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If there was a game next week, what would the starting 11 be?
Injuries and out going transfers aside this is my strongest line up with who we have at the moment.
1. O’Donnell
2. Tavernier
3. Taylor
4. Pearce
5. Morgan
6. Perch
7. Huws
8. McCann
9. Holt
10. McKay
11. WaghornSubs
Nicholls
Chow
Perkins
Pennant
Flores
Cowie
Barnett
Taylor Sinclair
Riera
Delort[/quote]
I suspect Riera, Delort, Pennant, Perch, Huws, McCann and Holt won’t be Wigan players by the start of the season.Which is the future? The success seen by Leicester Burnley Watford Bournmouth and Norwich in the last two seasons playing positive attacking football with strikers or the drab one up top rubbish we have seen in the last two seasons taking us in the opposite direction of the afor mentioned.Yes, because no successful team has ever played with one striker has it?
In fact, I think it was Martinez who invented it.
Riera, so good I named him twice! Well good enough to play at the same league level as Messi and co.Yes and so was Albert Crusat and Adrian Lopez.
Means nothing.
Yes, the ground is owned by a separate company, in name at least – Wigan Athletic Holdings Ltd – and it’s managed by Wigan Football Company.
These two companies, along with Wigan Athletic, have one common denominator, which Wigan RL no longer have: Whelan.
So many unbelievable memories, difficult to pick the top 5, but I’ll have a go.5. Mansfield promotion game 1982, hatrick from Eammon O’Keefe, fantastic day as a young lad to see your team get promoted.
4. Brentford Wembley 85, special day, seeing Latics at Wembley, boiling hot day, great win and a cracking atmosphere among both sets of fans.
3. Reading, the impossible dream Part 1 came true, magical, magical day. Never been as nervous before or since in the build up to a game…that moment when the Duke sealed it, was just amazing.
4. Brugges, just the whole experience, the fans, seeing everyone just intent on having a great time and enjoying something we thought would never happen, Little Wigan in Europe.
5. May 11 2013…quite simply the most amazing experience any of us who where there will ever have watching Latics. Our name on the most famous domestic knock-out trophy in world sport FOREVER
I’m guessing they’re not big on counting around Abram. ;)
Of Springfield Park.The piss stones with a mixture of baccy that ran an ockery yellow adjacent to the Phoenix Stand. The vile stench of the only shit house on the ground, dungeon like and forever in darkness with no bog roll under the Pheonix stand. The smell of hot dogs , burgers and pies. That fantastic smell of aromatic pipe baccy that whifted across the pop side. That stale ale smell near the supporters club. The smell of countless brands of cigs being smoked. The smell of wintergreen. On occasions when the pop side was allmost full the fart odurs that used to slowly work their way up the terrace. Jumping Jimmys lads pits. Faberge Brut in the late seventies.
On many occasions the sweet smell of success which 37 years ago yestersday resulted in Latics being elected to the league.
Are you part bloodhound?
Cowie was highly rated by both Watford and Cardiff fans – and when he joined us he was being linked with a move to Rangers, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was trying to get him to stay at Cardiff.
10 caps for Scotland, Inverness CT player of the season and ex-Ross County captain….
I suspect there’s more to Don Cowie than most people on here give him credit for.
Maybe now we’ve stopped launching the ball over the midefield we might see a different side to him.
Agree spot on but will the players we have be here? plus will we play them or send them out on loan. We did some really strange things last season amongst that was the inconsistent team selection. The players we have now should be good enough to give it a good go but we thought that last season but started the failure before the season even started, amongst them was the lack of home friendlies and some shocking signings. Gary should have an idea of his team now ready for pre season and stick with a consistent starting eleven and style through pre-season which must include two strikers starting every week. Goals win matches. Winning matches gets clubs promoted. Strikers played regularly with a regular partner score goals. Well this formula seemed to work for Bournemouth, Watford, Norwich in the championship and Bristol ,Milton Keynes, Nob End in Div. 1. Let us hope the penny drops with the Latics coaching staff and the videos of these six clubs performances are being studied.
We have the quality, we will have the numbers required, we know how it should be done and I am confident we can do it, but I wouldn’t hold your breath if you are expecting a standard 2 up front in a 442 formation.
We need to have two forwards on the pitch but it may be done in the more likely 352 formation which I personally wouldn’t have a problem with.[/quote]
He may also adopt a 3-4-3 formation – which was the line-up when we did our very own Great Escape.I’d put money on it not being 4-4-2.
Best excuse heard so far:
‘I’m not getting another season ticket if Cowie and Taylor are still in the squad’
