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    York away

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    3 hours ago, Astro said:

    Orders made online can be collected from the Oldham Athletic ticket office by 12pm on Tuesday 20 February.


    I won’t be able to get to the Latics ticket office now to collect my tickets.

     

    Am I correct in thinking that they’ll be delivered back to the York ticket office later on the 20th?

     

    I’ll email the club but response may come a little too late.

    MATCH: Ebbsfleet (A) 03/02/24

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    2 hours ago, League one forever said:


    It’s much easier to see the play when you receive it on the half turn. If your back is to the goal- you have to control it, then turn around, then look up. By which time you’ve invariably been dispossessed. 


    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!

    MATCH: Woking (H) 27/01/24

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    7 hours ago, deyres42 said:

    Don't think anyone is expecting Barcelona, more just not to still being comprehensively outplayed and outwitted by teams with far inferior budgets.


    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.

    MATCH: Dorking Wanderers (A) 06/01/24

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    4 hours ago, Worcester Owl said:

    Great post 👍

    As many of us have long known/suspected, we are the biggest underachievers in English football over the last 50 years, and here’s the sad confirmation:

    http://www.skysports.com/share/13041555
     

    So yes, as you say, enjoy it!!


    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!

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    The Christmasgate Videos

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    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. 🤞🏻

     

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    Bobby Charlton RIP

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    20 minutes ago, Worcester Owl said:

    As an illustration of how Charlton was famous throughout the world: I was in Bukhara in about 1987 or 1988, then part of the USSR and now Uzbekistan I think. I was wandering down a street sightseeing with my wife and a little kid about 9 or 10 years old kicked a ball towards us. This was of course pre-internet, pre-mobile phones, in a part of the world culturally very different to Moscow or Leningrad, never mind western Europe. So I kicked it back to him and he must have heard me speaking English or guessed we were, because he just grinned and started shouting "Bobby Charlton, Bobby Charlton!". I remember saying to my wife that it just showed how famous he was, about 15 years after he'd retired from playing.


    Maybe it was your comb-over?

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    The Next Oldham Manager

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    4 minutes ago, Londonboy said:

    Yarddog makes a decent point that needs to be taken into account when assessing if he's the right man or not.

     

    ST has been in his Head of Recruitment position since November last year, and as all can see the ballance of the squad is way off and just isnt right. Not saying he made all the signing decisions but I'd imagine he made all of the recommendations to the board, on who we should bring in and many have been below par.

     

    Not the man for me i'm affraid...

     

     


    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.

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