[Devongone]

I'm sure you're right Pooch. I suppose GC thought four or five (promising?) young lads at much less than we were paying Jay and Gboly sounded like a deal. Unfortunately the deals waved bye bye to our last vestiges of inspiration and didn't replace them. And Dancing has been right all along that we appointed someone who had never been in anything like this situation. If we'd appointed say a Kevin Wilson or a Steve Chettle who'd run very cash-poor non-league teams at least that background would've been relevant. But Wigan? Where grandad has deep pockets? GC clearly wasn't prepared for us and has made some dreadful decisions.

(I must admit I'm still baffled by the thought that if a lower league side plays a cup match against a Premier or Championship team that fields several youngsters it thinks it has a chance and will often win. Yet that same lower league side when in relegation trouble is likely to follow the GC line and loan in those very same players it proved it could beat in a cup tie ............. Barmy!)

I don't think GC is necessarily rubbish. In other circumstances he could succeed, because he has in the past. Unfortunately by the end of this season it looks as though everyone will think he's rubbish. And when people think you are rubbish it is almost impossible to turn that round. But this is a situation the club started working its way towards during Paul Cook's successful season in Division One. That could have been a springboard, but we turned it into a broken duckboard.