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Did you see the letter in the chron on friday? Apparently the apartments will soon become a ghetto with drug dealers and murderers.

I particularly like how he was trying to compare 1960's and 1970's council housing estates to the private apartments (the like of which are selling for outrageous sums of money all over the centre of Manchester). WTF?!

The problem is that these boneheads will try and drag anything up - even if it's complete - to try and support their argument.

I might have been a little bit preoccupied.

lol! That's what I always tell the ginger one when I'm ignor..............er.......when I don't.....er......... see him!

It's also a shame that Tony Carss has left.

Indeed Inspiral

how about

........is a slapper, her .....erm.....:censored:y's very tight and when she's (hugging) Beckham, she thinks of Tommy Wright!

Peter Taylor, ex blue and already talking to Millwall and Gillingham so would be willing to come down to this level.

Can we afford Peter Taylor? He wont be cheap.

paul jewel

micky adams

john gregory

peter reid

mike newell

big joe

david oleary

john aldridge

 

are a few managers out of work....but could they really make a silk purse out of a sows ear!!!

Ed - at least you've come up with some suggestions - but

paul jewel - $$$$$ - not a chance that he'd come here anyway.

micky adams - $$$ I doubt he'd come here and I'm not sure how many would want him

john gregory - Are you on drugs?

peter reid - See above

mike newell - Good shout IF we can afford him and he's up for the challenge

big joe - Going to Leicester apparently and I can't imagine that he'd want to risk sullying his status by risking a second term with us.

david oleary - $$$$ and ask the villa fans what they thought of him and his 'buys'

john aldridge - Hasn't managed in how long?

produces nothing?? He's our top goalscorer.

 

I understand what your saying palmer1 but to take Davies and just drop him based on a few bad decisions is silly. I would much rather have a player who works his socks off and tries for 90 minutes and makes mistakes than a player who doesn't.

 

Davies is the only person on the pitch that looks like scoring at the minute so keep him in.

It's a big risk SIG but dropping Davies to the bench to allow Ricketts and Wolfy is IMO worth a shout. Speculate to accumulate so to speak. Let's face it, as a unit they can't do any worse than they are doing at the moment, and if it doesn't work with Rico and Wolfy then put CD back into the starting 11.

The ideal situation of course would be our midfield actually managing to get closer to the oppo's goal than the half way line - ie picking up the 2nd ball and sliding Davies and Ricketts in. Hopefully Gary Mc might be able to reproduce some of those box to box runs we saw early last season tonight! Fingers crossed anyway!

I Hughes and Ricketts don't have the pace to worry defenders.

Neither did Beckett or Porter. Or Killen for that matter but it didn't stop them getting goals.

The simple fact is that if we are going to use a target man then he needs somebody to mop up the flicks and knock downs. Davies isn't doing that, Hughes (and probably Wolfy) would.

If we insist on playing Davies up front then we need either a target man which Wolfy certainly isn't and I doubt Hughes is either, or we need the midfied supporting the attack and surging into the box/winning the 2nd ball to feed the strikers.

Whoever the best man for the job is, you don't keep an under preforming manager who is losing just because there isn't a clear candidate to take over.

"The best man for the job"? PMSL. What a lot of !

Ok, so can we have some viable suggestions as to who the 'best man for the job' may be. Bearing in mind that there will be no money and a contract (or 2) to pay off.

Or are you gonna dodge again, cos like all the rest, you haven't got a scoob of who we could attract in realistic terms who aint gonna cost us a fortune that don't have?

Great. So we lose the next 3 and replace him with.....................................?

I know you're still online Senor cos we can see you lurking and I'm hoping that in the hour and three quarters since I first asked, that you may have been able to come up with a sensible option to replace Sheridan, whould he get the tin tack after 3 consecutive defeats.

Go on, enthrall us with the masterplan.

I'll go with that, getting warmer. Ok...

 

3. The start of the second half, after the half time time talk, we usually come out...

 

a) firing on all cylinders, b ) no different, c) with a whimper, d) hang on, we actually come out??!!??

 

E4e

ZZZZZ

I was gonna say d but I reckon c.

£42.50 - you're taking the :censored:ing now mate!

Edited cos I'm an illiterate retard.

Not going too well. Ok then...

 

2. When was the last time we had a settled central midfield duo?

 

E4e

ZZZZZ

Ok - early half of last season Wellinho and McDonaldinho.

Come on mate - £45 but your breaking my frickin heart here!

Or the disappointment of losing the 3 close games could cause a few players to give up which hit's the moral of the team.

Great. So we lose the next 3 and replace him with.....................................?

Not sure if I've lost it yet but very quickly losing the faith.

