I doubt WCN uses much bandwidth its only a small site with a low amount of users, the servers run off a PC, the system used for members etc is ripped from a free forum system.
I doubt it could cost more then £30 a month, Dennie probably uses the hosting off that site to host others if it really is costing him a lot otherwise it's utter bull. Even if they were to upgrade to decent/better IRC server it wouldn't cost much, for example SCN only costs like £40 a month lol!
so therefore it was probably more of an attention seeking thing, to get money off the staff.
Anyway, END OF MY CONVERSATION ON THIS MATTER.