Wigan Athletic (Home) Match Thread (2 Viewers)

wiganlad123 · Aug 6, 2015

not long off now ladies and gentleman! are we excited ??

Nick · Aug 6, 2015

4-1 to us I Think, but realistically 2-1 loss

SlowerThanPlatt · Aug 6, 2015

Nick you need to stop predicting that 4-1 win, we haven't won a game since you've started predicting it!

Ashdown · Aug 6, 2015

I hope many folk are planning to pay on the day because up to date we have 8600 ticket sales including away fans and ST holders. Looking at the online site, there are huge swaths of empty seats apart from in the family blocks and the middle.

kg82 · Aug 6, 2015

I'll be buying on the day. I think a fair few will, especially if it's a nice day.

Ashdown · Aug 6, 2015

kg82 said:
I'll be buying on the day. I think a fair few will, especially if it's a nice day.

It's supposed to be a belting day, perfect for pub gardens and falling asleep in the sun at the footie !

letsallsingtogether · Aug 6, 2015

I will go for a home win.
We usually win the first home game of the season when I am on holiday and unable to attend.
I will be listening carefully from beach bar, much to the wife's disapproval.

PUSB

kg82 · Aug 6, 2015

Ashdown said:
It's supposed to be a belting day, perfect for pub gardens and falling asleep in the sun at the footie !

That's excellent news. First game of the season, sun, heat, beer... Who can resist!

Ashdown · Aug 6, 2015

kg82 said:
That's excellent news. First game of the season, sun, heat, beer... Who can resist!

The other 97 % of Coventry it seems !

kg82 · Aug 6, 2015

Ashdown said:
The other 97 % of Coventry it seems !

Ah yes, that's the one!

Manchester_sky_blue · Aug 6, 2015

0-0 Draw written all over it............

wiganlad123 · Aug 6, 2015

you have some real negative supporters haha i thought we were bad!

LJC_CCFC · Aug 6, 2015

wiganlad123 said:
you have some real negative supporters haha i thought we were bad!

Round these parts we just call them 'supporters', the negativity is embedded soon after birth.

pusbccfc · Aug 6, 2015

2-0 to Wigan.
11,934 in attendance. 1900 from Wigan.

Covstar · Aug 6, 2015

Will be a thrilling first game of the season with us winning 3-2 thanks to a dramatic last minute volley by John fleck from 25 yards out. Armstrong and Reda to score the other two goals.

ccfc92 · Aug 6, 2015

One more ticket bought added to the 4 already

Didn't seem to be too many empty seats, but didn't look extensively...

pusbccfc · Aug 6, 2015

Only a handful of seats left in block 20, but block 18 and 17 are empty so far.

Juggernaut · Aug 6, 2015

Would go with a diamond, no point in playing width as we have no wingers.

Burge; Willis, Ricketts, Reda, Haynes; Vincelot, O'Brien, Fleck, Maddison; Tudgay, Armstrong.

1-3 loss.

covcity4life · Aug 6, 2015

Stokes has to start above Haynes. Last season he was getting to byline consistently, has a good cross and also threatens to score goals with his headers. Link up play with strikers not bad either. Defo has to improve vs trickery wingers tho

All that with no preseason with a proper league club? Think stokes could do v well this year personally.

Give Haynes the league cup and jpt to see if he can force hus way in.

stupot07 · Aug 6, 2015

We've played 4231 all pre season so can't see Mowbray going 2 up top.

With Swanson injured, and I think Stokes had a knock last week, I think it will be

------------Burge
Willis Ricketts Johnson Haynes
------Vincelot--fleck
Job------Maddison----Lameires
-----------Tudguy

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Deleted member 5849 · Aug 7, 2015

Right, I'm going on here, bored of all the endless repetitive shite.

Will be interesting to see how we set up; are we going to be positive this season, go for goals, or are we more likely to try and scrape the occasional goal and attempt to frustrate the opposition?

Don't think opposition matters first game of the season, we could be playing Chelsea or Chester, it's a clean slate and every team starts with a certain amount of unknown about it.

Personally, I'd rather we aimed to win every game but accepted that the consequence of this might mean we miss out on draws now and again as we push beyond our limits. Am bored of scratching around, and the best (half!) seasons in recent times have been Black's and Pressley's, where at least the teams tried to bloody score. Hell, Robins did the same thinking about it.

Go on Mowbray, have faith and transmit it to the players - I'll forgive you a defeat if I see positive intent.

Otis · Aug 7, 2015

Deleted member 5849 said:
Right, I'm going on here, bored of all the endless repetitive shite.

