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| Quote Rogues Gallery="Rogues Gallery"Wigan RL has a fixed agreement in place (it's either a 25 or 50 year, it wasn't brought up at this years shareholders meeting) whereby they pay 10% of their gate receipts for the use of the stadium, but things like pitch maintenance & renovation, floodlight costs etc, are covered in that 10% figure.
As a cost based model it is a superb agreement, but as a revenue based model we lose out on things like non matchday opportunities.
Hence Wigan RL diversification and investment into other areas, which will become apparent in the next year or so.'"
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| Quote MrPhilb="MrPhilb"Who owns the stadium? If its you why do you need a 999 year lease on it?'"
That's about the land and not the stadium. Saints own the stadium; the land is leasehold. There is nothing unusual about that. |
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| Quote SaintsFan="SaintsFan"That's about the land and not the stadium. Saints own the stadium; the land is leasehold. There is nothing unusual about that.'"
We own our workplace on a 100 year leasehold, as does the rest of the industrial estate we're on. As you say, not unusual these days. |
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999 years will not worry any of us LOL, I was quite happy to accept a 99 year lease myself.
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My Mrs has just sold a leasehold flat. She'll be most disappointed to learn she didn't actually own it and will have to pay a couple of hundred grand back.
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| Quote jaybs="jaybs"999 years will not worry any of us LOL, I was quite happy to accept a 99 year lease myself.'"
You a Saints fan again? |
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| Quote No1 Saint="No1 Saint"You a Saints fan again?'"
 Yeah I was thinking that as well,thought he was a Quins/Broncos fan. |
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| Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"icon_lol.gif
We are missing the top level players that we always had. Long, Sculthorpe, Cunningham, Lyon etc were all a level above their peers when we won Grand Finals. We don't have that anymore.
I'm not saying trophies are an impossibility, but domination is not possible with the squad we'll have next year.'"
Those kinds of players are rarely around in such abundance these days, certainly all in the same team. |
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| Quote Tony Stark="Tony Stark"Those kinds of players are rarely around in such abundance these days, certainly all in the same team.'"
Which also supports my view that we're not in a position to dominate anything. The increase in both the NRL and Union caps means that the majority of the elite British players will now be playing the peaks of their careers in one of those competitions. We've seen a dumbing down and levelling off in Super League recently. So how does one club step up and dominate? You could argue Leeds are dominant, but as Sinfield, Peacock and Burrow retire you could also argue their time is up. |
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My understanding was that a lot of the grants we got for the stadium were only payable on the completion of the stadium (which is likely to be quite soon) to prevent anyone running off with the money and not delivering.
The club has needed to take out a "bridging loan" to cover the debt between the stadium payment and the payment of the grants. This could have something to do with this or maybe not. But I thought it was worth a mension. Sorry if this has been said before.
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| Quote FearTheVee="FearTheVee"My Mrs has just sold a leasehold flat. She'll be most disappointed to learn she didn't actually own it and will have to pay a couple of hundred grand back.'"
No she hasn't. She has just sold on the rights under the lease not the property itself. |
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| Quote Stinky Turner="Stinky Turner"No she hasn't. She has just sold on the rights under the lease not the property itself.'"
Well, I need to tell my parents that because they were convinced they bought the house they have been living in for 25 years. According to their solicitor they had bought it anyway and indeed are free to sell it as their own property. But there is an annual £1 rental to pay to a landlord for the land. |
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Yeah I was thinking that as well,thought he was a Quins/Broncos fan.
