Honestly, when you consider different aspects of the club, how things are going, and this, that, and the other, the club is in a hell of a mess at the moment. And can I just say, I’m normally fairly calm and relaxed if we get beat. I don’t tend to go home and sulk and ‘stew’ about it. But yesterday, I did. It was more the manner in which we capitulated that stunned me. Dare I say that, had Scholes early chance gone in, and that Fletcher one, we may have got done 6 or 7 nil? We just collapse. Big, big problems.
For the sake of briefness, I’ll put the points in a ‘bullet-point’ style.
1. Team performances. We are being beaten ease. People will say “But it was 0-0 for an hour yesterday”. Yes, but that means we shipped FIVE goals in 30 minutes! That’s awful. United were well below par, and yet they still won with such ease, as we fell apart.
2.Disjointed. The team looks all over the place. It’s the back 4 for me that is not good enough. Figueroa looks a shadow of his former self, and the other 3, Melchiot included, don’t seem good enough to me.
3. Selling all the best players. My oh my……isn’t it showing? How good would our midfield have been, if we’d had a pairing of Palacios and Cattermole? I am absolutely fed up of the fact that as soon as a player gets a bit of interest from other clubs, he’s on his way soon after. It’s going to see us relegated.
6. Cheap Option Replacements. I’m absolutely fed up of us bringing in these players that either nobody has heard of, or who come from the Championship. We’ve had all this money, for Valencia, etc, and have done crap-all with it. For Pete’s sake, if we don’t bring some serious quality in, we’ll be down by Christmas, at this rate. There’s only a week or so left in the transfer window. I can’t see us making any great strides in that time, can you?
7. Cheap Option Coaching Staff. It’s nice and sentimental that we have Martinez, Jones, and Barrow, at the club. But they’ve got sod all top flight experience. I’ve heard others touch on this, and I think they have a point. We got Barrow from Altrincham! Would any other Premiership club have recruited from so far down the ladder? No.
8. Rent-A-Quote-Whelan. The guy has really p**sed me off. He’s always got something to say in a paper, and his recent comments, which apparently suggest thet we fans are actually PLEASED to see players leave, really are a joke. (I don’t know what fans he’s been talking to, do you?) And it’s said he says that Wigan’s still a rugby town, in his new book. The sooner this guy sells up and does one, the better. He may have saved us in the past, he may have got us to where we are, but he’s obviously lost the plot, now. I’ve heard people scoff at suggestions that he should “sell to the first Arab interested”, and I myself, had doubts. But the fact is, we are going to be left behind. Not by clubs like City, who are now LIGHT YEARS away from us, etc, but by clubs such as Stoke and possibly others like Hull. I can’t believe how our club is being run. It is so frustrating. Sell our best players, and replace them with untried shyte. I think that’s the top and bottom of it. No point pussy footing around.
The sooner Whelan f**ks off, the better.
Have you been reading my mind, I think you have summed evrything up pretty well there, especially regarding Mr Whelan.
I still think we might scrape our way into 17th position though.[/quote]
You are spot on lad.
