Guy Branston Pickle

Awful night for the anti-form table lads as Oldham clock in yet another win

Don't think we've lost back to back league games under him have we? There's usually a good performance/win follows a bad one

Easy Just the 7 wins out of the last 11 Only 2 defeats in that time It's promotion form

Brilliant goal that, did so well to turn

That's pure nostalgia though, isn't it? Everyone thinks everything was better when they were younger

He's not, he's just a kid who's struggled with the step up to mens football so far. Writing players off after 3 games doesn't help anyone

I'm maybe being a bit harsh, but I've grown up watching football from the 90s onwards where the standard, pace, fitness and pitches have been much better. When you've not grown up watching football pre-90s it's quite grating how slow and poor quality it feels in comparison.

There's players at the top level who can still do what Charlton did to a higher standard. Comparing him to an average 5th division midfielder is a bit unfair

Think he only played a couple of games last season, he's nowhere near match sharpness. Unfortunately it's just a bad stage of the season to have someone not fully fit, hopefully he'll be up to speed in a few games. We definitely can't afford to drop him

I occasionally watch The Big Match Revisited and the standard is almost always appalling, and now I'm beginning to understand why...

I didn't ask for him to be sacked in the summer

Whereabouts was Unsworth in the form and actual table when he was sacked? I don't think anything was disregarded

Or, after 30 odd years of us being on an almost constant downward curve is it the beginning of progress in the opposite direction? We're winning the majority of our games, in a decent position to get in the playoffs and even if we don't go up this year its probably a matter of time until we do Suppose that's too positive for this place

Thing is, whoever the next manager is, you'll weigh up whether people like or dislike him then say the opposite. Incredibly transparent

Absolutely. I have full faith that with a full summer break him and Brabin will get it right. I think it's easy to underestimate the damage giving Unsworth last summer and the first 9 or 10 games has done.

Yes. Would still be progress, would still be our 3rd best season in 30 odd years. Next season, nothing less than promotion is the aim

Not sure what we do if we draw them?

Are we? 2 defeats in 10 seems still seems like decent form to me If we lose the next couple then I'll start worrying

The last 10 is won 6, drawn 2, lost 2 which would have us 2nd. The way some people are wetting the bed on here you'd think we'd lost every game

You can't just punish players everytime they lose a game. As poor as they were they've lost 2 out of 10 in the league. I'm sure dragging them in would do wonders for morale

I've absolutely no issue with people complaining about yesterday's performance, I think insipid is putting it lightly. More the people like the poster I was responding to who seem to relish the prospect of Mellon failing...

We were told by Stockport, Notts County, Wrexham, Chesterfield etc fans that it wouldn't be pretty, that it's a scrappy horrible division and took them all years to get out of it. There's almost an arrogance to it, that just being in the playoffs isn't enough, we should be doing it in style Frankly I couldn't care if every win we get comes from Nathan Sheron farting it in if it means we go up These are 5th division footballers, sometimes they're going to be inconsistent/shit. But as a whole the team is pretty consistent at the moment, results wise anyway

thoughts and prayers for the absolute toddlers on here when we make the playoffs and they can't have a tantrum Wah wah why we can't play like we did 40 years ago wah wah

Weird that a team that can't do the basics at this level would be 2nd in the form table...