Wigan Athletic vs Newcastle United Saturday 28th April 3pm

[Monroe Transfer 0]

He needs a goal is all. Hardly putting in bad performances.

Nor is he the only decent striker in the Prem who has recently had a barren run. Van Persie's goal yesterday was his first in eight IIRC.

[ToonMarshy 2]

i still can't understand why pardew left it so late to change things up - it was obvious by the end of the first half that we were chasing shadows and wigan needed to just crowd us out to stop us gaining any ground in their half.

It sounds weird but i honestly think we should've brought shola on, we were far too impatient and wasteful with any of our time with the ball in their half bar that 10 minute spell where we hit the woodwork repeatedly. Having someone capable of holding the ball up deep in their half and allowing the rest of the lads to get up and into a position/start dragging people around like he's capable of would have lead to a lot more situations where something potentially could've come off for us. As opposed to getting 40 yards away from the box and lumping it into the keepers hands hoping the one player in the area might nick it off him.

 

Terrible result, and as people have pointed out they exploited us the same way norwich, chelsea and spurs did - straight lines and pace. I'm not going to try and belittle the effort the defence have put in over the past 6 games as they've been incredibly efficient (if a little shakey at times) but simmo and williamson were appalling and fell apart entirely after the first goal went in - hell even in the last few minutes it took a goal line clearance from colo to stop fucking sammon of all people scoring, you let a pile of wank like him round the keeper and have an open net and it speaks volumes as to the problems we had.

 

But taking nothing away form wigan, they were just a lot more up for it, they got themselves into that mood where they can just hit from anywhere and likely it is going in (di santo says hi) - cisse had a couple of chances like it and hit the woodwork, not going to say theres nothing we couldve done to at least consolate a goal or two, but it really does just seem they wanted it, we were shellshocked, and even when we worked the ball well into positions and opportunities we would've scored in the last 6 games, nothing came of it. Between ben arfa and cisse we had ample opportunities (few though they were) to win the damn thing, really was just not our day.

[Craig 6700]

The 3rd game this season where we've conceeded 4 goals inside one half without reply (Fulham and Spurs being the other 2).

 

We seem to be bi-polar at the minute - either we win or capitulate, very little in between.

[Park Life 71]

watched the highlights there, Danny simpson and Williamson had shockers

 

It's always Simpson running back or running into a silly area.

[Gemmill 46035]

Is that what this Douglas is like?