If you win your home games and pick up points away you won’t be far off, and that’s exactly what Shaun Maloney’s side are doing right now. There’s a consistency to our approach now that wasn’t there earlier in the season. Naturally for a side thrown together at haste with academy graduates, free transfers and […]
If you would have said to someone ahead of Derby away at the start of August that we would be sitting on 17 points at the start of November they would have snapped your hand off. When you consider without the points deduction that we would be sat in 7th place they would be even […]
That’s more like it. We said, we needed a reaction after this international break and what a reaction we’ve seen. Two wins, four goals scored, zero conceded and a huge step forward after such a damaging last few weeks. Both wins were fantastic in their own way, but distinctly different performances. Against Gary Caldwell’s Exeter […]
‘He’s lost the dressing room and the supporters, it’s time to go’, ‘time to get rid, it’s not working’. Really? Is this how we’re going to do this? Has the town of Wigan had a collective case of amnesia? Was the opening month of the season so good that it’s blinded us to the very […]
So much for that decent week I was speaking of last week eh? Latics came crashing back to earth with a bump on Saturday after a comprehensive defeat at Joey Barton’s Bristol Rovers. You know it was a bad day when the most interesting aspect of the afternoon was learning that Joey Barton is Tony […]
When your luck’s against you, your luck’s against you. It feels like it’s been a long time since that last minute kick in the teeth at Bloomfield Road. After having an excellent record, when playing at Blackpool for so long it feels like they’ve got a hold on us these days. It was another disappointing […]
As refereeing performances go, it wasn’t the best was it? I mean, before we even start on the Charlie Hughes red that arguably never was. The referee had already missed a rugby tackle before the sending-off, on a Barnsley defender by Matt Smith instead handing a free kick to Latics instead. Sadly the sending off […]
It’s happening again, Bolton Wanderers it’s happening again” And arguably it was even more successful than first time around. In fact there’s no arguably about it. It was definitely more impressive than last time. I had real worries about visiting Bolton so early in the season. They had started very well, and were sitting pretty […]
Seven points from nine, with two matches away out of the first three. It’s been a magnificent return considering the turmoil that Wigan Athletic were in as recently as June. I think Latics may well be in danger of creating expectations that they aren’t always able to live up to. Saturday’s match against Northampton saw […]
Saturday – ‘we’re winning the lot’. Tuesday – ‘Bloody rubbish Wigan, tha won’t see me again’. I’m paraphrasing of course but there was this reaction and more on the old hashtag in that 76 hour period between that amazing opening day win and the disappointing penalties defeat to Wrexham. We truly are a Jekyll and […]