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Taken from an interview at the back end of 2006. (This also included Spurs making it 10 games to be written off).
Recalling a conversation he had with former Charlton manager Alan Curbishley last season, Jewell added: ‘He told me he looked upon the season as a 28-game season.
‘A lot of teams outside the top five just write off the other 10 games, which might be a negative attitude to some people, but it’s also a realistic one.
In defence of Jewell he wasn’t the only manager thinking this way. The point I was trying to make was that Martinez didn’t adopt that attitude and as a result we were presented with some unforgettable games.
Thing is with Bob though we used to lose a lot too. Set out for a draw and in the end still lost. With Paul Jewell we played some of the best football during a most memorable period in Latics history.Paul Jewell will forever be remembered and revered for getting us to the Premier League and that first memorable season (half a season really) when we slugged it out with the big boys.
Well not really the big boys because he is on record as saying he wrote off the games against Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Utd and set up for damage limitation. That’s eight games and 24 points which he discarded.
At least Martinez had a go. We got stuffed a few times but also saw some of the most memorable games ever witnessed by Latics fans culminating in that unbelievable FA Cup win.Boring it may have been but at least he tried. When he got it right they were never to be forgotten games. Jewell never even tried.
In the two years he has been signed to Wigan Athletic Grant Holt has played little competitive league football mostly as a result of injuries, the last being cruciate ligament damage which has kept him sidelined for over 8 months. In the few games I saw him play he was slow, cumbersome and overweight. Even the most optimistic fan must question whether this player at 34 years of age coming back from such a serious injury is going to add anything to the squad. I will be very surprised if he returns to the first team at all.
I didn’t see much possession football being played last night and we were just as ineffective.
Lack of fire power is one thing but both last night and at Coventry we were equally poor in defence. I’ve not seen anything in Morgan or O’Donnell yet that suggests we have that makings of any kind of solid defence and if we are relying on McCann and Barnett on a regular basis then we really are going to struggle.
Which takes me back to my other current point that these lads need time playing together regularly before we can make any judgement against them.At last, something we can agree on.
Who knows, the answer in this division may be the 4-6-0 approach you enjoyed under your mate Malky ;)Mackay was a doomed man from the moment he was appointed. The pity was we had to endure it until the man who appointed him was embarrassed into submission and stood down. By then it was too late.
There’s a time and a place for playing 2 up front is the point he was making, not that it should never happen.I would imagine v Man City is more ill advised than against say Doncaster or Scunthorpe.
Wigan Athletic played a good part of the second half against Coventry with “two up-front” but I didn’t notice any improvement in the way the team played.
OK boys let’s all bow down to Tony Pulis. Suppose having a cash turnstile is a shit idea too?I think Pulis should have played three at the back, two in mid-field and five up front.
What was he thinking?
Off course Pulis knows more than me or any other fan but should that stop you having an opinion. Ffs Pulis has a history of playing horrible drab football different to Bobs but equally as drab. Jesus if he had played his usual one up front negative bilge he could have got beaten 5 nil and he would be saying he should have tried two up front.Pulis gave perfectly valid reasons why his two up front policy didn’t work last night so what makes you think by having an extra man in mid-field they would have conceded more?
Now who’s opinion should I value more?
What will your epitaph say mutty, “Proud to have been a mercenary for the elite”?
“He played a small part to help preserve freedom of speech”
Sadly, freedom of speech includes the likes of you, Otter, and others who make snide remarks and personal insults from the safety of their keyboards.[/quote]
A bit rich coming from someone who is not averse to making snide or derogatory comments themselves and then hoping that by mentioning they have served in the military somehow makes them exempt from examination and scrutiny.
I also fail to understand why anyone would join up on the notion they were doing anything other than protecting the interests of the already rich and powerful, the same rich and powerful who then shamelessly disregard them once they have served their purpose and why organisations such as Help for Heroes exist. The sad thing is that people actually buy into this bullshit and accept that sending young men to be killed and maimed for no good reason is somehow justifiable.
Not one single conflict you have served in has helped preserve my or your freedom of speech. The greatest threat to my freedom of speech is the incumbent government who are already making plans to curb freedom of speech on the internet by proclaiming that anyone who holds a view that opposes the general consensus of opinion as put out by the mainstream media should be looked upon as a terrorist.
And don’t think it won’t happen. The mainstream media is a powerful propaganda machine and they intend to keep it that way.Finally please don’t come at me with this “hiding behind a keyboard” nonsense. I have not threatened you nor said anything I would not say directly to your face.
McClean is a British national earning his living in the country of his birth. He is employed in the private sector so I fail to see how he is somehow a servant of the people, protestant or otherwise, or can be accused of taking the Queen’s shilling.
Maybe you should complain to the moderators about starting threads of this kind if you think this forum isn’t really the place for such debate but I doubt George would be all that interested.
