Not when there are fixtures such as Liverpool v Arsenal, Spurs v Man City and Man Utd v Newcastle it isn't.

Not much novelty value in those ones though, apart from Newcastle as they are also a promoted club. Spurs v Man City was also one of the last televised games in May.

What has when it was last televised gotta do with the price of fish? The fact is there are bigger games which is why it isn't on tv. Burnley weren't on tv last season on the opening day either.

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Spurs vs Man city is on sky again first weekend of the season

That'll be 75% of the Pathetics 'true blue' support, glued to a tv then!


Similar thread on the COCKlatics forum, is highly amusing.
Nice to see that the dozen or so numpties that constitute all their forum posters, are still totally obsessed by all things Cherry n White!!

Is there? Fook em.

They're just jealous that we're heading towards a sell out, something they couldnt manage to do last season even when the mighty 'United' came to town.

Latics v Blackpool = last on MOTD, knocking bet

Nah, there will be some interest in Blackpool i'd say.

Too right. It'll be boring as hell.



Especially when they do us 1-0

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I'd be happy beating you 4-1 again though

What?

The biggest club of the biggest league of the biggest sport in the world came to Latics and they didn't get 20k on?

Even though United brought an official 5,500 speccies and hundreds more in the home ends?

And it was 3 o clock on a Saturday?

and it wasn't televised?

and Wigan's turning blue?

Ian Leneghan Said:

I can only blindly hope that this happiness was on the basis of some kind of reciprocation come play off time.

Our reserves you mean?

I didn't know they had any !!!

yeah that was my reaction also.

is it not in DW's interest to have us play our extra matches at the DW rather than force us to play elsewhere? surely it more money in his pocket or is that not the case?

You mean half the reserves that now make up your first team, against quite a lot of our reserves

I dont see why anyone is surprised. IL knows he can't win an argument with Whelan and according to him we enjoy a "very good deal" in terms of the lease. He isnt going to rock the apple cart.

We are a tennant, and this is going to happen to us from time to time.

Thats just the way it now is.

Would people rather have our own stadium but more expensive prices to pay for it or just stay as tennants and be better off. We will probably have the stadium to ourselves when Latics go bust anyway

For one thing, i'll never feed the old coffin cheaters ego by calling it the 'DW' stadium!
JJB? New Central Park? Either/or...
I like the place actually - 'Specially when a good crowd is on.
Dont really care so much about having to share it with Whelans part-time hobby.
Them flirting around the Primadonna League for a few years, has probably benefitted us in some ways as well.
Certainly with more cash being spent of the playing surface.
I'm not even fussed about moving fixtures. I support Wigan RL - Anytime / anywhere!
And there's no doubt that without us joining Whelans merry throng and propping up the stadiums costs, whilst he funded his new toy, there simply would never have been a JJB Stadiium in the first place.
With the Statics core fanbase? Even Orrell would have been too big for them!

As a matter of fact it amuses me no end that now they are in the 'big league', they are still utterly obsessed by us and take great pride in the fact that we are 'their' 'tenants'.
Simple things etc etc


When the bubble bursts (and we all know it will), who do you think will be left to support OUR stadium then (again!)?
So we move a few games around. I wont lose any sleep over it.
What goes around, comes around........Eventually!