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I’m starting to think Wellens doesn’t have the answers, and am worried we won’t survive with him in charge

Baxter was our top scorer and we managed to get £400k for him. I’d love it if Byrne couldn’t get his act together that well...

Any decent footballer with self respect would be if Fane was getting in the side ahead of them

Paddy Mac will be a decent replacement for Byrne, I’d have thought. Looked like he could unlock a defence, however Byrne shouldn’t be getting dropped. Wellens seems to be treating him quite harshly for whatever reason, but other than through Doyle I don’t see how Byrne is expected to contribute to a side which lacks runners and wide players.

There won’t be many there today. £24 after an expensive 3 day weekend. Not for me.

I don’t think that’s a fact

Hunt is not very good. Struggle to see why clubs above us would want him. Hoofball merchant who swings his leg. Placide isn’t good enough. Fane constantly gives the ball away - he’s a player for a poor side. Liked the look of McEleney though.

League table says they’re less than average

Yep. Bryan must be pushed forward, Fane binned and a new centre back.

Fantastic. Hardly even feel bitter about the money we’ve missed out on. Just pleasing to see a Latics lad play for England. Will make a rare point of watching the national team tonight. Hope he has a blinder.

If you believed owtb you’d think there hadn’t been a running train or tram for years

I like all elements of the concept, except from the ninety minutes of football part

1-1 (HT 0-1) - Doyle - 4497

Tarky for England if he’s fit, The Times have reported

Jobsworth. I was at least 15 miles from Bury...

Bury 2-1 Latics (HT 1-0) - Davies - 5742

So we can fund an academy and facilities to produce more players like Tarkowski, so we can have better players so it’s easier to integrate kids into the side, not constantly scrap at the end of the season etc etc

I always think this is bonkers. We had a huge stake (for a club like ours) in Tarkowski’s future. Why on earth did the owner not make it somebody’s job to keep tabs on the lad? He’s from the area, he had mates at the club, his family will be close to the club having been in the academy for ages, yet nobody bothered to check whether he was happy at Brentford. Unbelievable negligence from everybody concerned at Latics. Eventually we lost out on almost a million quid because nobody had the brains or the effort to keep an eye on an investment. I simply can’t believe we couldn’t have easily accessed a line about how he was faring with decent provenance. Terrible business acumen and plain lazy.

Wasnt a ‘cracking game’ but Bradford at home about a month ago was a very poor standard, but I definitely enjoyed it

Truth is, and I’m not saying it to sound controversial, I expected us to take quite a lot more than we did to Blackburn...

I don’t understand this love-in for the Blackburn following really. It’s not that impressive to take 2300 to a ground we’ve not been to in 30 years and who are supposedly many fans biggest rival. We used to take that year on year to Huddersfield...

Why go in the Main Stand when you can’t celebrate a goal

This. Makes me cringe. Weirdos acting as if other clubs don’t take decent followings.

Mess about to say... Is the atmosphere ever that bad? Granted, they have a lot of wannabe hard lad kids but I always think they contribute more than Rochdale ever do

Quite a few people enjoyed Blackburn, then... Great effort.