on a white elephant stadium which would alienate much of our support is likely to wind most supporters up but I had hoped to get a reaction from the " better off without the football" brigade or Fexit

as I like to call them.

Have Orrell moved into the DW too?

Believe me I'm not latics fan, but I'd rather have two clubs footing the bill, particularly as our attendances seem to be falling even with on field success.

I was simply pointing out that the location of the BW stadium shouldn’t be much of an impediment.

We'll either be playing out of a redeveloped Robin Park or will buy the DW when the Chinese owners walk away and Latics sink faster than Bury

Pretty sure I saw it written somewhere that the Chinese had made a financial assessment before going in for Latics and part of their conclusion was that without the rugby club at the DW, the deal wasn't viable.

I'll never feel as home at the DW as I did at Central Park, but we are where we are, the current arrangement seems to favour us (now that Whelan has gone) and the silly fantasy some Latics fans had that Wigan RL were continually about to be shown the door is now history.

A move to Bolton would be pointless and probably too expensive. Also, it wouldn't win us many friends as it would probably mean the Latics would be done for. Not that I care too much about them, but we don't need enemies.