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There is more money to be had in football if you get it right and I agree with others , all he had to do was wait for admin and he would have grabbed ground for next to nothing.
It’s a reasonopportunity with joint ownership like Whelan had and a nice way to promote your core business and put something back in the process.
I think as a club we have had 100 years back luck in 3 years so a few years of mediocrity with steady progress won’t do the club any harm.To say I thought the club was finished last May is beyond an understatement given the final few days before Danson took the reins.
It’s seems rather quiet now and no drama but the signs have been good so far with some contracts signed and a business as usual feel without the mad antics of the past few years.
I haven’t felt there is a hidden agenda other than a wealthy businessman with a slightly more long term objective for both clubs.
A few years consolidating in league 1 will do for starters and a build up of our youth policy and investment im the training facilities will do for me.
The ground and who owns it means nothing other than petty point scoring , FFS we would have been playing at Ashton Town had those clowns driven the club to the wall in May.
Move on and stop looking for hidden agendas and live for the moment and rejoice and celebrate we have a club that is still in existence and preparing for the new season in league 1.
I would have snapped both hands off for just that back in April.Well done to young Charlie Hughes in signing a 5 year deal.
He knows in the long term it’s a brilliant career move. A few years experience in the Latics and if he improves no doubt a big money move which benefits not only him but the club as well, fair do’s.Well done to young Charlie Hughes in signing a 5 year deal.
He knows in the long term it’s a brilliant career move. A few years experience in the Latics and if he improves no doubt a big money move which benefits not only him but the club as well, fair do’s.Well done to young Charlie Hughes in signing a 5 year deal.
He knows in the long term it’s a brilliant career move. A few years experience in the Latics and if he improves no doubt a big money move which benefits not only him but the club as well, fair do’s.Well done Charlie , what loyalty and great business for the club.
Need to find a few more from that youth set up because it can save fortunes in the long run.Caldwell did achieve promotion but was blessed with parachute payment budget from memory.
Every ex Latics manager has achieved something and before somebody mentions Barrow ,dug us out the crap in 1994-5 before Whelan showed his hand.
Give the bloke time and let him build up the club , if that means several years bouncing around league 1 and 2 then so be it.
My prediction for next season is one of consolidation and safety with a dream season being a play off spot.I dont think expectations will be very high next season , fifth bottom will be an acheivement but agree with sentiment about young hungry players.
keeping league 1 status will do for me and if there is money to invest than develop our youth training facilities and try to pick up cast offs from the big local clubs.
Lets hope they give Shaun the time to build up the club and i think he deserves plenty of time in view of his efforts last year in very difficult circumstances.
Ex Latics players have always done well in the management chair and the stats back that up.Jamie Jones could do a job in league 1 and his attitude is always spot on for me.
We have a very good goalkeeper in Sam Tickle languishing in the reserves but Jones should be retained out of that bunch in my opinion.Only a club like Latics could face a HMRC winding up order on the Monday and acquire a billionaire owner by the end of the week.
On a par with any of the on field last minute victories and last gasp relegation battles , absolutely out of the blue.
Oh how the teddies and rattles must have bounced against the walls of houses Blackrod and Horwich way last Thursday night !
We will get our day again with those jealous ,arrogant and very deluded bar stewards once again.To be fair they are a bigger club and we all know that , founder members and all that and yes they have a bigger fan base.
They have tried to stoke rivalry up with every club in the north west and failed miserably so given our recent success have turned to us.
The sad thing for them is that our supporters don’t get as angry about it as they do , it’s all done light heartedly from our side and they hate that , they really do.
Add the cup success in an era where it is almost impossible now for a low ranking club to win a major trophy and it just ramps up the vitriol.
Yes more FA cups but absolutely no recent success bar a Mickey Mouse trophy against a lower division club rather than than the premier league champions.
Same as Sunderland and Newcastle really Mutty , no success for nearly 50 years and at clubs with huge support albeit in an area devoid of clubs ( hardly the hotbed it’s marketed as ), laughable really !The rivalry was there before 2013 and went as far as ‘pie eaters ‘ and usual shithousing however ramped up massively after the FA cup victory in 2013.
They just cannot handle the fact we have been more successful than they have , it rankles.
So bitter and very jealous.Maybe its rival EFL member clubs that push for this , we seem to have attracted a few bitter enemies since the monumental FA cup success and backs to wall mentality displayed in latter years.
Id imagine a few perenial League 1 lame dogs will no doubt have been on the phone ‘reminding’ the EFL of the June payday breach already.
If i know Latics it will be a promotion push regardless next season regardless , the backs to wall mentality will no doubt surface very strongly next season now all this has been sorted.Great day for Latics supporters and let’s hope they run the club sensibly with a long term sustainable goal.
I really thought the club was done for finally like happened at Bury and if it means we have to stroke along with the chubbies then so be it.
It worked before with Whelan and whilst many of us cannot forget their bombast and ruthlessness under Maurice
Lindsay we have to accept that the rugby club and the game of rugby league is declining and times now are very different now to the 1980’s.
Let’s hope we have had our bad luck once and for all , I noticed our bitter and jealous neighbours from Blackrod were very quiet last night.
At last it’s now Back to matters on the pitch and a tough relegation battle awaits with possible relegation to the basement again but that is this clubs metier.
Get the whisky out 🥃I cannot see us starting the season either and the new buyer hope has disappeared now we have found out the identity.
No immediate money to run the club means the final nail in the coffin for me and we won’t start the season.
It’s a horrible horrible situation and those bitter jealous nobodies from Horwich will have got their own back on a small number of our supporters.
At least we won’t have the vile
scruffy two hats coming into our lovely town and stinking it out anymore with their vitriol.
Let’s hope all the supporters can band together and reform the club if the worst happens.
Tip of the iceberg though , I’m expecting more situations like this throughout football going forward.I think they felt they could rip through the championship and hit the premier league in one swoop ,beyond bloody naive but there you go.
Looking back now it seems when things started to falter badly on the pitch around last October the first late wages payment rumours began to surface.
If it was a pool of investors that mostly backed away when the form changed from play off contenders to relegation fodder and the bills started to mount up it all makes sense now.
