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David Currie

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  1. ... and if you think that Byrne needs to be willing to budge too then I would agree.
  2. I do not of course. I have no insight on what has happened whatsoever, But do you really think that the current impasse is really helping the club? Suggests to me they need to try an alternative approach to whatever they have done so far while they still have the opportunity.
  3. I should add that the fact that Latics are so innovative and unpredictable in how they mess up both on and off the pitch is one of the reasons I enjoy supporting them. Like I expect most posters here I say “typical Latics” all the time when normally I mean what on Earth were they thinking?
  4. One of the advantages of looking at what has happened in the past is to help avoid repeating the same mistakes. To be fair though Latic’s do not seem to have any difficulty in finding new ways to screw up. Getting back on topic this current fiasco around the club freezing Byrne, potentially the best player in the squad, out of the team is a good example of the club’s creativity when it comes to messing up. Why can’t they just grow up, eat a bit of humble pie - after giving it 15 mins to cool down of course - & see if they can get him back into the team. If it still does not work out then at least they will have tried rather than just giving up on him.
  5. This prediction - here is the direct link to where the latest table can be found https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/league-one/league-table/predicted - gives a good view of the impact of yesterday's result. The Latics draw, as with the Walsall result, matched the prediction on this site. The forecast for their remaining five matches - one win (Southend); one loss (Dale) and three draws - has not changed. The points total is still therefore 52. What has altered is the projected final position - from 20th at the time of the above post and 19th after the Walsall match to 21st and relegated now. Wimbledon and Dale both outperformed their forecasts yesterday and hence have moved up. As yesterday illutrated however the forecasts of individual results are far from reliable. I think the real lesson is that who gets relegated is currently just too close to call. The main point from the Latics perspective is that currently it is still in their hands. I am just hoping that this is still the case this time next week.
  6. was in the away end for wimbledon v northampton today - I have a couple of friends from college that support both teams. the good news is that neither team look as good as the Latics side that I saw beat bradford last weekend. Bad news is that both teams remain above Latics. One of the visiting supporters exclaimed his surprise halfway though the first half that Latics were 2 up. I explained that there was still plenty of time left for them to screw it up and sure enough ... Most popular chant amongst the visiting support: you're going down with the Franchise, down with Franchise....
  7. blimey, Latics' website still having y2k issues 18 years after the turn of the century ...
  8. I really do hope that the Mickey Mouse cup rules didn't influence today's team selection at all. anyway Latics' remaining two matches in it are both away from home so for them why not pick as many first team players as possible, sub three of them after the opening minute and have the rest that are not in need of a run out feign injury a few minutes later to get them off the pitch too? Now there is no chance of them qualifying why not just treat the competition with the respect that it deserves? was down South today so couldn't make BP. attended the Oxford v the mighty Dale match instead. on today's evidence they are two teams that Latics should be confident of finishing above. Still Dale have a good 'keeper and Vincenti was impressive for them when he came on for the last 20mins. Dale also suffered directly from the decisions of a poor referee, seems to be a common theme ...
  9. does dropping two points tonight matter? probably not but ... the late goals for both coventry and gillingham meant that Latics slipped from a clear 13th back into 14th place. if last season is anything to go by then I believe it is the top 13 in the third division that are seeded in the first round draw of next season's league cup .... although it will be the top 14 if Reading win the FA cup and hence qualify for Europe. could be helpful for the club to improve its chances of making the second round of the league cup and the chance of a draw against one of the bigger top flight clubs that fail to qualify for Europe ... Spurs, Everton, Newcastle maybe?
  10. well that was sweet, ending my run of attending consecutive Latics defeats with a very comfortable win and against Dale of all teams. my Dale supporting friends are not best pleased, to the point where they did not wait to meet up with me after the match. ? I cannot remember the last time I saw Latics play when they had the game so comfortably won towards the end. still it was fortunate that Noble-Lazarus missed that sitter as the match entered its final stage. i would have been fearing Dale coming back from the dead had that one gone in. hmm right change but it was made 15 mins after he was booked at 2-0 up and more than 10 mins after Latics had gone three up. why take the risk in that time? but let us not criticise Holden in the aftermath of a performance like that.
  11. yes having myself been caught up in the queue for the main stand Gents at half-time it did not surprise me when he did not make it back onto the pitch before the full time whistle was blown.
  12. my apologies but I did warn you that I was attending yesterday's match. my own personal run of witnessed results now stands at 11 successive defeats F5 A29. you may be happy to learn that I will be missing at least the next three matches. I treated my Uncle to today's match, a lifelong supporter in his 70s but, for a variety of reasons, this was his first match at BP since the (original) Royle era. he was, to say the least, unimpressed and it may prove difficult to get him to go again. but I will endeavour to persuade him to see at least one more match before the season is over in the hope that it will provide him with a better lasting memory of the club that he has followed for so long - before the game he had shown me a picture of him stood on a packed BP terrace that dated back to the early 1950s when he was 15. I thought that they were in disarray after that shot on target from Philly at the 92' mark, they were very fortunate that the final whilste was blown so soon afterwards
  13. my comment about BO being a factor wasn't meant to be taken seriously, if only I could think that was true about BO's comments to the Chron!
  14. these questions will be tougher at Barnsley because they are likely to be less forgiving if he continues to struggle to find the answer whilst he continues to learn the trade. that for me is what has changed in the sport, Frizzell and Royle both had the opportunity to make mistakes and learn from them, provided they avoided relegation in their early seasons. many of the comments here suggest that Johnson second full season in charge will have been a failure if he fails to get the club into the play-offs, which seems ridiculous to me. but now the suggestion is that he is unlikely to see this second season out so maybe it is my expectations that are misguided.
  15. yes and even if he soon finds work elsewhere his reputation will be severely damaged by having a sacking on his CV.
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