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There are far more better qualified people on this board to discuss style of play and tactics than me and i follow the simplistics of the game followed by many a great manager back when i started watching football almost 50 years ago.
For me after watching past two games is that Latics current style is keep the ball at all costs , lose possession then win a throw in and start again and follow same pattern but never attack unless something is on which it rarely is because they hardly ever get near the goal.
All any team has to do to nullify this tactic in my view is to high press and get in faces and possession will be lost and hit then high intensity balls into the area and get the breaks.
We have got away with it these past three games but i bet we dont tomorrow night unless some changes are made and a go for it attitude is adopted like the Bristol Rovers game.
There is pace in the team so why not use it and get the ball wide and whip quick fire crosses in and see what happens , its old school and not cool but FFS its far easier on the eye than this current rubbish and so simple to express to players.
The whole game from top to bottom sickens me at the moment anyway , the corporate running out and lining up , the faux badge kissing,thwe ridiculous group huddles, do it in the dressing room FFS , the over coaching and analysis to avoid defeat and the sly goading of home/away by players towards fans with hands held to ears bull that we see across the game whenever a goal is scored.
Add to that the rolling around , patting the turf whenever they are tapped to get somebody sent off which sadly has spread to the lower divisions now needs dealing with by the authorities.
Had enough of it all , better places and things to do with my time.I attended the game last night and the best bit was the brandy shot i had before bedtime to get rid of the damp chill of the Gant and that grey and sterile football i witnessed last night.
Sensational performance all
Over the pitch.
Could easily have been 6 or 7 , one thing these kids seem to have in abundance is pace and that showed massively today and proved the main difference and they finally looked a unit.
Great response and real hope for the season ahead on that showing.Without sounding too cynical the days of a club like Wigan making the top two divisions and holding their own are over unless radical changes are made to football and it’s finances.
As we all know the club almost went to the wall with the last two visits to the Championship , I doubt we will see that division again for many many years barring a miracle.I personally think he should have bowed out after the Newcastle job.
He would have left for good and to be fair he would have had a reasonable career as a manager with his best days in my opinion at Latics in his second spell.
I had no issues with the bloke , a very decent but underrated player and a good manager whilst he was here and I always liked how his teams played during his very successful second spell.
Good luck to him , hope I am wrong and he launches Blackpool up the table.
Nice swan song for him with a far more ambitious and go ahead club than we appear to be at the present time.Interesting appointment plays direct football and seems a tough character but I always feel players respond to
Players they have looked up to growing up ,he played decades ago and very few people under the age of 40 will remember him as a player.
They seem a fickle bunch of supporters up there , teddy out the cot types in
My view , he will have to hit the ground running fast.Two steps forward , 100 backwards
Pretty build up play with no end result as per usual.
Callum pinged two superb crosses in and nobody got near them and players seemed frightened to shoot towards goal or even attempt to get a situation going.
It’s bare bones stuff and when I saw the line up last night it’s the most paper thin line up since early 90s.
I still live in hope but for me it feels like a return to the very dark early 1990s especially when you watch a dismal performances like that.
It absolutely feels like a run down of the club and eventual league 2 demise with eventual return to non league.
Can it get any worse ?Didnt think much of Birmingham and laughable how they treated a lucky late win against depleted Wigan like they had won the Champions league final !
A very good performance with many things to be positive about and some very good performances, Rankine the stand out for me.
That said to lob on all the subs as they did was a shocking decision especially with a ref like yesterday , they only had to fall over and he was giving out free kicks.
Should have gained a point but pound for pound we matched if not bettered those big time Charlie’s for a long spell yesterday and the pace of the team caused them lots of problems.
Young players or not with that pace once confidence kicks in there might be some pleasant surprises to come with this bunch.Read an interview in the fanzine with former chairman Bill Kenyon and after reading it was struck with the similarities of the present era to the one he was in back in the eighties.
Selling players and making do is a recipe for disaster for a club like Latics and the basement beckons and even beyond in my opinion.
Having a break myself this year due to family issues , watched them since early 1979.Drafting lads in from Ammy leagues was a fairly common practice at Latics in late 80s and early 90s.
Joe Palladino, Barry Knowles ( I think )are two of the most notable but there were many others I’m sure.
I keep saying it but the current times feel like a rerun of those days.
Carry on like this and it won’t be just league 2 we will be heading for.