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A club spokesman was prevented from saying that it's no joke to have something stuck in your throat.

The giveaway there Kieran is that you only have two posts on OWTB so you probably haven't been around for very long. I assure you there are many more interesting contributors to OWTB than me and most of them much more regular in appearance! Anyhow, peculiar question.....but to answer.... not very long at all. I don't often say much.....but when i do it can roll off the tongue a bit ;)

I realise this marks me down as a fossil......but i've never, ever been on twitter. I understand that one can post 'snippets' of information and that if one has 'followers' they can all see it. I've heard of hashtag this and that.....but it just hasn't grabbed my imagination.....but feel free to share it with the world of twitter should they be for whatever reason interested!

Can't be arsed to be honest....it was meant for the amusement of our lot rather than them......but feel free to copy, plagiarise as your own or howsoever you feel fit should you wish to wind 'em up!

Not at all, feel free.

We hope you enjoyed your visit to our ‘:censored:ty stadium’ in our ‘:censored:ty Northern town’ on Sunday. It seems the internet is awash with astonishment that our players had the audacity to turn up and ‘play’ against your evidently superior, expensively assembled whingeing Nancy boys. Let’s therefore….set a few things straight. The FA Cup is famous the world over for the very notion that anything from a ‘genuine pub team’ to the greatest team in the land (something that you once were long ago….and very quickly need to realise you no longer are) may possibly meet should the lesser of those two teams have the good fortune to win through round after round of hard fought ties, often in surroundings almost as bad as those in which the majority of you reside. At the third round proper stage (that is 8 rounds after the competition starts), the Jessies of your upper echelons join the competition and collectively hope for an easy draw and a simple passage to the next round. Generally, they hope to gain a ‘home’ tie as travelling to places like Mansfied and Oldham can occasionally be uncomfortable, although I have to point out that on numerous visits to the mighty sporting cathedral of Anfield…..i have yet to witness supporter comforts any better than those in which you were housed on Sunday. We may not provide hangers for your bizarre two-piece shiny outfits, but we did at least provide receptacles known as ‘bins’ should you have taken the hint to discard your seventies clothing in shame at any time. It was pointed out by an errant educated imposter amongst your contingent, that our plan to rid you of the derision attached to your collective dress sense was doomed to failure from the start, as those very same receptacles are known as a food source back from where you crawl. Alas, we tried, and you should bear it in mind for the next time you visit…..likely for a League 1 fixture some time before 2016. On to the game. It may well have escaped your attention but Oldham Athletic are the archetypal banana skin. We are you see……somewhat experienced at deflowering the mighty. You may remember just a few years ago, we completed a similar unthinkable act of lowering the trousers of your superior neighbours at the other end of Stanley Park. If we could do it to them…..on their own turf……why the hell could you not see it might be possible for us do the same to an inferior outfit like yours? We also did the same a few years earlier to that other ‘big time Charlie’ known as Manchester City. Now, we know we don’t exactly make it easy for your guys. We should, given our lowly status, roll over very quickly after the initial five minutes of token resistance……hell, we’ve been doing it for every other team in League 1 all season, so why should we be any different for Liverpool....yep, we are asking the same question ourselves! Well, for starters……your players are the most sickeningly overpaid, jumped up, self important, arrogant wankers that we’ve had the pleasure of spoiling this year. We would, without a shadow of a doubt, have preferred to play either of the Manchester clubs, because in fairness to your shower of :censored:e, they are possibly the only two teams (and supporters) in the country more abhorrent to us than yours. Did you REALLY think that we would just let you get on with your passage to the next round while you applauded and ‘olayed’ your way through? We can accept that you are in the main….let’s be kind here…..somewhat slower of wit than average…… but you surely didn’t think that all those people wearing blue colours were there to watch YOUR clowns did you? Hell no…..these people are so dyed in the wool blue that some of them have been coming back week after week just to see if Oldham can ever win a game! If you don’t believe me, just ask someone who can read to look in the paper for the attendance at the next home match. You’ve gone and burst the bubble now! Anyhow, just to sum up. When you come to a lower league stadium….to play a lower league team…..you might learn to expect that it won’t necessarily be the cakewalk you expected. Yes, for sure…..the game will be more physical than that with which you are familiar. We don’t save it especially for you….it’s how life is down here in the troughs of football. We actually thought that the similarity of living in Liverpool when there is a whole country to explore might have resonated with you….apparently not….oh, i digress……… So, get over it….we beat you fair and square. For us, we actually thought some of our football was a delight to watch….although the majority of us preferred watching our guys kick :censored: out of yours…..in between laughing at your inept goalkeeper and your clothing. Finally, we sincerely hope that by the time you come to visit for the impending League 1 Fixture (sadly, we may well be in League 2 soon and we're not sure you will drop that far…..but you never know) we would like to think that some of you might take personal hygiene more seriously than you currently do. We know it doesn’t matter to you but it does to us. If you want to see how life could be, make a trip to Warrington, where nearly half the people are now washing on a relatively frequent basis. Thanks.

Brilliant!

Never had aproblem from Oz apart from it ruining my weekends.

