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Pathetic. No excuses.
Cook out! Pathetic 3-0 win[/quote]
3 effing nil …… shocking team selection; no Burn, Byrne, James …. glad I didn’t go. Who is ‘Elder’? Clueless Cook.
Very well done team!!
I think Dereck is just saying we should have been a little more cavalier in possibly the last twenty five minutes or so when it looked like we were heading for another nil-nil.
Problem is on the bench there are no match changers anyway so there isn’t much more we could do but go like for like. We haven’t got a big striker to bring on to cause defences problems in the air or to lay off crosses to Grigg and neither had we a pacey midfielder for counter attacks. The squad is built around how Paul Cook interprets how the game should be played and as others have said it’s pretty much working most of the time and will again at Plymouth on Saturday and even tomorrow night in the cup.So how would you have gone “more cavalier” then?[/quote]
Did I not just say that with the side we had out and what we had on the bench it would be virtually impossible to have played with a more cavalier approach. At the end of the day on Saturday it was probably players underperforming that let us down namely Massey and Powell and apart from his occasional runs Jacobs. The crosses and passes into the box were poor too.[/quote]
There were loadsa good crosses and passes into the box ……… there just wasn’t anyone there to do anything with them.
Leave Jacobs alone. M o M v Peterborough for no other reason than that run from our goal line to their goal line. You could see his thoughts ….. ‘we’ve gotta win this, and if no one else is gonna give it a go, I am’. Off he went, ploughing through 8 of their players, losing the ball 3 times, ignoring the refs whistle twice, doing a flick flack en route, justa about beating their keeper, but there was no one with him. That run was spectacular and made his selection all worthwhile.
When Brawn the Vaughan came on …. things livened up, and suddenly it looked as if we were in with a chance again until Colclough decided to invent a new game likened to ‘air guitar’ called ‘air football’.
Like one or two of our other goal scorers he has had a bad leg injury …..a minnow called Ben jumps to mind. That, I think, bodes well.
I was going to say the same except about Callum macmamamamum – I thought he was there as well, but I see he is wallowing in the depths with Sunderland.
Give Perkins the job of up front Toney replacement striker. I have full faith that he’ll rise to the occasion.
He did, you are right, but his finishing and final touch just kinda wasn’t as good as his ragged running. WTF it doesn’t matter – why? ‘Cos we won the cup. That is all that matters. Robles wasn’t far of MoM and neither was Boyceeeeee or Scharner or Maloney or Kone.
”Best wing performance by a player, McManaman,probably since Matthews in 53″
Don’t get me wrong, McManaman had Clichy (I think) tied in ribbons during that game but best wing performance since Matthews??? Not in my opinion
On that day Matthews provided crosses for 2 of the goals & his other crosses more often than not met their target.
In our cup final, McManaman got in to numerous excellent positions & messed it up every single time – watch Kone, time after time going mental at him coz he’s hung on to the ball to try & beat another man or get a shot away when others are far better placed. That day he had pace by the bucket load & was full of tricks but he was proper head down & no awareness of what was going on around him.I know I’ll get shot down for saying this as I have before on here but watch the game back & tell me one time where he got himself in to a great position & made the right end decision.
Then you’ll see I’m right!! ;)Agree. Had a few good games in that latter half of the season, but I stand by my “won’t make a PL player as long as he has a hole in his arse” comment.[/quote]
Totally agree about Mcmamamamamaumum; I remember Kone getting so frustrated, especially near the end. Actually for me he wasn’t MoM; Roger was.
The cup for me all day long, it’s what dreams are made of.Have to agree with GoalsGalore on the way the City fans were on the way back up the M6 a credit to their club, unlike them Arsenal wankstains a year later.
Yeah, after the game i walked into the Bree Louise Pub at Euston and was confronted by a sea of pale blue. I started to turn around to leave, honestly …. I was dragged back in, they stood up, clapped and cheered. I had photos with them. I felt like Ben watson!! I was bought a drink, had hand shakes and all the ‘fair play to you, you played us off the pitch, you never let us get started’, and more.
What oh what a journey!! The parade in Wigan was pretty wonderful as well.
Without a doubt THE CUP! If you don’t ‘do’ football, you don’t get it. But if you do …. most will understand. They whole saga. The day, the game, the Wembley, the pre match pints, the pre match curry, the atmosphere, the incidents in the game – Zabaleta getting sent off, the pre final games. I know the exact spot I was at when we scored 3 goals in 3 minutes at Everton. I nearly crashed the car. The goal. The momentary silence of disbelief, and in the hush someone said “it’s gone in” and then utter mayhem. The total journey. Every time I go past Wembley on the train I can remember so much so vividly. It was a truly wonderful journey. I can fritter hours away looking at everyones You Tube clips of the trip. Added to all that, I have to say the fantastic way the Man City fans were …. who were all so congratulatory and so honorable in defeat, (I have to say a lot kinder that the Arsenal fans the following year when they won)!! Added to all that it was a really good game of football … not only because we won.
And then the European Tour ….. more ‘impossible’ memories if we were in ‘just’ in the Prem.
I suppose that is just a long way around to say THE CUP!! Guess what my screen saver is!!
I wouldn’t say he is a passenger at all
He is in a lot of games.[/quote]
And our leading goal scorer…![/quote]
Exactly. Always wants the ball as well.[/quote]
Nick Powell has scored more goals this year than Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez, Neymar, Kane and Zlatan combined.
I know this flies in the face of everything we think we know about DW – but maybe he has refused such honours?…………. and he never broke his leg!!!!!
“TBH, Uncle Dave only really means so much to Wigan folk and we all know that our exploits under Sir David are well and truly forgotten by the rest of the sporting media who lets face it would have rather it never happened at all. The man can do no wrong in my eyes but I doubt that alone is enough to get the great man his just deserts.[/quote]
All very true!! There are some very deserving people who get honours, and some equally un- deserving ones!! For some it is little more than an “in house pat on the back for their mates” (Clegg).
Mind you, he has been a donor of considerable amounts to the Tory party for quite a while – so his chances are increased.
As you say, and I agree, in my Wigan-esque blue tinted eyes Sir DW (Lord) can do no wrong. So let’s give him a knighthood, make him a Lord (he already is one) OBE, MBE and a Dame for ‘services to WAFC and the people who have got a stacka fun from following the team’.
That alone is more deserving that quite a few others.
