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A little distraction from our own predicament.
What did Mr Shearer say about Bobby on MOTD last night. No plan B & too late with substitutions. Well spotted Mr Shearer, we could have told you that a few seasons ago !
Europes finest doesn’t seem to have any plan at the moment ! Loving it !!!! :)[/quote]
Perhaps hes lost his iPad, or then again it may be down to him having no plan B. Champions league is looking fekin miles away, but hey ho his team has had good possession again today. :P[/quote]
jr, do you not get get tired of typing in “Champions League” in this thread? you have mentioned it once or twice. Would love to see your reaction if Everton win the Europa League :lol: :lol:[/quote]
There will be no reaction from me if that happened. He’s quite good at winning silverware and performing miserably in the league, same season. B)
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What a journey!He is one of those people who i for one wouldn’t have minded as manager of our club. Like someone else posted, quite decent promotion record.
It could happened if Malky gets the chopp after all he is still waiting a hearing off the F,A, if outs gona come of it. :dry:[/quote]
I’m not sure if anything can come out of it, Balotelli posted a racist remark on Twitter and only got a one match ban. Malky’s texts were sent to a private mobile and not intended for public viewing, therefore in comparison, what action can they really take? :ohmy:
Whatever happens I hope that we keep one very large barge pole, between us and Colin. :woohoo:
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What a journey!I think if there was a queue of people lining up to take the club off Whelan’s hands we wouldn’t be in this situation.
actually you may have an point tis an pity a few others cawnt see it
:whistle:[/quoteI can see it
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!A little distraction from our own predicament.
What did Mr Shearer say about Bobby on MOTD last night. No plan B & too late with substitutions. Well spotted Mr Shearer, we could have told you that a few seasons ago !
Europes finest doesn’t seem to have any plan at the moment ! Loving it !!!! :)[/quote]
Perhaps hes lost his iPad, or then again it may be down to him having no plan B. Champions league is looking fekin miles away, but hey ho his team has had good possession again today. :P
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What a journey!He’s been working around the club and the training ground for the last year or so, getting to know the ropes. In the absence of a willing, wealthy Arab sheik, it seems like perfectly adequate succession planning to me.
Yeah right, so a young office junior starts work in your office, doing a bit of everything for 12 months and then is appointed MD. :ohmy:
Adequate succession planning my arse, if he takes over from Whelan it will not be down to him being the best man for the job, or him being ready to take on that role.
It will be a classic case of who you know, not what you know appointment. :woohoo:[/quote]
Oh c’mon JR you know it’s not as simplistic as you make out. He will not be let near any major decision for at least a couple of years. Old heads and hands will have tight rein on the club until he proves competence.
I too agree that it makes perfect adequate succession sense – right move at the right time with a tight long term plan.[/quote]
Having just read this article on David Sharpe, I am even more convinced that he should not be let near the Chairman’s position for several years.
“Wigan say there are no imminent plans for Whelan to step down, but Sharpe’s involvement has increased since Sharpy’s, the fish and chip restaurant he managed near the DW Stadium, closed earlier this year. He has also been active in the selection and appointment of managers”.
Nuff fekin said! :dry:[/quote]
Indeed JR, as I said, DW will still be running the business for years to come; as for Sharpe being ‘active’ in the selection and appointment of managers – those are the words I would write about a subordinate during their annual appraisal (even if it was only to applaud/recognise their shuffling of paperwork and appointment booking skills).
Still the right decision for me.[/quote]
Sorry but I disagree, there’s no sentiment in managing a business. If I had been on the board of directors for many years, I would resent the appointment of a young 23 year old rooky as my chairman, just because he happens to be the current chairman’s grandson. There seems to be enough unrest at the club at the moment that needs to be sorted out ASAP, without throwing another spanner in the works.
Part of the reason we are in this position IMHO, is that sentiment has got in the way with the likes of Barrow, Jones and a few others being kept in the fold too long, people who have never played at the top or managed / coached at the top.
I believe that if Martinez had chosen a Ray Wilkins or a Steve Clark type character to be is assistant when at the helm, we would still be in the prem.
Off the field Wigan have been the most amateurish team ever to grace the prem. I’ve not got time to list the many examples of this, but every one of the posters on here will have referred to that at sometime over the duration that we were in the prem. The infamous empty seat press conference, being one cringe-worthy example.
You are probably right in the fact that David Sharpe will at some point, be the Chairman of Wigan Athletic Football Club. At the end of the day it’s Whelan’s toy and he can let whoever he wants play with it. I don’t begrudge him that honour one little bit, but I can only see an implode situation if he goes down this route too soon.
Lets agree to disagree on this and see how things pan out. I just hope that the boy is not put under the same amount of business pressures that may have contributed to his dad’s tragic ending. :(
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What a journey!He’s been working around the club and the training ground for the last year or so, getting to know the ropes. In the absence of a willing, wealthy Arab sheik, it seems like perfectly adequate succession planning to me.
