Talk:Brick Community Stadium

Trivia

Wigan Athletic actually drew their first match at the JJB Stadium 0-0 with Morecambe on 1st August 1999. The Manchester United game was on the 4th August.

Wasnt this originally going to be called the Tesco Stadium, with Tesco gaining the naming rights as part of its £20m deal to buy the former Wariors stadium Central park to develop as a supermarket while Wigan Warriors would use the money to build the new stadium. Then Whelan came along and bought the club and made it the JJB stadium with Wigan Athletic in the more dominant leadership role? Its stretching my memory back a decade but anyone have any sources to corraborate this? 86.143.190.127 (talk) 13:38, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Complete nonsense I'm afraid. The stadium was always planned to be Wigan Athletic's, built by Dave Whelan and his company JJB, with a possible sharing arrangement with Orrell RUFC.

When Wigan RL got into financial trouble, they sold Central Park to Tesco and were planning to possibly move to the Reebok. Whelan bought into the RL and brought them to the JJB.

It was always going to be a football stadium, and NEVER have I heard of it being called the Tesco Stadium - I think that may have been a joke by someone describing RL's former ground as teh Tesco Stadium, because that's what's there now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.74.109.69 (talk) 19:22, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

I remember the reebok sharing idea however the ground sale and planning application to build the new stadium were both done before Whelan bought into the club and it was the £20m tesco money that was used to build the stadium. Whelan merley redirected ownership into his own personal holding company. 86.133.227.49 (talk) 16:43, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

logistics?

If the stadium is used for soccer and rugby, how is the ground changed to suit both? Anyone know?

For instance, How are the white lines changed? Where do the posts go? How long does it take to switch between events? Could the ground accomodate other sports (hockey, rugby union, ...)?

Lots of grounds in the UK are dual use, eg KC Stadium, Galpharm Stadium. They can blank out the white lines, and replace the posts very easily, porbvably a matter of hours, so you could have rugby on Friday night and soccer Saturday afternnoon. It could accomodate Hockey or union, indeed I think Orrel rugby union might evewn have played there as an experiment (not sure about that). Grinner

I believe that top level hockey has to be played on synthetic pitches, although I think local and lower level hockey can still be played on real grass. However, I would have thought that the condition of pitches primarily used for football or rugby, particularly in terms of the damage caused by studded boots, would render them unsuitable for playing hockey at whatever level. Rje 15:57, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Is there a dominant partner? ie I believed that as Wigan Warriors were the bigger side at the time it would be Wigan listed before Wigan Athletic on the artivle. Alexsanderson83 16:03, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

JJB Stadium Outline by df2k2

If anyone is interested I can post this in the article.

File:Wigan outline df2k2.png

First away win by football team at the JJB

For the game against Cambridge City, in which Wigan Athletic were technically the away team, they did NOT use the away dressing room. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.47.222.41 (talk) 16:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC).