Wigan Athletic at home match thread

[Jerseybean]

Under the lights at Ashton Gate is always a bit special. Just saying NP is yet to win three league matches in a row.

Just for giggles and not wishing to tempt fate, the quiz question is….what is our longest ever sequence of unbeaten league games?  The answer is at the end.

On Saturday Wigan we’re home to Huddersfield in a six-pointer encounter, which they won with an 82 minute goal, from a corner. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64520746 They’ve scored nine times from corners this season.

Wigan Athletic Football Club was founded in 1932. They were elected to The Football League in 1978, and reached the Premier League for the first time in 2005. Their first major honour was victory in the 2013 FA Cup Final.

After a total of thirty four unsuccessful applications to join the Football League, not to mention a rather controversial but headline-making application in 1972 to join the Scottish League Second Division. The Latics first ever League game took place on Saturday 19 August 1978 at Edgar Street, Hereford in front of a crowd of 5,674, with about three thousand fans travelling from Wigan.

Interestingly, it was actually Boston that was meant to quality in 1978, since the Latics came second to them. However, the EFL ruled that Boston’s football stadium did not meet league requirements and therefore the buck was passed to Wigan, following a vote that saw them narrowly beat Southport for the spot.

The Tics are no strangers to defeat, but there are some matches that still leave a bitter taste in the mouths of those who remember. Chief among these is the 2009 match against Tottenham, which is burned into the minds of many a hard-suffering Latics fan. A match that saw Wigan lose a staggering 9-1, with four  of those goals being scored by former Wigan striker Jermain Defoe.

More recently on 1 July 2020, the club entered administration, ostensibly because the COVID-19 pandemic caused significant impact to the club's finances. Due to going into administration, the club was handed a 12-Point deduction. Despite great form, Wigan were relegated from the Championship after a 1–1 draw with Fulham, https://news.sky.com/story/amp/wigan-athletic-football-club-goes-into-administration-12018790

Back in August it finished 1-1 away, which provided our first point of the season.

In their last six games they’ve won one, drawn two and lost three, in their last two games they haven’t conceded. They currently occupy 22nd place with 29 points.

We will be without Naismith and Conway and NP will likely make some changes given we have two games in four days. Mehmeti for Bell and Weimann in for Scott perhaps.

Harry Cornick may be playing against Wigan for the fifth time this season. He has scored twice against them (x1 League x1 FA Cup.)

Manager Leam Richardson was sacked in November, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63583133

They then appointed former Arsenal and Manchester City defender Kolo Toure as their new manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal. The 41-year-old Ivorian had spent the past five years coaching at Celtic and Leicester City under Brendan Rodgers but this was his first role in management.

In January they sacked Kolo Toure after 59 days as he failed to win any of his nine games in charge. The Latics took just two points from his seven Championship matches at the helm and at he exited they were bottom of the table, four points from safety.

At the end of January they appointed their former winger Shaun Maloney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Maloney as manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64439406

Maloney played for Celtic, Aston Villa, Wigan Athletic, Chicago Fire, Hull City and the Scotland national team as an attacking midfielder or winger.

Excellent presser IMO from NP:

 

 

In January they signed defender Martin Kelly on loan from fellow Championship side West Bromwich Albion until the end of the season and defender Omar Rekik also on loan from Arsenal until the end of the season. Kelly will miss the rest of the season after sustaining a serious knee injury on his debut for the club against Blackburn. Omar Rekik is a doubt having also been forced off during their trip to Ewood Park and missing the game against Huddersfield.

Over the years we’ve won 13, drawn 10 and lost 6.

Joe Willams, John Pender, Rob Newman, Scott McGarvey, Steve Johnson, Bobby Hutchinson, Richard O’Donnell, James Tavernier, Andy Webster, Nicky Maynard, Tony Dinning, David Cotterill and Jason Roberts and are among players who’ve played for both teams.