Yeah right, so a young office junior starts work in your office, doing a bit of everything for 12 months and then is appointed MD. :ohmy:
Adequate succession planning my arse, if he takes over from Whelan it will not be down to him being the best man for the job, or him being ready to take on that role.
It will be a classic case of who you know, not what you know appointment. :woohoo:[/quote]
Oh c’mon JR you know it’s not as simplistic as you make out. He will not be let near any major decision for at least a couple of years. Old heads and hands will have tight rein on the club until he proves competence.
I too agree that it makes perfect adequate succession sense – right move at the right time with a tight long term plan.[/quote]
Having just read this article on David Sharpe, I am even more convinced that he should not be let near the Chairman’s position for several years.
“Wigan say there are no imminent plans for Whelan to step down, but Sharpe’s involvement has increased since Sharpy’s, the fish and chip restaurant he managed near the DW Stadium, closed earlier this year. He has also been active in the selection and appointment of managers”.
Nuff fekin said! :dry:
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!He’s been working around the club and the training ground for the last year or so, getting to know the ropes. In the absence of a willing, wealthy Arab sheik, it seems like perfectly adequate succession planning to me.Yeah right, so a young office junior starts work in your office, doing a bit of everything for 12 months and then is appointed MD. :ohmy:
Adequate succession planning my arse, if he takes over from Whelan it will not be down to him being the best man for the job, or him being ready to take on that role.
It will be a classic case of who you know, not what you know appointment. :woohoo:
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!….just been appointed to the Board of directors! :ohmy:
Does that rule him out of taking over from Whelan, or is this the start of his apprenticeship??
His apprenticeship started yonks ago. Why would being appointed to the board preclude him from being the Chairman? In fact, it’s a pre-requisite.[/quote]
Not the best start to being an “Apprentice Chairman”, being asked to run a chippy. :woohoo:
I can only see a few similarities, one being that in Wigan Athletics case, in both positions, you are in charge of a load of puddings. :blink:From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Here, here!
I was one who berated him after he poked his nose into “Whelangate”, but really hope he pulls through.
The lad has been in some dark places in his life, but looks like he is facing his toughest battle yet. :(
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Not the Delort I’ve seen. Looks out of his depth. It’s amazing that most of that team today beat City away less than a year ago. Hard to blame Mackay. So many are jacking it off. Let’s hope he has an idea of what we need by January as a ten point gap could be a tricky one to bridge.So did McCarthy on his full debut. How the eck do you expect players to adapt to a different culture of football, off one full game and a few cameos.
I want to see Riera and Delort playing together for 4 or 5 games, then I will judge them. This McClean playing the centre forward role is a bag of shyte. He didn’t win a header, he didn’t hold it up, he is a useless centre forward. Fortune when he came on looked a world beater and McClean started to look a player out wide, on the left, not a position I would play MacManaman, he is dangerous on the right.
I still believe we have a decent team, its just a case of playing the right team in the right formation. I love the guy, but after today’s game, Maloney shouldn’t put a latics top on again. He just isn’t interested any more, you would never thought the hype of playing well for Scotland would have gone to his head, but it has.
This is getting so frustrating, today I found myself more interested in getting scores from other games than watching ours. :(
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!How many tickets have we sold for Horwich? Booked mine last night.
Well that’s 1 at least then :)[/quote]
The clubs in enough Sh!te as it is at the moment without stupid comments like that.
I asked a genuine question FFS.[/quote]
Mind you it was a pretty shyte question in the first place. How the fek are we supposed to know how many tickets have been sold?
Go on then,I’ve got mine, my mates got he’s, that’s 3… :kiss:
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!I really think these experts get it wrong, even after seeing the slow mo a dozen times. If someone is running at speed and you just nick them, it can literally pol-ax them, although the contact is minimal. Sometimes you can’t make out were the contact was made.
Harry Kane was nicked on Sunday and went to ground. Was it a penalty?, not sure, but the guy did not dive IMO.
The other controversial thing at the moment is ball to hand or hand to ball. I thought that had been cleared up years ago, in that if the ball struck your hand or arm and it was sufficiently out of its natural position, then it really doesn’t matter if its ball to hand or hand to ball. Look at the continental players, they have started to put their hands behind their backs now if they cant get close enough to tackle a player in the box.
It’s creeping into our game along with this touching the turf and crossing of the chest then looking upwards when entering or leaving the field. What the fek is all that about?, I bet most players who do that have never seen the inside of a church since they were babtised, but it looks real cool and Messi does it. :kiss:From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Shouldn’t this be in the fishing section?Who you trying to cod? :blink:
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What a journey!
