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We should be able to rope in another 16, shouldn't we?

Only you could come out with that

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@astottie I won't disagree with the bulk of what you have just said. Neither were any of my posts intended to offend, so I apologise to @archiecat for the comparison with another poster. I just simply find it somewhat bamboozling that players are written off before even kicking a ball. I'm a firm believer in giving everyone a fair crack before coming to any conclusions. It works the other way, too. Remember us all being chuffed to bits when we signed Adam Rooney? He was going to boot us into the promised land and we know how that ended. I'll repeat what I said earlier about the #frenchlads, who were instantly regarded as bobbins by some before anyone had seen them. Opinions have changed since they've featured in pre-season. So let's give Miller a chance. He just might come good and bag a panful. He might also turn out to be dog shit, but until he's played a few, we simply don't know. I've tried to make a reasoned argument for giving everyone a chance and trusting Bunn's and Rhodes' decisions. That's what I believe we should do, rather than resort to: I'm all for reasoned arguments and discussions, often with some banter thrown in, and some of us will just have to agree to disagree (to quote Kenny Everett "in the best possible taste, of course").

Here we go again. Another one written off before he kicks a ball. Are all clubs' forums like this, or is it just Latics that has so many judgemental "fans" who only see the down side of everything? I really do despair of our fan base sometimes. And here we have one slagging off the latest signing without having seen him, but can't remember the name of the on loan keeper. Keep up lad. Oh well, I suppose you're a better judge of a player without seeing him than Bunn, who was not too shabby a striker himself, is having watched him with the squad for the last three weeks. I give up. I wonder if archiecat is Kusunga's double account.

It would mean an overhaul of the system I use. The way it works is that all the points scored automatically transfer to the table, which is then resorted into the correct positions. When the tables are posted, all you see is everyone's predictions (blue sheet) and the actual tables. What you don't see is the actual game's results, the automatically accrued points for that game and that produces the cumulative total which automatically transfers into a table. Once that is re-sorted, it's copied into the format you see in the post. So the spreadsheet has 46 tabs (one for each match) and 4 sections to every tab. To add extra points at random would bugger all that up. Does all that make sense? The bottom line is that it will have to stay as it is. And quite apart from all that, I really don't want to be calculating everyone's attendance predictions against the correct figure on top of what I normally do. Sorry folks.

Ah yes. Although Latics are in League 2, the Prediction League has League 1, so I'm not sure which promotion/relegation system we're using. I can feel a Board meeting coming on. Stevie_J and I need to have a chat.

Still no sign of Cheats-R-Us, then, aka 24hrs.

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

What a brilliant initiative. A lasting tribute to a most respected member of OWTB. Well done for the initial suggestion (sorry, I can't recall who it was) and congratulations to Admin for making it happen.

How wonderful you've been vindicated by two no marks who know nothing about Frankie Bunn. Someone who is well respected as an excellent coach in the Championship and at Academy label. Yep, you're right. Another set of tools. I take it we're allowed to disagree in the manner that Shrewsbury fans did last season when they were tipped for relegation.

What? More than the Dongs?

I actually want to see them get out of this division. Into the National League, hastily followed by the National League South, the Isthmian League and wherever else they can drop to. What a wonderful sight it would be to see that stadium of theirs with about 150 spectators dotted about. You may get it that I hate their very existence. Fuck off Winkleman.

Paris Cowan-Hall anyone?

Well done, that man. And this season, you can have @lookersstandandy bombarding you with emails, messages, texts and carrier pigeons to make sure you don't forget to post your predictions.

Yes, indeedy.

I bloody hope so

Thank God for that. She'd have maimed him for life. Lovely girl, though, that Mrs leeslover.

WTF? No other words can explain an abomination like that.

A fiver for every clean sheet away from home.

Ah yes. Fred Serb and George Croat. What a double act they were.

Come on, lads and lasses. Let's see if we can hit 50 players again this season. Just need another 16, but more would be brilliant. Prize money isn't to be sniffed at and The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and OWTB benefit as well. If @astottie signs up, we'll have the Premier League that finished last season after relegations and promotions. Extra bodies will make the Championship and the new League 1 more balanced. Yeah, ok, I know who got relegated.

Cheers @jorvik_latic I don't know why I didn't think of that. See, Steve's right. Us oldies need all the help we can get.