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    Genius! So without Whelan investment we would have got to Prem? Would have taken a fair run of luck at Springfield Park under Kenyon like but with guile and good management I see no reason why we couldn’t have got there!

    Our best chance to have achieved this would have occurred had we have kept together our Freight Rover winning team. Alas, we were struggling financially, so had to sell off our prize assets. If that team had have stuck together, I believe it could have gone onto great things.[/quote]

    That was my all time favourite team, fabulous to watch but couldn’t get 4000 to come. And people still moaned “bloody rubbish Newell, Langley, Cook, Kelly”[/quote]

    And no prizes for guessing who the ones were for shouting bloody rubbish Newell, Langley, Kelly, Cook – Jees not him again!!

    #181291
    GoalsGaloreGoalsGalore
    Player

      Genius! So without Whelan investment we would have got to Prem? Would have taken a fair run of luck at Springfield Park under Kenyon like but with guile and good management I see no reason why we couldn’t have got there!

      Our best chance to have achieved this would have occurred had we have kept together our Freight Rover winning team. Alas, we were struggling financially, so had to sell off our prize assets. If that team had have stuck together, I believe it could have gone onto great things.[/quote]

      That was my all time favourite team, fabulous to watch but couldn’t get 4000 to come. And people still moaned “bloody rubbish Newell, Langley, Cook, Kelly”[/quote]

      I’m a relative newbee to WAFC and I’d appreciate it if you could all stop saying how wonderful the old days were! As far as I’m concerned you are all looking through rose tinted spectacles. The last 8 years have been the best I’ve seen at the club, ever. What now? Well as things are, it’s good news as it feels as if things can only get better so we are in the ascendancy to euphoria. Crustie has even been referred to by some idiotic clown down in London who purports to be running the country whilst denying his unwavering sexual appetite. That is an accolade. Not an ostrich in sight.

      #181292

      Genius! So without Whelan investment we would have got to Prem? Would have taken a fair run of luck at Springfield Park under Kenyon like but with guile and good management I see no reason why we couldn’t have got there!

      Our best chance to have achieved this would have occurred had we have kept together our Freight Rover winning team. Alas, we were struggling financially, so had to sell off our prize assets. If that team had have stuck together, I believe it could have gone onto great things.[/quote]

      That was my all time favourite team, fabulous to watch but couldn’t get 4000 to come. And people still moaned “bloody rubbish Newell, Langley, Cook, Kelly”[/quote]

      I’m a relative newbee to WAFC and I’d appreciate it if you could all stop saying how wonderful the old days were! As far as I’m concerned you are all looking through rose tinted spectacles. The last 8 years have been the best I’ve seen at the club, ever.[/quote]

      Give it another 20 – 30 years & you too will be reminiscing & living in the olden days.

      #181293
      GoalsGaloreGoalsGalore
      Player

        Genius! So without Whelan investment we would have got to Prem? Would have taken a fair run of luck at Springfield Park under Kenyon like but with guile and good management I see no reason why we couldn’t have got there!

        Our best chance to have achieved this would have occurred had we have kept together our Freight Rover winning team. Alas, we were struggling financially, so had to sell off our prize assets. If that team had have stuck together, I believe it could have gone onto great things.[/quote]

        That was my all time favourite team, fabulous to watch but couldn’t get 4000 to come. And people still moaned “bloody rubbish Newell, Langley, Cook, Kelly”[/quote]

        Hahaha! Yes, you’re right; as you probably know I’ve only been enjoying myself at WAFC for about 8 – 9 years. First game in the sun v Middlesborough, I think we won 1 – 0 and I think Sibierski scored.

        I’m a relative newbee to WAFC and I’d appreciate it if you could all stop saying how wonderful the old days were! As far as I’m concerned you are all looking through rose tinted spectacles. The last 8 years have been the best I’ve seen at the club, ever.[/quote]

        Give it another 20 – 30 years & you too will be reminiscing & living in the olden days.[/quote]

        #181294
        GoalsGaloreGoalsGalore
        Player

          Genius! So without Whelan investment we would have got to Prem? Would have taken a fair run of luck at Springfield Park under Kenyon like but with guile and good management I see no reason why we couldn’t have got there!

          Our best chance to have achieved this would have occurred had we have kept together our Freight Rover winning team. Alas, we were struggling financially, so had to sell off our prize assets. If that team had have stuck together, I believe it could have gone onto great things.[/quote]

          That was my all time favourite team, fabulous to watch but couldn’t get 4000 to come. And people still moaned “bloody rubbish Newell, Langley, Cook, Kelly”[/quote]

          I’m a relative newbee to WAFC and I’d appreciate it if you could all stop saying how wonderful the old days were! As far as I’m concerned you are all looking through rose tinted spectacles. The last 8 years have been the best I’ve seen at the club, ever.[/quote]

          Give it another 20 – 30 years & you too will be reminiscing & living in the olden days.[/quote]

          Hahaha! Yes, you’re right; as you probably know I’ve only been enjoying myself at WAFC for about 8 – 9 years. First game in the sun v Middlesborough, I think we won 1 – 0 and I think Sibierski scored.

