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tollitt to chester.

we’ve made a signing. to be announced later today…

maybe

Could be looking at an announcement tonight…

no, walker takes number 28. There is no contracted player for number 24, yet it is in use.

Alex Reid is back with the squad. Josh Stones’ training kit is currently occupied, but not by Stones…

that was his second spell, his first spell under mellon he got 8 in 19. his breakthrough season however was at Morecambe where he scored 23 goals in league one during the 21/22 season.

has been delayed, contract signed pictures taken this afternoon. Still confident it will be announced today.

Signing to be announced at 4 following a teaser.

Just read over the current rules on double jeopardy. If an attempt to play the ball has been made in the box, it’s a penalty and a yellow card. If the player has not played the ball it is deemed an intentional denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity and therefore a penalty and a red card. I think we are all in agreement that Walker didn’t play the ball and intentionally brung Fondop down. The officiating is mind boggling.

Tonight was very underwhelming. I thought first half we were ok, had we have been ruthless infront of goal could’ve been 3-0 up at half time. Unfortunately that’s football and we were only 1-0 up so it was time to go again. It seems to be a common theme that players drift out of the game in the second half, Green/Dickenson for example. Is it a fitness thing? Thought Hobson was excellent tonight as well as hogan who, in my opinion, has had some unfair comments tonight. It’s unfortunate that Lundstram had to come off, and even more unfortunate that Gardner/Ward are injured because Shelton does not complement Sheron’s playstile whatsoever. When Lundstram can play 90 minutes every week I feel we will be a much better side. I thought Tollitt and Nuttall contributed absolutely nothing. I do feel like Mikey would’ve had a better impact on tonight’s sort of game. A dead game lacking aggression, tenacity and abit of quality and I know mikey is very capable of displaying those attributes whereas Nuttall simply looked disinterested. Norwood was disappointing. Sutton displayed some great quality at times and worked hard but too many basic errors for my liking. I do feel like the recent fixtures have distracted us from Thompson’s managerial weaknesses. For me the recruitment process should start properly this week as I feel Thompson will be out of his depth come the tougher games (Dale, Alty(x2), Woking, Barnet)

Why fix what isn’t broken? Lundstram not match fit yet, and they are being extra careful after ward was rushed back and injured himself again.

Right back signed. Will Unsworth grow a pair and drop one of Hobson, Hogan or Raglan? or, Will he continue with bad habits and play a back 5?

442 IS the way to go. Especially under Unsworth, we were 3rd in the table playing 442 and he has strengthened the squad since then. You have to think a starting XI of Norman RB, Raglan, Hogan/Hobson, Kitch Green, Lundstram, Sheron, Dickenson Norwood, Fondop/Reid/Willoughby would ask a lot of questions to any team in this league. Yes, I know Lundstram and green were unavailable and we don’t have a right back. But if we stay 442 we have a much better chance of winning. Put Hobson RB (not ideal I know but rhino hasn’t signed one yet). Try Gardner in midfield since we know shez and shelts don’t work. Gardner has bite and creativity on his day, none of which Shelton has. Start Magic Mike, he’s scored 4 in preseason and has looked the fittest. Hope/Tollitt on the right again not ideal I know but in my eyes better than Sutton playing as a rwb. With the squad depth we have, player unavailability is not an excuse for a change of formation. Unsworth set up negatively, 8 out of 11 players were defensive minded. What does he expect against an energetic, adrenaline filled Southend side. These are the basics a manager with any decent football understanding should know. It’s just not good enough. I expect at least 5 changes against aldershot, a change of formation and a drastic change of result.

Oldham Sign League 1 level striker to add to our 4 double figure capable striker’s. @GKing521: Complains how we’ll be sat in against Aldershot. A pessimist in his prime. Never change.

Gonna be interesting how Unsworth manages his 5 strikers…

Surely if we were to sign Norwood that would be on a par, if not better than chesterfield signing will grigg. Barnsley fans reckon he’ll get 20+ goals this season and that’s in league one. He would be looking to do some serious damage in this league, but he would also be looking for some serious money. He’s not going to come cheap, especially if we have to outbid Wrexham.

Makes sense to give it a try against a side with better quality than what we’ve already played against. Green on the right, kitch on the left. A packed midfield three and the two big men up top.

https://twitter.com/officialoafc/status/1683896214423470090?s=46

Oldham have played 360 minutes in pre season. Nuttall has played 153 minutes of that 360 and we have scored 0 goals. in the other 207 minutes he hasn’t played in we have scored 9 goals. Coincidence? I think not.

you’re right. The fixation on Nuttall is because today he was our weakest link. Everyone performed at a minimum of 7/10 and there was consistent quality throughout the squad. Nuttall was subbed on at half time and performed at about a 4 (arguably generous). Slowed us down and missed clear cut chances.

@Monty Burns ’The main man’ Nuttall came on, missed a 2 yard header, put a ball on the moon and prevented us from scoring more goals. Mike fondop is our 20+ goals a season man with Kurt, Reidy & green chipping in often.

Though of the 7 goals he scored for us last season, 3 of them were penalties.

Don’t understand it. Only logical reason is Rhino feels guilty of asking Frank for more money to put in a second bid for Nuttall who has only proven to be shit.

@Monty Burns ”Nuttall is our main man this season”. All he’s proved to me is that we can score when he doesn’t play. Our other 3 strikers add so much more, as they proved tonight.