What are people’s actual expectations?

After observing most of the posts and the anti-Whelan and Martinez brigade that seem to reside on the message boards, I have actually had to ask myself what people actually expect from the club?

For us to be in the Premiership is great and I think that people are taking this for granted and considering the size of our beloved club and the quality of players that we actually have compared to 5 or 6 years ago, we have made an unbelievable amount of progress. Do people actually expect that we will be challenging for a European spot every single season, or even higher than that? If so then I would suggest that you look elsewhere for another team to support, possible Manchester or Merseyside as a starting point.

The fact of the matter is we are Wigan not Manchester United and the best we can hope for with the clear out that we have just had and the players that we have lost is to stay up, anything else being a bonus.

Roberto Martinez needs time to build his team and to implement his own ideas and methods, it is no good after a couple of games saying he is not good enough and needs to go, that is ridiculous. Even if we do go back down to the Championship, at least we still have our club and I for one will carry on watching and supporting them wherever they are in the league.