Wigan chairman Ian Lenagan and General Manager Kris Radlinski conducted a fans’ forum a couple of weeks where they not only spoke out about the problems facing the club, but answered questions from the supporters present.
One raw subject was the state of rugby league and Hull FC chairman Adam Pearson’s comments outlining the problems within the game as a whole.
However, although Lenagan was keen to stress the good terms between the two owners, the Warriors chairman did not agree with Pearson’s views in terms of the politics of rugby league.
“There are many good owners and good clubs, and Adam is a good man as well in that respect. His biggest difficulty and I sympathise immensely with him, is the rental he has been charged on that stadium is astronomical.
“It is very difficult indeed for Hull FC because they’re in a football stadium that is enormously high rental. Adam is desperate to continue to support Hull FC and does it well, he does move around a bit in his views. And we’ve been a great supporter of Adam and Hull FC for a long time.
“At the current moment, we’re not quite as supportive of the views, which is one of the reasons that we didn’t come out and agree with it. We don’t think that five million pounds should be going to the RFL, we don’t think necessarily that you could change Super League from where it is back to what it was before.
“So, we don’t agree with a number of the principles, but they’re all about the politics and the business of Rugby League, rather than something to put into the public domain, people are more interested in the quality of the rugby and whether you win or not. And that’s what we tend to focus on.
“But Adam has a lot of credibility within Rugby League because of the money he has put in and because of his passion. And because of what he’s done with Hull.”