The man with the whistle is (sigh) Keith Stroud, who will be assisted by Ian Cooper and Daniel Leach. The fourth official is Robert Madley

They are owned by Phoenix 21 Limited, https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/wigan-agree-sale-of-club-to-phoenix-2021-limited-1615838413000

Famous fans include Richard Ashcroft lead singer for The Verve, Sky News anchor women Kay Burley, Stuart Maconie broadcaster, actor and journalist and BBC personality Paul Rowley.

They are known as  the Latics as it is a short form of the suffix Athletic.

Hats off to any Wigan fans who make the 350+ mile round trip for the game.

They are part of the Big Help Project whose mission is to feed the hungry, overcome poverty, free people from the burden of unmanageable personal debt, help people into affordable housing: https://www.bighelpproject.com the Big Help Project is a multi-award-winning national charity.

The answer: Our record sequence of unbeaten league matches = 24; 9 September 1905 – 10 February 1906.

[OliOTIB]

Class as always pal. We got to remember its a completely different game to the norwich one. Patience required I think.

[phantom]

Before anyone asks 

[Davefevs]

…and to make doubly sure…

[CodeRed]

Great news, Bristol City v Wigan on the red button in HD picture and accompanied by commentary from Preston v Luton !

[Slippin cider]

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

…and to make doubly sure…

So it is on the Red Button ? ….

[Tinmans Love Child]

This is actually the last league game of the season to be played under the lights at home believe it or not.  After that just the Man City game and if we get a home draw after that which may get played in the evening.

[myol'man]

15 minutes ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

This is actually the last league game of the season to be played under the lights at home believe it or not.  After that just the Man City game and if we get a home draw after that which may get played in the evening.

Home leg of the play-offs?

[cidered abroad]

1 hour ago, Jerseybean said:

Under the lights at Ashton Gate is always a bit special. Just saying NP is yet to win three league matches in a row.

Just for giggles and not wishing to tempt fate, the quiz question is….what is our longest ever sequence of unbeaten league games?  The answer is at the end.

On Saturday Wigan we’re home to Huddersfield in a six-pointer encounter, which they won with an 82 minute goal, from a corner. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64520746 They’ve scored nine times from corners this season.

Wigan Athletic Football Club was founded in 1932. They were elected to The Football League in 1978, and reached the Premier League for the first time in 2005. Their first major honour was victory in the 2013 FA Cup Final.

After a total of thirty four unsuccessful applications to join the Football League, not to mention a rather controversial but headline-making application in 1972 to join the Scottish League Second Division. The Latics first ever League game took place on Saturday 19 August 1978 at Edgar Street, Hereford in front of a crowd of 5,674, with about three thousand fans travelling from Wigan.

Interestingly, it was actually Boston that was meant to quality in 1978, since the Latics came second to them. However, the EFL ruled that Boston’s football stadium did not meet league requirements and therefore the buck was passed to Wigan, following a vote that saw them narrowly beat Southport for the spot.

The Tics are no strangers to defeat, but there are some matches that still leave a bitter taste in the mouths of those who remember. Chief among these is the 2009 match against Tottenham, which is burned into the minds of many a hard-suffering Latics fan. A match that saw Wigan lose a staggering 9-1, with four  of those goals being scored by former Wigan striker Jermain Defoe.

More recently on 1 July 2020, the club entered administration, ostensibly because the COVID-19 pandemic caused significant impact to the club's finances. Due to going into administration, the club was handed a 12-Point deduction. Despite great form, Wigan were relegated from the Championship after a 1–1 draw with Fulham, https://news.sky.com/story/amp/wigan-athletic-football-club-goes-into-administration-12018790

Back in August it finished 1-1 away, which provided our first point of the season.

In their last six games they’ve won one, drawn two and lost three, in their last two games they haven’t conceded. They currently occupy 22nd place with 29 points.

