Stickied League One Away Support Thread 2023/24

[Hurrikeen]

2,040 real Latics at Gigg Lane. Total crowd of 5,207.

Put that rod away you helmet.

 

[B.F.C.]

2040 Wigan at Bury.

We took more....

Yes you did!
And what a great pleasure it was to welcome such a wonderful group of people to our humble town.

AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!
I must stop lying ..... I've been struck by lightning ...

 

[Mr Plow]

1050 Oxford at Portsmouth

 

[Hurrikeen]

Yes you did!
And what a great pleasure it was to welcome such a wonderful group of people to our humble town.

AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!
I must stop lying ..... I've been struck by lightning ...

Thanks

 

[wiganmudhuts29]

2,040 real Latics at Gigg Lane. Total crowd of 5,207.

its the bigger latics pal

 

[SoutheySWFC]

You're not even the biggest club in Wigan, Warriors, Casino then Athletic....

 

[wiganmudhuts29]

You're not even the biggest club in Wigan, Warriors, Casino then Athletic....

casino closed down in 1981

 

[DearneValleyRover]

casino closed down in 1981

Shocking your lower down than a closed casino

 

[wiganmudhuts29]

Shocking your lower down than a closed casino

top 4 biggest clubs in league deal with it brother

charlton pompey blackburn wigan the biggest 4 fact

 

[UTS]

top 4 biggest clubs in league deal with it brother

charlton pompey blackburn wigan the biggest 4 fact

Plymouth and Bristol Rovers might contest that?

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Plymouth and Bristol Rovers might contest that?

And Bratfud?

 

[SoutheySWFC]

casino closed down in 1981

Exactly

 

[wiganmudhuts29]

Plymouth and Bristol Rovers might contest that?

neither club won ball all.....our last 20 years alone is bigger than 90% of what this league as done in there full history...prem football for 8 years straight europe fa cup winners, fa cup semi finalists, league cup runners up the list goes on..how many promotions have we had ? only wigan haters say otherwise

 

[wiganmudhuts29]

And Bratfud?

rugby was bigger before it went bust

 

[UTS]

neither club won ball all.....our last 20 years alone is bigger than 90% of what this league as done in there full history...prem football for 8 years straight europe fa cup winners, fa cup semi finalists, league cup runners up the list goes on..how many promotions have we had ? only wigan haters say otherwise

We all know what Wigan have acheived since the turn of the millenium, and fair play, but it was heavily funded by Dave Whelan, which takes some of the gloss off the achievements, however the FA Cup win was genuinely an achievement.

Does 10 years of ‘success’ make the other years irrelevant? Wigan formed in 1932 remember.

And of course I forgot Bradford.

Blackburn
Portsmouth
Charlton
Bradford

Top 4... Wigan likely 5th but not so clear cut as I think Plymouth and Bristol Rovers could make a solid argument, as could Rotherham, for being on par with Wigan.

 

[DearneValleyRover]

top 4 biggest clubs in league deal with it brother

charlton pompey blackburn wigan the biggest 4 fact

Nothing to deal with as it bothers me not but very obviously bothers you, problem is unless your a Wigan fan no one agrees with you

 

[T.A]

its the bigger latics pal

Big clubs bring more than 2,000 when they are likely to get promotion. Bradford, Sheffield United, Bolton, Blackburn etc are big clubs. You are a average sized club that's over achieved in the past decade or two

 

[Gassy]

Can't really argue with the above really.

I also personally don't base a club size based on what league it plays/played in (AKA how much money their owner spent) - I base it on crowd size. Wigan right now are arguably a bigger club than us - right now it's very similar. But if we were top of league 1, we wouldn't be getting 8,800 - we'd probably sell 12k+ (if we had the stadium to do it).

Bradford are also miles bigger

 

[WilsdenBantam]

rugby was bigger before it went bust

First thing you've said that's correct, of course our rugby club in it's heyday were bigger than most football clubs out of the top 15-20 clubs. Regularly over 20,000 at home, took over away stadiums with ease and always sold out Old Trafford year after year for grand finals, it would be hard for any club to match it let alone a football club who's had as little success as us.

But a bit rich coming from a Wigan fan, though you're an obvious wum so not sure why I'm bothering.
Rugby in Wigan is still bigger than football. Your club has done well in modern times because of uncle Dave's money, nothing else, a Bradford born man I might add.

We've never had a rich generous owner like that, any success we've had has usually been through filling our stadium generating enough money to compete with the bigger boys. Regardless of how shit we have been this last 15 years we'll always be far bigger than Wigan, I'd consider Plymouth closer in size to us.

Uncle Dave's money's gone and your parachute payments ended at the end of last season, lets see where you are in 10 years time. But my guess will be playing in a stadium 1/5th full and dreaming of 10 years earlier been top of the 3rd tier.

