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I find the snoozers quite funny, especially when they smack their heads against the window when it vibrates (more a bus thing really) or when the train sways or bumps.
I can’t usually sleep on transport but was once travelling back through Spain from a music festival & hadn’t slept for the best part of 2 days. Got on the train back to Barcelona & I remember being sat opposite some oldish woman on the side of the train where it was one seat opposite another. Woke up on the outskirts of Barcelona slumped down in my seat & noticed she’d gone. Apparently as I’d slithered down my seat she’d got quite upset coz my legs had pinned her in. My mates were too busy laughing to wake me up & so she’d had to clamber up over the table to get away. In my defence I was really knackered
I can’t stand the laptop workers & those who spend all journey making inane work calls that could just have easily waited the 2hr train journey from Runcorn to London & that extends to idiots on courses who have to spend all day “just nipping out to take this call” to remind everyone just how vitally important they are to wherever it is that they work. T!ts
The laptoppers are especially annoying when work have paid for a first class ticket & you get the free brekkie & you’ve got naff all space on the table to eat it from. So it served the bloke right back in May when a tough piece of bacon caused me to knock my orange juice all over the back of his laptop. oopsInjury problems aside, if used as a penalty area/6 yard box poacher I think he would be a good signing.
His 1 goal from open play this season & the own goal v Blackburn have shown that when in those areas he can make things happen.
Employed as a lone striker who appears to be expected to play with his back to goal, win the ball, hold it up, lay it off & then get into the penalty area & generally keeping 4 defenders occupied on his own, then I don’t think that he’ll ever work.
Norwich played to his strengths. Coyle seems to play to his weaknessesOverated..maybe. But bet we would be better off than we are now if he was in charge of us
Not financially we wouldn’t.[/quote]
Why??
Like every manager the world over, Harry Redknapp only spends money & claims wages that his chairman tell him he can spend/claim. Its not as if he buys all these players behind the owners backs without them knowing about it.
Likewise, if he was in charge of Latics he would only be able to spend what Dave Whelan told him he could spend. Just like Coyle does.As it happens I doubt he’d ever be at Latics as he wouldn’t take the pay or accept those budget restrictions but if he was Latics would be in no better or worse financial position than they are now
I’m no big fan of Coyle myself, but yet again this board seems awash with tactical geniuses who criticise but seem to offer no real alternative.Other than the usual “play two up front” old chestnut.
Hold on, you slagged off Holt without offering up any real alternative ;) :P :P
I’ll disagree on Holt
Yeah no doubt he was looking for a last payday/signing on fee – there’s not many journeymen players at the same stage of their career who wouldn’t but at the end of the day he’s also taken a pay cut. He could have stayed at Norwich & earnt more flat rate sat in the stiffsAnyway, leaving that to one side I don’t think his poor performances are related to not giving a $h!t coz he’s got his dosh either but more to do with being asked to play a role that doesn’t suit him in any way, shape or form. From what i saw of him at Norwich he was that big lump of a target man, flicking the ball on for others &/or getting on the end of stuff in the penalty area – & he did it very well.
Under Coyle at Latics he’s being asked to play that lone forward role where he needs to drop deep, hold the ball up, bring others into play & then get on the end of stuff in the penalty area. He hasn’t got the skill set to play that role & he’s looking like a fish out of waterMy own feelings on Gomez is that he is a really gifted & skilful footballer but he is way too slow in mind & body at times. When he’s given time & space on the ball he can pick out a slide rule pass no-one else can manage like to McManaman against Millwall at Wembley but most of the time he doesn’t have that luxury. As with Holt, he’s also now being asked by Coyle to play in a wide position where he doesn’t have the pace to be effective. Like Holt, he’s looking like a fish out of water & he’s starting to get grief. Played as Bobby wound up using him at the back end of last season & he looks good. He doesn’t help his case when he is seen to bottle out of tackles as he did at least once against Rubin last week (although sometimes he gets stick for appearing to do that when he actually chose the better option in standing up). That said he doesn’t deserve anywhere near the stick get gets from some coz he can blaze over a shot & get booed, someone else does it & they get clapped
It reminds me of the Teale/McCulloch scenario from a few years back
I’ll take a guess at Gary Walsh.
Played the last of his 5 league games for Wigan on 3 April 2004 in a 0-1 home defeat to Wimbledon.
Surely there must be someone else since then? Its a football town tha’ knows….[/quote]
Is it really that hard to grasp that when a game is played seriously in a small area of (old) Lancashire, a small area of Yorkshire, a small part of Cumbria, 2 states of Australia, a small part of France and New Zealand that the majority of players in the sport are going to come from those areas?
