If it were a normal Saturday I'd have this down for an away win all day long. They've lost their way after a good start to the season, they don't look as strong as last year and we look much improved. In their favour is the Laudrup effect - if he's half the manager he was a player then it'll be happy days for Swansea. Just the fact that they've changed their manager might help them to avoid that second season thing. Everyone thinks they had a great season last time out and we had a terrible one - but we finished four points behind them, and they took four points off us - so we have pretty much an identical record apart form our games against each other. Anyway, Laudrup seems to be working out better for them than Hughton is for Norwich, and with Southampton and Reading looking so poor too maybe both us and Swansea might have a chance of avoiding too much of a relegation scrap.
But it's not a normal Saturday, it's the Saturday after an international break and gawd alone knows which Wigan will show up. According to Physio Room it's only Alcaraz who continues to be a doubt and we may see him getting used, simply because Figueroa and Caldwell might be tired. As will Maloney, McCarthy and McArthur which might means (gulp) a run out for that useless twerp Gomez. I can just imagine Bobby thinking that this is a match - against an old club - where he might raise his game. I'd just remind everyone that we haven't picked up a point from a match he's started this time out. In spite of the "he's better than he used to be - he came from a pretty low starting point, and we still don't get anything when he plays.
I'd settle for a point. If Wigan turn up like they did against Everton then I would expect a win though. Although this time Bobby, if we go a goal up please let's go for the killer rather than trying to see it out eh?
But it's not a normal Saturday, it's the Saturday after an international break and gawd alone knows which Wigan will show up. According to Physio Room it's only Alcaraz who continues to be a doubt and we may see him getting used, simply because Figueroa and Caldwell might be tired. As will Maloney, McCarthy and McArthur which might means (gulp) a run out for that useless twerp Gomez. I can just imagine Bobby thinking that this is a match - against an old club - where he might raise his game. I'd just remind everyone that we haven't picked up a point from a match he's started this time out. In spite of the "he's better than he used to be - he came from a pretty low starting point, and we still don't get anything when he plays.
I'd settle for a point. If Wigan turn up like they did against Everton then I would expect a win though. Although this time Bobby, if we go a goal up please let's go for the killer rather than trying to see it out eh?
