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Caldwell’s instantly instilled confidence and belief collectively. Players like Murray are back to having a go at defenders but that midfield position is a problem area.
Come second half the midfield sit deep with little support up top and we basically pin ourselves to the dart board and invite sides to piley on.
I think I can comfortably say each goal pushes Taylor further away from joining us as his stock value rises per game.
He’s every manager dream, a player who, when teams are playing shite he can conjor up a goal out of nothing with his one man band runs.
If Huddersfield do decide to sell they might just surpass the £3million they ‘paid for him especially when you think Charlton could eventually pay £5million Kelman.
One thing I was pondering is, what happens in the summer if Danson hasn’t sold the club?. Will he be willing to part with his cash ??.
Agree……both clubs sadly down the back of sofa coppering up with an owner worth in excess 2 Billion……meanwhile Chelsea like City will eventually get away with downright cheating…..their’s over 7 years..knew exactly what they were doing…..getting caught was their real cock up…get a fine which is a cop out and a 1 window transfer ban…F###### suspended. Look what we got !!!…..Boy it will be interesting to see if the Premier leagues biggest frauds get the whacking they deserve if found guilty……how’s about relegation to league 2 like Rangers got……..mmmm…..dreaming again.
No we wouldn’t, we no longer own it Danson does. Now if he tried to sell it who would buy it?.
Rugby the other year cleaned up trophy wise and still came out around £5-£6million in debt for the season. The sports dead in the water.
If and when Danson sells the football there would be potential buyers now we’re on a more financial even keel and room for improvement but the rugby ?.
What else can they win or do to improve their financial situation??. It doesn’t have the crowd or interest beyond Lancashire and Yorkshire.
With the football there’s always room and scope to improve on and off the pitch.
If Danson pulled out no one would take them on and I mean no one as there is nothing they can do to generate more revenue, nothing
I think Danson selling the football is a shot across the bow for the rugby because at the end of the day Dansons a business man regardless and losing money doesn’t sit well.
Without Danson right now I think we’d survive were as the rugby would die overnight and their fans know this
Some of these young lads will grow up overnight similar to how Aasguard went from a skinny runt to holding off seasoned defenders.
But these lads need minutes, they need competitive football. Chapman has quietly surprised me and he doesn’t look out of place in the starting line up.
I saw a few comments from Huddersfield fans regarding Taylor’s unturn in form and most were sour grapes which I’m sure will filter back to the player.
I wasn’t quite sure about him when he first came but he’s slowly grown into the role and with abit more support on the field he could hit another 6-8 before the seasons out.
Danson saw yesterday what a decent manager can bring to the club and offering free seats. Surely it’s better for the big important games filling those empty seats and being in the extra revenue elsewhere on match day.
I hope Saturday was a big advert to any potential buyer and what’s possible both on and off the field.
Now we need to get it right Tuesday
A fantastic all round performance obviously the goal scorers will get the brownie points but I just thought everyone worked their socks off nothing more than hard work and 2 bits of skill saw Bradford off..
Murray was keen to go one on one which was good to see,
Raphael I think is slowly improving and isn’t scared of putting a toe in but I’m glad Weir got a mention. A lot of fans don’t realise the work some players do off the ball.
Some fans (and rightly so) only remember the 25 harder or the free kick in the top sack but Weir does the unsung donkey work off the ball that alot of the time goes unnoticed.
The one thing I loved was Vickers tackling. He absolutely frustrated Humphrys to bits for the 15 minutes they faced each other regular toe poking the ball away in the tackle.
For me we still lack that creative player in the middle of the park. We need to be able to get the ball to forwards higher up the pitch rather than asking them to run half the length of the pitch and score.
Is Costelloe injured or frozen out ?. I thought he would have been a far far better option than Saydee purely for his energy pressing and chasing the ball across Bradfords back line or even Bettoni who (hope I’m wrong) won’t be here in the summer.
If I’ve one criticism it’s Caldwell micro managing players, telling players were at stand telling them move 5 yards here there etc but that’s just me.
As for Bradford ? I didn’t rate them on Boxing Day when 2 reds cost us the game and again, I didn’t rate them yesterday.
Anyone who meets them in the play-offs will be rubbing their hands over two legs but that’s no concern of us. We just need to keep clawing points out the bag and if we lose hope and pray others around us do the same.
I would also like to say, I’ll never understand why as a club we never truly tapped into the huge player catchment area for youth, young lads who never quite make it.
We have 4 of the biggest clubs in Europe let alone the UK on our door step and we still haven’t tapped into their youth overspill.
The scouting system has been awful for years. Any new owner needs to tap in and build a side on youth and selling on.
It’s the only way we can survive. I hope I’ve heard it wrong but Bettoni won’t be signing so something’s not right.
For a guy who’s made his fortune playing the numbers game he’s not done a very good job with us has he.
I said from day one when he bought the club he wanted the ground nothing else we were like a sticky bob he needed to shake off.
Danson doesn’t care so the sooner he fooks off the better and as for him wanting to retain 20% ?, why?? no thanks I’d sooner have Choi.
