Last Night

Rankin was absolute garbage, lived up to his name. – 1 trick pony – dips his shoulders a couple of times, attempts to beat his man and gets tackled .. and repeat all game, may as well have played with 10 men – what on earth did Chelsea ever see in him…

Actually felt sorry for Mansfield, they proverbially p***ed all over us big time and should have won comfortably and must have been wondering how they didn’t get the points given their dominance.
Our players seemed disinterested and to not even muster up one shot on target was an absolute disgrace and unacceptable for a Wigan Athletic team.
At least Maloney had some influence in that he occasionally came up with a victory here and there but those tactics and the overall performance was the worst I have seen for some time.
Whelan might end up the manager , cheap option which no doubt may happen.
No investment, fire sales of the best players , no quality and now no manager.
Not good

I’ve renamed him Jony 90 he plays 90 minutes a week 60mins 1 game 30mins the other. I’m not sure why he can’t play 90 then say bench the game after.

Now onto Owen Dale, he’s absolutely useless.
Can’t go last anyone,
Poor control,
Can’t tackle,
He needs dropping and never using again. Stick Robinson left back Mellish left mid. At least Mellish can tackle and actually runs at players with the ball.

Darcy ? Sooner have Darcy Bussell. Again another playing a league or 2 above his level.
Norburn ?
Way way way past his sell by date.
Rankine, zero trick pony, again I’d say he’s national league if he’s lucky.
Now I’m not been disrespectful to these lads but their all batting a level above their capabilities and skillset.
Look Glenn Whelans played 610 games nearly 300 in the Prem, not many can say that. He’ll know this straight away and believe me when I say, he’ll not fancy the job one iota.

It’s like sticking Lewis Hamilton in a Ford Escort and saying: “Bring back the constructors trophy please pal”.

There’s levels at football and the vast majority of our squad are way out their depth in L1, we can see it, the manager can but more worryingly the owner can see it.

Danson’s gambled, saved millions and sacked a manager for something he’s partly to blame for.

Now I read the clubs in no rush to replace Maloney so they’ll take their time when there’s obvious out of work candidates all sat at home in their arms chairs pointing at the Tele SSN shouting “Me …Me !!”.

And why are they going to take their time?, I’ll tell you why:-
Their hunting for someone who stupid and cheap enough to take on a squad clearly well below L1 level then they’ll want him to add players for zero pounds and on super low wages and get them to challenge for promotion.
Rioch and Danson’s son better have red glass slippers on to make a few wishes because if they think that squad or similar level players can get us up they need a a Big Ben head wobble of the ferocious kind, it ain’t never gonna happen.

Tickle will be gone in the summer and Carragher Millar not far behind. Any new potential manager needs a big chat with Maloney first he’ll tell you the script.

Were a club were the owner lacks ambition, his onus is rugby it’s as clear as day.

Mark my words, once Danson’s gets his £5-£6million windfall from the Robinson/Fulham sale the for sale sign will go up.

He got what he wanted,
The ground

I also fully agree, Cup Winners.

The appointment will definitely tell us if the owner has ambitions. If it’s Lowe, Evatt, Rooney or another outside entity, it will suggest they will be backed in the summer.

However, if it’s someone with connections already to us, such as Richardson, Cook, Warne, Boyce, Atkins, it will seem like we’ve gone for a cheaper option who won’t be backed financially and will be on a ‘make do and mend on the cheap’ mission.

I don’t think Cook will be interested, and word was Richardson was sacked after a bit of a fall out over lack of financial backing from the Bahrain lot. He would be taking on a team that’s arguably WORSE OFF than the Administration team.

The appointment made will go a long way to either get people renewing season tickets, or have them still staying away…and maybe more besides.

Also can’t understand some saying give Whelan till end of season……No,No….never mind the potential relegation fight…..we need someone in ASAP to analyse the shit show of a squad in REAL competitive fixtures, not pre season knock abouts. 10 or 12 games to test some of these recruits,maybe motivate them and then come summer he has a plan as to where we need to be in August. All good and well if he gets full support from the owner and that my friend really is the billion dollar question.