Re: Crazy Wigan fans letter in League Express : Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:03 am  

We need Harold to join the pies forum. That would be very very entertaining

Re: Crazy Wigan fans letter in League Express : Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:26 am  

St pete wrote:

We need Harold to join the pies forum. That would be very very entertaining

it would indeed, but from experience of his "performances" at the shareholders meetings I would almost guarantee his popsts would be pages long. I remember some great "debates" with Wigan chairmen over the years.

Re: Crazy Wigan fans letter in League Express : Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:41 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

it would indeed, but from experience of his "performances" at the shareholders meetings I would almost guarantee his popsts would be pages long. I remember some great "debates" with Wigan chairmen over the years.

I can imagine it

Re: Crazy Wigan fans letter in League Express : Sun Jan 04, 2015 12:28 pm  

St pete wrote:

I can imagine it

Harold must be in his mid to late 70's now, but he was a very good and articulate debater.

"Mr. chairman" and so it began. Uncle Mo was very tolerant of him. Lenegan at times got very frustrated. Whelan didn't know what to make of him, I don't think he was used to people standing up to him Comedy gold.

Re: Crazy Wigan fans letter in League Express : Sun Jan 04, 2015 1:33 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Harold must be in his mid to late 70's now, but he was a very good and articulate debater.

"Mr. chairman" and so it began. Uncle Mo was very tolerant of him. Lenegan at times got very frustrated. Whelan didn't know what to make of him, I don't think he was used to people standing up to him Comedy gold.

His idea of replacing a player sent off is utter madness.

Re: Crazy Wigan fans letter in League Express : Sun Jan 04, 2015 4:12 pm  

St pete wrote:

His idea of replacing a player sent off is utter madness.

It's outstandingly bonkers! Imagine the tactics teams would employ with rules like those! Employ a couple of local nutters from an amateur club, get them to 'takeout' the opposition's best players and then replace your nutters with proper players.

They're a bit like our tactics now minus the new rule suggested (I thought I'd get that in first).

Re: Crazy Wigan fans letter in League Express : Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:45 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

It's outstandingly bonkers! Imagine the tactics teams would employ with rules like those! Employ a couple of local nutters from an amateur club, get them to 'takeout' the opposition's best players and then replace your nutters with proper players.

They're a bit like our tactics now minus the new rule suggested (I thought I'd get that in first).

Isn't that the Wigan way ?

Re: Crazy Wigan fans letter in League Express : Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:26 am  

It must be a mickey take.

Re: Crazy Wigan fans letter in League Express : Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:50 pm  

This isn't a new idea.
It did the rounds 10-12 years ago with John Kear as the main proponent of it.
I think it came about due to teams losing games after having a man sent off when later it was found not to be a sending off offence.

Re: Crazy Wigan fans letter in League Express : Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:47 am  

Father Ted wrote:

This isn't a new idea.
It did the rounds 10-12 years ago with John Kear as the main proponent of it.
I think it came about due to teams losing games after having a man sent off when later it was found not to be a sending off offence.

I think it got discussed when the "On Report" system kicked in, there was going to be a status where the probabality should have been a red card but not 100% certain, so the suggestion was to remove the "guilty" player from the game but to replace the player by one of the subs. But I think they started to use the video ref a bit more.