martinez

Reminds me of the pay-off final at Wembley against Gillingham. Their PR guy – or whatever his job description was that day – was spouting they had 50,000 “fans” there. 50,000???
I should also add that my brother, who’s a die-hard Wigan rugby supporter and has never watched a football match at the JJB/DW, came down with us that day for the ride.

It’s just media hype but many people buy it.

In all fairness he’s supported the rugby all his life, and by supported I mean actually going to games, even when they were relegated and had 3,000 on in the eighties. I kind of admire him for that.
I should also say I have another brother who’s a die-hard Latics fan and hates the rugby with a passion, so two out of three ain’t bad in a “rugby town”. :naughty:

Read all the books and was there as we climbed up the leagues, mate. Ed Jones’ book, documenting our first season up, is a really good book.

Roberto is going nowhere, and nor is there a manager about who I would actually WANT to replace him with. I had previously said Allardyce, because I don’t mind that kind of football, percentage football, they call it. I like any kind of football, as long as you get results. (This ‘good football, bad football’ thing winds me up)
But as a team we’ve started to mix it up a bit more. And with that pitch getting heavier, we’ll need to.
But back to Allardyce. He obviously has high opinions of himself. He’s said openly he feels he should ‘stay in the Premiership’ and when he came out and said he wasn’t interested in the relegation-worried West Brom job, before they had even approached him, I thought it was cheeky, and rather arrogant of him.
It was the total opposite of Roberto Martinez. And say Whelan had panicked, and relieved him of his duties, replacing him with somebody like that. Someone who would jump ship as soon as a better ‘offer’ comes along. We’ve had that, not that long ago.

Changing my tune? No just coming out of the doldrems which I had allowed myself to get sunk and pulled into. It’s amazing the benefits of a chat with JAYT, an apology to certain people off this board (who deserved one from myself) and the viewing of the film with him and the website fellas.

I actually felt PROUD when I viewed that the other day. What other clubs manager would do that? Sir Alex Ferguson only just talks to the media! It’s unique. WE are a unique club. A small club, yes, make no mistake. But if it allows us to do things like that, then I’m all for us being a small club.
And I went away and re-evaluated both Roberto’s long term plans for the club, creating a sound structure from both youth teams, and senior teams, and also my own support for the club. I’ve never moaned as much about us, as much as I have lately. And I suddenly came to the conclusion that I was in the wrong, and needed to ‘buck my ideas up’. I also realised that come Premiership or Championship next season, I will still be here…..so why waste time moaning and groaning?

It’s time to get fully behind the manager, and the lads. Even if you are reading this and thinking ‘no, I’m still not happy with things’. Ok, that’s your perogative But as a supporter, it’s time to remain focused and get right behind the lads. I’m really up for this now. It’s going to be touch and go, I still think it’ll be tight, I ain’t kidding myself, and nor should you. But we’ve already had a ‘bonus’ with the point on Saturday. If we could get something from United, it would be superb. I’m so up for that game now, you wouldn’t believe.

I hope we ALL are.[/quote]

You truly are the most schizophrenic poster in history. There is absolutley no consistency in anything you say or go on about. Im willing to bet you have 7 favourite colours, and your real name is Mob.

Next week, should united hammer us 8 nil, you will be screaming for bobby out again.

I would like to see Bobby go still, after the last two results. My opinion does not change like the wind, it is based on experiences and views over time.

However, i acknowledge your change of heart, as clearly there are several Daves in there all trying to get out. You would be a dream case for Freud.

Read all the books and was there as we climbed up the leagues, mate. Ed Jones’ book, documenting our first season up, is a really good book.

Roberto is going nowhere, and nor is there a manager about who I would actually WANT to replace him with. I had previously said Allardyce, because I don’t mind that kind of football, percentage football, they call it. I like any kind of football, as long as you get results. (This ‘good football, bad football’ thing winds me up)
But as a team we’ve started to mix it up a bit more. And with that pitch getting heavier, we’ll need to.
But back to Allardyce. He obviously has high opinions of himself. He’s said openly he feels he should ‘stay in the Premiership’ and when he came out and said he wasn’t interested in the relegation-worried West Brom job, before they had even approached him, I thought it was cheeky, and rather arrogant of him.
It was the total opposite of Roberto Martinez. And say Whelan had panicked, and relieved him of his duties, replacing him with somebody like that. Someone who would jump ship as soon as a better ‘offer’ comes along. We’ve had that, not that long ago.

Changing my tune? No just coming out of the doldrems which I had allowed myself to get sunk and pulled into. It’s amazing the benefits of a chat with JAYT, an apology to certain people off this board (who deserved one from myself) and the viewing of the film with him and the website fellas.

I actually felt PROUD when I viewed that the other day. What other clubs manager would do that? Sir Alex Ferguson only just talks to the media! It’s unique. WE are a unique club. A small club, yes, make no mistake. But if it allows us to do things like that, then I’m all for us being a small club.
And I went away and re-evaluated both Roberto’s long term plans for the club, creating a sound structure from both youth teams, and senior teams, and also my own support for the club. I’ve never moaned as much about us, as much as I have lately. And I suddenly came to the conclusion that I was in the wrong, and needed to ‘buck my ideas up’. I also realised that come Premiership or Championship next season, I will still be here…..so why waste time moaning and groaning?

It’s time to get fully behind the manager, and the lads. Even if you are reading this and thinking ‘no, I’m still not happy with things’. Ok, that’s your perogative But as a supporter, it’s time to remain focused and get right behind the lads. I’m really up for this now. It’s going to be touch and go, I still think it’ll be tight, I ain’t kidding myself, and nor should you. But we’ve already had a ‘bonus’ with the point on Saturday. If we could get something from United, it would be superb. I’m so up for that game now, you wouldn’t believe.

I hope we ALL are.[/quote]

You truly are the most schizophrenic poster in history. There is absolutley no consistency in anything you say or go on about. Im willing to bet you have 7 favourite colours, and your real name is Mob.

Next week, should united hammer us 8 nil, you will be screaming for bobby out again.

I would like to see Bobby go still, after the last two results. My opinion does not change like the wind, it is based on experiences and views over time.

However, i acknowledge your change of heart, as clearly there are several Daves in there all trying to get out. You would be a dream case for Freud.[/quote]

And you are the most tedious, no-mark to even ventire an opinion on here.

How the hell you can even for shame to come on here and spout off an opinion about any individual, or the club, is beyond me, as apparently, you are in Dubai!

I find it truly laughable, to be honest.

I’ll tell you now, not that I need to, that a meeting I had with JAYT at the weekend had quelled a lot of the crap that was flying about. I’ve sorted things with a couple of individuals off here, and there’s no problems.

And yet you, sat there in the land of camels, building sites, Sheikh’s, footballers holiday homes, and golf tourism, see fit to criticize things happening thousands of miles away.

Go away, you boring, boring, git. Your opinion is worthless.

Now you put it like that, I wish I was there too :( [/quote]

replace the golf with a bit of clay pigeon shooting at jebel ali or hatta fort or a bit of fishing off umm al quwain or on the other coast off fujayrah and a nice relaxing stay at the hatta fort hotel about 50 miles from dubai up in the mountains on the oman border – and i wish i was there too.