disgrace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First point there is no way you brought any where near 4000, a good turn out but lets not exaggerate. We have no real history so our fan base is building now whereas you have been a big club. And you must have a short memory because remember Roker Park what was your crowd average there??? Also we have no debts compared to your team who I would imagine are massively in debt. And guess what for all the money you have spent you will never get in Europe and will probably never win anything.

Quite simply Bobby got it wrong by changing the team. Diame and Moses should have started along with Sammon. This is the team that has more than held its own the last few weeks and though Hugo may be more dangerous than Connor he is less of a team player. He fails to hold the ball up or involve others and constantly loses possession easily meaning when he is dispossessed the other team can break quickly. Hugo cant play up front on his own so why do we keep trying the same losing formula. When Sammon has started we have started to look like a team. Sadly, as he doesnt know his first 11 we could soon be back to square one.

The referee may have been bad but the standard of some of that defending was some of the worst i have seen. The goal where Figueroa left his man to claim a foul defies the fact that he is a decent defender. God help us against City!

Then don’t pontificate about things you freely admit to not understanding.

I see you wrote a lot in your post but I didn’t get past the bit on the quote above. That’s the second time tonight I’ve only read about 5% of what you have to say. You could save yourself some effort, mate.

i wasnt been pompus simply stating that i dont follow either form of egg chasing so rugby union or league is not important to me. My point was simply that wigan is a known rugby town.

Now first of all…..if not widely followed in your parts then why use an “egg chasing” analogy (as stated in a later post) – one normally reserved/used here in Wigan. Further, your second point about recovering more in transfer fees etc is pure fabrication……

according to this (Link) Sunderland spent(between 2006 and 2011) –

£146.9 million

and received (in that time) –

£84.25 million

Call me old fashioned…but that’s a loss of about £63 million (ish).

Now then a real fan would have known that already;………………….. a troll however…. ;)

Unlike WAFC who announced a 15,000+ crowd for the game. I thought it looked sparce from my view in the North Stand, but watching the re-run on TV showed the Boston stand to be less full than normal – I would guess everyone in the West could have fitted in there, and those in the south could have probably squeezed in too.

That means there were 11,000 tops (less depending on whether you think Sunderland brought 1800 or 3500 (I’d say about 2,700 personally). I’m guessing the 5,000 freebies (South stand was almost full according to the ticket purchasing page) chose to stay at home due to the weather.

As for SAFC247 – unfortunately the criteria for getting promoted & continuing to play in the top flight isn’t who you think is fit to “grace” the division
Last time I checked it was down to gaining enough points to get promoted from the division below & getting enough points to stay there. Something which in the 6 seasons Latics have been in the top flight they have managed better than Sunderland in 4 of them. How that must smart!!!
Counter to your claim that Sunderland had an average of 25k in the 1990’s – in the 10 years prior to leaving Roker park your club never got close to that figure as an average. Go back even further & in the previous 30 years they only managed to breach that figure 9 times so you don’t need me to tell you the average over that period wasn’t 25k either.
As for 40k-50k in the ground prior to the safety measures introduced after Hillsborough. Well that was in 1989 & you average that season was 14878 & between the end of WWII & leaving Roker park you topped 40k as an average 8 times in 50 years
Nice to see you don’t let the truth get in the way of a good yarn!!!

Unlike WAFC who announced a 15,000+ crowd for the game. I thought it looked sparce from my view in the North Stand, but watching the re-run on TV showed the Boston stand to be less full than normal – I would guess everyone in the West could have fitted in there, and those in the south could have probably squeezed in too.

That means there were 11,000 tops (less depending on whether you think Sunderland brought 1800 or 3500 (I’d say about 2,700 personally). I’m guessing the 5,000 freebies (South stand was almost full according to the ticket purchasing page) chose to stay at home due to the weather.[/quote]
Considering you admit to rarely attending football matches at the stadium, what on earth do you base your estimate on?

11,000? Not a cat in hell’s chance. If it was around the 11,000 mark you could tell it a mile off – like on Carling Cup nights.

There are around 11,000 season ticket holders for starters – so are you saying a couple of thousand of them didn’t bother turning up, and there were no additional supporters in there?

Also, the 5,000 ‘freebie’ tickets you talk about isn’t 5,000, it’s 2,000, and the tickets are given out on a request basis – ie. they are not given out as a job lot, and are provided on a request basis. If the ‘requester’ doesn’t use their tickets, they’re never given them again. So this belief of 5,000 tickets being doled out and unused is a total myth.

So let’s get this right….you used to watch Wigan Athletic on a regular basis, but stopped supporting them a few years ago, and on Tuesday you were in the away end supporting the opposition?

So, while we’re at it, if all is not going well at work, are you likely to adopt the wearing of salwar kameez and a turban whilst shouting ‘death to the infidels’?

You are either the most fickle of the fickle, or you have been talking out of your arris.