I think you may have a point and even if they did somehow limp to the end of the season I cant see any way they can start next without a buyer with significant funds - see Bury for reference
Yeah, agree. Would anyone here defer their wages for 3 months "hoping" to get paid at the end of it? I appreciate some of Wigan's bigger earners will likely be able to absorb the impact of this, but some definitely won't.
Have Wigan got any guarantees they will see the season out? Maybe Whelan will step in? Looks to me like they may go bust. TBH they are a team I've little time for. Rugby town really. The Reverend Tiverton Preedy held no truck with the "rugbyites". One made us, one saved us. If there was a God 12 point deduction for the Pigs too.Take me to church.
Didn't someone once take the hit for administration when they were already mathematically relegated to avoid having to start the next season on -12 in the league below?
Supporters trust have already raised over 100k to help out with wages, travel cost and hotels and money is still coming in
This rule was put in place to avoid another Leeds United scenario. I can't think of a fairer way to apply the deduction.
Great effort but unfortunately, Wigan's wages are 19 million quid for the year. That's 3 months of wages at 1.5 million quid a month, with zero revenue coming in. Have to be a bloody big finger to hold that dam. Not to mention what they must owe on transfers, etc.
Think it's the end of March, I might be wrong. Others have mentioned, the deadline came in after Leeds went in to admin in the last week of the season a few years ago now, so they'd cop the points that year when they knew they'd still finish midtable.