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He flew in to Wigan last Monday if my sources are correct.
Gotta give him credit for spending all this time, effort and money on Wigan Athletic. :clap:
Gotta give him credit for finding an airport in Wigan. That’s a good effort in itself[/quote]
He could have flown into wigan using a helicopter……..[/quote]
Or a rocket-pack.Doubt we will see many foreigners next season if we go down, could it be its a Premier League thing?. We once had a tics mon on our coach to the Emirates without ticket so didnt get in yet our end was sold out with foreigners. I had a row with an Englishman at the same game and pushed him over for jumping up cheering Arsenal,s goals. Its so easy to get tickets online when clubs like ourselves dont fill our allocations so if you want to see your team but its a home sell out naturally you get one for the away end.
He flew in to Wigan last Monday if my sources are correct.
Gotta give him credit for spending all this time, effort and money on Wigan Athletic. :clap:
Gotta give him credit for finding an airport in Wigan. That’s a good effort in itself[/quote]
He could have flown into wigan using a helicopter……..[/quote][/i][/size]He could have, yes… I didn’t consider that.[/quote]
Always expect the unexpected :banana-skier:Doubt we will see many foreigners next season if we go down, could it be its a Premier League thing?. We once had a tics mon on our coach to the Emirates without ticket so didnt get in yet our end was sold out with foreigners. I had a row with an Englishman at the same game and pushed him over for jumping up cheering Arsenal,s goals. Its so easy to get tickets online when clubs like ourselves dont fill our allocations so if you want to see your team but its a home sell out naturally you get one for the away end.After doing a bit of digging, a couple of seasons back, I was amazed at how many of these online ticket agencies were buying blocks of tickets for latics games. All 3 home stands had these tickets in. I saw one company offering East Stand tickets for Wigan V Bolton for £350.
As if you would…….trouble is, some daft foreigners will do.
A few topics on here since yesterdays match about all the foreigners at Anfield yesterday.
The number of foreigners in the away end seems to be getting more and more everytime i go. More at the games which cost the most money looks like the real fans will only go to the cheaper grounds and i dont blame them. The atmosphere was crap yesterday not only from the Liverpool fans but also from in our end. Now my lad as ticked Anfield of his list i wont be going back. :(
I know a few of those plastic Wiganers pretty well who happen to play for the club in the Reserves, and they and their families get really into supporting the club now. Some are even from Spain (eg. Abian Serrano)
Is this not spreading the word of Wigan Athletic, making our club a team to support for people from all over the world?
Donnolly is a great example, and your saying you don’t think he should support the club as a plastic Wiganer / foreigner?
Oh and Jayt …. Donnolly was on Row 9 Seat 26 if i’m not mistaken. :shifty: [/quote]
Sephton you have answered my argument in your reply. Will these reserves players, family and friends be bothered about Wigan Athletic when they move on to their next club? Will they be bothered if we get relegated in the near future? NO. But I will and so will a lot of local Wiganers who now don’t bother because away days more than often now are crap due to the growing influx of new fanss who don’t really care about OUR football club but just about the Premier league.
When our equaliser went in I was jumping up and down on my seat like a demented idiot giving it the big un to all the so called scouscers. We were on a level playing field with a team who when I was growing up were winning European cup and League Titles one after another. A time when I looked out of my bedroom window looked at Springfield Park and dreamed of seeing Alan Hansen, Bruce Grobbaleer, King Kenny and co playing there. Do you think it meant so much to them?
I spoke to one of my neighbours (been to more away games that me and you have had hot dinners) early last week and asked him was he going to Liverpool he replied if only I can find £40 from somewhere, this was from somebody who normally would have sold his wife to go to away games. Times have changed and Football as changed and I don’t like it but I will just have to live with it until the FA and the media get their wish and we finally overstay our welcome and get relegated.
We keep getting told about history and how all these great clubs around us have got a lot more history than ours well the same fans should remember the history and origins of football and what the football club meant to its local community.
Finally when Knob End, Liverpool, Bolton fans etc go on about us having no so called history just tell them this your living in it and we are creating it.
Now let’s get behind OUR football club and get them through this Relegation scrap they have started to show desire and so should we.
A few topics on here since yesterdays match about all the foreigners at Anfield yesterday.
The number of foreigners in the away end seems to be getting more and more everytime i go. More at the games which cost the most money looks like the real fans will only go to the cheaper grounds and i dont blame them. The atmosphere was crap yesterday not only from the Liverpool fans but also from in our end. Now my lad as ticked Anfield of his list i wont be going back. :(
I know a few of those plastic Wiganers pretty well who happen to play for the club in the Reserves, and they and their families get really into supporting the club now. Some are even from Spain (eg. Abian Serrano)
Is this not spreading the word of Wigan Athletic, making our club a team to support for people from all over the world?
Donnolly is a great example, and your saying you don’t think he should support the club as a plastic Wiganer / foreigner?
Oh and Jayt …. Donnolly was on Row 9 Seat 26 if i’m not mistaken. :shifty: [/quote]
Sephton you have answered my argument in your reply. Will these reserves players, family and friends be bothered about Wigan Athletic when they move on to their next club? Will they be bothered if we get relegated in the near future? NO. But I will and so will a lot of local Wiganers who now don’t bother because away days more than often now are crap due to the growing influx of new fanss who don’t really care about OUR football club but just about the Premier league.
