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No idea Goole. Thankfully it didn’t happen.
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Did discussions ever take place with Bolton about ground sharing or was it just wishful thinking or an arrogant presumption it would happen?
If it hadn’t been Bolton who else would have been approached?
Preston, Blackburn perhaps?Can you really envisage rugby fans travelling in any great numbers to another town especially after the moaning that went on about moving just a mile or so down the road.
A move out of Wigan would have sounded the death knell for the club.
Aye, Whelan sold them down the road alright…..!
So it could have been Stoke fans.Could have been Sunderland fans upset at paying over the odds for a striker yet to find the net.
I recently drove past the statue and slowed down to take a better look. I thought, well it’s just a question of time. A prime target for attack and easy prey being off the beaten track with those slender ribbons not too difficult to damage.
Maybe it was mindless vandalism by kids not necessarily connected to the rugby but there’s no doubt the rugby lot are still very bitter about the indignity of Whelan having saved them from bankruptcy and providing them with a modern stadium in their home town. Whereas we consider the DW to be our stadium they don’t and having Whelan outside holding the FA Cup just reinforces that view.
I don’t know what the club can do other than having some kind of security there. Maybe there’s CCTV footage but that doesn’t always provide conclusive evidence. And will the new owners, or Whelan himself, be all that concerned about trying to prevent it happening again especially if it involves some financial outlay.
He’ll score goals no problem, I think even in the Championship he’ll score, it’s just at Wigan he was never given a chance due to injuries and why go up you make a loss anyway.The big difference is you as a person who watches football can “think” that but those at the football club have to decide.
Being in the second tier of the football league pyramid are bad times?Some on here need a reality check.
Good post this, GL. Thank you.I do think that substitutions are one of Paul Cooks weaknesses. Sometimes, it feels as if he is changing things for changings sake, not because a player needs changing, specifically.
Different if you are 3 up with five minutes left and want to give someone a run out, or are losing. But not 2 or 3 changes if the opposition have time to get back in the game.
Clarke and Pilkington were flagging and Fox looked like he’d done his hamstring. Gibson was poor and repeatedly gave the ball away with Garner committing his usual sin of giving away unnecessary free kicks, some in dangerous positions in our own half.
So I wouldn’t blame Cook for making the changes which were necessary and like for like considering who we had on the bench. It was the players who weren’t up to it.
How’s about weve been dog shit….and Aguero would get 5 goals a season with the non league standard of service we’ve supplied this season. Seriously preferring Clarke to Grigg …..really ???….Nearly as big a load of bollocks as the quote “Powell is the best player in this league”…..of course he is .Bet he’s aged a bit since we last saw him..Would love him to get a decent run in the team but with his fitness. nah.!…get him off the wage bill..That’ll upset the Powell groupies.Why do you still persist with this view regarding Will Grigg?
He’s had one and a half seasons in the Championship both with us. Brentford didn’t think it was worth the gamble and was prepared to sell him on and neither did MK Dons, although I accept that may have been a financial decision.
So, one and a half seasons in the Championship during which his goal scoring record is at best, questionable.
Of course having better players around him would increase his chances but he’s also up against better defenders so one sort of cancels the other out. Are you really suggesting the club should go out and spend a fortune on other players who can better the “non league standard of service” (rolls eyes in disbelief) he’s getting now just so an unproven player at this level might score a few more goals?
By all accounts the club weren’t in any rush to sell him to Sunderland but £4m for a player who has only performed in League One is good business by any stretch of the imagination.
And what makes you think everybody else, professional football people, have got it wrong but you are right?
We got away with an absolute nailed on penalty for them when Jacobs handled in the box. A bad decision going our way for a change.
Stats ?…How many starts has he had ? Won’t net bench warming. Love it when posters trawl out “he wasn’t good enough fo the championship “tripe.Season 2015-16 – League One
Appearances:- 40 Goals:- 25Season 2016-17 – Championship
Appearances:- 33 Goals:- 5Season 2017-18 – League One
Appearances:- 43 Goals:- 19Season 2018-19 – Championship
Appearances:- 17 Goals:- 4 (3 pens)Paul Cook: “The club desperately wanted to keep Will but this is an offer we simply couldn’t refuse.
“This comes with so much emotional attachment because Will is so popular with our supporters and is somebody who has given everyone associated with the club so many great moments during, not just my time as the club’s manager, but throughout his three-and-a-half years at Wigan Athletic.
“We all wish Will the very best for the future.”
What an heap of crap that is.[/quote]
What’s crap about it?[/quote]
Because he made him 3rd choice ?. I think blaming other players injuries on why your not been played is about as weak an excuse as you’ll ever get,
Can you imagine it:
“Sorry Harry bench today m8, Ali and Ericsson aren’t fit I’ll get back to you when they are”
He was the best forward at the club who didn’t suit Cooks style or player profile. Yes the money was right but I’m sure it wasn’t the sole reason as Cook would like you to think the bullshitter.[/quote]
“Best forward at the club” based on what? His record in League One and not backed up by any evidence he was better than any others at the club at this level?
Anyway, 3rd choice or not the club were not necessarily falling over themselves to sell him, turning down several (eight if you believe the BBC website) attempts by Sunderland until, in the end, they met the valuation.
Paul Cook: “The club desperately wanted to keep Will but this is an offer we simply couldn’t refuse.
“This comes with so much emotional attachment because Will is so popular with our supporters and is somebody who has given everyone associated with the club so many great moments during, not just my time as the club’s manager, but throughout his three-and-a-half years at Wigan Athletic.
“We all wish Will the very best for the future.”
What an heap of crap that is.[/quote]
What’s crap about it?
This is what separates most owners from fans. They have to see it differently, as a business, otherwise you’re on a slippery road to ruin and there are many examples of this, not least with the club just 10 miles down the road.
Everyone has a price. Grigg met the valuation and was sold. It happens so we shouldn’t be surprised and with Grigg being a popular player it rankles even more.
Grigg is a good League One player and will scores goals at that level but for all the speculation on here that the team doesn’t play to his strengths he has never cut it in the Championship or ever shown signs that he’s likely to.
Players, even legends, have their time and at some point, will go.
Wish him well and get on with supporting your team.
There’s always an excuse made for Will Grigg; he’s not getting the service, were not playing to his strengths. He’s missed plenty of good goal scoring opportunities when he’s supposedly been provided with the right service but people turn a blind eye to that whilst other players are openly criticised for squandering similar chances.
Grigg is a good League One player and an average (if I’m being kind) Championship player. Grigg isn’t the answer to our problems and never will be at this level.