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Apparently Leeds Captain, Jason Pearce and Aston Villas Chris Herd signing this week.
A centre half and right back . :ohmy:
Probably the two positions in the team that don’t need replacing.
The goals against column is pretty much comparable with most of the division, its having some creativity and then someone to put the ruddy thing in the net we need.
If any position of the back four were we do need someone its the left back, how bad was he yesterday?
We keep losing games, and you only lose games when the other team score goals.
So I’d say a better defence is exactly what we need.
More creativity would also be helpful, if nobody is available / willing to come to Wigan, there’s not much can be done about that.
Very harsh. He’s a better player than he appears to being given credit for here.I agree.
I actually think he’s not a bad centre forward and can understand why Mackay plays him there.
He’s scored a couple of decent goals recently, and on Saturday I thought he worked hard, got quite a few shots on goal, gots up well and mad some decent flicks on, and puts defenders under pressure.
I know a lot of points still up for grabs but with both Leeds and Brighton winning this week and our inactivity in the purchasing side of this transfer window it’s looking like the bottom 4 to fight it out. I would like to ooze optomism but with our recent form,no strikers of note and some tough fixtures looming draws are no good at all and unless we start on a winning vein straight away then I really can’t see us climbing anywhere above the bottom 4.So 4th from bottom would be a result ,can’t believe i’d actually be very happy with that after such optomism at the season start.I’d guess that there’s a lot going on behind the scenes, but the simple fact of the matter is we aren’t going to attract many players considering what’s been happening at the club recently and where we sit in the league.
Lee McCulloch – the way he, by his own admission, conducted himself was far worse than Chimbonda
Still gave his all on the field though[/quote]
His “all” resulted in a sending-off in his last game and allowed Heskey to gain cult status as a centre-half.[/quote]
It did yes. And?
He didn’t exactly take his toys home and refuse to play did he?[/quote]
Here’s the account I’ve had:Apparently, towards the end of Jewell’s last season, McCulloch met privately with Dave Whelan to inform him out of courtesy that he’d heard Rangers were interested in him again – despite having a bid rejected in January, and he wanted to join them at the end of the season. DW said he could leave at the end of the season with his blessing and would not stand in his way if Wigan avoided relegation. So, McCulloch thanked him, and said he was going to get his agent to write up a transfer request – which he’d hand to Paul Jewell.
But immediately after the conversation and before he was able to submit the request, news of Lee McCulloch planning to leave Wigan appeared on Sky Sports – seemingly leaked (bearing in mind it was a meeting between just two people). Paul Jewell flew off the handle and called McCulloch all sorts of names to anyone who’d listen.
Anyway, that summer, we avoided relegation and DW immediately announced that he’d turned down a bid from Rangers as he didn’t feel the offer was acceptable. McCulloch, angry and upset, approached DW to remind him of their conversation, only for Whelan to deny the conversation ever took place.
Thoroughly pissed off, McCulloch then told his teammates and Hutchings (the new manager) that he was going to feign injuries and disrupt training sessions until the club agree to sell him to Rangers.
The two clubs eventually agreed on a price and McCulloch was sold to Rangers.
I’m sure if you asked Mr Whelan for his side of the story it would be a different account. So it’s a case of which one do you believe?
Sorted, Phillip Williams it is. :ohmy:DIRECTORS
CHAIRMAN – David Whelan
VICE CHAIRMAN – Phillip Williams
DIRECTOR – John Winstanley
DIRECTOR – Brian Ashcroft
CHIEF EXECUTIVE – Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan Jackson is the signatory on contracts etc.
The other directors you’ve mentioned are, seemingly, there to take up the free VIP ticket allocation at away games.
The ‘Lightsiders’ seem to be keeping quiet? Probably waiting until the transfer window closes and not panicking at all! Surely deep down they can see that Whelan has made a massive faux pas! One of them ( Can’t remember who ) said that the thing that wasn’t normal was us being in the Prem for 8 years and winning the FA Cup! This person reckoned that we should really be in the lower divisions and used the hackneyed term ‘Little Wigan’ ! Talk about not having any vision or ambition! Perhaps we should swap the name from ‘Lightsiders’ to ‘Darksiders’ seems right to me!
As for Whelan, in my opinion he needs to eat some humble pie and admit he has fucked up! Just 4 points from a possible 24 is a pretty dire record in anyone’s books ! Has Whelan not questioned his manager’s team selections? You would like to think that he has had a word in his ear but from the displays it appears maybe not!
