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As the Chairman of a club in the football league he will no doubt have been given freebies and opted to go there instead. Don’t really see the issue.
Other than he chose to watch a football match between two clubs he has no connection with rather than be at an important event involving a club he does.
But as you say, not really an issue.
Chairman of Oxford United, maybe has a lot of business interests down there….more a football fan than a rugby fan. Saw him at Loftus Road after we’d lost at QPR in the league game
And of course DW never misses a Latics game?[/quote]
Yes Whelan misses games, usually when he’s sunning himself in Barbados. Since there isn’t an equivalent in football to the “magic” weekend it’s difficult to make a comparison. However, I don’t remember Whelan ever being seen at another sporting event when Wigan Athletic were competing in a “prestigious” event.
The story I heard was that during a tour of Scotland it was dropped in a vertical direction smack bang on its base whilst full of ale, which reduced the overall length a bit.
I can’t name the player involved but it was a bit clumsy of him apparently.
Caldwell isn’t good enough. In the Prem apart from those last seven games the season we stayed up he wasn’t good enough. He’s been out all season comes back and missed a penalty at Wembley setting the tone for the shoot out. Plays well and then lunges in giving away a penalty. You may disagree but he’s a liability and I’d rather see him punch the floor somewhere elseIt seems Gary is the Mr Chinnery of the team. Not that he is the only one who makes mistakes of course but his tend to be the important ones, such as Swansea at home, the penalty at Wembley and on Monday.
But at least inconsistency isn’t one of his weaknesses.It was unfortunate that the best chance we had fell to feet of our main striker instead of a centre-back.
The game turned out exactly the way I thought it would; QPR determined not to lose and us unable to break them down.
It’s made for a much better one off game on Monday without the distraction of either team protecting what they might have gained from tonight’s match.That’s the question the bloke getting his tickets next to me asked. He didn’t get any kind of meaningful explanation from the lady serving him.
I think it’s because it’s less aggravation for them not to allocate the seats specifically to each season ticket holder.
The West and East stands are not unreserved seating and it does take more time for them to be allocated, as I found out earlier.With Norwich fighting to stay in the Premier League, David McNally (Norwich City CEO) was asked during a radio interview what relegation would mean for the club.
“The brief is to keep out of the bottom three and that is what we are doing. We will not contemplate relegation, in a sporting sense it is worse than death,” McNally said.
“I would prefer death rather than relegation. There is nothing more important than keeping this football club in the Premier League. We are all focused on that.”
Death…..!!!!
What a desperate state of affairs this staying in the Premier League has become.
“When I came in at the beginning of December we weren’t in a position to be anywhere near thinking about the play-offs but now with two games to go it is still in our own hands”.
I hope this isn’t a “look how far we’ve come” excuse being lined up by Uwe.
Why are people getting their knickers in a twist over this?
Rosler selected the wrong team and formation from the players he considered were available to play. He realised this and at half-time changed it. If you listen to his post match comments on the BBC website he more or less admits to this.
Maybe he did make mistakes, but I very much doubt he ever intended throwing his first choice starting eleven on against Burnley when there are two much easier games coming up and the play-offs just over the horizon.[/quote]
It didn’t matter that it happened to be Burnley last Monday, his intentions would have been no different should we have played Yeovil instead. He would have rested the same players and made the same team changes. He got the team selection and formation wrong and has all but said so himself. As for the next two games being easier, listening to that same interview Rosler certainly doesn’t believe that to be the case and according to him the statistics support that view.
Why are people getting their knickers in a twist over this?
Rosler selected the wrong team and formation from the players he considered were available to play. He realised this and at half-time changed it. If you listen to his post match comments on the BBC website he more or less admits to this.
Would’ve been nice to cement our playoff place today and send a message to our rivals, but what did we have to gain by going all out with our strongest team against a club that was drooling for a home win to seal promotion?Espinoza not even on the bench was puzzling though.
I’m sure Rosler didn’t deliberately pick a weakened team on the basis that it was a game he thought he couldn’t win or it was a game he could afford to lose.
He screwed up and more or less alluded to that in his post match comments.
