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Going up obviously fulfilled Whelans dream, but how many Wigan fans are happy? The day of any promotion looks good, but do you think of who you have left behind? Games against say Tranmere would be special, but there are none of those games any more. Going to the match, do you ever feel happy or actually meet Wigan fans who are happy? This weekends home game, just on the off chance we win the game 6-0 you would still see home fans diving for the exits with 10 mins of the game left wouldnt you? Be completely honest if you do it and say why, but if not you must still see it and do you believe we deserve a premiership club with support like this? We can see the chairmans losing interest and if as looks the case the fans are losing interest, do we really have a future?
Going up obviously fulfilled Whelans dream, but how many Wigan fans are happy? The day of any promotion looks good, but do you think of who you have left behind? Games against say Tranmere would be special, but there are none of those games any more. Going to the match, do you ever feel happy or actually meet Wigan fans who are happy? This weekends home game, just on the off chance we win the game 6-0 you would still see home fans diving for the exits with 10 mins of the game left wouldnt you? Be completely honest if you do it and say why, but if not you must still see it and do you believe we deserve a premiership club with support like this? We can see the chairmans losing interest and if as looks the case the fans are losing interest, do we really have a future?Wouldn’t mind one bit if we went down but I have enjoyed every minute of the Prem and will continue to do so as long as we are in it.
Now, my watch says its 19:31, so drink your glass of milk, turn on your Thomas the Tank Engine alarm clock and get off to beddy-byes
Are you really serious? :roll:
Do you not remember the springfield park days when out of the 2000 and odd fans on the ground, only about 700 were still on at 4:45pm all gathered like sheep at the side of the phoenix ready to run down the steps and down first avenue.
I loved the first season in the prem just as much as I loved the first season in the league. I made sure I watched every game home and away that first season even the cup matches. It cost me fortune, but boy was I proud and still am that we are in the best leaguer in the world.
As people get older they seem to think that things were better in the old days. I remember watching a wigan ammy league match a few years ago thinking jeesh there not a patch on the players and teams that played when I was in my prime, such as Bethel, Ince Parish, Wigan Youth etc.,but sadly theyre probably are a lot better.
You are falling into the same catagory forggetting that for every exciting game against Tranmere there were 2 or 3 boring, shyte 0-0 draws against the likes of Scarborough, Mansfield, Lincoln and Aldershot.
FFS live the dream and be proud to live it. The standard of football is better, the grounds are better, we see more fans in one game than we used to see in one season for christ sake.
Posters like you honestly make me feel physically sick. :(
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What a journey!Going up obviously fulfilled Whelans dream, but how many Wigan fans are happy? The day of any promotion looks good, but do you think of who you have left behind? Games against say Tranmere would be special, but there are none of those games any more. Going to the match, do you ever feel happy or actually meet Wigan fans who are happy? This weekends home game, just on the off chance we win the game 6-0 you would still see home fans diving for the exits with 10 mins of the game left wouldnt you? Be completely honest if you do it and say why, but if not you must still see it and do you believe we deserve a premiership club with support like this? We can see the chairmans losing interest and if as looks the case the fans are losing interest, do we really have a future?The league we’re in shouldn’t really matter but yes I do enjoy being in the Prem.
Yes, I’m very happy going to matches.
I stay until the end of each match and only leave when the players have gone up the tunnel.
I don’t give a damn who else turns up to watch the game as long as I do. I find other people make too much noise, sing out of tune and tend to spoil my view. ;)
Try reading about the ‘Going Concern Test’ then perhaps you’ll understand the reason why the club wants to reduce its costs.
No one knows what the future will bring, but who cares; I live for the moment.
I’m trying but it’s hard work at times havin yer week-ends turned into a mixture of panic attacks and manic depression.
I’ll be honest, I actually felt bored with the Premiership after about the first 4 months of it. No use me bulling, that’s honestly how I have felt.
I don’t know what it is, I really don’t.But, and there IS a but.
Last Saturday I took in Skem Utd V Harrogate Railway Athletic. It was a good craic, Skem won 4-3, after being 2-0 down, before Harrogate’s keeper saw red. Some good football, and a couple of the goals were belters, they looked so good because the nets were ‘stantioned’ on poles, ‘Premeirship style’.
Before the game, the players did the old line up and shake hands thing, like we see every week. And there you have it. EVERY other league looks up to the Premiership as a role model. Ask any of them players where they’d prefer to play, and each one would say “The Premiership”.As a one off day out, or an every-now-and-again thing, it was good. £7.50 to get in, clubhouse with good pints, and not expensive, and an overall enjoyable experience.
But it made me appreciate what we get to watch.
We ARE ‘Little Wigan Athletic’. And we are upsetting the apple-cart by even daring to ‘mingle’ with the so called big-boys. And long may it continue!
