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Post by OohMac on Oct 15, 2021 18:35:46 GMT
Firstly i'm not getting carried away with the rhetoric that this is a massive bragging rights derby. I dont think i even know a Wigan fan and its a club not far away.
Other rivalries come from history and even a respect. This seems to be drummed up recently by certain fans enjoying and basking in the misfortune of the other club and most fans are not like that. Most fans were sad to see Bury, Macclesfield fall(relieved that we didnt go into abyss with them) and most didnt want Wigan to fall foul of a crook owner.
It is, however, a huge game but for me only as big as a Rotherham, Oxford, etc i.e. who i think will be our league rivals at the end.
By the sounds of it Evatt has ruffled feathers by declaring us the best side in the league. Richardson has bit at that.
I honestly cant remember ever thinking that a team has won the league but not been the best team. So Evatt really needs to back these claims up. Team - Dixon, Brockbank, Santos, Johnson, John, MJ, Lee, Sheehan, Dapo, Doyle, Baka.
Think we will win this one. 3-1, 3-2
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Post by OohMac on Oct 16, 2021 8:53:31 GMT
Guess no one else has bought into the hyperbole of this being a massive derby game either. No other posts mid morning of the match.
Do I need to do a Delia?
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Post by whitesince63 on Oct 16, 2021 9:13:27 GMT
This is one we just have to win if we seriously are to challenge but I wish IE would cut the “we’re the best team” stuff. You can think that and even consider it inside the club but claiming it publicly just winds others up and leaves you open to ridicule. I actually think Wigan are one of the stronger sides who haven’t yet hit top form yet have had strong results. You can’t deny their forward line is full of goals which at some point will be delivered I think and I just hope they don’t start tomorrow. Clearly we have a problem taking chances although we do have players all through the team who can score. Obviously Doyle is getting most flack but for me it’s the defenders that are letting us down at set pieces. I know defensive headers and attacking headers are a different action but we don’t even seem to make contact on crosses. Doyle has admitted that heading isn’t a strength so that only really leaves us with Baka. Maybe we should try a corner to the near post and flick ones which might unsettle defenders more. Anyway, whatever we do we need the 3 points today because not only are we behind on points we’ve also played a couple of games more. Even if we win today we’ll still be a point behind Wigan having played two games more, so come on Whites, let’s put these pie eaters in their place. I think we will so I’ll go for a 3-1 win to Wanderers.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Oct 16, 2021 9:32:31 GMT
DOYLE HAT TRICK ⚽️⚽️⚽️
COYWM Let’s do this
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Post by davidm on Oct 16, 2021 10:11:26 GMT
Should be a good match today.
Today is the day that I deny that I live in Wigan! Postcode and telephone number are both Wigan but I live ½ mile over the border so today I live in St Helens! Born in Horwich though which is the main one!
We haven’t quite hit it off at home yet. We’ve won matches but not convincingly so its time to do it today.
There have been lots of comments about Wigan being near the top. They are but have you noticed that they and Sunderland have only played 4 away games this season while we have played 7? Strange spilt of fixtures.
I expect Brockbank to replace Jones. Who are the others that the manager reports as having injuries? I would also expect (demand!) that Kachunga is replaced by either Isgrove or Bakayoko.
Always optimistic so I’ll go for 2-1 win
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Post by Pedro on Oct 16, 2021 10:22:55 GMT
This game will prove whether the Bolton fans are going to be loud enough to drown out the concentrated loudspeaker effect of the Away stand. It always irritated when in the "library/morgue" days the away team were gifted a twelfth man because we were so quiet. I will be screaming at my laptop screen in my garden in the South of France COYWM
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Post by chip on Oct 16, 2021 10:29:56 GMT
Sorry to keep going on about this but Doyle can’t do it all on his own we need the rest of the team to score a few goals today or I can see another 1 or 2 nil against. I will be driving home from Scotland so I will miss this one onwards and upwards stay safe one and all COYWM
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Post by davidm on Oct 16, 2021 10:31:45 GMT
Guess no one else has bought into the hyperbole of this being a massive derby game either. I agree with this - despite the grounds only being a few miles apart, I still see matches against Blackburn and Preston as being proper derbies for us.
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Post by whitesince63 on Oct 16, 2021 11:28:17 GMT
Agree on Rovers and North End being considered derbies more that Wigan Davidm but then I’m sure that’s historical and being an oldie, still ridiculously consider Wigan a non league outfit despite them having been in the league since the eighties. I remember one of my teachers at school supporting Wigan and regularly being asked why with so many “proper” league clubs so close by. How times change, they’ve even won the FA Cup!!
Nobody can deny that they’ve turned themselves into a respected league outfit now and I suppose to younger generations have just as much a derby claim as any of the other old Lancashire clubs, but to me they’ll always be little old Wigan and as usual I’ll expect us to batter them today. Let’s hope we do and that the likes of Doyle and Dapo can find their shooting boots. I’m going for a good win so 3-1 to Wanderers and a happy trip home.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Oct 16, 2021 12:14:16 GMT
I’m seriously getting very very tired with all this now
#blm
Sorry to go on and I’m definitely not racist but all this Black Lives Matter and taking the knee has to stop
Black White Yellow It doesn’t matter to me the colour of your skin, can you play football and can you entertain??
The BBC are now going far beyond over the top with all this ‘taking the knee’ stuff and watching Football Focus, for the very last time this morning has made me even more angry. I tune in to see who, what, where, why and when regarding all things football and we’ve got Dion Dublin, Alex Scott (terrible terrible football presenter I have to say) and Tyrone Mings going on, yet again, about taking the knee. Funny how the very same establishment turned many a blind eye to the obvious, in yer face shenanigans of one ‘Sir’ Jimmy Saville which makes them go completely over the top with diversity and inclusion now
None of us want to see the message lost on #blm ALL lives matter
So today, before the Wigan kick off, I SHALL be taking the knee
For Sir David Amess RiP
COYWM ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
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Post by riochforthereebok on Oct 16, 2021 14:18:56 GMT
I’m sorry Ian but it’s down to you and you only that we cannot keep a clean sheet beyond 5 minutes
What do you flippin teach them on the training ground
COYWM
Let’s sort this⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
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Post by OohMac on Oct 16, 2021 14:21:08 GMT
Another early goal conceded first. Best team in the league with one of the most goals against.
Would say you cant just focus on the areas you think we're good at and ignore the rest but thats exactly what evatt does.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Oct 16, 2021 14:44:33 GMT
Wigan dressing room pre kick off
Lean Richardson “ right lads, easy team talk here,, Evatt thinks his Bolton are better than us, let’s go show him how wrong he is”
In terms of Colemanballs Ian, that’s got to be up there with the best of em
COYWM ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
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Post by riochforthereebok on Oct 16, 2021 14:45:44 GMT
DOYLE HAT TRICK ⚽️⚽️⚽️ COYWM Let’s do this Of misses I meant to say😞😞
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Post by chip on Oct 16, 2021 14:57:19 GMT
Oh dear oh dear halftime I’ve stopped for a stretch and checked how we are doing 1-0 down after six minutes 🤷♂️😢😢 not looking good reading what people have been saying on the BEN we are struggling a bit still second half to come thing’s can only get better COYWM
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