jrfatfan

I would like to share your optimism Dalyo but am finding it quite hard having seen that shower of shyte last night.
I walked off Villa Park with a Liam Gallagher swagger staring out the oncoming villa fans like a cat who had just rubbished all the milk. Then down to earth with a bang, like you say against a team who did a “Wigan Athletic style” job on us.
The highs and lows of the united game made it hard to realise what standard of team we actually are, having fought toe to toe for the best part of an hour against the EPL champs, then bushak! colapse of the Roman empire.

Now lets get round to last night. The things that botherered me the most were:

1) We have shown in 2 out of the 3 games played, that we have not got the players to pass our way out from the back. Bobby looks intent on continuing with this style and thats really worrying. What’s more worrying is that when we do pass our way out the back four and its in midfield, the short passing game stops and we suddenly start rushing things and finally resort to a 50 yard punt across field, hitting the winger at head height or hitting row F. Are we a slick, little traingle passing team, as per the old Liverpool team of the 80’s or are we a hoof boltonesque side?

2) It was a great opportunity for the likes of Watson[misplaced 27 passes], King[ ofseed again], Edman [caught in possesion], Scotland[couldn’t trap a bag of cement], Pollitt [couldn’t catch a bag of cement] and Boyce [would not be able to link up with Jodie Marsh], to stake their claim, yet not one of these looked good enough to get in the Blackpool side put out last night.

I’m not being funny but they should have bust a gut for Bobby last night.

3) As for Bobby. I’m still excited by his signing, but come on matey, arms folded all night looking like a civil servant waiting for a bus. Get the lazy barstewards bolluked!!. Me and my mate were arguing which 3 players would be subbed at half time and yet the same embaressing 11 trundled out. Surely DDR deserved a chance having played some decent pre season games. Lets see your nast streak Bobby, to survive as a premiership manager you’ll need one. Ady Boothroyd was a nice man, where is he now?

4) I know we need to give some of the new players time to settle at the club, but if they are good enough, just like Diame and Scott Sinclair they will look class for periods of the game.[ If SS is not in the starting 11 Sunday, then I’ll start getting really worried about our management team].
This Ayama, Scotland and McCarthy looked out their depth against a below average championship team. The juries still out on these, lets see if they prove me wrong after 6 or 7 prem starts.

5) Finally, some of our supporters. I realise that the numpty’s walking across the pitch side shouting abuse and showing the old two fingered salute after the second goal went in, were probably out just for a trip to the local watering holes, but FFS, they were more embaressing than the players in blue and white. I was sat there in my orange flourescent jacket, looking a pilluck and feeling a pilluck watching my team being mauled and felt like doing that, but hey lets not go overboard just yet.

So as daleyo says lets not throw ourselves off the pier yet and see what 5 or 6 more games bring.

Judging by the empty seats in the East against Wolves I reckon there’s at least 500-700 less STH in that stand. Couldn’t comment on the West as its hard to tell when your sat in there.

You could give it an educated guess on that Wolves gate. They brought about 4,500 that leaves app 12,000. You can say that there’ always around 1000-2,000 floaters for a home match depending on who we play. Therefore I would say we’ve anything between 10,000 -, 11,000 STH max.

I’m afraid we have too many of these:-

I thought the wolves goalie had the longest and most acurate kick i’ve ever seen from a keeper.
Looked a bit dodgy holding on to the few half hearted attempts we had though.

Wasn’t that 16661, app 3,000 more than the WRLFC got against the wolves recently?

I went to Villa on saturday and I’ve never looked forward as much to a game as I did tonight. We’ve seriously gone from champions league material to championship material in 72 hours.

I was wearing the new away top on saturday with SEASON 5 on the back, the chances of having SEASON 6 on the back next year is looking rather slim after that performance. I think Bobby has to consider having a plan B. You cannot keep passing the ball back and forth across the back line when losing 1-0 and less than 10 mins on clock.

Lets hope the team who turned up at villa park turn up saturday or there will be more numbers on the board than the final ashes test.

I’m pretty useless on um actually.

Just go onto google images and type in wigan athletic or a players name etc. you will get loads of photos. Select one with a decent picxel size i.e. above 300 x 300. Click on the image and bring up the larger photo then right click mouse and select set as desktop back ground and you have it. It is better to set it for the screen size rather than tile or centre.
Sorry for the last bit if you already know how to set it up.