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Watching tonight’s play-off game and how sparsely populated Solihull’s crap ground is really hits home how much of a failure this season was.

That's bold of you to say.

Latics' league record in the 29 full seasons since the Premiership demise is: Pld 1325 W421 D399 L505 That breaks down as: Championship/Div 1 Pld 138 W40 D40 L58 League One Pld 966 W316 D298 L352 League Two Pld 175 W49 D48 L78 Non League Pld 46 W16 D13 L17 In those 29 seasons we've had 6 winning seasons, four of which were consecutive from 2005-2009 and 2009 was the last season where we won more than we lost. I'm amazed we have the fan base we do! I'd say we were about due for a little success.

Yes, because we’re playing Eastleigh at home, in non-league, after 30 years of gradual decline and I think our tortured fan base has the ‘entitlement’ to expect a win. Ffs, expectations are at an all time low.

You are the Donald Trump of the OWTB forum.

The last resort of an individual who has lost an argument.

I think it's more than reasonable to expect more than what has been served up so far by this management team.

What do you mean "why not". I'm staggered by the acceptance of some fans of the dross that's been served up so far this season. It's not like we've just been promoted to League One and we're trying to find our feet again against superior opposition. This is the conference, playing teams that many fans wouldn't have believed a few years back. As a fan base we've been bereft of any success for nearly three decades and now we find ourselves scratching around the mid/lower level of non league! For me, with the resources we seem to now have since the takeover, I think it's we should be dominating this division and I simply don't understand the attitude of 'give it XX amount of games, it might come good'. I think we've been patient enough waiting for our time to have some success and to see us still stumbling along at this level saddens me greatly.

Piss, piss poor, and i am constantly astounded that some fans are accepting of this abject mediocrity.

Welcome to the club Urko...

Clarence Seedorf gets his first win for Deportivo at the ninth attempt.

In an idle few moments yesterday I checked out final league one tables for the past twenty years. It was 2008-09 that we last had a season when we won more games than we lost. Wouldn't it be great just to simply accomplish this?!

Didn't we sign Neil MacDonald for around £500K who did sweet f.a for a player with a good pedigree at the time? Probably not the worst player, but not far off the worst value for money!

A chap outside the ground hollering "Beyond the Boundary - Latics' fanzine - 50 pence" as you make your way to the paddock gate through the throng of smiling fans on a chilly Tuesday night.

Is that the B side?

"Hello? Oh, hi Simon. Do I fancy getting together over a bite to eat to discuss a few things? Sure thing, working lunch at The French?.... Okay, Tesco Costa it is then. Could I get a slice of carrot cake and a double skinny americano?.... Okay, tray of cheesy beans it is then. See you later."

Thank the :censored:ing fates! Wind back nearly 12 months; will we make a managerial appointment to usher in a new era of positivity to go with our nearly complete new stand?!!

They'll provide a solidly experienced foundation for our promotion push from League 2 next season.

The amount of time our players spend in "the zone of uncertainty" during the 90 minutes?

Absolutely. In the past fans have been chastised for having a superiority complex when it comes to getting beat by certain 'smaller' clubs, but five goals conceded at home to Southend is about as humiliating as it gets for me.

You've got to love these quaint regional dialects.

Abysmal defence coupled with toothless attack makes for a very poor team. As for Higdon, I've seen statues jump higher.

Shocked that we're such a Rhysist club.

Technology isn't the issue. Clubs have been watching video replays for years in order to analyse why they got torn a new arse the previous week, and with the onset of 3D digital recordings, this analysis is going to get more and more detailed. Fair play, I hope it's gives the players more understanding of why they were crap. The issue I have is with this class room based, sports science, jargonistic theory that seems to be the trend at the minute. Studying de-hydration levels, based on body mass index, dependent on the metres covered over a 30 second period, will make absolutely no difference in a game for all the effort it takes to work it all out! Just my opinion like.

Those things probably work wonders for British cycling, but that's at the elite level of the sport. The same scientific approach may give the elite football teams of the world an advantage. I just don't think it does anything but over complicate the game at our level. Interesting where the link 'See British Cycling' takes you. Do you think having that as next years home strip will give us a marginal gain?!