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Wigan at home Tuesday 9th February 2021 REARRANGED

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« on: January 27, 2021, 19:36:35 pm »

Weather/pitch permitting we play Wigan at home on Saturday. The Latics are currently below us in the table, two points behind us in 23rd place.
They lost their Premier League place in 2013 and have been on the slide since, despite relegation they did win the FA Cup in 2013 too, and played in Europe the following season as a Championship side. They went down to League 1, went back up to the Championship but came back down again and coupled with a spell in administration currently standing at seven months they find themselves struggling for their existence at present. A new takeover deal is in the offing though so maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Their form this season has not been good, they went on a 13 game winless run earlier in the season, however things have actually picked up recently with only two defeats in their last seven games, however there has only been one win in that sequence too! Last time out they lost 5-0 at home to Blackpool. They are fielding a number of young inexperienced players at the moment as most of their better players have left as a result of costcutting.
Away from home they've won three league games, Burton was one but the other two were perhaps more surprising....Sunderland and Portsmouth.
Top current scorer for the Latics is former Manchester United player Will Keane, he's scored six goals in 14 appearances this season so looks like a threat, he is joined up front by 19 year old Kyle Joseph who has five goals, three of those coming in that win at Burton last month.  Joe Garner actually still leads the way in the charts with seven goals but he left the club by mutual consent last month and moved to Cyprus to continue his footballing career. Kai Naismith is another recent departure, moving to Luton on a free a couple of weeks ago.

Wigan only joined the League back in 1978 when they finished second to Boston United in the Northern Premier League, Boston's ground at that time was not up to scratch and Wigan were "elected" to the league on a second vote replacing Southport. As a result of their shortish league history and the fact they went all the way up to the top division, we have met them on relatively few occasions.
A total of 36 meetings over the years, and The Cobblers have won just six. Our 3-2 win there earlier in the season snapped a seven game losing streak against them. They have won on their last four visits to Sixfields and in fact we did not score a goal against them in any of those games. We've beaten them three times at home, they've won 7 on our patch with seven draws.
Our last meeting at Sixfields was on New Years Day 2018, we slipped to a 1-0 defeat thanks to an early Nick Powell goal. Shaun McWilliams started that game for the Cobblers, with Sam Hoskins coming off the bench in the second half, they are the only two survivors in our squad three years on.

Referee Marc Edwards is in his second season as a Football League ref, so far this season he has handled 18 games and handed out 62 yellows cards but no reds. He has only reffed us once before, that was last seasons 2-0 home defeat by Cheltenham in the playoff semi final. This will be his second time officiating Wigan this season having been in charge of their 4-3 home win over Accrington some seven weeks ago.
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« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2021, 08:36:13 am »

Hopefully, our momentum can keep increasing. I still expect us to finish between 18th and 14
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« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2021, 08:44:51 am »

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« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2021, 10:04:46 am »

Big match. The improved performances are good to see, but if they dont translate in to results against other relegation rivals then we're really in the mire.
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« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2021, 10:19:36 am »

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« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2021, 10:31:37 am »

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Look them up on Facebook and read some of the comments. Now THAT will make you roll your eyes...  Grin
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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2021, 10:48:07 am »

At the risk of coming across as weather obsessed the latest forecast for Saturday predicts heavy snow pretty much all day.
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« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2021, 10:49:27 am »

Look them up on Facebook and read some of the comments. Now THAT will make you roll your eyes...  Grin

They thought they would et JC into power but actually made him unelectable.
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« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2021, 11:03:34 am »

At the risk of coming across as weather obsessed the latest forecast for Saturday predicts heavy snow pretty much all day.

I'll leave it late before I decide whether to travel then... Grin Cool
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2021, 11:28:54 am »

No better time for us to get our first saturday home league win.
Despite losing a lot of players and having to field several youngsters Wigan have still had some good results but have been inconsistent. They lost 0-5 at home to a Blackpool side missing 10 players through injury and covid on tuesday and had previously lost at home to Rochdale in mid december by the same score. However, inbetween these results they went 5 games unbeaten, drawing at home with Shrewsbury and Fleetwood, drawing away at Rochdale and Fleetwood and winning at Burton. They also had 2 excellent wins in early december against Accrington at home and Sunderland away.
Wigan's away record is similar to ours but having lost 6 of their first 7 away games and only scoring twice they have not lost any of their last 4 scoring 9 times. They have only kept 1 away clean sheet but we have failed to score in 8 of our 12 home games.
Assuming none of our injured players are fit to return the only changes I would make to tuesdays team would be to play Watson behind the front 2 after his cameo against Fleetwood when he appeared to have got his hunger back and he is always capable of getting on the score sheet. Up front I would give Rose another chance alongside either Edmondson or Hoskins. We know Sam is capable of a clinical finish in the penalty area by his goals at Wembley and at Burton last season, also with his penalty taking.
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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2021, 12:36:32 pm »

At the risk of coming across as weather obsessed the latest forecast for Saturday predicts heavy snow pretty much all day.
Yep, yellow warning of Snow just been issued, as opposed to a warning of yellow snow. Cool
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« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2021, 15:30:09 pm »

Yep, yellow warning of Snow just been issued, as opposed to a warning of yellow snow. Cool
If the latter, I suggest we use our away kit.
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« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2021, 15:33:36 pm »

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Haha, I thought that!
Not lost in one!
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« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2021, 19:10:09 pm »

Wigan have today signed Funso Ojo on loan from Aberdeen where he is halfway through a 3 year contract, They paid £125,000 for him when he joined from Sc***horpe.
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« Reply #15 on: January 29, 2021, 15:00:22 pm »

If memory serves me...Wigan Athletic were the second visitors to the brand new, swanky Sixfields.

A 🌈 arced over the East Stand, and a 7000 plus crowd saw a Cobblers victory!
Also, if remember, was one of the very few if only games at Sixfields where cash was taken at the turnstiles.
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« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2021, 15:20:24 pm »

If memory serves me...Wigan Athletic were the second visitors to the brand new, swanky Sixfields.

A 🌈 arced over the East Stand, and a 7000 plus crowd saw a Cobblers victory!
Also, if remember, was one of the very few if only games at Sixfields where cash was taken at the turnstiles.

Yes - a 1-0 win with Neil Grayson getting the goal.

I also remember how impressed I was with the new stadium.

The company I was with was still paying about 60 persons weekly wages in cash.
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« Reply #17 on: January 29, 2021, 19:30:15 pm »

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The new road builds of Coventry
Then further south these greebos sank
And landed on the sixplots bank
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Would signal no surrender here
We care less now than once we did
Our covid chums are safely hid
We will not wander further off
One nil is writ before we cough.
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« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2021, 20:46:12 pm »

pressure is on .
3 points expected here .
Curle can’t do his normal sit back and hope . A win is expected Keith
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« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2021, 00:15:13 am »

Cobbs 0 - 1 Wiggy
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For goodness sake Doc we are NOT going down  Grin   you heard it here 1st  Wink

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