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19 hours ago, Boyyou said:

Have a feeling that McGahey and Gardner will get 12 months. MM seems to like their attitude. Maybe not regular starters in future but as squad men.

Gardner has shown that he is comfortably our best midfielder in the last few games. Now that could be because he's out-of-contract Dan so has upped his game.

I can see him being offered another year, but with pay skewed towards him playing. So a reduced basic wage but a playing bonus that significantly increases his salary.

3 hours ago, BP1960 said:

25 years ago Curzon Ashton were in the North West Counties League, now they are in the National League North play offs with a great chance of facing Latics next season.

And on top of that Ashton United could be in the NLN next season one league away from us.

Who have thought it?

Where were the likes of Salford, Harrogate and Dorking 25 years ago?

We've gone backwards often down to poor leadership at board level. They haven't. 

25 years is a long time in football. In 1970/71 we were promoted from the then 4th division and Burnley and Blackpool were relegated from the then first division. In 1990/91 we were promoted to the then 1st division and Burnley and Blackpool finished in the playoffs in the then division 4.

20 minutes ago, LightDN123 said:

Beyond shit today. Can’t play in a two. Fraud 

Left his armband on the pitch late on. Think it was pulled off by an Alty player.

I think he is part of the problem with our motivation and lack of leadership.

7 minutes ago, oafcmb said:

Not rated at Tranmere. 

Not rated at Tranmere is better than nonexistent at Oldham 

14 minutes ago, diggleblue said:

I said in my post yesterday that this ref has a record for giving out yellows but not for 1 minute did I think he would be this bad. He was atrocious and should be struck off. What does the 4th official actually do? Their keeper blatantly handled outside his area a should have been carded for stopping a goal scoring opportunity and we didn't even get a free kick. All the ground could see what happened only he didn't. Not to mention all the other mistakes he made. I'm sick of these crappy officials. He ruined the game today. These refs never ever get sanctioned. If I had been Mellon I would have smacked him in the face at the end and taken the ban and fine for the pleasure of punching a twat in the smacker.

Once again I did warn you all that this ref .was shit.Still angry at his decions today. Wish I had his email address.How the man can walk off needing a police escort and return to his Easter with his family is beyond me.And yet again there's fuck all us fans can do.

You did but today's ref wasn't the one who was originally announced.

Robert Massey-Ellis replaced Andrew Miller.

He is a bit card happy too, as was obvious today. Don't recall him being that card happy when he reffed our game at Barnet last season.

A Google search will bring up his twitter. Still public...

26 minutes ago, jsslatic said:

 

Yep. I can handle our fans embarrassing themselves kicking off about that (which isn't the first time it has happened at BP), but the fact the ref then had to explain it to several players - fuck me.

Yep. I thought it was bad when I had to explain it to the person running the club not named Lemsagam, because the players didn't know. That was at least 3 years ago. The ref was helping the players take our FK from where it could have been but not as insistent as today's ref. Our players ended up losing at least 20 yards.

The first time it happened was in the first league game at BP since the law was changed - MK Dons at home in August 2018.

2 hours ago, disjointed said:

The refs decision to award an offside against us in our own half just about sums him up. 

As @doctor evil said it's where the player impacts the play, i.e. where he touches the ball.

See paragraph 4 of https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside

The law changed in summer 2018. 

3 hours ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

What would be seen as the biggest surprise in our history? Promotion at Wembley this season or saying we'll stay up in 1993 a fortnight before the season ended? Surely the odds were longer on that?

Currently getting promotion at Wembley. As although we ended up having to win the last 3 games in 93 that was only because Sheffield United won the first 2 of their last 3 including an away win at Everton IIRC.

20 minutes ago, Boroblue said:

Has anything else been disclosed? Is it a much needed cunning plan to access the fans bar from the stand?

I've seen something to suggest that.

11 hours ago, deyres42 said:

He's probably in the running for player of the year to be fair.

He doesn't get into my top 3. Hudson, Sheron, Norwood all above him. I've probably not seen his best performances though.

His rather obvious giving up at Aldershot has again made me question his leadership too. Something his performance at Rochdale, especially after our 3rd / 4th goal, had restored.

Lots of people suggesting other players that if we want to go up and do well need replacing. Well Hogan is in that list for me both as a player and a captain.

5 hours ago, BP1960 said:

I'm posting on twitter because of the trolls on here, it's less personalised on there I've found.

Anway I've got flu and so has my wife and I've lost any interest in the next game - which I won't be attending.

Incidentally, England were very good apart from a couple of mistakes I thought last night.

 

 

Hope you and the good lady get better soon. 

5 hours ago, Azza27 said:

Anyone with a spare ticket for alti away would be appreciated was away when they were released. 

Check the #oafc on X (previously Twitter) few people selling spares.

29 minutes ago, deyres42 said:

Is the deadline this Thursday?

Yep 4th Thursday in March

7 minutes ago, Lee Sinnott said:

It's not so much the booing that I can't get my head around - it's the amount of abuse shouted at the players that blows my mind.

 

In fact, the only reason I clapped them yesterday is cos they were getting an unnecessary amount of grief from a section of the fanbase...

This giving grief doesn't do anyone any favours. There was an element of performative nonsense about it too.

Due to the remaining fixtures I think making the playoffs might still be in our hands. 

