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I’ll bite on this one. For me, the side we put out last night was pretty strong but we left our two most creative players on the bench, So assuming Powell and Maloney are still injured injured I’d go with.
Ali, Beausejour, Barnett, Boyce, Perch, McCann, McArthur, Gomez, McManaman, Waghorn, Maynard.
Then, when Powell’s fit, put him in instead of Waghorn; and when Maloney’s fit drop Powell. With McClean, Espinoza, Fortune, Waghorn and Powell on the bench you’d have our best squad.
They are considerably worse than most opposition teams’ corners. We could be doing so much better.
For example in our 1982 promotion season we played every corner to a man on the near post (either Lloyd, Methven or Barrow) who then flicked it across over the keeper. Very difficult to defend against.
Around the same time I saw Bobby Charlton guest for Latics in a friendly against Bodo Grand. His corners were whipped in, swerving towards the keeper for people to challenge.
But, poor as our courrent corners are, nothing forgives how bad we are at defending the counter attacks that eventually ensue. We conceded like that again against Millwall, and almost conceded a third from a similar position when Shotton took a long throw that went wrong.
Thanks for engaging with the question posed by this thread.
I suppose you’re right: with attacking full backs you can play four at the back.
But I very much doubt that Rosler will risk playing Beausejour and Boycie without three centre-halves to cover.
Another thing we need to sort out is our corners. Many times this season, we’ve seen Gomez and Watson unable to beat the first man with their corners and – worse – the opposition breaking away and scoring.
I’ll argue with it. Gomez’s dead balls were atrocious. How many corners went straight to the keeper or failed to beat the first defender? I’m not blaming Gomez for everything that went wrong last night but surely we should have made all those corners count for something.
You’re right. I’ve seen it now (Matchday Live has its own YouTube channel), and for one game only we are carrying Wigan Youth Zone as our sponsors. Bit of a collector’s item, that shirt.
It’s also a great place to eat out. Is the original poster’s problem with it perhaps that it’s predominantly non white British? If so, he’d find that those parts of London that still are are equally rough with similar problems. And predominantly, that problem is poverty not the racial mix.
Yes, I enjoyed being able to actually see everyone this time around, and our seats were absolutely top drawer for 20 quid. Roll on Watford, Millwall, Reading, QPR etc. Not sure about the European jaunts, mind.
Which ever you choose, Horc, should we try to meet in/around the Torch again to recreate our boozy walk down Wembley Way? Small London Latics contingent setting out from Clapham Junction at 11am.
A thread headed London Latics descends into an argument over grammar and I wasn’t even involved? Outrage.
Welcome onboard to another London Latic. We’re going to need a sidecar to go on the scooter now.
Sadly can’t make it to West Ham. Something had to give after Reading, QPR and the semi-final coming in short order, and £39 to see us grind out a result in that hole was it (went to the League Cup game, though).
Vague plans afoot for many London/southeast-based Latics to meet in Kilburn/West Hampstead – 18 pubs on one mile-long stretch – then go on the Overground (quieter than the tube) to Wembley Central.
Last time around in the AWS Final, our small group of London Latics were the most visible bunch of apprehensive Wiganers imaginable (we’d been on Soccer AM the morning before). Met a couple of ‘Wall on Baker Street tube who were good as gold (“You’ve got some facking bottle coming this way”, getting their mate to come over and put the willies up one of ours, etc). However the atmosphere turned on the tube itself when one little knobead wrapped in a St George’s flag demanded we get off, and the older ones who’d been joshing with us five minutes previously looked the other way).
Since then I’ve been to the New Den on foot or public transport a few times and not seen any bother (one kid tried it on as we were being escorted to our train once but I reported him discreetly and he got booted off the kerb with a riot shield – thanks for that, OB).
These days, living in SE London, I know of one bloke who’s making a Stag Night of it, going with 14 pals, while our lollipop man says he was there last time, boozing it up with his family in Baker Street. My youngest one’s football coach wants us to win because he’s one Chelsea in a flatshare full of Millwall.
My preferred route to Wembley will definitely be the Overground from Clapham Junction then a 15-minute walk to the ground. As on matchdays, most Millwall supporters will be going via Waterloo and London Bridge then the tube, refuelling in the pubs around Great Portland Street and Baker Street. As The Egg says, put your head in the paper and you’ll be fine; then take the Millwall lot as you find ’em.
Incidentally, I know that loads have them have been banned over the years, but many that I talk to are really defeatist about their prospects of even getting a ticket for the game. Could it be a localised outbreak of MCD (Massive Club Delusion).