On the other hand is it really that hard to grasp that when a game is played seriously in almost every country in the world, the chances of people from a town with a population of 95,000 being able to make it to the top of the sport and specifcally in a league which the majority of players want to play in (for money reasons alone) are significantly reduced????Like it or not, Wigan is a football town. More people watch & play football than rugby league. That’s a fact – it’s why a certain millionaire can make money out of opening a soccerdome in the town yet no-one thinks there’s money to be made from a rugbyleaguedome. It’s also why the pubs & clubs of Wigan will be next to deserted for the England fixtures in the Rugby League World Cup but they’ll be a lot fuller for England’s fixtures in next year’s football world cup
I quite like rugby league – not enough to pay money to watch it (regularly anyway) or to follow any team (other than a passing interest in how Leigh get on & checking to see if Wigan lost) but a good, close, game of rugby league is entertaining to watch.
That said, trying to hold any sort of World Cup in the sport is an absolute farce as (regardless of whether or not it is a growing sport in Ireland, the US or wherever) it is not played at anywhere remotely close to a competitive level anywhere other than Australia, New Zealand, England & France (at a push) – I mean 800 registered players in the US? there’s probably more than that registered in Leigh & Wigan alone.
Rather than flogging a dead horse with a world cup made up mainly of Antipodean emmigrants or 2nd/3rd generation immigrants they should hold an annual/bi-annual four team tournament of the countries above (swap England for GB). Let the viewing public watch some regular competitive international rugby league to try & generate interest more interest within those countries rather than some lame attempt to spread the gospel to Lebanon, the US etc..
Watching the RL authorities desperate attempts to sell various World Cups with differing formats just reminds me of the failed attempts to create interest in the sport in the likes of London, Gateshead, South Wales, North Wales & so on. Concentrate on making the product as strong as possible in its heartlands before moving on to conquer the world coz a house built on sand won’t last long
EDIT – Egg: I may be wrong but I don’t think that its correct when you said footballers from Northern Ireland playing for the Republic must have proved Southern Irish ancestry. I think that there was a FIFA ruling not that many years ago which allows them to be able to choose to represent either regardless of ancestry due to the history of the island & those 2 countries
Reminds me of when Jimmy Bullard used to do the same – often with the same effect.Although I do remember being at SJP and him lining up a free kick on the edge of the box and me saying “Why does he have to take all…..GOAL!!!!”
If I remember rightly you weren’t the only one thinking that. Didn’t he have a bust up with one of his team mates prior to scoring about who was going to take it?
Information for the away tie in Kazan from the home officehttps://www.gov.uk/government/news/rubin-kazan-vs-wigan-athletic
Minimise the risks
Some important information to note:•Security at the Stadium will be strict and uncompromising – refrain from antagonising the police even if you believe you are in the right
:blink: :blink: :blink:Maribor very much in it now…not looking good for extra tickets
Thought that myself when I saw their result.
They’re still probably 3rd favourites to a neutral but it gives em genuine & justified hope. That might have changed by 8th November (either by going above latics with 6 points or losing & Latics winning to get 8 points) but the deadline they gave was the end of the month & if they stick to that they’ll still be thinking they’ll be enough demand from home fans to not have to offer tickets to LaticsI don’t have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Championship footballers.
Or the benefit of hindsight as in Tylders post :whistle:[/quote]
Me thinks you’ll find that I said the same thing about McCann on the day he was signed (well the bit about him being worse than what we had bar Fyvie) :P
Once again I’ve been proved right!! ;)I wasn’t aware of his recent history with injuries which is possibly why I expected more. I don’t have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Championship footballers.You disappoint me Mr Griffin!! ;)
Expected more from McCann.Really??
The signing baffled me at the time to be honest & as Coyle’s first signing it always struck as one he’d done just to get the ball rolling after the mass exodus after Bobby left.
If you were looking at Latics squad at the time bearing in mind we had about 3 defenders, 2 forwards & McCarthy, McArthur, Watson, Gomez, Espinoza & Fyvie in the middle, I’d have thought that another midfielder would have been quote low down the list of priorities – especially one who (IMO) was better than just one of those already here.
In terms of his ability, most Burnley fans who commented said that he hadn’t played particularly well since recovering from his knee injury & that was back in 2009.
For me his performances have pretty much been in line with what I expected from himBy ‘eck, I’m glad I’m divorced and childless!!Gotta say, though, hope you’re not shoving *all* women into that bit in bold, there must be more than one footie widower or ex out there… :D
Yes I was!!
Take the following:
Monday night – Me: “I think I might go to the Latics game on Thursday”. Her “Okay, no problem”.
This morning as BBC news was showing the champions league goals from last night – “I’ve got my ticket for Thursday night”. Her “I hope you’re joking. You were out last night refereeing & I’m not well” (she has a cough). Me “I told you about that the other night & you said it wasn’t a problem”. Her “That’s not the point”I’m pretty sure my wife is representative of the female species as a whole!!