Well stop bleedin posting then, you eejit!

Otis · Aug 7, 2015

2-1 to the City.

Nailed on.

SkyBlue_Bear83 · Aug 7, 2015

stupot07 said:
We've played 4231 all pre season so can't see Mowbray going 2 up top.

With Swanson injured, and I think Stokes had a knock last week, I think it will be

------------Burge
Willis Ricketts Johnson Haynes
------Vincelot--fleck
Job------Maddison----Lameires
-----------Tudguy

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Has Armstrong and Tudgay been available at the same time though for most of the preseason?

I've got a feeling Armstrong and Tudgay may both start, with Tudgay being the focal point and Armstrong playing just behind and off him. Got a feeling either Maddison or JOB will be on the bench

Johhny Blue · Aug 7, 2015

wiganlad123 said:
you have some real negative supporters haha i thought we were bad!

You Are

CCFC_Charlie · Aug 7, 2015

1-1 or 0-2 to Wigan. Not very confident at all.

stupot07 · Aug 7, 2015

CCFC said:
Has Armstrong and Tudgay been available at the same time though for most of the preseason?

I've got a feeling Armstrong and Tudgay may both start, with Tudgay being the focal point and Armstrong playing just behind and off him. Got a feeling either Maddison or JOB will be on the bench

Not for most of pre-season, no but you would have thought he'd have started them both against Oxford, rather than starting Armstrong and swapping him for Tudguy. JOB and Maddison will start, perhaps he'll shunt Armstrong out on the left and drop Lameires?

I guess we'll see around 2pm tomorrow.

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shrewcov · Aug 7, 2015

Really looking forward to it tomorrow. Got myself a season ticket finally. Let the season begin

SkyBlue_Bear83 · Aug 7, 2015

stupot07 said:
Not for most of pre-season, no but you would have thought he'd have started them both against Oxford, rather than starting Armstrong and swapping him for Tudguy. JOB and Maddison will start, perhaps he'll shunt Armstrong out on the left and drop Lameires?

I guess we'll see around 2pm tomorrow.

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It could have just been a case of managing the players minutes, Tudgay had missed the previous week through illness and maybe Mowbray didn't want him to play more than say 20 minutes.

For some reason I just reckon both will start

Philosoraptor · Aug 8, 2015

After the escape from relegation last year, the change in manager really showed in where we finished. I would agree to build a side will take more then one season, and like any other sport this is going to be result driven, and not didn't we do well after losing 3-0 with a bizarre 10 minutes within the game.

This 11,000 attendance as a break even point is probably the most interesting statistic that has came out pre-season. If the attendance goes above 11,000 then this means 50% of this revenue gets ploughed back into the playing squad. I remember reading (I believe in the Telegraph) Waggot saying something along these lines. Seeing how unsuccessful CCFC has been over the past decade or two, I would say the only people left going to the Ricoh are die hard fans at the moment, and any string of successive wins in the top half of the table or cup runs will lead to higher gates.

The new season starts today, league table and all. This is not going to be a sprint but a marathon and success will be measured in our position within the table. We have a budget from our overlords which people have agreed on as being enough for a top half finish, and add to this the Mowbray factor of a 40% win rate (ish) and the choosing of his own players within this budget should at least make the season interesting.

I am looking forward to this forthcoming season. I see many positives in what could happen. I believe we can only judge the strength of the squad verses other teams after around ten games or so.

The only thing I miss is not being able to listen to local commentary being outside the local area. There must be someway for people to relay this on given the wonders of modern technology.

3-0 to the City by the way.

PUSB

SlowerThanPlatt · Aug 8, 2015

Nick/Mark could we possibly unpin this thread? It seems myself and many posters have missed this thread because it's right at the top of the page.

Anyway, 2-0 City today.

Ashdown · Aug 8, 2015

With the help of 2000 Wigan fans we might well top 12,000 on a nice day ?

skybluegod · Aug 8, 2015

Think a 1-0 win today with tudgay getting the goal.

Otis · Aug 8, 2015

Win, win, win!!!

Very confident TM will have them all fired up and raring to go.

Hopefully fast out of the blocks and an early goal.

Great_Expectations · Aug 8, 2015

Based on the formation TM has favoured pre season, coupled with the players available, I think we will line up as below:

Burge

Willis Ricketts Johnson Stokes

Vincelot Fleck

JOB Armstrong Lameries

Tudgay

All things considered, the line up could be worse. Plus we have Maddison as am impact sub available.

The line up also highlights our need for a striker and at least one, but ideally two, wingers.

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