Has anyone else seen his comments about the pitch, how it caused Darren Bent's injury and that the pitch was heavy because Wigan played rugby on it last Saturday.

I'm sure we played Bradford at Odsal, on Sunday, but if I'm mistaken I'll accept that Mr McLeish has a superior knowledge of RL than me ,

Bloody muppet

Probably a little miffed because of the Villa fans' 90 minute protest against him and calling for him to be sacked.

Divert attention elsewhere?

Watching the Leeds game two weeks back I was surprised at how bad the pitch was cutting up.

Charlie Nicholas, that self-wasting scottish footballer, who lanquishes with the other has-beens who through away there football talents and are reduced to part-commentating on Sports Saturday also blamed the Warriors for the state of the pitch.

I have just set the record straight on a Villa forum.

Oh dear. Blaming others and making things up.

Who cares what some random ginger Scot thinks?

Where is this reference to the Rugby? , i've just watched his interview on the bbc website and he didn't make any reference to the rugby

I wouldn't mind seeing Villa go down this season, took O,Neil for granted.

I heard that as well . Started off a well good rant nearly ended with the telly through the window . To calm myself down amd to induce a coma so i could recover i switched over i switched over to the Rugby Union .

I couldn't care less what anybody from that sport has to say about the pitch. Nor do I care about some football tart hurting his ickle ankle on it. I know we aren't to blame, and to hell what anybody else says or thinks.

This is beyond a joke now. Millions of people will believe this nonsense when the truth is that Wigan Rugby have nothing to do with the state of the pitch

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Ignorance is a terrible thing.

Lenegan should invite all the PL managers and footy journos to come and look at the pitch in September when we've finished playing on it and then again in February before we start. Maybe then we'll stop hearing this same rubbish every year. Saying that, the information will probably be more useful to Championship managers next season!

isnt this a libellous comment? his comments are not meant to be opinion but factual. I would like to see the evidence he has to prove this, otherwise I would advise him to stop attempting to sully the name of Wigan Rugby League. Is this the official reason aston villa will be using on the insurance claim for darren bent's wages?

Same old Bullbiz, under pressure manager attempts to deflect criticism of his failure to beat a shockingly bad Latics side.

The state of the pitch is entirely the fault of Whelan, if he had spent what he should have done on drainage for the pitch when the ground was being built we wouldn't be talking about it now.
It's not too hard to understand, the ground is built next to a canal and a river (of sorts), and only a mile or so away from a place called MARSH GREEN.

You get what you pay for.

ipitch anyone?.....

Very lazy journalism. It's funny how so called educated men don't realise that grass doesnt grow a whole lot in the winter (unless aided by artificial light) and that in this country it tends to rain a fair bit! Add into that, that Dave Whelan only spent eighty grand on the new pitch (pitches at wembley and the emirates cost north of a million pounds) and you can see the problem. You get what you pay for. Maybe he should be more concerned at his teams awful performances this year!

tit

Pair of clowns they really are!!! it sickens me when i hear such tripe about the pitch

Remember Mcleish is about to be sacked so he needs a scapegoat for his ineptitudes and bad luck and we were too easy an option...

Nicholas is a tool from the top drawer, this is the same guy that in the Riverboat casino in Glasgow set fire to several £20 notes many years ago to try and pi$$ off a fellow Cel*ic fan who was questioning his ability when he played for them... complete ignorant Gland!! its widely known in Scotland that even the septic fans cant stand him!

Just do an interview with the groundsman, he'll tell them who does most damage to the pitch, its just lazy journo's or managers looking for excuses when they don't win.

To be fair to latics, they don't hop on the bandwagon and blame the rugby. Whelen has defended the rugby numerous times in relation to the state of the pitch. Martinez has said today that the rugby has nothing to do with Darren Bents injury.