JoeLatics

 

 

 

Yesterdays ref was by far the best we have had for some considerable time. Got all the major decisions bar 1 right and that went in our favour. He wasn't overely fussy, let the game flow, none of this stopping corners free kicks etc to "talk" to and "instruct" players and used common sense by keeping his cards in his pocket when he could.

 

More performances like that though and he won't progress up the ladder unfortunately.

Ref perhaps wasn't too awful but the assistant on the building site side missed the most blatant handball in some time for me!

Latics doctors are volunteers who just help out on match days as I understand it (having shadowed one of them whilst in the process of applying to Med School a couple of years ago) - great gig for a fan but doubt they'd be involved in medical assessments of new transfers!

So you are a happy clapper I take it.

No, just someone getting sick and tired of idiots like yourself crawling out of the woodwork every time we lose... I really would love to know why you bother following football at all, you only ever seem to moan about it.

If you ignore the defeats and losses we've won like 1000 games in a row... Extrapolate that out and we should be Champions League winners soon enough! ;)

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Are you sure you and Elvis aren't the same person? I just can't comprehend 2 different people having this level of stupidity...

Get lost and support United then. Idiot.

By that argument only people you have seen qualify...so take that to its limit and it has to be from the present team to satisfy the criteria for all. Daft isnt it. Shez I suspect is a legend in Sheffield and great player for us. However the fans didnt vote him in did they. Can see your point of view but when you are older you would be of the same opinion re ALL the players that have been and gone many of players in last twenty years dont come close to also rans from past for what contribution they made to OAFC.

Wasn't really the point I was making - naturally Palmer, Royle, and even Groves are remembered very fondly by those who saw them and deserve their place. I just think we should have had a better cross section across time since anybody below a certain age only has one of 'their' legends on the list

I'm sure that Groves was fantastic but means that as a fan who missed the PL days, I've only ever seen one of the legends (and frankly only heard of 5 of them)!! Would have been nice to have Shez purely as a hat tip to younger fans?

Everyone on here is a :censored: and I hate you all

Should be someone from this millennium I think, anyone under 25 or so would have only ever seen Eyresy off the current list (have literally never even heard of a few of those!!!) - torn between Shez and TP myself.

Everything that i've stated is true. We're sleepwalking towards League Two. Everyone on here including you is in complete and utter denial. Just because we play a bit of decent football, you all think that we'll be alright. Well, i've got news for you all - having possesion in areas that don't matter means nothing at all. It's not as if we're creating loads of chances either. The spine of the team is poor, he's poor, his signings have been poor. We're just poor all round.

Shame you never applied for the job, being such an expert...

[quote name="slYou're right, it is only Septmber, but can you honestly see us winning 15 of the remaining 37 games, to avoid relegation? I certainly can't. We've played nobody decent at BP yet and we've already lost 3 times.Nearly a quarter of the way through the season and he still doesn't know his best team. Worrying to say the least.

Would you please stop pulling figures out of your rear end?! I'll say it again: according to your (bizarrely high) points target we need 1.16 points per game - as in slightly better than a draw a game. It's this bloody hysterical overreaction that I can't stand - if you believe so much that the team is and we're destined to go down then please just go support someone else.

Because it's true. I believe we'll need around 50 points to survive. Where are them 15 wins going to come from? No Matt Smith this season to get us out of trouble. No plan B either.

Even if the (nonsensical) 50 points thing was true, we'd need 43 points in 37 games, which is under 1.2 points per game. Not quite so bad when you put it like that, eh? I think you've somehow managed to forget that you can draw in football...

We're quite clearly not gonna go down - there are far worse teams than us in the division - our start has been awful by all accounts and yet we're doing better than eight other teams! Stop moaning, it's bloody September!

 

I have a spelling checker,

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Buy righting want too pleas.

Sure, but I reckon that a simple spell check would sort this shocker:

"Joe Cooper has been explaining why he is swopping the training ground for the lecture theatre after deciding to quit Latics for a return to full-time education."

http://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/news/article/20130913-cooperinterview-1051484.aspx#F1MA4wjO7R8VuWdc.99

Edit - not to mention "Cooper, who intends to continue playing football at university and may be also non-league" in the same article!

 

I don't really mind play on words. It's fun and pretty harmless, and if it's not overused (like with every headline trying too hard to be a pun) it's very effective and clever. But I do mind really badly written content and typos that a primary schoolkid would be embarrassed by. It's thoroughly reflective of the club and it takes only a few seconds to get a second pair of eyes to proof it before it's published. There is no way any of the club's website content is proof read before publication given how regular :censored:e typos crop up. I feel this thread should run and run like a throbbing boil to encourage the club to be much better at this kind of stuff rather than the "yawn, stop being boring" attitude that club employees evidently seem to display.

 

Doesn't Tony Bugby work for the club any more? He is a journalist by trade and it's clear by the way the articles are written that there's no way anyone with journalistic qualities are writing. I've not read a club programme for years but I'd expect the content in that to have been proof-checked several times before going to print. Why isn't the same kind of pride and care taken for the offical website content when there are far more people going to read that than any club programme?

Honestly I think you're being a little generous in saying it was a deliberate pun, but that's beside the point - I run a website for a bloody Uni Society and even I can understand how important it is to be giving out the right impression on what is a major selling point in the digital age. It doesn't take much to run things through a spell check! I seriously wonder what the webmaster does all day given that he's apparently too busy to read back over what he's written!

I think this one probably crosses the line between errors and sheer pedantry, but Americanisations do upset me, "Latics' fans intending to pay their first-ever visit to Rotherham United's New York Stadium on Saturday, September 14th are strongly advised to buy their tickets in advance. "

Not an error as such but doesn't the headline "Johnson on television date" make it sound like he's been on Take Me Out or something?

I'm all for it having seen how much it cost me to do the job over the years.

They should pay expenses (surprised they didn't, doesn't seem very fair that!!) but treating ball boys as employees?

It was a classy reducer mind you. Didn't seem to be much in it - then that lad's on the touchline taking a second look at his lunch.

I understand that he's not a professional athlete, but it just looked like Agbonlahor ran into him and he fell over to me...

Why does it not surprise me that GA is now getting death threats on twitter? :P

SC deserves a lot of credit for what he's done for the club I think, he's been fantastic. However, should Koukash agree not to move us out of the Borough I certainly wouldn't complain about Latics benefiting from his cash...

Surely ballboys and mascots are volunteers? I'm all for paying interns, but surely to God these people don't count?

No, he can't spell. There's 176 z's in zzzzzzzz...

Apparently inability to spell is a job requirement...

Not sure how our pen wasn't given, but have sympathy for the ref so far as theirs go - I do agree that it wasn't, but from ref's angle it would certainly have looked like one!!

Works brilliantly when it works... Sadly it's been broken more than once when I've been trying to use it! Worst case was when I was trying to get to Victoria to get a train over to Liverpool - they only announced that the tram was out of commission after I'd bought my ticket! Said it would be valid on 181/182 bus instead, but apparently didn't bother to tell the driver who wouldn't let us on! Ended up on a 59 after spending about 4 hours persuading the jobsworth driver to let me on... Not the best experience!

Exactly why simply bankrolling a team into the top flight isn't always gonna be a success... Think I heard that United have sold the most tickets ever for one club at Wembley, this is just gonna be embarrassing for the plastics!