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Sorry to come on here being all negative, but where are the Fans? Really gets me down seeing the attendance as it was today. The lads showed passion today and I thought we deserved to take the 3 points.
If you didn’t go, Why?
Pub…….. ;) [/quote]
If you went to the pub to watch it fair enough, but no comment on the game? :roll: [/quote]
I was being sarcastic jr….hence the ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
I’d never miss a home game unless I was at work (happens mainly on Sunday games) or on holiday. Don’t see the point.
Yosser, you “find yourself supporting us”? But you don’t though, do you?At a time when the club and team needs as many (£14 max for a season ticket) bums on seats to support them, you choose not to bother.
“it’s not compulsory for a fan to watch every game”? Maybe it isn’t, but to choose to sit at home and watch it on a lap top instead is pretty pathetic – unless, as I say, your self-righteous shyte about FIFA and the Premier League etc is just designed to disguise your financial reasons.
You think it will be cheaper and that much different in the Championship? You’re going to get a shock when/if that happens, if you can tear yourself away from your lap top, that is.
What I don’t get about you and the others like you is this: if you can’t be bothered to even go to watch the team that you purport to love, why bother spending as much time as you do hammering the club from the comfort of your/your mate’s keyboard?
Its my choice how i choose to watch. you don’t have to be a super fan to attend. My finances are ok as it happenns, however i choose to spend it how i wish, and not on that crap that plays football(or attempts to) on a saturday afternoon. I bet i enjoy it a lot more than you do. I can see everything that you can with the aid of replays, i can have a beer, a chat, a warm and a good moan about the lastest rubbish display and all for the price of a ticket. Its great, You mugs should get out while you can. You don’t have to go you know, it isnt the law, you should boycott it as i and thousands more have.
The response to this post will be so predictable
The response to this post will be so predictableBet you didn’t predict that?
Nobody’s asking for Superfans; just decent fans, supporting the club through the door
No one is asking for someone to be a superfan but just to quite simply be a supporter which you claim to be and at least make the same effort to get to the ground as people who come on here and slate Martinez, the team.
If you can’t be bothered turning up, then how can you have a go at the players or the manager for that matter.
Really gets on my nerves, ‘fans’ that don’t turn up and quite happily say I don’t turn up because of the team, of the tactics etc. You are a supporter and your role is to support the team! I’m sure if we had made it to a cup final you would be there.The response to this post will be so predictable
Bet you didn’t predict that?
Nobody’s asking for Superfans; just decent fans, supporting the club through the door[/quote]
Hmmm
No one is asking for someone to be a superfan but just to quite simply be a supporter which you claim to be and at least make the same effort to get to the ground as people who come on here and slate Martinez, the team.
If you can’t be bothered turning up, then how can you have a go at the players or the manager for that matter.
Really gets on my nerves, ‘fans’ that don’t turn up and quite happily say I don’t turn up because of the team, of the tactics etc. You are a supporter and your role is to support the team! I’m sure if we had made it to a cup final you would be there.Nope, i did in 2006 but i was a season ticket holder then, And i enjoyed watching football back then also. It’s quite simple, I don’t go any more because i don’t like what i see, Until it improves i won’t go, Simple, i don’t care about bad runs and all that, i still went when Hutchings had the awful period before he was sacked because one way or another i knew it wouldnt last but this latest has been going on for 18 months and im sick of it. Nothing has changed and nothing is going to change, Its like putting your money into a fruit machine, Every so often you will win but 90% of the time you are just throwing your money away. It’s so predictable what is going to happen every game. Everton away next, I can tell you what is likely to happen, We will pass and pi$$ around with the ball for 20 mins and then Everton will score, Then we will pass and pi$$ about with it some more then they will score another one, This will go on and on until the last 10 mins then he puts an attcking player on and they push for it, Probably score too. 3-1 or there abouts
Sorry to come on here being all negative, but where are the Fans? Really gets me down seeing the attendance as it was today. The lads showed passion today and I thought we deserved to take the 3 points.If you didn’t go, Why?
