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Nobody in championship gonna buy him and nobody in league one can afford him
But plenty will take him on loan whilst his wages are subsidised by Wigan. There were enough takers for Grant Holt and I suspect Griggs wages wont even be half of what he was on!
Thanks Nuneaton!
I’m too young to remember the 1973 or 1976 finals, but I would say that anytime a side from a lower league wins the FA Cup, it would rank as a bigger upset than a winner from the bottom of the same division against a side at the top. In terms of 1988 Liverpool or 2013 Man City, then I’d have to say as Egg did that the Liverpool of the 1980s were a class apart and a fantastic team, whereas Man City were a group of extremely expensive individuals that on their day can rip any side apart.
My personal recollections of 2013 are that in the eyes of the purists it was largely forgettable. Ive never watched a re-run of it (perhaps I should). But honestly, other than Watson’s winner, I cant remember much apart from the people in the row in front of me were drunk and left before the end(!) and my son’s 7 inch pizza was almost a tenner!
Back on topic though – Barrow would be an awful choice as permanent manager. Just because he’s been Mr Latics for half his life doesn’t make him a good manager, and he’s a bit long in the tooth to be starting out on that path. I saw somewhere on here the name Nigel Adkins suggested – that sort of appointment wouldn’t be a bad call.
That Liverpool team was a bit special though.Which is why the Wimbledon win was all the more remarkable. Liverpool had lost twice in the league all season and won the title by 9 points. As English clubs were banned from Europe, they simply had nothing to play for in that Final, which suited Wimbledon – a club spending their 2nd season in the top flight and their 11th in the football league.
Nuneaton – Your version of the 2013 game seems at odds with the stats as to who was the better side. Man City (who had already qualified for the Champions League and were about to change their manager) had 12 shots on target that game (against Wigan’s 7) and 52% possession.
52% gets the country out of the EU, so it must be a valid stat!
The similarity between 2013 and 1988 is that both winners were playing sides who, whilst winning would have been nice, wasn’t essential to European entry.
the last time an unfashionable club won the cup was Wimbledon in 1988, some 25 years earlier. That was before the PL was invented and the billionaires got involved so hardly a good comparison.Spot on here – there can be no comparison.
Wimbledon won it when there was no Sky money to be shared out amongst the top flight clubs, no overseas broadcasting rights to be shared amongst the top flight clubs, no sponsorship of the FA Cup. The financial success or failure of any club at that time was down to gate receipts and player trading.
So tell me which season we had a worse squad!
14/15 one was pretty inept! With some supposed ex prem players in it.[/quote]
Carson, Taylor, McLean, Huws, Perch, McMannaman, Watson & Al Habsi all got sold or moved on freebies to Premier or Championship Clubs. Cowie, Tavernier & Waghorn have done alright in Scotland.
I’d suggest that the 14/15 squad was actually pretty good, but somehow got ruined by either Uwe Rostler, or (if he hadn’t lost the dressing room) his sacking. The racism charge against DW, his subsequent ban and resignation, and the hiring of Malky McKay made a bad situation much worse.
The pitch at Robin Park Arena less than 50 yards away is always in perfect condition whatever the weather. That puts the location theory out the window.Are you referring to their 3G sports pitch?
Great Stadium – wrong location. The DW stadium is a good ground built on marshland. I suspect the land was quite cheap to acquire.
Hull & Huddersfield don’t seem to have such a problem with their stadium – probably because whoever bought theirs paid a little bit more for a location that was suitable.
Rich folk in Wigan don’t build their family home in downtown Platt Bridge or Norley Hall. Similarly rich folk shouldn’t build sports stadiums in a swamp!
No need to do that Garswood. I’ve come to the point now where banging my head against a brick wall has hurt too much and will leave here of my own accord, with my head held high. If you wonder why the number of regular posters has gone from several hundred to about a dozen, then look no further than the mirror gents. Some of the posters on here must actually like having a reason to be bitter too much to let something go.
For those of you who engaged in proper debate with me – I thank you. To GL – you are a gent and I’d happily buy you a pint. To those who purely resented me because I had a different viewpoint to the one you have – you really do need to let it go. Life really is too short to bear grudges over decades.
