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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.
We need someone who knows League One and how to get out of it, whilst bringing through youth.
Nigel Adkins would be an ideal appointment.
We will start with a new team again, and will have to gel again. It’ll be a hard task.No we wont. Last time we went down, we had players who were wanted by championship clubs. No Championship side will want these plodders.
Where did it all go Wrong ?Easy answer: when Roberto bailed out after taking us down, cos he hadn’t got the balls to prove he could get us back up ! His excuse was that he couldn’t adapt his style in the Championship.
Was that the same time as half the squad also bailed out because they hadn’t a shred of loyalty to the club?
Truth is there was a fire sale in the summer of 2013 as DW wanted to recoup as much cash as possible, which included a pot of compo for the manager.
Hopefully not Pie. With a winning side and reasonable priced ticketing we could see similar crowds to last season. The extras from this compared to last will most likely drop off again so it is essential to have a side playing positive attacking football. No massive turnover of playing staff required. This squad minus the borrowed invalids could storm League One with the right man in charge.I don’t doubt they’d storm League one with the current squad, but those who consider themselves to be worthy of Championship football and don’t fancy being back on League 1 wages will have their agents agitating for a move all the way up to 31 August. Similarly, if the club foolishly haven’t included relegation clauses, then they’ll be trying to peddle some of the higher earners to save cash.
Throw into the pot no manager for next season, so no transfer targets, no news on what price ST will be and the fact that Wiganers are generally tighter than a duck’s arse when it comes to spending money on sporting fixtures, and there is very little to convince anyone but the most die-hard blue to put aside £200+ for next season’s campaign.
We were down to around 7,000 last season, which was a drop of 10,000 from the Prem. This season, the euphoria of promotion and the lure of dirt cheap season tickets managed to persuade 3,000 of the deserters to come back.
Sad as it seems, with no announcement on ST prices for next season, no parachute payment to subsidise them, and every reality we’ll be swapping trips to Newcastle for trips to Southend, then I can see the desertion gathering pace.
