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  • in reply to: RED CARD #122594

    ovrturned Mclean clear to play

    Looking forward to another slightly fustraiting performance from him, go on son beat a man…..[/quote]
    he made more of a contribution last Saturday than MacManaman did

    in reply to: Another O.C. Topic. #122547
    When Owen Coyle first came to us a friend of mine whose a noblot fan ( yeah I know)
    said ” He’ll demoralise your players then he’ll demoralise your fans”.
    I Honestly don’t think the players are yet, with the odd probable
    exception, but listening to our fans at Blackpool during and after the game many
    fans are certainly demoralised.

    Whats your opinion?

    My opinion is that a good portion of our supporters get easily demoralised – to be more precise they get “demoralised” when we do not win.
    We had more or less all of the game for the first 20 minutes during which time we passed the ball about well on the whole and created a number of good opportunities.
    If Nick Powell hadn’t missed the open goal with his header then we would have been in strong position to go on and win.
    The penalty turned the tide for a while but we could easily had been back level by half time.
    The 2 substitutions came with plenty of time left and we were unlucky not to score (statistically we had the most off target shots of any team at weekend) at least once or twice during the 2nd half during which time, other than the last 3 minutes, we kept Blackpool pretty much pegged back.
    It would be nice to win every week but we do not have a divine right to do so.
    I am not a bit Owen Coyle fan but I think that people need to take a more measured look at things.

    in reply to: Maribor Match Tickets #122300

    if the club had sold all the (642) tickets on a first come first served-type basis (season tickets first, etc.) then I don’t think there would have been too much of a problem

    the issue seems to be that the club has seemingly put aside 150 tickets for selling with “their” trip (*)

    BUT there are (lets say, for sake of argument) 150 people who have already made their own travel arrangements but have now ended up without a ticket

    so, the club has the match tickets but won’t sell them to the fans (unless they book on their trip)

    it is not unreasonable for those people who have (currently) missed out to feel a little bit miffed provided the (*) assumption above is true

    It is all probably a case of bad judgement, unfortunate timing, and possibly inaccurate assumptions. I am pretty sure that somebody at the club is already weighing up the options.

    One scenario is that nobody books on the club trip and all 150 tickets become available, probably just after everybody has cancelled their flights!!

    in reply to: Sky Live Games #117956
    Better than 5:30 when everyone’s got tanked up

    sorry but no it’s not
    that is (arguably) the whole point of Blackpool away

    [though I was also at Ashton last night and can see the flip side]

    in reply to: cheers Martinez #117355

    Personally if I was to name my top 10 WAFC moments from the last 10 years then 6 are with Martinez at the helm.

    Then you are not old enough lad, extend WAFC moments over the last 40 years and then see[/quote]

    Apologies for only being 26 and only watching us since 1994. However, when I sit my children down in x amount of years and teach them about WAFC then I would imagine that “We beat Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea and won the FA Cup against Man City” will be where my focus mainly lies as opposed to “I remember beating Chester 4-2”

    Of course we have a history prior to the last decade but like it or not the last decade is the most prestigious and as I said, 6 of the top 10 things I’ll remember from it are with him at the helm. Similarly, there are a few from the decade previous that involved him as a player.[/quote]

    Don’t apologise for only being 26 lad, someone has to be. It’s just that, with age, I have seen a bit more and, to be honest, there were more memorable times previously. It’s a case of “you had to be there”. In 20 years time when your talking to your x kids them 6 you mentioned will be down to 1.[/quote]
    To be fair he did say “my” top 10 WAFC moments so he was only referring to the things which he had experienced himself. Lots of special/memorable things to look back on over the last 4 years.
    Just bad timing that he (in fact anyone) missed out on things like Maurice Whittle’s FA Cup goal v Sheff Wed in 1977, the 5-3 vs Port Vale, Aldershot away in 1982, beating Chelsea 4-2, winning the FRT in 1985, etc.

    in reply to: COYLE CONFIRMED #116103

    at least it paves the way for the return of Martinez for our assault on the League One title in 2015/2016

    in reply to: Everton / Stoke jobs #114766

    Everton – about to lose some key players, very hard to maintain and virtually impossible to improve on 6th place, limited money to spend

    This statement really pishes me off !! Everton no money ? compared with who ??

