meat pie sausage roll

37 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

Keep taking the tablets 

Sarky  

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

2 minutes ago, meat pie sausage roll said:

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  

Oops ‘picked up ON it tho’  

On 1/25/2024 at 8:59 AM, L1onheartNew said:

I read the title as Working at home.

I honestly thought that I had logged onto Teams and immediately logged off lol

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.

8 hours ago, sjk2008 said:

Sinnott is teasing us here…..

 

Tshimanga…

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

24 minutes ago, daniel said:

Read on Twitter we are after Connor Barrett from Fylde and Sinclair from Dale. There’d be uproar from Dale fans if we signed him. Can’t see it. 

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

6 minutes ago, Lukers1 said:

3 months ? . I’ve not seen the news, what’s he injured 

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

11 minutes ago, Ritchierich said:

This entire squad needs to fuck off, they simply do not care about this club or their profession. 
 

No desire, no application, no passion and no improvement. It is a disgrace that they get paid a decent wage and play football for a living when most of us have to work far harder doing something we don’t love.

 

I’ve finally been defeated by them and not going to bother going for a while, it’s sad but there is simply no point anymore.

It’s one game pal. I’m equally as disappointed. I’ve thought of nothing else but Latics since Saturday thinking we’re on to something here. Right now  I’m on my knees, gutted. But that’s football and as true supporters we should stick by them no matter what. Mickey will sort em and I’ll be there with renewed optimism Saturday.

Just woke up and the first thing I said to my wife was ‘Oldham have got a new manager!’ Who? She replied. ‘Micky Mellon, I said. She burst into uncontrollable laugher and said ‘just about sums them up. 
Am I missing something?

1 hour ago, Gaz_Oafc said:

And the Chesterfield forum seems to think Dallas to them is back on...

 

More twists and turns than EastEnders this transfer saga.

I went on the Southend forum for reaction on the season opener and they were suggesting that Dallas is holding out so he sign for them when the embargo is lifted.

17 hours ago, beag_teeets said:

I've written 'my favourite position is defensive midfielder' too many times on this board but out of the many that have played that role for us this century Fane is one of my most favourite. Was he the finished article? No, he was about 2 more seasons away from that but the potential was there, his rate of improvement was good and if he hadn't got crocked I firmly believe he would have been a key player for us last season. His size and build was perfect, reading of the game needed improving but his pace made up for it, he would be caught out of position but could eventually get one of his legs in the way and stop an attack.

 

I'd rather have a player good at doing one thing well than a lesser player who is an allrounder. Fane had to get in the way of the other team, pass it to a teammate, defend set pieces and shield the defence. He did that and was getting better too until he got crocked, I believe he would have continued his development last season, the other players knew his limitations and were starting to come to terms with them. That bellend Byrne didn't have the sense to realise that Fane was his perfect midfield partner, doing the ugly stuff and letting him get on with playing in the opposition half. Players that can do both or even 1.5 of the midfield roles are rare, even rarer at this level, he was in the mold of the classic water-carrier, win the ball and give it to someone who can play football.

 

I know he struggled to pass it to a team mate a lot of the time, a lot were his fault, some due to other players not providing an easy ball for him and some as he could only turn left. He was starting to be able to go to the right too at the end of his last season, he was set to really kick on until... He'd come to the professional game later in life and had clearly missed a lot of basic training other kids had had but he was making up for lost time. I was fuming when he got 'suspended' with about 3 games to go in League One, that club imposed suspension was the nail in the relegation coffin for me. He certainly wasn't a Vieira or Keane but to sacrifice the only player who plays in that position ahead of vital games was not just daft, it was lunacy. I don't think he curled one out on AL's carpet or slipped his wife one but whatever point AL was making, was it really worth making a relegation a damn near certainty? I think the only people pleased with the suspension were the other managers of teams near us.

 

*Obvs, I may be mis-remembering what his crime was, fairly certain it was some off-field nonsense though? Fairly sure it wasn't too long into AL's reign and get that he may have wanted to lay the law down but FFS, there were 3 games to go! Ooh, was it the Gerrard thing? I can't remember. Either way, we're fourth division now and not really looking like going out of that division at the right end.

A very honest post and one which I totally agree with. I liked Fane’ if only for the little chuckles we had every time we purposely mispronounced his name 

1 hour ago, GlossopLatic said:

 

Can you direct me to the people who have said they will "settle for a draw" or people who have a "fear of losing what we have recently achieved" please. I haven't read one comment that says that and I would like to challenge them on this particular viewpoint

 

Its amazing what a decade of fighting at league 1 relegation seems to now get people excited about or current predicament.

 

If we'd got our act together and just been run like a normal football club then rather than looking at an outside chance of getting in the play offs, we would probably be in the top 7 and looking at a realistic chance of getting in the top 3 or even higher. 

Agreed, and I suppose i’m Just being thankful for small mercies but i’ll take what’s presently  on offer. It’s the hope that kills you!

I’ve seen comments from people on here saying that they’d settle for a draw on Saturday, and I understand why;  it’s the fear factor, the fear of losing or undoing what we have recently achieved. But in truth a draw would do nothing for our play off aspirations and would likely put us further behind Exeter in 7th place. The players need to be bold Saturday and go for the win. Nothing less than 3 points will do. This mini run has brought back memories from way back, checking the league table every few minutes, looking who’s got to play who. I know it could all be over Saturday but please try and forget your woes and get down Saturday to get behind the team.

Apart from an impressive win away at a premier league side and an admirable defeat against a higher division side in the FA cup, that’s 16 points from 8 games and automatic promotion form in the league under Wild. That’s Solskjaer proportions at Man U. GIVE HIM THE JOB. Could we, just could we, make a late push for the play offs? I know!! getting giddy!! Night everyone x

Morecambe played a very good pressing game tonight, scored there goals at just the right time and generally made life very difficult for us. I personally didn’t see much evidence of over playing, if anything, we were hitting hopeful cross field balls or crosses from far to deep with little or no support to our forwards. As for the selection, without the injured Lang, I thought it was ok. Maouche had a poor game on Saturday and looked disinterested for much of that game and when Lang went off injured, we had no attacking options on the bench. PS knew that we were in for a hard night so quite rightly in my view started with Missilou and Sylla to try and win the midfield battle with options to bring on more attacking flair in Maouche & Dearnley later on. You must remember that Dearney has only played couple of games in Men’s football and a 3rd game in a week was probably asking a lot. It just didn’t turn out well. Scott didn’t have his best game tonight but that’s to be expected from time to time with our youths and it will be a learning experience for him and Branger whilst clearly having ability, he just winds me up as he makes bad decisions far to often, He needs to become more of a team player to advance his career. 

All in all, just a bad day at work for many  of our team tonight, but we move on. Still only 6 points off the play offs, so if it’s ok, I shall remain blindly optimistic

Thought the guy spoke very well personally. 

It’s happening, just been confirmed on Granada reports that the league have decided that scholes part ownership of Salford is not a conflict of interest to him becoming Oldham manager. Likely to be announced over the weekend.