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im_a_cuckoo posted:
The jealousy coming off these posts is palpable.

So a millionaire chairman is all you need to make it into the Prem? It didn't do Darlington or Oxford much good. Other rich man's playthings currently steadfastly avoiding the Premier League include Wolves, Birmingham, Leeds, Cardiff, Southampton... I could go on.

In football terms, Latics spent next to nothing in their ascent through the divisions. Especially when you factor in the tens of miillions they received for Roy Carroll, Nathan Ellington, Jimmy Bullard and Pascal Chimbonda. Like I said, another season and they'll be debt-free.

Wigan RL's success in the 80s was built on big-name foreign imports. They were the only club at the time who could afford to be full-time - hardly a level playing field! And I don't hear many of you saying 'No thanks Mr Whelan; we don't want your dirty money' now that he's bailing Warriors out.

mike binder posted:

im_a_cuckoo posted:
The jealousy coming off these posts is palpable.

So a millionaire chairman is all you need to make it into the Prem? It didn't do Darlington or Oxford much good. Other rich man's playthings currently steadfastly avoiding the Premier League include Wolves, Birmingham, Leeds, Cardiff, Southampton... I could go on.

In football terms, Latics spent next to nothing in their ascent through the divisions. Especially when you factor in the tens of miillions they received for Roy Carroll, Nathan Ellington, Jimmy Bullard and Pascal Chimbonda. Like I said, another season and they'll be debt-free.

Wigan RL's success in the 80s was built on big-name foreign imports. They were the only club at the time who could afford to be full-time - hardly a level playing field! And I don't hear many of you saying 'No thanks Mr Whelan; we don't want your dirty money' now that he's bailing Warriors out.

big name foreign imports when we beat the aussies in there own back yard in the world club chaleng every player was british

im_a_cuckoo posted:

Cant you fill the stadium you rent off us

Someone else who needs a history lesson. This off rlfans.com. I've bolded up the pertinent bits for you.

im_a_cuckoo posted:
The jealousy coming off these posts is palpable.

So a millionaire chairman is all you need to make it into the Prem? It didn't do Darlington or Oxford much good. Other rich man's playthings currently steadfastly avoiding the Premier League include Wolves, Birmingham, Leeds, Cardiff, Southampton... I could go on.

In football terms, Latics spent next to nothing in their ascent through the divisions. Especially when you factor in the tens of miillions they received for Roy Carroll, Nathan Ellington, Jimmy Bullard and Pascal Chimbonda. Like I said, another season and they'll be debt-free.

Wigan RL's success in the 80s was built on big-name foreign imports. They were the only club at the time who could afford to be full-time - hardly a level playing field! And I don't hear many of you saying 'No thanks Mr Whelan; we don't want your dirty money' now that he's bailing Warriors out.

thegimble posted:

im_a_cuckoo posted:
The jealousy coming off these posts is palpable.

So a millionaire chairman is all you need to make it into the Prem? It didn't do Darlington or Oxford much good. Other rich man's playthings currently steadfastly avoiding the Premier League include Wolves, Birmingham, Leeds, Cardiff, Southampton... I could go on.

In football terms, Latics spent next to nothing in their ascent through the divisions. Especially when you factor in the tens of miillions they received for Roy Carroll, Nathan Ellington, Jimmy Bullard and Pascal Chimbonda. Like I said, another season and they'll be debt-free.

Wigan RL's success in the 80s was built on big-name foreign imports. They were the only club at the time who could afford to be full-time - hardly a level playing field! And I don't hear many of you saying 'No thanks Mr Whelan; we don't want your dirty money' now that he's bailing Warriors out.

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Did anyone see Tony Blair on his minesterial visit to Wigan yesterday. Dave Whelan apparently took him for a tour of the JJB stadium & store.
Whilst in the store Mr blair commented about the number of blue & white shirts ,so cheap, for sale, and that his next policy was to find the cheapest method of putting shirts on the backs of refugee's coming in from Romania. Dave Whelan advised Mr blair not to purchase them now, as by the end of the football season, all the shirts would still be there, and by then he would be giving them away.
Next season, if you are sitting next to a non English speaking bloke with a freebie Latic's shirt, please take pitty on him, as like the rest of Europe, they have never heard of Wigan Athletic, and possibly also Preston North End, Norwich City, West Bromwich Albion etc. Tony Blair did comment by saying that he had heard of Wigan Athletic, as his son was a Liverpool fan, and that they had both visited the JJB on 2nd December to see the 4-0 'in defeat' battle put up by the Latic's.

oldtimer posted:
why has no one taken me up on the bet i offered re highest gates[average]?

Fraggle posted:

oldtimer posted:
why has no one taken me up on the bet i offered re highest gates[average]?

Because I didn't think most of us were really trying to compare Warriors with Latics so it's a bit of a pointless bet, unless you can count how many people within those attendances are "home" fans as opposed to "away" fans and neutrals. Latics will have a higher average crowd than Warriors this season, as they did last year, simply because Premiership soccer pulls in more people than Superleague. Whether the Latics fans within the Latics crowds make up a higher average than Warriors fans within the Warriors crowds would be a more interesting statistic, but one that is very difficult to determine. One could also compare the Latics average to the Premiership average, and Warriors average to the SL average, which will show Warriors in a better light than Latics but again the numbers are a bit meaningless because Latics cannot achieve crowds of 70,000 as some of their fellow teams can achieve, whereas Warriors can match any team in SL for maximum potential crowd.

If people were bored enough I'm sure they could recite lots of numbers to show anything they wanted, but none of it really allows us to compare the two teams on a like-with-like basis.