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Some belters in here
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“34 Years As A Tic’s Fan …”
If that was vaguely true you must have seen worse.
Not a good year, certainly, but….. :shock:
Why do I think that your 34 years statement isn’t true? That’ll make you nearly as old as me – and I’d never call myself “lad”.
any bunch of cloggers can beat a top team on their day.
Of all the things you could describe us as this season I think “cloggers” is far from anyone’s lips. :?
My view seriously.
I’m OK with Roberto – can be a bit pig-headed though with sticking to his guns of fancy footwork when at times we need a plan B, which is “hoof it”.
But I said it early in the season and stick by it (pig-headed some would say). He needs better support staff. Graeme Jones I agree is a Wigan mon – but he just doesn’t have the savvy to be able to advise Martinez to do different, certainly not to PL standard. Keep him on the staff by all means. But Martinez needs a good number 2 – someone who can say to him (and convince him – stood at the edge of the area all alone with his thoughts) “look gaffer, we need to do this, or try that or whatever…”
Someone who can say to the players, and who the players will listen to, and say “after ten minutes if this isn’t working then change to this..”
In my many years standing next to them all, my main memory is people like Alex Cribley yelling “simple ball”, “blue shirt”, “make space”. Simple concepts we have lost trying to play fancy football with players who frankly haven’t got the skill, or more importantly the intellect, to make choices.
We will never be world beaters, but if we are on a positive (Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal) we can perform miracles, if we are on a downer (Wolves, Spurs, Bolton, Pompey away, Man U (twice), today) then our heads go. We need someone in the backroom who can get heads in order….
I don’t know where all these Labour voters are, I speak to hundreds of people everyday from different walks of life, I know of 1 person who voted Labour. To me there’s a bit of dodgy dealing going on here in Wigan, is it Gordon’s wife counting our votes or something ?What people say and what people do are very often different things
I’ll try to explain what I think happened – and why the decisions made were not that bad.
Quite a few on this thread have said the “invasion” was a bit of fun, just celebrating, nothing at all etc etc.
That may have been your intention – but not everyone sees it like that. It would only have taken a few Hull fans to consider it provocative, taking the piss, showing we think we’re better than they are or whatever.
You must have seen some of them as they were leaving the ground. They aren’t jolly chaps waving a fond farewell to the Premiership – some are as up for trouble as some of ours are. Remember Stoke? Remember Northampton? Not to mention Millwall of course.
If they had decided to come on the pitch too then there would have been some, what papers call, “ugly scenes”. If there had then I trust you grown-ups would have accepted your responsibilities in leading youngsters into such a situation. Poeple (some young) would have been injured, the FA would have had an inquiry – and being Wigan and not a “big club” we could have been made an example of and had points deducted if it was serious enough.
So the match controller has a decision to make. Does he put lines of stewards along each stand – spreading the resource thinly, which as we know can then be broken through.
Or does he ensure that the two sets of fans are kept well apart, by doubling up on the North Stand – one line to keep them in, one to keep ours out. And it worked.
And maybe, just maybe, he hoped that our more mature supporters would have influenced the younger elements to stay off the pitch until the end. Unfortunately in that he was wrong. He couldn’t have foreseen that we would score in the last minute. He probably was prepared to accept (reluctantly) that the crowd would come on at the end – but not before. That is what was wrong.
With the elections coming up tomorrow, Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson has urged all his British players to get to their local polling stations to vote.
All will be voting except for Gary Neville as he is incapable of putting a cross into a box!I think one of my mates said he knew a guy that was interested in joining, he said he was looking for a new club after a disappointing season ata club nearer to his true level of ability.Think his name was Jason something.
I presume you have a goalie too? :?
I bet everybody on this board has been on a football pitch at the end of a season, when they were younger and it wasn’t frowned upon. It was a bit premature the other day but nobody ran towards the Hull fans, they ran to celebrate the goal with the players, I’m a bit old for running on the pitch now but I certainly don’t feel that anybody from the other day should be banned.
Let’s take every last ounce of passion out of the game, sit down in our seats quietly, very quietly – infact why not do what others do, watch on sky in our front room, pipe and slippers on.
I agree no need to ban anybody.[/quote]
I’m not saying whether anyone should or shouldn’t.
But the club would be perfectly entitled to. We don’t know what the FA will make of it yet.
Don’t try to justify what you did.
You entered the field of play WHILE the match was still going on. Not at the end.
If nothing else – and there is actually loads else – you stopped the team being able to celebrate a fine goal – they had to run for cover.
I find it difficult to vaguely accept kids doing it. But some of them don’t know any better. As for anyone over the age of 16 then I am sure they got your picture on camera (and despite most things we do at Wigan, the quality of the pictures from the cameras is excellent) and maybe you’ll be getting a letter through your door informing you that you needn’t bother renewing your season ticket. I’d keep checking the post if I were you.
What’s all the fuss, you ask? Did you listen at all when you were having your moment of glory?
There were about 18,000 people booing you. :?
