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Realistically, what is the best we can hope for out of the rest of this season guys? I personally think if we found some good form, finished mid table-ish and extended a few contracts for key players, then this season would be a great start for lee. What do you lot reckon?

eww ahh kusunga, i said eww ahh kusunga!

It's gotta be Mellor and Tarky, Mellor has a football brain so will at least learn the position, what's Byrne gonna do, learn to run quicker and learn to stop lumping the ball in to the corners.....no chance.

Thats my point aswell. If we had the money to bring in a decent centre half it would solve all problems.... but we dont. Instead we have to use what we have got and mellor is the best we have.

There's only about 50 jobs in this country that are better than the one he's got.

 

All this was spouted prematurely about Dickov, "how long can we keep him" etc (how he's got a Championship job we don't know). If we're good at knocking players, we're even better at building up managers.

 

It's another good start but far too early to say if he'll go on to bigger and better things. The likelihood is he won't.

Yeah couldnt agree more, He's definately not proven himself yet as he hasn't even had a full season in management yet. However, i do think this guy is different from a lot of our previous managers and, with the good start he's had and the good signings hes made, I think we have a manager with a lot of potential. Put it this way the guys got me more excited for this season than any season i can remember since being a fan, and hopefully he has a lot more people too.

 

I can answer that one right now.

haha yeah we all know the real answer, but i'd like to see how he deals with the question.

Q - does he see a long term managerial future with latics, or does he plan on using us as a stepping stone?

I think a lot of people are being a bit harsh on mellor at centre back. I think if you take away that mistake on saturday, he has had a good pre- season at centre back. Obviously not always against quality opposition, but i think he could be great after a few games there and he gets to know the position better. After all, after his great performances towards the end of last season, i think he definately deserves his place, whatever the position.

ill donate £50 if we dont get beat in the first five games