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Apparently Burnely have made a very tasty offer for Hughes. Not sure exactly how tasty as Ive only recieved a text off my mate saying it but Im sure someone on here said he cant leave due to his parole or something. Apologies if im wrong. I wouldnt let him go just yet though Im afraid and Id be sadly disappointed if he left even more so than Kilkenny not joining. It would be selfish if he did due to the fact weve given him a life outside jail. I sincerely hope he doesnt go as he is our only threat at the minute and a crowds favourite aswell. I love the way he tries to get them going.

Please, please don't let this be true it's just

Any chance we can get Simon Charlton back?! Could do with a left-back definately, wouldn't risk Stammy there, perhaps John Thompson could come in and make the position his own?

You are haven a joke!!! least i hope you are?

How much will Hughes be worth when he's fully match fit.....cos he isn't quite there yet! first hatrick of many I'd say that today.

£3m would be a nice little bonus, that would give us the means to get in a half decent replacement, imo

Comments above seem to say:

 

his teams don't play attractive football but that doesn't matter;

we may not get to a final or win anything but that doesn't matter;

he wasn't first choice but that doesn't matter;

he was the best available so why wait up to seven months, in case someone better comes available, before England next plays a game?

 

He's a genius when using foreign players and that's what matters!

 

The media love him, just like they did when Sven was appointed.

 

He was recommended by old red nose Taggart, who never wants England to win anything.

 

I think I'm missing the point somewhere along the line.

Reported contract to be worth (with bonuses) £6m a year!!!!!!!!! Erm I think i'd be botherd what was being served up for that money???

Did you not see that thread a few weeks ago, I said I will be Mr Positive for a year if the plans got passed.

I'm a man of my word.

Well looks like theres hope for my NewYear resolutions after all

I saw that, the cute blonde one but just too young

Bait, and regarding the incedent, anybody for a posse?

dont ya think that some of the clubs may take a risk on lee hughes,we took the bad press for him so they may see him as worth while especially as hes hittin a bit of form??

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Crossley has cost us goals all season. (Didn't move v Swansea, at least 2 at Hartlepool, 1st at Accrington, near post AGAIN v Southend, pisspoor 1st vs Crewe - Need I go on?) The guy has been finished for years, Only playing 60 odd games in 12 seasons says it all. Watch the goals on BBCi press the red button available all day. Even the commentator says how poor it was!

I have thought for sometime and stated in a posting on an other board, that we need to aquire a quality keeper, and clear the drose that we unfortunaly have in that area, imo its proberly the single most important position on the park and is the foundation to any good team.

cheers diego!

 

i read this and thought i may miss out.....

 

*** OWTB COMPETITION ***

Where's the strangest, most obscure place you've worn your Latics shirt - we want evidence. This compo will run during the off season to allow for those odd holiday snaps to come in! We don't know what the prize is yet, but there will be one - don't worry...

so i'm still in with a chance for the big prize?? 10 different locations this trip, and two in europe in the new year! about time i got a few more pics of my handsome self on that page!!!

Sorry back living in Scotland so can,t be there

Scotland fans are always portrayed by the media as jolly cheeky chappies who like a drink but wouldn't say boo to a goose!

 

In reality it's a different picture altogether. I've never forgiven them for what happened at Wembley in 1977 - not because Scotland beat England, but because of what the Scotland fans did to Wembley.

 

Consumed with excitement, the Scottish fans invaded the pitch at the final whistle an caused £15,000 worth of damage. A live TV audience witnessed tens of thousands of Rod Stewart clones, resplendent in 70s chic dancing with delight on English football's most hallowed surface? They demolished the goalposts and dug up the pitch, staggering away with not only parts of the pitch but the crossbar as well. Even now, many still boast of a little piece of garden that will be forever Wembley. A penalty spot nicked by fans has even gone on show at the Scottish Museum of Football at Hampden. They even auction photos of the damage on eBay.

http://i3.ebayimg.com/03/i/07/e5/44/86_1.JPG

 

Many may say it was all good clean fun, but when you view it in the light of the bad reputation England fans are stuck with and the cheeky chappy reputation Scotland fans revel in, it becomes a great injustice.

 

The link is a video to show or remind people what it was like. It’s been compiled by a Scot and edited to avoid showing the damage caused to Wembley.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Hj_2NHji8

 

Scottish construction workers claim to have have left a stash of tartan scarves, saltires and football tops under the pitch of the new Wembley Stadium. They are believed to have hidden a stash under the England dugout, as well as under goal lines, penalty spots and the centre circle.

 

Realistically Scotland is such a small nation that getting anywhere near a big football tournament is a great achievement. However I love to see Scotland fail, just to knock those 1977 cable-tossers down a peg or two.

