Guy Branston Pickle

Let's get rid then. Get the latest flavour of the month in. Give them no time, not even a summer rebuild. Then complain when they don't get results straight away. Then do it another 35 times. Great stuff. I love this club

Who are these managers that know the NL and would come to us then? We'll appoint them, they won't get the results we want straight away and within four months we'll be having the same conversation. Ad nauseum

Apart from appointing someone who has two promotions from this division on his CV?

Well, yeah...

Think we've had 35 different managers since my first game in 1997. Luckily constantly chopping and changing managers has served us well during that time Mellon is an experienced manager and deserves a summer and a new season to get it right. If after that it's still not working, then it's time for a conversation

Dave Penney's let himself go

He's also surely someone who will benefit from having a settled midfield partnership. He has a different partner every week at the moment, be it Sheron/Lundstram/McGahey/Hammond. That can't help when you're already coming in rusty and lacking gametime. That's not to defend his performances which have been poor

The problem with mid-season recruitment as well is that unless you're spending the big bucks on someone like McCallum who would probably hit the ground running, you're either getting inexperienced players (Hammond, Sachdev) or players who haven't played much football and are lacking a bit of edge (Conlon and Dallas). Sometimes they work out (Stones) but the fact so many had to be brought in shows how poor the recruitment was last summer in hindsight.

I'd keep Conlon, he's been a disappointment and wasn't good today but I think he's someone who'd benefit from a pre-season. I'd keep Hobson. Wouldn't be sad to see anyone else leave at all.

I'm sick to death of paying to watch squads full of passengers who can't be arsed. I can't remember the last time I actually liked an Oldham team. Maybe some of the Kewell season, but that was behind closed doors which says it all. Just season after season of wet wipes and cowards

Sorry for anyone who's bought a season ticket if we have to watch this bunch of wet wipes again next season

They've got the freedom of our right hand side

Was the same at York. I know fans feed off the performance sometimes but the self-proclaimed best fans in the league status is starting to look like bollocks...

I've defended MM a lot on here but the decline is concerning. But yet again we've got a squad of players who turn up when they want to and hide whenever the going gets tough. Feels like Groundhog Day every bloody season. I wouldn't be sad if none of these players were here next season

Really starting to dislike this set of players. Absolutely nothing about them whatsoever. The management rightly or wrongly will get the blame but these lot are a bunch of fucking cowards

Conn-Clarke has a face that belongs on a register

Sounds like players who only started playing once the game was lost to me

I'm happy to give him the summer, the position we're in is massively disappointing but he's working with a bunch of cowards who just aren't up to it at all. I think sacking him and starting over yet again is a backward step, give him the summer to bring his own players in then it's absolutely on him

Fuck this lot. Sack the lot of them and start afresh. Absolute fucking cowards. Don't think there's a manager on earth would get a tune out of these dickheads

One of the issues we've had is the signings made post-January have all been good on paper, but they're all players either coming off the back of an injury or a lack of gametime who we've needed to hit the ground running. I think there's enough quality in the squad to build upon with a full summer behind them, but I think it's evident we badly need some players with composure who are capable of playing through/breaking down teams. We also don't really have any players capable of beating a man. I would keep: Hudson Hobson Sutton Raglan Kitching Conlon Sheron Norwood Dallas (if perm available) Hammond Green But on the proviso that a few of them are no more than squad players. We would probably need two ball playing midfielders in the Matt Palmer mould, two new FBs, two wingers and a centre half. Simple really

Worst thing I've read on this forum this weekend tbh

So you don't believe him then? You're all over the place here. Being contrary for the sake of it seems exhausting

Maybe respect that he had a private appointment then? Seems like good manners to me.

"It's not that I don't believe him but I'm gonna have a tantrum about it anyway"

If theyve got a reason, I am yeah. Think anyone bothered about that kind of thing needs to get a hobby or something