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Probably just trying to be honest. He'll develop a slightly harder approach over time I'm sure.

To not even get on the bench once is a little worrying if Berry has been fit the whole time though.

I wouldn't put it past him! I just cannot get excited about this news, having heard it so many times already. The optimistic in me wants to believe the takeover will happen this time. The pessimist in me me thinks Dai has found another fall guy, who will pay the bills for a couple of months and then it all falls through.

Off to St Andrew’s on Saturday, haven’t been there before and looking forward to 3 more points on the road. COYB!!!!

You don't remember quite a bit of frustration that we didn't seem to have the knowhow how to see tight wins out and drew loads of games we were well on top in?

The ‘lauded Pep and his panto coaching’ has yielded 12 league titles and 16 domestic cups across his time at Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and Manchester City. I’d say his methods have been quite effective.

Knowing their luck it'll be Dai Yongge wearing a hat and calling himself Guy Dongge

Let's not forget in the 1st half their goalkeeper made 2 really good saves, Simons saw McCleary free and set him up with a great cross-field ball from which he ran on and delivered a ball across the goal which none of our forward players got to. Then Wigan set up shop.

If 1 of those chances had gone in the game would have been different and Wigan would not have set back defending a 1-0 deficit. We need our strikers to score early on or perhaps make more of the chances we have. As MD said, he has to work out a way of making more of our 'final third' opportunities.

When you say, we "attacked at will", we didn't really, though, did we? Just for example, my memory of the away game at Wigan was that we started well, scored early and as the game went on, found it more and more difficult to get out of our own half, with just the occasional breakaway. At the end, the players were falling to their knees, punching the air and man-hugging all round, reflecting the backs-to-the-wall nature of the win.

And even where we found it easier, a lot of the attacking was punctuated by long, patient passages of Wanderers passing the ball around the back four, into midfield and back again as we tried to move the opposition around and create the gap or spot the run. Saturday, to my mind, was not much different from that, saving that we scored in all those early games (often early) and didn't on Saturday.

Anti-football Anonymous?

I'm going to set up a branch of AA in the Shrewsbury region where people like myself can secretly enjoy a certain type of football.