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Until the road around the stadium was sorted out the east stand was not used. Then when it opened it was used for away fans and the north stand was the family stand. When we were promoted to premier league I was told that the family stand could not be adjacent the away supporters but we also probably thought we would fill the ground (which we did in season 1). It was then that the away stand moved to the north and the family stand to the south.
When the ground first opened the ‘family section'(there was no dedicated family stand then) was at the south end of the West Stand, away fans were housed in the North stand from the very begining,and the East remained closed because there was no need to use it, the east stand was used to house the away following only once in 2nd division days, vs preston for a top of table clash, although burnley sold out the north stand for a visit but were not allocated seats numbers so many claimed not to have seats and were seated in ES1 – this led to every other burnley fan in the north stand deciding they wanted to sit in the east and invading it.
The north stand became the family stand on our promotion to the 1st division(championship) and the away supporters given the east stand, until our promotion to the premier league – the East stand housed away supporters for only the 2 championship seasons, apart from then the north stand has always housed away fans.
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On second thoughts – millwall were also given the east stand for the 2nd division playoff second leg.[/quote]
From my memory the East Stand was initially shut on the insistance of the council until all the road works were completed.
They then allowed the rugby league club to start using it whilst still refusing permission for Latics to start using it (not that there would have been any need for it at the time, but still).
As for when it became the away stand, after the “Stoke pitch invasion” game they moved the away fans up into the top corner of the north stand & had it all sectioned off (seem to remember about 100 Wrexham fans being shoved up there for our last home game of the season). The season after that, they were put into the East Stand so that would make it the 2000/2001 season wouldnt it? It certainly wasn;t just the championship days coz, amongst other things, I remember 3 of my mates going in there for the game against Barnsley when Latics were given the Div 2/League one trophy in the game Tony Dinning scored to give us a 1-0 winCan’t stand the cockney w4nker either…and unfortunately for Reading he’s the probably reason I hate them so much too (apart from it also being a sh1t town and an awful ground to get to/from).Sickens me to see how well he’s done with the arrogant barcodes – they are made for each other though. He’ll probably manage Arsenal next.
Think his feelings about us are mutual though…when he was asked how he felt about promotion with West Ham via the playoffs the same year we got promoted, didn’t he say something like “Yeah it’s great, but we’ll still be playing Wigan”?
Hate him for all the reasons identified on here, but you have to respect his ability to turn that toon team around and put them top 6.
The Stoke game was February 2000, the Saturday after Stanley Matthews died. I remember it well as i was sitting in the west stand, close to the North, with my kids (who were young then) preparing to defend them from these lunatics charging towards us and thinking, at the age of 40, I don’t need this!
Just been having a quick trawl around some of their message boards.
And I’m fuming :angry:
Their sheer arrogance is unbelievable (as Gary Neville would say). Come on Latics – stick it up em.
Sorry Hindley, did you say something? ;)“He said it five times. He said it five ti-i-imes. Hinldey Blu-ue, he said it fives times”
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Cheers for that Griff, I had a temporary I.T problem and yes I did say it 5 times as it turned out :blush:
Just been having a quick trawl around some of their message boards.And I’m fuming :angry:
Their sheer arrogance is unbelievable (as Gary Neville would say). Come on Latics – stick it up em.
Care to elaborate?
Would take too long.
Just lots of Wigan is a rugby town, Newcastle are a massive club, need to give them loads of tickets so they can create an atmosphere, we don’t deserve to be in the Premier League, etc etc.
Oh – and they aren’t deluded apparently.
Can’t be bothered going back to find links.
Just lots of Wigan is a rugby town, Newcastle are a massive club, need to give them loads of tickets so they can create an atmosphere, we don’t deserve to be in the Premier League, etc etc.Oh – and they aren’t deluded apparently.
That’s all I was looking for tbh.
Pardew works at Newcastle and Newcastle work under him. They got lucky and found a good combination with a great scout in France. Luck will only last so long.
