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I do agree CW.
We have had some very very good wins against the better teams and looked a good team.
But you are right, he has to find a way to play against the “rubbish” in the division. He needs to let the shackles off and play further forward. Here’s hoping that happens next season.
I do believe there is probably a fair bit of negativity in the camp from players who know they won’t be there next season. Some of these players are big characters and likely have a fair bit of influence.
These players will have gone next season and it’s a completely clean slate. Maloney deserves at least next season to build the team with players who want to be there. I know most supporters genuinely HOPE he can take us forward. I believe he actually CAN take us forward.
Someone pointed out on this forum that our best days were under Jewell. PHOENIX pointed out that we finished mid table in league one in Jewell’s first season. The financial mess we are in (and it is a mess and it is still ARE IN and not WERE IN) is not a quick fix. We have to be patient and not be so entitled.
I’ll probably be labelled a happy clapper for this post but I don’t care. I watched our first ever home game in 1978 and I’ve been a permanent supporter since 1984 so I have seen some proper rubbish. Fans claiming some matches are the worst they have ever seen need to rewatch games from the Kenny Swain and Warren Joyce eras.
Shaun Maloney (along with Gregor Rioch) stuck by this club when it was on its arse. I watched him at Burnley away last season when it had come out again they weren’t getting paid and he looked a broken man. He could have walked but he didn’t. So when you keep questioning why some (majority) fans sing his name and clap at the end, maybe you should remember why that might be. It’s not just because he’s a Wigan legend in his own right. The man helped save this club.
Happy clapper or not, SM has my support and the support of my 2 teenage sons for the foreseeable future
As we had to start on -8 points, the number one priority was not to be relegated or be involved in the relegation dog fight. Achieved.
After recent turmoils, a quiet season on the pitch with a mid table finish was what we needed. Achieved. (barring freaky results)
But it’s come at a price for sure. The football has been mind numbing to put it mildly. As bad as I can remember in my 22 years watching us. Has Danson got his clubs mixed up and told the boys they’re only allowed to pass backwards?
So for me SM gets the benefit of the doubt this season. Next season things must be improved drastically or the fans will turn on him quickly. Quiet mid table won’t do next year; we need to be pushing for the play offs as a minimum and above all, play to entertain the paying public!!
Just read the ’12th Man’ collumn that Kendrick churns out with comments from the same old folk who love to blow smoke up the clubs arse on a regular basis.
I keep seeing comments of people saying ‘we are safe’, er not quite. We have 4 games left and 3 are away games that I haven’t got any hope for. One is against a club being revived by a new manager, Charlton, then there is Lincoln who are battling to go up, and then Portsmouth who are going for the title. If we lose these 3 and Cheltenham are picking up points, it could be squeaky bum time. They we’ve got Bristol Rovers at the DW last game. With how we’ve been, I can’t say I’d be confident of beating them.
Nobody can defend Maloney and how bad we are, surely?
Anybody who doesn’t think it’s all too bad, I hope you enjoy the 5000 crowds next season unless things change.
You won’t need new underpants for a squeaky bum Vat69. Mathematically safe already
Sums up the season really that the moment of 100% safety has come from someone else losing tonight rather than us winning ourselves yesterday.
Job finally done though. Now let’s try to end the season on a high.
As I said in my earlier post, next season must be better or SM will soon be under widespread pressure. This season we’ve put up with the dross because it achieved (painfully) the aim.
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