The Takeover !

Correct zeb, Duke was a million and our record spend until we got to the Prem I believe. We didn’t spend millions getting there except on the stadium. Jewells Div 1 team narrowly missed out on promotion first season in Championship.

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Oh, and we are not the Tics we are the Latics.[/quote]
Glad someone thinks the same. I hate the name Tics.
A Tic is a blood sucking parasite that lives off the blood of others. Not a name I would want my club to be associated with :(
Where did this name come from???

Donny, I’m not saying it’s impossible but it is a long shot. With the size and scope of their club, Wolves should have been doing better than they have for some while.

The people putting money in put serious money in for Championship level.
Not to mention the somewhat dodgy advantage the owners had in being big fish in the players agent business?

The alternative is that we don’t have a chance of anything. The Whelan family have invested enough over the years for us to be supremely grateful and can’t be expected to carry on. So we will struggle to survive and may well disappear into obscurity anyway. But this way we get a couple of years of hoping and who knows? It may just work.
If it doesn’t then I genuinely think we won’t be any worse off.
And another thing.
It’s great isn’t it? There are loads of people (I don’t mean regular contributors here, but the “guys in the pub” etc) who don’t put a penny into the club by actually going to games who all have great opinions about how much other people (Whelans, HK investors or whoever) ought to put their money in and question how reliable they are.

Ill tell you what’s wrong with Mr Stones’s remarks, thier buying a club who went to both major Cup Finals and a budgies nad off winning one back to back.

A very well run club unlike some just ask Sunderland. A club that wont cost the earth with an excellent stadium but Mr Stones highlights crowds of 10k ?.
50k+ a week home crowds hasn’t won Newcastle anything bar the Championship.

If I were shopping for a budget club with years of experience at been in the Prem, an excellent stadium – training already in place and 1 tier off the big boys then Wigan would be right up there.

You should take time to read what thier worth the takeover gang, it makes interesting reading, a 50million investment would be like me doing a big shop at Asda.
But again our fan base size gets attacked. Without investment we would float around Div1 for the foreseeable future so for me im all up for it.
Lets not forget how and and were we started on this journey and if we ended up back were we started i’ll look at the roller coaster ride with fondness not the crowd size….
Did he mention Saturdays amazing away following taking half our home attendance ? No because it doesn’t make good reading

You make a good argument Cup Winners and I can see that side of it too but I still see nothing wrong with what he’s written as he makes valid points too – all of them.
In every takeover there are going to be arguments for both sides & he is just putting forward one of them, & as i said he’s not said anything that plenty of other Latics mons & monesses have already said.

I think what seems to be riling people is that he’s mentioned our crowds. My opinion of that is so what? Its a fact. They are what they are & plenty of Latics people complain about them. I think its also a fact that if crowds stay around that level (and with the relatively low prices that Latics will charge to get in compared with other Championship clubs) then our budget will be low compared to others in the division so it will be difficult (but not impossible) to compete at that level & you (Cup Winners) say so yourself “Without investment we would float around Div1 for the foreseeable future so for me im all up for it”.
PNE & Millwall will also find it difficult (some seasons more so than others). Bournemouth would not have got out (or even into) the Championship without spending the money of their Russian billionaire

For me all this BBC guy is saying is that Latics would struggle in the Championship without outside investment so in that sense its welcome but that there is a cautionary note as we don’t know a great deal about them or what their aims are. Oh & we only get 10k crowds!! ;)

Oldham are Latics as well so personally I don’t mind being a tic, gives us a different identity to our frozen friends up the road.[/quote]

I hate being referred to as ‘Tics. It’s Latics always has been & always will be, but I guess this is the modern way of shortening everything such as United supporters calling their ground OT or Liverpool fans & Stevie G or Chelsea & Lamps.

Its harmless but it gets on my wazza & personally I’ll always use Latics

Been going around as long as I’ve been watching us in different variants.