"Firstly we have to give credit to the players for going seventeen games unbeaten, but we were beaten by the better team, I felt. Nathan Ellington was absent which didn't help us, and the injury to Lee McCulloch didn't help us, but credit to Plymouth as they set their stall out, and once they scored, and we never really looked dangerous, and if anyone was going to score I always felt it was going to be them."
"If I am going to make excuses then I suppose three games in six days, and the pitch was a bit heavy today too, I suppose it was. But when you get a couple of goals going against you, the legs get a little bit tired, and we didn't win any battles anywhere on the pitch today, and there's been a few mistakes made, and I am very disappointed, but I am not going to be too hard on the lads as its only one defeat in eighteen games."
"I said to the players yesterday that this was a massive game for us, because people will look at us and expect us to beat them. They are a very difficult side to play against as West Ham and Reading found out during the week. I'm not going to have a go at our side, it's a case of saying 'well done' to Plymouth."
"But we are still three points clear, and we've more points than anyone else. This result might stop people talking about ridiculous things saying that we are going to run away with the league, and this, that, and the other. You get nothing got nothing in this game, and today I thought we deserved what we got. Nothings decided in November, but we've just got bounce back."
"We got beat by Plymouth here in the year we got promotion, so perhaps it's a sign that the omens are good!"
Bobby Williamson
"I'm pleased we got a result. We knew what we wanted to do when we came here and we've done that. It was very hard work and we're delighted we got the three points because nobody's beaten Wigan this season. We got the breaks on the day, which gave us those three points."
In any game, you are going to have to defend at some stage and we were put on the back foot right from kick-off. We gave away a lot of free-kicks in dangerous areas, but, thankfully, we dealt with them. Usually, we start the game better.
"I'm delighted for the lads at the back, and for the rest of them as well. For us to keep a clean sheet is pleasing - if we can nullify their attack, then we've got a good chance of doing that against most teams in this division.
"They missed a couple of players. Certainly when [Lee] McCulloch went off, it was a big blow. I felt they never recovered from that. He's an out-ball for them and the strikers feed off him. Maybe that was a telling factor."
"Paul was also going to stride forward and have a crack," he said, of the opener. "It's taken a wicked deflection and it's hard luck on the goalkeeper. Sometimes these things go for you and sometimes they go against you. I'd rather be having it, than it going against us.
"[Stevie] sniffed the danger and got himself between the goalkeeper and the ball. I thought it was a very acute angle to get a goal from. From where I was standing, it was one of those agonising ones - I didn't know whether it was going to bulge the net or go past the post.
"I'm pleased for Stevie because he played well the other night, but I decided to start with Trigger [Mickey Evans] because I thought Stevie would be a better player to have coming off the bench than the big man, who gave us everything he had.
"The plan was to take Mickey off at half-time but we felt we could get another 10-15 minutes out of him because he was troubling them in the air - he was a good target for us."
"We have got to take confidence from that, but it doesn't matter who you beat - you only get three points, whether it's a team at the top of the league or the bottom of the league.
"We have ability, as well but Wigan never let us play at any time and we had to had to hit them on the counter-attack. We can't get carried away. We've just had one result. It was a very good team performance and we're glad we picked up the points at a difficult venue.
"The teams at the top end of this league will be delighted we've managed to take three points off Wigan, so they don't stretch further away from everybody else, but I'm more concerned that we put a team on the park that can compete with the better teams in this league and please our supporters, who travel a long, long way to these matches.
"We have got to try and build on it. We go into the next game with the same thought, to try and get three points, but that won't be easy - there are no easy matches in this league. Every game's a test for us. I just hope we can compete in this league and give the fans their money's worth.
"You can only tell over the course of a season. I will look at the season as a whole, and how we've dealt with situations, and hopefully learn from it and become a better manager, and make the players better players. The end of the season is the time everybody should be judged, players and managers alike."