JohnnyPimp

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

You can’t fault the players’ efforts to get Unsworth sacked.

9 minutes ago, JohnnyPimp said:

Reid’s miss!

Shelton’s even better.

Reid’s miss!

If Frank and his family trust the opinion of Darren and Joe Royle, then I can only see them doubling-down on Unsworth after yesterday’s behaviour.

A post mortem involving the management team, captain and CEO is surely inevitable after yesterday’s shit-show?

Maybe we’ll get a decent right back / right wing back off the back of it, or am I just desperately looking for a positive?

I wouldn’t claim to be a knowledgeable fan but the worry I have about yesterday’s set up was how, defensively, it was so different to the stuff we’d worked on in pre-season, with forgotten man Sutton parachuted into the unenviable role of looking after one of their better players in a position that doesn’t suit his talents. Surely continuing with Hobson on the right of a flat back four, with a hard-working Ward ahead of him would have been a better, if not ideal solution?

2 minutes ago, GKing521 said:

Can’t help getting it right time and time again.

Low hanging fruit where Latics are concerned.

1 hour ago, mcfluff1985 said:

I said he was shite and couldn't pass last season. Nobody agreed, people talking about how good his distribution was. Taken one game this season for people to see the light on that one

I don’t think I was alone in thinking he was a massive disappointment and I kept hoping he’d eventually ‘click’.

Ain’t happened and surely right back beckons until we sign someone more suited to the position.

24 minutes ago, mcfluff1985 said:

Shelton was piss poor last season yet people on here made out he was Iniesta

Who? Jeff Stelling?

1 hour ago, oafcmetty said:

Does he have an email address? If so, create an account on the site for him, and then you can submit for both of you if he can't get on?

Cheers, I’ll do that thanks.

7 hours ago, oafcmetty said:

Hey - has your son registered on the site yet?

Nope, he’s fourteen. I was going to submit for him but realising now that might not be possible.

Is there a way?

5 minutes ago, Monty Burns said:

Magnus defo has a problem from distance aye but he is by far the best we have had for absolute yonks and maybe even the best in the division overall. 

easy gets us 10pts on his own.

I’ve just caught up on the fact he’s only 26 years old, an ex-Fulham youth of 8 years and has played almost half of his professional games for us.

Only going to get better, isn’t he?

51 minutes ago, JoeP said:

We generally set-up for home games in the National League in the way I'd expect us to set-up in an away fixture at The Etihad.  With the players we've got, I don't think we should be afraid to have a go at any team from the off, but (unless something drastic changes in Unsworth's thinking between now and the start of the season) that's exactly how Unsworth will set us up.

We did, in fairness, take the lead in the first half of our last five home games of the season, albeit, we only went on to win two and draw three, conceding late equalisers in those.

12 hours ago, rudemedic said:

I'd think they might close that off if away fans are being put in the chaddy side of the MSL.

 

Then again, isn't there only one turnstile for that paddock, I suppose they can open up some of the Chaddy ones and leave the gate between the two stands open.

I’m not sure they’d need to close it off altogether. There are two sets of steps on that side - the ones that take you towards the Chaddy End (which could be closed) and a flight immediately to your left as you leave the stand which exit onto the road.

38 minutes ago, O.A.F.C. said:

If that's the case, it's going to be shit if we aren't allowed to exit via the staircase leading down to the paddock and have to go back through the main stand instead.

There’s an exit to Furtherwood Road from the steps that you’re talking about.

Sent for me and my lad.

Fully expecting a swimsuit parade of new signings at the fans forum tonight.

10 minutes ago, League one forever said:

Do the quality of these signings increase the pressure on Unsy? 
 

IE - top seven is still good enough.

 

Or

 

I expect top two with these signings and more to come. 

Possibly, but both scenarios are a marked improvement for us fans and something to look forward to either way.

9 hours ago, Matt said:

Thanks everyone, if you have any issues - let me know.

 

Ta,

Matt.

Types Matt from his laptop in the Maldives.

Subscribed btw - cheers guys.

55 minutes ago, LaticsLegend said:

Are we going to have another thread taken over by seat sticker complaining?

We can’t ignore the important issues of the day.

Rochdale are likely to struggle.

Unrest behind the scenes with staff openly critical of the owners. We know all too well how that plays out.

3 hours ago, andy_b_100 said:

This reminds me of 87-88 ......... we know what happened then, maybe its our turn now!

 

Hope we don’t have to suffer finishes of 10th, 16th and 8th before we see some success!

I think the football’s been boring during our 2023 purple patch, but I appreciate that it would feel a lot more exciting if we were pushing the top of the table.

3 hours ago, Ogdenwoodwhittle said:

Yes remember watching micky fillery? The guy we signed from a London team, but was injured early doors. 

 

I remember watching him being bundled into a car, looking worse the wear, by a few non-playing Latics players at 2.30pm on a match day once.

Any other pissed off main stand paddock dwellers on here after struggling to find decent replacement seats following the limited notice from the club about the closure?