The Official Wigan Athletic Thread.

[North West Tom]

TheHeretic said:

Very pleased with what I have seen of Martinez thus far. Had a superb game this morning against Juventus. Do you think you will miss him, or are you happy with Coyle?

As scjgreen said, he's made some decent signings and has developed a large squad, which we'll need playing 50+ games this season. We've won 5 out of our 6 pre season games too, and although it's only pre season, it isn't a negative.

Just hope we can hold onto Maloney, McCarthy and McManaman.

[North West Tom]

Can't ask for more than that!

[North West Tom]

I was actually pretty confident that we'd give United a good game yesterday, but it left me wondering how we'd beaten Barnsley 4-0 Ah well, probably the least important game of our season anyway.

Hope the United fans' throats aren't too sore after all that noise they were making.

[North West Tom]

I guess the only positive is that nobody will want to buy him now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTlrdeAQS5s

[North West Tom]

We went through some poor spells with Martinez, but most of the time he thought of something that would sort them out. Coyle is just so hopeless and uninspiring. He has no plan B. 3-0 down to fking Derby in half an hour at home. I give up.

[North West Tom]

I've never seen us play like that before, not even under Martinez. City players looked stscared and clueless.

Boyce is a true hero.

[North West Tom]

Nice.

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This is probably the most gutted I've felt all season. What happened there then?

[North West Tom]

stuartmmcfc said:

Just us here I think BCM,
Reckon they're all gone to Wembly in a mini?

We took 20k more than you men took this year. Oh wait .

Very very proud of the club on Saturday. Our 20k were much more vocal than the 50k+ Arsenal fans. Incredible atmosphere, especially when we scored. A couple of questionable decisions however. McManaman came off far too early. He was probably our most attaching player, and when he went off, Arsenal pushed us back. Powell isn't up to a big stage yet. He can pull off his tricks in the Championship, but against Arsenal at Wembley, no chance. Fair play to Caldwell for having the balls to step up for the first penalty, but there was a faint grumble of twenty thousand people saying "oh ste" when we saw him walking towards the penalty spot. Carson and Crainey played absolute blinders, they were ace. Don't think anyone played particularly badly and we were worrying Arsenal a bit.

Just need to put 100% into coming back to Wembley for the play offs now. Onwards and upwards!

[North West Tom]

Didn't expect to see a play off position, especially after Coyle's destruction of the team. Whether we get promotion or not I can't complain with the season we've had, and I hope we keep Rosler and most of the players. Will be glad to see the back of Nick Powell though.

[North West Tom]

One year ago today, Ben Watson came on as a sub.

[North West Tom]

Yet again, McManaman gets subbed off early and the opposition go on to score pretty much straight away. I just don't get it. If it's a fitness thing, then Rosler better cancel Callum's holidays and get him on a treadmill this summer. I'm not too disappointed about the result, I'm pretty chuffed with what we've achieved and I'm looking forward to next season.

I also think a few Wigan fans just sighed a breath of relief not having to fork out for our 5th trip to Wembley in 13 months.

[North West Tom]

Our final couple of hours before we are no longer the holders of the FA Cup . Part of me wants Arsenal to win, so Hull don't steal our thunder, but seeing Arsenal fans acting like they've already won is very annoying. City fans weren't even this arrogant last year.

[North West Tom]

I'm not a betting man but I would confidently put money on us not winning another game this season. The situation really is that bad. The players are a massive problem (McClean aside), the manager doesn't give a damn, and Whelan's probably in Barbados unaware of the diabolical state we are in as a club.

[North West Tom]

gary3170 said:

big daves finished / good or bad? chip shop grandson takes over :-(
i think we may well survive with pennant in the squad
thoughts?

Whelan is still the owner so he'll still probably have some input, and his grandson will need guidance. I would have said that Sharpe will just be attending meetings and signing some papers but it looks like 3 of our directors are 'stepping down' (i.e jumping off the sinking ship and don't want to be told what to do by a 23 year old) at the end of the season. Fantastic win last night against a flying Norwich. That 3 away games in a row we've won, but we still haven't won at home since August. Some tough teams visiting us soon too. We're leaving it late, but don't we always?

[North West Tom]

My thoughts this season to follow.

[North West Tom]

Absolutely fking ste.

[North West Tom]

Blackpuddin said:

hmm

Meh, FA Cup. Already completed it.