Why Wigan have no place in the top flight

[Ramondo]

Play offs are the biggest games of a season, the Premier League the biggest prize.

It took 46 long games to get through to get to this stage.

And then... Not enough Wigan fans give a **** enough to turn up to watch it.

The number of empty seats in the first leg tonight is actually embarrassing, total lack of an atmosphere.

With support as bad as this, I see no place for Wigan in the Premier League. They are a lower league club artificially elevated by their owners finances.

[RamFromCornwall]

Play offs are the biggest games of a season, the Premier League the biggest prize.

It took 46 long games to get through to get to this stage.

And then... Not enough Wigan fans give a **** enough to turn up to watch it.

The number of empty seats in the first leg tonight is actually embarrassing, total lack of an atmosphere.

With support as bad as this, I see no place for Wigan in the Premier League. They are a lower league club artificially elevated by their owners finances.

I went to watch West Brom v Wigan last season as we were in Birmingham for the weekend for a mates birthday and literally the amount of fans they brought was shocking. They had maybe half a block of seats cordoned off for them, and even that wasn't full up. Terrible support home & away.

[eamonnram]

Totally agree. And having watched that first half there is nothing at all to worry about playing either of these two. Derby and Brighton both better sides than these two. They both lack idea's.

[RamFromCornwall]

Totally agree. And having watched that first half there is nothing at all to worry about playing either of these two. Derby and Brighton both better sides than these two. They both lack idea's.

Reading the Brighton forum before and after the game yesterday and the majority there say if they don't go up then we're their choice to go up. That's the same for me, if we get turned over at home and Brighton make the final, I'd much rather see them win than either of the two playing now.

[triz]

Yh me too. Wigan are a **** club tbh, QPR have spent a fortune...(wage bill higher then dortmund and athletico!!) and there fans are annoying. Brighton although they have spent pretty heavily are a decent club in an awesome city, with plenty of fans.

[ellafella]

Play offs are the biggest games of a season, the Premier League the biggest prize.

It took 46 long games to get through to get to this stage.

And then... Not enough Wigan fans give a **** enough to turn up to watch it.

The number of empty seats in the first leg tonight is actually embarrassing, total lack of an atmosphere.

With support as bad as this, I see no place for Wigan in the Premier League. They are a lower league club artificially elevated by their owners finances.

Spot on Ramondo. They will probably win the playoffs though.

[Sma11ytheRam]

Play offs are the biggest games of a season, the Premier League the biggest prize.

It took 46 long games to get through to get to this stage.

And then... Not enough Wigan fans give a **** enough to turn up to watch it.

The number of empty seats in the first leg tonight is actually embarrassing, total lack of an atmosphere.

With support as bad as this, I see no place for Wigan in the Premier League. They are a lower league club artificially elevated by their owners finances.

Try telling that to Burnley. Their average attendance during the season they've just had... 13,719!!!

There have been 257,922 more people at the iPro this year

[triz]

Joker commentator..."good crowd here at the DW...good atmosphere too"


Seriously? the atmosphere has been **** all game, there is a tiny bit of noise from the handful of fans there and now its good atmosphere...yh right

[Ramondo]

[quote="triz"


Seriously? the atmosphere has been **** all game, there is a tiny bit of noise from the handful of fans there and now its good atmosphere...yh right[/quote]

Thank you. I honestly just thought I'd imagined hearing that, obviously I didn't if you heard it as well. I nearly choked on my coffee!!

[RamFromCornwall]

Burnley population: 73,021 (Wiki)
Burnley FC Av attendance: 13,719
Percentage of population at a game: 18.78%

Derby population: 248,700
Derby County av attendance: 24,933
Percentage of population at a game: 10.02%