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Some good performances tonight. Nice to see a few putting in a shift for the cause.

Pitman, easy for me.

His experience proved so valuable at the end.

Pitman - for the calories burned

Nice to have choices. Don't think anyone had a bad game.

Travers for his handling at set pieces
Pitman for winning every header and holding the ball up and a winning goal
Hope for his non stop pressing
Odimayo for his defending and attacking play 1st half.

Perhaps a night for MOM to be shared.  Everyone of them sweated blood.

Hope's defensive shift in the second half really caught my eye.  Lyden broke everything up as usual since in his return. Masterson gets the job done.  Will be interested to see NMH's ratings.

I was walking home from work in the pouring rain trying to watch the first half (after the goal) on my phone - Thought it was 7pm start. Saw the second half from home, but didn't seem many bright performances. We were dogged and determined, but Wigan look poor.

So, difficult to select a MotM, but I guess, Pitman did well to hold the ball up, take it to the corner and I think I saw him sprint in the last couple of mins!

Didn't see enough of the game properly to do ratings I'm afraid.

That's a shame.  But thanks for the your trouble throughout the season.  Always well judged and interesting.

Travers very composed when claiming the ball, unlike his opposite number.

Much better from Thompson as well.

But Pitman gets the vote for chugging towards the corner in added time and overall putting in a good shift.

Pitman was immense tonight, held the ball up well, won some headers and scored a scruffy goal. I thought Palmer had a decent game as well but Pitman mom

Travers for me. We have not defended corners well at all and we gave them 9 tonight, so kudos there because there has been times this season where we would eventually concede at a corner. Great handling.

Strange how Wigan fans saw our players’ performances with a few bemoaning Palmer choosing this game to  ‘play like Zidane’!

They all played their hearts out, very hard to select one, but Pitman for his nuisance value tying up their CB's and his hold-up play, and his goal.

Tempted by Pitman but I went for Travers as we wouldnt have been in the game without a few vital saves by him, what a difference a good keeper makes, their keeper was a clown.

Pitman easy for me, gave their CB’s nightmares, a proper target man’s performance and the Pitman of old turned up.

Shout out again to Hope who I always think is a little underrated

Did he make any saves? I don't remember them having a shot on target. In fact I think they only had about 2 shots all game!

ditto Trails.

I assumed I was just going senile

Good to hear about Hope. I'm inclined to agree, he seems to be one of those players that goes about their business in a good way. Holds the ball up well, seems to have good footballing intelligence etc.

In the 1st half the got to several crosses and 2 attempted shots that he easily saved confidently that I truly think Kovar would have messed up going by his track record setting up their strikers for an easy chance.

I just feel so much more comfortable with him in goal, much like Benda, when the defence see him catching crosses and commanding his area it gives the other defenders confidence around him.

I've only seen Travers once but he does seem to exude an air of knowing how to do the basics more than competently as well as being a good shot stopper and having good reflexes. Kovar just never did.

For a game lots of people were going to boycott, this is the highest vote-count in the last five.

Not disputing that Travers had a good game - he is very good and a huge upgrade on Kovar, I just wouldn't make him MOTM on the basis he made saves when he didn't make any!

It appears that the consensus is that Travers doesn't deserve the accolade on this occasion.

I hope that Pitman puts in a similar performance at the weekend.

I think there's a few who are deserving, but only one player can win it.

To my knowledge that was the first time Pitman started with a proper strike partner. I am convinced that playing Pitman and Smith as a two is what we need to build the team around for the rest of the season.

Was that the first time Tyler smith and Pitman had been on the pitch at the same time?

Pitman has started 8 games this season and we have won 4 of them. In the other 18 games he didnt start we won 2 of them.
There is no doubt to me that we need to find that fit for him and surround him with runners and feed him with crosses. Everytime we have started 1 up front the striker has been so isolated

Pitman gives a bit more physical presence up front doesn't he.

We know he's not been brilliant. But we don't have anyone else who can provide that.

Are you thinking we need a single transferable vote system of polling, rather than first past the post?

Perhaps Barry can design it into the software. Or ask Dominion Voting Systems to do so.

In heaping praise on anyone for this game, I don't think we should underestimate how uncharacteristically crap Wigan were. Just saying.

their back line made ours look like late 80's arsenal