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  1. Guess the 1 of 4 line is just a cover in case Scholes drops out at 11th hour. To keep in the frame those who’ve been interviewed but not yet rejected.
  2. Yes, I think the rumour source can be filed under ‘player’s agent’.
  3. Sorry if already on here but anyone heard anything about the rumour that we’re after Grimsby striker Wes Thomas...?
  4. I’m dreadfully sorry but a Clarke and Wild double act does hold appeal to me.... ... after one game. They care.
  5. Fair play with the research. I was assuming across the leagues. But I don’t think we’ve played 12 teams better than us.
  6. On expectations... My fear, as we hurtled down the table..., was we’d be another Chesterfield. My expectation, given the performance of the majority of relegates clubs in L2, was play-off contention. I accept budget talk and impact etc. But how how would you assess the quality of teams we have faced.....? And with the players we have, should we be doing better? They say the table never lies. But should be closer to the play-offs for me. We’ve got the players. We appointed a manager who evidently needed to learn with regards substitutions (still appeared to be a weakness there) and tactics (although it seems our good run was based on the manager being bullied into playing two up top...!). Patience must have run out, after a near-miss with the FA Cup late show. Our league position could be, or could have been, key to attracting good loan signings? We desperately need a good run early this year; otherwise, if we lose at Fulham, a dangerous ‘season over’ mentality could take over. I assume AL is desperate for us to stay in the play-off picture to avoid attendances spiralling off.
  7. I don’t comment on here much but a few thoughts on AL and ‘interference’. Just to put a few points out there... 1. It’s his club. It’s his money. Ultimately in this day and age, he has his say how his money is spent... not us. 2. He was evidently unsatisfied and took swift action when we were we heading for the lower reaches of the table. Do we disagree with that? 3. He gave Bunn a strict points targets (judging by Bunn’s referees cost people their jobs comments) because his ambition for the season is promotion. Do we disagree? 4. He intervened on tactics and selection because we were playing one up top and the style was dull. Did we not agree? Was AL not proved right when results improved on the back of this intervention...? 5. Midtable. Acceptable? If we believe the story about high wages flying around (end of Wellens era)..., is that good enough? We’ve all commented on how poor most of the opposition teams we’ve seen are... Is it wrong to be viewing that as a failure, not a building block? 6. A 6-0 drubbing at Carlisle. Acceptable? Is it so wrong to treat that as more of a blip..., and instead a failure of the manager to motivate his players? 7. A number of ‘his signings’... But have they been that bad...? 8. Giving manager’s time. Being patient doesn’t automatically create the next Joe Royle or Alex Ferguson. Vast majority of the time it doesn’t. He was patient with Wellens. We got relegated and Wellens and the players let us down. He wasn’t willing to risk the same thing happening again; he won’t tolerate mediocrity or low standards. That so bad... 9. ‘Bunn would have won 4-1 today as well...’ Really, would he? Of course we’ll never know. But at Notts County I saw a team that played the name and the ground and accepted a 0-0 in the closing stages... I wonder if we’d have settled for a ‘solid point’ at a ‘difficult place to go’ after Carlisle. Yes I’m stretching to harshly diss FB here but today it seems the team selection had better balance (full backs in particular), tactics, and the half-time team talk obviously worked well - and it was a youth coach and Clarke probably doing it... Just one game... but I, like many, thought the players might down tools today given their celebrations had suggested they backed Bunn so strongly and with both the transfer window coming up and the shop window (Fulham) coming up. Just putting throwing it out there...
  8. DG our sole creative outlet last night. Some excellent passes and angles. Only passes that weren’t telegraphed. He’s not Pirlo; of course he’s going to be wide of the mark with some. But without him all we’d have is long balls. He has to play. We need to strengthen around him so he was space to distribute - most teams will be much better than that atrocious Notts side was at applying pressure in midfield.
  9. Would imagine he’s going after what will increase season ticket sales. Been the theme of his signings and PR. And amid Lampard and Gerrard etc.... My guess is his going all in to tempt Scholes, saying there’ll be money etc.
  10. Heard today that he’s won his case against Notts C.
  11. Tell Wellens he won’t get the job because he lacks experience. Appoint a manager with no experience. Typical Latics.
  12. If us fans want Wellens, we have to email the club and give our reasons. Corney and Moisley will want RW, but the new owners have Correa lined up. It’s almost a certainty that it’s going to be Correa. But it it’s not definite, yet, as it’s not happened. Actual, presentable, and personalised evidence (emails) from fans as well as social media noise and pundits’ comments, may make a difference. It may buy an extra game or few, and then if Wellens keeps getting wins...
  13. This is going to be the one time we should go for the ‘cheap option’ isn’t it...! The players are all playing for him. Dummingham, for example, is starting to look a player again after previously being destroyed confidence wise. Interview-wise, he sounds convincing and you can imagine that he holds respect in the dressing room; he’s not talking in cliches, he doesn’t sound dull, and he doesn’t say ‘erm’ every two five seconds....! Only two games.... but in both, tactically, in tough fixtures on paper, he’s got it spot on whereas his predecessor openly admitted to getting it wrong in games this season - and did on a few ocassions. Best of all..., his in-game management. Quick reaction to 10 men against Peterborough and the right changes to see the game out against all the odds. And yesterday, how often have we seen those games turn against us?! 1-0 up and on top but don’t get the second; they nick an equaliser after the break and then run out 2-1 winners...! He didn’t just say “more of the same” and then we have to react but it’s too late. He second-guessed the bollocking in the home dressing room and knew they’d come out pressing higher from the whistle; he prepped the clever high ball and a potential 2 on 2 situation.., bang, 2-0. Very impressive. Be extremely silly not to give him more games, or to react decisively if we, say, have one defeat under RW later this month. I fear it’s already a done deal. Perhaps Correa could be a Director of Football as a way to leave RW in place... But at least the statement about a forthcoming statement implied the good signs under RW are being noted. They didn’t have to put that paragraph in. Of course Corney would be happy to give RW a shot..., he’s done it before (!) and it would free up more money if TP was happy to remain in an assistant-type position.
  14. Because s soon as anyone talks about transfer activity, only for things (inevitably with us) to change, they are branded as BSers?
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