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3 hours ago, LaticMark said:

Shelton becomes Barnet’s ninth signing of the summer!

I reckon if I was the supporter of a team who had finished 2nd to runaway leaders last season, I'd deem a squad overhaul to be bad news.

I am scarred by the last two defenders we signed from Scunthorpe.

3 minutes ago, BP1960 said:

 

True, all I've been saying they must be watched too, not just based on numbers or agents recommendations.

Christ. They are watched!

3 hours ago, BP1960 said:

 

It's getting that way in society though, humans are hardly needed by some companies any more. I was in Boots at Rochdale the other day and it was all self service tills, not one human check out, nor any security staff, and they wonder why shoplifting is at an an all time high.

I have used stats in the old days to check players background, height, weight, positions  and goal ratios, but always followed up - even when every box was ticked.  It's folly IMO to sign old players who hadn't played much for the last 2 years just because his stats looked good back then, you need to see them play recently.

 

That is what has been happening, man.

In fact the statistics will no doubt be even more helpful than whatever an arbitrary stat about weight is.

You are just making stuff up and getting angry about it.

For your own sake enjoy your summer and stop getting wound about things that aren't happening.

11 minutes ago, nzlatic said:

Isn’t it used in addition to, rather than instead of, traditional scouting methods?

Don't bother.

Fuck off.

Gateshead kicked out the playoffs.

Still in with a shot at promotion when we kick off less than 48 hours before the end of the season.

We have a whole summer/lifetime to bemoan how this has panned out. Get yourselves down there.

6 minutes ago, Glossop Shrimper said:

For a day at least, now Gateshead need to beat Aldershot tomorrow night.

It would be helpful, but Aldershot's goal difference is shit. They could win tomorrow and we could both (well, you) still overhaul them if they get turned over on Saturday.

Did Mellon go to this game?

If so, why was he wasting his time there instead of watching Halifax when we play them on Thursday?

If not, why wasn't he looking at available gems playing in his doorstep?

I don't know the answers to these questions but I am angry about them.

E I E I E I O

6 minutes ago, Worcester Owl said:

Come off it. Reid wasn’t that good. If MM had let him off people would have said he was weak, too soft etc. Reid knew the rules and broke them anyway - he was either thick, or thoughtless, or both.

And that ignores the ridiculous suggestion we'd be better off for having Willoughby and Tollitt around.

52 minutes ago, BP1960 said:

 

The most booed off manager I've seen in 60 years. Fans should be entitled to ask why is that.

Because our fans have become boo happy since Abdallah.

It loses its meaning.

I've seen a post somewhere on here about Hudson having a pop after being told to get on with it. It sounds out of order. However for context a similar thing happened at Altrincham after about 25 mins when we had a GK and he went to get the ball. Some idiot was screaming at him to hurry the fuck up up because we needed to win the game. He looked at them completely bemused given:

a) it was 25 minutes in

b) it was 0-0

c) he wasn't doing anything slowly

It may well be that he needed to hurry up today, but things lose their impact when people get disproportionately and performative angry, itching for the pissboil. It's a boy who cried wolf scenario.

We've made a complete pig's ear of this and it's not unreasonable to let that be known. But this team was being booed whilst they were in the playoff places, because it's become part of some people's day out.

I'm glad to see Mellon's interview. He sees what we see. The team isn't good enough. Maybe he will be shown not to be good enough, but maybe given he can see the issues and he did a decent enough job at covering the turd in glitter, we might be best trying to get through the season without using a fifth manager.

Booooooooooooo.

8 days left of the season and still no news - going to be behind closed doors this isn't it?

14 minutes ago, oafc1955 said:

A new day?

Halifax may need one to get these fixtures in!

I hope the club are deliberately playing hardball. Play it next Thuesday and force Halifax into playing 4 games in 7 days.

However slim our chances are we have to look after ourselves. 

Christ. This thread is just the same people making the same points over and over again.

3 minutes ago, Worcester Owl said:

I will admit my 72 point prediction is looking dodgy. We just need to win all four remaining games, and it would be typical Latics if we did. It’s certainly possible, whether it will be enough even then is now out of our hands.

I'd suggest that a barnstorming finish to the season winning our last four games would be the opposite of Typical Latics!

53 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

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. 

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.

8 minutes ago, PeteG said:

So looking at those figures, it seems like the club lost around £1.7 million in the first year that the Rothwells owned the club which is not unusual for any football club. The issue is the losses for this year will most likely have increased, especially when you look at the signings such as Norwood, the sacking of Unsworth and staff plus the appointment of Mellon. The EFL payments will have finished for next season, so the question is how long can the Rothwells continue to bank roll the club to the tune of £2 million plus per year? Will they have to drastically cut the budget? Either way, it seems imperative we get back in the EFL asap. Of course, there will be income from the North Stand etc. that won't be in the clubs accounts so it may well be that they are happy to put that income into the club and therefore vastly reducing those losses. I'd assume they will be happy to throw a decent budget at next season as a minimum but there must surely come a point where the budget will have to be cut if we remain in this league for a sustained period of time. Just goes to show that 99% of football clubs are totally reliant upon owners pumping substantial amounts of money in and this idea of fan ownership is just not feasible. The problem isn't Oldham Athletic but football in general.  

'We can't afford to go up.'

Tuesday will be 30 years since my first Latics match. 

I have a feeling we'll get six points this weekend, which will light the spark for this suddenly feeling like a promotion season.

Nobody gets these sort of predictions wrong thirty seasons in a row.

1 hour ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

How is home match attendances comparable to a major final at a flagship stadium that most supporters will never have been to, on a bank holiday weekend?

 

The only thing stopping us taking 20k is a train strike that weekend.

That and the regularity with which this team has failed to deliver when the expectation levels rise

27 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

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.

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

1 minute 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? 

The only fair thing would be we get the 3 points together with the 3 they took off us at BP for the inconvenience. 

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