Not been a great week has it? Wigan Athletic the only side without a new manager bounce. Following the disappointing defeat to them men, we followed it up with the dullest 90 minutes of football I’ve ever witnessed in the East London sunshine. We marginally improved on another long trip to face Gary Caldwell’s Exeter […]
A lot has changed since that Cambridge match back at the start of the month, a new manager through the door and on the face of it a renewed sense of optimism. The international break will have done the squad a world of good, especially as the number travelling away was limited compared to earlier […]
I’ve seen some appalling decisions in my 30 odd years watching this football club but the events of the last few days must surely rank up there. Let’s start with Saturday, it was a disappointing match no doubt about it. Even after going ahead we didn’t necessarily look comfortable and then the substitutions which were […]
It’s been a while since I felt positive after a defeat, it’s not accepting mediocrity but it’s recognising just how close Wigan Athletic pushed an extremely talented Premier League side last weekend. There’s no doubt there was a negative atmosphere following Latics around last week after a relatively quiet end to the transfer window (let’s […]
A midweek trip to deepest Nottinghamshire isn’t usually the way I’d plan on spending a Tuesday in January but thanks to last week’s second Ice Age it became a necessity. It was one of those nights where earlier in the season Wigan Athletic may well have crumbled, indeed when we played Mansfield at home. That […]
Clicking, gelling, call it what you like but it feels like there’s something special building with this side now. For the last four matches Wigan Athletic have definitely been the better side, across both halves. Now that’s been more successful in some matches than others. Bolton was just a gloriously professional performance from minute one. […]
They often say it’s darkest before the light, and the build up to last weekends match was particularly dark. No doubt Latics had laboured in the previous three matches, but Leyton Orient apart there wasn’t a match we were outclassed. Two matches where we should have done a lot better certainly? Outclassed? Not at all. […]
50 points, not the old school 40 points of Premier League yesteryear but 50. That’s what Shaun Maloney had pinpointed as the target for remaining in League One, in this most unique of seasons. In recent weeks, certainly since the turn of the year we’ve made huge strides in that direction with some really important […]
Four points from nine over the Christmas period doesn’t really tell the full story. It’s a decent return that stopped what was a bad run, turning in to a really bad run. But with players returning from injury and others stepping up to be counted, it was a lot more positive than just the results […]
As refereeing performances go, it wasn’t the best was it? I mean, before we even start on the Charlie Hughes red that arguably never was. The referee had already missed a rugby tackle before the sending-off, on a Barnsley defender by Matt Smith instead handing a free kick to Latics instead. Sadly the sending off […]