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Both Wellbeck and De-Gea ( Also slated on here ) were Utd’s best players tonight in my opinion ! :)

And Phil, with all due respect you’ve just reinforced my argument!

Wigan RL have been, arguably, the most famous British Rugby League team since around 1923, whilst we’ve been in the top league of English football for just eight of the last hundred-and-odd years.

Now that Rugby League is not the media’s pet project that it was in the early 90s, and English football is being televised across the world, the longer we stay in the Premier League, the more exposure we get.

If we stay in the Premier League, millions of people see us play football. If we won the FA cup and got relegated, half the football watching world will have forgotten about that and us in a couple of year’s time.

We need to stay here for as long as possible so that kids watching us now become adults who remember nothing other than Wigan being one of the country’s top sides.

I doubt many of your Preston supporting mates were around when they last won the cup, and they’re clinging to it because they have f’ck all else to gloat about since they were relegated in the 60s.

I’d rather be talking about our recent games against Man Utd and Arsenal than when we won the FA Cup in 1938![/quote]

I think this thread should be titled ” Winning Boys Or Whipping Boys ” ! :cheer:

Jonny, with all due respect we have been in the top flight for 8 seasons on the bounce now and people STILL say to me it’s a rugby town ! Also the media STILL don’t really take us seriously and often hint that the clock is ticking. As for the BBC and MOTD ! Don’t get me started ! FA Cup win for me, the very fact that WAFC will be on the roll of honour and something else that no Wiganer can have ever have envisaged in their life ! Preston won the FA Cup ( Twice ) and look at them now but ask any Nob Ender about history and they will gladly remind you that they DID indeed win the cup twice. Even AFC Wimbledon have triangle corner flags at Kingsmeadow despite MK Dons really being the previous winners of the cup ( Debatable amongst fans of both clubs ! ) and they are proud of that history, a history that can NEVER be taken away from them ( try telling one of their fans that they have never won the FA Cup ! ) The FA Cup to me will always be special and it is such a shame that a money orientated monster has come between it and the fans. All the lower league teams still left in the competition including a certain Blue Square Premier side will cherish their respective big days out in the coming few days, it will provide a break from the norm and humdrum of their usual match day experiences just as our latest cup exploits have to many fans but in a strange reverse scenario ! We aint had a great deal to cheer about this season and so why not lift morale and have something that is within touching distance, silverware that is there to be won, something that can NEVER be taken from us !

They could get injured in the next league game ! This wrap em up in cotton wool lark is a big fuckin joke ! Get em played and if they get injured then so be it. The late Les dagger ( Ex Nob Ender ) who’s windows I clean used to say that players don’t know they’re born these days and yes I did get tales of heads split open by the lace etc etc ! He did have a wicked scrap book though from when he played with the likes of Tom Finney, Tommy Thompson, Willie Cunningham and Tommy Docherty :)[/quote]

I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but that wasn’t my question. If he plays the first team and, say, three of them get injured and miss the “must win” Reading game, how much stick would he get?
, we get three first rstvetamers injured and out[/quote]

I for one would be cool with it and put it down to kismet. If we progress to the quarter finals of the FA Cup then the injured players would have given their all for the cause, its all hands on deck now and sacrifices will have to be made as everybody pulls together and gives every ounce of grit and determination that they have within them ! I nearly morphed into Mel Gibson then !! :cheer:

They could get injured in the next league game ! This wrap em up in cotton wool lark is a big fuckin joke ! Get em played and if they get injured then so be it. The late Les dagger ( Ex Nob Ender ) who’s windows I clean used to say that players don’t know they’re born these days and yes I did get tales of heads split open by the lace etc etc ! He did have a wicked scrap book though from when he played with the likes of Tom Finney, Tommy Thompson, Willie Cunningham and Tommy Docherty :)

OK I admit I can be too over protective of my team, manager and chairman but give me that any day than slagging them off every time they lose or play bad.

If you have felt the need to analyse the various posts on this thread, then can I suggest you have too much time on your hands dry chammy! :P

PS I’ll give you some research to do Fil if your bucket’s got a hole in, check back when we have won games and see if those same 6 posters are still negative in the days after the win, or see if they actually post at all. It’s that what bugs me and other Lightsiders the most, they appear like a genie from a lamp within minutes of the final whistle when we lose, but mysteriously go missing like Lord Lucan, DFS and LMB when we win. :whistle:[/quote]

If there is a thread that I am interested in then of course I read the posts, how can one possibly comment on a thread if you don’t get the full gist of how it’s panning out ! Oh and it’s chamois by the way ! To be fair there hasn’t been too much to get confident about so far this season but I never shy away after a decent performance. All I do is comment on my concerns, that doesn’t make me any worse a fan than the next man. I wont get hysterical and I wont call the manager anything untoward but when I have seen no evidence of the ‘Run’ that we are supposed to be embarking on then I will show concern ! I have stated several times that contrary to what some might think, I WILL be renewing next season whichever division we are in and I want us to perform to the best of our ability. At this present juncture I do think we may go down but that doesn’t make me a bad fan does it !