We sold two if you include the later departed James McCarthy.

Full kit wanker thought James Mccann would be a good replacement should that happen.

Overall the recruitment was suitable for where we are but for whatever reason its not clicking up front.

A good start to that problem would be dropping James Mclean and having Holt and Fortune on at the same time to get on the end of his insistent wing play.

I am not convinced Holt has the speed/stamina to play up front on his own.

Technically he is a Coyle signing but it would seem we have a working relationship with Olimpia that pre dates Martinez too.

This is the third manager in a row that has Watson at the top of the set piece taker list so all I can think is he must bend them like Beckham in training.

Maloney seems to get more to a wigan head from corners but thats not an option for the forseeable future.

It’s nonsense.

Ben Watson in last night’s programme answered the question ‘What shampoo does Jordi Gomez use’ by saying he was going grey and thinning on top.

It’ a bit of banter that people have construed the wrong way.[/quote]

All I know is Gomez is head and shoulders above every one of our other midfielders when on form.

There was one point where Jean was running down the left and wanted to hit it in the box for Holt to run on to.

Holt looked like he was running in quick sand but I hope that is more about not being fully fit rather than his legs giving way under his large tyre slinging frame at this time in his career.

What was Bennett doing for their goal? He was either trying to play him offside or I want to see his Williamhill account!

Gomez didn’t do himself any favours but Coyle doesn’t do him any favours pushing him out further right. You could tell his head dropped after he missed that chance in the box.

Fortune when coming on gave the front line much more mobility and sadly fluffed a fairly decent chance to put us ahead.

I thought the performance was so so and certainly not spectacular!

For all of their “European pedigree” I don’t think they looked all that good last night and we could and maybe should have done that little bit more to take all three points.

All in all though we are still in with a great chance of qualifying which would be a fantastic achievement.

I’d like to think he thought neither of them were fit enough to play from the start.[/quote]

What’s the difference with playing mins 0-30 and mins 60-90 ?[/quote]
Because he’d prefer not to play them at all until they were full fit, but as we were losing he had no option.[/quote]

Do you not think that we as a club have an awful lot of injuries ? Is it bad luck or is there some underlying problem maybe todo with the training and actual playing techniques ? I read an article on the subject ages ago and seeing as we always seem to have quite a few ongoing injuries wondered if it was related ![/quote]

That is a fair question!

I dont know the quality of the training surface but we sure get a lot of cold weather in this part of the world which maybe effects it.

Training facilities were certainly a talking point for Martinez including a fully functional indoor pitch.

My biggest gripe about Coyle getting appointed was I was desperate to see continuity from Martinez to utilise some of our more technical players.

I don’t think Holloway fits that mold either.

That being said if we are looking for a master tactician who can get his team to dominate an FA CUP final seemingly out of nowhere with a squad of the quality we can afford you will be looking a long time.

Maybe Whelan new this and thought rather than chasing the style of manager who has moved on to pastures new he should just hire the best person available for the job and let them do it their way.

As much as I have my doubts about Coyle I certainly have none about Whelan who has a cracking record for hiring successful managers and a reputation to swing the axe without hesitation if necessary.

Why are we loaning out players to our relegation rivals?!?