11 hours ago, yarddog73 said:

One thing I dislike in him is his inability to keep the game moving, he's forever killing momentum by not reading the game, he literally slows every passage of play down and it's the reason teams are happy to throw men forward because they know they'll have plenty of time to get back and reset, we sometimes have two or three on two up top when an opposition attack breaks down but it never goes early, most frustratingly he puts it up there anyway when they have everybody back and invariably we don't win it.

11 hours ago, Bobledgersheart said:

The only time I noticed him releasing it quickly was when Hammond was left upfield and broke quickly ( think it was Kidderminster ?) to exploit his pace.

 

He consistently just pisses about with the ball when taking dead balls, but he's not the only one ! 

10 hours ago, Boyyou said:

May be wrong but can't think of many, if any, keepers this season who have consistently looked to get rid early. Perhaps it's a modern coaching thing.

9 hours ago, GlossopLatic said:

 

I think their was a time in the early 90s when you would see John Hallworth come out collect a cross and bowl it out to a winger or a full back. Peter Schmeichel was legendary for doing this as he could throw the ball to the halfway line. You don't see keeper's throw the ball out quickly anymore. However goalkeepers today are far far better with the ball at their feet and every now and then will put a quick ball forward to start a counter attack. Ederson at Man City is probably the best example of this Now not many goalkeeper's in the world certainly non at this level are capable of distributing the ball aswell as him. But perhaps it is something we should look to work on but you need players who are going to be alive to this I don't think we are a counter attacking team. Maybe if you have Green on the wing then an early release to him is probably your best bet. Either that or if you have Norwood and Fondop uptop a quick release for them to fight it out with centre backs might be a good opportunity for a quick counter attack.

Although Hudson is the better keeper. Norman is far superior at setting up counter attacks by distributing well and quickly.

I don't think it's a coaching thing I think most would rather have the better keeper than the better footballer. That GK at Gateshead who chucked at least 2 in for us this season was pretty good at distribution too.

14 hours ago, Dave_Og said:

I'd be 100% certain that we are the only club to actually lose the required FCA permissions. They were lost because of a failure to file routine returns compounded by a subsequent failure to even respond to the regulator resulting in the club being declared not fit and proper.

Shock we failed to file the routine returns given who was supposedly running the club at the time. I'm not talking the Ringley brothers either.

22 hours ago, penrhyn said:

So are you saying league 2 strike forces are worse than national league strike forces . It was an off the cuff comment by me regarding the recent defending  . The fact of he matter is though as I said defend like they have recently and they will struggle . Do i expect them to keep the same defence no . Paul Cook is a good manager and will know who to get rid off. 

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No I'm not saying that I'm saying the strike forces at the bottom of league 2 are not better than the better strike forces in the national league. Us, Chesterfield and a few others will have a better strike force than most in League 2 and even some in League 1 (us and Chesterfield)

6 minutes ago, penrhyn said:

The point i was trying to make is in the last 8 games  Chesterfield have conceded 18 goals whilst scoring 19 . We should have been four up at half time Saturday . Halifax should have been more comfortable last night at least another goal to the good possibly 2 . Defend like that next season against better teams and they will be relegated . But I expect them to bolster most of that defence .

LOL.

I think you may have misjudged the quality of league 2 strike forces especially at the lower end. Chesterfield will be amongst the favourites for promotion again next season and that will be justified. They are not going to struggle even if they don't add anyone, which won't be the case.

4 hours ago, disjointed said:

Fucking hell Ben, that goes against all medical advice. 

Well I only had a taste, it was glorious and goes for a few hundred dollars a 75cl bottle. But that brewery tour was still the best $2 (which was only about a quid back then) I've spent.

2 hours ago, GKing521 said:

If we're lucky. Couple of 14% ales to take the blues away. 

Pah I'm not interested unless they've got something over 20%.

1 hour ago, GlossopLatic said:

 

Wealdstone have us last game of the season so I'm hoping by that point they are safe and are just going through the motions. Ideally we will be cemented in the play offs by then so the only thing that we are playing for is which place in the play offs we occupy.

They should also be knackered. They've got 2 sets of 3 games in 6 days including 1 set of 4 games in 8 days. If they are safe I can see us needing two hands to count our goals.

4 hours ago, jsslatic said:

 

I'd say surely they'd give more than 7 days notice of a fixture, but this is the NL...

Plus it's not like it isn't 20 minutes down the road.

39 minutes ago, oafc1955 said:

All the final fixtures have to be played at the same time on the same day don’t they? In our case 15.00 on 20th April.

It’s a key game in the promotion race so If it was rescheduled for the 16th and was then postponed because of heavy rain all week in Halifax what would happen then? 

I think our final game will be 17:30 on 20/04/24. TNT will want to show a game so all games will have to kick off when that game is on.

1 hour ago, jsslatic said:

It can only be the 9th or 16th can't it?

I thought that with the Easter Fixtures. But...

Alty v Wealdstone 

Gateshead v Hartlepool

are both on the 26th. Technically in the arrangements playing Tuesday / Friday is no different than playing Wednesday / Saturday and we've done that this season with a much longer journey home than the 20 minutes from Halifax.

So I can see it being arranged for Tuesday 26th. Especially if there are doubts about Halifax fulfilling their home fixtures due to their pitch.