    If you look at the cost of some of the players Moyes brought in over his 10 years he spent some serious dosh !.

    They’ll never match the spending of the bigger and arab/russian owned clubs but compared with the majority of teams in the UK their not doing too bad.[/quote]
    To improve any, it is the bigger and arab/russian owned clubs that Everton must compete with; compared to them it is fairly accurate to say that Everton have limited money to spend

    in reply to: Blackburn v Millwall #104992
    I will be on ESPN

    why?

    in reply to: Saturday or Sunday ? #104978

    last year the semi finals were at 6:00pm Sunday and 12:30pm Saturday
    – 2 pretty poor times but both very makeable

    by the time we have played that game we will have been on tv for 6 out of our last 8 outings

    in reply to: ONE #103017

    Jason Roberts goal at Arsenal

    in reply to: View From The Sick Bed ! #102855

    We do tend to overcook it a little and attempt to walk the ball into the net ! Last season on that dream run we seemed to dispense with the tippy tappy sideways and backwards stuff and got the ball through to the business end of things swiftly and efficiently. Unfortunately the former tactics seem to have crept back into our game !

    Did we bollocks!! All we might have done was play with a little higher tempo! The style was exactly the same! Jesus, talk about making things up to suit your argument!![/quote]

    Watch the games back and the sideways backwards shite was definitely dispensed with ! As you say the tempo was quicker but it was also more direct ! I am afraid Griff that you are wrong this time ![/quote]

    What 90 minutes of every game? Don’t talk ridiculous, man!

    Gomez played almost all of those games and, according to most of you lot, he can’t knock a ball forward at all, so how do you work that out?[/quote]
    On the contrary, our late revival was kick started last season when Gomez went off at Norwich and Maloney came on.
    In the games that followed Gomez hardly played at all with the only notable exception being Arsenal away.

    in reply to: View From The Sick Bed ! #102787
    Get the fuckin ball in the other teams net and stop them getting it in ours. It really is THAT fuckin straightforward.

    It really isn’t THAT straight forward.
    However, sometimes we don’t really look too arzed about whether we score or not – like taking a short corner in the last minute of first half injury time the other week only to end up dribbling ourselves back into the corner – and this can be more than a little bit frustrating.

    I’m talking about this ‘thou shall pass it to death’ shite.
    This football is SHITE. That’s MY opinion. I am ENTITLED to it.

    At the back end of last season we witnessed the best football we have EVER seen from a Latics team using the same style of play.

    This season it seems bad/frustrating again because we are not winning too many games BUT at the same time we have been more than competitive against the vast majority of sides. Personally I have enjoyed most games.

    Paul Scharner has a less tippy-tappy manner of play. Maybe his style will have a positive influence?
    And, maybe the return of Kone will give us a similar lift that the introduction of Maloney did last year?

    We have a third of the season left to get half of the overall points required. However we approach the next 13 games we are, at the same time, both good enough to stay up and bad enough to go down as are about 8 other teams.

    I do not crave relegation but if worse comes to worse it would not be the end of my world.

    in reply to: WAS #97085
    Bobby having a swipe at wigan fans. On sky in his interview he said jordi got his hatrick the hard way with no support from the fans

    no support?
    crowd were singing his name
    jordi-loving good friend of mine almost ejaculated when he knocked his third goal in
    what more does he want?

    in reply to: blowing smoke up roberto’s arse #96609

    Wigan chairman Dave Whelan believes manager Roberto Martinez will reach the highest echelons of European football and says: “Roberto will be the manager of one of the top three clubs in Europe, I don’t think there’s any doubt about that.”

    maybe he is implying that wigan will be one of the 3?

    in reply to: Lawro #94036
    Back to his best. Nailed on for a win now.

    … Wigan will try and play good football at the Stadium of Light, which they can on occasions, but they do not play well enough for long enough in games.

    fair comment (unfortunately)

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