Latics feel the Hornets Sting
Posted by liam_wafc in Watford, Wigan | 25 September 2006
The biggest surprise to me that came out of Saturdays aggrivating draw with Watford wasn't the lost points, it wasn't Jewells refusal to use substitutes or Henri Camara's inability to stay onside. No, the biggest surprise for me was the boos that rang around the stadium when referee Rob Styles blew for full time.
Boos. It wasn't unanimous, but a select group of fans decided to make their aggrivation known to our slow start of the season. Where they deserved boos? Well in my opinion no. Now if we we're bottom of the league, there would be a reason to boo, but some fans need a reality check.
Our goal, outlined by Paul Jewell, this season is again to stay in the league. Nothing more, and five points from five games, considering three of those were away from home and two against form teams in Portsmouth and Everton, that isn'ta bad start. I would have expected to have won our two home games but that it turns out was not to be.
I'm as annoyed as any Latics fan at our inability to create chances, then finish the ones that come our way. Yet people forget that seven of the eleven who started the game on Saturday we're new players, who are still learning how to play with each other.
Give the lads time and they will come good, Denny Landzaat in particular needs a good game soon or face the axe. Who knows, maybe that game will come this Sunday at Ewood Park.