Alph Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Not sure what relevance a west brom forum has to this discussion but hey ho You're a WBA fan I assumed you're used to more "concise" posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butros Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 You're a WBA fan I assumed you're used to more "concise" posts Well you know what assumption is the mother of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Ram Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I didn't. Then I googled it. Now I do. Bloody marvelous that google init ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Well you know what assumption is the mother of? Boredom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I'm going to weigh in with this. Wigan are the more well-known club Both clubs are of equal size because they both have exactly the same amount of potential - 8th in the Premier League, a cup win and a nice run in the Europa League. Derby, Wigan, Huddersfield, Forest, Ipswich, Wolves, WBA etc. etc. are all the same. 8th in the PL is the limit. And Wigan are more well-known that Derby. I've asked shed loads of people around the globe of Derby and nobody has heard of us. Big signings, cup wins, friendlies in far-out places, World Cup stars... Derby have none of that, Wigan have had all of that over the past 10 years. Loads of people from Latin America have heard of Wigan. They had one of Ecuador's finest ever players (Antonio Valencia) on their books - an $18m pound man. Who have Derby had that's worth that much? Even in comparison, you'd have to go back 40 years to find a player who Derby had who was anywhere near as good. We all loved the 90s era. But even in the PL we never had any stars. Stimac's big-move highlight was WHU, Wanchope the same and Eranio to us was the same as Ivan Campo for Bolton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Guess the size of our club in England is judged by how many South Americans have heard of us in the past 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Guess the size of our club in England is judged by how many South Americans have heard of us in the past 5 years. Size of the club for me is how well known a club is, not how much dust a trophy has gathered for 40 plus years. People in a building also mean jack sheet given that Villarreal got crowds similar to Bolton Wanderers whilst reaching the Champions League semi-final. Monaco are one of the biggest clubs in France - they get like 18k a week. What does crowd size have to do with anything other than how much money a club can make from stadium turnover every year? Are Dortmund a bigger club than Bayern because they get more fans in a stadium? Derby probably made about 2m more than Wigan last season on stadium turnover - wooopy feckin doo that can just about afford Ross McCormack's left foot. Players go to clubs who simply pay more and have a better chance of succeeding in the short-term. If they were to look at Wigan and Derby now, both have a good shot at promotion next season with solid squads and managers who know how to win games - it would simply go down to money or at a push family preference - not the stadium, training ground or fans that's the typical PR bullsh!t they spin which fans lap up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philmycock Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 It's different here, fans just 'know' we're bigger than Wigan, guess it's all about being in the stadiums not being 3000 miles away, nowt like the real thing, TV and Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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