Hecky's interview and approach at Wigan

What were people's impressions? Mine was that we are going to keep it tight and try and remain level before the last 20 minutes. If we need the win we will go for it in the last 20 or if results are going for us we will continue to sit back.

I do see the logic in this but can't help but think going all out for the win is the best idea.

 

To be honest I am starting to get just a teeny bit worried that Heckinbottom might try and do a Flitcroft, a la complicating things and thinking he has got it made.

 

We need to attack. They will have plenty of chances and we should look after our own destiny. Playing for draw doesn't mean Wigan will.

 

If he learned 'owt from last Saturday, it should be that caution can often bite you on the bum.


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I don't think sitting back is a bad thing. We play better in the counter attack anyway. Our defence soaks up most that's thrown at it and we had the pace out wide to cause problems on the break. I can see us defending for the majority of the match but pinching a goal in the counter or from a set piece and holding on for a win.

I hope so anyway.

 

I don't want to play that cautious game and run out of time, we know what we need lets go for it from the off.

 

If we concede an early goal I can't see us coming back from that.

 

I think we need to make it as hard a game as possible. Derby mentality.

Although I think we're fatigued I also think there's no way on earth they'll have taken this game as serious as we have & the harder the game is the harder it'll be for them later in the match

 

We have the best away record of the year....we need to treat it just as any other away fixture.

 

We have won away at Millwall Scunny Bradford (twice) Walsall and got credible draws at Burton Sheff Utd and Wigan in the JPT so why should we not have a pretty decent chance of getting the result we need?

 

Hecky hasn't shown any signs of being anything like that. Why worry about something that hasn't even started to happen?

 

I don't really buy into this whole fatigued malarkey. These are highly paid professionals who are amongst the fittest people in the country in a sporting sense. They have had a week from their last match and currently sit in a playoff spot with the real possibility of gaining promotion in four matches time. Along with this will come a healthy pay rise as well as boosting their individual careers. In my eyes, there are no excuses for saying they are fatigued, if so, it's exactly the same for the other twenty odd teams in this league so it really is all relative.


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Fatigued physically, mentally too perhaps? It's been a long season, with some really low points, and massive highs. A lot of the players are young and many are away from home. It's oreight saying "well, they're professional footballers and get paid well" etc, but they're still human beings. They're not machines, they're affected by emotions as we all are. And I'm not sure any of them are earning life changing money. I bet there's plenty of us on this forum earning whatever the average monthly wage is of our current squad. If not more. And money doesn't equal happiness nor does it wipe out the ability to feel..

 

I'd swap jobs in a heart-beat if I had the talent and age on my side which I don't. I bet not many on here wouldn't. As i said, it's all relative, every other side in this league are exactly in the same boat. If they are fatigued emotionally and physically then so is everyone else they play against.


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He did in his last match when he was happy for us to spend twenty minutes playing tippy tappy negative football against the ten men of the second worst team in the league, by not testing the outfield keeper they had.

We have to be more positive but it's been said by many for ages we've not had a brilliant first half in a long time, so expect more of the same.

 

I agree.

Playing once every 7 days recently and having international breaks from time to time means that they ought to be good to go.

We hardly stuck in there in the league and FA Cups did we?

What we must do is try and play the same way we've been playing away from home for the last few months - cos it obviously works. Nowt more complicated than that.

 

We don't get international breaks, we've played twice a week plenty of times & have played more games than any club in our league this year