We’re weakest when teams press us high. Also when you came to the TS earlier in the season Humphrey’s murdered us by exploiting the space behind our wingbacks and he and Wyke benefitted for it. He was also very physical something we also struggle with. If as you say you stay back I guarantee we’ll do you but if you get in our faces from the off and intimidate us as you have in both your recent visits I think we’ll struggle.
We may have got results recently other than yesterday obviously but we’re way off form and Evatt’s insistence with chopping and changing personnel plus the tippy tappy on what will probably be a bumpy surface after the rugby certainly won't suit us. It’s going to be a tough one, it always is against you boys and if we’re even slightly in the generous mood we were on Saturday we’ll get tonked. Hopefully we won’t be, it’s a cracking match and the team that deserves to win does so.
If it was down to me I'd go 4231
Tickle
Hughes
Morrison
Kerr
Chambers
Matt Smith
Shaw
Aasgaard
Humphrys
Jonny Smith
Magennis
Subs:
Amos, Goode(Watts), Adeeko, McManaman, Kelman, Godo, Scott Smith
Careful what you post KDZ. You might be replying to Mr Evatt himself.We are at our best when we press teams high and have that urgency and intensity that we previously showed against you and it's difficult for you to deal with.
Unfortunately we don't do it every game, some games we are so passive and just let teams have all the time and space in the world on the ball and they nearly always punish us. As you say if we do that with you we'll get battered.
We have tender to do the former more against the better sides in the division, so we hope we see that from us tomorrow night, so i'm a bit more optimistic we'll turn up for this one than i was against the likes of Cheltenham, Exeter, etc. But there has been some games against the better sides where we have been like the latter too, so our approach / tactics are very inconsistent from game to game so you never know.
Careful what you post KDZ. You might be replying to Mr Evatt himself.
Tippy happy! We've seen enough of that crap to last the next ten years.We’re weakest when teams press us high. Also when you came to the TS earlier in the season Humphrey’s murdered us by exploiting the space behind our wingbacks and he and Wyke benefitted for it. He was also very physical something we also struggle with. If as you say you stay back I guarantee we’ll do you but if you get in our faces from the off and intimidate us as you have in both your recent visits I think we’ll struggle.
We may have got results recently other than yesterday obviously but we’re way off form and Evatt’s insistence with chopping and changing personnel plus the tippy tappy on what will probably be a bumpy surface after the rugby certainly won't suit us. It’s going to be a tough one, it always is against you boys and if we’re even slightly in the generous mood we were on Saturday we’ll get tonked. Hopefully we won’t be, it’s a cracking match and the team that deserves to win does so.
Wanderers clash
Shaun Maloney wants Wigan Athletic to 'just go for it' against neighbours Bolton Wanderers - and 'leave it all out there'.
Well I hope he's true to his words & it's a similar display to the one we produced at the Tough Sh@t stadium in August
It really is a massive game for Maloney. Beat these again and it'll buy him a huge amount of goodwill and time with skeptic fans even if we go on and flop for the rest of the season. Lose though, especially if we do so meekly and the calls will grow louder and wider.
I'd take a draw, which is a big deal for me considering my usual mentality towards home league fixtures. I personally think our fate will be decided by three things. How we defend against that big **** Bodvarsson, whether Humphrys can be arsed or not, how Maloney utilises McManaman. If it's a 10-20 minute cameo in the second half, then we'll get beat.
I'm sure most on here will breath a sigh of relief !I fear a pasting tomorrow and may not bother going, it'll be bad enough taking a tonking then we'll have the knuckle draggers taking the piss, no thanks!
I doubt you’ll have to worry too much about Bod Latic because with Dion Charles back from injury I suspect that Bod will be on the bench again with either Adebojeyo or Collins starting. We don’t know if Santos will get his red card overturned, he certainly should do because the ref got the rule wrong and it should only have been yellow if anything. Either way if he’s not Toal will take the middle position and we have plenty choice for either side.It really is a massive game for Maloney. Beat these again and it'll buy him a huge amount of goodwill and time with skeptic fans even if we go on and flop for the rest of the season. Lose though, especially if we do so meekly and the calls will grow louder and wider.
I'd take a draw, which is a big deal for me considering my usual mentality towards home league fixtures. I personally think our fate will be decided by three things. How we defend against that big **** Bodvarsson, whether Humphrys can be arsed or not, how Maloney utilises McManaman. If it's a 10-20 minute cameo in the second half, then we'll get beat.
Why just against Bowton? Surely we should be going for it every game instead of boring everyone rigid.
Bolton manager will have done his homework on us telling his players how we pass across the back. They won’t allow us to do. This can see a clanger being dropped. Just pray the Brentford man is still injured. Or any thing can happen
Totally agree and me too.My thoughts too but if he does let the shackles off the team, they have a proper go & battle hard it'll do for me
His mentor took the shackles off now and again and when he did look at the results.Totally agree and me too.
But.....If Tinkerbell does take the shackles off and we have a proper go then he's setting a precedence for the rest of the season the fans will want more of the same.
So does SM stick with those tactics or does he go back to boring the balls of everyone, he'll have got himself in a bit of a pickle won't he?