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morley pie eater wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 11:34 am I'd love us to have our own ground along the lines of Saints', Warrington's or Leigh's.

I believe that one snag is that, to be financially viable, it needs to be used for other events. We'd need a capacity of, say, 18 to 20 thousand. Even it was possible to develop Robin Park, we'd be in direct competition with the DW, having to underbid each other for business, and getting half each of the potential total income.

Leigh seem to do a good job of using their stadium (or Wigan Council do -whichever is the case), but the market for a 12k stadium will be different for an 18-20k one. Two with similar capacity, in one town, let alone on each other's doorstep, would unfortunately have serious downsides, I guess.

Caboosegg wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 1:56 pm

morley pie eater wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 11:34 am I'd love us to have our own ground along the lines of Saints', Warrington's or Leigh's.

I believe that one snag is that, to be financially viable, it needs to be used for other events. We'd need a capacity of, say, 18 to 20 thousand. Even it was possible to develop Robin Park, we'd be in direct competition with the DW, having to underbid each other for business, and getting half each of the potential total income.

Leigh seem to do a good job of using their stadium (or Wigan Council do -whichever is the case), but the market for a 12k stadium will be different for an 18-20k one. Two with similar capacity, in one town, let alone on each other's doorstep, would unfortunately have serious downsides, I guess.

Leigh don't own the stadium though do they? They are council tenants along with man u woman's team and youth team.