vinceHill

Not scoring and now leaking goals by the bucket load with the form just getting worse both home and away.
Club struggling home and away? Oh great its wigan arhletic next and three easy points and a nice leg stretch!
The club has become a complete shambles in my view and sacking rosler now looks like the worst decision made at the club in many a year.
Bottom of the barrel to be reached when we hit league 2 !

Was in a New York bar in 2010 and a yank spouted off about Martinez and his players and what was wrong with latics,surreal really.
he later joined us on a pub crawl and tried to “get laid ” ( felt like I was in the film porkies) with some unfortunate bar worker near Times Square.

Far too many to save this season Im afraid and after Saturday and seeing the ‘new look’ team against Bournemouth I’d be surprised if we pass the 30 point mark never mind suddenly find promotion form which I think will be needed to get out of this mess.
the real rot set in when they sacked Rosler and the home form deteriorated even further from picking up a point at least to a run of steady defeats and an air of defeatism as they step on the pitch.I reckon we would have had more points on the board had we stuck with Rosler and let him sort out the team but as it stands we have what we have and this team is just not good enough to survive in this division.
I hate being negative and have always tried to find positives in any situation but the table doesn’t lie and the two bottomplaces have been sorted in my opinion ,far too much ground to make up and far too many faults to correct at this late stage.
Dramatic rise ,dramatic fall.

The title of this post sums everything up as it is something we lack right across the pitch and it doesn’t matter how much huff and puff we put in this team is a pale shadow of the one that we had just 12 short months ago.
Yes there was more effort but we looked way off pace and at times you could have drove a bus through our midfield and defence regardless of the usual abject refereeing, a little more fight and effort for 25 minutes or so but we have seen that all season and it just isn’t enough in this division.
this season is dead and buried now as far as I’m concerned just cannot see us making up the required amount of points needed and to be honest we just are not good enough.

the last striker of any note to make an dramatic impact was Zaki who strangely ripped up trees for half a season then faded away without trace for the rest of it.I would hardly call Kone or Hugo failures either ( kone 11 goals in 33 and Hugo with several very important goals) it’s just good scouting rather than listening to sales talk from unscrupulous agents usually as the window closes.
Not sure who is to blame for this failure but the questions I would ask particularly for foreign signings would relate to the scouting reports and how often the players concerned were watched because surely that is a must if you are laying out millions of pounds.Didnt the club also ditch the youth policy during the fridge raiders time here ? How much money will that save in the future so the charnock richard site must get going soon to help our future.
We’re Delort and Rierra ever watched and were regular scouting reports received before the outlay of the transfer fees ?
it seems that Mackay has been scouting and even watched some of these players and he seems to be the first manager in some time to be actually going out to watch players himself so it will be interesting to see how these players settle in.Mackay don’t forget has had a reasonably successful management career so this is going to be a very interesting period regardless and I have a feeling he is signing players with a point to prove and i think the transfer business looks good on paper.
It’s a turning point and I for one am looking forward to watching this new look team on Saturday, have a weird feeling that it might just be our day.

Have a good feeling about this signing and yes chuck him straight in preferably with young Cosgrove and see what happens.

The events of the past few days have left me feeling sorry that we are saying goodbye to the golden era but relieved that we are facing up to the reality of the lower divisions and making sure we all have a club to support in the future.The players who have left would all have been on very high wages and with falling revenues and the loss by the week of all the johnny come latelys it’s time for some reshaping and planning for the future.
it’s reality and when you think a few of us were jumping through hoops when the club signed Ian Kilford for about 30 grand before Whelan came it just shows you how bad things were back then.
Time to close ranks and work hard on and off the pitch and believe it or not I’m actually feeling a little bit more positive about the future, rather have a football club to support than none at all.