Looked decidely ropey on Football First last night, very easily cut up and threadbare in places. It was also commented on during the Radio City commentary, no mention of RL being played on it just that it didn't look in good shape.

Must be all the 'total football' being played by the Latics these days.

I thought Whelan had had 'the problem' sorted out last close season?

p.s. a crowd of around 16k with Everton taking their full allocation must be a worry.

I believe a lot of the problems were caused during the bad weather when Athletic trained on the pitch as they couldn't find an alternative. The head groundsman was not amused.

Them pigeons eating half of it yesterday won't have helped.

I blame the football !

You obviously didn't clap loud enough to move them.

He was falling asleep.


It´s the safest place for them the pitch when Latics are playing

My snoring almost moved them at one point.

A few of my Latics brethren weren't impressed when I shouted 'f*ck off pigeon we have to play rugby on this on friday'

Buggar them! What did the pigeon say?

Was Kingy there?
Liam was quite happy.

No doubt we will get blamed for the state of the pitch on MOTD in a couple of weeks

They took more than the allocation, I went with some everton fans in the wigan end.... I lost count of the amount of everton fans I spotted in the east stand. They took an extra 5000 at least. The south stand had around 700 people in.

10k Everton fans????? surely not

There were around 5k-5.5k Everton fans i'd say.

Thats cleared that one up then....