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I was just seeing what other clubs thought about it when I stumbled across this forum. If you scroll down you will notice the obligatory piss take out of our support!
http://www.redcafe.net/threads/music-when-a-goal-is-scored.312526/
Of course you’ll get the piss taken out of our support because playing music after a goal is scored is seen as compensating for having small crowds that don’t create an atmosphere.
End of the day I can’t see many teams in this division letting a player of he’s quality to go for 5 million. Joke of a offer.In the event he does want to leave your take on this would be to refuse to sell him at that price, if that’s all that’s being offered, and let him see out his contract so he can leave for nothing at the end of the season?
In effect your argument is his presence in the team would give us a better chance to stay in the Championship and the cost to the club is £5m, or £5m less to spend on players for next season.
Either that or we have got shut of our prize assets for peanuts.If the interested clubs are only willing to pay peanuts, if you consider £5m to be peanuts, then what do you suggest the club should do if they are in fact hoping to cash in on an asset who has decided he wants away and can do that for nothing at the end of the season?
His second yellow was that bad a challenge it did take both Windass and Massey out TBFNitpicking maybe but Massey jumped over the challenge, Windass got clobbered.
I still don’t understand how we ever got voted in that year. For years previously we’d been massively dominant in non league and by quite a way the best supported non league club. But by then we’d started to wane a little and our crowds were dropping. Couple that with the fact that Wimbledon got elected the season earlier (I think). It was unheard of for 2 new clubs to be voted in.In true Wigan Athletic fashion, everything was against us but we overcame it all. Some things never change.
Very true.
For the reasons you’ve mentioned I completely forgot about our application, resigned to the fact it would never happen and most certainly not this time, and being shocked and surprised when the news came through.If there ever was an example of “when you least expect it”……
A fortunate set of circumstances gained us our league place.
The rule (although not really a rule more a collective agreement I believe) was that the team who finished champions of the then Northern Premier League would be the only one to apply for election, the thinking being that if only one team from the league was to apply it would give them a better chance.
The Southern League also adopted this same policy and Bath City was the only other non-league team to apply.Latics finished second in the league that season some six points behind Boston United but their ground was not up to football league standards so the honour was passed to us and the rest, as they say, is history.
Here’s how the voting went:-
York City FL 49 re-elected to Division Four
Rochdale FL 39 re-elected to Division Four
Hartlepool FL 33 re-elected to Division Four
Wigan Athletic NP 26 (2nd vote 29) elected to Division Four
Southport FL 26 (2nd vote 20) not re-elected
Bath City SL 23Resting players for the sake of it a fortnight into the season is a piss take. We are conceding goals alarmingly and it will continue unless the defense learn how to play as a unit and that means playing together regularly in competitive games.He wasn’t resting players for the sake of it.
We only have four recognised centre-backs at the club with one already injured, two recognised right-backs with one injured and one left back. So why risk playing James, Dunkley and Robinson – Kipre had to play! An injury to any of those would cause big problems.Should have these early round league cup games in pre-season.If that were the case it wouldn’t be pre-season.
Can we stop the music nonsense when we score?I agree. It’s cheesy and naff and stifles the natural response to a goal. Do you really have to be prompted to celebrate a goal?
“But the kids like it”. Kids like lots of things that they eventually grow out of. This is one of them. Stop it.EFL today’s matches are on Quest – channel 37 on Freeview – on now.In standard definition and 4:3 format or do I get an inferior transmission on my BT box?
A group in dark suits and ties behind Sharpe and Whelan today.
Hard to see from the East Stand (appropriately) if they were oriental. Anyone sat nearer care to quash this thought or fan the flames?Yes the directors box was full of folk with an East Asian ethnicity, some in Latics tops along with their kids.
Also sat in there was the “tub of lard” known as Roy Hattersley!I thought the two’s up cross p1ssing in the toilets is something British Rail should consider bringing in as standard practiceBritish Rail?
The cross-pissing was just a taster – pun intended – before the open sewer it became later.However tight the money may be at the moment it was still a surprise to see the CEO board the ten o’clock Trans-Pennine cattle truck out of Preston yesterday.
Aye. McGuire to me has looked more world class than Kane. Two easy headers against Tunisia, a few pens and a goal that he knew nothing about and hit his heel doesn’t mean he’s the best striker in the world. Bloody lucky to finish top scorer. Pickford been decent but nowhere near same class as say a Courtois and doesn’t have same presence. He was flapping a bit against Croatia and was lucky with a couple of spills as he was earlier in tournament. World cups are notorious for making average lads world beaters based on a couple of games.Kane has been a disappointment especially in the knockout games but that doesn’t detract from my belief he has world class potential. Maguire has been the surprise player and fully deserves the praise he’s been given. I thought he was a decent prospect when he played for us but didn’t think he’d reach international level. However, I’ve heard pundits comparing him with Bobby Moore, which is like comparing Messi with Will Grigg.