2:55 am

Latics V Liverpool FA cup match is live on ESPN 2 for anyone with Foxtel. Given it's Australia Day on Monday, no excuse for not staying up all night. Hopefully Murray will be in the AO Final as a prelude. For Melbourne based Latics fans, It's also being shown live at Zagames Pub in Caulfield (corner of Prince's Highway and Derby Road....,.just near Caulfield Racecourse)

That's over to you mcvitiemouth!

On the basis that since formation in 1899 we've never won it, i think he makes a reasonable point. Also, Bradford didn't get to the semi final half way stage with a 3-1 lead by simply believing. I'll bet every one of their fans, players and coaching staff would have thought exactly the same as Simpson does as they entered round 4. Fact is, they're having a bit of a 'pinch me' season in the cup and performances bring belief. Until and if, we beat Liverpool, there has been precious little to inspire belief that we'll do any serious damage in the cup. Beat Liverpool though.....and we'll all be picking who we 'want' in the next round. It's what makes the world go round!

Originally came out for 3 - 4 years. Reckon it might finish up at 6 or 7......difficult to say, but will certainly be here for a good while yet. Any time you make plans, just give me a shout!

Any time Lags! Have become quite the tour guide this past couple of years!

Ohhhhh "The Deck"....live music venue out the back of an Irish bar just off Dean St......also managed to get a pint of Tetley's on draft at "The Bended Elbow". Like Albury a lot.....not so keen on Wodonga though.

While displaced overseas, i'm not likely to argue with what you and the ever dwindling number of regular attendees witness each and every week. I do though, call upon an ever dwindling memory from the ups and downs of many a previous false dawn and the odd bizarre overachievement that fortunately saw us mix it with the best. Regardless, at last count, there were 92 league clubs in the various enities that now make up English professional Football. I think it's fair to say that for the vast majority......the average of the last five years league placings represents where a team truly (currently) belongs. Not necessarilly where a team belongs by tradition or by 'size' of club or by history.....but where current performance, current stature, current collective ability determines. Honestly, Latics are where they belong. Tranmere are over achieving in the way that we all hoped we might. Sheffield United are under achieving on a scale probably ten times worse then we are. Stevenage and Crawley are over achieving (they are relatively new entities at this level and carry the 'surprise' factor). Frankly, i'm always a little surprised at how much 'over expectation' there is at Latics.

Ah......seems i got him and you mixed up....it's an age thing!

Fair enough Steve......my point being......that over the course of the season, if they are currently better than their current performances or league position suggest.......they are likely to finish there or thereabouts.....where they deserve, belong, should be and likely should remain. Mid table, League 1.

Your point isn't bad, but the anaolgy is poor. In most people's job.....the majority of the week is 'mundane' at best. For some, there is routine and the occasional opportunity to 'shine'...as, for example in a sales role...or as a professional footballer. The notion that a professional footballer in League 1 only has to work for 90 or 180 minutes per week is at best, naive. Fact is, no matter how well (or poorly) an individual may play.....the team game can make the efforts of the same individual look less, or more fullsome than the individual would like. I don't believe that any player (except for the odd, toally demotivated and disenfranchised oddball) ever sets out to achieve less than his best. I haven't seen Latics play this season, but i can't readily remember seeing this type of individual pull on a blue shirt in over 40 years of watching Oldham Athletic. It's the collective that matters. Sometimes, the players can influence (either postively or negatively) over and above their collective ability......sometimes, the management team likewise, but for the majority of teams......season in, season out.........they finish where their collective ability determines. From afar, Latics may be slightly under-achieving.........but championship material, they are not......with or without some talented loanees.

Seems the 'majority' of us are in Melbourne. BlueInAus is in Burwood from memory (i think?)....i'm in Camberwell....FLH1993 and Ex-Pat, where in Melbourne are you?

Yep, i'm here (cheers Lags)....count me in. Never thought about the matchday chatroom.....might give it a go later!

Maybe i'm just getting old and grumpy but i find these... ".........discuss" threads quite condescending.

We conceded the fourth lowest total of fouls in the season (413), yet conceded more penalties than any other team (8)

.....and the key being.....if you have a good track record of servicing debt.....you are making good profits for those that are lending you the money.....and there will be :censored: loads of lenders falling at your feet to let you do it again. The Glazers are experts at it and they make lots of money for their lenders.....lots of money for themselves and the world goes around. We can all argue whether or not manchester united is worth the $1bn they will likely sell it for but the fact is....if another investor is willing to pay the asking price, it's all fair game and no different from buying and selling property.

Don't talk crap. The Glazers have pulled off yet another superb money making venture.....why should it be illegal.....Borrowing money like the Glazers did is business....it goes on every day of the week in every country in the world. How many people do you know with a mortgage?.....is that illegal too?.....because it's the closest business transaction to what has taken place at OT. Quite simply, they mortgaged ownership. If they fail to pay the interest on the debt (which clearly they haven't), they risk losing ownership to the funders. Difference at Pompey is that the people who mortgaged them were stupid enough to risk it all with no attractive assets to fall back on.......a bell that rings very close to home for Mr Corney! If the Glazers DID ever default.....which they won't.....there'd be :censored: loads of willing investors waiting to try their hand next. Football is business.....how many times have you heard the phrase "your investments can go down as well as up"......get used to it....it ain't gonna change!