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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Ads on January 07, 2019, 07:37:29 PM
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Time to bounce back. Awful display against Swansea and it sounds like Smith tore them a new one.
Wigan tend to start well, huff and puff for 15 minutes and then disappear.
Apparently if we score we won't lose according to the two season ticket holders I work with.
My team;
Kalinic
Taylor
Chester
Elpick
Hutton
Hourihane
McGinn
Landsbury
El Ghazi
Kodjia
Bolasie
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Is Hause not available?
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Time to bounce back. Awful display against Swansea and it sounds like Smith tore them a new one.
Wigan tend to start well, huff and puff for 15 minutes and then disappear.
Apparently if we score we won't lose according to the two season ticket holders I work with.
My team;
Kalinic
Taylor
Chester
Elpick
Hutton
Hourihane
McGinn
Landsbury
El Ghazi
Kodjia
Bolasie
That was my thinking too ADS.
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Is Hause not available?
Injured isn’t he ?
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Was popping up to this but a friend is going to the Doctors as his guts are playing up a fair bit so he understandbly dosen't fancy 90 minutes in the cold and can't drink much either while he gets a prognosis.
Anyway this is a must win to me otherwise we really will start to fall off the top 6 pace.
Thought Wigan looked a good team start to the season but they've really fallen off the cliff in last two months. Losing to Ipswich and at home 0-3 to SHA in last six weeks says it all.
0-1.
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2-2. Nailed on
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A Desmond.
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Draw. They played well in the earlier meeting and arguably should have had at least a point. We are a mess at the minute so it will be tough game.
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Wigan's run since late October:
Millwall 2-1 Wigan
Sheffield United 4-2 Wigan
Wigan 1-2 Leeds
Boro 2-0 Wigan
Wigan 0-0 Reading
Wigan 3-1 Blackburn
Bolton 1-1 Wigan
Wigan 0-1 Derby
Ipswich 1-0 Wigan
Wigan 0-3 SHA
West Brom 2-0 Wigan
Swansea 2-2 Wigan
Wigan 0-3 Sheffield United
3 goals in their last 7 games. 1 win in their last 13.
Simply have to be winning this.
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Have to win,and we will 0-2 Villa Tammy with both......oh yeah, ha ha, errr Hogan.......errr two own goals it is then!! 🤣
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Wigan's run since late October:
Millwall 2-1 Wigan
Sheffield United 4-2 Wigan
Wigan 1-2 Leeds
Boro 2-0 Wigan
Wigan 0-0 Reading
Wigan 3-1 Blackburn
Bolton 1-1 Wigan
Wigan 0-1 Derby
Ipswich 1-0 Wigan
Wigan 0-3 SHA
West Brom 2-0 Wigan
Swansea 2-2 Wigan
Wigan 0-3 Sheffield United
3 goals in their last 7 games. 1 win in their last 13.
Simply have to be winning this.
All the hallmarks of their second win in 14 then
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Jesus that’s a bad run they even lost to a Paul Lambert Ipswich town team.
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last chance saloon if we are serious about the playoffs. I think we will win easily but with the Villa right now you never know.
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Is Hause not available?
Injured
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Time to bounce back. Awful display against Swansea and it sounds like Smith tore them a new one.
Wigan tend to start well, huff and puff for 15 minutes and then disappear.
Apparently if we score we won't lose according to the two season ticket holders I work with.
My team;
Kalinic
Taylor
Chester
Elpick
Hutton
Hourihane
McGinn
Landsbury
El Ghazi
Kodjia
Bolasie
Agreed. That’s our strongest team minus Jack and Axel which is a worry in itself
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Time to bounce back. Awful display against Swansea and it sounds like Smith tore them a new one.
Wigan tend to start well, huff and puff for 15 minutes and then disappear.
Apparently if we score we won't lose according to the two season ticket holders I work with.
My team;
Kalinic
Taylor
Chester
Elpick
Hutton
Hourihane
McGinn
Landsbury
El Ghazi
Kodjia
Bolasie
Me too. Tough ask to replace Tammy and Kodjia can be maddening away from home especially. Need davis on the bench.