I thought the same until you look a little closer at how few quotes there are in that article. This is just a case of a small fry journalist with a clear issue with our crowds. If he knew the first thing about staging events, licensing and risk assessments, he’d know there was no way in hell we could move the away fans at such short notice, without some kind of detailed plan being in place first, which I would be confident there is not.The Necastle Chronicle – need I say more…
That may be so R-L and, over the years, we have seen how pithy these ‘small fry’, lazy journalists can be. However, if you look at one of the ‘few quotes’ in there where the tosser said……
“It would be nice to see 8-9,000 Geordies somehow get in there, because it would feel like a home game.”
Then come out with a statement, as reported by a few media outlets (including $ky) where he says…..
“Pardew is adamant he was not suggesting people travel without tickets or try to find seats among the home fans.
Then by asking for 8-9K fans to “somehow get in” what exactly was he suggesting?
It just goes to show that he is also a spineless, lying tosser backtracking faster than Mitty’s neighbours cat. I hope he gets the welcome he deserves on Saturday……I’m sure a few ‘suitable’ chants can be quickly put together.
Oh, don’t get me wrong Micky, I never did dispute the title of this thread and wholeheartedly believe him to be a tosser, although not quite in the Wenger extreme.
In all honesty, I still believe he was just trying to put pressure on the club to allow the Newcastle fans the Boston Utd Stand as, they would no doubt fill it given their current form. And yes, like when Sunderland filled it in their successful Championship winning season, the atmosphere from them would no doubt be huge. However, this is all the more reason why, if we could, we would not give it them anyway. Anyway, I can see our next to home games being close to sell outs anyway.
All in all, I personally think his comments are little more than a basic attempt to sure up his popularity further amongst the Newcastle fans by playing on what they have wanted to hear for so long. That they are a massive club and little Wigan should be grateful to have them visit their backwards little town. Do I think he is trying to incite an invasion of Newcastle fans to storm our stadium by any means possible… no.
Oh, don’t get me wrong Micky, I never did dispute the title of this thread and wholeheartedly believe him to be a tosser, although not quite in the Wenger extreme.In all honesty, I still believe he was just trying to put pressure on the club to allow the Newcastle fans the Boston Utd Stand as, they would no doubt fill it given their current form. And yes, like when Sunderland filled it in their successful Championship winning season, the atmosphere from them would no doubt be huge. However, this is all the more reason why, if we could, we would not give it them anyway. Anyway, I can see our next to home games being close to sell outs anyway.
All in all, I personally think his comments are little more than a basic attempt to sure up his popularity further amongst the Newcastle fans by playing on what they have wanted to hear for so long. That they are a massive club and little Wigan should be grateful to have them visit their backwards little town. Do I think he is trying to incite an invasion of Newcastle fans to storm our stadium by any means possible… no.
Indeed….I never thought for a moment that you didn’t share the views of the majority here…….your ‘take’ however, was about a small fry journalist and how these things are reported.
Your point, about Sunderland almost filling the Boston Stand (I’m sure you didn’t mean Boston Utd Stand) is historical and, as others have mentioned earlier, has not been something available to away fans for some considerable years now; he has been to the stadium before. Further…….if asking for something that he would ‘normally’ know not to be available (for his or any other teams) was just a ploy to court popularity then he is a bigger idiot that he has made himself out to be – and is ultimately treating the Newcastle fans like fools themselves.
Do I think that he was trying to incite Newcastle fans to invade our ground by whatever means possible……yes (and he’s been caught out).
He is afraid, afraid of losing…..he knows we pose a very real threat to his aspirations (indeed he very nearly said as much today on SSN)….
……..oh and he really is a grade 1 tosser.
I can hardly argue with you over this. We both have different takes on the situation and we could argue our corners until the cows came home.
I did mean to call it the Boston Utd Stand.
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