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I think you are confused. Lindsay is on the Board of Directors of Wigan Athletic. He’s got Fu@k all to do with rugby.
(and you are so welcome to him). :lol:
Plus in my eyes there should be no Monday matches when theres a full weekend!Unfortunately the football clubs have taken the £££££ from Sky and ESPN, and will play when they tell them to play regardless of spectator wishes.
Think yourself lucky its a home game against a club 5 miles away. My lot were given 2 weeks’ notice last season that a Saturday game at Portsmouth was being switched to Monday night by Setanta.
http://www.thefa.com/~/media/776FDC2C66 … _blue_.pdf
Rule 20 means states that the minimum price for 3rd to 6th round adult tickets must be £15.
It is a massive own goal by the FA. The 3rd & 4th round are played the month after the most expensive time of year, particularly for those with kids, and yet they set in stone a minimum admission price which is the same as the quarter final!. Sunderland have drawn a non-league side at home and who in their right mind will want to shell out even £10 to watch our reserves go through the motions and get a scruffy 1-0 or 2-0 win? We will be looking at a crowd of about 25,000, which will include a sizeable away following.
Whilst the adult price will be at least £15, hopefully, both Wigan & Hull can agree to either not charge, or charge no more than £1 for OAPs & Kids so at least the day out for parents who bother remains reasonably cheap.
Think it may be a good match.think Tottenham are going to trounce somebody soon by 3/4/5 goals..
Hopefully it isn’t us tomorrow and im going out a whim by saying my gut feeling is 3-0 to the lads, with N’zogbia scoring 2.
I suppose a bit of this was right, but not the bit you wanted to be right!
But then again, neither did Mr Boyce get it “quite” right…
Thank you “The Egg”. Good to see that some of your lot arent total ignorant khunts.I didnt reply because this was a football post. If you feel the need to discuss Rugby League, Hockey, Gymnastics, Dwarf Tossing or even Extreme Ironing, then there is another sub-forum for it.
Not got a clue what he’s done with his hair, i’m not gay.
Just had it pointed out to me, however, that Wigan Warriors are going from 23rd April – 4th June without playing a home game, then there is an almost month long gap again in June/July. What gives Mutty me owd mucker ?
Grow up and quit the obsession. That goes for all of you BTW.
Even in the close season you are obsessed.[/quote]Answer the mons question chubster :DMy guess is that you will take more than the 134 you took to Spurs last season, but yet again will fail to fill your allocation, even when it is slashed.
312 is my guess. :lol:
2009/10 – 17781. 20th out of 20.
2008/09 – 18350. 20th out of 20.
2007/08 – 19046. 20th out of 20.
2006/07 – 18159. 20th out of 20.
2005/06 – 20610. 19th out of 20. (Novelty season)Half his head is bleached blond, and the other half jet black. He played sh-it too. Does he like a bit of uphill gardening?
We have recently developed a ‘bog standard’ player. He is called Leighton Baines. (Yes, he is a Liverpool born lad, but under the Scunthorpe/Clemence Law, he qualifies)Before that we have had Peter Atherton, Warren Aspinall, and Gary Walsh. All local lads who started their careers at Wigan, and who all played in the top division.
Ok, so in the last 20 years you have produced one player. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure Gary Walsh was a product of the Man Utd academy, as I remember playing cricket against him for Poolstock back in the 80s, and being utterly amazed to see him in goal for Man Utd a few years later.
Its now 5 years since Wigan entered the premiership, and 7 years since you entered the Championship, and became a more established football club. Where are the Wigan kids that were talented footballers as 10 and 11 year olds in 2003? I dont see them in any other top flight side.
I asked in an earlier thread about home-grown players, and the responses I got (apart from the irrelevent rugby-related ones) suggested to me that you have no talented up and coming youngsters, and no half-decent players out on loan at other clubs to gain experience.
You say you dont have an academy. Once upon a time Newcastle didnt even have a reserve side, and look at the sh-it they are in. Leeds also had the “We can always buy players” approach too. It only lasts for so long with that approach, then it all comes tumbling down like a house of cards.
As a Wiganer, I would like you to do well, however I am realistic and know that if a foundation is laid properly, the house will eventually come crashing down. Your club needs to start developing players from scratch rather than buying imports and flogging them on at a profit, as for every jewel, there’ll be half a dozen turds.
Hmm Ian Botham played for Scunthorpe but to my knowledge there has never been a major international sports star from that particular town. Kevin Keegan was born in Donny if that helps our fat fingered egg chasing lurkerI don’t really understand why there should be so much pride in Wigan producing so many international rugby league players, there aren’t really internationals at all. You can only really call yourself an international if your sport is played internationally and rugby league is only taken seriously in 3 or 4 countries. Can you really call it a World Cup when 99% of the world doesn’t play it? It’s like saying the Spanish are world champion bullfighters or Ireland produces the best Gaelic footballers. The Great Britain team don’t really represent GB either, they represent the hand ful of towns who bother to play the game. When noone else plays it, the sentiment is quite meaningless. I mean, why would somewhere like Birmingham or Newcastle produce international RL Stars when they don’t even play the game? Where else other than Wigan, St Helens, Warrington Hull Bradford or Leeds would a RL player come from? They barely play it anywhere else
The cheese rollers in Gloucestershire will be claiming to be international cheese rollers next :roll:
I think Rogues was talking about players who played for Scunny – he never said “born”. Ray Clemence also played for Scunthorpe.
Small steps. At the moment, you have nobody in your first team that is a product of your youth system/academy (Do you have one?), so before you develop an international, how about developing a bog-standard premiership footballer.
Based on you having 16000 Wigan “fans” last Sunday, and the excuses given for non attendance were based on it being a Sunday game then I’d be disappointed if there were not 23000, particularly with your £30 for 3 games, and ST bring a mate for a quid.
And of course, there’ll be Sunderland fans in the South Stand too.
Should be a cracking atmosphere – shame I’ll be slumming it in Madrid that weekend.
