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the_mighty_bosh

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  1. Get rid of our top scorer to add two more to what is already a bloated squad of strikers on the books. You can do better than this.
  2. I genuinely don't want to be the grammar pedant police, but as it's the 2nd time you've posted it... "Castigated" is the word you're looking for, because castration is a lot lot worse. I can be as much of a knob as the next person after a defeat, but I'd never castrate anyone for a different opinion.
  3. I suppose you could say that we're still in the race for the playoffs, so if we do pick up at least four points from the Easter weekend we'll still have a decent chance of nabbing a top 7 spot (nabbing it is the best I can hope for with the way we're playing). But that was the most disappointing performance of the season, on the back of a good performance last week, that has shot to pieces much of the hope that we are a playoff or promotion-winning team. That was the game that we needed to step up and prove that we are the team to beat in the playoffs but it was such a laboured and turgid performance that was lacking in intelligence on the pitch. Mellon should absolutely get the summer transfer window and I think we'll have the chance to get a lot of players with the wrong mentality out of the club which I can see him doing, but the performances are so bad that it's losing him credit with the fans ahead of next season which could put unnecessary pressure on him. He could be doing a lot better than this with the players we have, regardless of their flaws.
  4. No wonder you aren't jizzing yourself over performances if you got castrated last week.
  5. It's the best yardstick for whether we're ready for promotion or not. All conventional logic would say that we're not ready, but it wouldn't surprise me if some of our players see it as a big enough game to put in a big performance for. Not the ideal attitude over the whole season by any means but it's what I'm hoping pushes us to compete today.
  6. The question should be asked in every thread for me, it's overdue that Mellon should be sacked. Personally I'd have sacked him after the 3-0 defeat to Fylde.
  7. This whole thread is a joke, it's nonsense that you're actually being serious. If Mellon doesn't get a summer transfer window then we're a knee-jerk club that listens to the idiot part of our fanbase way too much. Luckily Frank and the board are better than that.
  8. I'd love to say that we'll win this and win on Tuesday and we'll cement our playoff place, but I absolutely don't trust this squad to put in back-to-back good performances so one narrow win and one turgid draw is probably the best we can realistically expect. Still it's nice for the first time since maybe 2019 (and before that 2007) that we're playing playoff 6-pointers rather than relegation ones, so I suppose that's progress. Fair play to Aldershot because when we smashed them 5-1 at the start of the season it looked like they would be nowhere near the top, so credit to them still being in the mix.
  9. Four strikers, three of which are proven at this level or above and the other (Fondop) who's mercurial enough to cause opposition defences panic. We didn't give any of them a proper opportunity to score with the way we set up tonight, aside from maybe Garner in the early stages. Mellon has got enough points so far to justify that he's doing the job that needs doing, but surely he could be setting the team up in a more effective way than he currently is? We made enough mistakes tonight that very nearly led to goals to say that the clean sheet was more down to luck rather than a particularly skilled defence. Playoffs will be progress this season, but it clearly could be so much better than this.
  10. At time of writing Truro doesn't have a football ground in Truro that they can use, as Treyew Road got sold off to a supermarket a couple of years ago and there's been loads of false dawns with stadiums. Although they are due to be moving back there for next season. In the meantime they groundshared with Torquay for about half a season, before groundsharing with Plymouth Parkway for a year and a half. But this year's rush to get fixtures played due to constant postponements has led to where they are currently. Gloucester has an artificial pitch which at least gives them a better chance of getting the game on.
  11. Stretching this thread title a little as it's National League South (and a Latics forum of course) but... Truro City's nomadic existence reached a whole new level of farce today. Starting the season playing in Plymouth (2h30 round trip from Truro) they agreed to groundshare with Taunton (near 5 hour round trip) out of fear of not completing their "home" fixtures due to so many postponements. Of course Taunton are struggling to complete their own home fixtures with their already boggy pitch and, since this agreement, Truro haven't managed to play a "home" game in Taunton. So when Truro play at "home" to Taunton on Saturday, naturally the match is taking place at National League North side Gloucester City's ground. A 400-mile, 7 hour round trip for a home game! It would actually be 2 hours and 100 miles (round trip) closer for Latics to play a home game there. Add that to Torquay's financial problems and it's fair to say that non-league football down here in the South West isn't looking in great shape at present.
  12. If we fail to go up this season and are pottering around mid-table playing poor football going into January 2025 then this thread will have some merit. Until then I can't think of anyone who would be a realistic upgrade on Mellon at this level. Our record is W11 D4 L5 in the 20 league games with him at the helm. Who was our last Latics manager with a better record of results over their first 20 matches?
  13. 9 games unbeaten is the least that the fanbase deserved after the 3-0 horror show at Fylde.
  14. They're on the Mellon Sack Watch thread. Quite frankly it's a disgrace that Mellon is still here.
  15. Done us a big favour this week by beating those two teams. One more favour by giving us a rare home win would be much apppreciated!
  16. I rate each of Hobson, Raglan and Hogan individually at this level, but as a unit they've just conceded 2 poor goals from corners in the last 2 games that have directly lost us points. Add to that they don't look like an attacking threat from set pieces either despite their height, physicality and nous (admittedly Conlon and Gardner's slow drifted balls don't help) and there has to be questions asked about them.
  17. In the Lemsagam era, it wouldn't actually surprise me if a Club Statement relating to this was produced.
  18. Let's just hope he adapts the way he sets us up then, which he has apparently done at the three other clubs he won promotion with (can't remember a Latics manager I've been able to say that about).
  19. In the same way that current poor performances don't equate to guaranteed poor football in the future.
  20. That is poor from Mellon and as bad as the team performance. And there's still no way that we should even consider sacking him.
  21. Yeah that's true, although sometimes amongst it I think he actually believes that he's the only fan who is correct.
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