Wigan Athletic v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Dave Cooper please]

I have a sad face. Everybody look how sad my face is.

Yes, we have all seen it.

Usually when doing the skateboarding duck bit at the end of the news, yes you are smiling on the outside but you can't hide your true sad face.

[GarTomas]

Pitch aside an awful display.  Out played and battled for large parts of the game by arguably one of the poorest sides in the league.

Positives - Cuellar looked assured at the back.  Admittedly against not the greatest of forwards.  Injury to Dunne could be a blessing in disguise in forcing AM to play Carlos in his natural position.  To be fair the defence as a whole looked solid - not including Collins who's needs to be tapped up by Sunderland ASAP.  A liability at all times.

Good to see Bannan and Gardner started.  Move need game time to see if they can deliver on their undoubted promise.  Gabby looked not 100% sharp and would of made sense to change for N'Zogbia who I feel could off caused some problems with his direct style (his free kick was awful though).

Bent seemed to get involved more - although I still don't think we play to his strengths.

All in all relieved that we have come away from the DW with a point.  Something seriously wrong with expectations....

[Rudy Can't Fail]

There is absolutely nothing positive to say about that performance. Nothing.

[David_Nab]

Total shite we were outplayed and if Wigan had any ability to score goals we would have lost.Utter shambles from start to finish.With Bent looking out for a while we are in serious shit the only thing that will keep us up is the teams below being worse.

Just want him gone and the season to be over.

[Irish villain]

Despite all the negativity about how we are doomed and are going down, with our result today,we are no nearer the relegation zone.

Just guessing, but I am going to go out on a limb and say this time last year, we were nearer the relegation zone than we are today.

No need to panic, people.

Last year we always lined up to win (except against Liverpool and Man City). Last year we had Ashley Young, Makoun, Luke Young and Downing was having a great season.

This year. Well, where do you start? Keane's cameo is over, Bent is injured, we have an under-par N'Zogbia for Young and Downing and half the squad either aren't happy or aren't good enough. We are terrified of losing when at home and the manager thinks a 0-1 defeat isn't a bad result.

Things are a lot worse this year.

[Chipsticks]

Its like we have a huge python wrapped around our club and its squeezing the life out of us.

I prefer the analogy of a sucking gunshot wound to the chest, slowly filling our lungs with blood. But your python is OK.

I prefer to think of it as a big ginger man taking a giant shit on all of us, one after another. All the while demanding that we pay him £30 each for him to do it.

[Compass]

There is absolutely nothing positive to say about that performance. Nothing.

Clean sheet!

[Yossarian]

Its like we have a huge python wrapped around our club and its squeezing the life out of us.

I prefer the analogy of a sucking gunshot wound to the chest, slowly filling our lungs with blood. But your python is OK.

Any chest wound will kill you too quickly. Your rate of descent with a shot to the gut is more akin to our plight.

[pauliewalnuts]

The only positive was the clean sheet, but Wigan are the most shot shy side around, against any other team with them having that much possession, we'd have lost.

You could look at the effort of the team in one of two ways, I reckon. Either there was only one team trying to win that game (Wigan), or we were trying as well, and that was the best we could do.

Both of these are absolutely inexcusable.

[berneboy]

We are one of the worse teams in the league it gets more and more depressing as the weeks go on.

Agreed.
Or in modern parlance: This

[mrfuse]

fuck knows how MOTD are gonna get highlights from that I wouldn't bother

[GarTomas]

Dire, clueless rubbish. Watching us is bloody painful these days. If MOTD have any sense they will just put the score up at the end of the show and leave that as the highlight.

What will cure my insomnia tonight then?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Can't defend that performance (only saw the second half but the match thread leads me to believe it was no better in the first).
We won't go down, but the board have to realise that no matter what, they have to replace him as soon as the season finishes, not now because there is no one available who will significantly improve this bunch of disinterested fuckwits.

We could always put Kevin McDonald and Sid in charge until the end of the season.

[Legion]

Copious amounts of alcohol.

[brian green]

I don't think McLeish deserves this.

It's like attacking Anne Widdecombe for not winning Strictly.

He is just a poor prat promoted above his abilities by an incompetent board of directors who know very little about football and care even less.

Alex McLeish is just a decent bloke totally and completely out of his depth and hung out to dry by his employers.   I feel very sorry for him.   He must go of course but the board will even screw up the timing of his departure.