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i detect a satirical tone here so my player of the season would be the guy who plays the drum in ES2.
I cannot think of one player who deserves that title and i really mean that!I love this fanzine and the articles are always top notch from Jimmy and Les and Tony to name just 3 but all the articles are very good.
Effort was 9 out of 10 but quality was 1 out of 10 and the situation now is much worse and almost an impossible one.
Our team last season would have stuck three or four past that very poor Leeds side and despite their supporters arrogance they are light years away from the big time.Win the game at home on Saturday and I will be in a very different mood on Monday and might just start to believe. Looks like Kim and pennant have added some quality to our side.
A defeat on Saturday and it’s hopeless so we HAVE to break this dreadful home form this Saturday. A win on Saturday and we face Rotherham at their place the following week and even I might start to believe again.First thing little Dave should do is get that training ground at Chorley sorted out and then get a decent youth policy set up with a 10 year plan to bring through our own talent,we have to do this as soon as possible.
Steady the ship in league one and get a scouting system set up around the country and use the remaining premier league money wisely to keep the club afloat but the future is anything but bright with Big Dave’s departure and the heady days of 2006-2013 seem A distant memory now.
Time to baton down the hatches we are in for a rough ride.Irrelevant really because despite the win on Saturday and the heartwarming loyalty once again displayed by our superb supporters we are still going down and I am not expecting any glorious fightback because we are simply not good enough for this division.
The home form is bad because the home team has to go out and attack the away team but with a dreadful defence we are easy pickings and so easy to play against,blimey we made Rotherham United look like worldbeaters and there have been many more since picking up a simple three points.Cardiff didn’t get out of first gear last week but still won their easiest threepoints this season.
no doubt the JCL/fairweather queue will be back outside the East stand on Saturday as it usually is after a rare win but I have taken absolutely nothing from that result on Saturday as we beat the only team worse than us.
if we beat norwich on Wednesday and then follow it up with a win against leeds on Saturday then I might be posting something different next Monday night but I’m expecting a mullering on Wednesday and another feeble home defeat on Saturday by a resurgent Leeds.
Really sorry to be negative but all the hope I had has long gone and I’m just hoping the rot can be stopped in league 1 next season but without any investment this club will sink even further and I like many others am extremely concerned about the future.
for some strange reason I have a feeling we will end the home drought against our enemies from Horwich on March 21st but. I’m sorry this season is finished as far as I’m concerned,too. Too Much to do and not enough quality to do it!freezing,depressing and all hope gone.
It’s over and its back to league one and beyond that on the evidence at the moment!
Great masterplan …..not14 friendlies it is , would be lovely to end this dreadful home run with a win on March 21st.
I wonder who we are playing then?Any bad weather today or tomorrow and I can see the game on tuesday being postponed,it looked very waterlogged to me last night so any further rain could mean a postponement in my view.
as far as I’m concerned we got relegated yesterday afternoon and looking at the table now it is very clear that to stay up a team will need to hit about 48 points this season so we need to rattle in about 23 points to have a chance.
Does anybody still watching this team think that will happen?
the team is not good enough to sustain that kind of form and all we can hope for now is that we bugger up somebody’s season in some way because we WILl be in league 1 next season of that there is now doubt now.For me the rot started way back in September at Blackburn just after the international break when we capitulated after going a goal up from then on we played our games in a half hearted fashion and in no way to the standard required in this division.
if anyone thinks League 1 will be any different then they had better think again,our ground will be one of the better ones in that division and teams will come at us like they have done this season and with little or no investment in the team then another relegation could follow in 14 months time.We just had to win that game on Friday but after 20 minutes or so they looked and were the better side and no amount of effort was going to change that.
it was a realisation for me on Friday that we already have a league 1 team and a very poor one at that if you look at how good Preston were against Man Utd and the Bradford City side at Chelsea.
More struggle for me and another relegation is all I can see next season,very very sad,somebody convince me otherwise please!!Just seen the goal and the reaction of Pearce and he rest of the team gives me some hope for the future .
The game on Friday suddenly has an edge!The club spent 10 million in the transfer market last summer and had a wage bill going into this season of 20 million and an expensive pre season which with dwindling gates and no cup runs has seen a dramatic culling of the type we haven’t seen since the early nineties the last time the club was in serious decline.
Rosler raised expectations to ridiculous levels and increased his own profile to the point where maybe they all got a bit carried away and allowed the purchase of probably the worst set of players ever to walk on a football pitch at Latics.I think a relegation will shake up the club and with no money worries going forward and prudent running of the club we could well start to recover next season or at least steady the ship,it can’t sink any further can it?
the premier league can seriously damage a football club after relegation and we where heading down that slope before they stepped in and said enough is enough and the club is returning to its old self which is the eighties/ early nineties model.
as far as I’m concerned we will be playing league one football next season but bigger clubs than ourselves have suffered this fate and it is what supporting a club is all about no use throwing the toys out and sulking.
maybe the changes we are seeing should have occurred after we were relegated but the FA cup win changed the club forever and at least we will be a much bigger entity in league one than the one that left there in 2003.I don’t blame anyone really it is just how football is and remember it will be only our third ever relegation since we joined the football league in 1978 so we can’t moan that much can we?Would make sense regardless we have two parachute payments left and we will need a good youth policy in the future for our return spell in the lower divisions.
it will save and generate money in the long run and the impoverished set up of the early eighties had a very good youth policy David Glen,Kevin Langley,Warren Aspinall, David Lowe,Wayne Aspinall,Andy Ainscow being just some of the names that came through the ranks and some of these names were sold for big money.
The new money in the premier will mean less and less chances for kids in the future so they may as well start at Wigan as the net for foreign players will widen as the new wealth hits.
On the subject of the new pay deal talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time,just hoping Blunderland will miss out.