Get off, you great big pansy!

It'll all be alright in the end.

.......and Swansea away last season.

I'll just take £50 upfront and save you the petrol money. You can pay it straight into my account, Nik.

Coco you'll not here me say this again (hopefully) but i agree %100. Ricketts had a good game but overall he is a very easy defender to play against, he is a poor mans Heskey. Slow (so people call him intelligent), doesn't get in to good scoring positions (so people say he creates more than he scores), personally i would see Wolfy over him any day.

 

Same old crap from Latics and whilst i am a huge John Sheridan fan, i am fast losing patience in hearing the same old stuff coming from his mouth after every defeat, didn't we used to rip Ronnie for his obligatory "pub team" quotes after a defeat?

 

That performance on Saturday was appauling and whilst people are saying it's the players fault, unfortunaltey in a results based industry and it all comes down to the manager. He has been let down by poor performers but he has put this team together nobody else, it is up to him to get them playing nobody else.

 

We are to easy to defend against.

 

Let me leave with you this, if Ronnie had signed a played deemed surpless to requirements by an ex-manager, was relegated out of our league with his last club, was a laughing stock the last time he was here, for a fee (bearing in mind how much money we actually have), what we be saying about Ronnie?

 

More chance of Elvis turning up against Forrest than me.

Surely it should be Ricketts and Wolfy rather than Ricketts and Davies up top until our midfield start to get closer to the strikers than 25 yrds away? I like Davies and think he's done well (and he's the only one scoring at the minute) but if we're going to lump balls into the box for a target man (which isn't the best way to play Ricketts) then we need somebody who can mop up the flick ons and nod downs etc.

Season 1982-83 - 7th

Season 1983-84 - 19th

Season 1984-85 - 14th

Season 1985-86 - 8th

Season 1986-87 - 3rd (Play Off's)

Season 1987-88 - 10th

Season 1988-89 - 16th

Season 1989-90 - 8th

Season 1990-91 - 1st

Amazing exile, those first 2 seasons look as though we may be heading for mirror image results if we carry on playing the way we are.

Trotman does deserve a chance and Shez said at the do a few weeks back that he rates him highly.

 

He played centre half with Stam last night and captained the side. Very vocal and kept encouraging the side even at 6-1 down. Thommo played in midfield and did a half decent job of it. Stam was then subbed and rather than move Thompson back to play centre half he was also brought off. Writing is on the wall for him...

Not sure if that was in response to me RBL, but I agree that Rodders deserves a chance, but not and I mean ABSOLUTELY NOT at the expense of a fit Gregan, as was being implied in angus' post. Certainly not while Hazell is here and playing very well in partnership with Gregan.

get Trotman in the team its about time the boy was given a chance

 

all greegan does is try and use his weight 90% time he will try and shove players out of way instead of going winning the ball!!! Watch him at set pieces. He still thinks he is a premiership player and until he loses some of his ego he is keep making mistakes

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Whatever you say angus.

Whilst I agree Ronnie was a dinosaur, and I was fairly indifferent to his managerial style and tactics - Shez is proving to be just as 'reactive' to any problems that present themselves. We played better football under his (Shez's) cartaker tenure in 03/04, with a bunch of kids, journeymen and no hopers. Now we have these so-called big names we are dire. There's too many egos in the dressing room imo, thus explaining Shez's outburst today. One thing though Dan, has Shez convinced us he has a Plan 'B' yet? Because we are playing more hoofball than under ronnie at the moment. Yes it was and boring under Ronnie, but it was and boring in the top ten of the league. With the run we've got coming up I'll guarantee we'll be bottom four after we've played at Bournemouth. Even when we've had good sides we've been a soft touch away from home (Dowie season apart) and if we get more than four points from Forest, Orient, Bindippers and Bournemouth I'll be amazed. Last night was so predicatable, I've been watching the sdame kind of away performance for 21 years. Ok first half, 0-0 - then second half roll over and die! I know you've said you were disilliusioned in the mid-90's before regaining the spark at Maine Road well I'm going the same way mate and thats coming from someone who goes to 40+ games every season.

No, he's not 'convinced us he's got a plan b' yet, but like I say, he's barely out of his management pull-ups yet - he's got time to learn. He needs to start doing that though. If he's have been some seasoned manager who'd been there done it and got the t-shirt I'd have been more worried by his perceived naivety, but he's not, so we have to give him the benefit of the doubt.

And, I'm disillusioned too at the moment - as BB80 puts it, to have seen that opportunity slip away last season and to be stumbling around in the dark at the moment, is hugely frustrating.

