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Diff manager, same backroom staff as last pile of crap, same tactics as last pile of crap, same crap.
Spot the similarity.
Fully agree. Our record has a look of the one we had 2 seasons ago. Same backroom staff, same tactics.
Thinking on about people moaning at games, I remember going to Burnley in the promotion season and I was sat near George on the coach who appeared on SSN the season after as “Britain’s most miserable football fan” and basically used to write to Paul Jewell every week.
As we’d lost on Boxing Day he spent the whole journey there criticising Jewell, the players, Whelan. He even said we wouldn’t go up with Roberts and Ellington as strikers. We lost the game so all the way back this carried on.
Then away at Sheff Utd on New Years Day I’m on the same coach again and he moans the whole way there. We win the game and he doesn’t say a word on the way back.
I’m with Egg on this. Although I dislike the rugby (I wouldn’t go so far as to say hate), we cannot blame our s*** performances in any way on them or the pitch.
FFS we were away yesterday!!
And playing on a decent winter sports pitch that is rested in summer.[/quote]
We could play one match on it in August and come December it would look s***. It’s built on a bog next to a canal and a river.
I’m with Egg on this. Although I dislike the rugby (I wouldn’t go so far as to say hate), we cannot blame our s*** performances in any way on them or the pitch.FFS we were away yesterday!!
I was more referring to the point that the pitch is nice and green when the rugby season ends and a sh*thole when it starts.
I wonder how much vitriol Cov and Wimbledon get from their own townsfolk Portsmouth is a big city in a huge catchment area.
Wimbledon had their ground sold from under them, became the tenants of various London clubs before their owners rebranded them 60 miles up the M1.
Coventry’s owners flogged all their assets and then fell out with the stadium owners, leaving a 50 mile trip to Northampton to play home fixtures, before finally going back to the Ricoh as the junior partner to Wasps Rugby, who themselves had de-camped from London to play in Coventry.
Sorry fella, but having a few 50-somethings calling the Latics “Pathetics, Wendyball and Craptics” (and vice versa with Chubbies, parasites) doesn’t even come close to the treatment that Wimbledon or Coventry fans have had to endure. We have a nice ground in Wigan that we play all our home games at, with cheap tickets and an owner who cares about the town and the club.
I still think Pompey fans are the most loyal around when it comes to tolerating failure and mismanagement by owners, managers and players. Eight years ago they had around 20,000 for premier league games. Yesterday there was nearly 17,000 on for a 4th division game at home to Crewe.[/quote]
Spot on
They’d prefer to be still been at “Good owd Sprinfield Park” watching sh”t football drinking sh”t Bovril under a tin sh”t hit hut on swimming pool sh”t pitch.
This thread is on par with War and Peace it’s that longThe only difference nowadays is that we are all at the DW watching sh*t football, paying for overpriced bovril on a pitch that gets torn apart by the eggs.[/quote]
Even when they don’t play on it.
It was only a few years ago Dave Whelan said that he didn’t know what would happen to the club when he retired as both his grandchildren weren’t interested. Now they have been lifelong Latics fans. Whoever thinks that Sharp is running the club is living in ‘cloud cuckoo’ landI like Sharpe but I do get that impression especially with DW still providing the cash.
I for one have such a lot of gratitude for Dave Whelan and the journey we have been on but at the moment the journey seems to be going back to the lower leagues.
There are the cynical amongst us who will think Dave has had other reasons than football too, like raising his own personal and business profile and having this profile shown to the world along the way. Who can blame him, the two have gone together. It could have cost a fortune to raise the business profile so much with stadium and shirt sponsorship alone. A huge chunk of money invested. Remember for all the money that he has put in Latics, Dave still owns millions in assets with the stadium and land etc and still the company name is flashed on TV every week.
I just think it is a shame after taking us up there to be on the slide which could have been prevented with a fraction of investment again rather than perennial fire sales. Someone somewhere should be accountable for this ridiculous and downward spiraling of Latics and let us hope Mr Whelan can find them, stop them and do something about this slide. I hope he is patient because it is looking like he will have to start this process from league 1 and without a parachute payment which will need the right personnel and investment from the off. It will also require the ruthless side of his business life with a full clear out of most players, the chairman and board, the manager, all the coaching staff, all the hanger ons. Let the upward journey begin again Dave.Why at 70 years of age having put the cue on the rack of most of his business dealings would Dave risk the future of not only the club but his family by sticking some more of his personal fortune into it? Do you not see our books every year? Do you not remember the 30m quid he has already lost with the loan he gave the club and then wrote off? It isn’t going to happen.
The club can be ran on the cheap but 90% of decisions on signings, managerial appointments and sales need to be spot on. That’s why we loan so many players because we can’t afford to buy them unless we are sure they are what we need.
Burnley have shown this is possible twice under Dyche, Huddersfield are currently in a good spot with a loanee as their player of the season and similar clubs to us are doing far better.
We have made some poor calls this season it’s that simple. Poor recruitment in summer, the decision to sack Caldwell, the appointment of Joyce. All coming back to bite us on the ass.
