On the basis that the bookies rarely get it wrong and the worst team always finishes bottom over 38 games…they have us as being the 4th worst team come May,albeit by a whisker

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/eng … relegation

I’ll take 17th now

Fantastic post Edinburgh mon, a very astute assessment of where we are

No he’s not. He is implying that Blackburn are a “yellow water” team we should be beating. I simply pointed out, that “yellow water” or not, we haven’t ever beaten them at their ground whether the manager was Martinez, Bruce or Jewell. This is a fact

How is it 100% correct that we should beat a team whom we’ve never previously beaten? Based on the fact,history etc I’d say it was closer to 0% correct that we should be beating teams like Blackburn but don’t let your rants get in the way of the facts.

As for the too defensive argument, we scored two legitimate goals away from home which is easily above average
We also had 10 shots on target and 6 off target,
That notoriously defensive outfit Chelsea managed 9 on target and 7 off target at Ewood Park last week.
Either you expect us to be a more attacking side than Chelsea or you are making the mistake of letting your emotions get in the way of facts ( again ) :roll:

Indeed.
How much longer can this go on?
How much longer can a provincial town with 55 million of debts and losses, and barely 10000 home fans continue to sustain a place in the English Premier League. Especially when a fair chunk of the spoilt brats who claim to support the team amongst that 10000 are spitting their dummy out at the manager for not beating a team who we’ve never beaten at their ground,except for a lancashire cup tie in the mid eighties ( & even that was on penalties IIRC ) Even when they would have beaten that team were it not for some shocking refereeing & linesmen’s decisions. Grow up and give yourselves a shake you big mary ellens, and get behind the team,the way some of you behave its like you want us to get relegated :roll:

what’s all this about Scholes ???[/quote]

Heard from a very good source at the weekend that the “sign” thread got deleted because the PR dept at WW got twitchy once the national press were getting wind of it and were worried that the family sport might be portrayed as a bunch of bigoted narrow minded inbreds if proper national journalists read it and so they asked the site admins to remove it ;)

Hmm and how do we compare to these clubs in terms of the following key areas all of which impact the ability to recruit and maintain a team ?

Financial position
Size of fan base
Commercial pulling power
Transfer and wage budget

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Feel free to keep passing things off as drivel because you fail to understand them. I shall try again and make it as simple as possible for you:

You seem to have only two things to say

1 ) lots of professional Rugby players come from Wigan
2 ) not too many professional footballers come from Wigan

The reasons for this as several people have tried to get you to register in that tiny little brain of yours is that

1 ) hardly anyone plays rugby league outside of Wigan and a few other Northern towns so the fact that Wigan RL produces lots of players is not impressive, it is entirely logical given that statistically not many people outside of the M62 corridor ever bother to even learn how to play the game

2 ) By contrast, nearly every area of the country, indeed nearly every country in the world plays football therefore given a larger pool of players to select from, it is not inconceivable that football players may have originated from somewhere a little bit further afield than Thatto Heath or Woolston.

You seem to be trying to compare two completely different ball games, one of which you definitely know nothing about and I’m starting to have doubts about the other one. :roll:

So you read the other post and thought “Oh look that’s a thread about Jordi Gomez but it’s not good enough for me so I’ll ignore it and start a completely new one of my own” :?