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For me he's one of THE best defenders I've ever seen in a Latics shirt.

Hell Terry, if the players can't stand the heat................

S'ok, I've found it now.

Not really Chris. Just loose tongues!

I heard about 3 weeks ago that demolition was due to start at the end of march and the building process would take 72 weeks. Wasn't sure if it was meant to be kept quiet though so didn't say 'owt.

Crossley - Agree - I was very critical of him early in the season but he's proved as he's got fit that he's a very good keeper at this level. Should be thinking about utilising him as a coach more for next season though Eardley - Keep - Think he's suffered badly from not having a decent wing man in front of him meaning more often than not he has to hoof it - and his distribution in NOT great. Stam - Pay as you play at best Hazell - Keep. Been very solid on the whole at CB and was looking VERY good alongside Gregan as a partnership. Greegan - Keep him. If he's fit and has cut out the 'games' he's easily still amongst the best in this league. Needs a quick man alongside him though. Lomax - Keep - and for gawd sake give him a run in the team Thompson - Undecided but keep him for now. Was woeful at the start of the season but players don't become pants overnight and he was highly rated by some. Might see a different player next term. Kalala - Release him. Offers little. Allott - Gravy this season - Keep. Macca - Agreed - Keep him but utilise him where he can be effective. Liddell - One year deal at reduced terms if he can stay fit, or pay as you play. That said I think we have missed him badly this season. Taylor - Undecided but probably keep him, but in the name of sanity, play him on the frickin right. Oh yeah, and kick him up the arse from time to time. Livermore - Underwhelmed so far but need to see more of him. Jarrett - Looked ace on his debut and has been decent of late (apart from last night when he looked miles off the pace to me). Keep but he needs to step it up a level. Hughes - No brainer - get him fit with a full pre season - Keep Davies - Keep - has the potential to be an excellent player but needs to keep listening, learning and playing for the team a bit more. Smalley & Allesandra - Keep. If we can treat them right (blood them properly instead of throwing them in at the deep end) they both have very good potential, particularly Allesandra. Wolfenden - Agree - nice kid, tries hard but likely to cut it now. Get rid. Shopping list minimums GK - New no.1 CB x 1 or 2 depending on who stays CM - Creative ball player LW - Genuine left winger please - and invest a few quid in the process CF - Big target man to get on the end of all those lovely crosses that our star new LW is gonna be pinging in RW - A genuine option to Taylor on RW - Taylor can be utilised as cover on left in needs be.

Completely agree with that exile. Was having a conversation with Parigby a few weeks back (during the window) and he was saying that he feared that Sheridan was making the eaxact same mistakes during this window as he did the last. The fact that we have also had Greegs Lidds and Hughes all out injured has left us criminally short of experience. I DO NOT think that getting rid of the manager is the right thing to do, but I think we have to see real progression next season, in terms of NOT seeing these mistakes recurring.

Just been told that his wife is expecting too. Come on Ernie, fight like you always did! Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family! Best wishes fella!

Good Luck Big Les and thanks for the memories!

Think Liddell is exactly the player we've been crying out for in recent months. Somebody who can come off the bench to actually CHANGE things for us. We've badly missed somebody with his kind of experience to come on with half an hour to go. The bench on saturday consisted of Bell, Black, Wolfy, Smalley and Lomax, none of whom have more than a handful of games under their belts.

Shut up Wilson you moronic k**b!

Pastey. Not pale.

32 year old?! He's about 25 isn't he?

Not being funny Leezy but I don't think I've EVER heard Wilson boo/berate a player during a game. Groans/shouts/strangled strings of expletives borne of exasperation or whatever - like the rest of us - but usually 110% support. He will though, down the pub or wherever, tell it as he sees it. Always one with the courage to stand by his convictions in public, which takes a fair amount of balls when you are as short, skinny, speccy and ginger as he is! I think what he was on about with his 'public rant' admission was that someone was alluding earlier in the thread that the internet 'gave a voice' to people like him, which couldn't be further from the truth.

Totally agree with these sentiments Stitch, especially things like the Boundary Blues recruitment. BB currently have around 450 members which is approx 10% of our home gate. It's £50 to join for under 16's and for that they get a season ticket in either the NSM or the Chaddy (that's a saving of £109 on an U16's ticket) , they get use of the lounge which has a low cost tuck shop, playstations, board games, table footy etc plus they get reduced cost selected away trips, and get to go to the Christmas and end of season parties to meet the players. They also get entered into the mascot draw as well. (Incidentally the £50 ST is saving of £157 per season on the advance match ticket price and a massive £203 on the pay on the day prices for U16's!). The point about all that is - how many average Oldham parents who drag their kids round the Town Square and Spindles on a Saturday know that they can get all that for the equivalent of £2.17 per game? In fact, how many regular BP attendees know this? That they could bring along a son/daughter/niece/nephew/neighbours kid or whatever for less than £2.50 I think it would be brilliant to have a town centre presence - enabling us to try to compete with the plethora of premier:censored: shirts and merchandise which can be bought, and allowing the kids to see that Latics is a brand which can be 'cool' or whatever. I'm fairly certain that if we could publicise stuff like this in a direct manner i.e. through a retail outlet in the centre of town we would be able to persuade a generation of 'armchair kids' to get down to BP on a Saturday instead of swanning round in their ManUre/Ciddee/Liverpoo shirts or whatever.

Mark Innes.

Corney to Blitz "....and do you know, whislt we've been throwing good money after bad, some cheeky has been flogging knock-off tangerine scarves on the sly!!"

Danny Wilson, Shez, Redfearn. Carlton Palmer? Rick Holden (IOM)?

There's nothing wrong with that philosphy daz, I think we'd all rather do it that way. The fact still remailns though that you have to be able to 1) attract players of a high enough calibre in the first place 2) be able to offer contracts that secure them, and 3) be able to retain (the majority) of them in the future to allow the 'settled' squad we've all been banging on about. Relating it specifically to Eastwood, there's not a snowballs chance that we could afford the sort of deal that been hinted at on here. If we had the spending power of Leeds or Forest or Donny or whatver then maybe it worth the investment. We simply don't have that kind of cash at the minute.

Ok, so you don't wanna be anybody's finishing school. Ok. Super. Neither do I. Not long term at least, but as it stands we are a 3rd division club who - on gates of 5000 or so - can't really compete financially to sign players of proven quality which is why we are constanly outbid by clubs like Donny, Leeds, Forest etc. If we can utilise a player of his ability (or someone similar) for 3 months or half a season or whatever, then how can that be a bad thing? Particularly if we can negotiate a wageshare where the loaning club still foot a good percentage of the players salary. This is what gets me about some of our supporters. We aren't a big club and as Corporal Jones points out we're gonna get smaller if we don't at least have plans in place to make a concerted effort to get out of this league. Loan players, if used sensibly can help us achieve that.

They'd potentially send him out on loan for precisely the same reasons that we'd send the likes of Allessandra and Smalley out on loan if we had enough senior striking options at our disposal. I do however think it much more likely that he'd be loaned to a Championship club rather than a League 1 club in view of the fact he's already notched in the Prem.

Andy, don't talk about markoasis like that!!

I think poor is a bit harsh ritchie. Not brilliant but certainly not poor. As RBL says, he just ran out of steam in the end.