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I’ve followed Latics home & away for 31 years now & during that time have spent a small fortune & even a period on the dole didn’t stop me missing a game between January 1997 to the end of that season
However, I have a limit that I will pay for a league game to watch Latics & 35 quid is beyond that. Its a down right rip off – I wouldn;t pay it if I still lived up north & I won’t pay that if one of the south east based games is the same cost.
I won’t knock anyone that does go, but comments like “the team needs your support” etc.. are precisely the emotional ties that rip off merchants like Bolton Wanderers count on to get away with charging that price (& its the same for their home support)
Boycotting games because of prices does change things if its concerted enough & we’ve seen that at LaticsEnjoy the game if you do go but don’t slag those off who are trying to make a stand & are refusing to pay that amount (or who genuinely can’t afford to pay that amount)
You could always take in a lower league fixture this weekend.
Sunderland v Wycombe, 3pm at the Stadium of Light…
Atherton Colls v Droylsden
St Helens Town v Carlisle City
or even
Charnock Richard v 1874 Northwich[/quote]Or Godalming Town v Farnham Town – the big Wey Valley derby!!!
Now we should learn from this. How do Bolton get round charging this price to away fans. Surely they don’t charge that for home fans too. Unless they do but if not then how do they do it?
Does the “same price for the same view and facilities” rule apply?[/quote]
They charge the same for home fans
That breakaway where the 8 Leeds players tracked back to shut out Windass whilst not a single Latics player crossed the half way line was a disgrace.
You don’t support Latics if you can’t handle losing but what I’ve always found it hard to stomach is when a player or players don’t give 100% and there’s no way that any of those players ambling upfield for Latics were giving 100%.
As Garswood has said they simply couldn’t be bothered or were leaving it up to someone elseNot any issue when we get beat by a better team (which Leeds were) & even individual mistakes such as Walton & Kipre for their winner happen, but there’s no excuse for not trying and that’s what that was.
I don’t blame Cook for that & I don’t buy his “I was happy with the effort & we got beat by the better side” he said afterwards – no manager can be happy with instances like that and I hope that he just sat them down at training this morning & made them watch that 10-15 second clip over & over again
Reet – rant over!!
My best XI would be (442 formation coz I’m proper old skool):
GK – Roy Carroll
RB – Pascal Chimbonda
LB – Leighton Baines
CH – Peter Atherton
CH – Arjan De Zeeuw
RW – David Lowe
CM – Joe Parkinson
CM – Jimmy Bullard
LW – Shaun Maloney
CF – Jason Roberts
CF – Emile HeskeyActually not sure 442 would work that well as Maloney never played well as an out & out left winger & neither did the other front runner for that spot – N’Zogbia. Discounted McCulloch coz I wanted a bit more from that spot than someone who could just win headers at the back post!! ;) ;)
If, for the first time in years, Cook’s fitness regime is successfully managing Nick Powell’s issues I wouldn’t have concerns about his training.
Grigg’s had issues with his hammies for years. Jacobs was out for a stretch during Caldwell’s promotion season with the same problem & Massey has described his as a freak injuryFrankly, with the anti-RL “establishment” in the UK that block any attempts to grow the game, it doesn’t surprise me that the RFL have decided to look elsewhere for expansion.Stop being paranoid – its not an anti-RL establishment. People have heard about & seen Rugby League for over a century.
The reason why it’s not become a popular nationwide sport is because a lot of people simply either don’t like it or don’t like it enough to start paying to watch it or to play it. That’s just a fact & RL needs to accept it.Club rugby union doesn’t get much coverage in the papers etc.(unless you read one of the broadsheets & they know their demographic) but international RU does, because a lot more people are interested in it
Likewise, RL’s coverage reflects the public’s interest in itNow everyone knows I avoid it like the plague and couldn’t tell you who is doing well or struggling and I only know this coz the radio were banging on about it. One egg game finished 0-0 whilst another called the million pound game whatever that’s supposed to mean ended 4-2. The excitement must have been at fever pitch.
Not that I’m a RL expert (I have a passing interest in it but not enough to pay to follow it) but I’m not aware of a 0-0 scoreline in recent history although the Wigan v Castleford gran final semi-final was 14-0 so quite low scoring.
The 4-2 scoreline did happen between Toronto & London but I didn’t see any of it to say whether it was entertaining or rubbish.
That said some of the best RL games I’ve seen have been low scoring affairs whilst some of the most boring have been high scoring (either one sided or a lot of points both ways).
