Will Grigg article in The Athletic


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That's very interesting and insightful interview. It almost sounds like he is resigned to leaving with the way he speaks.
 
That interview is ill advised and surely spells the end of his time here.

It reflects terribly on the way the club is being run though. If he moves to another top half league one club, I think he'll comfortably get 15-20 goals next season.
 
I can see both sides of the story in this one.

For Grigg he's right we are extremely negative don't play to his strengths at all.

Against Grigg his attitude has been poor not worked hard enough or wanted to become a success here.

It's best for both partys that he leaves. However if it's the nasty fans fault and Grigg is confident in his own ability hell fully expect the club to demand a fee that reflects the abilitys he believes he has.
Every day brings another nugget of shite.
What a time to support Sunderland.

😂 Mint isn't it 😂
 
The fucker was in his pyjamas and dragged out of bed to sign for us ! Useless waste of time and no where to go with us now ! So yet another wage wasted while we can’t offload him !

This feels like a big reach, he was in his pyjamas because he was told the deal was off. There are plenty of things to have a go at him for if that's what you enjoy doing, but 'man in pyjamas at night insult to fans' is daft.
 
Getting him off the wage bill is a huge priority this summer.

I cant see anyone buying him. Best case scenario will be loaning him out
 
Complete joke of a signing. If you looked on the Wigan forum "We have to play a number 10 to get the best out of him" interviews with the manager "We have to play a certain way to get the best out of him". Even the fact he was never in the NI squad despite his goal record should have set alarm bells ringing for our owners.

I'm not defending how he has conducted himself this season - but we should never have signed him in the first place, nor should we have had all our eggs been in one basket. The line Donald comes out with "Everyone thought it was a great signing at the time" doesn't wash because fans do not look into the precise detail of a £3m signing - its acceptable for a fan to just look at how many goals a player has scored and get excited. It is not acceptable for an owner of a club this size to do that.
 
He's scored goals whereever he's been, apart from here. With Will Grigg for me if he was missing chance after chance Id blame him but he doesnt get chances. He's never been known for smashing them in with his head from the halfway line, yet thats normally how we expect him to score... As we seem to just smash the ball in his general direction on the half way line.

If Parkinson isnt going to change how we play to suit him he has to go though, its pointless for both parties.
 
Complete joke of a signing. If you looked on the Wigan forum "We have to play a number 10 to get the best out of him" interviews with the manager "We have to play a certain way to get the best out of him". Even the fact he was never in the NI squad despite his goal record should have set alarm bells ringing for our owners.

I'm not defending how he has conducted himself this season - but we should never have signed him in the first place, nor should we have had all our eggs been in one basket. The line Donald comes out with "Everyone thought it was a great signing at the time" doesn't wash because fans do not look into the precise detail of a £3m signing - its acceptable for a fan to just look at how many goals a player has scored and get excited. It is not acceptable for an owner of a club this size to do that.

Weren't we trying to play a number 10 though.

I mean, I accept I don't really know what Honeyman was doing - but Ross was trying to play an advanced midfielder?

He was still shit.

Why we never played Maguire there, I'll never know. Would have been easy to stick Cattermole and Honeyman or O'Nein (for legs) behind him, surely.
 
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It's best for both partys that he leaves. However if it's the nasty fans fault and Grigg is confident in his own ability hell fully expect the club to demand a fee that reflects the abilitys he believes he has.
He says in the article that fees don't mean anything

He can be confident in his own ability and still not think anything is the fans' fault
 
Weren't we trying to play a number 10 though.

I mean, I accept I don't really know what Honeyman was doing - but Ross was trying to play an advanced midfielder?

He was still shit.

Why we never played Maguire there, I'll never know. Would have been easy to stick Cattermole and Honeyman or O'Nein (for legs) behind him, surely.

Was just thinking the same. Power played that lovely pass through for him against Bristol Rovers in the cup and he finished it as you'd expect him to. It was a blue moon occurence, why didn't we find a way to get someone playing those passes 5-10 times a game??
 
Weren't we trying to play a number 10 though.

I mean, I accept I don't really know what Honeyman was doing - but Ross was trying to play an advanced midfielder?

He was still shit.

Why we never played Maguire there, I'll never know. Would have been easy to stick Cattermole and Honeyman or O'Nein (for legs) behind him, surely.

You could stick Max Power there he doesn't become a number 10.

Honeyman had energy but was technically poor with passing and craft. Popped up with the odd goal but he's not a playmaker.
He says in the article that fees don't mean anything

He can be confident in his own ability and still not think anything is the fans' fault

They'll mean something if we refuse loan deals or low transfer offers I bet
 
Weren't we trying to play a number 10 though.

I mean, I accept I don't really know what Honeyman was doing - but Ross was trying to play an advanced midfielder?

He was still shit.

Why we never played Maguire there, I'll never know. Would have been easy to stick Cattermole and Honeyman or O'Nein (for legs) behind him, surely.

In my opinion the lack of a number 10 was the reason we created so few chances in that season. We needed someone who could hold the ball higher up the pitch and either pass to Grigg or feed it out wide.
 
This feels like a big reach, he was in his pyjamas because he was told the deal was off. There are plenty of things to have a go at him for if that's what you enjoy doing, but 'man in pyjamas at night insult to fans' is daft.
I don’t ‘enjoy’ having a go at a player I don’t enjoy an uninterested half arsed player drawing a good wage for doing fuck all for the club
 
He can say what he wants about style of play, fans etc some may be right. His attitude however absolutely stunk, even when scoring he looked pissed off. He showed no desire whatsoever from day one. Parkinson give him 8 games in a row, I remember being down at Shrewsbury we put numerous balls across the box, into him etc he didn’t want to get on the end of it. Totally spineless.
can anyone here remember him running off the ball getting in space us not passing to him etc, I can’t?
his body language under both managers was a disgrace. I’ll bet anyone he won’t score 20 goals next season
 
Kinell
Theres about 10 people at the whole club that's competent at their job.
The rest I just want to fuck off.
Need to stop coming on here because it's all just making me too angry at the moment
 
What would that have to do with Griggs? He doesn't decide what bids we accept

You can't have it both ways.

He's basically saying he's a good player and nothings changed.

Therefore when we are rejecting 500k bids he can't moan about having to stay can he.
 
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