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Coleman needs help. It was a pretty clear tactic to win free kicks around the box, then throw a lot of bodies at him. The ref gave him no protection. One free kick was headed away but 3 Barnsley players followed through into Coleman. Needs his defenders to help him out and give him more protection. But we don't have a Lockwood-type enforcer.

Read it again and you're going to have to explain what I'm missing. Because he said instead of worrying about the food set up at training he should be worrying about the poor form. I don't get why doing something about one would mean he has less time to do something about the other. But maybe I'm missing the subtle meaning.

Did he play the team that won the Mansfield game except Dummigan instead of Eckersley? If so I can understand why. But I think he was wrong. Needed a physical presence up front and Fulton is a much better midfielder than Dieng.

So we shouldn't look to improve the ground/facilities/nutrition until we start winning games? Dunn's not going to be updating the kitchen himself is he?!

We were the better team in the 2nd half. They were the better team in the first half. We started :censored:, then got better and only lost because of a defensive howler in the last minute. That's how I saw it anyway. You want to criticise Dunn for everything he says and does and that's your prerogative. I prefer to look at things more objectively.

Why does it have to be either/or? Do you think he cancelled training so he could go out looking at ovens? You're criticising him for wanting to make the club more professional. Utterly bizarre.

Went in today for the first time, it was much better than I was expecting. Picked up a couple of cheap baby things for the poor unfortunate new latic on the way. Would have like to have seen more tat though, mugs, towels etc. Although my eyeballs had frozen over so could have missed them. But overall thought they'd done a good job of it. Definitely felt like a club shop rather than a sports direct that stocked a few Oldham things.

I didn't go to Chesterfield or Mansfield, so how did Poleon and Rasulo line up differently in the last 30 mins of those games (when we did our scoring) to how they started the game today?

Ha, been waiting for this one! :censored: sake Dunn, instead of wasting time trying to improve things at the club, you should be spending your time trying to improve things at the club. Classic.

Where did I say that didn't happen? 2nd half we attacked. The final ball was often lacking but we attacked them. How often did Yeates skin their right back? How often did Dummigan do the same on the other side? How often did Fulton get in the box? Its like once their 2nd goal went in our entire 2nd half performance was erased from everyone's mind.

Don't often get to home games but went today with a mate who's a Sheff Utd fan. His verdict - you played well enough to win that. Can't believe you lost. My verdict - if they hadn't got a winner people would be talking how we got much better as the game went on. Now we lost any positives will be forgotten. After reading this thread it feels like I went to a different game.

Latics 15/8 on bet365. Was on the fence til that tipped me over.

Latics 1-1 Barnsley (HT 0-1) Rasulo 4495

Probably one for the North Stand Construction thread. I heard we couldn't afford to pay for it.

Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, but I've only just read it on the Chron website. Some comments from Dunn that I think would be a real struggle for anyone to complain about... “Going forward, I want to get good, solid players who can easily play 35 or 40 games a season and who have done so consistently. That will be the key,” Dunn said. “Then, rather than having a couple of players who can do 20 games each and splitting the budget, we can get in one really good player who can do 40 and give him a bit more. “Footballers are all the same. They will most of the time go, one, to play for a club, two, for a manager, and three, where the dosh is. “I just can’t wait to put my stamp on everything. However long it takes me to do that, I know one thing — the club will be better for it.”

You talk as if he's blaming everything that's gone wrong on a sarcastic chant. He isn't. He has frequently said that he's not been happy with the quality and he understands the fans not being happy. Why are you ignoring that?

Gallows humour is one thing. But he probably hears and is the target of more than gallows humour in the dug out during home games. We've all been there and heard the sarcastic cheers when someone having a bad game is taken off. That's not gallows humour. Whether he's right about one particular chant is up for debate. But I think the sentiment is right - there's a lack of patience among the fans. But that's probably more to do with what's gone on long before Dunn joined.

Don't get you. I didn't say that if the crowd is positive we will win. The majority of players will get more confident the more encouragement they get. Don't think that can be disputed can it?

Because the supporters can directly affect the confidence of the players. It's not rocket science.

I prefer both.

Yet again people get offended by things he hasn't said. My first thought was that I agreed with him but that he shouldn't have said it. Then I changed my mind. Why shouldn't he have said it? In case a few precious tarts get offended? All too often people give the same old boring, media school, meaningless platitude responses to questions/situations. Scared stiff of being seen to offend people. I'm perfectly happy to have a manager who's willing to be open and honest rather than one too scared to say the wrong thing.

Chesterfield 1-2 Latics (HT 1-1) Poleon 6248

If Corney offered to hand deliver a free ticket on a blue velvet pillow to anyone interested some would still moan it was the wrong shade of blue.

What's the alternative?

For starters I don't have a sense of entitlement to anything. I don't need to know personally - I live :censored:ing miles away so I hardly even go to any games. If they don't want to say anything at all to the fans that's up to them. But there's an undeniable rift between the fans and the club and there shouldn't be. Something needs to be done to fix that. This was just one suggestion. Would it be damaging to the club to have that information in the open? On the playing front or on player recruitment, I agree with you. Any financial information, I agree with you. But to know what ideas the marketing director has for getting more people through the door for one example - why can't that be discussed in the open?