 

[B.F.C.]

I don't get involved with the big club / little club argument usually, but I do need to get this off my chest .....
If Dave ( he broke his leg you know ) Whelan had been born 20 miles away anybody who said " big club " and " Wigan athletic " in the same paragraph would have been sectioned.
You would still be at Springfield Park , the Rochdale division would be called the Wigan division and your away support at Gigg Lane would still be about 300.
Your success and subsequent " bigness " would not be an issue.
Well done for the cup win .... but the seasons in the premier league etc. are all about Dave.
Finally, when did you last see a Portsmouth fan claim that they are big? Never heard one myself and the reason is simple ... if you are a genuine big club you just are .. you don't need to keep banging on about it because everyone else already knows.


Edit to say .... Didn't know Dave isn't a born pie eater, but the rest of my post stands.

 

[SF_]

Whelan wanted to buy Blackburn initially didn't he? Lucky break.

Yeah, I know that was a sweet pun.

 

[UTS]

Does he still own Wigan Warriors as well?

 

[Gassy]

I don't get involved with the big club / little club argument usually, but I do need to get this off my chest .....
If Dave ( he broke his leg you know ) Whelan had been born 20 miles away anybody who said " big club " and " Wigan athletic " in the same paragraph would have been sectioned.
You would still be at Springfield Park , the Rochdale division would be called the Wigan division and your away support at Gigg Lane would still be about 300.
Your success and subsequent " bigness " would not be an issue.
Well done for the cup win .... but the seasons in the premier league etc. are all about Dave.
Finally, when did you last see a Portsmouth fan claim that they are big? Never heard one myself and the reason is simple ... if you are a genuine big club you just are .. you don't need to keep banging on about it because everyone else already knows.


Edit to say .... Didn't know Dave isn't a born pie eater, but the rest of my post stands.

I don't think I've read a truer sentence on 1FF before - bang on.

 

[roversfan2001]

Whelan wanted to buy Blackburn initially didn't he? Lucky break.

Yeah, I know that was a sweet pun.

Correct, makes it quite funny when the pie eaters give it large to us, if it wasn't for us they'd have never done what they've done.

 

[MillerWhale]

I find the clubs hiding under the pretence of big clubs (it's usually Bristol City, Preston and Wigan to be fair) very transparent.

That said, it's all fluid isn't it? Growing up, Swansea, Hull and Fulham were fourth division fodder, Bradford's gates weren't big at all, Wednesday were a genuinely big club and a lot of good clubs like Stockport, York, Tranmere were well established league clubs. In fact, Maidstone were a league club. It's probably factually inaccurate, but it seemed the promoted clubs from the Conference were either blocked due to rubbish grounds or it was the same clubs being promoted. Post re-election anyway.

The funny thing is that if Man Utd and Liverpool got relegated to the fourth division for 20 years, they wouldn't be the biggest clubs in England anymore. I'm afraid that's the nature of the glory hunting fan. Chelsea were second division nobodies as well.

 

[EricSabin]

Official twitter says 'more than 1,000 sold' for the derby at Peterborough on Easter Monday.

At £26 I can see why there's not much enthusiasm to watch us go and get smashed. Shame though cos last year we dragged 2,200 on a Tuesday night. Fucking Hasselbaink.

 

[MillerWhale]

We took about 700 to Wednesday last season, when we'd taken 3k and 5.5k in the previous two seasons. We'd usually take 4K there standardly with much more depending on how long since last visited.

700 was blamed on the price. But it was also because we were crap. Really crap. We'd lost our identity as a club and we were down by a country mile.

I said at the time that, whilst the daft pricing there was a factor, it wasn't the main driver. We had a couple of hundred at Wolves which was unthinkable.

The point to my waffling is that, the Losh prices are dear, but the main reason you'll have a less than your norm away following there is because of the football you are serving up. People don't follow crap teams, even their own.

 

[EricSabin]

I think at £20 more would be going, not a load more but substantial

 

[SMH]

Will Grigg on his own is bigger than half the clubs in this league.

 

[OUFC Dan]

We all know what Wigan have acheived since the turn of the millenium, and fair play, but it was heavily funded by Dave Whelan, which takes some of the gloss off the achievements, however the FA Cup win was genuinely an achievement.

Does 10 years of ‘success’ make the other years irrelevant? Wigan formed in 1932 remember.

And of course I forgot Bradford.

Blackburn
Portsmouth
Charlton
Bradford

Top 4... Wigan likely 5th but not so clear cut as I think Plymouth and Bristol Rovers could make a solid argument, as could Rotherham, for being on par with Wigan.

We're bigger than Rotherham

We're probably just behind Rovers and Plymouth