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Newcastle, Brighton and Huddersfield managed to not get overun in midfield last season and didn’t fair too badly and often played the old fashioned way.
Both Newcastle and Huddersfield play with one striker.
Back to Cooks first job, I would say watch some videos of Paul Jewells League two champion winning side and of his Championship runners up side and see what standards are expected. Thinking of that side. How come our mid-field didn’t get over run??Because it was 14 years ago and back then virtually everyone played with 4 in midfield, until teams started to play with 5 and overrun them.
Is this a serious conversation? The man who turned ‘Super Club’ Leeds into top division challengers would be interested in this job. Get your thinking caps on. He has obviously been touted up for the Palace job. I have told you the best man for the job… If you would like to troll through my posts from the last 5 years i am sure i can appease many of you. Wigan Athletic was a brilliant business plan. Nearly a hundred years of history and building aqll squandered to line the pockets of the owner. You will see it one dayHere you go Yosser
Fill your boots lad
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00270043/filing-history
Ps. let us know when you find the bits where Whelan has skimmed money from the accounts.
Barrow’s on a month’s holiday?
Hope he stays on it[/quote]
Why?[/quote]
You really need to ask?.[/quote]
Obviously I do. What exactly has he done wrong?[/quote]
He has,nt done anything wrong but I don’t think he has the coaching skills that our squad needs. I’m not saying he should be disposed of but we need a new approach under a new head coach.[/quote]
From what I gather he’s in there for his contacts and his man-management abilities rather than coaching.
It’s why Martinez had him managing the Development Team.[/quote]
Maybe running the academy would be a good fit for him then Standish. He could have coaches working for him and he can identify the staff he thinks we need.[/quote]
I agree Nuneaton.He’s also popular with the players which is why they appealed for him to stay when Martinez went.
Barrow’s on a month’s holiday?
Hope he stays on it[/quote]
Why?[/quote]
You really need to ask?.[/quote]
Obviously I do. What exactly has he done wrong?[/quote]
He has,nt done anything wrong but I don’t think he has the coaching skills that our squad needs. I’m not saying he should be disposed of but we need a new approach under a new head coach.[/quote]
From what I gather he’s in there for his contacts and his man-management abilities rather than coaching.
It’s why Martinez had him managing the Development Team.
Your a disgrace in my eyes garswood was joe cox 8 year old ?
Did the ira target a venue full of children
I have to leave this forum after years of posting sick to death of dogooders and you have pissed me off
Hope i never hear your fucking name in townNo, but they targeted a street full of children in Warrington.
Yes, Islamic State are by far the worst at the moment, but not every terrorist is Muslim.
So to conclude:
It’s free for kids if money is an issue.
It isn’t free for kids if you want the best seats in the house but it’s still as cheap as a burger.I must have different mates but if I was moving for the first reason and explained that to them they’d move with me I’m sure and I likewise.
Maybe my mates would move.
But I’ll never know, because I’ve no intentions of moving, and therefore won’t be asking them.
However, I do know of people who have opted not to get their kids season tickets in the past as it meant sitting behind the goal – saying ‘I’ll wait until they’re older’
At the end of the day, it is what it is, and I’ll be renewing plus buying 2 new kids’ tickets, but I suspect they’d have got some uptake by adopting the same policy for kids in the West and East Stands as they do in the South*.
*My personal opinion- obviously
Think yourself lucky you’re only paying £69.I started taking my lad in his early teens and paying for his season ticket in the West Stand. He’s twenty-seven now and I still pay for his ticket….!
It’s only this time. £99 as of next season.
And he went to 3 away games last season and says he wants to go to more.
Only myself to blame.
My grand-kid pestered me to take him to watch the tics at Newcastle last season so I did. It was £20 for his coach and £14 I think, for his ticket. Not only did we sit behind the goals we needed a pair of binoculars to see the players. That’s half the price of a 2017-2018 season ticket I forked out, for just one game. :woohoo:
That £69 doesn’t sound that bad all of a sudden for 23 games.
I do sympathies with those fans having to pay out for young kids, but if they want to go, then its the price of a decent pair of top brand trainers against a cheapo nasty pair from Wynsors.My missus worked at a school and once or twice a year they were given about 20 tickets for a game. If 2-3 kids went they’d be lucky, so I don’t think giving away free season tickets to the younger kids will see a massive increase in take up.
Nor do I think charging £3 per game will have a big impact on the number of season tickets bought by the parents, whose kids who are keen enough and can be arsed,to watch 23 games per season against the likes of Northampton and Shrewsbury.
Having said that, I really hope Sharpie and JJ have a rethink on this, or at least give some incentive like they did last time we were in league one.
What about buy one kids season ticket this season, get two seasons free? :cheer:You’re right. It won’t be a massive uptake, but entice enough and there will be some uptake.
My lad and his mate aren’t there hoping to watch Liverpool, Man Utd etc. They’re there for the atmosphere, a hot dog and a Walkers Crisps grab-bag at half time, a laugh at rude words that people sing in the songs, and joining in with the booing of the referee etc. The opposition team that Wigan are playing is irrelevant.
I think some people have misconstrued the point of my post.
I will be renewing my own season ticket, next to my mates, in my usual seat, in the West Stand. I will also be buying my ten-and-a-half year son one, and it’s looking like I will be buying his mate one too – so they can sit three rows down (in view but not close that dad cramps their style), and on the occasions when his mate can’t go, there are other mates who can step in.
