neil rimmer on tonights game

Absolutely crap…no ideas in the middle…..Delort didn’t get any great service so not fair to chastise him . Defence woeful, only McLean, Riera,and Waghorns introduction fired us up.Mid table is about it for me .

Spot on about Delort. …Young inexperienced player needs a partner to play off not strung out on his own .Wouldn’t Riera be ideal ?

This one up front malarky has ruined many players at Wigan over the years, surely Rosler can see now we need to play two up front.

He played twoup front against Birmingham with Riera and MaManaman and we won 4-0.

For some reason tonight he reverted back to one up front and we were shite, probably worse than anything under Coyle for 80mins.

Once he put an extra striker on we started to look something like, and could have actually won it in the end with the chances we created. It would have been undeserved admittedly, but we could have snatched it.

Vier, vier, zwei as they say in Germany!!!

Who the feck was up front with Delort coz I never saw anyone anywhere near the poor lad for 75 mins.
He ran his bollox off all over the pitch, even coming back to the half way line at times to try and get the ball forward.
At one point he ran out to the wing to win the ball, played it to Cowie, who played a lovely cross into the box where their four defenders cleared under pressure from Carson and the rest of the Latics strikeforce who were 90 yards away or on the substitute bench.

Vier, vier, zwei.

Sorry mate, I wasn’t having a go at you, I was just trying to point out that it didn’t look like two up front. In hindsight perhaps I shouldn’t have used the quote box.

They are obviously as clueless as Herr Rosler when it comes to setting up a team and tactical formations.

Watched the game on TV as I live in Surrey. Thought we were poor for the first 70 minutes, couldn’t seem to string passes together, the off the ball positioning was terrible but all in all, we looked like a team who has had very little game time. Our defence isn’t good. I have no idea what Kienan was doing for the first goal, he should have been tight, instead, got pulled out of position with ease. The second goal, how can Sammon, who was knocked to the floor by Ramis get up, run past Ramis and score (through a lucky deflection of his arm)? Boycey has been a great servant, but it’s time for him to be on the bench and Perch, he has been in more positions than an illustration in a kama sutra book! Where are the left backs that we have?

On the positive side, the last 15 minutes were more like it. I thought Forshaw has the ability and will get better. I thought Kvist was decent and looked strong on the ball. How Riera is being kept out I don’t know, as is Waghorn…both looked strong when they came on…and backs up the argument of why would Rosler change the side from Birmingham. McLean was looking sharp which is good considering he hasn’t played this season.

I like Rosler and think he will turn this around but he should have realised after the 1st 45 minutes how Ipswich were setup, very strong in midfield and defence and hitting us on the break – Typical strong Mick Macarthy team. He should have switched to a more pressing 3-5-2 using Delort, Riera with Mclean and Waghorn supporting from the wing areas and Forshaw supporting through the middle, instead he stuck with 4-3-2-1 (because it wasn’t 4-3-3) which Ipswich contained comfortably. I think Rosler has changed too much too quickly and now is forcing game time for new players at the cost of losing matches.

…mind you, if we kept the new players out of the side, we would only be moaning about how they are not included (Just like we did under Martinez!)