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*~*~* Wigan v Sunderland 6PM KO *~*~*

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Hull and Peterborough literally pissing their pants laughing at our complete capitulation. Big club mentality nowhere to be seen.
 

Happy_Layabout said:
Devils advocate really mate.

But I reckon it’s not formations or selections it’s application and commitment.

Today we seemed to be trying to play at half pace. Not sure if they are tired or have been told to slow it down and save energy but this division is full of limited but fit and organised teams - sustained tempo breaks them down but half paced never does.

Case in point, Wigan look ragged up to our goal, the we decided to take a breather rather than try to kill the game.
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Our starting centre midfielders are reactors...Scowen presses and tracks and generally looks busy, Power is a closer and harrys. Neither can dictates the tempo or control possession of a game.

The only one who can is Leadbitter. Who then gets pelters for slowing the game down when we need the game to slow to get organised most of the time!
 
Nelson! said:
just people who’ve been waiting four months to push an agenda because they didn’t like Johnson. They will be over the moon.

Johnson was his appointment man.
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We've had a 13 game unbeaten run under Johnson, but why can't he see some players look tired, in fact look burned out.
 
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hate to say it but when people were saying Stewart would save our season and I kept pointing out that hed scored fewer goals in a season up front than some of our midfield people were going at me for it.

i wonder if we'll ever sign a good striker
 
Nelson! said:
Thought jones and Diamond started bright but faded badly and both give the ball away a lot.

I was glad to see McGeady moved as teams have stifled him on the wing recently. If we want to put him back out there we need someone in the middle who can offer a threat: Maguire?
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The opening was promising, until Wigan realised there were plenty of space to play into and then we get disjointed and Diamond and Jones vanished.

I like Maguire’s set piece delivery. But he slows the game down more than Leadbitter does and gets pelters for. Both would be in my starting XI. Maguire by default cos he’s as close as a No10 that we’ve got. Especially when the game opens up.
 
Ghfd said:
13th to 3rd

the very definition of a markedly improved position

stop being a contrarian
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We weren’t 13th when he was sacked. We were 7th and (iirc) we were 5 points off top.

We’ve won two of the last six and performances have not been anything like good since Portsmouth really. The performance data hasn’t showed significant improvements from the Parkinson era either by the way. We’ve had a good run under Johnson, in a very similar fashion as we did under Parkinson last season (at a very similar time of the season too).

That isn’t being contrarian, and I’m not calling for his dismissal either, but these statements about improvements are OTT. We’ve simply had a good run of results that we’ve had under the two previous managers at this level.
 
Moneyball said:
The opening was promising, until Wigan realised there were plenty of space to play into and then we get disjointed and Diamond and Jones vanished.

I like Maguire’s set piece delivery. But he slows the game down more than Leadbitter does and gets pelters for. Both would be in my starting XI. Maguire by default cos he’s as close as a No10 that we’ve got. Especially when the game opens up.
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Maguire not on the bench is criminal, particularly when your attacking substitutes include Stewart, he can actually change a game when he comes on
 
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