Re: Wigan EnvyOMeter : Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:20 am  

brook40 wrote:

Yes its a lot of honours,but when you were the ONLY full time club playing against part timers it does somewhat take the sheen off things,you almost went under due to paying to much for players and you lost your ground and now have to share with the football so in reflection was it all worth it ?

Wigan were not the ONLY full time club. Wigan gave their players full time contracts to try and keep up with Leeds as they were full time before Wigan. Pity other clubs were more interested in spending world record transfer fees instead giving out more full time contracts.

Re: Wigan EnvyOMeter : Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:23 am  

Dougy wrote:

You're so jealous its unbeliveable.

You need lessons in trolling my pie munching friend. I suspect you may have fallen into some kind of Wigan Bathtub time machine (lets face it there arnt many hot tubs in Wigan) and arrived in 1989

Re: Wigan EnvyOMeter : Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:25 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

:lol: Oh well done. I wish we were playing part timers every week. If you take out the Wigan full time pro team (even before it was official for the entire squad they were operating with the vast majority as Full timers) against part timers your little trophy list is still impressive but no longer exceptional

Leeds would have been the only full time team and took out the leagues and challenge cups. If you take out Leeds full time team aswell, then Wigan would have won trophies anyway as we were the dominant force winning 3 league titles and 4 challenge cups in the 7 years prior to becoming full time.

Re: Wigan EnvyOMeter : Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:28 am  

Dougy wrote:

Leeds would have been the only full time team and took out the leagues and challenge cups. If you take out Leeds full time team aswell, then Wigan would have won trophies anyway as we were the dominant force winning 3 league titles and 4 challenge cups in the 7 years prior to becoming full time.

Are you planning to jump into the hole your digging?

Re: Wigan EnvyOMeter : Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:39 pm  

Dougy wrote:

Wigan were not the ONLY full time club. Wigan gave their players full time contracts to try and keep up with Leeds as they were full time before Wigan. Pity other clubs were more interested in spending world record transfer fees instead giving out more full time contracts.

What other clubs where spending world record transfer fees ? Wigan set the record signing Offiah in 1992 for £440,000 then broke it in 2006 signing Fielden for £450,000 so exactly what other clubs were breaking record fees ? We spent big on Newlove and Scully in the 90s but didnt set records and in context of those fees it brought about a peroid of massive success.

Re: Wigan EnvyOMeter : Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:22 pm  

pedro17 wrote:

Roby is never international class.

I'd like to thank whoever resurrected this thread so that I could re-read this utterly misguided nonsense.

Re: Wigan EnvyOMeter : Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:47 pm  

CC in the cabinet, and in the words of Jim Bowen, - 'thats safe'

envious of being in the GF, of course!

got to win it though for me to be truly envious, and given your conversion rate....

still not a bad season for us though, would have taken a CC win before the season started, it was good to go back 'home'.

Re: Wigan EnvyOMeter : Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:57 pm  

How can anyone be envious of historical records? Envy is about wanting what some else has. You cant want some one else's history. Only a fool would think that way. It would be pointless and Saints fans are never pointless. Now wigan could be envious of our future as the could want our players and get them but they could not be envious of our great SL history just like we could not be envious of there pre SL history.

Re: Wigan EnvyOMeter : Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:04 pm  

nikos wrote:

CC in the cabinet, and in the words of Jim Bowen, - 'thats safe'

envious of being in the GF, of course!

got to win it though for me to be truly envious, and given your conversion rate....

still not a bad season for us though, would have taken a CC win before the season started, it was good to go back 'home'.

You're 'home' as you put it was reduced to rubble many years ago. The new wembley stadium is more Saints home than yours. Good grief you've only been once.

Re: Wigan EnvyOMeter : Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:07 pm  

Top Saint wrote:

You're 'home' as you put it was reduced to rubble many years ago. The new wembley stadium is more Saints home than yours. Good grief you've only been once.