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Sorry, mutty, and far be it from me to post a link to this rag, but it is allegedly the world’s largest online newspaper, and this is its current second top headline
That looks like major world interest to me
Wow! Just goes to show how popular Rugby League is in Wigan and how well known the Tomkins brothers are. I’m pretty sure that had that been two Salford players in a bar in Manchester, or two Warrington players out in Cheshire, or even two Leeds players out in Leeds, then it wouldn’t make the nationals.
Hated, Adored, but never ignored. ;-)[/quote]
Why are you on this site? You are a self proclaimed Sunderland and Wigan RFLC fan so what reason is there for you to be here. You are tolerated when most dedicated forums would have had you banned long ago. Is it solely to try to provoke, antagonise and be confrontational because in most, if not all, cases you fail miserably. Does this site satisfy your masochistic tendencies?
Even if this is being viewed as an early signing ( Pre new owners ) it is still a pretty underwhelming one!A familiar story: manager goes back to previous club and signs a player he knows.
Who’s to say he’ll be a first team regular but if he is won’t he deserve to be or are we now lining up a different scapegoat to Massey?
It’s the end of May. If he was a panic buy just before the season starts because we’ve not been able to sign anybody else then that would be a cause for concern. But he’s not and neither will he be.
Nipped down to the stadium this morning after work to get mine & my sons.
Received the tickets there & then. I have never known that in my life. Usually receive them in the post about 30 minutes before kick-off. Well done the club.
Yep, did exactly the same myself today.
The person at the window went away for a couple of minutes and came back with the cards. Do they make them as you wait?[/quote]They must have done. I was shocked to get them there & then.
Sammy, you wasnt there at 10am by any chance was you?[/quote]
No not me. Just after 12 when I was there.
Nipped down to the stadium this morning after work to get mine & my sons.Received the tickets there & then. I have never known that in my life. Usually receive them in the post about 30 minutes before kick-off. Well done the club.
Yep, did exactly the same myself today.
The person at the window went away for a couple of minutes and came back with the cards. Do they make them as you wait?I’m pretty sure if it was a genuine enquiry and not an attempt at shit stirring you’d have gone direct to the club.
I’ve asked them – I’ll let you know what their reply is.
I’m sure you don’t want a nasty racist sat amongst you, and I’m sure you wouldn’t want it swept under the carpet either.[/quote]
Bravo!
You are to be commended for your concern and for having the welfare of the club at heart on this matter.The players looked like they hated it. I mean one of them actually jumped into teh stands to get away at one point.That isn’t surprising though, trying to avoid having two or three pissed-up blokes jumping all over you.
Point is Sammy the fixture itself should be irrelevant however much I agree with you about the City game. It is against the law to go onto a pitch whether it is a league game cup game or league decider. We were rightly fined for breaking the law so now parity must ensue. Blackburn fans stopped the game thinking the ref had blown for full time instead of a free kick. Either every pitch invasion is punished by a fine or scrap the law and view every incident separately. I don’t think we are being mardy arsed just looking for consistency.But the nature of the fixture isn’t irrelevant.
So the Blackburn fans invaded the pitch because they thought the final whistle had gone? The media coverage was low key, the game wasn’t being televised all over the world and it didn’t really matter if the game didn’t go the full distance anyway. If it had been Blackburn or anybody else beating City in that cup match with the same pitch invasion they too would have been fined.
And let’s put the fine into some kind of context. I don’t know what the minimum fine is for a pitch invasion, if there is one at all, but £12,500 is hardly worth bothering about. City got fined £50k for failing to control their players.
Yes, the media made more of it than was necessary but that’s the way of things today. The talk after the game was more to do with the antics of the fans on the pitch rather than the fantastic result, a situation which the football authorities could not overlook.
If people want to carry on posted about this topic let it be ….who are you Sammy mayor of Wigan.What’s being the mayor of Wigan got to do with anything?
And if I want to post about this topic then let that be as well.
If people want to go on the pitch after a game then fine, I get that up to a point, but there are potential consequences so don’t go bleating about it when it backfires and the club gets a fine or play the we’re being persecuted card because some other club hasn’t.
We’re starting to sound like mard-arses.
I think it’s time we put to rest this pitch invasion fine of ours and the idea we’ve been harshly treated. In today’s football world a £12,500 fine is not even a slap on the wrist, more a bit of finger wagging, so stop looking for comparisons with other pitch invasions in some desperate attempt to show how much we’ve been hard done by otherwise we might start tripping over our bottom lip.
The difference with the City game was its high profile, the fact it was beamed around the world to multi-millions of people. However you may judge the severity of what went on it was unsavoury and to dismiss the Aguero incident and the stand-off with the City fans with objects being thrown as some incidental event is to completely miss the point of why the fine was imposed. Those after match antics were not something the authorities would seem to condone by not imposing some kind of punishment. To argue Aguero didn’t get off the pitch quick enough or that the City fans were as much to blame is a lame excuse. It was Latics fans who were on the pitch.
Get over it!
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Oh, and we are not the Tics we are the Latics.Glad someone thinks the same. I hate the name Tics.
A Tic is a blood sucking parasite that lives off the blood of others. Not a name I would want my club to be associated with :(
Where did this name come from???[/quote]An abbreviation of an abbreviation.
If we’re being pedantic our nickname is Latics, not “the” Latics, as in “we are not the Tics we are Latics”.On the other hand …..a lot of folks come to this land with not a pot to piss in….then that’s another story lol.
Yes they do, after we spent a century draining their country of natural resources and enforcing our language and culture on them. But that’s also another story!![/quote]
You’re opening a can of worms here SW.
We had Harry Lyon and Altrincham had Jackie Swindells, both prolific goal-scorers.
Altrincham was award a penalty in one game at their place and Swindells and our ‘keeper, Wigan born Dave Gaskell, were having a bet on who would prevail. Swindells won.
Oh, the nostalgia. I’m filling up here……!
I remember Freddie Pye being interviewed on TV after we’d signed Eamonn O’Keefe from Everton for an easily then club record fee of £65,000 (about £250k in today’s money).
He said something along the lines of “Larry (Lloyd) came to me and said get me Eamonn and he’ll get us up”, which he did of course. When asked if the club could afford that kind of outlay he said, “well, we don’t run a football club like you would run a business”.
Prophetic words indeed from 36 years ago which resonate in today’s football world where clubs still spend money well beyond their means.
Freddie Pye was before my time at a Latic but coincidentally he is mentioned several times in a book that I once read about the Manchester gangster firms. Or more specifically his scrap yard off Mort Lane in Tyldesley is mentioned as a site where people were taken to have done to them what gangsters do to people who have wronged them or need making an example of :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:[/quote]
Scrap metal dealers were (and no doubt still are) notoriously dodgy characters. Willing to pay cash to equally dodgy characters who turn up with lead, copper pipe and copper wire with no questions asked.
Freddie managed Altrincham, one of our main rivals, back in Cheshire League days. Beating them used to prompt the singing of “Freddie Pye is having a cry, hallelujah”.
Opportunist was Freddie.