Something is seriously amiss within the club and to be told that we shouldn’t be too concerned or that we are not qualified to comment on the obvious problems is a little frustrating if I am being honest! I am surprised that nobody has suggested some sort of protest akin to the ‘Kean Out’ protest that the Rovers action group started, we shouldn’t just sit back and watch this sorry tale unfurl before our very own eyes, we must act now! Going down is not going to help our current plight despite what some have suggested! Relegation has a detrimental effect on any club and financially it is crippling and so how can that possibly help a club in plight? If we get hammered next Saturday I think something will boil over with the fans, it has to! :dry:I don’t think there is a Lightside / Darkside these days. Everyone plainly admits that all is not rosy.
I think what Donny would like to see (in fact I know it because he made the same argument when Kevin Keegan retired) is Gerrard giving something back to football by playing in the lower leagues or taking a management job at Prescott Cables. But, of course, like Beckham before him, he’s too much of a Billy Big Bollox to dirty his hands like that.Or he probably doesn’t want the stress of management or every never-made-it hatchet man trying to kick lumps out of him.
Here’s my take on them, with assorted name drops inserted:
I’ve met Gary Neville several times through work (CLANG) and I’ve always found him to be a decent bloke, however, I can confirm his dad is an absolute tool.
I briefly chatted with Lampard and John Terry (CLANG, CLANG) at the Hilton hotel in Athens prior to their match against Olympiakos as they knew the people I was with. Both were really chatty and seemed decent enough. (Incidentally, the people I was with were Walter Smith and Ally McCoist… CLANG, CLANG)
Beckham: never met him, but I had lunch with his mum, sister and Ashley Cole’s mum (CLANG-ish) in Katowice, Poland, then sat with them for the England game. Which was nice.
Never met Bale, but I’d be happy to look like a monkey for the amount of money he’s earning.
Crouch: I used to work with Portsmouth. He always said hello or good morning, and was one of the most approachable of the players they had. Again, seemed like a decent lad. His wife once sat on the row in front of me at a game and she spend the entire match with her head down, texting.
I shook hands with Jonathan Jackson in Maribor too :silly: And Neill Rimmer’s and some other bloke they walked into the bar I was in with tooAnd Joey Johnson is the nephew of one of the staff I manage at work too
Now they are proper examples of having friends in high places!!
Was he Scottish by any chance?
Oh dear, don’t tell me you’ve reverted to idiot mode over Christmas, too! And you were doing so well lately! ;)
Give over you big girls blouse, the lad asked a simple question and The Egg is the only one who has managed a sensible reply. That’s all that was needed, unless cup winners wanted to open it up a bit more. It was you I was about to congratulate on behaving better over the past week or so, but leopard and spots and all that I suppose. ;)
And Standish, “a nice little earner” is a common and well used turn of phrase that befits his current position. The same cannot be said about the other players you mentioned as, in my opinion, they will return to first team football, however, I believe that Caldwell has had his playing days here at the club and will not return to first team football. I have no proof of that, I have not spoken to anyone close to the club, I have not received a postcard from DW with that Post Script on the bottom – it is just my analysis of observations made since the season began.[/quote]
I accept your clarification, but I disagree.A ‘nice little earner’ is generally used to describe a lucrative venture of someone taking money from customers for a service or products.
So if he was charging people for coaching sessions then yes, but not if all he’s doing is fulfilling the part of his contract that he’s currently able to fulfil – ie. doing his job.
Caldwell was on the bench not so long ago – so I suspect he still has ambitions of playing.
Although if I’m wrong, surely all that’s happening is he’s being paid to be a coach rather than a plyer/coach?
I wouldn’t take a blind bit of notice of what JJ says! ;)
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.
He said that a couple of months after we’d won the FA Cup. Can’t see the problem in that comment.[/quote]
It’s a tongue in cheek hindsight thing Johnny! In other words what a load of bollocks that turned out to be !Ha ha ha He did also say at the same time that it was imperative that we got straight back into the top flight and that last season was the best chance of doing it! I say this because many on here thought that it wasn’t imperative at all? I know one thing, I would rather be in a relegation battle in the Prem than a relegation battle in The Championship![/quote]
My point is – when he said that, it was true. We were one of the big teams and one of the favourites to go up.I’m sure (I know) if you interviewed him now on the same subject you’d get a completely different answer!
