Tired legs or team selection and tactics?

Ok. Facts are Doncaster are ranked 41st in this country. We lost 3-0. Have we lost by three with our first eleven to any team below that in the last few years?

You make of it what you will with some wish fm mong. Ill say what I saw with my own eyes. Taking 3 kids and travelling 120 miles means it cost well over 50 quid (and I didnt travel over from Wigan rendering your tight Wiganner jibe useless).

I was there.

It was a poor performance. We never got going, seemed to have thought we could coast it, and when things didn’t go our way the players didn’t seem able to shake themselves up.

So undoubtedly a poor performance, and certainly a very poor result.

But it doesn’t come anywhere near some of the bad performances we have seen in recent years, never mind what we have seen over the years.

Sheer hyperbole.

There s deffo a bit of an overreaction going on here, although admittedly, I did throw the towel in after 80 mins. When leaving the stadium I was greeted outside with hundreds of tics fans mulling around, it was quite bizarre.

As for the worst game for years definitely not in my view, in fact not even close. Up to the pen I still thought we could get back in the game, but the soft penalty award put paid to that. Have people forgot that Doncaster took a point off us at home? OK the clown Coyle was in charge but they looked a decent team.

We have been on a cracking run since Uwe took over and yes I expected that to continue on Saturday.
The match seemed more of a cup game, with Doncaster players chasing crisp packets and our men strolling about like we could go up 3 gears if we wanted.

The other thing[and I hate doing this] the ref and lino in particular got decision after decision wrong. They probably didn’t affect the way the 3 nurps went, but it would have been a lot closer.

No matter how much an away trip costs be prepared for a defeat. To start moaning about how much it has cost, should have no bearing on the result.

Would you have been happy to fork out that money if we had won? If the answer is “yes” then you are following the wrong club mate. :ohmy:

Add to that list, the fact that you clearly can’t read, either. I said at least once that you are entitled to your opinion (that obviously goes without saying) and that I too was disappointed with result. People’s issue with your statement is that you claimed it was the worst result in several – and even claimed it as a fact.

Anyway, bored with you now. I’m off to fail with another book. Good of you to class me as an author, though. Fancy being my agent?

In the last 70 days we have played 19 matches which is near enough 1 game every three and a half days so there could be a good argument for the tinkering and general rotation of the squad

It was certainly came as a shock to the Latics. They were in a run of eight games without defeat. In contrast, Doncaster had gone nine games without a win.

Rosler admitted Doncaster, who had only scored twice in their previous nine game, deserved their victory. “We weren’t at our best and I think the run of games we’ve had recently caught up with us,” he said.

That’s not entirely convincing as an explanation. It can hardly apply to;
Al-Habsi
Browning
Beausejour
Fortuné – 65′
Boyce
Maynard
Espinoza – 80′
Gómez

Barnett, however, certainly does deserve a rest.

I think what those figures show are a team with a consistant line up having played fewer games than us they have had a consistant back four ,goalkeeper have a player who has scored 17 goals probably been together for a couple of seasons not had many injuries or travelled across Europe good effort though

I think you have missed my point here ! Their regular starters have played more than most of our squad respectively and they are showing no sign of this ” Tired legs ” bollocks !