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Was it my imagination or did Reading have substitution music for their players last night is that not going a bit too far
Decent idea in my opinion.
It might drown out some of the boos and jeers….
you edited that post but still left the word ‘pants’ in it TWICE :woohoo:If you read what I wrote I said I’d rather have both in the team but seeing as stubborn arse Malky won’t play Waghorn, the only way I see him getting in is to replace McClean while he is suspended. We’ll see tomorrow though won’t we, I won’t hold my breath that he’ll get a start though. Fortune on his own anyone?
We need goals, desperately. Get Waghorn in and get this scouser in.
I used the word ‘pants’ because I’m too polite to say ‘shite’.
I will reserve judgement on the Scouse (Brummie) lad until after I’ve seen him.
As Clarke is fit again, I suspect he may start with Fortune.
Waghorn might get a chance.
Play some fckin strikers now Malky, we dont need to hear how there’s nobody to put the ball in the net when we get chances.
You mean our top scorer McLean?[/quote]
In a perfect world he’d play both, like he did against home against Blackburn, arguably our most committed home effort for some time. For some reason he doesn’t get a game, similar to your lad Billy.
Waghorn is far too good to be sitting on the bench and if it’s instead of McCLean then yep I’d snatch your arm off.[/quote]
What’s all this ‘your Billy’ nonsense?
The only thing I’ve ever said in his favour is I’d always lean towards a player with an SPL pedigree over one with French 2nd Division pedigree.
He’s probably pants, but less pants that Delort was.
I don’t see how dropping McLean for Waghorn would be any benefit – when all you’re doing it dropping, arguably, our best performer this season and someone who has been scoring goals, for someone else who might or might not score a goal.
How many would be daft enough to buy such a venture if there was no passing trade?Unless of course a rich relative wanted to spend a few quid to offset his tax bill….
Mr Whelan would never do anything like that would he Mutty?!
It was a prime example of why Mr Whelan is out of touch – as Chingaling-gate proved.
Harry Ramsden restaurants have been in decline for a decade, so Whelan replicated one.
Doomed to failure from the start.
Waghorn might get a chance.Play some fckin strikers now Malky, we dont need to hear how there’s nobody to put the ball in the net when we get chances.
You mean our top scorer McLean?
Malky’s train will derail for real just you see! Nudge nudge wink wink! Dead man walking! ;)Go on Phil. Tell us what you know.
Here’s my take on it.
I think it has bugger all to do with sinking ships etc.
Whelan made a monumental cock-up when he came out and said what he said in defence of Mackay.
Believing he was bullet proof and naively thinking all the journalists who telephoned him directly were his friends, he ignored everyone’s advice and shot his mouth off – but this time it was an ill-conceived comment too far.
He was made to look like a doddering old fool, and nobody is interested anymore in what he has to say about Financial Fair Play, foreign managers, the Ukraine-Russian situation, the plight of the snow leopard or whatever else he used to volunteer his opinions on.
He used Wigan Athletic as a vehicle to get himself in front of the cameras. He never made money from the club, so it was the fame and notoriety that kept him interested.
Now that’s gone, what’s the point?
Nobody wants to buy the club, and Whelan is not going to invest any more of his money, so the best thing to do is to ensure it’s self-sufficient, so he’s not losing money, and give it to his grandson.
Glad to see that this thread finally gained momentum.Last night’s win at least gives us some hope.
But the fact that three directors have left and the board now consists of the PR man and a 23-year-old lad suggests that there are more questions than I would expect to see answered in the Wgan Observer.
Donny’s point is a good one. If Whelan has gifted the club its stadium, training ground and academy site then he can justifiably be said to have put real money in, and we will be an asset-rich football club.
If somehow they actually sit on the balance sheet of one of his companies, then we are susceptible to rent, mortgage and market fluctuations in perpetuity. What if those companies go bust, get taken over, or change our terms?
Maybe, as people are saying, the TV money, transfer receipts and parachute payments did all go on paying Premier League wages. If so – and the club doesn’t actually turn out to own anything – that seems reckless and short-sighted to me.
‘As people are saying’? It’s simple arithmetic, and it’s publish annually in black and white!
Who’s the PR man you’re talking about? Ed Jones? He isn’t on the board.
Or if you’re talking about Jonathan Jackson, he’s an accountant / ex Financial Director, not a PR man. He does the PR stuff because that’s what a CEO does.
It’s the CEO who runs the club on a day-to-day basis. The board resigning will more than likely make not one iota of difference in what happens at Wigan Athletic.
It’s whether or not young Mr Sharpe tries to get more involved that worries me.
With news today of three current Latics Directors stepping down at the end of this season along with Dave Whelan, are we making room on the Board for new investors ?. I don’t know whether there are limits or max/ min numbers required on Football club Boards, maybe others on here may know?I suspect it might be a case of three wealthy older gentleman not wanting to sit on a board with a 23 year old chairman – who’s been handed his position on a plate.
I way be wrong, but imagine how you’d feel of you were one of those three and young Mr Sharpe takes the helm.
