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I suspect his next move will be, and I seriously hope so. He’s not exactly ripping up trees at the bottom of the Championship with Stoke. I doubt any other Championship club will sign him when his contract expires and his ego wont allow him L1 or 2 football.
Thanks for all your tax ££££ Jimbo – that has helped fund the army you so despise.
Even if you drop the points against Huddersfield, Stoke, Charlton, Hull & Barnsley, you’ll then turn Brentford & Fulham over – as you cant deny you have a very good record against the top 4.
Tha’ll be safe lad.
You’ll stay up comfortably. Five of your last nine games are against sides in the relegation scrap, and two are against sides who wont have much to play for. Even with a blip, you will have hit 50 points by Easter Monday – and that’s before you face Hull & Charlton.
Easy peasy!
Hey mutty, with Sunderland’s run how do you rate their chances of going up now?Better than they were in December when the tactic was to give the ball to McGeady and hope he’ll create something, only for him to lose the ball 90% of the time and not bother his arse tracking back. I’ll have a much better idea come Sunday afternoon, once Coventry have played Rotherham & Sunderland.
With Jamal Lowe I can’t understand why Paul Cook went to so much trouble to sign him and then play him out of position. Surely Cook knew his strengths and weaknesses already having managed him at Portsmouth. I think with Lowe there is talent and goals in there somewhere given some confidence and a more consistent game plan.Totally agree. Why would anyone sign a player and expect them to not only bridge the gap in standard but do so playing out of position!
It’s the problem in the modern game today. If you use wing backs then the likes of Lowe (natural winger) doesn’t get anywhere near the side. It unbalances the shape. I hate wing backs at our level with a passion. It’s not rocket science if Lowe plays give him his natural position and adopt a flat back 4. Otherwise continue with wing backs but have 2 lightning fast strikers to make it effective. To simplify it play players in the positions they are known for.True. Sunderland went to a back 3 and wing backs just before Christmas. This meant that Aiden McGeady was told to go and find himself another club as there was no room in the team for a winger who didn’t like the defensive part of wing-back duties. Folk thought it was madness by the manager to boot out arguably the best player in L1, but the system worked and the wing-backs are the two fittest lads in the team, covering more ground than any of the others.
Perhaps this is what Cook needs to do if he’s hell bent on playing with wing backs, and it is proving successful. If its not proving successful, then he needs to make the most of his best players – which means playing a formation that gets the best out of them.
Lowe was a highly effective right winger for Portsmouth last season. Bearing in mind the gap in standard between L1 and the Championship, I imagine he’d be a reasonable right winger, as pace is a transferrable skill.
What position is Cook playing him to generate this vitriol towards Lowe?
At this point in the season, the way you win is irrelevant.
March will decide where you finish. Playing Luton, Huddersfield, & Stoke. 6 points minimum needed from these three.
So IEC are selling WAFC to IEC’s chairman who will continue to be IEC’s chairman?
Sounds like some internal deal going on, probably to legally avoid some sort of tax due.
I doubt its going to change anything, and I don’t see how Brexit would affect anything going forward – its not like there’s been millions of Euros pumped into the club or the area over the past few years – more likely a proper Remoaner edited the yahoo article!
If the proposed sale is due to Brexit, and they end up selling to someone like Dominic Chappell, Ken Anderson or that bloke who bought Bury, then will the 60% of Wiganers who voted for Brexit still think its worth it?
8957.
As an aside, can I get a bonus point if Donny’s Page yet again posts his guess too late or within the last 12 hours, despite visiting the forum 3-4 times a day!
A poor choice of words at 2am! I meant “unexpected”.
If Barnsley, Wigan & Charlton had all been thumped in those games, you’d have been 5 points behind Charlton who would have had 33 points. The reality is you are 3 points behind Stoke. You have one defeat in your last 5 games, and have picked up 8 points from them. I’m not saying everything in the garden is rosy, but 1.6 points per game from now until the end of the season will give you 52 points – only twice in the last 15 seasons has that not been enough to survive.
Everything is conspiring against us unfortunately.No its not. You had your flukey win at Leeds. Barnsley had theirs at Fulham. Charlton had theirs at Forest. As yet, Stoke & Huddersfield haven’t had a flukey win – in fact Stoke managed to carve out a 2-4 defeat today after being 2-0 up, so in terms of how bad it could have been, you are two points closer to them having got an away point at a side pushing for the play-offs, and a point with 10 men in midweek. Stoke have had back to back defeats. They have Cardiff & Blackburn coming up – two tough games.
Now the flukey wins are history, start winning the games that you should, starting with Millwall next Saturday. Once the gap is down to one point, confidence will start to return.
