Snookmeister

This has got to be the worst team I've seen in all my 37 years of supporting the club. Bar Ripley, Croft and Clarke, the lot can go tomorrow. Manager and Chairman included. Just :censored: off....

Dummigan, Reckord, Burgess, Green, Winchester, Banks, Erwin, and Ladapo all absolutely :censored:ing awful. The lot of them can have their contracts ripped up tomorrow for me. Banks gets a special mention though as one of the worst powderpuff midfielders to ever pull on the shirt. He's dog :censored:. Hats off to McKay for a great finish, McLoughlin for his threat, and Croft for doing what he does off the bench. You just know though that the minute you start Crofty, it's normal service resuming. Reckord, despite being generally :censored:e, cannot be castigated for losing out to Rheade. It was pretty much their only outlet, we should have seen it coming, yet didn't put a player on him that could have won a header. Dunne would have done no better as he too is utter :censored:e and would have been way out of position to have even challenged for a header. What annoyed me most about tonight is being beaten in terms of desire and effort. Doesn't matter how good/bad you are, you should always have that as a player. We were second best all over for the vast majority of the game. Starting Banks/Winchester over Fane against that lot was a crazy decision. Fane may be inconsistent, but at least he has heart and desire. It was an absolute embarrassment to watch tonight. Lincoln thoroughly deserved their win.

Radio Stoke commentator - "If Oldham could finish, well, they'd be away".... Tell us something we don't know, pal.....

Commentary on BBC Radio Stoke. All us at the minute but can't hit a barn door.

Looks like we were just as bad that season too!!

Ripley, Clarke and Erwin at a push. The rest can rob a :censored:ing wage elsewhere. Wankers.

That first half was an absolute embarrassment. No-one was up for it. We were second to everything, no passion for a local derby. Our gameplan was largely - lump it up long to the forwards, then someone dive for a free kick, then put in a shocking delivery. 40 minutes they persisted with that tactic until the fans - who up until that point had been superb - eventually turned. And quite right too. Rightly booed off at HT. 2nd half we started like we should have started the 1st, but why wait till then? Why do we set out for a 0-0 at Dale, who are a bang average side? As :censored: as we are, there's not much between the majority of sides in this division this season, so why set up like we're Northern Ireland? We kept up the pressure for a good 20-25 mins, but failed to actually create anything, much less force their keeper into a meaningful save. The remainder of the game just saw Dale hardly break a sweat, such was our impotence in attack. I don't mind going down 1-0 or 2-0 if we give it a bloody good go, but to go out with a whimper, it's just not good enough. This lot are well paid for what they do, and churn out dog :censored: performances like this every week. And the club send out surveys as to why the home attendances are falling!! For :censored:'s sake, if you have to ask why, you shouldn't even be in the game. It kills me to see the club in state that it currently is, top to bottom. It's heartbreaking.....

Well, at least I got the score right!! Fantastic effort, hats off!

Heart says we'll pull it out of the bag. Head says 0-2, Scunny.....

Why do we insist on watering the pitch so much when all we do is aimlessly hoof it long? Why do we sit so deep and invite so much pressure? What the actual :censored: do the players do in training? Because they can't string a pass together to save their lives. Why can't any of our players actually hit a shot on goal cleanly? On the rare occasion we actually get into a shooting position, it's ALWAYS scuffed or mis-hit. Our ever dwindling attendances is one of the few questions I do know the answer to..... If Kelly or Dunne had had a similar start to the season, they'd have been long gone by now......

I lost count of the amount of times I saw Flynn knocked off the ball. My daughter has more strength than he does. Lumping it up to Erwin all game for him to win virtually :censored: all wasn't the best tactic to persevere with for 90 minutes either. Dreadful. This was my first home game of the season, and on the basis of that performance, will be the last £24 I stump up...

To clarify, I haven't actually seen the interview (cancelled my player subscription in a hissy fit!!). I wasn't specifically referring to this statement from SC, more the general comms from the club, or the lack of. It just seems that a lot of poor decisions/statements are made with little understanding (or care) of the impact they have on the club's image, either to the fans, or to the wider public.

They could do with either employing a PR company or getting some serious PR training.....

I bought my last ST a couple of years ago now. Stopped paying on the day in September. It's sad that after 35 years it's come to this, but it's just the measure of my current apathy. An apathy brought on by successive years of mismanagement from the board, and the general couldn't give a :censored: attitude of players, managers, officials, and governing bodies that infests the modern game. I'll always be an Oldham fan. I'll never support any other team. I'll probably do a few aways just for the craic and the day out with the boys, but I can't see me ever getting the bug back that I used to have. Too much has been taken away from the game and club I used to love....

Fantastic post. It's almost a mirror of myself and how I feel about my once beloved club. I've lost SO much affection over the years, due to the way we've struggled along, and the changing face of football as a whole. I couldn't even tell you who we've got next, such is my apathy. I'll never support anyone else, but I can't even begin to think when my next game will be. Truly sad times...