And so finally ending ooo, a week of ‘intense’ speculation we today signed Stephane Henchoz on a free transfer, following his release from Liverpool.  The thirty year old finished last season on loan at Celtic where, depending on whose story you listen to, he either didn’t make the grade or didn’t get the chance he […]

After what seems an eternity of behind the scenes wrangling Wigan Athletic have finally conceded to the latest round of bullying tactics from GMP and will pay the close to 300 grand they ‘owe’ for policing costs at the JJB. Whilst it is comforting to know that any chance that the Chelsea game would be […]

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 […]