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Apart from possibly the cup final, or the world cup final, no game of football in the world is worth £27.
If he’s going to play 4-3-3, I’m a traditionalist and would rather see players on the correct wings i.e Zog on left. Players cutting in all the time are easy to defend against. People on here have told me why he plays so narrow by having people on wrong wings but I don’t think we’ve got good enough players to play through the middle in this way, and our full backs don’t get up enough to generate the width.
If the “wide” men in the 4-3-3 played on the correct wings, the defenders would be stretched wider, also creating space for the likes of McCarthy/Scharner/Gomez to run into through the middle. Old fashioned, but it tends to work – e.g Spurs when they beat us 9-1.
GL has described it according to my understanding
Theres a cutoff date, and prices are advertised according to the number of pledges to buy a ticket. I think Bradford set the price as little as £5 a game if they got 15,000 pledges by a certain date, and it worked. Also really successful in Huddersfield
To me, the gate money is negligible compared to the Sky money. They should be focussing on building the fan base, and if it takes schemes like this to do it at knock down prices, they’re just going to have to bite the bullet.
We should be aiming for 20,000 season tickets, split the north stand in two, half for away fans and half for on the day home fans. If they really pushed/marketted this sort of scheme, I reckon they could do it (assuming we’re still in the prem next year….)
I think we’d be better copying Bradford/Huddersfield and say season ticket prices depend on how many are sold by a fixed date. So if we sold 20,000 for example we could have them for say £150, the price rising as the numbers sold reduces. In these places these schemes have worked a treat, created a buzz and increased crowds massively
I’d rather show that we’ve made it by actually winning things.
Most people on here seem happy to settle for mediocrity
It’s not mediocrity we settle for it’s survival!!!!
How do you think our club would survive if we got relegated? our income would be cut by millions all our best players would be sold we would have no money for replacements our crowds would drop. I don’t even want to consider us getting relegated although if we stay up a trip to Wembley wouldn’t go a miss.[/quote]
Be realistic. We could get relegated at any time – this year, next year whenever. Whelan isn’t going to invest any more to take us further up the table. If your only aspiration is to survive, it soon gets boring. Our crowds look to have peaked and most people in Wigan who want to go are now in the habit, with a lot of kids going – I reckon a lot would stay even if we went down. If we won the FA Cup, thats our place in history. No-ones going to remember a team that finished lower mid table in the Prem for a few years before being relegated. Yes, we’d lose a few players and a few part time fans, but we’ve not exactly overextended ourselves in the last couple of years. Apart from seeing us get stuffed by the better teams, fans don’t gain much by being in the Prem – the teams we can beat are not much better than Championship standard anyway.
Relegation used to be part and parcel of following a team, not the be all and end all. Premiership – don’t believe the hype.
I’d rather show that we’ve made it by actually winning things.
Most people on here seem happy to settle for mediocrity
What a rubbish and pointless postThats official then. I’ll not waste space anymore asking pointless questions about why most Latics fans would seem to prefer scraping by in the Prem than winning the main cup.
I’ve supported Latics for 32 years. I’ll still be there if we get relegated….
SW – on a post a couple of years ago there really were Latics fans saying they’d take 10th rather than 17th and Carling Cup. Can’t understand that myself.
I’d still swap FA Cup for relegation. Where do you really see us getting in the league? I can’t ever see us ever beat Jewells achievement in 05/06. So if you can’t envisage success in the league, hanging on every year is a pretty miserable existance. At least if we won the FA Cup we’d be in the history books.
Sad that the finances of the Premier League seem to have overtaken the glory of winning the FA Cup, and the chance of winning a trophy for teams lower in the table.
Cash is king now even in the eyes of the fans now I suppose.
OK. Slightly less provocative, but similar question.
Two choices:
1. FA Cup and 17th place
2. 50 pts and 10th place, a la Jewells first season.As an aside, I’d have swapped 10th place in 05/06 for 17th and the Carling Cup.
You can’t put 17th in the Prem League in your trophy cabinet.
Lets face it, Prem League survival is for the Chief Execs. The glory of winning the FA Cup is for the fans. Would be a better way of establishing our name than a couple more dull years scraping by in the Prem, which is what we’re destined for.
You’re right in a lot of what you say.
But most football fans had a good laugh at Tevez’s goals and celebration. My favourite non Latics football moment of the season so far! If it takes another load of billionaires to shake up the top 4 then its better than nothing. I’d rather see Villa do it with some good young English talent (and Heskey), but at least City is a change.
There is a fantastic jealousy coming out of Old Trafford at the moment. Their owners are taking everything they can out of the club, and down the road Citys owners are going the other way. Utd were probably right when they say Tevez wasn’t worth what was being asked. But when money is no object, City knew they were getting a proven performer.
Well you should probably take the border between England and Scotland because then you’d be in Scotland.
Otherwise you could take the centrepoint of Scotland, but is that the simple geographic centre, or population weighted?
Noone gets as rich as Whelan without having a ruthless hard headed streak. Whatever his reasons – ego trip, whatever, he delivered and took us up to the prem. I don’t mind if he gets his money back. Look around the prem and down through the divisions to see how much worse it could be.
We’ve probably got the lowest prices in the prem, particularly for kids which means most people who are interested can afford to get in. Has developed the fanbase for long term hopefully.
Overall, with some negatives, he’s been a positive force for Latics.
