Sammy

If he is I’ll stop calling you Dave. ;)

I’m confused.
Where’s the blind faith bit Phil?

Of course there’s something wrong within the team – or we wouldn’t be second from bottom. My argument with Tez is about Delort, Dicko and Riera.

Sammy’s argument is as a result of his comment on my post.[/quote]

It was a bit tongue in cheek Jonny! Tez has an opinion and Sammy just seems happy regardless and always defends the club/manager or whatever! Some folk on here are saying that going down again so soon is normal and the stats clearly show that whilst not being impossible it is far from normal! The clubs that have dropped like a stone before have been clubs in dire straits financially and we are far from that! This ‘Little Wigan’ mentality and anti ‘Johnny Comes Lately’ attitude stinks if you ask me! The so called massive rise in attendances due to the JCL’s has benefited this relatively small club so much and the same trend would and has happened at all clubs in the same situation as we were!
I really do think that similar to me and my ‘Underground music scene’ tastes that some fans really are hankering for the old days when it was sort of cool and different to like an unfashionable club like Wigan! The football hipsters will be well and truly gone when we drop again and the return of good old football debate should return when people can actually say ” well that was fuckin shit today ” instead of just thinking that we are punching above our own weight! Or……Maybe there are some fans out there who want us back in non league football, now that would be uber cool ! :)[/quote]

Sammy isn’t happy at all Fil, in fact he is exceedingly disappointed that his team is second from bottom of the league. What Sammy is objecting to is the constant criticism of the club by those who seem to have all the answers and witter on and on about it like a stuck record.

There is no hidden agenda at the club excluding any player from a first team start, no one is being favoured above anybody else and the manager and his staff are not clueless. The likes of Delort and Riera were not good enough. End of. If I could see it from the odd times they were tried I’m damn sure professional football people could see it working with them almost everyday.

If these players were any good they’d be starting every week and adapting to whatever system the manager decides to play. It’s not like the “one up front” format is exclusive to Wigan Athletic.

Maybe there were some bad apples in the squad and maybe that has now been addressed. We’ll have to wait and see.

Will you stop banging on about Delort!

Yes, he will be scoring goals again – back in the French second division because he wasn’t good enough to make it over here.

There hasn’t exactly been a clamour of clubs looking to sign him from us has there?
I’m taking it that you have extremely poor eyesight otherwise you’ll have seen how poor Delort has been.

He’s started or come on as a sub in 11 games, and not once have I thought he showed anything that might suggest he’ll turn out to be a good signing. He looked, cocky, greedy and too lightweight – in my opinion, obviously, but I’m not a football genius or gifted judge of potential – unlike yourself.

Dicko was deemed not good enough by Martinez, Coyle and Rosler. So all three of them were clueless?

Dean Saunders didn’t rate him Wolves first time round and only used him a handful of times as a sub. Also for a majority of his time at Blackpool he was used as a sub by Holloway.

Hardly glowing references, but well done to him for scoring goals so many at Wolves. That’s the way it goes sometimes. A bit like Ellington with us compared to when he went to West Brom.

And so what if Riera played up front on his own against Barcelona. Deportivo are 14th in La Liga – so they’re currently on a par with the likes of Sunderland, Crystal Palace or West Brom. Adrian Lopez and Albert Crusat both played regularly in La Liga – and they were roaring successes at Wigan weren’t they?

(Incidentally, weren’t you criticising Wigan for playing Riera up front by himself – despite him having played as a lone striker for most of his career?)

And as for that comment about Wigan managers only playing their favourites…..

You do realise it’s not an under 9s team don’t you? The manager isn’t there to give everyone a game so they keep turning up on Sunday mornings. Of course they play their favourites. They do whatever they think is necessary to bring out the best in their squad – even it means dropping a technically excellent player on the basis that his attitude or personality is disruptive. That’s the way it works.[/quote]

I don’t know why you bother responding to this idiot Jonny.

Almost as silly as a grown man calling himself Tez….![/quote]

Or Griff or Sammy or anything else, its my name or my nickname, I ain’t hiding behind bald cock or some of the other shite I see. At last you won the most pointless inane comment of the day award.

If you don’t find it strange, grown men voting to prove how loyal they are that is up to you Samuel or do folk call you Sammy or is it a reference to a seal? FFS[/quote]

It seems everyone else viewed this Loyalty thread as a bit of fun except you “Tez” who used it for another one of your pointless mard-arse rants.

So who’s the one miserable sod that’s had enough then?

For many people the game is only part of the match day experience and, as I have said before, if it’s guaranteed enjoyment and entertainment you’re looking for then football isn’t for you.

Telling fans to fuck off for one….!

Let’s hope he’s a player who doesn’t want to hoof the ball and can form a good partnership with Cowie so the moo-ve will benefit everyone.