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Yeah, 1 point from 2 home games isnt a great return (though expectations this season is a relegation battle, and our budget is supposedly bottom 2, so not wholely unexpected), but a last minute equaliser always puts a good shine on things, especially going into our derby Saturday. Also felt...

Sat too deep, and weren't clinical enough on the counter with the chances we had second half. Disappointed with conceding from a corner... lot of our work is made from outperforming xg and having the lions share of the set pieces, and wasnt a great reflection of that.

Very open here at Wigan, and a great freekick to open Hoskins account. A fair few doubters amongst our fans about his ability to step up to League 1, so good to settle the nerves. Going to be a few more goals in this though.

If we do that, not convinced Guthre will see out the full 90 in the first game of the season having not played enough. Would you play Dyche instead?

Following the two loan transfer, I think it now looks like this Burge Sherring Guthrie Monthe Lintott Leonard Sowerby Koiki Pinnock Hoskins Simpson I spent an age deciding between Bowie and Pinnock and I still not 100% sure. I could easily have McWilliams, Fox, Hondermarck or even Lashabela...

With Leonard signing, every player who made more than 8 starts for the team last year including loanees is back with us. Very consistent. Very different approach to the way stevenage have gone about, be interested to see which the best option is.

He'd been in all our pre-season games (minus the last one maybe), so assume that would be our interest in him gone if he's joined another squad.

When we went up in the play-offs we sold Charlie Goode for £1 million with 500k addons, and while he was a couple of years younger I think thats a similar profile. You won't get Clarke-Harris money for him, but I think if you get much less than a million then Carlisle are being short-changed.

Seems very likely. Kinda interesting to see what this means in terms of style of play. 1st year in League 1 under Brady, we had the second lowest number of short passes (second only to Evan's Gillingham), and highest percentage of goals from set pieces, which got us to a very good points tally...

Having made any attacking signings in this window yet, with Brady suggesting that he's willing to be patient as possible to try and get as much quality as we can for our budget. A little bit worrying we've got 1 fit Striker with less than two weeks to season start, but I guess this is the crunch...

Lost 1 - 0 to Leicester in our first game today. Despite starting pre-season late to compesate for it, the injury crisis from last year still showing it's impact, with only 11 first-team professionals fit enough to make the squad in the first friendly. Filled it up with a handful of youth team...

Due to Leicester only playing one game in the UK this pre-season and the close locality, our friendly this afternoon is sold out with Leicester taking a few thousand fans. Nice little and probably unexpected coffer boost on gate receipts.

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Interesting tactic to only just recruit people that were with us or Barrow last year.

In non fleetwood news, the High Court Judicial Review of the sale of land around Sixfields has gone in the favour of the owners and against the rival property developers. Which means to make long story short, more than 9 years since it began, there's a decent chane the East Stand construction...

Mmm. I'm not 100% sure on it either way. Bowie never let us down, but he wasn't a stand out performer, and we haven't really improved ourselves, even if consistency can sometimes breed results.

Was from an Ipswich account, so may well have just been someone noticing he's not training on you and guessing possible destinations, they didn't hint at what sort of transfer. We wouldn't be able to offer anything over £2k a week I'd have thought.

Twitter rumour (so big pinch of salt), linking both us and Leyton Oreint to Joe Piggott.

I was bored enough today to have a look at how busy each team have been, and there's definitely a cluster of teams in Portsmouth, Burton, Stevenage, Oxford and Port Vale who seem to have done the bulk of their business already by July, and a few in Barnsley, Northampton, Reading and Wycombe who...

Tom King is expect to reject our contract to join for Wolves. From a second choice keeper in League One to 3rd choice in a Premiership ... seems a pretty obvious one, might as well be very well paid if you're not going to get much game time.