I should also point out that we’ve all seen dull as dishwater Latics games during our time!![/quote]Hi tl, after some research to make sure that I was right the 0-0 game involved a team of heroes called London Welsh (the mind boggles). Wonder where the lads go for their pleasures I mean where in London could you hitch up with a sheep.[/quote]
T’is Rugby Union that mon – different sport ;)
Hang on a bit I may know nowt about Rugby and I care even less but my geography is shit hot. Why the feck would London play Toronto last time I looked neither were in what you would call egg playing territory. And mutt why the f..k.n hell would you actually watch it. Canadians only play sports that involve full faced safety helmets or snow. Jeesus wept the standard must have been high NOT. And why was a million quid riding on it, was it for a bet.London’s had a team for the best part of 30 years (although admittedly its been on the brink of extinction numerous times)
Toronto have had a team for 2 seasons & get an average of 4,200 with almost 12k on for a game against Leeds. I think a wealthy ex-pat is bankrolling them & can’t see it lasting if his money dries up – they’re also talking about a team in New York??? I think Toronto’s home games are played in a block of weeks so they’re based in Canada for that period & then Blighty for the restNow everyone knows I avoid it like the plague and couldn’t tell you who is doing well or struggling and I only know this coz the radio were banging on about it. One egg game finished 0-0 whilst another called the million pound game whatever that’s supposed to mean ended 4-2. The excitement must have been at fever pitch.Not that I’m a RL expert (I have a passing interest in it but not enough to pay to follow it) but I’m not aware of a 0-0 scoreline in recent history although the Wigan v Castleford gran final semi-final was 14-0 so quite low scoring.
The 4-2 scoreline did happen between Toronto & London but I didn’t see any of it to say whether it was entertaining or rubbish.
That said some of the best RL games I’ve seen have been low scoring affairs whilst some of the most boring have been high scoring (either one sided or a lot of points both ways).
I should also point out that we’ve all seen dull as dishwater Latics games during our time!!But goal line technology used on the day proved otherwise.
Have they got it in the Championship these days??[/quote]
I thought it was PL only.[/quote]
Been in place in the Championship since last season apparently
But goal line technology used on the day proved otherwise.Have they got it in the Championship these days??
Violent conduct is punching, headbutting or kicking (or attempting to)
I’ve just watched the challenge again &, don’t get me wrong, Gibson’s challenge was poor & late but there wasn’t excessive force, he didn’t jump into the challenge & wasn’t out of control, it wasn’t studs up, (to me at least) it wasn’t high (about knee height or just below) and it didn’t deny an obvious goal scoring opportunity so for me doesn’t meet any of the sending off criteria.
The challenge was careless & reckless & so should have been a caution for meOne other thing, having just watched the highlights again, Antonee Robinson is a truly awful defender – beaten to the ball for which he was favourite & the stepped over the pass for their first and for the second doesn’t pick up the overlap by his man & makes no attempt to get back to either cover him or the bloke who supplies that player with the pass.
Maybe I’m old fashioned but I want my defenders to actually be able to grasp the basics of defendingOh & PNE’s shot that came back off the bar at 1-0 looked well over the line
3 I imagine for a violent conduct straight redI wasn’t at the game but from the highlights, the red card was for a foul wasn’t it? Unless there was a kick off afterwards that Sky didn’t show then the offence would have been serious foul play for what I assume the referee deemed a dangerous challenge.
Still a 3 game ban though
That said, I’ve only seen it once & from one angle, but I thought that a red card was quite harsh for that challenge
I’ve said before that I predict in a few years some of the bigger clubs will convert to rugby union, as that’s where bigger money and higher national profile will be, as RL caters for smaller and smaller audiences. Once a few go, like Warriors, Saints, Leeds, then the game will end up being on a par with hockey.Will it heck – that’s like saying that the top football clubs will convert to basketball. If RL fans wanted to watch Rugby Union then they could but they don’t like the sport so they watch League instead.
I think what would be more likely is that the “big clubs” join some competition including the NRL clubs whilst the others revert to part time status.
The RFL authorities need to accept what RL is – a small localised sport. If it was going to expand the way they envisaged that it would have done long ago. It hadn’t, not because enough people hadn’t heard or seen it but because they had & didn’t like it enough to start playing it or watching it regularly
That’s not a dig at RL – I like it (not enough to pay to watch it on top of the other things I like doing which cost my time & money), but it is what it is