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Quote ="Odem"Kick 50 rugby balls onto the field from each corner of the stadium for latics next game. Imagine the game being put on hold while they clear rugby balls off the field, it would be on MOTD!'"
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Quote ="Odem"Kick 50 rugby balls onto the field from each corner of the stadium for latics next game. Imagine the game being put on hold while they clear rugby balls off the field, it would be on MOTD!'"
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Quote ="Conroy"What goes around comes around some would say. (those being the Latics fans there back when Lindsay did similar)
The facts are that as long as Latics are in the PL Dave Whelan is going to be an a$$ about where and when Wigan RL play. It is [size=150nothing[/size to do with the PL as there is [size=150NO[/size 24 hour rule. It is simply all at the feet of DW who is trying to protect his investment as best he can. The myth painted by the media that rugby cuts the pitch up doesn't help either. Personally from a Wigan RL POV the next time the media blame them for the pitch I'd use this and the Widnes debacle as proof that that isn't the case.
Anyway, there are three options available to Wigan RL:
Build our own ground
Move out of Wigan and share with someone else
[uSuck it up[/u and accept that that was what was agreed too.
The first one isn't viable. The second would be an absolute travesty, so the third it is. It's happened twice in 12 years when there has been 5 and 11 days notice. Not exactly a constant issue worth breaking a very favourable deal ">imo.'"
Wow ... are we going back again to the activities of Maurice Lindsay in the mid-1980s, or whenever it was? When are Latics fans going to stop bringing up events from what now seems like sporting prehistory ... from an administration that is so long gone most current Wigan fans don't even remember it?
That aside, what you say about the causes of this latest debacle is of course true. But what I said was true as well. Regardless of the reasons for it, this event is yet another nail in the coffin of those who hope to see a town united in sport. It must be very difficult at present for any RL fans in Wigan to view Latics as anything more than a cuckoo in the nest, and - rightly or wrongly - to blame their presence here as the main cause of this embarrassment.
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Quote ="Conroy"What goes around comes around some would say. (those being the Latics fans there back when Lindsay did similar)
The facts are that as long as Latics are in the PL Dave Whelan is going to be an a$$ about where and when Wigan RL play. It is [size=150nothing[/size to do with the PL as there is [size=150NO[/size 24 hour rule. It is simply all at the feet of DW who is trying to protect his investment as best he can. The myth painted by the media that rugby cuts the pitch up doesn't help either. Personally from a Wigan RL POV the next time the media blame them for the pitch I'd use this and the Widnes debacle as proof that that isn't the case.
Anyway, there are three options available to Wigan RL:
Build our own ground
Move out of Wigan and share with someone else
[uSuck it up[/u and accept that that was what was agreed too.
The first one isn't viable. The second would be an absolute travesty, so the third it is. It's happened twice in 12 years when there has been 5 and 11 days notice. Not exactly a constant issue worth breaking a very favourable deal ">imo.'"
Wow ... are we going back again to the activities of Maurice Lindsay in the mid-1980s, or whenever it was? When are Latics fans going to stop bringing up events from what now seems like sporting prehistory ... from an administration that is so long gone most current Wigan fans don't even remember it?
That aside, what you say about the causes of this latest debacle is of course true. But what I said was true as well. Regardless of the reasons for it, this event is yet another nail in the coffin of those who hope to see a town united in sport. It must be very difficult at present for any RL fans in Wigan to view Latics as anything more than a cuckoo in the nest, and - rightly or wrongly - to blame their presence here as the main cause of this embarrassment.
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Quote ="Cruncher"Wow ... are we going back again to the activities of Maurice Lindsay in the mid-1980s, or whenever it was? When are Latics fans going to stop bringing up events from what now seems like sporting prehistory ... from an administration that is so long gone most current Wigan fans don't even remember it?
That aside, what you say about the causes of this latest debacle is of course true. But what I said was true as well. Regardless of the reasons for it, this event is yet another nail in the coffin of those who hope to see a town united in sport. It must be very difficult at present for any RL fans in Wigan to view Latics as anything more than a cuckoo in the nest, and - rightly or wrongly - to blame their presence here as the cause of this ">embarrassment.'"
I wasn't bringing it up. I was saying that that is how some would see it. After years of playing second fiddle, some are happy to be the big boys for once hence my tongue in cheek comment on the piespace thread
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I will always back the rugby ahead of the football. I didn't even see the game against Stoke last year because I was at Bradford in the cup. The town will never be united in sport unfortunately because of the influx of 'outsiders' that bring their kids up to support the same team they do, or because of children supporting whichever team are winning the PL. This doesn't hep though you're right
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Quote ="Cruncher"Wow ... are we going back again to the activities of Maurice Lindsay in the mid-1980s, or whenever it was? When are Latics fans going to stop bringing up events from what now seems like sporting prehistory ... from an administration that is so long gone most current Wigan fans don't even remember it?
That aside, what you say about the causes of this latest debacle is of course true. But what I said was true as well. Regardless of the reasons for it, this event is yet another nail in the coffin of those who hope to see a town united in sport. It must be very difficult at present for any RL fans in Wigan to view Latics as anything more than a cuckoo in the nest, and - rightly or wrongly - to blame their presence here as the cause of this ">embarrassment.'"
I wasn't bringing it up. I was saying that that is how some would see it. After years of playing second fiddle, some are happy to be the big boys for once hence my tongue in cheek comment on the piespace thread
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I will always back the rugby ahead of the football. I didn't even see the game against Stoke last year because I was at Bradford in the cup. The town will never be united in sport unfortunately because of the influx of 'outsiders' that bring their kids up to support the same team they do, or because of children supporting whichever team are winning the PL. This doesn't hep though you're right
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Quote ="Conroy"I wasn't bringing it up. I was saying that that is how some would see it. After years of playing second fiddle, some are happy to be the big boys for once hence my tongue in cheek comment on the piespace thread
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I will always back the rugby ahead of the football. I didn't even see the game against Stoke last year because I was at Bradford in the cup. The town will never be united in sport unfortunately because of the influx of 'outsiders' that bring their kids up to support the same team they do, or because of children supporting whichever team are winning the PL. This doesn't hep though you're right
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You're probably right, I guess.
Wasn't having a go at you, by the way.
Trouble is, even if they resolve this situation by tomorrow morning to our satisfaction, it's still going to leave a stain. What a mess. |
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Quote ="Conroy"I wasn't bringing it up. I was saying that that is how some would see it. After years of playing second fiddle, some are happy to be the big boys for once hence my tongue in cheek comment on the piespace thread
icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />
I will always back the rugby ahead of the football. I didn't even see the game against Stoke last year because I was at Bradford in the cup. The town will never be united in sport unfortunately because of the influx of 'outsiders' that bring their kids up to support the same team they do, or because of children supporting whichever team are winning the PL. This doesn't hep though you're right
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You're probably right, I guess.
Wasn't having a go at you, by the way.
Trouble is, even if they resolve this situation by tomorrow morning to our satisfaction, it's still going to leave a stain. What a mess. | |
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Quote ="Cruncher"Trouble is, even if they resolve this situation by tomorrow morning to our satisfaction, it's still going to leave a stain. What a ">mess.'"
Unfortunately yes.
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Quote ="Cruncher"Trouble is, even if they resolve this situation by tomorrow morning to our satisfaction, it's still going to leave a stain. What a ">mess.'"
Unfortunately yes.
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