Last night Caldwell got this one totally wrong he’s the guy to blame. McManaman should never start, period. Wtf was he thinking ?? unbelievable. He’s been a great servant but as a starting player that’s gone sorry.
M.Smith isn’t arsed to me he looks like his agents already sorted next seasons move out and he’s going through the motions so he doesn’t get injured.
Moxon?, his ball distribution is absolutely fookin awful he’s simply not good enough and as for Saydee ?, all’s I can say is, he must train like a tiger because Lowe and Caldwell prefer him. He can’t hold it up, can’t run, can’t score.
But for me last night it simply highlighted our squad issues that we missed Wright and he wasn’t good enough for Plymouth. Plymouth looked, stronger, faster, but the one thing, direct. No faffing straight wide ball in 1-2 passes.
Danson’s done a cracking job of straightening the books, but while he’s been sorting out all the local companies to sponsor/advertise and pumping millions into the women’s game he’s let the men’s side go to rack & ruin with zero onfield investment leaving us on the brink of L2 and potentially even worse squad for next season.
But the burning question is, who will want to buy some Christopher Park, half a dozen players and some bibs and balls for a so called £10milllion??
Out the bottom 5 clubs around us we play 4 of them and if we play like we did in that first half and against Blackpool we will go down that’s nailed on.
And, with L2 looming rumour is Bettoni is refusing to go into talks till we see what league we’re in.
Come on chaps, settle down a bit here Christ. Raphael actually played a big part in the goal and he’s learning every game.
Hungbo comes on and starts to go past tired legs exactly the same as Wildschut use to do so he’ll always impress but if you start him ?? Its a different story.
Like plenty others Matt Smiths hasn’t set the world on fire of late so Caldwells trying to find who’s best were.
Saydee?, have to agree, it’s like we’re playing with 10 men, he also looks huge like he’s found Greggs and Greenhalgh’s on the same day. He looks at least a stone overweight. I know he’s a big fella but he struggles to get around. Then there’s the backing into players and going to ground.
If he’s not scoring, not laying or setting up, not chasing tackling what is he doing ?
I mean it’s as clear as day which ever way you paint it, it’s a poor squad. There’s the odd one or two but Caldwell’s got a serious job on his hands in the summer.
Might be worth having a sniff at Jayden Wareham at his old club. He’s just coming to the right age 23 in May. He must have something if Chelsea gave him pop a few year ago when he was a kid.
But for me Caldwell plays similar to Lowe so I just cannot see things changing overnight and I personally think this will go to the wire a last day job.
The only one I’d sign right now would be Wright. There’s something about his style that’s good on the eye and he always puts a shift in, rarely does he have a bad one.
I’m not saying he’s a world beater or he doesn’t deserve to be sent out on loan all’s I’m saying is, when your in front in a game it’s nice to have a very quick player stood on the half way line, opposition players know this and ah*t themselves into mistakes
If he doesn’t fit then off he goes but at the end of the day
It’s business,
Without him the club wouldn’t have had a big payday at Arsenal because he changed the game at Preston. His pace when one on one is frightening.
Now I get it on one hand, young lad, arrogant, whatever but he proved at Preston he’s worthy but wasn’t even on the bench the next game.
Put yourself in his shoes, you do a blinder of a job the gets dropped. I’m sure anyone one of us would be fuming. We’ve all worked with people we can’t stand but were paid to do a job regardless.
Anyway he’s gone.
As I pointed out last time
Moseley
He’s 21 this year now some will say, “Too young” – “No experience” well there’s only one way to do that, like Baines, McManaman, Lang, Adeeko, Aasguard and a good few more
Play the fookin lad
We’ve already made Taylor good enough to price ourselves out the market so why not get the likes of Moseley this Sat, minimum he should be making the bench from here on in.
I read he scored a cracker this week for the academy so I don’t see why he can’t be mixing it with the first team he’s not 16 17 he’s 20 going on 21 and he needs minutes
I just hope he’s not the new Josh Stones, never used and sold (he scored twice mid week).
We’ve a few very good young lads knocking about so why not use them rather than pay stupid loan money wages on the like of Ollie Cooper who stunk the place out.
I’m lost to be honest,
Bringing in a small army of loanees is not “Self Sufficient” it’s called “Borrowing” bridge loaning till the season after.
We’re struggling for left n right wingbacks or versatile players so we loan out Mellish who can play the left wingback role quite good scoring against Walsall for MK Dons.
8-9 players sent out on loan 6-7 brought in and not all kids. I’m not quite sure why Kai Payne, Mellish, Brennan or even now injured Millar were booted out it can only be put down to piss poor Mr.Magoo recruitment.
The signing of players then a few months later then sent out on loan just highlights how bad our recruitment process is.
The table doesn’t lie, both Lowe and Caldwell play very similar systems and without players who can play in that system it’s very hard to see how things will change.
I’ve a feeling Asamoah’s had a ding dong and Caldwell’s got him out the door asap and to be frank, that I think is the last we’ll see of him at Wigan.
