Mike asks about rights regards season tickets and cup games placement.
From the club’s behaviour it’s hard to tell. They act as if not, but give mixed statements for context ‘…this is a unique one-off cup game, and having reviewed previous big home fixtures…’.
In a legal arena (over-the-top I know), if it’s happened before it ain’t unique and you commit to offering the same reoccurring deal unless a prior arrangement is made. To compound matters for the club, just last week there was a cup game when such procedures weren’t mentioned. To expect unquestioning obedience in such a setting is detrimental to any purchaser.
Despite all that, it’s going to happen. Like Chariots Offiah, I think a discussion would have led to the visitors getting the stand. But I think the difference is the subsequent quality of relationship: fans prior input would’ve been valued, creating a set up where regard is two-way.
That’s important as ‘…we (the club) look forward to engaging more actively with our fans…’, Goodburn is quoted as saying in this first thread’s post lifted from the WEP.
As for the Latics needing a rich owner. Yes. Just like many professional sporting clubs - including the RL club under Whelan, Lenegan and now Danson. If not, the previous owner to this trio shows a loss-making club may end up losing its home. Compare the Central Park sale to the football club’s spell in administration and the latter supporters’ fundraising efforts suggests they know the importance of action when it comes to finances.
josie andrews wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 4:24 am
Mike wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 10:46 pm
In football and elsewhere, the answer is always a billionaire owner. Which they now have so they're probably
pissed off that doesn't mean buying Mesi but does mean losing their seat for a cup tie. Expectations must be higher than living within your means for the Latics, but we're more used to the concept.
I want Latics to succeed & be profitable. (Don’t know why some posters seem to think differently of me!) It’s our town football club! Why do a lot football fans think they are superior than RL fans
Mr Danson could soon get fed up with all the in house fighting, with some of the die hard fans bickering, & according to some on Twitter, only bought the football club to fund the Warriors!!! Go figure!
I’m not particularly interested in football, don’t think I’ve watched a full game since I lived in Aberdeen, when I was relegated to watching soccer & RU! Didn’t have Sky & except when I used to come down for games at CP, the only RL was the CC, Regal Trophy etc on the BBC.
Nothing to do with the clubs or fans, well maybe some fans
It’s the lauding of the players who have this sense they’re Demi-gods or something!! Yes, they are good at what they do, but supermen/heroes? I think not.
I just think they are overpaid & overindulged Prima Donna’s, the majority should get Oscar’s for their acting skills!! (Which, sadly, is creeping into our game now
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It’s hard to know how to reply to this.
I can say it is fair comment to mull over josie andrews being unable to resist often talking about herself at length.
That’s relevant as such self-focus may be a symptom of the animosity between RL and football fans who support Wigan, with both clubs having antagonistic, seemingly ego-centric elements.
Which is madness when both need each other to function, as is the case between supporters and club owner.
And yet here we are whereby the OP takes several stabs at lambasting a football club’s supporters… in a thread under a section labelled
General Rugby League. The irony is delicious.
It’s the lauding of the players who have this sense they’re Demi-gods or something!! Yes, they are good at what they do, but supermen/heroes? I think not.
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