Latics look for cup success

Last updated : 08 November 2014 By The Chairman

Dominic Poleon could start in today's FA Cup first-round tie against Leyton Orient after falling foul to Lee Johnson for high-fiving his Bristol City friends on the field after the final whistle. Johnson had hard words with him after he grabbed him in the players' tunnel.

The manager said, “Dom has extreme power and pace. He doesn’t possess a great touch, isn’t great with his back to goal and is not a great finisher. If he was all of those things, we wouldn’t have him. With his pace and power, he would be at a top Championship club at a minimum and probably bought by a Premier League club. He always was, and is, a development player for us. Not just in his technique, but in his professionalism."

"He’s a very good, nice lad and we are educating him. I got a few tweets about what I did at the weekend where I really ripped into him. My attitude is, if you don’t feel it as much as I do there’s no point in being here. He isn’t like that really. He has a lovely vibe about him and does work hard. People may think he hasn’t got a good attitude, but that isn’t the case at all. It’s important my players get into my personality. If they don’t, I can’t work with them.”