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I bet he gets sold but it’ll only be announced at about 10.55pm on deadline day, thus giving the excuse of “not being able to bring anyone in”.
The money will just disappear. Again.
I thought he had worked as a coach at the academy in more recent years, like in the last 15 or 20 years?
Id stay well clear now.
We have a real tendency to look backwards at Latics and employ people with links all the time. Sometimes a new broom and outlook is the way to go, some times it isn’t.
The attendance will no doubt include all the ST holders who haven’t even attended. From my household, there were 3 ST holders who didn’t attend.
I bet there were loads who didn’t go and who haven’t bothered for a while. But they’ll still be included in the attendance. So there is likely no way there was even 7000 on.
My lad is 18, not far off 19. He’s saying he’s not renewing next season after having had one since he was about 3. I know of others the same age who have been diehards. They’ve jacked in and gone off travelling and things. My lads are getting the same. Good on them, don’t get bogged down with football loyalty. It’s cost me jobs and women over the years and frankly, there are more important things in life. Clubs don’t actually give two shits about supporters at the end of the day. What are we? Peasants at the jousting, or the modern equivalent. That’s all we are. Until we are actually a fans run, community club, like they have in Germany, we are milked for our stubborn blind loyalty. Well, I’m afraid Myself, and likely many others, have already dropped off.
I mean, shit, I don’t actually like my own club anymore. Or rather what we have become? Since Administration and all the Talal nonsense, it’s not been tbe same club…its not, has it? We were a very close nit club..we always were. I was proud of how we were. But all that’s gone. The club and support have never been as distant.
And they’ve milked having Maloney a man with link and history to the club. They’ve abused us with it in all honesty. Used it as a kind of bargaining tool, playing on it massively. But they’ve pushed it too far and the managers failings and ineptness has pushed people to pack in going. Where this will all end and to what depth we have to sink before something happens, I’ve no idea. I definitely don’t see any ambition in the club as it stands. I dint really think they are too bothered if we stay up, or go down. Just as long as we ‘tick along’ with as little fuss as possible.We are becoming something of a non entity really.
Last night was a disgrace. Thank God I watched on TV.
The club is in a right mess and we need to do what Bolton have done and pot our manager. He’s inept. He’s only survived so long due to his history at the club. That last night was as bad as anything Kolo the Klown churned out and as bad as anything from Coyle, Mackay, Joyce spells. I won’t even say Kenny Swain was as bad. At least his sides did try and did score some goals. That was when we didn’t have a pot to piss in, early to mid 90s. I think this is worse.
I’ve not been a game in months, I’ve not been well for a while so that’s not helped. However, I was going to attend on Saturday, taking advantage of the free ticket thing. I have a ticket, but can I be bothered? No. Last night was shocking.I’ll be straight up, I don’t like the manager. I think he is shocking and clueless. I don’t like most of the players, I think some of them are frauds…and we’ve ended up lumbered with them. Well done, Baloney. I can see Thelo going next week as well.
I dont like the signs of penny pinching, like starting to put small away support in the west stand. They’ve clearly been thinking ahead with a ‘what will we do in Lg 2 when a small away support comes?’ So if that’s the thinking…talk about lack of ambition.
So if you don’t like the manager, players and the way the club is going, why should you go to games?
Attendances falling off rapidly. How long will they let it go on for before they do something? In all my time following Latics, I think this is the worst we’ve been as a club. We’re just ticking along…existing. we’re a fraud of a club and only heading in one direction.I see Bolton have acted and parted company with Kreese. *
*John Kreese, Cobra Kai sensei. I liken Evatt to him. 🤣
Agree with all that’s been said.
Clearly, they’ve given consideration to us being in Lg2 soon.
Theyve no ambition for Latics at all, have they?
If they do want to move us to Orrell and a ground there, I actually wouldn’t mind. That stadium is shite.
Spoke to a couple of Leeds fans a few months back and they reckon Gelhardt is on 30k a week. Great wage for the lad, setting him up nicely. But surely he wants to play? The wages have put a lot off taking him on loan.
Hull obviously have the money to take him. Probably a 60-40 split on the wages.He definitely has to leave Leeds if he wants to move on with his career.
I’ve heard…and it might not be true…
That there are 4 clubs who have activated the release clause of 3 million.
Thelo wants to stay for now…club wants to sell.
I’ve a feeling he’ll be gone either on, or before deadline day. Probably be announced on deadline day at 10.45pm, perfect excuse for not spending any of the money and it’ll disappear…
I think Maloney is playing a really big gamble.
I think we might yet slip into a relegation places battle. I think it’s going to be very close…but it need not be so.
To hear that Maloney isn’t getting a penny of the Stones money…staggering. I was thinking we’d add about £150k to it and maybe have £500k to look for a decent striker. I was thinking a bit of ambition, approach Millwall and enquire about Langstaff. He couldn’t stop scoring in League 2 for Notts County, but has found it hard in the Championship. Even on loan with us ‘helping to get him firing again’, I thought it was worth a pint.But we’ve no genuine ambition as a club. It’s all very ‘meh’, isn’t it? I don’t even know who are next home games are against, such has my interest wained.
Well….
Absolutely fantastic. Every player put a shift in and gave 110%. Maloney got tactics and selection spot on. No complaints at all.
Bolton are awful though. But maybe it was us that played well? Dale Taylor really showed what he can do today…they all did. Adeeko was solid, Thelo showed why it will be hard to keep hold of him.
Fantastic performance. Well done everyone.
My dad threw coins into those buckets…I remember it clearly.
I would also say that this current team we have is not a million miles from the team we cobbled together in administration. We had players like Viv Solomon-Otobor and Dan Gardner come in and play out of their skin.
This current squad, too many loans who are nowhere near good enough and who are stealing wages. I’d seriously fire every one of them off. We wouldn’t be losing much.
I’m one of those. 38 years and didn’t renew. And everything I feared and predicted has come true. I’m not stupid…I could see it.
But the worst thing is, I’ve gone beyond being a casual floating fan who attends every few games. I’ve got to the point where I’ve not been for ages. I’ve done 2 homes all season. In my heart of hearts I’ve lost interest. The way things have declined, as sickened me. The way we are being ran…just seems to actually lack ambition, yet they claim differently.
I never wanted Maloney as manager. The football is awful. It’s supposed to entertain you. Nah, no way does it. I genuinely believe we are heading down and down and when our attendances get so low…minus 5k, we will be moved out to play at Leigh Sports Village.
This isn’t the Wigan Athletic I loved. The days of Mathias, even the days of Swain. We struggled and were shite, but we still got a degree of entertainment. We didn’t have a pot to piss in. But now we have…and we are worse!
Awful what’s happened to this club.Maloney has already mentioned Stones back on 6th January from Oldham….
You can see they’re going to say Stones will strengthen us in the forwards…like a new signing.
Must think we’re stupid.