There are the accounts from 2017 back to the year dot! Have a look for yourself how much IL has funded the club over the last 10 or more years. Who do you think will come in when the we're still suffering from a large recession?

Yesterday for the first time in many years I walked through Wigan town and into The Galleries, it was depressing to see so many businesses closed.
If the Wigan moaners got up off their collective backsides from their armchairs and barstools to attend games then maybe you would have a point, but at present I don't blame IL, he's put his money in, it's time the Wigan public did the same.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/comp ... ory?page=4

There are the accounts from 2017 back to the year dot! Have a look for yourself how much IL has funded the club over the last 10 or more years. Who do you think will come in when the we're still suffering from a large recession?

Yesterday for the first time in many years I walked through Wigan town and into The Galleries, it was depressing to see so many businesses closed.
If the Wigan moaners got up off their collective backsides from their armchairs and barstools to attend games then maybe you would have a point, but at present I don't blame IL, he's put his money in, it's time the Wigan public did the same.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/comp ... ory?page=4

Half way through writing a similar reply on a different thread accusing IFL of being Tight when I saw your post.

He's turned the Income of the club from 3million to 7.2million over the last 10/11 years
Whelan used to write approx. £1million a year off prior to that

Our costs on average now exceed our income by approx. 500k per year and that has to come from somewhere.
If IFL wants that to come out of his own pocket like it has done for the last 3-4 years then I'm over the moon
However if he's decided to reign it in a bit then that's his prerogative.

What is critical here is that the costs of the Players haven't gone down as such
Yes - signing Hardaker instead of Tomkins may have reduced the overall wage but it still has us at maximum salary cap.
How we have chosen to spread that salary cap in terms of squad size over quality may be debatable (I'm more than happy with how it's been spread and would never want to get back to 2005/6/7 days when 6/7 of our players took 2/3rds of the salary cap - A few injuries and Poop creek along with juniors going to other clubs as we don't invest in them).
I just don't buy into the "He's Tight" brigades argument.
That argument is totally aimed at IFL relating to the playing squad, so if were still spending up to maximum cap then the argument maybe should be about "How" he spends it, the choice of "Who" he's spent it on and not that he won't spend it?

Half way through writing a similar reply on a different thread accusing IFL of being Tight when I saw your post.

He's turned the Income of the club from 3million to 7.2million over the last 10/11 years
Whelan used to write approx. £1million a year off prior to that

Our costs on average now exceed our income by approx. 500k per year and that has to come from somewhere.
If IFL wants that to come out of his own pocket like it has done for the last 3-4 years then I'm over the moon
However if he's decided to reign it in a bit then that's his prerogative.

What is critical here is that the costs of the Players haven't gone down as such
Yes - signing Hardaker instead of Tomkins may have reduced the overall wage but it still has us at maximum salary cap.
How we have chosen to spread that salary cap in terms of squad size over quality may be debatable (I'm more than happy with how it's been spread and would never want to get back to 2005/6/7 days when 6/7 of our players took 2/3rds of the salary cap - A few injuries and Poop creek along with juniors going to other clubs as we don't invest in them).
I just don't buy into the "He's Tight" brigades argument.
That argument is totally aimed at IFL relating to the playing squad, so if were still spending up to maximum cap then the argument maybe should be about "How" he spends it, the choice of "Who" he's spent it on and not that he won't spend it?

wigan is a ghost town , IL can float wigan till the end of time but it wont fix the fundamentals that the RL has pretty much restricted the game with the cap.

I was a fan of the cap in the early days , but its served its purpose in creating steady/solvent clubs but its time for it to go .

wigan is a ghost town , IL can float wigan till the end of time but it wont fix the fundamentals that the RL has pretty much restricted the game with the cap.

I was a fan of the cap in the early days , but its served its purpose in creating steady/solvent clubs but its time for it to go .