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Good, got your attention! Whilst National League football doesn’t make headline news, equally there won’t be anybody at sky bet taking too much time considering our chances in too much detail. i would like to provide a few facts to big up our prospects and why the 200-1 odds of promotion currently being offered do not reflect our chances. 1. WE NEED TO WIN OUR LAST 3 GAMES. One of these is against Halifax, and if we do:- 2 Halifax need to win two of their other 3 remaining games, and 3. Aldershot need to win 1 and draw 2 of their remaining 3 to be above us. 4. It could come down to goal difference with Halifax, but if the above is realised, it is likely that’s ours will be better, plus we have scored more goals. 5. It is likely that we will play Halifax next Thursday, possibly at a neutral venue which will be the 3rd of 4 games they will need to play in a week. 6, Oxford (who we play away Sat) are already relegated and are second bottom of the National league home table. 7, Wealdstone (who we play at home last) are sliding towards relegation , haven’t won in weeks and are second bottom of the national league away table. 8. If we do make the playoffs, it is likely that we will play Gateshead away, who will have played 5 games in just over a week. There’ll be no ticket restrictions and we should bring a good following and out number them 2:1. 9. Alternatively, it could be Solihull or Altrincham who we’ve already beaten away this season. 10. Anything could happen in the playoff semis and final. We got promoted from the old 3rd division 50 years ago in 73/74. Our next relegation was 20 years later in 93/94 Could our next promotion be 30 years after this in 23/24? Can see a pattern emerging!!! I would like to know what the odds were of us surviving in 92/93 with 3 games to go, or winning the title in 90/91 with 10 minutes to go. We are Oldham, and don’t do things the easy way. i know we’ve been gash for large parts of the season, but I really believe there are a few big performances in this team, somewhere. Please can I ask that we stop these sarky comments and just be nice to each other for 2 weeks and get behind the team. its years since we have been anywhere near the play offs and we should just try an enjoy it if we can.

We will have to play our scrapers in our rearranged mud bath at Halifax. That’s Fondop and Garner up front and Mcgahey and Sheron in the middle. We need to keep the ball away from Golden who is quality and hopefully Green will be back to give us options on the other side. Chesterfield rested Palmer tonight and Grimes is nothing without him. Don’t know anything about the guy who replaced him. Halifax will Find it very different when they play us. I trust MM to get it right.

We’ve got every chance of making the play offs. Gstehead have a really difficult run in, Halifax’s pitch might take its toll, we have both Altrincham and Halifax to play and our other games are very winnable. It’s down to us and I’d have taken this after Unsworth departure. I’m very excited for the rest of our season, the first time in 16 years and we have to embrace it. Please stop complaining and creating negative vibes. We can do this!!’

So as I see it, we have two options:- 1. Play with width and have our wing backs playing further forward which means Mcgahey or Conlon as a deep lying Midfielder, or 2. playing the 3 up front and sacrificing the deep midfielder We could switch from one to the other mid game

Genuine question. Assuming Green is unavailable, how should MM utilise our forward players to get the best outcome? Norwood and Garner are our best finishers, but if we played them as a two, we lose the physical presence of Fondop both in attack and defending set pieces. Dallas has got to be utilised somehow. I don’t know too much about him. Can be play wide or is he an out and out striker? And given we don’t have an array of wide players, surely Walker has got to be used somehow. I like what I’ve seen so far from Walker. It’s too late in the season to start experimenting with formations and I thing we will continue with 3 central defenders for the run in. We look solid as a unit. Sheron and Hammond both start for me. Sheron is the fittest in our squad and Hammond has got bags of youthful energy and they are beginning to dovetail nicely with one holding and the other making late runs. In the absence of Green, I would have thought Sutton will play that wing back role and assuming he continues with Kitching on the other side, it would seem that we can only play two of the aforementioned at any one given time. Thoughts?

Has anyone else notice how many aimless punts forward by Hobson

Oops ‘picked up ON it tho’

I did consider naming my post ‘working at home’ but you know what they’re like, thought I might get criticised for my spelling. Glad someone picked up in it tho

Just looking through the stats and Woking have taken just one point in 9 games against teams in the top 7 and failed to score on 7 occasions. Bring the right attitude and surely another home win. I’m going 3-0 Latics.

Of all the players mentioned, I would like to retain Ward,, Dickinson, Gardner, Hope, Sutton Reid and Green who are very good squad players at this level and give us that strength in depth.

Tshimanga is not the most ridiculous of suggestions. He’s not getting game time at a club languishing at the foot of the table, and needs to get his mojo back in a league where he’s proven. He’s hoping

Do we know why Sinclair didn’t play on NYD but played virtually the whole game on boxing day getting subbed 90+1. Can we read anything into that

I was told Media team seemed pretty excited about the new signing soon to be announced and worth a tease

Not seen the article myself but was told that the daily express had a write up on Wigan. Foot injury apparently