He used to come on the odd occasion and sit with me in previous seasons, but wasn’t really interested and came under duress – saying that he was a Man Utd fan, because that’s who his school mates supported.
Anyway, fast forward to last season, and I started buying him tickets and one for his mate so they could sit together close to where I sit, but still have their own independence.
And as a result, we now have a fight on to get him to wear anything other than his Wigan shirt. I had to wait behind after one game so he could get an autograph and a photo with each of the players. And his room is full of Latics posters and signed programmes.
So, it’s mission accomplished for me, but my point is, there must be other dads in the West and East stand who have thought about bringing their kids, but don’t really want to pay £69 quid knowing their kid will probably be bored silly most of the time. And they definitely don’t want to move to the South Stand just for the sake of a potentially futile attempt to try to get their kid into football.
Offer them the chance to bring their kids along whilst staying in the same stand, and they’ll more than likely take it.
Yes £69 is an extremely good price, but unlike most other clubs in the league, we are almost unique in that we are the fourth or fifth best supported team in our own town and we should be doing everything to hook the kids at an early age – pre high school age preferably.
I understand they are trying to entice parents to take their kids into the South Stand – but by only offering complimentary kids tickets in that stand, they are missing out on kids that could be tagged onto already existing season tickets in the East and West.
It might only be a dozen kids they attract, but it’s a dozen future adult season ticket holders.
70 quid for a kids ticket works out at 3 quid a game. Am I missing something? Can someone show me where other clubs are charging less? Similarly. How many clubs charge less than 270?How else can the club raise funds if fans are that tight they won’t pay to watch a club that has been brilliant value to watch over the last 10-15 years (we’ve had two shite seasons in that time granted). Can’t think of many activities you can take a family of four to for 35 quid? Even cinema isn’t far off these days. Save your 800 quid and get on WISH FM ya tight gets!
£70 is a brilliant price, but by offering free tickets in the South Stand, the take-up will be minimal, so what’s the point?
I’m fine with the price increase for adults. Last season was a one-off (whoever heard of a club reducing season ticket prices after promotion eh?)
But, I don’t agree with the kids’ prices.
We have a small fanbase, and even in our own town we are competing with Man U, Liverpool, Wigan RL etc.
At 9-12 years most kids are forming loyalties towards football teams. Capture them at that age and you capture them for life. Fail to capture them now, and they’ll be wearing United shirts at The Black Bull in front of Al Jazeera Sports on Saturday afternoons in a few years.
The club should be doing everything to capture those kids.
By all means put the adult prices up in the West and East, but offer free tickets for all kids under 12 in every stand, and if you want to create something in the South Stand, heavily discount the adult tickets in that stand.
I’ll be getting my lad (and possibly his mate) a season ticket in the West Stand. I’d prefer not to pay £69 a ticket, but he’s hooked, and in the South Stand he wouldn’t get to sit near the benches, or to run down to the tunnel at the end or annoy people like Griff and Sammy at half time.
So I totally understand what GL and some of what Vat are saying (apart from the bit about waiting to see who comes in. I’ll be there no matter what).
My Ex-Latic player name-drops:
I once got into hotel lift in Montenegro, heard someone shout ‘Hold the lift’ and in got Lee McCulloch, Andy Webster and Roy Carroll. 1600 miles away from home and all four people in a lift have a connection to Wigan Athletic. Massive club.
My dad bowls with Tommy Gore fairly regularly.
I play five aside with Maurice Whittle’s twin sons (they haven’t seen their dad for years).
I once had a night out in St Helens with Joe Palladino and his wife (long story).
I played football against Matt Jackson two years ago. He’s fatter and slower than me.
Have bumped into Peter Atherton in the Brocket, Boars Head and in various drinking establishments around Standish on numerous occasion.
Was once on an Easyjet flight to Barcelona and had Franco Di Santo and one of the medical staff sitting behind me. Di Santo tried to buy a can of coke but they didn’t have change for twenty quid, so I said I’d pay for it and told him he could tell Whelan to knock it off my season ticket. He asked in all seriousness ‘Really? Will he do that?’
Was once talking to Bullard at a Christmas party in Manchester. He looked off his head and wasn’t very complimentary about Wigan (It was a few years ago).
I used to polish Martinez’s brown shoes for him.
Edit: just remembered two more
Had a few pints with Alan McLoughlin in a hotel bar in Portugal. He’s fully aware of how crap he was for us and said he was never fit.
Bumped into Michael Brown in a hotel near Portsmouth. Nice bloke. Chatted for ten minutes about his time at Wigan.
(I made up one of above claims)
Inverness are probably the same standard wise as any other League One side if not a bit better and so yes he would do well for us!I don’t think they are even decent League One standard Phil.
They’ve got players from Carlisle and Wimbledon playing for them, and one lad on loan from Crawley.
Other SPL teams have players they signed from Hartlepool, Whitley Bay, and Nuneaton etc.
Bar Celtic who are streets ahead of the others and Aberdeen and Rangers who are mid-to-lower end Championship standard at best, I’d put them at lower League One / League Two standard.
I remember Scott Vernon being sent on loan to Southend because he couldn’t get a game for Colchester, then the season after he was playing for Aberdeen and was third top scorer in the SPL.
