Yes, it’s that time again, the season is half way through and we all get to do a little jig as we take a look at ‘just how far we’ve come’.  There’s no doubting that the season so far has been a mixed one.  There were two sets of fours, wins and clean sheets on […]

It’s well and truly January.  How can you tell?  Well everyone has gone transfers mad.  Fans that have been moaning about the depth of the squad for the last four months are now advocating an almost total transfusion of the playing staff.  Of course the club is fairly quiet on the subject other than comments […]

Both of Latics’ new signings have been in the news today.  Word from Sweden is positive, whilst the comments from the Fjords are likely to have rubbed a few people up the wrong way.  You’d think that in this day and age that footballers would be a little bit smarter about what they say to […]

Yesterday’s transfer deadline day provided little in the way of respite for Latics fans.  No announcements, no rumours, no random sightings not even a sniff of a deal.  The only news all day was the early story that (surprise, surprise) Papa Diop had decided to stay in London and fight for his place at Fulham. […]

Paul Jewell must have had mixed feelings as the rain pounded on to the Vicarage Road pitch.  The frustration of a missed opportunity to put some distance back between his side and the relegation places offset somewhat by a performance that was short of guaranteeing Latics the points they desperately needed.  In fact the weather […]

The season starts here?  Not quite, but at the half way point and with that run of games out of the way it’s a good time to draw a line under the games that have gone and start on the earnest quest for the points that Latics desperately need.  On paper there’s no better place […]

Two days, two signings and things are looking a little more interesting than they did on Boxing Day.  First up was Sweden Under-21 international and Helsingborgs captain Andreas Granqvist followed a day later by Norway midfielder and boy band member Kristofer Haestad.  Both deals may be on loan until the end of the season, but […]

As Andrew Flintoff is finding out, some times you just come up against better teams whose form means that you can’t get anywhere near the standard required to challenge them.  There’s no pretending this game was any different it was the footballing equivalent of Shane Warne against Matthew Hoggard and Latics made it clear from […]

Having come through a run of games where his squad’s shortcomings have been laid bare for all to see, Paul Jewell is expected to be busy during the January transfer window.  If tales are to believed, the manager’s shopping has started early with moves for two players being strongly touted in the press.

After last Wednesday’s performance against Arsenal, you wouldn’t have thought that Latics were capable of producing another game containing two halves of such different energy, commitment and skill that you’d swear that they were played by different sides, but here it was.  Throughout the first forty-five minutes you’d have been excused for thinking that a […]