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The European super league was one big power play by the big clubs to get more from UEFA they've got an expanded champions league. The cost of which appears to be degrade further the FA Cup

I realise that but it doesn't mean it's beneficial for the game as a whole and it's certainly no benefit to us.

A) we are ready as a club but from a footballing point of view we have little problem of getting the 11 men on the pitch to kick the round thing in the goal more than other 11 men. Depends what lessons are learned from it I'm hoping we do learn from this.

Yes Tottenham and Newcastle have a friendly arranged on the 22nd of May out in Australia but they can't play FA Cup replays because of fixture congestion. For the record I'd be happy if at round 5 they scrapped replays but rounds 1 to 4 is hugely important for teams lower than the championship.

Club statement Trying to change the subject abit from the pity party that is the last quarter of this season. Quite a big change to the FA cup seems to be taking place without consultation of many of the clubs. I do approve of the keeping the competition on Saturdays but what I don't like is the complete disregard of replays and how important they are not just from a financial point of view but from a footballing point of view too. Their is something magical about an FA cup tie in deep winter under the lights at Boundary Park. I'm glad the club have come out and said this and I'm glad other club's are pushing back too.

Which is why this summer is a crucial one for us because we have to learn from those mistakes in recruitment whatever they maybe from the last 2 years. I think the current hierarchy is capable of critical thought unlike the last lot so I think they will learn lessons from this and we will come back stronger.

Marc White pre match team talk Whiz it through to when Marc White does his pre match prior to the Oldham game he mentions about beingbable to out work us mentions about Hogan ability to win aerial duals and the importance of making the first contact with us it's something to think about but I'm not surprised he believes we can be outworked we have a lack of running power in the team.

A possibility yes but not something we know for certain But the point Im really driving at here is that it's easy to draw conclusions based on assumptions. What is critical this summer is that we get to the root of the recruitment problem it's a pivotal summer this one for us Get it right and we can really build sone momentum.

It shouldn't be discounted as an issue but as has been said above by you and one 2 others some are rushing to the conclusion that it's the problem. Success leaves the clues the fact that all the top clubs and athletes across any sport across the world are using data analysis to enhance performance probably suggests they are onto something. It could well be that they are using it properly but we aren't.

Yes and we weren't also discussing our football clubs on the Internet back then either I'm sure the Internet was seen as trendy rubbish too then eh?

How can you conclude something is wrong without understanding how it works?

Another thread where everyone says the stats bomb is wrong without understanding how it works or how we've used them.

I watched the Apprentice final last night saw the Latics result this morning and have skim read through this thread. We can have the biggest pity party in the world if you want and say how the players have shit the bed this season and how we've had 3 decades of dissapointment it's not going to change anything. So I'm just going to look forward to next season from here because as a fan their is nothing else I can do.

It's not the fans fault the players have shit the bed in the last month and a half of the season however I'm not sure it gives us the right to hurl abuse either. While I'm abit bemused at some of the opinions I hear at Boundary Park, which have left me asking what game are you watching I don't think BP has been massively toxic, it only really turned toxic to David Unsworth in his final few games. Apart from that I don't think it's been that bad from my observations. I don't think social media helps as it amplifies the noise quite alot too.

I know I know but sometimes you just really sound like him . He did actually say that season tickets weren't a big deal and even advocated scraping them all together. FWIW Someone once came on here and accused me of being Neil Joy (he lives around Glossop) we all laugh about that now it even resulted in me going on the podcast and effectively clearing my name.