O/T Wigan Athletic

O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby fulwoodshrimp » Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:37 am

Sad news to hear Wigan Athletic has gone into administration- another club reliant on an owner financing them until the money runs out. Prior to Athletic in 1920’s there was a league club Wigan Borough and they went bust. Worrying times for all league clubs.
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby BerlinWaller » Wed Jul 01, 2020 12:40 pm

The sharks will be circling and I have heard Joseph Cala is en route in a taxi wearing his stained fila track suit and carrying his pj's in a B&M's carrier.
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby Redalert1970 » Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:57 pm

The scary thing about all this is people like Cala , Bassini and others will get their hands on clubs at cheap rate due to the pandemic

Your joke about sharks circling will sadly be the normal very soon
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby jbc.shrimp » Wed Jul 01, 2020 2:30 pm

Is this another case of a club trying to overspend their way up through the league ? Just curious.
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby BerlinWaller » Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:53 pm

The Administrator says it is a well run club with the right people in place but the new owners have just turned the tap off. The owners have only been in place a few weeks.

Dave Whelen may step in and help. His Grandson and ex WAFC chairman is DoF at Mansfield and they are really splashing the cash. Omar Bogle is on his way there despite interest from Blackpool.
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby HALMA 1983 » Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:24 pm

Serves em right the Plastic b*stards
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby BerlinWaller » Wed Jul 01, 2020 6:00 pm

HALMA 1983 wrote:Serves em right the Plastic b*stards


I thought we might have had a bit of sympathy with our club facing something similar in our very recent history.
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby al1 » Wed Jul 01, 2020 6:42 pm

I do not understand how Wigan had new owners who must have been passed as fit and proper and must have had to guarantee funding was available for the future running of the club! Looks like the EFL have some responsibility for the situation that has arisen today.
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby HALMA 1983 » Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:24 pm

BerlinWaller wrote:
HALMA 1983 wrote:Serves em right the Plastic b*stards


I thought we might have had a bit of sympathy with our club facing something similar in our very recent history.


It's a little bit more deep rooted for me and I'll make no apologies, they know why!
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby glagys » Thu Jul 02, 2020 5:11 am

I do not understand how Wigan had new owners who must have been passed as fit and proper

As I understand it more are they unfit test, e.g. Have they got any bankruptcy,financial clouds, if they don't they are in,not wether they can and will sustain the club,

Not 100% sure but I think it's something like that
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby fulwoodshrimp » Thu Jul 02, 2020 8:18 am

With a large number of clubs rumoured to be struggling financially like Wigan Athletic, it is surely time for the Premiership clubs to look again at how the T.V. money is distributed. Of the £400 million distributed to the Football League for the 72 clubs apparently £260 million is used as parachute payments for clubs relegated from the Premier League. This seems very unfair and I believe a substantially larger amount should be given to the League 1 and 2 clubs if the Football League as we know it is to survive. Apparently another 15-20 clubs can be expected to follow Wigan's example without any further financial help, and go into administration- not sure if we are one of these!
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby RedRedWine » Thu Jul 02, 2020 5:29 pm

Terrible news about the pie eaters.

Apparently they have debts of £3.142m
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby paulshrimp » Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:08 pm

Well done to RRW. Maths banter :D :D
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby BerlinWaller » Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:36 pm

This forum used to be cool
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby HALMA 1983 » Thu Jul 02, 2020 8:23 pm

BerlinWaller wrote:This forum used to be cool


Once things get up and running, I'm sure it'll be business as usual.
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby RedRedWine » Thu Jul 02, 2020 9:03 pm

paulshrimp wrote:Well done to RRW. Maths banter :D :D


Unfortunately I'm unable to take the credit for that one, received it on an email today at work - apparently from a Bolton forum.

In all seriousness I do hope Wigan are able to recover from this - The EFL continue to be asleep at the wheel on these owners tests.

Trying to recall a time when discussing trivial matters on an Internet messageboard has ever been cool? Certainly not since Keith got rid of his Leo Sayer hairstyle ;)
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Re: O/T Wigan Athletic

Postby RapidShrimp » Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:57 pm

The EFL plan for Wigan has been confirmed - they’ll be hit with a 12 point deduction after their final game of the season against Fulham. As it stands that’d put them third bottom, level on points with Barnsley but 2 points behind Luton and Charlton who have Blackburn (10th) and Leeds (1st) respectively.

However Fulham are 4th and a win could give them automatic promotion if West Brom and Brentford slip up again so it’s not going to be an easy game for Wigan by any means.

After Wigan’s 8-0 thrashing of Hull, they went and drew 2-2 with Charlton so that result would really hurt if Charlton end up surviving at the Latics’ expense. And to add insult to injury, Charlton’s equaliser came in the 93rd minute...
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