First time I have seen this! I have just read it all and I agree with the ‘North Korean’ comment underneath! In fact if you read all 11 comments not one of them is buying this bollocks! Not just me then eh ! ;)The journalist is Paul Kendrick – who’s a friend of the club.
If you’re going to try to get a positive spin on things that really aren’t positive in reality, of course you’re going to get someone to conduct the interview who asks pre-determined questions.
The comments under article on Wigan Now usually throw up some gems. Here’s my favourite ones under this one:
‘if you wrote a book on how not to run a football club the Latics would be the template’
‘Dave. w. has always run the club as a business even when we was at the old Springfield ground and rightly so. and because of that I would like to know exactly what the parachute payments are used on?’
‘Can’t believe that team has cost in excess of £20 million. I would”nt pay them with washers. Latics board must have a book on excuses.’
‘Jonathan Jackson and David Sharpe… Lets look at the their past business history. Failed chip shop owner and the other, well can anyone tell me what success Jackson has had in the past?’
Is that the guy who said that Wigan Athletic were the glamour team of The Championship! The same guy who said that we had the right man in charge after the appointment of Coyle, further adding that -Quote “From all the people we saw, he was absolutely the right man for us and he has already given us a real lift”. Steve McClaren was also seen was he not!! As if I am going to take notice of someone who has spouted shite like that! Also, how would I have access to a copy of the Wigan Observer anyway? I bet most of our fans who live in Wigan don’t even read it nevermind me here in Leyland! This is what I mean about the silence from the club, why didn’t he say what he had to say on the club’s website or in the matchday programmes? I am sure more fans would read those than the WO!If he did write a piece in the programme then I will hold my hand up as I don’t buy one but the Wigan Observer! I still wouldn’t take him seriously though! :)I presume this is a wind-up? Okay, I’ll bite.
You’re twisting his words regarding the ‘Glamour Team’ quote:
“I was speaking to one of my counterparts in the Championship, and he told me he was really looking forward to the visit of Wigan Athletic because it was one of the glamour games of the season.
I told him it was probably the first time that Wigan Athletic have ever been described as being a glamour team! He explained it was because we’d been in the Premier League for eight years, we were the FA Cup holders and we would be playing in Europe next season.
And I suppose, if you take a step back, we probably are one of the big teams in that league this year.”
That season we made the FA Cup Semi Final again, and the play-offs. So what was wrong with what he said?
And as for the Owen Coyle quote. He was speaking about the new manager that they’d just appointed. What’s he supposed to say?
“We know you’re all pissed off about us being relegated, so we’ve appointed this Coyle bloke because he was cheaper than McLaren, but let’s see how it goes anyway. Get your season ticket renewals in everyone”
And with regards to someone from Leyland getting access to the Wigan Observer: it’s online! It goes under the moniker of Wigan Today, which is combined with the Wigan Evening Post. It appears on the News Now feed and was posted all over the forums!
http://www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-athletic/chief-executive-speaks-out-1-7082139
Nice try Phil. 3/10 for originality though!
And the other chap starts for a Spanish Premiership club every week. Who wrote the script for this season Alan Partridge?So fcking what?! Albert Crusat started for a Spanish ‘Premiership’ Club every week and he was dire in my opinion.
Did neither of you see Delort play?
Well with James on his wing and Clarke or fortune or Waghorn or Billy Boy in a partnership up front at least it will look like we are having a go.
A big well done today three points away is a good three points. Fingers crossed three points out of the next two games and a win at Rotherham and who knows. We have got out of bigger holes than this before like 2011/12 when Whelan intervened and we did that incredible escape act. Such a shame Bobby didn’t learn from that and persisted in his tactics leading us to relegation the next season. Credit when it is due to the side that’s six points out of the last six away which makes the whisky taste better tonight. Thought the board would be jammed tonight with everyone or do we just save it all for defeats.
Come to think of it many folk are out on the piss on Satdy neet or they’ve better things to do than talk Latics.Whelan did nothing of the sort.
I’ve no idea who started this rumour about Whelan’s rally round the flag speech, but it’s been confirmed as complete twaddle by several people.
A lot of people renewed their ST for this season on the back of a narrow play-off exit and an FA Cup semi-final defeat after a magnificent defence of the trophy. Even so, average crowds this season have slipped almost 20% to 12410 from last seasons’ 15176.Even if you do stay up, what is there to persuade them to renew for next season?
If you’re insinuating fickle fans Mutty, you really are skating on very thin ice, so seeing as you like figures so much.
Wigan RL Timeline:
* Between 1976 and 1984 the average attendance is 5,579
* Wigan RL win the challenge cup in 1984 and their ‘Golden Era’ begins
* Between 1984 and 1998 average attendance is 12,741 ( 139% increase)
* In 1999 Wigan RL win nothing for the first time in 15 years. The average attendance that season is 9,239 (27% decrease because they had the audacity not to win something)
* St Helens and Bradford dominate Super League 2000 – 2009. Average attendance is 12,768
* Wigan win Super League in 2010.
* Average attendance in the more successful 2010 – present era is 15,307 (20% increase)
Seems it’s not just a Latics thing after all.
