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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVHVS26RBeM
The only tragedy was that he should have been kicked in the head. The ball boy dived on top of the ball FFS!
Exactly.
Didn’t Doncaster Rovers try to press charges when Izzy Diaz pushed a ball boy back in the 96/97 season?
I totally agree imagine Bradford in Europe which could be possible if Chelsea beat the Swans and finish in the top 4
By that logic, we would have got in to Europe when Manchester United beat us in the league cup final. You’re getting confused with the FA Cup.[/quote]
Am I your going on filadelphias list now you rotter but it was said on talkshyte that if that was the case a Chelsea /Bradford final and should Chelsea finish top four Bradford would be in Europe if I’m wrong blame them[/quote]
You are wrong. In the event of that likely scenario then the next best placed club in the Prem would go into the Europa League ![/quote]
Correct. You have to win the league cup to be in Europe.
There’s more chance of messi signing of us than our game getting called off.I’m sure I just saw him in Rigalettos
I know damn well that someone as high profile as Beckham wouldn’t sign but we’ve managed to sign players like Heskey and Melchiot so there must be a well known name somewhere that would sign in a bid to put bums on seats.
Garswood, rate Michu next season. Plenty players have taken the league by storm before flopping like a fish.
But Heskey and Melchiot weren’t marquee signings who put bums on seats.
Both were freebie misfits who had been booed when they had played for Birmingham, and who were considered to be well past their best. We had no Premier League competition for either signing, and I clearly remember people posting things like ‘Hope it’s not true’ on Cockney Latic and other clubs’ fans taking the mickey when the Heskey rumour first appeared.
There will be proven Premier League players out there who’ll sign for us, but I’m guessing they’ll be more David Jones than the type of player to have ‘em flocking through the turnstiles.
It might change in ten years time if we can stay in the Premier League, but for now I feel that’s the reality of it.[/quote]
Probably right yes. I’d like to see us give a big name signing a go though as opposed to constantly signing players you’ve never heard of who fail miserably.
Okay Phil/Egg, I’ll step up to the mark with my opinion:If we filled the stadium every week we’d still only generate an extra £3 million – ish.
Forget the Beckham scenario. He’s unique and it would never happen for us in whatever circumstances you could ever possibly think up.
So, let’s say it’s another less prominent marquee signing. For starters, you wouldn’t have much change from the £3 million after covering his wage demands, so that means we’d have to get him to sign on the cheap – because the most you could expect from sponsorship would be an extra couple of million, and no matter who you have on the back of a Wigan shirt, if it’s not Beckham, Messi or Ronaldo, their sales aren’t going to generate enough money to cover his signing.
Then you’d have to convince this international superstar that moving to Wigan would be a good move for him – considering we’d be competing with every other Premier League club for his signature, with most of them not being located in a working class ex-coal mining town.
Simply: it won’t happen, and you’re back to bidding for a couple of players who are £3 million because they’re more likely to want to play for Wigan than one £7 or £8 million proven superstar.
I know damn well that someone as high profile as Beckham wouldn’t sign but we’ve managed to sign players like Heskey and Melchiot so there must be a well known name somewhere that would sign in a bid to put bums on seats.
Garswood, rate Michu next season. Plenty players have taken the league by storm before flopping like a fish.
As daft as it sounds, we need this type of marquee signing. Think how many shirts we would sell with a name like Beckham on the back. Those extra ticket sales. The extra publicity. The wages wouldn’t be an issue.
Yes its daft and never going to happen.
Speaking to my Dad on the way home from the game on Saturday I said something similar about a striker. Why do we constantly take risk after risk on 3 or 4 million players with no PL experience when we could spend 8 on a proven scorer at this level? We’ve made a profit this year and have 60m on the way if we survive. We need to ask ourselves whether we ever want to move to the next level (which can be done without going bankrupt) or stay on a shoe string and hope we survive year after year.
The man’s a genius – once again he deflects away from his team letting a lead slip. Plus, it probably was a penaltyCorrect
Which makes the “official” attendance of over 19,000 an even bigger lie.The club must count those unavailable seats at each end of the Boston Stand in their attendance, in addition to the ST holders and freebies that didnt bother due to the weather.
EVERY club counts the season ticket holders whether they turn up or not.
Wigan rugby have announced a crowd of 25,004 (the former capacity) when there have been 1000 empty seats due to safety regs. Every available seat was sold though so they announced a capacity crowd. Fact is there were only 24000 on max.
No I believe it is 4800 as can be explained when the bottom corners ad a few empty seatsThought not. Yet more sh*t from mutty then.
I don’t usually step in for multis, boring posts etc but when a “new” poster posts exactly the same message on every thread, limiting any rational discussion, then a 24 hour ban ensues.Can we not make that permanent
