Bunty Blue

Good to hear there are other Latic's fans in Leeds.

 

Beacon of light in such a dark place

Happy days when we beat the local team though....

Me and my lad are driving over from Leeds. Probably try to set off around 4:30 to get a parking spot. Then have to put up with 17 yr old saying he's bored! Parking near Goodison and taking my chances crossing Stanley Park!

http://www.footballgroundguide.com/chesterfield

Interesting to note fans views at end of this sites section on Chesterfield. Sounds like a decent ground but hopefully the after match experience will be better now!

Launch into that immediately after You'll never walk alone has ended. I'd suggest the jumpy up and down one as it would look mint but only a handful would know it!

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=53331.0

Some Liverpool posts about views from lower Anfield Rd. If I've managed to copy and paste the link right using my phone that is! Apologies if not. I'm in block 125 row 29. Think just on the verge of restricted. Looks like there are 35 rows.

only gripe is that u18 advertised as £5 but actually u16. Just hope my 17 yr old lad can pass off as two years younger. plus couldn't choose.seat area. will be allocated. I think £25 tickets could also be right at back with hampered view. think £21 seats are down sides of stand. can't wait though!

You make an interesting point. It's become a perennial dilemma I guess for clubs in the football league, expecially in the bottom two divisions. It feels as though clubs and mangers are damned if they do and damned if they don't. I also find I can't mke my mind up. I really enjoy seeing the lads come through the youth system being given a run and perhaps in an ideal scenario would agree to keeping the squad simply made up of our own players. I just wonder if they would acually see us through the season as we would be a bit threadbare and short of experience. We do seem to pick up more than our fair share of injuries. And fans demand success, often irrationally given the size and stature of Latics and given our finances. And finances also create the need to bring in loan players, some of whom I assume have some or most of their wages paid for by their home club.

The loan system also gives us the opportunity to see potential stars of the future and possibly one or two may sign for a season. The downfall of loans appears to be that we can have a succesful start to season only to see some key players go in January which the affects the balance of the team and we seem to fall apart.

I really can't make my mind up! I also despair of the annual turn over of players every summer as we then have to watch a squad and team gel. Your notion of just keeping to our own contracted players might help alleviate this issue, although contracts tend to be short term anyway.

I think we are stuck with the loan system and have to trust the manager and the directors to make the best of it that they can. And lets hope the new Italian lads not only rip up a few trees but also put some bums on seats (even if it's a few City fans checking their progress - it's still cash for us). I would have liked to see a defender brought in mind - just keen to keep a clean sheet to suppport our new found attacking prowess!

Sure he can help young lads as well. Legend alteady methinks!

Very flat. Still can't help thinking that despite moving home fans out of Rochdale Rd to save on police and stewards costs, there were still more than usual so surely we could have been in there and made them earn their money. And improve the atmosphere.

I understand the cost of extra policing, etc leading to not sharing the Rochdale Rd end but then there will be extra police on duty anyway, so might as well use them and get moneys worth. Apart from the Millwall game when they could have segregated a bit better anyway, there is hardly anything much to steward or police really. Still miss being in Lockers. Sigh.

It would feel more like a proper derby if we were allowed to share Rochdale Rd stand. Atmosphere likely to be a tad flat I reckon which is a shame.

Some real positives. Winchestet and Mellor showed great desire and relative composure for such young lads. Need to bulk up slightly but that will come. Loved Wesolowski tenacity trying to break up their play and drive us forward. And obvious joy and togetherness at final whistle. Almost makes me forget the days work ahead. Almost. Need to keep it up on Sat.

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My brother in law lives in Enfield outside Dublin and has come over to a handful of games but not really a tic. He started to watch Sporting Fingal last season. Said it was ok.

My Dad ran off with Jim's wife. I also recall playing Scrabble in his flat before that happened. Maybe influenced my becoming a Tic.

My Dad ran off with Jim's wife. I also recall playing Scrabble in his flat before that happened. Maybe influenced my becoming a Tic.

Jim Bowie was a big lanky sod, about 6'4" I think.

Rubbish game but sweet Jesus a great result. And at least the cheers drowned out the lad singing against a host of European teams. Plus pre match pint in Hooters. What a top away day!

Well, that worked then. The decision seemed even odder as there were more fans for the Brighton game. Maybe the next step is to close the main stand and "pack" us all in the Chaddy End. Roll on next season. Looking forward to Sat in the meantime.

The only constant, season after season, is that players will come and go. And in Latics case a fair sprinkling of managers as well. Yes it's disheartening but if a player wants to go or even if the club has a reason to let them go, then so be it. Of course I'd love to keep hold of our best players but accept that at a club like ours that's never going to happen. Why do I still come? It's not a choice. I don't always enjoy it. But it's a calling. Well, as long as I have the money that is! So I'll be there again on Monday, grumbling about having to move from the Roccie Rd end again and for no proper reason. And maybe, just maybe we will sneak a win and I'll drive back home dreaming once again about the possibilities for next season. It's pure Groundhog Day at BP.

Always love this fixture. Just watched the build up on The Football League Show and now can't wait! My son tries to get his mates to come but they are all Leeds fans (naturally as that's where we live!), but one or two come when they can. Hope to bring a car full on Tuesday. Hope the fans are up for it tomorrow and not just the section next to the home fans. Would be magnificent if even for one song the whole away end stood and joined in.

Just went on the stadium tour with my wife and son. Packed out and with the charges for entrance and photos they should have the money in no time for the wages! Pretty good tour except for the changing room where there were no shirts out so from the photos we might as well been in our local sports centre. The reserve ground next door would do Latics proud - or many English teams to be fair.

Doors shutting..........

Sorry if this has been posted before but came across this on some site: "We got an itsy bitsy teeny weeny baldy headed Warren Feeney". Probably needs a second line and maybe the younger fans will need to hear the tune, but it's not bad eh?!

These recent articles seem to hint that he won't be going anywhere.

The Observer (24 May) "Finally, has Scholes any ambitions left, now that he has won just about everything that club football has to offer and has been to more Champions League finals in a little over a year than most players manage in a lifetime? This is the moment to disclose an unfulfilled yearning to wind down his playing days with Oldham Athletic, something his manager has often hinted might be the case. Instead Scholes thinks and comes up with something even more Scholesian. "Yes, I have got an ambition," he says. "I'd like to get back to playing for United."

Telegraph (May): "People automatically think I'm an Oldham fan, but I have always been United. My dad took me to a few games, but it was always really hard to get tickets for Old Trafford. He was an Oldham fan so, from the age of nine or ten, he started to take me to Boundary Park because we could get in!

"I actually left Oldham's School of Excellence to sign for United when I was 14. I didn't enjoy it at Oldham, so when Brian Kidd came to watch me and asked if I'd go down to United, there was only one answer really.