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So it is true according to wep that haugaard as to play every game until the end of the season. That is absolute ridiculous
Who was the dickhead that sanctioned this deal? That’s what I want to know![/quote]
Apparently it’s a common clause these days. It stop teams like us taking players on loan and then sitting them on the bench when they would have gained better experience elsewhere.And if you sign someone who your scouts have assured you is much better than anything you already have, why wouldn’t you be willing to accept a clause like that if it was the difference in getting the player you want or not getting him?
The one who needs to be questioned on this one is whoever scouted him and deemed him better than what we already had.
Same as Flores, Chow Cosgrove etc I imagine not kicked on. Good policy ain’t it mutt? Farm out your young talent and bring in loan players whose club then holds a gun at your head. Beltin.
Its ridiculous. I read that Latics were one keeper injury away from having to play an outfield player in goal against Forest in the cup. That’s crap. Dan Lavercombe was warming the bench or the stands until 13 Jan, when he went on loan to Rhyl.
The fact is, someone at the club made a really bad call to sign the Stoke keeper on whatever terms they stated, then signed another keeper at the end of January. If the terms of the loan was that he was to play, why on earth sign Gilks, knowing that he would only get game time in the event of injury?
Whats happened to Jussi? He still features on the squad list – so was he unavailable for those fixtures? Surely a combination of Jussi/Lavercombe as backup to Hauggard would have sufficed, or sign Gilks as No1 and have them as back-ups.
The whole scenario stinks of absolute amateurish dealing and no forward planning – and potentially it could now cost you your place in the division.[/quote]
Gilks was signed on a free – but only to cover while Haugaard was injured.I’m presuming Jussi isn’t interested in playing regularly these days, and it appears the coaching staff under Joyce didn’t think Dan Lavercombe was ready for league football yet.
We had Jussi the lad from Torquay and didn’t we also sign the Walsall keeper. They must have been deemed good enough for us to sign them so how have we got into this situation.Yes, we did. Richard O’Donnell.
He’s now second choice at Rotherham!
”A man who applied for the vacant Latics managerial post in November 2014, only to lose out to a certain M. Mackay.”Well if that bit is true then the club is a fucking joke!
Apparently Mackay was recommended to Whelan by members of the backroom and playing staff who’d played with him or been managed by him in the past.
It wasn’t a matter of going for the cheap option because both he and Hughton were out of work at the time.
Donny sharpy said 1m for desso pitch would stretch the clubs budget bllx i ask what has happened to the 7m yanic money
Oh sorry earning a nice tidy monthly interest for the whelan family i betSo you reckon the £7m will vanish from the club’s accounts and nobody will notice?
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Posters say on here we don’t want him him or him when suggestions are made for the next manager yet don’t come up with anything of their own! :S
I’d have Rosler back.
Then again, I’d also have Caldwell back.[/quote]
Seriously SW, you would have Caldwell back,why?
His treatment of some of the lads who helped him win the title last season was appalling. Not giving them at least till the end of the window I thought was disrespectful. He started this slide and was helped along the way by an inexperienced boss which didn’t do anyone any favours. Sharpie will learn from this I’m sure but surely not Caldwell again.[/quote]
Yes I would have him back.I didn’t think we were a million miles away from getting it right under Caldwell, and I thought he was sacked prematurely. (All personal opinion obviously)
I’d take him back, but I very much doubt it will happen.
At this moment in time I’d give the job to Barrow – because I think he’s doing better than his two predecessors and I like having an ex-Latics players management team of him, Atherton and Doolan in charge.
Posters say on here we don’t want him him or him when suggestions are made for the next manager yet don’t come up with anything of their own! :SI’d have Rosler back.
Then again, I’d also have Caldwell back.
The only problem I have with this is that why has it taken over 100 years for there to be any mention of this fire? You’d have thought that at least some of the survivors testimonies would’ve mentioned this, back then.
We have a modern tendency to attempt to change history. Titanic is a fantastic story, a great bit of history.
Exactly what happened vat one of the boiler men told the inquest of the damage and stated water began to gush in through the bulkhead but White Star dismissed it. Seems a lot of covering up the truth went on .[/quote]
Let’s be perfectly honest, if it wasn’t for the film, nobody would care. Actually I would go as far to say that people still don’t care, at all. They may well like the film and want to know what happened etc, but in terms of actually caring, they don’t.[/quote]
The film!!!!!!!! Get real, a massive event in history and all that matters is a poxy film? Many lives lost and you don’t think a reason is important? . All forms of travel are now safe because people did care when a disaster happened. Every sinking, plane crash rail accident has ensured that mistakes or design faults are never repeated making travel as safe as possible. If it had happened today While Star Line would possibly face corporate manslaughter charges. Next time you fly remember many people have died so your plane has a better chance of staying in the air.[/quote]
Are you for real, this line you put is ridiculous… ‘Next time you fly remember many people have died so your plane has a better chance of staying in the air’ .. They didn’t volunteer to die on a plane, they definitely didn’t die JUST so that others could fly more safely. They actually probably wanted to go on holiday as we do.
