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The anti-Martinez mob probably moan about the price and taste of ale too much to go in pubs ;)

I agree with Tyldesley, these injuries unfortunate though they are happen all the time and have happened for years at all levels of the game. I remember Neil Davids and Andy Ainscow ( twice ) suffering compound fractures

Trouble is now is that players are assets worth millions of pounds, Sky show replay after replay, radio phone ins and the media whip these things up into a frenzy. With players being leaner now and wearing lighter footwear and the pace of the game being quicker, these things happen even more nowadays. 30 years ago you practically had to stab someone to get sent off with all sorts of challenges which are outlawed now at best ignored or unpunished

Same goes for penalty decisions and free kicks etc, it is supposed to be a contact sport, so you should be able to make contact with an opposing player, youre just not allowed to foul them-there is a difference! You simply cannot go near an attacking player and attempt a tackle now if you are defending the box as Melchiot found out on Saturday

That said horrific injury and hope the lad gets well soon
PS Imagine the media frenzy if he’d been English :shock:

Oh right so because some bell end of a rugby fan from Wigan says RL is the world’s greatest spectator sport and links to some journalist on a rugby league page who watches the game, that’s two people – when are you going to get around to ensuring that the other 6.8 billion people in the world automatically agree with your statement? You did speak on behalf of the world after all didn’t you? I am sure if you ask Americans many will say baseball or American football, Ask Japanese they will say sumo, ask Europeans, South Americans or Africans they will say football. Ask Australians and you’ll have as many saying cricket, aussie rules, RU as RL given that it is by no means that countries prominent code.

But oh no, your sample of two people can apparently speak for the WHOLE WORLD of 6.8 billion people, of which around 6.79 billion have never even heard of rugby league. Come back with something better please.

Try leaving your house once in a while, there is a big wide world out there beyond the pit villages of Lancs & Yorks which you inhabit, and the insular world of RLfans.com where self serving idiots convince themselves that they are right to turn their back on the local team who is playing the national and global game in favour of some 21st century version of shin kicking ( and then hypocritically go and pledge allegiance to a big football club from a city they have no connection to ) Hardly anyone in the world gives a toss so if this perceived quality that you speak of is so great, why does the world ignore it?

You and your hate filled chums on RL fans might think RL is great in Wigan ( or wherever the other 40% live ;) ) just like they think cheese rolling is ace in Gloucester or bullfighting is great in Spain. Your opinion has been dismissed by me and dismissed by the rest of the world, toddle off back to the site where you all tell each other lies until you believe each other. After all this is a football site and before you say it,YOU were the one who came on here mouthing off about RL and slagging off your local football club. Stick to your own back yard, or at least attempt to come back with some facts to back up what you’ve said, you can’t lie your way out of it on here. Please remember that you have chosen to speak for the whole world here and not just the sad Latics haters from the small minded world you inhabit.

Best wishes
Scholes ;)

If it is the greatest spectator sport in the world, can you explain why no-one is interested in the game throughout the world save for those with a WA or WN postcode, parts of Yorkshire and a small corner of France, Australia and New Zealand?

I am intrigued as to how you can make a statement that something is the greatest spectator sport in the world when 99.9% of the world completely ignores it

Just another rugby liar I guess :roll: [/quote]

I think he means value for money wise (which i’m sure was proven a number of years ago)[/quote]

He should have said best value spectator sport in the world if he’d meant to say that then. He appears to have done a runner because ( unlike the rugby board ) telling lies gets challenged on here.

It might be the consensus view in the antiquated enclave of RLfans.com amidst the constant lies and deathwishes about Latics that RL is the greatest game, but outside this particularly parochial and insular group of hand wringers, the rest of the world barely acknowledges the sport

If it is proven to be such value for money/greatest spectator sport then surely EVERYONE in the country and the world would be playing and watching it. The residents of South Wales didnt think so, nor Paris, kent Invicta, Mansfield Marksmen, Gateshead and nearly every other failed venture the RL has tried to take the game outside of Lancs & Yorkshire pit village.

If someone can explain why this isn’t the case then I might be inclined to agree with the statement.

Come on Rogues Gallery, back up your statement and tell all us Latics fans what we’ve been missing :lol:

Danny Shi-ttu

Does he still play for the Shi-tters up the road??

So in summary Loudmouth you believe that Wigan Athletic’s rightful place is mid table nestled in just behind the likes of Villa, Spurs, Everton and City

I believe that given that we have one of the smallest transfer budgets in the division, the smallest crowds in the division, therefore the smallest gate reciepts, one of the poorest chairman, Kilby at Burnley is worth £4million, the rest are much welthier than Whelan, except perhaps at Pompey. Our current manager has inherited a squad which did finish in mid table a year ago but half of that team was sold off in January and the summer and a fraction of it put back in because Whelan is paying off debts because the club can’t sustain the outgoings. Well we aren’t doing too bad after five seasons

You clearly hate Roberto but don’t seem to offer any solutions as to who should be the manager, Mourinho, Van Gaal or Rijkaard perhaps?? and what miracles they should be expected to work under such tight financial restrictions. Maybe you’d like Steve Bruce back, I’m sure he could do a good job, maybe if we trebled his transfer budget and wage bill, gave him a £30m strike force and another 20,000 fans, he might have been…oh that’s right a whole two points further on than Roberto.

Seeing as you hate the manager so much to call him a tosser, and instead of repeating the same old diatribe over and over again on here while some of us are trying to support the club whilst recognising the situation we are in. I suggest you put your money where your mouth is and get down to Christopher Park along with Vat69 with your Martinez Out banner. Get yourself on Sky Sports. Sorry that you’ve given up, a football club is about ups and downs. It seems some on here have such delusions of grandeur that they seem to think Wigan Athletic is now too precious to suffer any downs any more and would rather spit their dummies than try and support the club to help them turn it around.

I respect your opinion and know I’m not going to change it, nor Tyldesley or any others of the dark side but your criticisms of Roberto seem to centre around the fact he has lost points, how many points did Steve Bruce lose from January last season? How many points did Jewell lose when we nearly got relegated. You are criticising him for going to Everton, Stoke and Sunderland and not winning?? That would be Everton with 120 years history now challenging for Europe, Stoke who can afford to spend £12m on Huth and Tuncay and Sunderland who are owned by a billionaire not a market stall owner done well? Get real, he’s not perfect and he’s making mistakes but he is probably the only manager we could afford. I don’t know whether he’ll turn it around but like it or not we are where we are, scrapping near the bottom with the clubs like Bolton, Blackburn, Hull, Burnley etc – all of whom are miles bigger than us in terms of infrastructure, history and fanbase and if the smallest club in the premier do manage to stay up it will be a real achievement, again.

I find it slightly amusing that people think we cannot possibly get a result against top half/champions league qualification challengers when we already have got decent results against top half/champions league qualification challengers such as Villa, Chelsea, Fulham & Manchester City :?