You turn your back and it all happens.  A busy couple of weeks at work, a week away camping and the club manages to put fans through all sorts of turmoil.  Old friends have dragged up old arguments new friends have joined the party but more have checked out and all the while agents seem […]

Paul Jewell reckons he’s in no rush to sign a replacement for Nathan Ellington, but you have to wonder. With 12 days to go until the transfer window slams shut in his face and the club’s reputation for dragging dealings out for as long as possible, you have to wonder how much truth there is […]

I’ve not been about much for the last couple of weeks, I hope you’ve all missed me.  All in all they’ve been a couple of interesting weeks for a variety of reasons.  Personally there was a stag weekend in Newcastle and some actual real time off work, but you don’t want to know about that.  […]

In addition to the players we’ve looked at in the previous articles, there have been one or two other lads that have played a part.  Most of these have already moved to pastures new.  One in particular is still very much an unknown quantity.  As we prepare to take a big step forward, each deserves […]

Well, what can you say?  Allegedly the best strike force in the division and 45 goals between our front line strikers. Sounds good doesn’t it?  Then again, we’ve spent all season worried that the Duke would get (more) injured and that Roberts’ mouth would get the better of him and he’d get suspended.  The Duke’s […]

The third part of our season review looks at the most heavily loaded part of our squad.  The midfield is also the part of the team that Jewell has chopped and changed the most the season, often causing confusion amongst fans, and in Mr Teale contains the one player in the squad guaranteed to cause […]

Continuing the players’ end of season reports we now move on to the defence.  We’ve hardly struggled for good defenders in recent times, and our record backs that up.  Let’s have a look at how this year’s batch measured up.

As a football website it’s fairly obligatory for us to knock out some kind of season review.  Being lazy gets it’s probably going to be one that’s spread all across the summer.  There’ll be other bits to follow (probably, maybe, if we get round to it) but we’ll start off with the players that took […]

We would have liked to hold a glittering award ceremony with 5 courses from Marco Pierre White, free booze and a trophy as big as your house, and as much as we know that the players would like to have attended, we didn’t think it fair to make them cancel their little jaunt to Barbados, […]

Latics 3-1 Reading 8th May 2005 One day, hopefully soon, it will happen.  I’ll wake up and realise what exactly occurred on Sunday 8th May 2005 and you’ll have a job getting me down off the ceiling.  At least until Christmas time, when we should have a pretty good idea just how realistic Mr Whelan’s […]