          #181296
          EdwardsEdwards
          Player

            For me the years since coming out of the Premier League have been the most fun I can remember, it just costs an arm and a leg now compared to the 80’s. And my drinking has increased!

            #181297
            grumpygrumpy
            Player

              Enjoyed the recent league 1 games the most, yes we were winning most games but I just like the lower leagues venues and fans the most, would I want to return there no I f in wouldn’t let’s soldier on.

              #181298

              Yep! It was Sibierski with a very late goal. A night match if I remember.

              #181300
              pemblue 1932pemblue 1932
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                Preston get bigger crowds. And again apart from the Whelan years have finished above us. Don’t see that long ago we used to give em the home end at Springfield Park.

                Rubbish royston, check out 1985/86 season, Nob End finished 23rd in Division 4 and had to apply for re-election to the Football League, whilst we finished 4th in the Third Division, missing out by 1 point of promotion to Division Two.
                As for giving the home end up, wtf have you dreamt that one up from?[/quote]
                Can remember them coming in uninvited a few times though.

                #181303
                GoalsGaloreGoalsGalore
                Player
                  Yep! It was Sibierski with a very late goal. A night match if I remember.

                  Hmmmm maybe it wasn’t Middlesboro then, because the game I went to was deffo an afternoon game; a gorgeous warm afternoon. What a start to my Wigan journey.

                  But I do agree … division 1 was a lot of fun. We saw goals, wins, didn’t spend the weeks wages on a ticket, had success and saw kids who hadn’t fully learnt the theatrics of their ‘premadonna idols’ in the prem.

                  I’ve met some great fun people, had lots laughs, in response to my forum posts been told I haven’t a clue and shared a beer with many. What’s not to like.

                  #181305
                  EdwardsEdwards
                  Player

                    If we’re gonna compare ourselves with Preston we should remember, Preston have spent a gazillion years in the shadows, they still go on about Tom Finney because they’ve done nowt else.

                    What have we done in the last 10 years?

                    Won the FA Cup
                    Played in Europe
                    Knocked Man City out of the cup
                    Knocked City out of the Cup again
                    Reached 2 FA Cup semifinals
                    Played in a Charity Shield final
                    Relegated twice playing the worst football in memory
                    Champions twice playing some of the best football in memory
                    Will Griggs been on fire, all over the world!
                    Nick Powell, good, bad and sh1*housing
                    4K at Doncaster
                    7-0 at Oxford
                    Stopped the “Fair play” winners going up
                    5-2 against some other cheats
                    It goes on

                    Who would you rather be?

                    #181322
                    horchorc
                    Manager
                      If we’re gonna compare ourselves with Preston we should remember, Preston have spent a gazillion years in the shadows, they still go on about Tom Finney because they’ve done nowt else.

                      What have we done in the last 10 years?

                      Won the FA Cup
                      Played in Europe
                      Knocked Man City out of the cup
                      Knocked City out of the Cup again
                      Reached 2 FA Cup semifinals
                      Played in a Charity Shield final
                      Relegated twice playing the worst football in memory
                      Champions twice playing some of the best football in memory
                      Will Griggs been on fire, all over the world!
                      Nick Powell, good, bad and sh1*housing
                      4K at Doncaster
                      7-0 at Oxford
                      Stopped the “Fair play” winners going up
                      5-2 against some other cheats
                      It goes on

                      Who would you rather be?

                      Well said Phil.
                      Watching Latics is brilliant and to be around during these years where we have been slam bang in the middle of such a prolonged history making spell has been phenomenal.
                      For such a young club, our history and honours are outstanding.
                      Go back another 10 years and the list of achievements grows longer and longer.
                      What an incredible club we all support.

                      #181323
                      donnys pageDonnys Page
                      Player
                        When has our club let investment and crowds get in the way of success ???

                        Throughout our entire history (Whelan years apart who threw millions at it) ya fool! If you take those years away last year would be our most successful years in our history. Funnily enough now the moneys stopped being put in we are languishing towards the bottom of the Championship. Preston get bigger crowds. And again apart from the Whelan years have finished above us. Don’t see that long ago we used to give em the home end at Springfield Park.

                        Never ever given the home end at Springy to any club. Where did you dream that?

                        #181325
                        The EggThe Egg
                        Chairman

                          I seem to recall it being mentioned on here before about a game in which the Andy’s stand was split

                          #181326
                          horchorc
                          Manager

                            Preston get bigger crowds. And again apart from the Whelan years have finished above us. Don’t see that long ago we used to give em the home end at Springfield Park.

                            Rubbish royston, check out 1985/86 season, Nob End finished 23rd in Division 4 and had to apply for re-election to the Football League, whilst we finished 4th in the Third Division, missing out by 1 point of promotion to Division Two.
                            As for giving the home end up, wtf have you dreamt that one up from?[/quote]
                            Can remember them coming in uninvited a few times though.[/quote]

                            One of the worst I remember was when the Plymouth fans came over from the back of the goals and the paddocks to the side of the Pheonix stand. There was a sea of green all over half of the pitch, but I can’t remember any of them managing to get over the wall ino the home sections.

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