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Where's Joe Jacobson? I was really hoping he'd get some minutes today.

Oh yeah I have part one from that season. Was that the last time a dvd was made by the club?

From a commercial point of view it's good for the club to have a new product in the shop at Christmas. From an editorial point of view making 2 discs allows for longer highlights from each game. Oldham have definitely done this before. I remember buying volume 1 VHS of a season review (volume 1 of 3) and it was the season with Oldham 5-3 Forest and I think also two late Olney goals versus Leeds.

The football league games are filmed in standard definition. There's 30 odd games every weekend so freelance cameramen across the country record the games and drop the tapes at the local BBC office or other designated feed points (bt tower or IMG) The highlights are then clipped up and sent down the line in time for the football league show. The club do not have easy access to the tapes or the highlights files without having to pay a source fee. So, Oldham have gone to a lot of trouble to repurpose these games to make a DVD for Christmas. The production costs of editing, sleeve design, printing, discs, cases and duplication often prevent clubs from bothering with season review DVDs. Production companies demand club shops buy a certain number of units (eg 500) to make any kind of reasonable profit. Even certain Prem clubs like Wigan struggle to sell that amount. The option to make it inhouse is not always viable due to the reasons mentioned earlier. Oldham haven't had a DVD out for a while so hopefully this'll make a good stocking filler for Christmas and make a few quid for the club. P.s very few clubs if any release season reviews on bluray. I imagine it might start happening soon but only the top prem clubs.

The DVD will be available for Christmas & will include games July (pre-season home games) - end of November (plus the Everton FA Cup game as a bonus feature)

It's one of the main news stories on the Man City website

Hey Visually Can you print onbody designs onto DVDs?

Back to back League wins for the first time in a year.... What about Tranmere & Notts County?

I jokingly posted on here that Kiki Musampa was on trial pre-season. Shamefully, this was so I could shoehorn in a gag about Abi Titmusampa. However they have just mentioned in commentary during the City game that Kiki was on trial at Oldham in the summer. Is this a case of experts believing a message board rumour or was I unwittingly correct?!?!?

Jose Baxter came on in the Everton friendly last night and played left wing. If Moyes wants him to get game time as a winger then maybe a loan to us would help both parties?

If i were a football chairman or owner, which i hope one day to be, i would encourage any manager of mine to field a team entirely made up of Jones'. I think it would be an amazing coup and provide huge publicity the world over. The novelty of 'keeping up with the Jones' would make us a team to be reckoned with and provide much hilarity when listening to flummoxed commentators. Does Dickov have the balls to make this happen? Welcome Ritchie Jones. One down, ten to go.

I can confirm the 6 trialists are; Jon Maken Phil McCrackin Hakan Yakin Kiki Musampa Chris Musampa Abi Titmusampa

Didn't Windass sign due to the influential words of our potential new manager Mark Crossley?

I always said he never had the stomach for the fight

Has Penney got his hands in Lee Richardson's pockets?

have the club bulldozed the chaddy end?

Such a shame he's not our player any more. We wait years for a goal scoring hero and then for whatever reason lose people like Porter and Hughes. Fans come to the stadium to watch players like Hughes. Anyone blame Joe Royle?

frankly, is this aimed at nesbitt1988?

why not?

Hes only playing him coz every other bugger got injured including his loan signing. One bad game and penny will probably axe him. Be interesting if kieran will wanna stay if penny stays.

Who's on it? Who's loving it?

Lee is an excellent player. l worked at mutv when he was coming thru the ranks. There was a tournament in spain that Utd won and Lee was instrumental in all the games and scored a few goals. In the same team were Fraizer Campbell, Jonny Evans, Ryan Shawcross, Danny Simpson to name a few. Kieran is a quiet lad but agreat footballer and exactly what we're missing. He'll get it down and play .

Yeah i guess so. I reckon that's the way that Windass sees it too. It's a shame he feels the need to voice his opinions on that blog. It doesn't help his relationship with the fans. The Windass/Hughes partnership wasn't working but i don't think it was down to a lack of effort. The strikers really do feed off scraps. Against Bristol Rovers, Hughes was laughing at the start of the 2nd half with Liddell about his penalty miss. When Hughes got subbed he legged it down the tunnel. Windass was subbed earlier in that game but sat and watched the rest of the match on the touchline. How come Hughes always comes away smelling of roses but his strike partner gets binned off?

It's a shame. As a pro, he should've knuckled down and waited for his chance again. He should know that Sheridan couldn't really change a winning team from the Millwall match. He scored once and hit the post/bar a few times - it could've been so different if they'd gone in. The next booking for Hughes would've meant 2 starts for Windass. If I was Shez, that's what i'd have been telling Windass - it's a bit worrying that the manager can give an important player the silent treatment. Shez should've bollocked him for his blog or levelled with him at least. Looking ahead to the final run in I think it's a massive loss. Windass & Kabba would be just as effective as Hughes & Kabba.

Tell me about it! That's why i mentioned the Oldham bit is in the final part so you can skip the 'red' stuff - there's no way true blues' would survive it! To be fair though, we're usually pretty good at giving lower league and non league teams the majority of our coverage. If any of you missed the Andy Ritchie interview it can be watched online at www.channelm.co.uk/sport - it's TGMFS EP 20.