jimmyc

Look back at previous financial statements and you’ll see players wages were astronomical which is why Whelan decided to rein it in. He will have taken a wage from the club no doubt, but he certainly hasn’t screwed us over.
I’m as miffed as any other WAFC fan about our current situation but blaming Whelan is way of the mark.

I’d have kept Wildschut but money talks. Gomez was too good for this team nobody knows how to make runs?
Agree with bigroy, I’m struggling to stay upbeat about WJ’s style of footy. How can fans be upbeat about a match that they know we just won’t look like scoring in??

January & I thought he was beginning to turn things around. Now he’s got his own players in we look absolutely devoid of idea.

Stats for both teams so far this season are very similar.

Blackburn don’t seem to score many at home, 1 seems to be their average.
Difficult to predict this one, they sack manager & had a good win over Derby. We were poor against Forest but will the players want to give Joyce something to smile about?

I’d say 0 – 0 but we always seem to concede so i’ll go 1 – 1.

True enough for around 1500 of us who have supported Latics through thick and thin but the other 8000 regulars this season shouldn’t be taken for granted because they have only ever seen Greed League and Championship football (bar last season).
What we have all witnessed lately though has been a type of football none of us can probably recollect and that’s this containing game even when points have been there for the taking. The lack of commitment to go out for a win and accept one point from games.
To an extent I can understand Joycey and coming in and trying to repair the damage done by Caldwell wasn’t an easy task and to steady the ship before pushing on was his priority but the ship now in march is in very choppy seas and the safety of the harbour seems a long way off so time has come to drop the guard and go for the points. The personnel on board have continuously changed and too many recruits have been brought in that are just not fit which must have destabilised the crew. Every last one of the signings in January have brought nothing new onboard apart from a drain on the wage bill(apart from Conolly). They were brought in to help in the relegation struggle.
So of our 1500 oldies and our 8000 plastics (as some would call them but not me) have an entitlement to air their dissatisfaction.
As you say Horc the Championship and Premier Greed League have seen us kicking above our weight but also could you have ever have envisaged us with 9500 regular home fans. That alone is an achievement and I want to continue seeing our club grow it’s fan base but with more seasons like this debacle I am afraid to say that those fantastic supporters will vote with their feet rather than their voices.
Our fans are simply the best(remember the team running out to that) not the worst supporters there are.[/quote]

I wouldn’t say the extra 8k fans are plastic donny. You have plenty of kids in that lot who grew up supporting WAFC in the prem & stuck with us, rather than going off to support UTD or Liverpool etc…. Like in the olden days. Suppose it’s a byproduct of being successful 

The plastics are the ones that don’t bother with us now.

Us football fans are the best in the world at picking teams……after the fekin match!

Everyone I spoke to today before the KO were going on about finally playing 442, two up front and finally giving the new lads a chance.

I thought individually you couldn’t say they played bad, they just lacked any creativity in their third. One pass too many, a through ball that was just too far or cut out by the skin of the defender’s boot.
Did they deserve to be boo’d? I don’t believe in doing that it just doesn’t do any good.
I really felt we needed to win today to push forward in two winnable away games over the next 10 days, now the players will be on the floor and as disappointed as the rest of us.

We need to stick by um though, I’ll be cheering them on at Ewood and St Andrews, I’ll leave the cyber moaning to the usual suspects. :whistle:[/quote]

Don’t think anybody is blaming the players JR, Just Joyce. Lowey summed it up in his post! Joyce is setting them up to play his way, and quite frankly it aint a good way.
What bothers me now is I saw two players subbed today who were not happy leaving the pitch. & Believe Grigg booted the ball into the crowd at full time?! That doesn’t look like a happy camp.

Really? From what I watch we do use them as wing backs. Warnock is forever pinging crosses into the box & conolly high up the pitch. Both too slow to get back which creates a disfunctional formation at the back when the opposition attack.

If we can see it why can’t they?
Feel for Buxton & Burn as both are playing really well but keep getting hung out to dry. Connolly lost the ball in midfield for the second & couldn’t get back. Warnock is too old & slow for a wingback, but would make a great left back.

We are all over the place formation wise when they attack which makes it easier for the opposition.