The point was that it was said there were only three highs this season, when I get home from work I will sit down and scrutinise every game if you want* and I gurantee I will find lots more highs and certainly more than I would construe as ‘many or very many’.

You can have more than one high per game you know?

natdan, how did your chat with Martinez go at the players dinner?

* I clearly won’t as I have much better things to do with my life.

Depends if you class over 50,000 as ‘not many’. You seem to spend a worrying amount of time on that rugby board :oops: [/quote]
Hmmm, 50,000 divided by 14 teams = 3,571ish fans per club, your right that is bloody superb support for such a tremendous sport. Football should just pack in now.

I don’t know the figures involved but assuming that TV income is a minimum of 30M surely this easily covers the wages of 20 (good/promising) players averaging about 20 grand a week (= 20M/year) ?[/quote]
But unfortunately, good/promising players at this level still cost £2-5 million each, so even if you manage to snap up some great prospects at the lower end, you’ll still have to find £40 million before you pay the wage. You also still need a bit of experience in there as well, so count on those wages being more than £20K a week.

You also have over 150 people working in and around the stadium, I would hazard a guess that 30 or so of those are full time. The manager, First team coach, Physio, Reserve coach, commercial manager, Secretary, CEO, groundsman etc all these added together wont be cheap.

The stadium still needs electric, gas, water, supplies etc….. the AGM was the other night, maybe someone who went can shed more light, but I would hazard a guess that right now, it cost £42+ million to run the club per year.

While in China , a man is very sexually promiscuous and does not use a condom all the time he is there.
A week after arriving back home in the States, he wakes one morning to find his penis covered with bright green and purple spots.
Horrified, he immediately goes to see a doctor.
The doctor, never having seen anything like this before, orders some tests and tells the man to return in two days for the results.
The man returns a couple of days later and the doctor says, ‘I’ve got bad news for you, you’ve contracted Mongolian VD. It’s very rare and almost unheard of here, we know very little about it.’
The man looks a little perplexed and says, ‘Well, give me a shot or something and fix me up, Doc.’
The doctor answers, ‘I’m sorry, there’s no known cure. We’re going to have to amputate your penis.’
The man screams in horror, ‘Absolutely not! I want a second opinion.’
The doctor replies, ‘Well, it’s your choice. Go ahead, if you want but surgery is your only choice.’
The next day, the man seeks out a Chinese doctor, figuring that he’ll know more about the disease. The Chinese doctor examines his penis and proclaims,
‘Ah, yes, Mongolian VD. Vewy ware disease..’
The guy says to the doctor, ‘Yeah, yeah, I already know that but what can we do? My American doctor wants to operate and amputate my penis!’
The Chinese doctor shakes his head and laughs. ‘Stupid American docttah, always want to opawate. Make more money dat way. No need to amputate!’
Oh, Thank God!’ the man replies.
‘Yes,’ says the Chinese doctor, ‘wait two weeks. Faw off by itself!’

I’m sure I’ve read it on more than just one thread :roll:

you should post under the name ditos…

same paranoid drivel as the scared ones that think we’ll be relegated. Don’t you think that the real supporters are concerned about our status, position and inconsistecy?

Yes we are, but you know what, I would rather get behind my team and support them, drive them on you obviously dont. You would rather us be managerless and actually in the relegation zone (have we actually been in there yet?).

You carry on and scare monger, I will carry on and support my football team – No matter what!

So how many of you are going to the night then????

Latics beat Aldershot 4-0 on this day in 1988, did Paul Jewell score 3 or all four of them????