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The premier league is getting almost as boring as the Scottish Premier League now in terms of who can do well. I know Leicester won it last season, but the new TV deal means the big clubs will make sure that will never happen again.
Supporting a football club shouldn’t be about hoping for 4th bottom and feeling good about winning 25% of your games.
Stoke are one of those dozen clubs who make up the numbers in the Premier League. Nobody but their 20,000 supporters really cares if they are there or not.
There was an incident in the tunnel at half time in the barnsley game, I believe Morsy had a bit of a scrap and Barrow had to get involved. He’s not played him since then.He’d be one of first on my team sheet and captain if Warnock didn’t play. A midfielder who has a dig when he gets chance. Keep him and he will be epic next season.
Perhaps he’s a disruptive influence – a poor man’s Joey Barton. It may explain why GC shipped him off on loan.
I think he’ll be peddled this summer – perhaps something was written into his contract that he signed in January to the effect that he could leave for X amount if we were relegated.
They took over the mantle from us in 2013 when we finally succumbed to the big R after several seasons of last-gasp survivals. I cant see them following our downward spiral through another division though.
Meaning if we had a well organised coaching and playing squad there shouldn’t be any reason we can’t bounce back up again even without the parachute payments.There’ll be 23 other sides all with the same mentality come August. The last time we were in this position, we had a £9 million advantage over those 23 sides – this time we wont.
Who do you want as the next boss? I haven’t seen you name anyone definitive yet. ;)I don’t know who this question was aimed towards but I would have Nigel Adkins. However, I think it will be Barrow.
From the latest WEP interview with young Dave:
“You need good people around you, I need good people around me, and I trust Jonathan and Graham with my life. They care so much about this football club”.
I read that as “The new manager will either be Graham Barrow, or someone who will be expected to work with Graham Barrow”.
The pitch issue is for the Stadium Management Company. The fact that DW owns it means he’ll still have to fund it, no matter how much he whinges about how his tenants should pay towards it.
Its one of the downsides of splitting your overall company up.
http://www.wigantoday.net/sport/football/latics/barrow-bemoans-sunday-league-defending-1-8497100Narrows not happy about it either. The press should ask who is dictating this
Unfortunately, the WEP football correspondents seem to be too busy sucking up to young Dave and posting pics of their half time snacks to ask questions like “Why is the manager being told which keeper to pick?”, and the national press couldn’t give a shit about a side about to be relegated to the 3rd division.
And you honestly think he would agree to confidential / sensitive questions like that?No I don’t. But then if I ran the WEP, I wouldn’t be sending Kendrick to metaphorically kiss his arse and produce an article full of clichés and half-apologies.
I don’t doubt young Dave wants the best for WAFC. I don’t doubt he wanted the best for his chippy either. Wanting something to succeed and having the drive and nouse to make it succeed are two different things.
What I do wonder is whether he has the credentials to make a success of running a football club, and at what point his granddad realises that perhaps he hasn’t inherited old Dave’s business brain.
Perhaps now the arse licking questions are out of the way, in part 2 the journo will get down to the type of questions the fans really want to know.
“There were players leaving – whether it was Jason Pearce, or Sam Morsy, or Chris McCann – that I didn’t necessarily agree with, but I had to back the manager. We had a really good team spirit last year, something you don’t get very often, and I felt we had to keep that. But that’s all in the past now, and you have to learn from it. We all have to sit back and have a look at ourselves”
– Who exactly was the bad apple – Pearce, Morsy, McCann, or Caldwell?
“I’m doing the job that my grandad is instructing me to do”.
Which is….? How much autonomy do you actually have?
Are there relegation clauses in all contracts to ensure financial stability?
What exactly is for sale? How is granddad expecting a buyer to come forward when he has kept the assets of the club separate from the club itself?
The international weekend where England beat Scotland.
In fact, all the international weekends, as we have had a week off from these God-awful Latics performances!
The 3-0 win against Blackburn or the last 2 minutes against Rotherham last week!Considering one was August and one was last Saturday, you must’ve been a right barrel of laughs for the last 8 months. I suspect the rugby winning two trophies in that time would have made you unbearable to be around!
With no parachute payment, there is roughly a £10m shortfall between the 2015/16 league 1 campaign and the 2017/18. We wont be able to splash the cash and spend our way out of this mess, so its even more vital that young Dave makes the right managerial appointment.
I doubt there will be much movement in ST prices for next season. If we stay up, expect a £20 rise. If we go down, then prices will probably be £199.
who do you realistically see Whelan selling to?And what appeal does Wigan Athletic have to any potential non-Wiganer buyers?
Until such time as DW is selling something other than a loss-making squad of footballers, then nobody will step forward and buy it. In fact, he wont even be able to give it away.
In order to sell, he needs to have something worth selling. He does – the stadium. But that doesn’t appear to be part of the deal, nor can it be unless any potential buyer either accepts that the rugby have a bona-fide lease to play there, or said potential buyer is prepared to pay compensation to the rugby club and give them notice to leave.
As much as that would make some folk’s day, the amount of compo involved plus the cost of buying a loss-making stadium and a loss-making football team would be eye-watering.