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5th vs 8th and Lancashire derby vs 10th vs 18th with no connection at all. Makes sense.

Latics 2-1 Walsall (ht 1-1) Forte 3742

Or what if Wilkinson scores a hattrick tonight which gives him a confidence boost to go on and score 30 goals for us this season?

When I see a Latics result I'm happy if we've won and gutted if we've lost. Are those emotions reversed for the anti-JPT lot?!

Peterboro 1-1 Latics (HT 0-1) Jones 5922

I'd agree with Mr Tulsehill. If you need to use a spoon then you just aren't skilled enough with a fork. Was it an Italian waiter, or a waiter in an Italian with a believable accent?! I've got Italian in my family a generation or 2 back and we don't use spoons. You'll be telling me he advised eating pizza with a knife and fork next.

That's life changing.

Not sure about your first question, but I'd love to know about Coventry and how they kept within the limits based on those crowds. Their club shop must have been always well stocked with beach towels.

That's exactly what it'll be. Probably where Ebanks-Blake joining came from and that twitter-verified signing of Leon Clarke in the summer.

Our annual trip takes us to Frankfurt next Easter but Eintract are away at Bayern Munich unfortunately. Will be local lower league games instead.

Latics 2- 0 Scunthorpe (HT 0-0) Forte 4124

We go every easter to a different city and Union is definitely the best match we've been to. Brilliant atmosphere.

What I like about how we're playing is that we're on this unbeaten run with a lot of clean sheets without being an overly defensive team. We're looking to win games. Often when you have teams that are defensive, become hard to beat and don't concede many goals it's quite a jump to suddenly change that style to try and score goals. Seemingly we're not all that far off and maybe a tweak here and there to tactics or 1 new player might do it, rather than a disruptive change in overall style.

Notts County 0 - 2 Latics (HT 0-1) Forte 5988

Their second was pretty much top corner but because of the angle would have hit the middle of the net. Plus the power was incredible.

Paul Murray scored a cracking long ranger against someone sometime.

They played an offside trap but forgot to tell one defender, so he was left marking about 7 players!

That's the impression I get. Media only referring to manager's quotes when asked, whereas usually they are fairly quick to dismiss unfounded rumours themselves. Still, I don't see it happening myself, but my fingers are crossed anyway.

Ha, yes totally agree! I'm not a fan of the if, buts and maybes. I was mainly thinking about fine lines and how tight the league is really. If we can keep this run up for a few more games then the top end of the league and the extra buzz and confidence that goes with it should be a reality. (aaargh, another IF!!!)

Terrific performance last night. Dayton's goal was an absolute screamer. The ball was rolled to him (badly) from a free kick, he adjusted and belted it in the top corner. It looked in from the moment he hit it and it's right up there with the best latics goals I've seen live. First half we weren't great, but Swindon looked a really good side. They moved it round well, everyone looked comfortable on the ball and their right winger no.3 (Byrne?) was brilliant. Still, for all their play they didn't create many chances, but they just felt dangerous. Second half we came out and dominated from the start. Our pressing was quality and we snuffed out the threat of Byrne. I didn't notice a massive change in tactics that cancelled him out, maybe it was just the pressing improving. Winchester came to life and Phillskirk was a menace everywhere. We got in good crossing positions but either a poor final ball or a good one that didn't have anyone on the end of it cost us. Their goal was another belter and against the run of play. Good fight from the lads to keep going and not let their heads drop and it was refreshing to see both sides going for the win right til the final whistle. Crowd - awful from Swindon, not a peep. Good volume from the latics fans and I love a Lee Johnson's blue & white army chant that goes on for ages. Must really boost the players. Dayton getting a chant of "used to be :censored:e, now he's alright" after scoring a goal like that was shocking. Probably supposed to be funny but it isn't and must be a bit of a kick in the teeth for him. Poleon looked promising but is still clearly lacking in match fitness and sharpness, once that comes he will be a real threat. Special mention to the ref... awful. Really fussy and seemed intent on giving a free kick and yellow cards every time they hit the deck. Especially the number 8 who was disgraceful with repeatedly diving then rolling around and at the same time looking at the ref. The refs performance was summed up when giving a free kick to Swindon for an off the ball shoulder charge, then moments later completely ignoring the same challenge on Poleon in the box. Nailed on penalty that - surely it doesn't matter if it's a shoulder if there's no intention to play the ball (which was nowhere near them). Things are looking promising - if Morgan-Smith had scored that sitter against Gillingham and Wilkinson had squared for him last night when clean through we could be 4th!

Mine was Wolves away at the start of 90/91. Had a look for the team but can't find it. How the Latics sucked me in with that start!

Swindon 1-1 Latics (HT 0-1) Philliskirk 6405

Yep, winning football is the only thing that will make a proper difference. I don't buy the theory that free flowing attacking football at home would make a big difference to crowds either. Drawing 3-3 all the time but hovering around 13/14th will not bring as many in as top 6 and keeping clean sheets.

Or judgement!

This is exactly where I'm at. Not having confidence that you'll keep a clean sheet puts extra pressure on midfield and attack. It seems the focus is on clean sheets, maybe the next step is building from that and trying to score more. If we just jumped straight to all out attack we could end up back where we've been before and having to score 2 to stand a chance of any points.