For me it’s time to give Moseley a slot on the bench this weekend and stop cotton wooling our brightest kids.
Peterborough recently unveiled a 17 year old who repaid them with a goal. But round holes square peg systems will always fail in the end.
If we pursue the same Ryan Lowe tactics with loanees I fear for us
Whether we think a shirt tug is a yellow Sessengon knows the rules.
He was one on one, on a yellow and he stupidly tugs him back?, what was the ref meant to do ?.
Not only that, he was basically at fault for a goal. Asamoah’s lunge again, was a red rag to a bull tackle trying to impress.
Taylor can’t play Sat which means we haven’t a goal scorer so why not give Moseley a chance or at least make the bench. It’s not like he’s 16-17, the lads not far off 21 so Sat would be the perfect time to bring him into the match day squad.
Yesterday was worrying, one defender on the bench in young Chapman so we’re is Luke Robinson ??.
My fear is, Caldwell will stick with 3 at the back system and leave us vulnerable down the left & right.
Yesterdays game once again highlighted this wingback problem we have.
I just hope the players can get a grip with it or we might struggle to keep up
The main thing for me was, seeing Caldwell giving out clear instructions throughout the game along with Perkins rather than being sat on the bench, snood up.
At this stage it’s all about man management. The overall style of play/set up was near identical Lowe’s but in the few days Caldwell’s been here you can see the players are buying into it and the intensity was up 6 fold.
When Taylor left the field he made a point of getting Caldwell’s attention to give him a huge. Small things like this show they’ve took a liking to him but this would not have happened under Lowe Taylor would have simply waltzed past Lowe and took a seat, no pat on the back or kiss me arse. Good man mangers know this that it’s a combination of the finer details that bring a team together.
Saydee did well the difference was he was trying to lay it off quicker but I think the foot stamp he received put paid to his night.
One thing that annoys me is, the criticism Weir receives its beyond belief. Weirs game is for me, what he does when we’re out of possession.
Because he’s not putting in 40 diag balls (did do one though) and linking up play or mind bending runs he’s constantly slagged off
What people forget is, he’s constantly moving, little jogs between players, putting pressure on the opposition were as some other players grab a that few second breather he rarely does.
He does a lot of the unsung donkey mule work that gets little praise by fans but it’s a vital part of the cog. A few fans should cut the lad some slack because when he’s not there it’s noticeable.
Matt Smith came off the bench and within a minute put a beauty of a ball through. He slotted into a more advanced role plus a superb tackle on the half way line shows he’s up for it especially after a couple of poor performances.
Caldwell comes across as a very likeable guy, very honest and someone who the players will find very hard to dislike.
I keep saying it, at this level it’s all about man management and bringing a team and it’s spirit together. We don’t have the calibre of player who can turn games, our wins have to come from our players trusting and believing in each and Weds it showed.
If we can avoid the drop there might be one or two of our players who are here on a loan or their contracts end Kerr M.Smith etc who might just think:-
“Hang on a sec, I can feel something happening here, I wanna be a part of this”
The exact opposite thought they might have had only few weeks ago under Calamity Lowe.
For all you dreamers out there here’s one for you:-
If we were to win our 2 games in hand we’d be 9 points behind Huddersfield in 6th in the final play-off spot and 4 points Peterborough in 11th
Dream or Believe ?
Caldwell it is and tbh he’s about the best available.
He got thrown to the lions first time round. He was far too young but he got us promoted.
I heard some saying, “Oh no not him, no thanks”, utter clueless bellend I say.
My only fear is, Caldwell likes to play his preferred way with the 3 at the back. The problem with that is, we don’t have the calibre of player to play with wingbacks.
Hope he can kick us clear of the drop zone starting Sunday and save from any last day shitty pants shoot outs.
I don’t think my ticker could take that like Sheff Utd or Stoke final dayers
Caldwell plays a 3 at the back
We don’t have wingbacks which was Lowe’s downfall.
Whenever a new manager arrives at a club he instills his philosophy on how the game should be played.
The windows closed so let’s say it’s Caldwell who comes in. He plays 3 at the back
What will change ?, we don’t have wingbacks
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
I’ve said it over and over again, it all stems back to the recruitment process. Yes the club won’t always get it right granted but how many times do we get it wrong that’s the issue.
In the 13 years since leaving the Prem the amount of players that have been through this club is truly mindboggling.
How many youth have gone on to play for us and how many have sold on for a big slab of dosh?.
And if they have how much was the manager given from the sale to *improve* the squad ??.
And your answers there on a postcard for every Latics fan to digest. We had at one point 9 signed players out on loan and 5 loans. We played 5 loanees at Peterborough so the recruitment has failed on two accounts signed players and loaned players.
You could get Mourinho and Pep as his assistant but without the correct recruitment, financial backing from owner to manager and lots of young lads from the academy coming through to make some cashflow *self sufficient* will never be achievable, period
For me it stems from the top down like a Christmas tree but all the pines have fell of ours, it’s threadbare.
