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  • in reply to: WELL DONE MICHAEL #149112

    Still no Will, not even for a few minutes. :(

    Would be nice if he popped the winner in against Germany :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:[/quote]

    He must be saving him for the latter stages.
    Having watched all the NI matches I can’t understand why he hasn’t been used at all as that Josh McGinnis looks a right carthorse, and he used to be a goalkeeper.[/quote]

    Northern Ireland have tried three strikers in their games so far , Washington, Lafferty and Magennis. Grigg has scored more goals this season for Wigan Athletic than those three have between them in the last 2 seasons, in his last two seasons Grigg has scored more goals than Magennis and Washington have score in their whole careers, yet he can’t get a run out.

    in reply to: Leeds and Forest #148925
    That’s £23 million over 46 games. The parachute payment is £9m.

    Forest & Leeds have the better players at this moment in time, so the figure you quote will be swallowed up pretty quickly on transfer fees, signing on fees, agents bungs, and higher wages for anyone you persuade to sign that is of the quality to make the squad better than Leeds & Forest.

    As an aside, I’m sure everyone here welcomes you back after a 14 month absence from posting, coinciding with a 14 month absence by WAFC from the Championship.

    A few wins next season and we might get Bob on the Moon & Parakeet back too!

    During the 14 months I have been away I note you are still talking and posting crap, some things never change.

    Let me put you straight on a couple of things that most football fans will know, I don’t include you in that group.

    Income is gained on 23 home games not 46, Latics will receive £10,550,000 and change this year, same as they did last season, I rounded it down to 10 million, meaning those clubs have to earn c £450 k per game to reach what we have already BANKED.

    Who says they have better players ? A know nothing egg chaser like you.

    You go on to claim that we will have to sign better players to compete with them, you fail to say that both Forest and Leeds were mediocre mid table sides last season and will need a complete overall to improve any, so where will those improvements come from ? Oh, that’s it, as the original poster pointed out, they will try to sign a player from ‘us’ to improve them. Dream on.

    in reply to: Leeds and Forest #148921

    Both big clubs and both have been showing interest in Will.
    Now,who do they think they are? Once beens floating around midfield in The Championship. On the field our equals or less and off the field I would say light years behind us.
    So what is it with these once beens? Why do they think Will would want to join them and more so why do they think we would sell him to them and especially for the money they could afford.
    Arrogant, deluded idiots!!!

    Leaving aside the history, Leeds and Forest are both “established” championship clubs with more spending power, more income, and more support. Perhaps you have forgotten that the majority of your squad will be playing next season at a level they’ve never experienced before, and like it or not, will be one of the favourites to go down.[/quote]

    Both those clubs would have to earn £434,782.61 in revenue per game more than WAFC this coming season just to make up for our parachute payments, let alone the fact they are run by foreign owners with no affinity whatsoever with the clubs and don’t seem to be making a good job of getting out of the Championship despite their “established” status.

    in reply to: Middlesbrough travellers #140773
    Egg is pretty quiet on this subject…wonder where he’ll be on Fri?

    I will put money on you not being in the stadium of shite on Sunday

    in reply to: Middlesbrough travellers #140759

    Pleasant cross country drive via Preston, Clitheroe, Blubberhouses, Harrogate & Ripon, lunch in the one of the cracking pubs in the market square in Thirsk, then a short hop to Middlesbrough.

    in reply to: Roberto to return #140758

    Martinez will be returning to the DW on Tuesday May 5th.

    in reply to: Positives from tonight #139882

    I really noticed tonight the number of people who were chatting to me and each other, even those who normally just nod a greeting. We seem to have got back to earlier times where the JCLs have gone back to supporting whoever they used to, and we are left with a (fairly miserable, I’ll agree) bunch of loyal supporters who are starting to recognise each other.

    I’m not at all saying that people who didn’t go tonight for one reason or another aren’t loyal, but I think if you came out on a Tuesday night to watch that against Cardiff, then the vast majority will be back next season no matter what division.

    The cameraderie has a feelgood factor perversely about it.

    An uncanny acceptance about the whole fiasco more like! Gates will drop a further 3000 if we go down![/quote]

    If we go down ?

    I don’t remember the east stand looking so empty for league game for a long, long time, many voted with their feet tonight, I sit in the south west corner so cant judge the west stand from where I sit but that looked just as sparse – anyone in the east/west. know what the south looked like.

    ps – forgot the positives, Bong looked half decent but poses the question – ‘how has Taylor been keeping this mon out of the side’. Second half Boycie, Pennant and Kim started linking up quite well and made a few openings, seeing its the first time they have played together it looked promising, then strangely MacKay decided to bring Cowie on for Pennant and end the building threat.

    in reply to: A warning to some #139518
    So could Dave take Vincent Tan to the cleaners ?