MWD Over and out.
No. I’m a Wiganer who finds the constant anti-WW tirade from a handful of people very very childish. Its 2016, not 1989. The Berlin Wall has fallen, the USSR is no more, Thatcher’s dead, we’ve had two wars in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, and yet some of you still bang on about one comment by one individual as if it were yesterday and use that as a reason to continue living your life with a monstrous chip on your shoulders. Do you have bitterness to Mr Whelan for stating that “‘Wigan is the most famous rugby town in the world”?
http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/whelans-10m-plan-for-wigan-6305332.html
Of course not.
For the record, I have absolutely nothing against WAFC and have been to many games when I’ve been back visiting family & friends, and was at Peterborough last season. I was a proud Wiganer with my son at Wembley in May 2013, and will continue to be a proud Wiganer.
The answer being he saw messages on wigan evening post latics and rugby fans arguing so decided to join our site seeing some posters where from cockney laticsReally?
Check when I joined this site. It was a mere 12 days after you!
Bullit may have harped on continuously about rugby, but when all said and done he was a tic.He also attacked people for not sharing his beliefs. Try reading (not scanning) the FA Cup thread where he launched into a WAFC ST holder for indicating his attendance at a potential “once in a lifetime” FA Cup game at Ashton instead of Wigan v Fulham, and you’ll see that he was starting to irritate other die-hard ‘tics too.
As for your question – I was born in Wigan, went to school in Wigan, but moved away soon after my A-Levels, and still have friends who follow WAFC, but without the bitterness towards Wigan Warriors.
You may wish to have a look on Vital. There’s no anti-rugby posts – in fact there’s no rugby posts whatsoever.
There’s also a very comprehensive list of rules for posting – one rule in particular caught my eye:
3 – This is a forum for discussion. That means most of the time, most of you won’t agree. Most people will debate the issue in hand as befits a discussion forum don’t make your threads personal. If you are unable to reply without making a personal comment about somebody’s belief then don’t reply and save us all the favour of having to read it. You can ‘attack’ a fellow members’ point of view, you cannot attack them for having that view.
Sadly this is where Bullitt (and others) fail. They cannot accept anyone else’s point of view and take to shouting, personal insults, name calling & comments bordering on the libellous in an attempt to shut down any alternative view.
I commend GL for his stance and his very eloquent way of explaining the role of a moderator. The easy option would have been to ban me, but as I have not subjected anyone to a vicious and personal attack, then all that action would have done was to create a site with a stance similar to North Korea.
For those of you who wish to discuss football matters with me, then I am happy to debate them till the cows come home, but please do not bring rugby into the thread. I maintain my stance that even though I do follow Wigan Warriors, I have never personally started a rugby-related thread on this site. I have no need to – I know most of you either couldn’t care less or passionately hate the sport, so to start a thread would make me a troll. All I do is defend my club using facts, links and a degree of respect equal to the person I am debating with. If you debate with me as an adult, then you’ll find my responses are far different than those who can offer nothing better than “knob”, “die”, “fck off” or any other immature response.
Bullit’s gone, and I for one wont shed a tear. Check his posting history and you’ll see that all he’s done in the last 8 months is snipe, sneer, insult and belittle. I doubt he’d last a week over on vital with that attitude.
I look forward to continuing to debate football-related topics with you in an adult fashion for a while yet….
I thought watching a last-gasp win at Hull was good, but seeing him go into meltdown after accusing GL of being me and then get kicked off CL has put my weekend on another level!
Perhaps I haven’t been kicked off because I haven’t broken any of the forum rules. Nor have I repeatedly insulted the mods.
I’m sure he’ll be back soon with another ID – that’s what he kept doing when the WEP kicked him out.
Perhaps he and the other Mods, who give up their time freely to ensure the site owner doesn’t get a writ landing on his doormat, are a teeny weeny bit sick of your juvenile attitude.
Face it – you got kicked off the WEP for being a troll, so you joined here, hoping for a little more support. You got some at first, but when the likes of “The Otter” (who has never agreed with anything I say) start calling you out, and GL/Egg start losing their patience with you, the fat lady is really starting to warm up.
Grow up fella and get some help.
