JoeLatics

Direction of the ball is Irrelevent, only the position of the receiving player in relation to it when kicked.

Crazy to try to say from that angle. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the guy who is literally paid to be able to see close offsides, and who was in the best position in the entire stadium to see it from was probably right ;-)

Just me who reckons Greg Rutherford could win gold at Rick Astley lookalike contests as well, then? ;)

Sorry, I meant centre mids, but the point stands. You say you didn't expect promotion, so what did you expect? Except for the last few weeks, we've been solidly mid table. If you've actually had a glance at the table recently, you'll notice that there's only 3 points between us and 13th, and only 6 between us and a top 10 finish. The league is congested as hell, and there's no meaningful difference between us and that expected mid table finish. If at the start of the season you'd offered a trip to Anfield, getting through to the regional final of the JPT, and being 2 wins from top 10, I'd have bitten your hand off.

What do you actually expect? What on earth could we have achieved? Dickov is a miracle worker, some of the players he's signed on his budget are incredible - Simpson, Kuqi etc. The bloke's got us to Anfield, and to within a defensive cock up and a missed penalty of Wembley, on top of which we've survived without even worrying about it (excluding the last few games). I don't care how good a manager you are, without key players you're gonna struggle - that's why they're called key players! We went several weeks without any first choice centre halfs, the best keeper I've seen in a Latics shirt since Pogs has been out for a few weeks now, without having such bad luck with injuries and suspensions we'd be top half without a shadow of a doubt.

And not even in the Alan Hansen sense of the word, I referee youth football and had one like that a few weeks ago... even at U14 manager was livid!!

They can hardly blame officials when they were being so stupid themselves; the offside off the corner (the corner taker passed it to a teammate, who promptly passed it back to him whilst he was still on the goal line... offside!) was the stupidest bit of play I think I've ever seen in the professional game!

We're 3 points off 10th... We are capable of achieving top half at least. Massive shame about injuries and so on, we could have got at least 9 or 10 points out of the last 4 games at full strength IMHO, which would have put us right in contention for play-offs.

May be wrong, but I think there's a separate show for Yorksher, so should be focused on us!

Just saw that on LP, don't understand why M'Voto's 'shot' was on the Beeb but that wasn't!

Mike Keegan @mikekeeganmen Last thing I'll say pre-announcement is that 'dramatic' might be over-egging the pudding somewhat. But it's good news #oafc

Sorry, accidentally hit the little red button on your post! I think being relegated and then promoted again would be good for us... just depends on if we could actually get the promotion from L2!

Attendance on Saturday was 3 times bigger than this one. How are we supposed to compete?!

Sounds about right, but where's that from? There's no specific reference to the 'shoulder charge' in the LotG (not this year's at least).

Depends whether you think the shoulder charge was careless or not. It's an offence to charge an opponent carelessly, recklessly or with excessive force.

Can see why the pen was given, although it was a little soft. 2 great goals for us, Shefki's miss not half as bad as I'd thought to be honest!

We are 9 points clear of 21st with 4 games in hand. We are 14 points away from 5th with 2 in hand. We have a budget of pretty much nil. Dickov could well turn out to be the best manager since Royle.

80 minutes of non stop singing today - best atmosphere at BP I can remember for ages! Don't let the disappointing result kill this idea - it worked if the plan was to stop the place sounding like a library.

Gutted! Gotta say, Shez played it brilliantly - every time Simpson was within 30 yards, they'd foul him! (Actually, whenever anyone was within 30 yards!) Just played a very niggly game - clearly came set up for the 0-0, and pure chance gave them the goal to settle it! They're a poor team with a manager who is getting very good! He never had a Plan B when he was with us,clearly got a few tricks up his sleeve now!

If we win it, it'll be the only piece of silverware that I've ever seen in the hands of a Latics captain. Mock it all you want, it'll be the best some of us have ever had as Latics fans!

There's a difference between going down from a foul and going down under a nothing challenge! Pen would have had to have been a 'careless' tackle - that is that he 'showed a lack of attention or consideration when making the challenge'. Never in a million years was that a pen, for me.

Got to be the £34 seats behind the goal, for me! Can't beat those seats IMHO!

Sorry, I meant to +1 that, but my finger slipped! Don't know if a mod can fix it?