Sayful2001

That don't make sense as he is out of contract at the end of the season so he is a free agent??

If you wait outside the ground players carpark nearby the brand spanking new white Mercedes you can ask him yourself. Lol

Is this an April Fool?

Just saw Tomasz Kuszczak parking up at boundary park

Didnt think we were after a new number 1 keeper????

The Plymouth chairman has said that peter ridsdale was invited by the Oldham board and not plymouth?

Looks like club are looking for ridsdale investment

Someone ask Micah Richards to put in a transfer request?

Oxford seems a strange one though from his write ups etc better than League 2, but time will tell.

....just scored in his first match!!!!

Just wondering why there is no post match reaction from Dave Penney??

Think the new Webmaster is slacking already.......

How did they do last year? Oldham underachieved. At one stage the Latics were challenging for promotion under John Sheridan but they fell away at the turn of the year. A host of loan signings included Dean Windass, whose performances, despite sterling efforts as a goalkeeper, slumped along with the team's displays after his stand-in stopper showing. Joe Royle came in as an intended quick-fix but a return to earlier season form never materialised.

Dave Penney

Who's the gaffer? Previously with Doncaster and Darlington - clubs without 'stars' in their squads - Dave Penney instilled a sound work ethic at both northern sides to compensate for a supposed lack of quality.

Chris Taylor

Who's the player to watch? The stand-out player last term, Chris Taylor, is a year older meaning the young left-sided attacking midfielder should increase last season's goal tally of 11 - but how long the Latics can hold on to him remains to be seen.

How will they do? "Were Penny to repeat the performances completed at his previous clubs, the Latics will truly be in with a shout of promotion," saysBBC Radio Manchester's John Gilder. "But you have to say, had Lee Hughes stayed that shout could well have become a roar."

Capacity of 4500

if only oldham had that capacity then we could have sell outs every week!!

Hartlepool release five players

Arran Lee-Barratt

Lee-Barratt is one of five players to be released from the club this summer

Hartlepool United have released five players after their contracts expired.

The players to depart are goalkeepers Jan Budtz and Arran Lee-Barratt, defenders Jamie McCunnie and Joe Tait and midfielder Martin Young.

Out-of-contract players Willie Bolland and Rune Lange are being monitored as they recover from injury before a decision is made on their futures.

Meanwhile Pools have offered a new deal to midfielder Richie Jones, after his first season at Victoria Park.

The other players to be offered new deals are captain Michael Nelson, midfielders Matty Robson, Gary Liddle and Andy Monkhouse, and strikers Michael Mackay and Matty Tymon.

Who would you rather have?

http://www.socceram.com/story/0,21644,13873_4915722,00.html

"We scored a half-decent goal and then you think this could be the day. We silenced the crowd who were looking like they could turn on their own team at any minute"

It must be bad if other teams are even noticing it.........which could explain our dismal home form

Huddersfield striker Luke Beckett insisted his winning goal which dumped Oldham out of the FA Cup was not a revenge attack on his former club.

The shaven-headed 31-year-old scored 24 goals in 36 starts for the Latics while on loan from Sheffield United between March 2005 and May 2006.

The reward for his rich return was being ushered out of the door by Latics boss John Sheridan in the summer of 2006 and sent back to Bramall Lane.

"John Sheridan took over from Ronnie Moore as manager and wanted to go in another direction," said Beckett.

"He made it public that he wasn't that interested in signing me on a permanent basis so I moved on.

"But I've got no problem with Shez because budgets are tight down in this league.

"Sheffield United wanted money for me and I think Shez thought he could bring in two or three players for what he would be paying for me.

"I enjoyed my time at Oldham and have got a lot of respect for the club and hope they do well."

Beckett's goal against the Latics - a predatory near-post header in the 10th minute - continued his run of having scored in every round of the competition so far this season.

It also sent a Terriers side managed by Oldham legend Andy Ritchie into the fifth round for the first time in nine years.

That Beckett celebrated his goal raucously and with a clenched-fist salute towards the huge travelling contingent said everything about where his allegiances now lie.

"To get a goal - any goal - is a great emotion and I was just happy that I had scored," explained Beckett.

"We had 4,500 fans here supporting us and they want to see players with a bit of passion. Hopefully we showed that."

An archetypal English centre-forward, Sheffield-born Beckett has spent the majority of his career in the third and bottom tiers of English football.

But his strike record throughout his seven-club career is impressive and close to a goal every two games.

He led the line with aplomb at Boundary Park and revealed he defied a back strain to feature in the fourth-round clash.

"I had a really bad back before the game but took about 100 paracetamol because nothing was going to keep me out of this one," said Beckett.

His eighth goal of the season for the Terriers has encouraged hopes of a place in the quarter-finals for the Yorkshire club.

Beckett - a Manchester City fan - added: "You never know, it could be my year and our year.

"I've scored in every round and if we get a big club in the fifth round - we've already beaten Birmingham - you never know what might happen.

"Manchester United would be nice but with a few Premier League clubs already knocked out, maybe we could have an easier route to the quarter-finals."

...................What we would give to have Beckett back at boundary park now?

Name? Sayful

Location? Oldham

How Long Supporting the Tics? 10 years

Best away match you've been to? Forest

All Time Greatest Player? John Sheridan

Biggest Rivals (in your eyes)? Tranmere