We're a club that could take a turn in any direction. More so now we have the current owners. I'm happy with the progress being made but feel we are medium sized.
In the context of Liverpool , Manure ,Everton etc etc we are a small club . In the context of Wigan were massive , they’ll be luck to have five thousand after a couple of seasons in lower leagues . their support was hardly inspirational during their prem days . No issues with that normally but when they try to ridicule our club with non sensical and baseless statements whilst trying to hold the moral and higher ground I’m afraid they are looking in the mirror of Dorian Grey imo .
Same with Bradford City. I've a mate who supports Tottenham and he saw them when they played Wigan and Bradford City. He went in the home ends for the games he attended. No demand from the home support. That was in the Premier League.
If you grade clubs by shirt size, with Liverpool and Man U an XXXXL and Stevenage an S, I'd put Wigan as an L and us as XL. For reference the Massive would maybe shade an XXL, their fans are definitely XXXXL in delusional mentality and probably shirt size. Coit.
Wigan... the club who took 64 fans to Tottenham on a Saturday afternoon. Wigan... the club who took 19 fans to Arsenal on a Tuesday night. theyre a bottom end league 2 club who had millions pumped into them by a fan. Now that fans ****** off, the monies gone and now you’ve got the real Wigan Athletic.
It’s such a shame that some of the Wigan fans show little respect or dignity. Paul Cook was a good manager for them & showed great dignity at the end of his tenure there (including leaving to lessen the wage bill). Some of the fans on the post are decent people who see Cook’s work for them. As for digging at the “likes” of Barnsley, Rotherham & Luton (all of whom are in the division higher than Wigan at this moment), they really need to give it a rest! It’s not clever to try to “big” yourself up by putting others down. They really have learned nothing!
And of course Wigan’s is only buoyed by the fans that whelan attracted by chucking money at them. Their average when he took over was 1800ish
In their location, historically in stature, as a club, I'd maybe put them on par with Rochdale and Bury, behind Oldham and light years behind Stockport County. Bolton, Blackburn, Preston are another galaxy.
I think we are good club that’s spent a lot of years in the top 50% of the football league. We are what we are, rather than what we would be with some silly bugger chucking money at us in an obvious fashion, and I like that - especially as things currently stand.
Has anyone bought them yet? Surely they must have an owner after all this time, y'know, with them being far bigger than Barnsley, Rotherham and Luton?