    Quite possibly just as any person of the Jewish faith could take Whelan to court for saying “Jews love money”.

    in reply to: Is there anybody on this board… #139465
    Look at Wimbledon. Got to the top level and won the FA Cup having been in non-league not so long ago. Sound familiar?

    Where are they now? In another town, that’s where. Their financial situation was nowhere like as solid as ours and that was the result.

    Doom, doom and more doom.

    No, I’m not happy for us to go down again – but it’s not the end of the World. Our finances, despite what a few people on here would have you believe, are solid. That doesn’t mean we have tons of cash floating around that DW filches off into his back pocket. It means we are not hugely in debt, and not overspending.

    Wimbledon didn’t have the TV rights money that has been given to WAFC, and the certainly didn’t have 60 million quid in parachute payments, so in real terms were they less solid than us ?
    There seemed to be “tons of cash floating around” when DW was letting Rosler burn it.

    in reply to: Is there anybody on this board… #139463
    Where is the statistical proof?

    Which club smaller than us or on a similar budget have achieved what we have and continue to punch above their weight a decade later?

    Which of these clubs are in the solid financial state that we are?

    Who said we are in a solid financial state, that may have been the case until Rosler started flushing wads of cash down the toilet.

    in reply to: Quality.. #139287

    I can’t believe some are claiming Bournemouth are ordinary or we allowed them to play by not getting stuck in or closing them down, we have played them twice this season and lost both but they have won on 15 other occasions scoring 57 goals against teams other than us, are people suggesting that all the other teams stood off them.

    Bournemouth played the perfect game yesterday, their passing and movement was superb, on most occasions every player in there side when the ball was at his feet had three options of what to do with the ball, they defended brilliantly and closed the game down when we threatened in the second half, on many occasions in the first half their movement left our fullbacks especially Herd in a two on one position, they were clinical when the luck came their way and nasty when needed – ie. turning 50-50 tackles or minor fouls by us to their advantage by fooling the referee they were more serious.

    What they had in abundance was desire, exemplified by how they ridiculously played the ball out from a drop ball in the 90th minute and then pushed up on us to stop us playing the resultant throw-in back into play easily, poor sportsmanship? definitely, but very professional and clinical, many may say they don’t like that, but by heck I bet there aren’t many Latic’s fan who wouldn’t trade what they have and did for what we have.

    in reply to: Quality.. #139286
    Yes quality, or lack of.

    If I was Pearce I’d be a mightily disappointed not to be starting in front of Barnett.

    Frigin hell, I am morbidly obese and I am “disappointed not to be starting in front of Barnett”

    in reply to: Leon clarke #139118

    Will you stop banging on about Delort!

    Yes, he will be scoring goals again – back in the French second division because he wasn’t good enough to make it over here.

    There hasn’t exactly been a clamour of clubs looking to sign him from us has there?

    That could be explained by the fact most all clubs that may have been possibly in the market for him know that because of the number of clubs he has played for this season he cannot play for anyone else other than us or his old club tours.[/quote]
    Fair point. I forgot about that.

    I stand by the rest of my post though.[/quote]

    I have no argument as far as anything else is concerned, I watched him when he came on and wondered had I missed something when others were raving about him on social media sites, I just put it down to the fact I always find it harder than most to except the ability of new players until I judge them over a prolonged period and the fact that he had not had much of a run, plus we were/are crap in all other areas of the field on top of everything else he had to contend with.

    in reply to: Leon clarke #139110
    Will you stop banging on about Delort!

    Yes, he will be scoring goals again – back in the French second division because he wasn’t good enough to make it over here.

    There hasn’t exactly been a clamour of clubs looking to sign him from us has there?

    That could be explained by the fact most all clubs that may have been possibly in the market for him know that because of the number of clubs he has played for this season he cannot play for anyone else other than us or his old club tours.

    in reply to: transfers #139092
    This ‘Striker’ argument that is going on has an awful lot of similarities. The fact is, for me, Wigan Athletic as a club have failed drastically in signing the correct strikers for 6 years. Not one has been successful yet when they have moved on to other clubs they have been a roaring success.

    So who is to blame?

    Which striker that we sold/let go has been a “roaring success” when they moved on to other clubs ?

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