welshgaz

Missed him yesterday.

Yep but then what do you do with Doyle?

Of course he would be. Not many seem to recognise that preferring to point to his form prior to leaving. Even more frustratingly his replacement is letting us down by not being available for selection.

Bryan fit??

Give Pringle a go in his natural posiion.

Terrible management. To get rid of our main leader has really bitten us on the arse.

Spot on.

Trying to think of a talented but lazy Latics midfield that you'd be in too. Came up with this: Byrne Baxter Scapuzzi Harkins

Sounds a bit too attacking really. Plus Vinny is terrible on the ball like Ousmane.

I know mate, I was being the troll on this occasion. Usually agree with the majority of your posts but just think we'd get overrun.

Think he was trolling.

We clearly diasgree on this with polar opposite opinions. My take on football is that you need to have the ball to win/ score whether that be on a Sunday morning or at the top level. Fane is the only player we have that can do that. He is there to win the ball and give it simple. His distribution is coming on too, although he still has someway to go on that front. People forget that our most successful spell came with Wellens reintroducing him into the side after Shez tried everything and everyone not to accommodate him.

Yeah and he shares a proportion of the blame. My point is that if he's not there we would concede more and there is no one in the squad who can win the ball back like he can. So he starts because we are lacking in that position.

Spot on. To go into any game, especially when battling the drop without a ball winner, someone who presses well etc is asking for trouble. Teams will walk through us. Upgrading on Fane in the summer I accept however.

I know I've been told its boring but Gerrard is injured again. Nothing to do with his weight though, of course.

Apparently Tope's best game for us was as a LWB this time last year at home to Bolton.

Shez also started a game with Hunt in centre mid. Signs of a man who would do all he could rather than play Fane.

As a fan of Fane I have to disagree with RW. Once booked he then fades.

Jack may have a point but he needs to be accountable for his own terrible form. He got the ball first half in decent areas and lost the ball straight away. In the loan spell that was his best attribute, low centre if gravity and really hard to get the ball off.

I'll question his commitment through the week.

Not true. Shez didn't play him.

True we could adopt the Pep philosophy of having the ball all the time.

DG has a marginally better goal record than Fane, I'll give you that one.

DG presses and puts loads of effort in but isn't a natural ball winner.

He is able to pass a ball ( just about) Who would you put in there to tackle and break up play? He is the only we have who puts a foot in.