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Jesus man, this point has been done to death and is really idiotic. Except it's definitely not, because it will 100% be mentioned if we lose. Ian still having the nerve to do his forum police routine after all that's happened. Nicest bloke on the forum. Aye.

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Not sure I agree, the vote of confidence isn't looked at too well either, is it?

It's a clever widget that Rich or someone put up there, your eyes only see it when you've 100% lost faith in Alan Pardew. I've been able to see it for ages.

They're fucking rank. Puma actually managing to start going backwards.

Well said. Football fans argue about who deserved to win a match every week yet this discussion is out of bounds.

Good, cos he is.

Hughton had us safe as houses with a far inferior squad, I personally think he could have done a decent job with better players and it's a shame he wasn't given the chance to. I don't see how he wasn't a leader either, he's one of the most important figures in our recent history for the way he led us out of the Championship when everyone was petrified we'd be down there for a number of years.

Your mate's a fucking pure spanner.

I blame the front cover of this edition of The Mag in so many ways, I keep on seeing it knocking about my flat and it pisses me off so much. http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0168/9134/products/The_Mag_Issue_270_NUFC_1024x1024.jpg?2033

If we go down then I think we're at the point again where we have to hope Ashley cuts his losses and finds a buyer, he's done some good things recently but a club like ours turning into some sort of yo-yo club is unacceptable. If we stay up then Pardew needs to go or else we approach next season with trepidation and hopelessness.

Players can be sold if it doesn't work out. Managers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22336538 It's still a small price to pay IMO, if you've got any degree of common sense.

I don't understand this stuff about the manager's wages. We'll quite gladly pay players over 40 grand a week but won't pay the same for a top manager? Ashley's fucking boneheaded if that's true, it makes no sense to scrimp and save on the most important role at the club.

Knew 20/1 was ridiculously good value after the mackems shambles.

Off the pitch, yes.

Wigan have been in this position for the last 4 seasons, did it matter to them then that they were behind teams? Actually they've never been behind on points before at this stage of the season. Every other time they've been in a relegation battle they've been either level on points with 17th or ahead of them by the time they hit 34 games. So they've left it later to overtake teams this year, it's still a situation they're used to and you'd have to have nerves of steel to dismiss the possibility.

I've just done it with Wigan getting 7 points and us getting 1 and we go down by a point but effectively 2 points due to the goal difference disadvantage vs Wigan/Norwich. Admittedly a fairly negative POV I've taken there, but fairly justified and certainly possible. This weekend is so crucial.

Biggest game in our recent history, I don't fancy our chances of bouncing back again if we go down and the longer we leave it without getting a win the bigger lottery it is.

We definitely deserve to go down IMO, any side that goes out to stifle the opposition rather than play their own game to the extent we do deserves all they get. I've been embarrassed at the vast majority of our performances this season, the football is straight from the dark ages.

Not sure anyone's saying it is, I think people are just saying it's a possibility given their fixtures and the fact they've been in these circumstances and excelled before.

Not a chance in hell will they. Well I disagree, it seems we've reached a brick wall, neesy.

Nah, I'm not having it like. If they're still in the mix to stay up then I think there's a very good chance they'd play a weakened side in the final.

They'll get fined by the FA if they do. Unless they get fined 50 million quid or whatever then that doesn't make a blind bit of difference. I think they might do it if they get the points against Swansea.

Any chance Wigan will play a reserve team in the FA Cup final?

you think wigan will beat WBA and Swansea? I doubt it. I don't see why not like, they pushed Spurs close the other day and WBA and Swansea have zero motivation to pull up any trees. Well for me, they havent just become a team that can go and gets wins whenever they want. WBA is a tough place to go and they had a great win on saturday. Wigans form is marginally better than ours. Swansea aye, west brom away I dont think so 30 24 March 2012 Liverpool 1 – 2 Wigan Athletic Liverpool [show] 31 31 March 2012 Wigan Athletic 2 – 0 Stoke City Wigan [show] 32 7 April 2012 Chelsea 2 – 1 Wigan Athletic London [show] 33 11 April 2012 Wigan Athletic 1 – 0 Manchester United Wigan [show] 34 16 April 2012 Arsenal 1 – 2 Wigan Athletic London [show] 35 21 April 2012 Fulham 2 – 1 Wigan Athletic London [show] 36 28 April 2012 Wigan Athletic 4 – 0 Newcastle United Wigan [show] 37 7 May 2012 Blackburn Rovers 0 – 1 Wigan Athletic Blackburn [show] 38 13 May 2012 Wigan Athletic 3 – 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers Wigan [show] I'm not so sure. They won when they wanted when it mattered towards the end of last season. We'll see, I hope you're right.