JohnnyPimp

Hope he’s bought BP1960 a box of Celebrations.

Cheers. That’s just playing football as I know it. It’s depressing but I can see now why this is being mentioned on the board so regularly. A lot of our players simply don’t do that. Sigh!

I’ve been seeing loads of references to talking the ball on the half-turn (at least three times over the past few pages of this thread). Please can someone educate this football-tactics dimwit as to what this means in practice?

Different times (1977). Jumpers for goalposts, gymslip brides.

Two sentences. Agree with both.

is it being big-headed to suggest that a trip to Boundary Park is the biggest game of the season for plenty of teams in this division? Our history, stadium and warm welcome give these players a lift. Nearly 7k there yesterday to watch us play Woking. It’s their Cup Final. We’re not seeing the usual “Woking’s, Gateshead’s or Ebbsfleet’s”. We’re seeing inspired players, collectively playing one of their best games of the season. We’ve got to find a way to overwhelm these teams at home and get the three points, because points, not performances, are all that matters when you’re not in the EFL. Mellon’s got us on track as far as I’m concerned, despite the obvious blips like yesterday.

Oh, good. Don’t have to eat my tea quite as fast.

According to that, our average position over the past 50 years is second bottom of the Championship. Oh, to be fighting a relegation battle in the second tier again!

A incredibly daft thing to say in light of a) the team, including Reid, seriously underperforming this season and, b) the club’s 75-year-old chairman currently rowing the Atlantic for charity and eating a bag of turkey and stuffing crisps for his Christmas dinner. Gardner too, asking the fans if they’ve ever had to work at Christmas, just smacks of a serious lack of understanding of the situation. A shame because most of the lads playing for us look like the kind that’ll have mates who get up at five in the morning to work a job they don’t like. Hopefully this will be our reverse ‘night at the greyhounds’ and we’ll push on for the rest of the season.

Can I sue a bot if I follow its advice and my nuts freeze off?

I thought we generally kept possession better than we have been doing (a few brain farts aside) but it was mostly safe, short passes backwards and sideways.

And please don’t name x number of youth players who are bound to play at a higher level.

https://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/news/2023/october/25102023-mellon-post-fylde-a/ Mellon looks shell-shocked.

So, after missing out on Rochdale tickets, decided to fork out for this shower of shite tonight.

Maybe it was your comb-over?

The Dale need to swallow their pride and give us another stand. Then a ticket-swap amnesty can go ahead.

To be fair, he may have recommended a number of players for each position, with the club going for each of the cheapest options. Or he thought these were the players to shoot us to promotion. Guess we’ll never know. I do think the opening three wins will have turned the heads of the board though, especially as he could be deemed the ‘cheap option’. Personally, I’d rather go with a complete fresh start and would imagine the last two performances will have pointed the board in that direction too.

Bumpity-bump!

Scenes when Latics draw Kidderminster away in the FA Cup 4th qualifying round, wiseowl gets ill after eating one of their pies, then donates his Rochdale tickets to Mcfluff.

Looking for one adult and one child, please! Happy to pick these up separately, so if you only have one or the other, I’ll take what you’ve got - drop me a PM. Thank you and cheers Ackey for opening this thread.

Fellow ST holder looking for one adult and one child ticket.

I suspect he saw the way we set up last night and licked his lips. Reckon we’ll see a different player going forward.

Looking at the highlights, I’d say Kitching was booked for deliberate handball. Incredibly harsh after being sent flying onto it by their player.

These school roofs can’t collapse soon enough.

Does anyone know of any pubs in Royton screening this tomorrow?