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Need a fcukin win. Simple as that.
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We do need a win, and we could do with a dynamic 90 minutes. Get the year started properly, and get on with racking up them points.
2-0 us, but only cos their keeper had the game of his life.
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1-1.
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I'm going for 2-0 Villa win.
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Is our new loan signing injured?
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Time to bounce back. Awful display against Swansea and it sounds like Smith tore them a new one.
Wigan tend to start well, huff and puff for 15 minutes and then disappear.
Apparently if we score we won't lose according to the two season ticket holders I work with.
My team;
Kalinic
Taylor
Chester
Elpick
Hutton
Hourihane
McGinn
Landsbury
El Ghazi
Kodjia
Bolasie
Me too. Tough ask to replace Tammy and Kodjia can be maddening away from home especially. Need davis on the bench.
Changed my mind
I'll go Tammy up top
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Draw. They played well in the earlier meeting and arguably should have had at least a point. We are a mess at the minute so it will be tough game.
If Wigan at VP is a tough game what's an easy game?
We should turn them over without too much drama.
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2-5
Tammy (2)
Hourihane
Landsbury
og
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0-2 Tammy x2.
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Draw. They played well in the earlier meeting and arguably should have had at least a point. We are a mess at the minute so it will be tough game.
If Wigan at VP is a tough game what's an easy game?
We should turn them over without too much drama.
Heard seen that a few times
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My team;
Kalinic
Taylor
Chester
Elpick
Hutton
Hourihane
McGinn
Landsbury
El Ghazi
Kodjia
Bolasie
how can you not start with Tammy Ads? :)
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abrahams bounce
0-2 Villa
Tammy
El Ghazi
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Have to win,and we will 0-2 Villa Tammy with both......oh yeah, ha ha, errr Hogan.......errr two own goals it is then!! 🤣
You got it right first time.
Kalinic
Bree Elphick Chester Taylor
McGinn
Hourihane Lansbury
Kodjia ABRAHAM Bolasie
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Draw. They played well in the earlier meeting and arguably should have had at least a point. We are a mess at the minute so it will be tough game.
If Wigan at VP is a tough game what's an easy game?
We should turn them over without too much drama.
In fairness we usually do fine up there. This fixture is an oddity like Boro at home, can never seem to win the home game but the away one is usually one of the more comfortable away wins of the season.
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Is Hause not available?
Injured
He was in the OS training photos today.
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Is Hause not available?
Injured
He was in the OS training photos today.
According to the latest Deano interview, Hause is training without any issues.
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Is Hause not available?
Injured
He was in the OS training photos today.
According to the latest Deano interview, Hause is training without any issues.
It was a joke
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Tee-fuckin'hee
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Taking the youth to this one so fingers crossed.
Kalinic
Taylor
Hause
Chester
Bree
Hourihane
McGinn
Landsbury
Kodjia
Abraham
Bolasie
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Tee-fuckin'hee
A bit weird...
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Tee-fuckin'hee
He's injured for 8-10 weeks apparently.
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I thought he had a foot injury? I don't mean to enter a piece of H&V folklore to rival that most famous question, to which the answer was because Fabregas had knobbled him and he was off the pitch receiving treatment, but is Hause injured?
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but is Hause injured?
He's training so he can't be that injured
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Will be lacking match fitness for sure. Played very few games in last 18 months so I'd be pleasantly surprised if he's up to speed when he does play.
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Smith said he looked "bright" in training but was obviously lacking match-fitness.
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Wigan 1 Villa 3
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Smith has said we've watched videos of the Man City performance against Liverpool, with the effort they put in off the ball and how we are trying to replicate that.
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Can we have the Man City players for the Wigan game then?
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Smith has said we've watched videos of the Man City performance against Liverpool, with the effort they put in off the ball and how we are trying to replicate that.
Well that rules out Glenn and Conor for selection.
