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They were both just twenty years old and still learning the game. They both showed immense promise but understandably were also very inconsistent at the time.

If we do sell to decent people then I would go for Pete Wild as manager - done okay at Halifax and knows the National league

I don’t think I could take it if we lost again!

What was the result?

Agreed! Garrity has scored 11 for Port Vale this season, Wilkinson 10 for Walsall and Banks scoring a few with Barrow. Barrow have just sacked manager Mark Cooper btw.

Yesterday - due to a combination of injury, suspension, poor form and management choice - the starting eleven did not contain the following players: Piergianni, McGahey, Luamba, Fondop, Missilou, Bahamboula, Vaughan & Couto. When I saw the team news I feared that we were about to get a hammering. Sheridan’s hands were tied to a certain extent with the first four on the ‘missing list’ simply not available. However to then leave both Missilou and Bahamboula on the bench seemed a strange decision. Furthermore, starting with Hunt and an out of form Whelan in the middle was also worrying given how ineffective both have been over the past few games. So it was pleasing to see that we competed well in the first half, though without really troubling the keeper. Sadly the second half followed the familiar pattern of late as Exeter took the game to us and scored the inevitable first goal. Whatever is being said to motivate the players at the interval is simply not working. Missilou was brought on and we started to get back into the game culminating with the penalty award. Once again a lifeline was wasted and in all honesty it was a poor penalty. We never looked like scoring past a very good keeper who made another excellent save later in the game to deny Hart’s powerful strike that was heading for the top corner. Sheridan left it too late with the two other substitutions available to him, finally using one other when bringing on the perennial underachiever Stobbs in the ninetieth minute… I cannot fault the players for effort but yet again too many seemed peripheral to the game. Hope, Obadeyi, Fage and DKD ran around a lot but to little positive effect. In the end it was an expected defeat against one of the division’s better teams but it could have been a point gained if we had scored from the spot. It’s fine margins at the moment and things are going against us. That’s four defeats from the last four games - not quite the ‘bounce’ we had hoped for. We have another difficult game on Tuesday with an even more depleted squad to choose from. ‘Keep the Faith’? It’s a tough ask.

Not suggesting for one second that he is - but it was a terrible penalty. DKD missed the previous one so probably didn’t want it. That’s four defeats on the bounce but we’re still not down yet…

He took the responsibility and he missed the penalty. And unfortunately it cost us dearly

When I read @deyres42post I was looking for the twist… Is their manager called Garner? Nope. Does the word ‘garner’ have a different meaning in the Urban dictionary? It does …and can mean a direct alternative to fail…but nope. So maybe he’s having a day off

Recent form hugely favours Exeter and the odds are against us getting anything from this game. So I’m going for a Latics victory.

Or they could change their name to: Greater Manchester Metropolitan County & Combined Authority Area Cricket Club. Got a nice ring to it don’t you think?

War of the Roses innit?

‘little Lancastrians who still live in pre-industrial times’? What was that you said about ‘abuse’? I prefer the more romantic notion. For me the question is how long has Lancashire been in existence compared to ‘Greater Manchester’? The history of Lancashire begins with its founding in the 12th century. Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974. Oldham Athletic was created in 1899 when Pine Villa (founded in 1895) changed it’s name. It was part of Lancashire for a lot longer than it has been part of Greater Manchester - and for many of us (myself included) the Lancashire association remains.

With the exception being London I suppose…

Raises a question… when does the distance involved negate a fixture being a ‘derby’ game? Ipswich versus Norwich 45 miles for example?

(Selected) Away fans on Saturday in League 2: Latics at Colchester 462 Carlisle at Leyton Orient 700 Mansfield at Bradford 2129 Exeter at Bristol Rovers 1128 Salford at Swindon 94

A pint of Fosters maybe

Lager has it’s time and place: Curry with a couple of bottles of Cobra Pints of Hoegaarden on a summer’s day Estrella Damm when in Barcelona

Queensy Menig scores this evening for Partisan Belgrade at Sparta Prague in the Europa Conference. Still remember his only goal for us at home to Blackburn… halcyon days…

@Bobledgersheart Final word on permitted substitutes - EFL regulations stipulate a maximum of 3 plus up to 2 ‘concussion’ subs allowed.

Tune! Electro pop at its finest I was a big fan in my yoof - I recall taking a sceptical mate to a concert on the ‘Dazzle Ships’ tour - he was blown away by how good they were

Or could it be a concussion substitution like they have in the Prem? btw - I checked the OMD 3 and I think you might be right…

Thanks for this. It just seems strange to me that no other teams made more than three substitutions on Saturday And I can find no mention of this change on the internet either…

A question that comes under the: ‘and that’ part of this thread… I see that both Oxford and Portsmouth made FOUR substitutions in their League 1 game on Saturday - I thought that the maximum was three? Am I missing something?

George Best had a football skills show on TV - they used footage from the practice games against us.