Going up obviously fulfilled Whelans dream, but how many Wigan fans are happy? The day of any promotion looks good, but do you think of who you have left behind? Games against say Tranmere would be special, but there are none of those games any more. Going to the match, do you ever feel happy or actually meet Wigan fans who are happy? This weekends home game, just on the off chance we win the game 6-0 you would still see home fans diving for the exits with 10 mins of the game left wouldnt you? Be completely honest if you do it and say why, but if not you must still see it and do you believe we deserve a premiership club with support like this? We can see the chairmans losing interest and if as looks the case the fans are losing interest, do we really have a future?You’re on a downer aren’t you?
I’ll be honest, I actually felt bored with the Premiership after about the first 4 months of it. No use me bulling, that’s honestly how I have felt.
I don’t know what it is, I really don’t.But, and there IS a but.
Last Saturday I took in Skem Utd V Harrogate Railway Athletic. It was a good craic, Skem won 4-3, after being 2-0 down, before Harrogate’s keeper saw red. Some good football, and a couple of the goals were belters, they looked so good because the nets were ‘stantioned’ on poles, ‘Premeirship style’.
Before the game, the players did the old line up and shake hands thing, like we see every week. And there you have it. EVERY other league looks up to the Premiership as a role model. Ask any of them players where they’d prefer to play, and each one would say “The Premiership”.As a one off day out, or an every-now-and-again thing, it was good. £7.50 to get in, clubhouse with good pints, and not expensive, and an overall enjoyable experience.
But it made me appreciate what we get to watch.
We ARE ‘Little Wigan Athletic’. And we are upsetting the apple-cart by even daring to ‘mingle’ with the so called big-boys. And long may it continue!
Good clubhouse at Skem. The Mrs is a Skemmer (Old Skem) and all the family soirees are held there. Cheap ale ‘n all.
Going up obviously fulfilled Whelans dream, but how many Wigan fans are happy? The day of any promotion looks good, but do you think of who you have left behind? Games against say Tranmere would be special, but there are none of those games any more. Going to the match, do you ever feel happy or actually meet Wigan fans who are happy? This weekends home game, just on the off chance we win the game 6-0 you would still see home fans diving for the exits with 10 mins of the game left wouldnt you? Be completely honest if you do it and say why, but if not you must still see it and do you believe we deserve a premiership club with support like this? We can see the chairmans losing interest and if as looks the case the fans are losing interest, do we really have a future?I see you posted the same depressing thread on Wiganer.net
Going up obviously fulfilled Whelans dream, but how many Wigan fans are happy? The day of any promotion looks good, but do you think of who you have left behind? Games against say Tranmere would be special, but there are none of those games any more. Going to the match, do you ever feel happy or actually meet Wigan fans who are happy? This weekends home game, just on the off chance we win the game 6-0 you would still see home fans diving for the exits with 10 mins of the game left wouldnt you? Be completely honest if you do it and say why, but if not you must still see it and do you believe we deserve a premiership club with support like this? We can see the chairmans losing interest and if as looks the case the fans are losing interest, do we really have a future?I’ve watched Wigan for about 32 years and remember the bad times with Bill Kenyon when it didn’t look like we would still have a football club. Now week after week we entertain world class teams and players, it does not get any better than this.
If we go down would you not want us to try and get promoted or would you want another relegation so you can see us play Tranmere again?
We will never be able to compete with the big boys, but as long as we stay up each year and give 2 fingers to all our critics who cares. We are in the Premiership on merit and for me long may it continue as it’s only when we are not there we will realise how great it really was!!!!!
I for one look back through rose-tinted specs and say I enjoyed the game more when we were at Springfield Park, you sort of felt that Latics belonged to you.
These days I feel like I’m just another spectator, but when we were down in the lower leagues, top division football is what we strived for and that’s now what we have and I would be gutted if we got relegated.
I for one look back through rose-tinted specs and say I enjoyed the game more when we were at Springfield Park, you sort of felt that Latics belonged to you.These days I feel like I’m just another spectator, but when we were down in the lower leagues, top division football is what we strived for and that’s now what we have and I would be gutted if we got relegated.
It’s not that I enjoyed the game more AT Springfield Park. I just kind of felt closer before we were in the Premiership.
I remember the promotion day in Walkabout. Standing chatting to the players, and everybody having a laugh. That famous clip of Teale having a p*ss and joining in with “Teale will tear you apart”, it was class! As I walked outside for some fresh air, Matt Jackson was just arriving, and I said “Congratulations, skipper!”, and he said “Thanks mate, you coming in for the party?” and shook my hand. That WAS class!
I just couldn’t imagine that happening now, say if we ever won the Premeirship or a cup. I don’t think you’d get anywhere near. All the big-wigs like the mayor of Wigan and the councillors, people who would not have p*ssed on the club if they were on fire, a few years back
Personally, I felt it all changed towards the fans when they took that John Smith’s bar off us, after promotion. It felt like a kick in the teeth.
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