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Yes we reportedly turned down an offer of around £10m in the last transfer window and so if he does go for half that then it’s laughable really isn’t it!
It was on Twitter yesterday that Powell has said he’s not interested in moving.
It seems a very odd move for Jonah this one.From what i can gather, he’s had numerous chances to take manager’s jobs and some high profile assistant ones too & he’s turned them all down to stay with Bobby.
When he finally does make the move it’s as an assistant to a rookie manager at a Championship club after he’s helped take a small country to the semi-finals of the World Cup. Very odd
Unless he figures that WBA only reluctantly seemed to be give the job to Darren Moore & that he’ll be given the heave ho at the first sign of a bad run of form & the manager’s job will be his :blink: :blink:
I don’t get it, but best of luck to him anyway – seems a lifetime away that me & some mates bumped into the Latics squad near Hammersmith tube station after a Fulham game & after the coach had stopped at a mini-market type shop. Jonah piled out with a couple of cans of coke & several packs of biscuits & wasn’t overly impressed when my mate suggested he put some of the biscuits back as he was starting to get a fat butt!!
I’m guessing Jones wants to spend more time with his family in UK (Appley Bridge to be precise)
He’ll have been paid well for his role with Belgium, and this new job is will give him a decent salary and not put him directly in the firing line that a manager’s job would.
Safe option.
However tight the money may be at the moment it was still a surprise to see the CEO board the ten o’clock Trans-Pennine cattle truck out of Preston yesterday.It was even better when he got off the return train at Preston to whispers of ‘He had a briefcase with him and some lad in a Wigan tracksuit. He must have been signing a player’
*The lad with him was his 15 year old son, and the briefcase was his son’s suit carrier.
I’ve got his mobile number. I’ll send him a message
I keep meaning to ask you every time I see you but forget so….How come you have the flag of Zambia as your profile pic?[/quote]
If he doesn’t read this, I’ll answer – he was born there[/quote]
Thanks GL.I was
I think you’re being unfair on the boys. Tunisia are African champions im led to believe unbeaten in a number of games. Most pundits were saying it could be a draw and a hard game. We played against 12 men on the field and how ever many were on var duty. We were camped inside their half for the 2nd half and never looked in danger. On another day it could have been a rout. Up to now has any other nation dominated their game as much as wa did.Agree with you.
England looked very impressive in first half, and on another day could have been 3 or 4 up by half time.
Would prefer Rashford in place of Sterling as he loses the ball too easily, but other than that, I don’t think anyone had a particularly bad game.
Young looked a bit off the pace, but I wouldn’t write him off.
61% possession
18 shots
8 shots on targetCan’t really complain at those stats.
Gents,You seem to think that I am condoning their behaviour. May I point you in the direction of my first paragraph underneath the video. However, as much as you would love it to be so, this incident will never become as big nationally as the two racism incidents. This is because of the global appeal of football. “3rd division loanee footballer in racist twitter attack by fan” will still make more newspaper headlines outside Wigan than “rugby league brothers in drunken tirade to barmaid.”
Now, have your entertainment over it.
Totally different as you well know.
Mr Whelan’s comments to the press were the ramblings of an elderly man, who meant no harm, and genuinely thought he was saying the right things. Yes they were embarrassing, but said with no malice and he fell on his sword because of the public reaction.
The other incident you’re referring to, is a single racist tweet by an anonymous internet troll – and not even a confirmed Wigan Athletic fan. Hardly newsworthy as 99% of people who frequent this message board didn’t even know about it, and you’re really clutching at straws by bringing this up.
This Tomkins video however, features two of Wigan RL’s biggest names being deliberately threatening and abusive towards a young barmaid, her manager, and some elderly patrons on the pub.
Totally and utterly different to the Whelan incident.
I’m not sure how ‘new’ it is.
AFAIK Latics fans have always been refereed to as ‘Tics’ The club maybe not, but what harm does it actually do? It’s created an atmosphere and has spread pretty well.
No, Adam.
