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He's a definite threat from set pieces. To those sat behind the goal.

How many did we score on Tuesday?

Schit happensh. Sounds like there's more to it than just being crap. I wish him well but we need a solution out wide especially with Dayton out, so moving things around to free up some wages for the second half of the season scheems schenschible.

The only comfort I take from today is that I have a new name to chuck in the hat for the annual summer 'Worst Latics loan signings' thread.

I've still not got mine. I'll be live tweeting from the queue on Monday if anyone wants to find out how I get on.

Michel Vonk was class.

''Til we play..... And when he saw the Oldham.... We play in blue and..... We love you Oldham..... Come on Oldham..... There's five I bet we hear over the next few weeks. And they'll be heard louder than anything else suggested.

Kenny Clements taught me to drive a fair few years back now, but he'd been a long haul HGV driver before turning to instructing.

Would you care to elaborate?

Family outing?

There's 4 games between now and Anfield. Lots of kids will be getting giddy about Liverpool, but all I'd like is at least 6 points before then. Is that too much to ask?

I really hope we have a go. Before losing at Carlisle they'd had 8 wins and a draw (that being against Wolves) on the spin. They must be strong, but hopefully a little unsettled by the change in manager. My hunch is that we're entering the sort of territory often described as "a game too far", with a bit of steam running out in our recent performances. Having said that, being away from home may help to release some pressure and Brentford will come at us rather than sitting in. Fight fire with fire and really go for it. I think Dayton's a big miss, but it's up to others to step up. Plenty have done it before and they need to take their chance. Come on Latics. See you on the 8.55 if anyone's getting it.

The 'Devestated' and 'Getting off my chest' threads over the last 24 hours have made me very glad to realise that I don't get half as emotional as some about this club. I'd hate to react to news and results in the way some do. We've been to Wembley twice in nearly 120 years of history. If you want to go, you should have chosen your team more wisely. Enjoy the ride. We're doing ok at the minute. We could go through the rest of 2013 losing every game (I think that's quite possible). We could be looking at the top 10 and a trip to Anfield by the end of the month (I think that's quite possible too). We've been in many Decembers before now with no such hope at all left in our season. Enjoy it, don't get beaten up by it.

I can think of at least 15 seasons where I've felt worse in the last 23 years of watching them.

What are the ticket allocation arrangements for the final, anyone?

Can someone save me some time and just send me a DVD of the full 90 minutes? Cheers.

Latics 2-3 Crystal Palace, 21 September 1991 - no recollection of it, just looked it up. It was my sixth game, and a day short of a full year after my first ever game Middlesbrough 0-1 Latics (Palmer).

Very true - it's definitely those that give you the bug that stay closest to your heart.

My first reaction to the list of 9 was positive, other than wondering how, if Eyres was on there, Sheridan could be omitted. In my 27 years he's the best I've seen. No other player had the ability to orchestrate a game like he could. We were dire when he first arrived but regardless of whether we played a team at the top or bottom of the table, he was the stand out player. Having been dragged along quite willingly through my childhood to BP and beyond, when my teenage years arrived and I could have told my Dad I didn't want to go anymore as we were crap, up turned Shez. He showed me the game could be good to watch, skillful, creative, and that there were players out there, rarely seen at BP who could play the game in a different way, naturally and at ease. Ever since, all I've wanted is to see more like him, but I could have a while to wait yet. After keeping us up whilst partially able to move, his return to the fold against medical advice at Hillsborough in 2003, when we were at our lowest ebb at the end of Dowie's reign, is the biggest physical sacrifice I can remember anyone paying for my club. For that alone, the club will always owe him. He did that because he cared about a club he'd joined late on. He was loved at Leeds, loved at Wednesday, he didn't need us, but he showed a passion and committment for a decade or so as a player, then as a coach, then again as a player who couldn't run, as caretaker manager, reserve team manager and finally as the top dog that for me, hasn't been matched, or even come close to being matched by anyone, player, staff or otherwise since the glory days. Since relegation in 94, Shez is the brightest light I can remember at BP, and for that, whether he makes it into a stand I'll never sit in or not (I'm a Chaddy Ender), he's my Latics hero, and he's yet to be bettered. Build the man a statue. He was different class.

Lee Johnson's management career is much like his childhood. No clean sheets since his Dad gave him one in April.

Brown isn't in the squad guys.

Richard Wright.

He swapped Wellens for The Crab at 2-0 up. Worked out well.

If they finish above us we're in trouble. But I think we'll be in trouble anyway, so yeah, we're in trouble.

I thought he was quick. His pace often got us out of jail last year after his/another's clanger. Definitely clumsy, though that got less common towards the back end of last season. We're much weaker for not having him in my opinion, and I'd look at our back line now as manager of any other team in the division and think we're a very soft touch. The opposition will tower above us in the tunnel and that's an advantage that we've gifted to opponents a lot in the last 20 years. M'Voto was one of the few whose sheer physicality was intimidating. We've not replaced that and I think it counts for a lot when our skill levels will be much the same as any other side.