When our equaliser went in I was jumping up and down on my seat like a demented idiot giving it the big un to all the so called scouscers. We were on a level playing field with a team who when I was growing up were winning European cup and League Titles one after another. A time when I looked out of my bedroom window looked at Springfield Park and dreamed of seeing Alan Hansen, Bruce Grobbaleer, King Kenny and co playing there. Do you think it meant so much to them?
I spoke to one of my neighbours (been to more away games that me and you have had hot dinners) early last week and asked him was he going to Liverpool he replied if only I can find £40 from somewhere, this was from somebody who normally would have sold his wife to go to away games. Times have changed and Football as changed and I don’t like it but I will just have to live with it until the FA and the media get their wish and we finally overstay our welcome and get relegated.
We keep getting told about history and how all these great clubs around us have got a lot more history than ours well the same fans should remember the history and origins of football and what the football club meant to its local community.
Finally when Knob End, Liverpool, Bolton fans etc go on about us having no so called history just tell them this your living in it and we are creating it.
Now let’s get behind OUR football club and get them through this Relegation scrap they have started to show desire and so should we.[/quote]
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:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:Most of us are behind OUR football club, but i’d rather have the foreigners in than extra empty seats.
Like Bolton, they have lots of foreigners … there a town full of them in-fact :dance:
Foreigners, refugees from other clubs and other sports should all be made welcome. I’m pleased! no I’m not I’m made up. There’s plenty of room at the DW and making us more cosmopolitan cannot be a bad thing if we are to progress, or even survive as a ‘big little team’.
Most of us are behind OUR football club, but i’d rather have the foreigners in than extra empty seats.Like Bolton, they have lots of foreigners … there a town full of them in-fact :dance:
Like my signature says i dont really care about the size of our crowds. Remember its Quality not Quantity. The Bolton foreigners will be Bolton born and bred though wont they… (cant believe ive bit at that one)
Just realised this thread is now starting to make look look like im racist. Im not my main point is that the new found fan does not show the same passion as the ones who have been on the roller coaster and will they still be here if we ever get relegated or will they just leave the hardcore to pick up the pieces.
Just realised this thread is now starting to make look look like im racist. Im not my main point is that the new found fan does not show the same passion as the ones who have been on the roller coaster and will they still be here if we ever get relegated or will they just leave the hardcore to pick up the pieces.:text-goodpost:
The lad who sits in front of me, who I’m guessing is 15 or 16, has already insinuated that if we go down, he and his dad will stop going. It shocked me, as I had them down as proper fans. That said, when I said that the Championship wasn’t bad, all he could talk about was that Reading game. As I’ve told a couple of people from on here, that day, brilliant as it was, annoyed the hell out of me, in the fact that 7,000 new fans appeared overnight. All chasing the Premiership bandwagon. I’m sure most of the pitch invaders at the end were made up of them.
That said, we can’t stand still regarding our fanbase. If we can attract young kids and nurture them as fans, brilliant. And when people say we’ve lost a couple of thousand fans over the last couple of seasons, I think it’s more a case of the fact that they were never proper fans in the first place. I think so many of the bandwagoners just lost interest.
I like Scoffy’s ‘Quality not Quantity’ comment. True. :clap:
I’m always encouraging people I know to come to the games. Some claim to follow other clubs. Some claim to be neutrals. I don’t care. If I get them to come down to the ground that’s one less empty seat on MOTD and some money towards the club. They may not be as vocal as the regulars but at least there there! Some even really enjoy themselves and come back again! How else will our fan base grow?
If everyone brought at least one friend to each home game we’d need a bigger ground.
I’m always encouraging people I know to come to the games. Some claim to follow other clubs. Some claim to be neutrals. I don’t care. If I get them to come down to the ground that’s one less empty seat on MOTD and some money towards the club. They may not be as vocal as the regulars but at least there there! Some even really enjoy themselves and come back again! How else will our fan base grow?If everyone brought at least one friend to each home game we’d need a bigger ground.
I have suggested this before and even got a Liverpool supporting friend to get a season ticket for 2 seasons and he only gave it when he got the chance of going halfs on a season ticket at Anfield. (ended up getting a lift home of him on Saturday) i think another couple of seasons and i could have converted him.
I want the new fans to watch us for ever not just 2 or 3 seasons.
The club must be congratulated on the number of kids they now get thorugh the turnstiles these are the fanatical fans of the future remember Rome wasnt built in a day. This is one of the mean reasons that we need to stay up because we might lose them if we do. But if we do go down in the near future (got to happen 1 day) hopefully the club will be in their blood and they will never leave us.I took this video of my lad when he was 6 and i am really pruud of it imagine what he his like now 3 seasons on
Great EscapePlastic fans isn’t a bad shout to be honest – or more accurately, inflatable fans. Just after kick-off the stewards walk round the empty seats pulling on rip cords, and whoosh, up they go, like people shaped airbags. A full house every week for the benefit of Match Of The Day.
I might check to see if there’s a patent on this.
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