10 Games In, Time To Judge?

They say you shouldn’t judge a team in a new campaign until at least 10 games have been played, well we will play our tenth game of this particular season on Saturday when we visit Carrow Road to face Norwich City.

We have already accumulated 16 points in what has been a fantastic start, so after 10 games we will sit on at least that many, cast your minds back to the last time we were here in the Championship, no go on, I know you’d like to forget it but please humour me.

10 games in we met Wolves at the DW Stadium, beat them 2-1 to reach 8 points, so we will at least double that tally come 5pm Saturday, in fact we didn’t reach our current total in the 2016/17 season until we beat Huddersfield Town on the 28^th November, though following that win we only managed 1 point from our next seven games.

In danger of becoming somewhat repetitive I cannot believe just how good we have been so far this season, when the start is looked at in context we can see how promising it is, the 2004/05 season which saw us promoted to the top flight had us on 19 points after nine games, we are within touching distance of that amount, though I’m not advocating that we all start getting carried away, I feel we are in for an exciting season ahead.

The proposed takeover of the club has been put back once again if reports from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange are anything to go by, I’m no expert but reading dates that jump out it looks like the 12^th October could be significant.

Following the hullabaloo when the deal was first muted it has now turned into something of a matter of fact situation and it appears that the Latics support is quite blasè about it all, though I am sure once it does go through there will be a buzz of excitement and anticipation, roll on the 12^th October, isn’t that the next international break? Well it will give us something to talk about.

Up the tics!