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  1. Absolutely correct - I was there! School leaving age was 15 then. Only a week or two after that, he was in goal when we beat Chester 11-2.
  2. That’s two of us who saw both matches, then. And both played on rolled-out snow, I am pretty certain.
  3. As a southern fan, have not seen many matches this season. Felt that Crusoe’s round-up at the beginning of this thread was excellent and not much I would want to add. Simpson, Derbyshire and Croft were outstanding for me. Tarky has come on since I last saw him, very pleased with his show. Disappointed in Baxter - first time I have seen him and although he obviously has skill, he simply vanished for too much of the match; I expected such a talented player to be more influential. Bouzanis made some fine saves but his overall display was a bit shaky, I thought; poor kicking, and too much punching, maybe as a result of not getting himself into position in time. Mvoto’s sending-off was just stupid - if you behave like that, that’s what you’ll get. Especially with a poor ref like this one. Agree with Crusoe about the Crawley facilities - that ticket cabin is going to be a disaster when they play clubs with big support. Overall, a good hard-working performance. But I constantly wonder about Dickov. Individually, this is as talented a bunch of players as I have seen at Oldham for a long time. So why can he not mould them into a team that plays good football? For about 10 minutes in the second half, we looked terrific. The rest of the time, we played with skill but struggled to make chances. And the apparently tactical decision to keep virtually everybody in our own half in the last 10 minutes constantly gave them possession and could easily have cost us the match.
  4. A bit lucky to get anything out of this. Charlton were the better side, should have sewn it up but seemed to take their foot off the pedal once they were ahead. But we scrapped for everything - big credit to Wesolowski, Furman, Clarke, Diamond, Cisak in particular. Goal was well worked and we could easily have had another. Given the upheavals in the back four and the loss of much-missed Simpson, it was a good, fighting performance.
  5. As a southern supporter, my first match of the season so I spent some time working out who was who. Well deserved win in the end but we really need to tighten up defensively – Orient going forward were not too bad and could well have been two up by half-time. Kuqi’s skills the highlight with a hand in all three goals. Impressed by Wesolowski, Reid and Mellor in the short time he was on. Defensively, we looked vulnerable. Lee had an excellent game, Mvoto made some good tackles but Clarke did not impress me, too many poor passes and was involved in the mix-up for their goal.
  6. Living down south, as I mentioned earlier, I would love to be able to get to more matches. I am baffled that a team with so many talented players is not pulling in better gates at home. Maybe people just prefer to have a moan – this thread for example is very short considering we got another important win. I’l bet it would have been twice as long if we had lost.
  7. Jones did not have the best of matches but I would not criticise anyone today, they all worked their socks off. The switch of wings was only for about the last 10 minutes of the first half. White played all the second half on the right.
  8. As a southern supporter, I wish all grounds were as easy to drive to and park at as Dagenham. I realise it was tougher travelling from Oldham, but there was a terrific turn-out and the singing and encouragement was non-stop. A bit of a scruffy win, and the sort of match which, a year ago, we would have drawn at best, but we never really looked like losing. Dagenham had more play but our defence held up well. Apart from an early chance following a mistake by Stephens which Brill blocked superbly, Daggers never looked like scoring. Outstanding match from Hazell in particular, but the whole team worked hard and were well worth the result. Obviously we missed Furman in midfield and the makeshift right side was our weakest point. Winchester looked good but clearly has work to do while White, not surprisingly, looked rusty until the goal which he took well – after that, he showed some good flashes of his skills. Another talented signing – Dickov certainly seems to find them.
  9. Bobby Johnstone - we won 5-2 AND pulled in a gate of 17,000 when we were at the bottom of the fourth division
  10. Very good performance, easily the better of the two sides. As a southern-based fan, it is a pleasure to see us passing the ball and using the wings once again. I love the way Dickov has gone for players with genuine skills rather than the plodders we signed last season and has given a new lease of life to players such as Furman, Lee and Alessandra. Moving Taylor into the middle is a sign of this and we are getting the rewards from his ability once again. Tounkare impresses me more each time I see him, using his strength and good control to keep the ball under pressure and with an eye for a decent pass. If we let softish goals in, it is probably because of the collective inexperience of the back four, Jarrett excepted, but Lee was excellent again today and Mvoto has settled down as a really good defender – hardly put a foot wrong. But Taylor has to be my MOM
  11. Second match I have seen this season. Amazed at some of the moaning on this site. Brighton were excellent going forward and you could see why they are top. But we moved well too. Two separate Brighton supporters who spoke to me – one leaving the ground, the other in the bus queue – both said we were the best side they had seen there this season. Not sure why Brill is being knocked yet again. Without his two excellent saves, we would have been out of it inside the first 10 minutes. Their first goal was because the guy was unmarked from a corner, the second a goalmouth scramble at the far end. Some nice play from the Latics and it is good to see good football after last season. Just because we are not winning every match should not let people lose sight of what the current management are trying to do. Players like Lee, Black and Alessandra are showing what they can do with the right encouragement. Taylor showed some good flashes of his real ability, Tounkare did lots of good work. But we could really do with a return to form by Stephens, the player of only a few weeks ago could well have won us the match. What we are lacking most onfield against a good team like Brighton is the leadership that Gregan brought last season. With that, we would easily have had a point yesterday.
  12. My first match of the season too and I was well impressed. How good to see a young team working hard and knocking the ball about. If people don’t turn up at BP to watch this team, then nothing will bring them in. Furman definitely MOM (my own comment during the match was to wonder why Penney, having signed him, could not bring out his quality) but I thought Jarrett was outstanding too. Taylor and Smalley both looked a bit rusty and I will suspend judgment on Jones until I see more of him. But I agree totally about Feeney – awesome to see someone of his class coming on in that situation. Signings like him and the excellent Tounkare show that Dickov’s approach is on a totally different level to that of Penney and his relentless signing of lower-division journeymen. Early days but this could be a really exciting season. I can’t wait for the next southern match – and it’s a while since I felt like that.
  13. Colbeck should have looked good - Brighton had a kid at left-back who was playing out of position. So Colbeck was given lots of time and space. And what did he do with it? Nothing. He put in a string of crosses, not one of which was any good. And even on a day like that, his lack of pace was noticeable. The sooner Smalley gets fit, the better.
  14. I was so despondent last night that I could not bring myself to read this board even. When I did this morning, I was dismayed by reading so much rubbish until I came across this. At last, some common sense. These have been terrible results this week, but get over the injuries to some key players, left the team find its shape and I think we should be OK. At least as far as the players are concerned. I am more worried about the so-called supporters who seem to set out to undermine our goalkeeper and manager. They could do far more long lasting damage by unsettling the team as a whole whenever they play at home. Just what the situation needs.
  15. The criticism of Penney is ridiculous, and this list of unavailable players underlines it. Living in the south, I have not yet been to BP this season but have seen all three London matches. In every one, we have been worth a draw at least and all three could easily have been won. Not that we are playing great football but Penney has them fighting for every ball in the matches I have seen. If I were watching at BP, I would be brassed off that we cannot win at home but it seems to me we have some decent players there and the potential for a sound side. I agree about the need for another CB and I suspect Abbott is a much more limited player than people seem to give him credit for. But so far, I have seen nothing to suggest Penney is anything but a good manager. Lets see what happens when Colbeck fits in, Smalley, Taylor, Jacobson and Worthington are fit.
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