I absolutely refuse to wear a red top because the Wigan Athletic I know and love have always played in blue. :angry:

Football blue, rugby red in Wigan end of. I remember getting in late to the Galpharm stadium when we won promotion to the first division and seeing our team play in red, OK Huddersfield play in blue, where did that fekin red strip come from? OK the moment was great and the strip thing got lost in the euphoria but WTF: :woohoo:

I hope that nobody buys that third strip and they lose a shed full of money producing them. What’s happened to Cardiff is totally wrong and I hope the fans vote with the money in their pockets and don’t invest in a home kit. goodpost

Before i start, my tin hat is on ;)

My problem with all this is that Wigan Athletic are an established Premier League club, and with that comes certain expectations. We are way off the mark when it comes to transfer budgets and wages, when compared to the rest of the clubs in the league, and even compared to some in the championship, and i know that Whelan is trying to run a tight ship and not pay out extortionate wages, but the answer to that is that were in the wrong league then. The premier league attracts global audiences, expecting to watch top players, and the TV money paid is to keep that sort of talent in the league, thus making consistently good viewing, thats what theyre paying for.
Wigan are taking that money, the same as Stoke, Fulham, Everton, Sunderland etc etc, but not investing it in top quality playing staff.
Its like a law firm getting 10 million a year to represent high profile cases, then sending a binman into court on £300 a week.

I think alot of fans that once admired plucky little Wigan, are now getting a bit pissed off with us hanging around, spending sweet nothing, empty stadium, and just being ‘there’. Its understandable when you first get promoted to not go berserk with big signings and big wages, but when youve had 7 years of stability, 7 years of tv money, and bought and sold players for massive profit, is it not a fair risk to up the wages a bit, to even compete with our peers, to make the odd marquee signing to attract more fans? I think its a piss take myself, there comes a point where as an owner you have to invest some coin into your business and make it grow, he wouldnt have done this in any other of his businesses, just let it bumble along making a loss or just breaking even, he’d identify improvements, invest where required and make a success out of it, in order to compete with his rivals, the way the club is structured we can’t compete, so whats the point of even being there other than pissing off everyone that isn’t daft enough to keep throwing their own hard earned into something that gives little to nothing back, unless you get off on the annual relegation survival scrap that quite frankly has become a boring and should in no way be classed as a ‘success’, its a point or three away from abject failure, and unless he starts running it like a PREMIER LEAGUE club and not a poundstretcher it’ll be the same until we plummet down the leagues back to where we ‘belong’.

Boselli scored again last night against Hoffenheim and SSN says us and Blackburn are fighting for DJ Campbell :( :( :S

A signing that smacks of desperation. Don’t rate this lad at all and he is too old, He is about the same age as Michael Owen, I know which i would have.