In fact, it probably leaves a midfield of just McGinn
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I thought he had a foot injury? I don't mean to enter a piece of H&V folklore to rival that most famous question, to which the answer was because Fabregas had knobbled him and he was off the pitch receiving treatment, but is Hause injured?
I'm sure that I read/heard somewhere (non-H&V) that he'd arrived with a slight injury
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Fuck sake is Lansbury made of bone China? He’s doubtful again for the weekend so it likely means more Whelan. Just awesome.
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Hause available for Saturday
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Smith has said we've watched videos of the Man City performance against Liverpool, with the effort they put in off the ball and how we are trying to replicate that.
Well that rules out Glenn and Conor for selection.
In fact, it probably leaves a midfield of just McGinn
I think he also mentioned simply how hard both sets of players worked the point being if you want to be good you have to work at it.
One of my few abiding memories from that Godawful FA Cup Final v Arsenal was how hard their players were still chasing us and closing us down even when they were 3 up and wanting more! Ba*tards!
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Hause available for Saturday
Do you give them Sundays off?
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Smith has said we've watched videos of the Man City performance against Liverpool, with the effort they put in off the ball and how we are trying to replicate that.
Well that rules out Glenn and Conor for selection.
In fact, it probably leaves a midfield of just McGinn
At least it's not Giving McCann
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Was all set for a proper session but Northern Rail have decided to continue with their Saturday strikes so its the jam jar to Wigan and a couple of cricketer shandies instead. Watching us sober is something else.
Either we will win easily or a 1-1 draw and we end up on the back foot.
One plus point I wont have that rather long walk to the station to contend with.
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Was all set for a proper session but Northern Rail have decided to continue with their Saturday strikes so its the jam jar to Wigan and a couple of cricketer shandies instead. Watching us sober is something else.
Either we will win easily or a 1-1 draw and we end up on the back foot.
One plus point I wont have that rather long walk to the station to contend with.
Can’t you go with Virgin?
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Was all set for a proper session but Northern Rail have decided to continue with their Saturday strikes so its the jam jar to Wigan and a couple of cricketer shandies instead. Watching us sober is something else.
Either we will win easily or a 1-1 draw and we end up on the back foot.
One plus point I wont have that rather long walk to the station to contend with.
Can’t you go with Virgin?
No, I’m not going. Oh, the train company?
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I've cunningly managed to combine taking my 6 year old daughter to her cousin's birthday party in Bolton with this, so will be there. I love going back to Wigan, along with the IOM it always feels like home.
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We’d better win this before me nerves go completely Bobby Chariot.
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Smith has said we've watched videos of the Man City performance against Liverpool, with the effort they put in off the ball and how we are trying to replicate that.
That's eerily reminiscent of Lamberts trip to Germany and ended up with Guzan passing the ball along the endline in the next game.
We don't have the players to play the high pressing game that he wants to play without the ball. I'd much prefer if Smith started focusing on more of a hybrid approach making the best use of the players he currently has, rather than enforcing an approach that simply won't and isn't working.
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might be tough in the opening 20 mins or so, but we should get control after that and win....Wigan 1 - 3 Aston Villa
UTV
The Doc
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Smith has said we've watched videos of the Man City performance against Liverpool, with the effort they put in off the ball and how we are trying to replicate that.
That's eerily reminiscent of Lamberts trip to Germany and ended up with Guzan passing the ball along the endline in the next game.
We don't have the players to play the high pressing game that he wants to play without the ball. I'd much prefer if Smith started focusing on more of a hybrid approach making the best use of the players he currently has, rather than enforcing an approach that simply won't and isn't working.
maybe not the technical side to it all,
but just being extra fit and pressing giving the opo no time on the ball, anyone can do that if they are fit enough
i always used to think that about Man Utd under Fergie
not only did they have the spending power to buy the best players, but Fergie had them chasing the ball down for 90 minutes as well,
every one of them fitter than any other team and willing to work their nuts off
you don't need to be great to do that, anyone can do it if they are willing and coached that way
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Smith has said we've watched videos of the Man City performance against Liverpool, with the effort they put in off the ball and how we are trying to replicate that.
