The country might be in a mess. The Latics aren't in a mess, there needs to be some changes. All that is irrelavent and had no inflence on yesterdays's game.

Any views on the referee's performance Hardwick? None of what happened yesterday can be attributed to Mellon. Or the players. The game had barely settled down when the first red was shown. We played with nine for an hour and competed. Mellon did what he could. But with nine, he's between two stools. He has to look for a point. If they got lucky then maybe we could have scored. Fondop, I think, broke through and was fouled. Rock gave Crawley the free kick. He he played just 3 minutes of added time. He didn't even allow us the corner at the very end. Last time he reffed us the winning goal for Newport came in the 108th minute!

That ref has a clear bias and it has been worse every game he has been in charge of us. Maybe he is still holding a grudge that he was made to look an idiot at the Harrogate game. The card he gave Fondop at Newport got overturned. The there was yesterday! He is the most corrupt ref many of us have ever seen! The team, the manager and the performance cannot be critised yesterday.