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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)
So you didn’t buy Di Santo a can of coke?
Its the kids we need to target lets have Wigan kids wearing Latics kits and going to games not scum and bindipper fans.
Pfff shirts at £40-£50 a pop……lets start by knocking them out at a tenner each.[/quote]
Go retro, loads are doing it, take a look next season how many fans are wearing retro shirts![/quote]
https://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/2000-wigan-player-issue-third-shirt-hernandez-20-xl.html
Good one for any collectors there.
On the scoresheet again for Caley. Is he worth a go next season?. I know the standard up there isn’t the best but could he yet be an asset for us?.Let him bag a few at weekend first.
Maybe the new man is in place but still under contract until the summer?
Seeing as the football league season is over for all bar 6 managers, then unless its one of those, why would we not have appointed them already. I cant see either Wagner or Stam moving to Wigan, so its 4 managers that are still at their desks – the rest have already finished for the summer.
If its to save a couple of weeks’ wages (at the expense of a decent pre-season), then we must be really fucking skint![/quote]
Contracts run until the beginning of June usually. No fee then.
Looks good but the great wigan athletic sale starts soon ;)I certainly expect Burn, Buxton, Morsy and Powell to go.
Wiganers are so apathetic, they still wouldn’t turn out in numbers.Correct. We will sell STs to the hardcore and that is it. The fair weather fans will remain fair weather fans and ST holders will refuse to pay for any possible cup games so JPT crowds will be down on actual league crowds.
Not just a Wigan thing really, crowds down all over the country but you can read our fans (and the rugby lot) like a book.
It depends whether we have a head of recruitment I guess.
Maybe the new man is in place but still under contract until the summer?
I think we have a pretty strong squad at the minute:
James Barrigan
Omar Bogle
Luke Burgess
Luke Burke
Dan Burn
Jake Buxton
Jack Byrne
Nathan Byrne
Ryan Colclough
Donervon Daniels
Owen Evans
Jordan Flores
Alex Gilbey
Matt Gilks
Josh Gregory
Will Grigg
Jack Hendry
Michael Jacobs
Reece James
Andy Kellett
Callum Lang
Josh Laurent
Dan Lavercombe
Shaun MacDonald
Mikael Mandron
Billy McKay
Chris Merrie
Craig Morgan
Sam Morsy
Sanmi Odelusi
David Perkins
Nick Powell
Max Power
Sam Stubbs
Danny Whitehead
Kaiyne WooleryObviously a few will leave and we will add a few but hopefully we have the foundations of a good side there.
I think we do need to be a bit cleverer next season with the loan system and try where possible to use our own players but if needed loan to improve the team not just to make the numbers up.Definitely. We can’t allow ourselves to end up with the stupid situations we had with Bogdan and Haugaard again. Sometimes our loan signings are poor but I guess it is the modern trial in this day and age with transfer fees being ridiculous.
If we keep the players on the books at the club for next season then we don’t really need to add too much I don’t think.
Plenty retro shirts on ebay,Ive noticed that 99% of the Wigan rugby retro shirts come with gravy stains.
If they aren’t gravy soaked Ellgren then I don’t entertain them.[/quote]
Respect eggy lad at least you can take a joke.[/quote]
Get plenty stick from both sides it’s all good fun. It’s only when people spout utter nonsense it gets stupid.
