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Ey up! I’ve been waiting for this. The other day i posted why it was oh so quiet after another fine win. Drop a couple of points (away from home) & suddenly the doom merchants are back. Predictable & boring really!!
He’d have been on earlier but had to wait for the highlights and seeing the action before having a moan ;)
There isn’t much that a multi-millionaire wants, but one thing that I am 100% certain Mr Whelan wants, it is to have an ever-lasting legacy within his adopted town.
So far, for a Yorkshire-born Tory who played for Blackburn, he’s done a fantastic job in putting my home town on the world stage. Now its time for him to depart, does anybody seriously think that his last involvement in his adopted town would be to screw over the Rugby side? His legacy may be elevated to God-like status in certain quarters, but it would plummet to something worse than the Moors Murderers in the eyes of 99% of Wiganers. Even those who hold no affinity to either sport would be disgusted in a man who killed a sporting club that has been a constant in Wigan for well over 100 years. Him and his family would be shunned by the town he wants to call home and would forever be known as the bloke who killed the warriors.
I would imagine the retribution would extend to the new owners in an indirect source. Ground safety certificates being slow to arrive, road closures on match days, the removal of the bridge over the river douglas for “health & safety reasons”. There’s a whole lot of disruption the local authority could legally do.
However, unlike some on here and on C&W, I’m certain both clubs will continue to play at the DW stadium for a long time to come.
You need to be careful what you wish for bullshit. If these rich owners are only buying the club then what’s going to stop them relocating the team to an area whereby they can make money by upping the price of tickets and generating a larger level of support. The facts are that the latics, by their geographical location, will never fill the DW on a regular basis.
Do you really fancy a fortnightly trip to somewhere like Basingstoke to sit in your £350 a season seat alongside 15,000 curious Hampshire folk?
Remove the lodgers,always a good idea to remove a healthy income stream.Aye, and while we’re at it, close down Rigalettos and stop holding conferences, weddings, Christmas Parties and everything else that a multi-purpose stadium is designed to do when its not being used for 90 minutes every other Saturday!
Caldwell was a panic appointment made during the season, whereas Cook was appointed at the end of the season after a long recruitment process. No panic in appointing him.
If Latics return to the Championship next season, I’m sure that they will be more than capable of finishing above three teams and take it from there.
Journos keep going on about Paul Pogba and how Man Utd let him go. Chelsea must be kicking themselves when they watch highlights of De Bruyne playing like that.
The frightening thing about the graph is a lot of the clubs listed have been spending >100% of turnover just to keep themselves in the Championship, and two of those listed haven’t even managed that!
Whoever planned the fixtures needs their P45. I understand that most away games for Plymouth are a long way, but surely they could be given fixtures against Bristol Rovers, Oxford etc on midweek nights rather than a trip to Wigan!
Didn’t the EFL in their ultimate wisdom decide a couple of years ago that fixtures would be planned so the longest trips would be midweek? The plan was the derby and other shorter travels could be done on a weekend when more fans could travel.
Basically the away fixtures would be for the many, not the few. May be this works, May be it doesn’t. Cast your vote :woohoo:[/quote]
Interesting article in the Guardian about this very subject:
My worry is if this is the best england can offer, it doesn’t bode too well for the future.When you are picking players like Lingard who have managed 5 substitute appearances totalling 72 minutes in the Premier League this season, you know you are scraping the bottom of the barrel. His form for Man Utd Reserves must’ve been phenomenal for him to get an international call-up!
I thought it was £9 million in parachute payments that season. Don’t forget that grant holt was also paid off in that season. I doubt anyone in the current squad is on even 25% of what he was getting paid!
A lot of clubs have a loyalty points scheme were season ticket holders get a point for every away and cup game they attend and when popular matches go on sale, they get first dabs. However, unless demand regularly exceeds supply then it becomes a pointless exercise. If Blackpool away is going to be a potential flashpoint then sell to season ticket holders only – they are the ones with most to lose if they misbehave.
Yellow card = 15 minutes in the sin bin. 2nd yellow no longer = red and a 1 game ban.
Offside rule simplified back to how it used to be.
Backchatting to ref = yellow card (and 15 mins in the bin). Get some respect back.
No postponements for international breaks outside the premier league unless more than 3 players who have featured in >50% of first team matches selected (ie Owen Evans who got called up for Wales U23 despite not playing a single first team game doesn’t count).
Clubs to compensate all ST holders for any game selected for TV coverage with 5% of the ST fee.
Champions League for Champions.
Bonus point for scoring 4 goals or more.
Whoever planned the fixtures needs their P45. I understand that most away games for Plymouth are a long way, but surely they could be given fixtures against Bristol Rovers, Oxford etc on midweek nights rather than a trip to Wigan!
Likewise GL. As I said on Saturday, I take my hat off to you and the others who follow the tics everywhere for every game – that takes a level of commitment that is off the scale. It was nice to meet the other two members from here as well – one of whom I was at school with!
I’ve no doubt that Saturday was just a blip and come next season, you will be travelling to championship grounds again. I’m still wondering how it wasn’t 4 or 5-0 by half time.
