Bobby’s first Cockney Latic interview

Yeah, like when those ‘extras from Shameless’ surrounded Charlton outside Old Trafford when the Glazer deal happened “Bobb-eh! Bobb-eh! What’s happening?” and he brushed them away, back into the gutter. :lol:

Well, there was that much negative flak flying about, it was easy to get caught up by it.

i like the positivity off martinez hopefully it will work out the way he wants it too. Looking farward too seeing this new spanish kid and also who we’s going to sign in summer, jst fingers crossed he can get us through the rest of our season.

Can I just say first that Bobby is to be congratulated for doing this interview. I don’t you’ll find many top flight managers that grounded & eager to appear to the fans that they care as much about the club as we do.
But what I will say is that just coz Bobby says it, doesn’t mean its so. For example:

“He deliberately held back on James McCarthy because he knew he was too green to throw in at the beginning of the season. He wanted to do this with Scotland and Gomez, but needs must and he had to bring them in too early and so we haven’t yet seen the best of these two” – the bit about Scotland & Gomez I would have to question the truthfulness of. For starters when he signed Gomez he banged on about how he would be our creative player who much of the play would go through. Yet now he’s saying he didn’t wanna play him that much so soon. As for easing Scotland in, is he now saying he was happy to start the season with only 2 centre forwards he thought were ready to play. Yes you can argue he later says there were players he thought were good enough that weren’t but did he not stop to wonder why, if they were good enough, that Bruce (& to a lesser extent Hutchings) would not have been playing them. If so then he’s either very stupid or very naive

“If you look at McCarthy, Moses, Hugo and Marcelo, we have as good a strike force as anybody especially at home” – No matter how many times he tells himself & us that, its never going to be true

“He still believes we are just two windows from having that team that will push for a top eight place within two year” – Didn’t he initially say that he needed 3 transfer windows??? Now its 4??

“Kirkland in the best form of his career” – No he isn’t. he’s not even in the best form of his time at Wigan Athletic

So yes it was a good gesture for him to do this interview but its done nowt to convince me that he is capable of turning things around for us. If anything its tipped me more the other way

Hats off to Bob for doing the interview, especially how things are going at the moment. Unfortunately after having read the interview I can’t share his positive out look.

I want to believe we are heading in the right direction that Gomes and Scotland will come good that we are building to push onto the top 8 but I just don’t see it. As the season has gone on we have got worse look at our points tally we don’t look like scoring and can’t defend which is a bad mix.

Bob was a legend as a player but know matter how many fans forums he does and what a nice man he is and how great his fantasies are he is just not up to the job. If we give him another 3 transfer windows we will be well and truly stuffed,if not this season he will take us down with his poor signings, tactics and awful substitutions

And know matter where we are I will still be a season ticket holder but I would prefer it to be in the Premier League.

I’m sure if you had been there natdan you would have been Dimbleby, Marcotti, Morgan, Snow and Wossy all rolled into one nailing the clueless Spaniard to the cross time and time again with your superior footballing knowledge :roll:

There is a world of difference between banging away at a keyboard the same inane nonsense every day and being a skilled media interviewer and very few master it. They took your questions and Roberto agreed to meet and answer them, what more do you want?

Only time will tell for the majority of us whether it is “spin” or he can deliver against his ideas but sadly I fear that whatever he does he will never be good enough for people like yourself[/quote]

Not forgetting Parkinson…..though I think natdan would be more along the lines of Clive Anderson interviewing the Bee Gees. :shock:

We’d be in a relegation battle regardless of the manager.

The big difference is Martinez cares for the club, wants to be here, and build for the future.

We have too many players who think they’ve paid their dues after a single season, the sooner they are moved out the better.

Whatever division we are in next season we’ll have a Latics team that will represent the club far better than most of the current lot.