We will be without Naismith and Conway and NP will likely make some changes given we have two games in four days. Mehmeti for Bell and Weimann in for Scott perhaps.

Harry Cornick may be playing against Wigan for the fifth time this season. He has scored twice against them (x1 League x1 FA Cup.)

Manager Leam Richardson was sacked in November, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63583133

They then appointed former Arsenal and Manchester City defender Kolo Toure as their new manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal. The 41-year-old Ivorian had spent the past five years coaching at Celtic and Leicester City under Brendan Rodgers but this was his first role in management.

In January they sacked Kolo Toure after 59 days as he failed to win any of his nine games in charge. The Latics took just two points from his seven Championship matches at the helm and at he exited they were bottom of the table, four points from safety.

At the end of January they appointed their former winger Shaun Maloney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Maloney as manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64439406

Maloney played for Celtic, Aston Villa, Wigan Athletic, Chicago Fire, Hull City and the Scotland national team as an attacking midfielder or winger.

Excellent presser IMO from NP:

 

 

In January they signed defender Martin Kelly on loan from fellow Championship side West Bromwich Albion until the end of the season and defender Omar Rekik also on loan from Arsenal until the end of the season. Kelly will miss the rest of the season after sustaining a serious knee injury on his debut for the club against Blackburn. Omar Rekik is a doubt having also been forced off during their trip to Ewood Park and missing the game against Huddersfield.

Over the years we’ve won 13, drawn 10 and lost 6.

Joe Willams, John Pender, Rob Newman, Scott McGarvey, Steve Johnson, Bobby Hutchinson, Richard O’Donnell, James Tavernier, Andy Webster, Nicky Maynard, Tony Dinning, David Cotterill and Jason Roberts and are among players who’ve played for both teams.

The man with the whistle is (sigh) Keith Stroud, who will be assisted by Ian Cooper and Daniel Leach. The fourth official is Robert Madley

They are owned by Phoenix 21 Limited, https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/wigan-agree-sale-of-club-to-phoenix-2021-limited-1615838413000

Famous fans include Richard Ashcroft lead singer for The Verve, Sky News anchor women Kay Burley, Stuart Maconie broadcaster, actor and journalist and BBC personality Paul Rowley.

They are known as  the Latics as it is a short form of the suffix Athletic.

Hats off to any Wigan fans who make the 350+ mile round trip for the game.

They are part of the Big Help Project whose mission is to feed the hungry, overcome poverty, free people from the burden of unmanageable personal debt, help people into affordable housing: https://www.bighelpproject.com the Big Help Project is a multi-award-winning national charity.

The answer: Our record sequence of unbeaten league matches = 24; 9 September 1905 – 10 February 1906.

Did you have to mention one of City's biggest incoming transfer failures and by goodness, we've had plenty of those over the years.

[E.J.Thribb]

Feeling quietly confident about tomorrow, fancy us to annihilate them.

Now I’ve jinxed it we’ll grind out a turgid 1-1 draw

[Topper 123]

Any form of win will do me , last minute off someone’s arse

[bcfc01]

Got more points away than at home, but their last away win was back on October 1st.

They've got the worst defence in the division (49 conceded) and in the bottom three for goals scored (28)

As you'd expect, they are in the bottom three in the form table.

Last 6 away games, they've drawn 4, lost 2, scored 5 and conceded 10.

What could possibly go wrong ?

 

Edited February 14, 2023 by bcfc01

[Lanterne Rouge]

30 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Got more points away than at home, but their last away win was back on October 1st.

They've got the worst defence in the division (49 conceded) and in the bottom three for goals scored (28)

As you'd expect, they are in the bottom three in the form table.

Last 6 away games, they've drawn 4, lost 2, scored 5 and conceded 10.

What could possibly go wrong ?

 

If supporting City for half a century + has taught me anything it`s that we`ll probably lose to Wigan and then beat Sunderland.

Twas ever thus.