That's eerily reminiscent of Lamberts trip to Germany and ended up with Guzan passing the ball along the endline in the next game.
We don't have the players to play the high pressing game that he wants to play without the ball. I'd much prefer if Smith started focusing on more of a hybrid approach making the best use of the players he currently has, rather than enforcing an approach that simply won't and isn't working.
maybe not the technical side to it all,
but just being extra fit and pressing giving the opo no time on the ball, anyone can do that if they are fit enough
i always used to think that about Man Utd under Fergie
not only did they have the spending power to buy the best players, but Fergie had them chasing the ball down for 90 minutes as well,
every one of them fitter than any other team and willing to work their nuts off
you don't need to be great to do that, anyone can do it if they are willing and coached that way
You can tell Leeds don't really have the players to make their style of play work, as so often the final ball was lacking for them to score, but Bielsa still has them drilled to chase down every single ball.
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2-1 Villa win. Wigan are a decent enough side, especially at home but we should have enough to beat them. I must admit I didn't realise they are as low as 20th until I checked the table.
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Next four games present an opportunity to get back into the promotion picture. Really could with 12 points out of those games, which would probably put us in or very close to the play off positions.
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Wigan are jin terrible form
Just win
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Wigan are jin terrible form
Just win
If they've been at the jin, it serves them right.
Mother's ruin. A tonic for he troops. Sailors like rum and allegedly some other things, but least said soonest mended.
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Wigan are jin terrible form
Just win
If they've been at the jin, it serves them right.
Mother's ruin. A tonic for he troops. Sailors like rum and allegedly some other things, but least said soonest mended.
Their midfield is very sloe. Ju nipper at their heels and we'll win.
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A win would be just the tonic we need
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9 of us just leaving Bournemouth. UTV
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9 of us just leaving Bournemouth. UTV
Quality support that is. Safe journey guys.UTV
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Fancy a convincing win up there today. Not sure why I'm overly optimistic. I'd like to see someone like Jordan Cox get on the Bench in Lansbury's place. Anyway, 1-4. Abraham to get another couple.
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That's the spirit .... I'll settle with a double from Tom Collins ;)
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Another game where I wouldn’t be surprised by any result.
I’ll sit on the fence with a 1-1 draw.
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PNE and QPR were supposed to be two of those “winnable” games.....it just doesn’t work out like that, as we know.
However, I hope the Swansea performance was a big wake up call for the club as a whole, and I think it may be following Deano’s comments this week.
I think the club will also have had a massive lift with the Tammy decision this week.
I am expecting a much better, energetic performance today and we will be too good for them and win, possibly 2-0.
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9 of us just leaving Bournemouth. UTV
9 goal romp - 1 goal for each fan travelling up from Bournemouth ;-) UTV!!
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We can only improve.
2-0 Villa win.
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I'm hoping that as much as Rodriguez' touch down was a turning point, Tammy staying is too.
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Decisions, decisions... Do I something to eat before I leave, or do I partake of the town's speciality when I get there? I love it when it's a relatively local game.
Hopeful we'll be back to a 3-0 away win.
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I can't get used to this local game nonsense. I feel like I'm late even though I'm not.
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9 of us just leaving Bournemouth. UTV
9 goal romp - 1 goal for each fan travelling up from Bournemouth ;-) UTV!!
Gone for a burton
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That's the spirit .... I'll settle with a double from Tom Collins ;)
I see that we won't be distilling his brother James who has now joined Ipswich.
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We just HAVE to properly turn up today & put the recent rubbish behind us. Even with the injuries to key players: it's high time the usual suspects performed like their futures depended on it (which ultimately they will). No more hiding - and definitely no more excuses. Get it done.
1-3 Villa
Avit.
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It's whacking day - Woo hoo!
And you'd better win!
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McGinn suspended for this or is it next week?
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He's not suspended.
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Only watched the 1st half of the West Ham Arsenal game, that was enough for me, but on that showing Arsenal are not going to finish in the top 6.