Latics any excuse there **** end of!

If we said where playing crap cause latics are turring the pitch up we would get laughed at and the press would make a big deal about it

i suspect a devious journalist at work here trying to open up old wounds,watch any game of rugby or football this weekend and 75% of the pitches will be in a poor condition,again lazy journalism trying to make a story out of nothing,my only suprise is that so many people bite on the issue.
its been the worst winter for 30 years and a pitch like anything else has a shelf life every now and again it will need re-placing,whelan knows this and i dont think youll find many latics fans disagreeing with you that he is indeed a untrustworthy individual,there at last some common ground between rugby and football thier dislike of dave whelan,anyone on here not like maurice either

Indeed.

Having read the "article", the title of this thread and a lot of the posts here bare no relation to it.

Martinez basically says the pitch is house at the moment and is obviously not going to get better with two teams playing on it from now on. The usual lazy journalism winds it up and gets the usual bites it was looking for.

The one thing Martinez says which I don't agree with is the excuse of the pitch contributing to how bad they are playing. That failing is all his own making, with his tactics, team selection and signing a couple of his mates from Swansea who are so out of their depth its embarrassing.

But this is the same Martinez who sent his players onto that pitch during the worst of the bad weather against the wishes of the head groundsman, and is now complaining about the state of it.

Even with 2 teams playing on it the pitch should improve soon as the grass will start growing again as we move towards March, they were seeding the surface today.

I was wondering how long it would take them.

Balls to 'um!! They clearly know nothing, so there's no point worrying about them.

I bet it does get better!

### Breaking News###
Grass starts growing again in March!

Just said on SSN an ex everton player whos name shall not be given airtime said the pitch will get even worse with more rugby league games being played on it, i hope we get a home tie in the CC

Just watch SS1 now that pitch looks worse than it did on friday and its only just started.

just watched the game on canal+ and just after the second half started it showed what the groundsman were doing at half-time, i had the sound turned down but no doubt they were laying the blame.

Looked shocking tonight but that only matches Latics preformences.

They're nothing to do with the pitch and everything to do with the manager.

Another two points dropped tonight.

Spurs at Home on Saturday - can't see them getting anything out of that one either.

no doubt we will be getting some blame thrown our way in the coming weeks. state of the pitch getting a mention on the BBC website
Since Roberto Martinez arrived at Wigan last summer and since Owen Coyle turned up at Bolton last month, both have tried to get their teams playing passing football, but in these wretched conditions it was nigh-on impossible.'"

says 13k in the report

The plot thickens.

And they all received free flags - The money Uncle Dave throws at that lost cause is untrue.

* They all probably say JJB on them