To be honest it has got absolutely feck all to do with you if someone claims to be a Latics fan but doesn’t make it to games any more. They don’t owe you any explanation whatsoever
I went on Saturday (I forgotten how cold you could get watching at the ground) but don’t go anywhere near as much as I used to & after 23 years of watchign Latics hoem & away I owe you or anybody else no explanation of why that is the case
However, it was noticeable from when I used to be a season ticket holder how much the crowds have dropped when you’re in the ground as opposed to seeing it on the telly.
I’ve seen it on here & in fanzines that its all the JCL’s who have jumped ship & good riddance but I don’t think that’s the case at all. I used to sit in the West Stand but when I’ve been back for the odd game over the last couple of seasons have always sat in ES2 & the west stand looked more or less the same in terms of population than it did back in my years in there and I’ve always taken the West Stand to be the home of the more longer term supporter.
On Saturday it looked deserted & unless these people are randomly dotted around the south & east stands that to me indicates that far from all the lost support being JCL’s, there’s been a drift away from regular match going by long term hardcore supporters – just using myself & my mates as an example, there used to be 5 of us going home & away to as many games as possible. Over the last 5 years that has drifted down to none of us going regularly for a variety of reasonsIf these longer term, previously “hardcore” supporters are drifting away then it can’t just be dismissed as rats deserting a sinking ship (not that I especially think we’re sinking) as, again taking my group of mates as an example some had been going since entry to the football league & others are looking at 20 years of following Latics and we’ve seen far worse in terms of performances than we’re getting at the moment but nothing that took our passion for following the club in the flesh away as it has done over the last few years
Yosser, call yourself a fan and you choose not to go and watch them at home? I presume you live in Wigan, and therefore have no other excuse for not going, in which case you’re not worth a bad language.
Unless you’re using the fact that “we’re shyte” as cover for not putting you’re hand in your pocket? Nah, surely not?
I was not aware that it was compulsory to attend every game if you was a fan. I choose not to go because i don’t agree with what i am paying for. I have had a season ticket (bar this and last season) for a good few years but if i don’t feel that i am getting value for my hard earned money then i won’t go, Simple as. You can parp on about real fan two veg all you like but until i see what it is exactly i am paying for then i won’t go. I can go down to a sunday league game and be as entertained, or better still a conference game and get the same experience. I think you are silly for actually going to be honest. Why bother going to this money driven leagues games in the first place. I think you are silly for paying the extortion they want. I only keep watching out of a general interest. Mr. Whelan had a great vision for this club and by doing it, And as how wonderful as it’s been, It has ripped the soul out of the club and fans. At one time this club was united and one, Now it is divided into so many sections it’s un-recognizable. The sooner SKY TV and the rest of them leave clubs alone the better, But it won’t happen. Too far gone now. Football is dead and has been for about 10 years. The world cup fiasco has just hammered the final nail into it’s rotten coffin. I find myself only supporting us now purely because im from wigan. Enjoyement, Nah, Not for a long time.[/quote]
I would agree with the enjoyment part as for me that died in the January of Steve Bruce’s last season when we could have made Europe and Whelan sold Heskey and Wilson. Since then well you all know my feeling’s about the present manager so I wont go on, but!!!!
I can’t believe anyone who has watched our small club rise to the top division can just stop going. It’s easy to watch a winning team which we have been until recently but you find out who your real fans are when thing’s go bad. Wigan Athletic will still be here long after the Premiership and Whelan have gone so get yourself down to the DW if you really are a fan. We need all the support we can get.
Maybe the club should run a ad in the local papers.
“Wanted Wigan Athletic supporters……..only die hards need apply!”
All we can do is turn up and get behind the team, hopefully the results and attendances will improve.
I didn’t renew this year due to job situation I have though only missed two home games Chelski and Bowton.
I recently purchased the four game for sixty quid offer and next pay day will get the half season ticket so it can be done chaps.
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