It’s a new phenomenon from the past couple of seasons. Yet another example of people trying to change something….When it doesn’t need changing. It seems trivial, but it annoys me greatly. Just say Latics!! Whoever invented it needs a clip round the ear.[/quote]
Its been around longer than a couple of seasons. An old mate of mine that I haven’t seen in 11 years used to use it & I’m sure I remember someone complaining about its use in The Mud Hutter in the dim & distant past
That said, its much more prevalent now – or so it seemsAnd my dad (RIP) who was a home & away United supporter was calling Old Trafford OT before he split up with my mum 24 years ago – he was from a council estate in Chorlton, so it spreads across all social classes!! Mind you I think he used it more coz he knew how much it wound me up!![/quote]
Oldham fans I used to work twenty years ago referred to Oldham as The Tics back then – so it’s not been made up by a Wiganer recently, and it’s likely we nicked it off them (again…)Personally I’d much prefer it if we had another, original nickname that wasn’t connected to Oldham.
But, it is what it is.
On the other hand …..a lot of folks come to this land with not a pot to piss in….then that’s another story lol.Yes they do, after we spent a century draining their country of natural resources and enforcing our language and culture on them. But that’s also another story!!
And on the flip-side, my eleven year old lad was desperate to go to Fleetwood, but we can’t because he has a rugby match that day.
Not that desperate then.[/quote]
He was desperate. But it’s me that’s not letting him go.Local derby/grudge match – Wigan v Orrell. He’s not missing that.
And on the flip-side, my eleven year old lad was desperate to go to Fleetwood, but we can’t because he has a rugby match that day.
Lincoln took 30,000 fans yesterday. We couldn’t fill our end for the FA Cup final
Wigan people are pathetic when it comes to supporting our sports teams :sick:That’s a load of rubbish. We took great support to Wembley and I don’t recall there being any big gaps. I thought our support was fantastic.
I’ve watched Watsons goal probably a thousand times, and I’ve never noticed empty seats. Just a mass of support.[/quote]
There were some empty seats near us (top tier right above where the cup was lifted) – not loads but quite a few
If I remember rightly as well, the initial allocation of tickets was 25k to each club. A week or so before the final it was announced that Latics allocation was now 21k or 19k (I forget which) and the balance went to City – that was one of the reasons why the Latics support did not go round the part of the stadium where Maloney took “THE” corner but stopped before it.That said, what was to be expected? – Latics had a home crowd average (not stadium average) that season of somewhere approaching 14k & needed plenty of day trippers to sell our allocation. You’re not going to get that many part timers or one off “supporters” going when the ticket prices are as extortionate as they were. Why would anyone with just a passing interest in Latics be prepared to pay over 100 quid for a ticket like I had to???[/quote]
Allocation was 32k to each club and we pretty much sold it.
I know loads of non regulars who went…half of Old Skem went, just to support their local club, or with family and friends who go watching Wigan. I bumped into people that day who had gone as a one off. Some relatives too[/quote]
The maximum allocation for the Final was 25,000 per club – but we went for 21,000 and didn’t sell that out.https://wigan.vitalfootball.co.uk/fa-cup-final-ticket-details-announced/
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/wigan-get-reduced-wembley-allocation-8652469.html
Play offs are a lottery I don’t want us to go down that route. We should still be looking at automatic promotion though I’m beginning to fear we will lose out on the title. Fair play to Blackburn they have fabulous strikers and they get the best from them said it before Charlton will have a big say in this.
Plus they play two strikers week in week out something that has become alien to Latics since we started this trend with the mighty Jason Scotland.
As others say though we aren’t doing too bad with it this season but that’s probably more down to the board keeping some decent players together rather than any system. After the boards faith we shouldn’t be expecting anything less than second. Third would be an absoloute disasterous failure.[/quote]
No they don’t!More often than not they play 4231 – exactly the same as us!
Donny, I know you want 4-4-2, with wingers, and smacking the ball forwards, but let it go. It’s not going to happen!
If you watch England religously then I would imagine you would still go. Hope to keep your head down and stay safe. Big risk though but so is any Euro away with England these days as we have a massive target on our backs.
I’m in Russia 29th June to 16th July.
Won’t make any of the England games, but providing they’re through to the knockout stages, I’ll be watching from the John Bull, Moscow – albeit quietly.[/quote]
четыре, четыре два в России?[/quote]
Niet.Edin ‘striker’ Tolko!
If you watch England religously then I would imagine you would still go. Hope to keep your head down and stay safe. Big risk though but so is any Euro away with England these days as we have a massive target on our backs.
I’m in Russia 29th June to 16th July.
Won’t make any of the England games, but providing they’re through to the knockout stages, I’ll be watching from the John Bull, Moscow – albeit quietly.[/quote]
Удачи[/quote]
Spasiba!