Would you be offended if a stand was named after Stan Jackson ?

[ancientnloyal]

Can name the toilets after him.

[GeoffN]

ancientnloyal posted:
Can name the toilets after him.

Naaah! That would just be taking the p###...

[im_a_cuckoo]

Show some respect, you mupppets. The great man's only been dead a fortnight.

I'm all in favour of the South, East and West stands being named after Latics legends: perhaps Stan Jackson, Ian Gillibrand and Harry Lyon. And, as a thank-you for all that rent you pay every month, I'd even let the Warriors name the North after one of theirs. Dean Bell's a popular choice. Then you could all sit and admire your Bell End.

[Fraggle]

im_a_cuckoo posted:
Show some respect, you mupppets. The great man's only been dead a fortnight.

I'm all in favour of the South, East and West stands being named after Latics legends: perhaps Stan Jackson, Ian Gillibrand and Harry Lyon. And, as a thank-you for all that rent you pay every month, I'd even let the Warriors name the North after one of theirs. Dean Bell's a popular choice. Then you could all sit and admire your Bell End.

Given the JJB Stadium is no more for Latics than it is for us, perhaps the stands should be named after former employees of JJB Sports then neither team is represented. Personally I would prefer they kept things as they are, then there would be none of the rather pointless arguments that always occurs between fans of the two teams that this thread has yet again shown up...

[Matthew]

im_a_cuckoo posted:
Show some respect, you mupppets. The great man's only been dead a fortnight.

I'm all in favour of the South, East and West stands being named after Latics legends: perhaps Stan Jackson, Ian Gillibrand and Harry Lyon. And, as a thank-you for all that rent you pay every month, I'd even let the Warriors name the North after one of theirs. Dean Bell's a popular choice. Then you could all sit and admire your Bell End.

You'd let us name a stand? I take it you are a senior figure in WAFC's board then? That's very kind of you - can we have that in an official press release?

Have none of your "legends" been recognised in the honours list? I can think of 5 former players that have been honoured off of the top of my head.

Maybe if you made a profit for once (rather than using up DW generous contributions) you wouldn't need to charge us rent?

[im_a_cuckoo]

Mate, another season in the top flight and Latics will be debt-free. That's quite an achievement when you're paying the kind of wages that Premier League footballers command,

Maybe when we don't need the money, we'll finally chuck out the lodgers.

[Sutty]

:slee: This thread's getting boring now.

Although, I do agree with what you said earlier, about showing some respect to the dead. Some people wouldn't know respect if it jumped up and bit them on the a#*e and could do with a bit of corporal punishment to teach them some.

[Fraggle]

im_a_cuckoo posted:
Maybe when we don't need the money, we'll finally chuck out the lodgers.

zzzzz....

You can make your points without coming out with this old chestnut again. Your team has no more preferential use of the JJB Stadium than ours, we are both lodgers and if Mr Whelan wanted he could kick BOTH teams out. Comments like this are hardly going to make us take you seriously...

[im_a_cuckoo]

Oh dear, should we formally put the myth about the JJB being anything other than a football ground to bed now? This is a report from 'The Bolton News' from May 1997. At that time, Wigan had sold Central Park and put some of the proceeds into a fund, hoping to build a new stadium. Meanwhile, over at Robin Park, a cheaper option was coming into view....

http://archive.theboltonnews.co.uk/1997 ... 27702.html

WIGAN Warriors could call in a troubleshooter to broker a peace deal with millionaire soccer boss Dave Whelan.

Whelan, the owner of third division champions Wigan Athletic, is pressing on with plans for a new 25,000 seater stadium at Robin Park - but refuses to re-open ground share negotiations with the current Warriors' board after the collapse of his Central Park rescue package earlier this year.

But Warriors chief exective David Bradshaw revealed that a mediator could be called in to get the two sides back round the table to discuss a sharing-arrangement at Robin Park.

Bradshaw said: "We believe in ground-sharing it makes economic sense for the two clubs to come together and share the costs and we want to stay in Wigan.

"More discussions have got to take place and it may well be that a mediator is called in to try and draw the two sides to the table."

The Warriors, currently investigating other possible sites in the Wigan area, also have the option of using Bolton's new Reebok Stadium at Horwich once they leave Central Park.

But a shareholders' group is opposing that possibility and is seeking to remove chairman Jack Robinson and his No 2 Tom Rathbone from the board at an EGM next Tuesday.

The club said that at the same meeting, they will propose the creation of a shareholder steering committee to act "as a sounding board for constructive dialogue" between directors and shareholders.

The board is also pledging to use the capital from the Central Park sale to Tesco to set up a trust fund for future re-investment in a new stadium in Wigan.

Robinson and Rathbone will also commit themselves to resigning and seeking re-election but only if a permanent move out of town is eventually considered the only option.

Shareholders action group spokeman Ernie Benbow said: "There is more to it than the ground issue. They got the club into debt and we have lost confidence in the board."

The group have approached former Wigan star Phil Clarke and former coach John Monie as possible candidates for future roles at the club as paid directors.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.

[ancientnloyal]

im_a_cuckoo posted:
Show some respect, you mupppets. The great man's only been dead a fortnight.

I'm all in favour of the South, East and West stands being named after Latics legends: perhaps Stan Jackson, Ian Gillibrand and Harry Lyon. And, as a thank-you for all that rent you pay every month, I'd even let the Warriors name the North after one of theirs. Dean Bell's a popular choice. Then you could all sit and admire your Bell End.

Too slow you Goose, line already taken.

And as for the JJB stadium, it was built with Latics in mind yes, but with Central park and Wigan RL finances going astray Whelan took control of the rugby club and the JJB was now in use for both town teams, equal rents to be paid from both teams. That was 10 years ago. 50/50 is what it still is.

You Melon.

I bet this guy is Jack Robinson in disguise.