Also yes it was a big disaster, there have been many many over the years, Titanic is more prone to be discussed etc because the film is known as a classic. The fact is that it was out of our lifetime, likelihood is that more or less all of us have ABSOLUTE ZERO personal ties to it. So do people ‘care’ what happened? Will anybody actually feel ANY different regardless. I know I won’t, I don’t know anyone who would even give is a second though.
Silly post IMO.[/quote]
Pengolo, you aren’t the latest incarnation of the recently banned James are you by any chance??Anyway, Titanic is famous because it was the world’s largest and most famous ship of the time, was claimed to be unsinkable but sank on its maiden voyage, and its sinking is surrounded by myths, mystique and rumours.
It isn’t famous because of a film. Other way around: it’s in numerous films because it’s famous.
And because of the circumstances and coverage of its sinking at the time, it was bound to attract conspiracy theories and alternative history.
If Nathan Jones does get the job, his assistant is Paul Hart, great number two. :cheer:And Paul Hart is a Wiganer. Perfect
And you honestly think he would agree to confidential / sensitive questions like that?
No I don’t. But then if I ran the WEP, I wouldn’t be sending Kendrick to metaphorically kiss his arse and produce an article full of clichés and half-apologies.
I don’t doubt young Dave wants the best for WAFC. I don’t doubt he wanted the best for his chippy either. Wanting something to succeed and having the drive and nouse to make it succeed are two different things.
What I do wonder is whether he has the credentials to make a success of running a football club, and at what point his granddad realises that perhaps he hasn’t inherited old Dave’s business brain.[/quote]
My guess would be that Sharpe/Ed Jones has requested that interview, and probably requested Paul or Greg as they’re Latics friendly. It’s what a majority of clubs do.At the end of the day it’s a PR stunt by the club, not a piece of investigative journalism, and it’s more a case of Sharpe apologising than revealing any dirty little secrets hidden in Whelan towers.
Regarding Sharpe, I know the day to day running of the club falls under the remit of Jonathan Jackson and his team – and they come up with the pricing , marketing activity, discounted ticket ideas etc, so I’m not entirely sure what Sharpe’s role is other than being the signatory and having final say on which manager is appointed.
Plus do you not think it’s a bit harsh to judge him on the white elephant that was Sharpey’s – ie. a licensed chippy that was twenty years too late in its concept and too far out of town and hidden to attract any passing trade? His grandad basically slipped him a hospital pass with that one!
So whether he actually needs any business acumen is up for debate, but I suppose we’ll have to wait and see, and hope he doesn’t pull any Whelan-esque self-destruct stunts.
The highlight for me is my eldest son actually requesting to come to games instead of me dragging him along as I have had to do in the past.
I’m shocked and stunned Standish. After what we have been witnessing this season, I thought it would be the other way round and he would have been requesting not to come, leaving you with no option but to drag him along.
Surely there must be some bribes or added incentives involved.[/quote]
He’s only 10, so I’ve been buying both him and his mate tickets and letting them sit a few rows down from me. That’s what the incentive is!And he’s been to three away games this season.
Poor lad. Saw his first three Wigan goals last week!
Saying hello to Jeff Wright in the concourse. To the JCLs and those not old enough to remember. He was one of the most stylish players ever to play for Latics. Also probably the best passer of a football I can remember. Would be criticised these days for passing forward and sometimes passing long balls out wide or into the box. Class act and class lad.
The Jordi Gomez of his day. Got abused by some of our supporters for being a show pony and having no bottle.
Somethings never change eh?![/quote]
Don’t know about you SW, I always felt Jeff was so much better than some of his team mates and he got the flack if they didn’t or couldn’t read what he was asking of them. Very clever player who saw many passes go awry coz players were not to his standard and didn’t make the run early enough. Amazed he didn’t play at a better level.[/quote]
I was a youngster Nuneaton, so I pretty much went with whatever those around me were shouting – and most of them said he was crap!I remember them all jeering when he miskicked a clearance from a corner – and even then I thought they were a bit harsh on him.
Wiganers aren’t easily pleased!
about assets did whelan buy the new training ground with the sale of players im sure i read that somewhere
if so then it belongs to the football club not whelan family as for the stadium who in their right mind would buy our club when all they would be buying is the name only..nothing on the playing side worth selling whelan has already done that
and then there are those that say whelan has done this for nothing but spent a fortune of his own
whelan never does anything for nothing not his styleAnd I’m sure you dreamt it!
Bicky, how many times do people have to post links to view the club’s financial returns before you’ll believe Dave Whelan does not pilfer money from the club?!
Perhaps now the arse licking questions are out of the way, in part 2 the journo will get down to the type of questions the fans really want to know.“There were players leaving – whether it was Jason Pearce, or Sam Morsy, or Chris McCann – that I didn’t necessarily agree with, but I had to back the manager. We had a really good team spirit last year, something you don’t get very often, and I felt we had to keep that. But that’s all in the past now, and you have to learn from it. We all have to sit back and have a look at ourselves”
– Who exactly was the bad apple – Pearce, Morsy, McCann, or Caldwell?
“I’m doing the job that my grandad is instructing me to do”.
Which is….? How much autonomy do you actually have?
Are there relegation clauses in all contracts to ensure financial stability?
What exactly is for sale? How is granddad expecting a buyer to come forward when he has kept the assets of the club separate from the club itself?
And you honestly think he would agree to confidential / sensitive questions like that?
