Guy Branston Pickle

OOOOOH

THE NIPS ARE GETTING BIGGER

@mcfluff1985 great timing

Hopefully we won't be watching the defectives this season 

36 minutes ago, Monty Burns said:

Hudson

Hobson

Raglan

Kitch

Hammond

Norwood

Garner

 

already form a very tasty spine of a team for me. and l know best so nerrr. is Green still with us?

Conlon with a summer to get up to scratch could still be an asset. Thought Lundstram improved towards the end of the season too. Still desperately need a creative player in there though

A Stockport fan was telling me today about going to Alfreton away and watching County get spanked 6-0. Now he's looking forward to watching them in League 1

Bit of time and patience is needed. We'll get there

Writing the season off before we've even made a signing is hilariously pessimistic even for this place

2 hours ago, BP1960 said:

 

Tollit can run, but hardly used by MM.

Tollitt was dreadful, glad we'll never see him again. Exactly the kind of player we don't need 

Yeah it'll be affected by purdah won't it?

11 minutes ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

this is precisely an example I have a huge issue with. It’s where the toxity in our fanbase lies.

 

@League one forever makes a valid point. When we’re on top, winning and playing well, we have amazing fans. But that kind of amazing has to transfer to when we really need it, such as going a goal behind.

 

I accept that part of it was knowing going a goal behind meant we were unlikely to change things, because , yeah, we lacked enough characters and players with bottle. Both sides of the coin need to align next season. We will go a goal down at times, but we will play with a genuine desire to get back on level terms ASAP. I just hope the needless singling out of players goes.

At this level, at some of the grounds we're playing at, it will feel much more personal too. When we were playing at places like Bradford and Vale Park or wherever it'll get drowned out, but when you're playing at the equivalent of leisure centres the players will hear every word. That's why I don't like the singling out, it's needless

1 hour ago, Dave_Og said:

The only person I've seen say it on hear is a notorious troll

If you haven't seen or heard a single other Oldham fan say we've got the best fans in the league then I don't know what to say really. 

23 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

Who is it that claims we're the best fans in the land?

I said in the league. And it's something I've seen and heard countless times

Whilst I would agree that if players start to produce the fans will get behind them, some of the criticism and abuse from the self proclaimed "best fans in the league" the last couple of years has been really poor. Shelton getting booed on to the pitch in a game we were winning an example that comes to mind. I stopped going around February as I couldn't be arsed with the negativity 

Improvement needed on and off the pitch tbh.

21 hours ago, aaronoafc said:

Liverpool and City don’t get linked with the same players as latics plus their season hasn’t finished yet FWIW

That's because the board aren't showing enough ambition. The club is dead ffs

1 hour ago, Pidge said:

And following on from that, if his first pass missed and he didn’t make his first tackle, he doesn’t yet warrant a label of “useless”! Some players are anxious when in a new team.  We have had some very good players who always needed 3 or 4 games before they were flying, even on return from injury.

Yep. Hammond was written off after about 20 minutes last season. Some players need a run of games, especially youngsters, not all can hit the ground running like Stones. Unfortunately there's no patience in the fanbase at the moment, people can't wait to write off players

On 4/29/2024 at 10:00 AM, Guy Branston Pickle said:

We sign players from clubs in lower divisions "why we signing players from tinpot clubs? "

 

We sign players from teams who have won this division "well it didn't work when we signed players from Stockport "

 

We sign players from higher divisions "why we signing L2 rejects "

 

We don't sign anyone ""

 

 

We sign players in their late 20s who haven't played for a couple of months " the club is dead"

On 5/1/2024 at 8:15 PM, Littlemoor Lad said:

Thought Tarky went for £450,000 and was then bought by Burnley for £5m 

Ofcourse, we'd sold the sell on clause 

I'm sure Brentford got a £500,000 add on when he played for England too. All in all, terrific business from Latics

8 hours ago, Lee Sinnott said:

Did Clarke get much grief? My memory is that the consensus was he was a good player for us...

Maybe I'm misremembering, seem to remember them both getting pelters that season but maybe it was just Pidge, who was treated ridiculously unfairly by some of our support 

On 5/1/2024 at 1:53 PM, TheBigDog said:

He was decent in the games I saw him play

I liked him, him and Pidge came in for grief for that season because we essentially had no midfield and teams used to cut through us. Latics fans been proven right once again by those two

We sign players from clubs in lower divisions "why we signing players from tinpot clubs? "

We sign players from teams who have won this division "well it didn't work when we signed players from Stockport "

We sign players from higher divisions "why we signing L2 rejects "

We don't sign anyone ""

1 hour ago, League one forever said:

Yeah, I was half cut . .

we've all been there pal

10 hours ago, League one forever said:

Mmm. 
 

It’s a nice effort, if there wasn’t multiple stories (which I’m sure are all made up because he seems a lovely guy and he always performs. . . ) about him being an absolute cock. 
 

But- having said that,  he is a good footballer so maybe we should we pray at his feet and thank the lord he is here, because without him. .  let’s face it we’d probably end up folding. 

Bit dramatic, no?

I saw James Norwood in a supermarket in Salford yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a dick and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

Get rid imo

Who gives a shit, two tinpot clubs, one of them has managed to escape the tinpot league, one remains

28 minutes ago, oafcmb said:

Only 65 votes. Look at the comments on Facebook and Twitter. its mostly negative about the manager and of course the players. 

Facebook and twitter, notoriously full of level headed opinions

2 minutes ago, oafcmb said:

Not many level headed latics fans. i would say its 60/40 and not in his favour at the moment 

This has it 60/40 the other way. Not conclusive but it's a decent sample size, I'd say most posters on here are level headed 

1 hour ago, Bobledgersheart said:

What galled me yesterday was the group of "supporters" who booed our players during the pre-match activities and at half time. 

I don't boo myself, because I can't see the point, but totally respect the right of others if the performances are poor but to begin before the match has started is just stupid. 

 

It's happened numerous times this season. I remember a group of our supporters at a couple of away games under DU earlier in the season waving a San Marino flag about and chanting about how shit the football was pre-kickoff. Basically hoping we lost.

Best supporters in the league though, remember