PRICELESS MEMORYS thanks Diego, (oh voted YES) by the way. Right let me explain something! We (Scotland) know and understand that we're not the best in the world, and that we have no devine right to win games, or go to big tourniments, they have to be earned/achieved. On the other hand yous (England) have the nauseating attitude that you should and have the devine right to win games and tourniments, and when yous did win one, you've spent the last 40 years reminding everyone (especially us) Thats why we and almost everybody else like to see England lose.

I've just cast my vote and then seen the results to date.

 

I am the 65th person to have cast my opinion on Mr Hazell and I was genuinely shocked to see it as 100% in favour. There's usually someone who goes against the grain, if only to be noticed!!! That said, I think its conclusive the fans want him signed up. Just so long as he doesn't turn into a donkey once the ink dries on the dotted line.

Deal,Deal,Deal I,ll even lend a pen

After the first 'league' appearance of the paddock army banner I am opening the floor as to ideas for another banner .. this will be 4meters long and tangerine. Best ideas will be put forward to be voted for in a pole

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How about this!!

Nothing like a baptism of fire in my book; Leeds at home Tuesday night. If he's not hooked after that he never will be. Welcome to the Latics family Harry

Spot on

I'm signing into the "Michael Owen Is Rubbish" Club.

 

The only conceivable reason that MacLaren is picking him is to give him a few more caps before he is injured again.

 

I'd pick Rooney; Bent; Ashton; Nugent; Johnson; Defoe; Beattie and probably even Michael Ricketts before him.

Well wee Michael Owen is rubbish eh?

Do you think that this is a generation thing? There must be a lot of young(ish) Latics/football fans who can't remember a time when music wasn't played after a goal had been scored.

 

In the old days (late sixties, early seventies) goals used to be greeted in two ways :

 

For - A chant of, "It's all gone quiet over there."

 

Against - A chant of, "You're gonna get your f$%kin' 'eads kicked in."*

 

Now, at the risk of sounding like an old fuddy,duddy, I can't stand this trend for music being played after a goal is scored. It's yet another example of the true atmosphere being sucked out of the game.

 

* I'm not condoning football violence. It's just a wry observation.

I dont think thats true.....

 

There is only Kilkenny and Ricketts out....a team should be able to keep functioning without a few players....

AGREE......One or to injurys should'nt be used as an excuse, I know we have a lot of new players etc, etc but instead of improving we seem to going back the way. Have'nt been scorering goals, and now were leaking them too

CROSSLEY

CROSSLEY Tho many more results like today, could be both

Just hope he bangs loads of goals in for us!!!

 

When do you think he will be in the squad from????

I agree with all the sentiments made regarding the press confrence, all i have left to say is welcome lee and good luck. And lets give the guy support he's a tic now

I have been voicing my opinion, and I've been basing it on facts. You've started off by stating that anyone who doesn't agree with your "opinion" is deluded. Then you've said I sound like a manure fan, although you don't seem to be explaining why.

I'd associate moaning after 2 defeats with manure glory hunting fans. I'd associate watching the game properly, seeing how we actually played and what went well (and what didn't) with real football fans.

 

Happy with the way we played? Not completely, but there were clear signs that we are playing in the right way. I said the same last season after 4 games. You seem despondent, I wonder how you felt last season after 6 games with 4 points on the board? Or are you just calling it as you see the table?

 

Tell me; what positives did you see yesterday?

foreplay football a lot of fannying around without any penatration nearly peed myself but agree great thread some good points, i think we all need to calm down here. Given the number of new players it's going to take a bit of time to get to know each others game and gel into a effective unit, imo thats not to far off given a little time and a couple tweeks here n there it will come together, then light the blue tuch paper and stand back top six easy peasy

Why all the golfing terms

fore we wanted to, you want to pitch in ? ofcourse you don't have to

singe wrote:

With apologies and grateful thanks to Scapegoat...

Why thanks to me Singe?

Cannot believe we have started this again!

Also - what do they win?

Scapegoat, sorry got it in my head it was your orginal idea/fault!

Now realise it was Punchbag.

Lack of sleep is the main reason for delirium..

have i made it in tme for this

I'd like to join in this joke-a-thon, but having been out on the p1ss i'm feeling a bit in the rough so i'm bunkered.......

you must have started the round at the nineteenth then

I've heard of this wonderful inventin called an off button........................

And you should have one implanted in back of youer neck

Just a quick hi.

and one from me

>Name? WILLIAM GRAY

>Location? PENICUIK, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND

>How Long Supporting the Tics? SINCE 1989

>Best away match you've been to? GENOA IN ANGLO ITALIAN CUP 1996 ( i think )

>All Time Greatest Player? ANDY RICHIE

>Biggest Rivals (in your eyes)? BLACKBURN ROVERS, SCUM, TRANMARE, LEEDS