[RUSSEL85]

A very though game indeed where patience will be needed. A game we should be looking to win but will need to play as well as we did against Norwich. 

[bcfc01]

8 minutes ago, RUSSEL85 said:

A very though game indeed where patience will be needed. A game we should be looking to win but will need to play as well as we did against Norwich. 

Yep.

One of those where if we score first, we could get one or two more.

But if they score first and shut up shop...

[steviestevieneville]

Certainly think they’ll sit deep , try to frustrate us & play on the counter attack . Set pieces will be vital as always 

[shelts]

Potential banana skin I think . Must score first and put them on the back foot . Hope we go for the jugular early doors 

[Barrs Court Red]

Normally avoid evening matches against grim northern teams - few away fans, time wasting theatrics and disappointing results seem to be a theme.  
 

As it is, half term so an excuse to take the kids without struggling to get them up for school is too good an opportunity to turn down. 

[bcfc01]

5 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

Certainly think they’ll sit deep , try to frustrate us & play on the counter attack . Set pieces will be vital as always 

I think I'm right in saying that they've scored the most from corners in the division.

We defended the set pieces against Norwich very well, so more of the same needed.

[22A]

1 hour ago, E.J.Thribb said:

Feeling quietly confident about tomorrow, fancy us to annihilate them.

Now I’ve jinxed it we’ll grind out a turgid 1-1 draw

That's what they're saying on their forum. https://forums.vitalfootball.co.uk/threads/the-robins-vs-the-tics.130029/#post-3683185

I think Bristols win at the weekend really put some healthy distance between them and the relegation battlers and that may work in our favour. As they don't NEED to beat us now but if they were a few points worse off they'd probably feel this is a game they need 3 points to put any lingering relegation fears to bed. They'll still obviously want to win and try and creep closer to the play off fringes but they probably aren't going to be quite as desperate for the result as they might have been if they were really looking over their shoulder.

A draw would be a great point and keep the good run going shaun is making us harder to beat we need scrap our way out of this

If we can get a goal in the first half I think we can draw this one 

[Henry]

3 hours ago, phantom said:

Before anyone asks 

Can’t see it. What channel?

[Jerseybean]

Scotty pre-match: https://youtu.be/M6wT9n0UNk8

[megansdad]

well worth a watch seems a very well grounded young man

[phantom]

[Red Army 75]

1 hour ago, Jerseybean said:

Scotty pre-match: https://youtu.be/M6wT9n0UNk8

Fantastic interview, great family behind him. We are going to miss this young man . 

[mozo]

3 hours ago, Jerseybean said:

Scotty pre-match: https://youtu.be/M6wT9n0UNk8

Well, there's no doubt in my mind that Scott will leave in the summer. Just reading between the lines, nothing explicit.

The look on his face when Mehmeti was mentioned! Wow, we're in for a treat. I wondered if having another 'baller' in the squad would spur AS on and I reckon that is def the case.

[AbramLatic]

Wigan fan here, coming down for the game tomorrow.  Asking for a bit of help, got a car park pass from BCFC for "Nationwide Platforms" car park, apparently a former Nationwide BS car park, but just noticed there's no Postcode.  Any help would be appreciated.  Cheers

[Jerseybean]

I had a very vivid dream last night - honestly - in which Fammy (odd it was him) was hacked down just inside the penalty area and we were awarded a penalty which we scored from and the match scoreboard showed us leading 2-0.

It is sign I tell you

[Marina's Rolls Royce]

24 minutes ago, Jerseybean said:

I had a very vivid dream last night - honestly - in which Fammy (odd it was him) was hacked down just inside the penalty area and we were awarded a penalty which we scored from and the match scoreboard showed us leading 2-0.

It is sign I tell you

I agree. The scoreboard is indeed a sign.

[Cider red]

19 hours ago, Davefevs said:

…and to make doubly sure…

Anyone have any streaming sites that will be showing the game