Ourselves! go on give us a clue?

See my profile picture. I dont really understand what relevance your comment has to this thread. Whats it matter who i go and watch? I was pointing out facts

It was Jack Robinson who was in charge at the time and he turned down an offer from Dave Whelan for CP that would have seen Latics share the ground. I believe the reason Robinson turned the offer down had a lot to do with the terms of DW's eventual ownership in that the club would not get any revenues from food and beverage sales and ground advertising (or at least DW was going to take a big cut of both) and Robinson felt that this situation was not viable for Wigan RL. Ironically that is the situation we have now at the DW stadium.



It was Robinson's idea was to move to the Reebok having sold CP to Tesco to pay off the debts and Whelan was never going to move the club there.



Whelan wanted to buy CP and was furious when Robinson sold it before he could. Whether as Rouges said DW would have sold the ground anyway and built a new stadium is just speculation but the fact is it was Robinson who sold the ground to Tesco not Whelan and then eventually Whelan gained control of the club which is of course a completely separate thing.

I was at the shareholders meeting in the Riverside when I saw Whelan at his worst. Jack Robinson was on stage and Whelan came in with a few "friends" and began shouting from the back of the room.

Robinson then asked Whelan to come up on stage and make his point, Whelan declined and continued to act as previously. Robinson again asked him to have the debate on stage and Whelan refused.

The shareholders then turned to Whelan and challenged him to go up on stage.

Whelan at this point turned and left the club.

Correct, except it wasn't just Robinson; Rathbone was also involved, though George Martin had already resigned by then. The two R's subsequently were forced to resign amidst allegations of vote-rigging. The shareholders, as I recall, voted massively in favour of the Whelan CP deal, but were overruled by the board.

Irony at its finest.

Sadly you couldnt be more wrong! I wrote a Disseration on this exact subject (economic impact on a small industrial town of a relegation from the premier league) and the impact is massive! I could bore you to death with all the different ways in which the town will be adversely affected!

Can't believe Whelan didn't even bother to go to the Arsenal game last night. Instead he chose to have a celebration with the FA Cup, on his own without the players, at the Wigan Youth Zone. The poor players haven't even had chance to celebrate with it yet.

Dave Whelan is now getting criticised for doing something for the community?? we really are scraping the barrel now.

Just thought the exact same thing!!



Cant hardly have a go at him when he took the time to give local kids the chance to see the FA Cup in a facility that he has help fund four our local community

ha ha

"Quick look"



"Where ?"



"Up there, in the sky"



"What the hell is that !"



"It's a flying pig !!!!"