Quote: lefty goldblatt "Pretty much the same for me.
My love for the game has lessened over the years, obviously, I must be really getting old.
My "obsession" has totally gone, and replaced by, not so much apathy, more, it's on, I'll watch.
Not had a season ticket for about 10 years (at first due to job insecurity, now, if it's televised, I'll watch it at home, but go to the others). Away games went years ago. I just got peed off with giving up 7 hours of my life to watch them in deepest, darkest Yarkshire, throw my tea down my neck, and.meet up with the same mates in the Time Square, an hour later, on a Sunday night.
I'd struggle to identify most of Wigan/Stains/Leeds side if they walked past me in the street. likewise the likes of Patton/Johnson /Wilde etc. Bar our close season signings, I've no idea which club has signed which players.
Aussie RL bores the bottom off me, and I fear we're following suit. yardage/territory obsessed.
Like the dear departed Yed, scooting from dummy half, bores me to tears when it's done constantly. There's a time and place, not for the full 80 minutes.
I didn't go to Wembley because
a)I'd just got back from holiday, the afternoon before
b)My previous 3 visits, I'd been surrounded by bandwagon jumping scrotes who had no idea/interest what was going on.
c)Travelling
d) I thought it was going to kick off, massively
e) I couldn't be ar5ed
Those todgers on Sky really get on my nipple ends
Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE my club, and, if the circumstances are correct, I'll defend them to the hilt, but Smith is starting to grate on me. The smug grin, the lack of a plan B, capitulations when he is the coach, the way he treats certain players, be they established internationals, or local lads. He's certainly got his favourites, and I don't like that. His reluctance to play virtually all the back division in their natural positions.
My patience with him is running thin. I don't want him sacked. FFS, he's the best Wire coach I've seen, since 79. I just feel he's on easy Street, and feels himself bombproof.We've regressed MASSIVELY since 2013's GF.
The fact that we're still top of the table, and got to a CCF, tells me volumes about the level of SL.
Come on, Smith. Earn your corn, and turn our club into trophy winners, again.'"
Good post. Funny how things change. When I was kid, throughout the 80's I'd be at all games home and away, all home A team games and even watch the first team train at Lousher's Lane and Victoria Park. As soon as the game had finished on Sunday I was looking forward to the next one. Wigan week was massive. Certain players were heroes to me, John Bevan, Jacko, Boyd, Eccles, Roberts even Hesford. It may be age but that devotion has gone. I just don't feel it like I used to, no matter how much hype there is and people saying how good a product it is. Last home game I went to was Huddersfield in the League - I was bored stiff.