<t>Someone will have an accurate count, but I reckon it's a dozen consecutive winning games now at the JJB. Not all pretty, but grinding out results when you aren't at your best is probably no bad thing.<br/> Let's hope that this is a trend to carry on. <br/> Generally support good, but was the weat...

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Or whether the weather be not.
We must weather the weather,
Whatever the weather,
And whether we like it or not!

<t>Yes, well, the soccer fairies thought France wouldn't be too difficult with Thierry Henri out and St. David of Beckham going for his century, but Les Grenouilles had other ideas. <br/> Anyone thinking losing players like Brough and Obst will make this an easy game is in for a very rude shock. <br...

<t>If Wigan have the greatest supporters in the world, what's all this slagging off of those in the West Stand?<br/> I thought we all supported the team, and silly divisions do nothing for us. Those of us in the West stand pay for our tickets like everyone else, and so far the menu hasn't run to pra...

<t>Quite what the new pedantry about offside is trying to achieve I am not sure. Certainly the greatest game of all is in danger of being stifled by excessive and disruptive penalties. The thing is, last season the offside rule was applied, players offside got penalised and the game flowed OK. Effec...

<t>There's no point in blaming O'Loughlin when it was a team failure. The captain actually played as well as he could, but the glue that makes a team out of a talented bunch of individuals is missing.<br/> On several occasions you could see that had one of the Wigan team stood up and issued instruct...

<t>The optimism of the start of the season seems to be disappearing under a mass of penalties. Even if every one has been correctly awarded the excess is ruining the free flowing game we all love. I can see no evidence that the game has improved, been made more exciting, safer for the players or eve...