However, we just have to keep going, keep supporting, keep believing, keeping the faith. What else is there to do?

I know Royle's name gets trawled up on here whenever we talk about managers and their respective acheivements but as has been discussed a good number of times, his early managerial record was nothing to shout about.

10 League games in yes; and only one half-decent performance at Walsall.

 

Since new year's day League and Cup

 

P38 W12 D9 L17

 

Sorry but if that had been Ronnie Moore then the clique would be in hysterics, nudge, nudge, wink, wink........to the point of getting a bleedin' UN resolution against him. So tell me, why is Sheridan immune from criticism? And have we progressed on the field? Because from January we have gone backwards and if we're still struggling come New Years Day like it or not tough decisions have to be made.

Thing is though Prozac, there's a world of difference between the two. Ronnie was a football dinosaur, seemingly incapable of changing things around effectively - hence the 'no plan B' tag.

Shez by comparison is barely out of managerial nappies. Yes he's having a hard time and he needs to start learning from his mistakes. However, fans are rightly giving him time to do this and giving him the benefit of the doubt, but I don't think that means he's immune from criticism - having posted myself of several occassions this season and last that I though Shez had got things wrong in certain situations.

We used him in that role successfully in some pre-season games.

I'll bow to your knowledge there DS because I only saw the Dale and Weds games. I certainly don't think we've used him in that role in a competitive game though.

Worth a stab surely?

Somone said above that Liddell should play in the centre, thats all well and good he would be able to play good balls through but it's clear he does not have the legs to play centre midfield it would need to be 3 playing behind him in the middle like we did pre-season and with Eardley and Bertrand pushing on down the wings - there both fit young kids and should be able to get up and down the wings - with either Allot or JP dropping back and covering in defence for when the full backs push up.

Shez seemed to manage alright for 2 seasons with knackered knees. He had a good engine alongside him though in the forms of Carss and Murray.

I have said this loads of times but a Wigan supporting mate told me 2 years ago that Lidds best position was playing in the hole behind the strikers. We've never (as far as I can remember) used him in that role, and I reckon tomorrow night would be the perfect time to try it.

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Tell you what, you answer my question and then ask me one. I'll even make it multiple choice for you.

 

Do you think that Ricketts has an excellent first touch which instantly brings the ball under control?

 

A. Yes - he has got an excellent first touch and this is the first positive post I have ever made on an Oldham Messageboard.

 

or

 

B. No - I am so totally blinkered that I will continue to fail to see anything positive in someone who I wrote off before he had pulled on an Oldham shirt.

 

Just a bit of fun as I know that you will avoid the issue in order to maintain your persona.

 

Having seen every game that Davies has played, I love to see him in the side and I think he's one of the most exciting players that we have had for years. He lacks composure in front of goal though and is too greedy. Your question is therefore hypothetical as Ricketts would not get a pass since Davies will already have tried shooting. Just like he has done on many occasions recently with only the last minute effort at Walsall being succesful.

 

Play to strengths by all means. That means getting a poacher alongside Ricketts and using Davies on the wing where his pace can be devestating.

lol!

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Didnt really think the atmosphere from either side was much meself ... first 10 mins we were loud but then it died down until a 5-10 period in the second half....i thought anyways.

Didn't help that the only people regularly singing were the usual crew to the right of the goal. The rest of the Chaddy End sat there like it was a morgue for much of the game.

As OAFC0000 says - same old same old.

I can not believe what i am reading about Ricketts, how can people say he is the worst player to play for us in a long while and that he was our worst player last night. Are you the same people who have a go at Lids and gregs and who were having a go at Wellens and porter last season? Ricketts may not being able to sprint around for 90 mins like Davies and Taylor can do but he offers the team so much more, he can control the ball in an instant, his movement is second to none its just that our other players dont always see it, he can pick out passes, given the chance he will score - fair enough he missed a decent enough chance last night but he was being pushed all over the place. Shez wants him to play as a target man, this is not his natural game, he likes the ball in to his feet or to be put through one on one with the keeper - he made is goal at Walsall look easy. In Ricketts, Lids and Kilkenny we have 3 of the most naturally talented players in league one, to suggest dropping any of them would be foolish.

I do agree that Wolfy should have been brought on slightly earlier but for Davies not for Ricketts.

Gemma, I could have written that post myself almost word for word.

We wont see the best of Ricketts while he's being utilised with his back to goal, especially whilst his strike partner can't decide whether he's a CF, LW or RW. Runing onto goal (as he did at Walsall) will always be where we see the best out of Ricketts.

Wolfie should have been on with at least 20 mins to go, and you are spot on that it should have been Davies making way and not Ricketts.