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Some little pricks even on the pitch.
It wasnt that long ago that you were defending people who ran onto the pitch.
I wonder if this thread is filled with 3 pages of posts like the portsmouth one was after monday.No, because most of those who frequent here were watching on TV or listening to the radio last Monday rather than being at the game, and thus had nothing better to do than moan once the final whistle went
13,000 managed to celebrate without being nobs and running on the pitch.
The club deserve a hefty fine, and the pricks that were on the pitch should foot the bill.
The game was pretty much played in one half of the pitch. First half was all Wigan, but we failed to take the half-chances that came our way. 2nd half, they came out with a different mindset, scored and then kept us at arm’s length for the rest of the game. In fact it could have been worse if Gabbiadini had converted his one-on-one chances with Walton.
They also have a stock of 5000 printed maps with the location of the DW stadium that were found around the South, East & West stands in non-season ticket holder seats. Police are particularly keen to reunite their owners with these maps before 3pm on Saturday.
And, Dave. They are amongst the richest business people in Asia, and that really is saying something.
If these guys are so rich, then they could easily afford to terminate the contract with the rugby and pay them the £20m or so compensation that may be due for buying out the remainder of a 50 year lease. That would be recouped with one season in the prem.
Similarly, if they are so rich and the pitch does hinder the progress up the league, then these guys are rich enough to move the football club to a purpose-built stadium that isnt below the water line, and that is full every week, as they wont want to have “their” club on TV in the far east playing to a 30% full stadium.
With DW, we knew what we were getting – an honourary Wiganer who loved the town, but these new owners have no affinity to the town, and could easily move their club to an area where there is a bigger fanbase.[/quote]
Where would Wigan Athletic have a bigger fanbase?[/quote]
In an area where football league clubs are scarce and population larger. Salisbury/Winchester area has quite a large population but no league club for miles. As far as I’m aware, they don’t even have a top level rugby club competing for support!
And, Dave. They are amongst the richest business people in Asia, and that really is saying something.If these guys are so rich, then they could easily afford to terminate the contract with the rugby and pay them the £20m or so compensation that may be due for buying out the remainder of a 50 year lease. That would be recouped with one season in the prem.
Similarly, if they are so rich and the pitch does hinder the progress up the league, then these guys are rich enough to move the football club to a purpose-built stadium that isnt below the water line, and that is full every week, as they wont want to have “their” club on TV in the far east playing to a 30% full stadium.
With DW, we knew what we were getting – an honourary Wiganer who loved the town, but these new owners have no affinity to the town, and could easily move their club to an area where there is a bigger fanbase.
Were you buying on behalf of you and 9 other ST holders, or are you acquiring tickets for infrequent visitors to the DW – ie the gloryhunters that so many on this board openly dispise.
In hindsight wouldnt it just have been better to have played and won the game when it should have been played rather than have the mid-season holiday.
Not our choice whether the game is played or not[/quote]
Not now, but it was earlier in the season where a call-up for Morsy and a couple of reserve players meant we invoked the original postponement.
It’ll probably get a few thousand of the missing glory hunters off their arses and to the DW too.
Put the flags away Sharpy and sell out the DW!
Those flags hide a lot of seats too, which take up about 20% of the Boston stand. As DNR says, there was hardly anyone in the South either – that’s about 6K out of 20,000 before you start looking at the gaps within the crowd and at the ends of the Boston and Springy Stands that are always empty.
That said, 10K paying home fans is better than some on here were expecting.
How many of those 8000 where arsed with the six cup games we have played at home this season so far?vNone of those games have involved cancelling a pre-planned home league fixture at the DW though, whereas this one does.
Season ticket holders will almost certainly make sure they are available for pretty much every home game that is covered by their ST, or else they wouldn’t buy one. Not everyone can re-plan their lives at 8 days notice because we got a draw at Bournemouth or Fylde.
Like it or not, some people have lives and cannot drop everything because of an unplanned home fixture.Well is it shit really? That depends how you look at it. 10,000 is a big ask for usThe game is taking place on a date/time when we were scheduled to be at home anyway, so the 8000 ST holders would have been planning their Saturday afternoon at the DW. I don’t think it unreasonable for another 2000 made up of premier league glory hunters, or Championship fair-weather fans to show up for one game this season.