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    LJs after match comments

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    BP.....why do you actually go to the games? What is it that really winds you up all week that makes you this way? Boss hard on you at work? Mind numbingly boring job? Feel physically inadequate? Why don't you find another sport to follow as the latics clearly don't fulfil your needs!

    Memo to BP

     

    Beware pointing out the seemingly obvious..... It isn't to many on here

    Hyperbole exposed?

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    Having seen 2 games at BP this week can I ask a question? Does anybody know when we are going to field that team with pace tempo and passing skills which is full of goals? I have read so much much about it on here and heard LJs pronouncements so I have been a bit surprised to see a pedestrian side uncomfortably exchange a few passes at the back before lumping it Ineffectively forward. I bet the 2 visiting keepers are pleased it has been August...they would have got hyperthermia in December?

     

    Too much hype, hyperbole and bull?

    Is it...?

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    Surely the time to judge is 1st of september like o4u states? Johnson knows he has most of his players (maybe rooney and a n other) dickov brought his entire strikeforce in after the season started (baxter and derbyshire) and montano came in very close to the season iirc

    It was not me who compared the size of the squads it was LJ. So any criticism of making comparisons at this stage lands at his door

    The squad movements thread - who's in, who's out

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    Dickov signed Montana, 4 days after this, and Baxter, Wabara, and Derbyshire

     

    Not sure LJ will have the luxury of that many.

    Time will tell.

     

    Just to note the 2013 list has Gosset, who is a youth contract.

     

    I don't disagree with any of that nor am I making any judgements about the relative squads, I was just surprised to read something that seemed counter intuitive to me and thought I would ask board colleagues whether they shared that perception

    The squad movements thread - who's in, who's out

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    This'll be the last update. I reckon everyone can just about manage to keep track of the squad themselves after this.Who's under contract? (13 August)01 Alex Cisak (2013 plus option) – age 2313 Dean Bouzanis (2013) – age 2125 Liam Jacob (2013) – age 1702 Connor Brown (2013 plus option) – age 1903 Jonathan Grounds (2014) – age 2405 Jean-Yves Mvoto (2013) – age 2306 James Tarkowski (2013) – age 1916 Cliff Byrne (2013 per the Scunthorpe Telegraph) – age 3026 Carl Winchester (2013) – age 1927 Glenn Belezika (2013 plus option) – age 1804 James Wesolowski (2014) – age 2407 Lee Croft (on loan for the season) – age 2708 Dean Furman (2013) – age 2421 Kirk Millar (2013) – age 2022 Youssouf Mchangama (2013) – age 2124 Connor Hughes (2013) – age 1929 David Mellor (2013) – age 1909 Jordan Slew (on loan for six months) – age 1910 Robbie Simpson (2013) – age 2714 Matt Smith (2013) – age 2319 Dan Taylor (2013 plus option) – age 19

    This post from 12 August 2012 would seem to put to bed any uncertainty re whether L j or Dickov had the bigger squad.

    .Ie despite his press assertions to the contrary LJ is spinning us a yarn saying he has a smaller squad

    Is it...?

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    Because OAFC 100 while there is a Number 33 there aren't all the numbers in between!!

    Is it...?

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    No, it shows how slow Dickov was in getting his squad together. And possibly why he got every Tom, Dick and Harry youngster later on.

    So it stands to reason he has learned from his mistakes,..er hang on.

    Absolutely but it also shows that L J 's statement in the MEN is factually incorrect and misleading

    Is it...?

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    That seems to indicate then that LJ has a squad which about 20% bigger than the one available to Dickov at the same time last year

    Is it...?

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    See:

     

    http://www.owtb.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=42409&p=626444

     

    The latest list:

     

    1. Mark Oxley from Hull City (season loan) - GK

    2. Connor Brown (2014) - RB

    3. Jonathan Grounds (2014) - LB

    4. James Wesolowski (2014) - CM

    5.

    6. James Tarkowski (2014) - CB

    7. Sidney Schmeltz previously with SC Veendam (2015) - W

    8. Korey Smith from Norwich (2015) - CM

    9.

    10. Charlie MacDonald previously with Leyton Orient (2014 plus option) - F

    11. Cristian Montano (2014) - W

    12. David Mellor (2014 plus option) - CM/CB?

    13.

    14. Jonson Clarke-Harris from Peterborough (2014 plus option) - F

    15. Carl Winchester (2014) - RB/CM

    16. Cliff Byrne (2014) - CB/RB

    17. Anton Rodgers previously with Brighton (2014 plus option) - CM

    18.

    19. James Dayton from Kilmarnock (2015) - W

    20. Jose Baxter (2015) - F

    21. Kirk Millar (2014) - F/W

    22. Glenn Belezika (2014 plus option) - CB

    23.

    24. Edijs Joksts from FK Tukums 2000 (2014) - CB

    25. Luke Simpson (2014) - G

    26.

    27.

    28. Chris Sutherland (2014) - W

    29.

    30. Joe Cooper (2014) - RB/CB

    31. Danny Gosset (2014) - CM

    32. Jack Truelove (youth contract) - LB

     

    The 25th player is Rooney at number 9, assuming he signs.

    Anybody able to give the equivalent list for 25 July last year

    Is it...?

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    Wouldn't size of squads on day one of season be a better comparison as opposed to number of players brought in during the season?

    Yes which means to my reckoning using only full season loans he has a bigger squad?

     

    In Dayton Rooney Latvian MacDonald Schmeltz Rodgers Oxley Harris Clarke K smith (9)

    Out Bouzanis Cisak Mvoto Simpson Croft Furman M Smith (7) Taylor ( arguably) (8)

    New for old

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    Things have become clearer now? In essence the major changes from the team LJ was picking at the end of last season and the one he appears to favouring are

     

    Oxley for Bouzanis

    Byrne / Mellor for M'voto

    Schmeltz for Croft

    Rooney For Smith

     

    Is this stronger or weaker?

     

    Do the options of JCH Mac Donald Dayton Rodgers on the bench for midfield and attack compensate for nil cover at keeper or back four?

    Season Ticket Perks

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    Multi-Tasking Doc, oh the irony given that I am grading SPAG elements on the current paper I'm marking & this keyboard's :censored:e, I much prefer my MacBook but the marking software only works with Gates' Cartel.....

    I always found there was a direct correlation between students who got highest marks are those who got highest SPAG grades and just seemed another tier of bureaucracy serving no no more purpose than the always ignored " careless and untidy work will be penalised"

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