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^ You should be in politics.

Just found an even worse run - 16 games without a single win from Aug 29 to Oct 31 in 1959, then another 11 match winless run in Jan-Feb-March. Also 9 defeats in 10 games from Jan 24 to Mar 21 in the previous season (the other result was a 0-0 draw). All these sequences came under the management of one Norman Dodgin, and not surprisingly the club had to apply for re-election to the Football League both in 1958-59 and 1959-60. https://www.11v11.com/teams/oldham-athletic/tab/matches/season/1960/ https://www.11v11.com/teams/oldham-athletic/tab/matches/season/1959/

^ In the 1968-69 season the side went 11 games without a win in September-October-November, during a run which included just one win in the opening 16 fixtures. There were also 11 games without a win from 31 Jan 1976 to 3 April 1976, and coincidentally the final 16 matches of the 1975-76 season also produced just one win.

Epitomise?

^ And Mellon threw away a decent outside chance of a Wembley FA Trophy day out by putting out an understrength side against Hendon.

This feels a bit like an episode of 'Are You Being Served?'

Is he still in the land of the living? I read a newspaper interview with him several years ago when he was running a pub in Wigan, and he said that winning a Div 3 championship medal with Latics in 1974 was his proudest achievement in football.

Could also bring back Lt Pigeon and 'Mouldy Old Dough' over the public address system. Hang on.....

I've thought this for many years, and have expressed my views on this forum quite recently to that effect, and was generally ridiculed, it must be said (none of it taken personally, by the way). Yes, I think the ground is configured back to front, and that the current deserted state of the Chaddy End gives a semi-derelict appearance to the ground, which may well transmit itself to the players without them even fully realising it perhaps. One recent poster commented that the players look as if they don't want to be there, and I know I'd feel the same in their place. 224 home league defeats since Royle departed as manager in 1994 btw, just sayin'..... An average of around 9 home defeats per season not only guarantees regular relegation every few years (exactly what's happened), but will in due course bring about extinction for the club.

Average of under 0.7 home wins per month since August. That is not promotion form, folks.

Why does a football club need a 'CEO'? Because other clubs have one? Sounds like a bit of a gravy train to me.

I'm assuming that more people than just the manager are involved, that's the way it often sounds, and Royle is frequently slated on here for the poor recruitment record.

Royle's the 'CEO' isn't he? Could that be part of the problem? Until a few years ago, this was a Wall Street term that applied to American corporations. In the UK, even the largest companies just had a humble 'Managing Director', and professional football clubs didn't even have (or presumably need) one of those. What's all this 'recruitment' business anyway? Why can't the manager be in charge of signing players, subject to the board's approval and the money being available? Presumably I'm stuck in a past era, as usual, but that's how I feel.

I need a break from it all, and I only follow the games on a laptop in my spare room at home.

Alty doing it better though......

Can't really call this hoofball, can we? At least trying to play some football here!

"Football's about nothing if it's not about something, Brian".

I gave up the licence because there wasn't anything I wanted to watch on TV anymore. Most aspects of modern 'civilization', including the media, annoy the hell out of me. YouTube is just fine for my purposes.

Nope, that was an analogue-only thing, wasn't it? I actually stopped paying my TV licence four years ago, and now only use the TV set for watching DVDs and VHS.

^ My telly's so ancient that it only has Scart connections (CRT job, circa 1998).

I'll try to get through it with the assistance of a bottle of 'Nice Drop Shiraz' (£4.25 from ASDA) while keeping an eye on the laptop screen. There doesn't seem to be any BBC radio commentary for today's match, so I'll be relying on counting the 'Get In!' versus the 'FFS!' exclamations in order to keep track of the score.

^ Interesting article, thanks. I'd no idea they were based just four or five miles down the road.

The Pete Wild interlude in 2019 was a bit of a revelation, and I certainly feel he'd be a better bet than Mellon, though I also suspect that there might be something amiss at a higher level than team manager at Boundary Park which could make his job a fair bit more difficult than it ought to be. Scholes has always given the impression that he doesn't have enough upstairs to make the grade in management.

Same reaction here. I listen to all the BBC radio commentaries, but I'm beginning to dread them. Every time a Latics player gains possession, nine times out of ten the ball is back with the opposition within a couple of seconds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68455097 Is this really our lineup for today? Fondop and Sheron should surely be starting, should they not?