Prendy_1984

What Is With The Caps?

So they actually said they wanted him? Or did some :censored:e tabloid make it up? When I see an offer I will believe it

Who has linked Smalley with the championship? He'll end up league 2 at best within the next 3 years. He has shown absolutely no development since he started his career. I have seen Colbeck put in better crosses than Smalley has, I agree he weren't worth a fee but that was hardly his fault.

yeah but smalley can actually beat men and has alot of pace. colbeck seems to run into defenders not around them. i agree about smalley not showing the desire or workrate that colbeck does but the hard cold truth is that smalley is so much better than colbeck as a overall player.

When has he beat a man? When has he put a cross in? He is gash. He put his goal away well yesterday and for the next 10 minutes he put more effort in than he has all season. Why does it take a goal for him to give a :censored:. He's a big lad but I haven't once seen him use his strength to beat a man or win the ball.

Id Put Parker On Left Smalley On the Right Blackman And Heffs Up front. Thats just me though.

People are slating Colbeck for running down blind alleys and not putting crosses in and you suggest putting Smalley there?

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If I am honest.... Probably not... Not at the moment anyway... Higher League ? I would attended then...

The question was ' Would you still attend. You don't go anyway so that question wasn't really applicable to you.

I would still subscribe and would still attend games. May put me off bothering going to a few aways.

Does anyone else think that without him, we'd be in a similar position to Tranmere?

 

i wasnt impressed with the decision to bring him back but i take that back. he is one of the only reasons we arent yet in a relegation fight.

 

(and im an optimist)

If we aren't in a relegation battle yet when are we?

More than the shower of :censored:e deserve.

Believe you got in a bit of trouble for having a moan yesterday Lee?

Then please enlighten me. Possibly Asia aside, where do Man U advertise?

They advertised their league cup game against Tottenham on the radio. Think it was Key 103, not sure though. City use the radio a lot to advertise and their in their best league position for how many years?

Like I said, if I win the lottery tonight I will stump up the cash

You mite even start going then

I don't, because we will be well and truly screwed if he is. Heffernan is a proven 1 in 2 man.

Proven when he has better service than he'll get here. Dont think it matters who we have upfront, can only score if they are provided with chances

Aye, I want to see what he does in January, or who he brings in. He's had rotten luck with injuries so he gets the benefit of the doubt.

 

I'd only be happy for him to go if Keith Hill was his replacement.

Why would Keith Hill come here? This time next year there is a good chance Dale will be a league above us

Everything I have heard from Rochdale is that he is doing really well and has formed a very good partnership with Dagnall. It's alright saying he has found his level, but do we really believe there is a huge difference in quality between leagues 1 and 2?

There's plenty of things that make me cheerful but unfortunately Latics have done the opposite for quite some time now. You know as well as I do that most of what I say is true, whether humorous or not.

 

And, yes, all being well I'll be there Tuesday night even though I'd rather eat my own snot than go to BP these days.

Can't you do both at the same time?

The borough of Oldham has a population of around 220,000. The town certainly doesn't seem smaller to me, and I've visited Colchester on quite a few occasions, and not just for football. I'd compare the size of Colchester more with somewhere like Bury, to be honest, but without being part of a very large conurbation like Greater Manchester.

 

The main point I was making was that in terms of the club's history Colchester are showing some ambition, while we seem to be consoldating at the level where we're currently at-and only fifteen years after the club's best ever period.

In that 220,000 you need to consider the culture of certain communities within Oldham.

Posted this in the MoTM pinned thread; but having read this thread - thought i'd stick in what i wrote:

 

This is a really difficult one; as I thought there were some very strong performances from a number of the players – and no-one had a ‘stinker’; it was a collective team performance the like we haven’t had much of recently.

 

I could have gone for Deane Smalley who I thought had a fantastic 1st half; I could have gone for either Greegs or Reubes who once again were rock solid at the back (which is weird as we shipped 2; but neither were a fault for either of the goals)….

 

In the end I’ve gone for Joe Colbeck. By far & way his best effort in a Latics shirt. He was a threat; had lots of space; even before the sending off, and I thought he used it well. He put in a couple a pearling balls into the box; worked his socks for the team (the chase back when we were caught out on the counter after our corner in the 1st half in particular) and his 3 sliding tackles that he got pulled up for were all well timed & he touched the ball on all 3 (2 were right in front of me; the other I had a clear view of).

 

By no means is he the finished article; far from it – but that was a lot more like it from Joe on sat – keep it up Joe Colbeck & if you carry on like that; then you’ll change a few’s opinions on you. Congrats!!

 

I think Colbeck has his knockers & detractors - and they are here to stay; as i think it was Latics Pete who said something along the lines; once some fans form an opinion they wont change it. Colbeck is a high L2 / L1 player. He wont go higher than that without a hell of a lot of work; but for us right now; he'll do a more than adequate job & hopefully his performance on sat is a sign of things to come from him.

Dunno what you were watchin. To many defensive errors in that first half for my liking. How many free headers do they need to be given before you question Hazel and Greegs?

Perhaps. But I was saying get Parker and Brooke on for a while before Penney made the change. Then guess what... they link up to score the equaliser. At 2 - 0 down at home a managers assessment does need to be made quickly.

I agree with Shrek. Subs had have been made 5 or 10 mins earlier and perhaps we would've got the 3 goals

He is no better now than he was to begin with tho. I don't count being fouled as a real positive

not sure what his positives were yesterday.

Smalley is worse than Colbeck, but because he's one of ours some people will love him however poor he plays.

Credit to DP that he got it right eventually - debit that he could not see how ineffective Smalley was down the right - and Deano got MoM!!

Is that true? He is gash!

Completely agree mate, why the would anyone want to stay at BP?! Its !!

And as they say you can't polish a . So redevelopment would be a waste to me

I couldn't really give a toss what City fans are saying. There is a lack of support for us at the moment, 3400 today as you have pointed out. People are saying moving to failsworth will lose us fans but lets be honest there aint many to lose. I think with the correct marketing kids from failsworth can be won over to supporting latics.

Smalley is poor. And was worse than poor today. When he gets the ball on the wing, the best you can hope for is a corner, he just doesn't know how to beat the man and put a cross in. When he gets a yard of space to put the cross in he manages to turn back into the man.