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4 minutes ago, latics22 said:

I wasn’t slating anyone , was merely pointing out biased by other poster.

I know you weren't but it's often what we do.

5 minutes ago, latics22 said:

What about pw is he blameless? U were quick to jump on bunn. So it the fans and players fault ?

Our haste on jumping on anybody associated with the club is very much the problem. Wild deserves a medal for taking on the job for this amount of time. Let's leave him alone, eh.

The simple fact is - and we really have to get this into our heads - that the players, despite a seemingly firm belief across this board, are essentially average players and as such they show elements of quality some of the time, but are ultimately inconsistent. The squads we've had in the last decade have been lauded, but very few have made it above mid table of League One.

Yes, I hoped we could sustain some form but the last two games have confirmed what I've known all season: we lack the ability to put together a significant run of results. It isn't suddenly going to happen and so we should aim as high as possible and hope we can beat Donny to extend the FA Cup run. A 12th place finish and the 5th Round of the FA Cup wouldn't be the worst thing and before some start lashing out, it isn't me being happy with us finishing 12th. It's realistic considering the way our club is run.

16 hours ago, OAFCBilly said:

 

We’ll get 800 more tickets if we sell out, apologies if my response was non committal!

Do we have to sell out before putting in the request for the additional batch? I'd be amazed if we have not sold the initial lot some point early on Monday at which point there will be a lot of glum faces turning away from Boundary Park if they have to return.

1 hour ago, yarddog73 said:

Whose looking after the Youth then?

Why, Paul of course!

1 hour ago, yarddog73 said:

So he been coaching 12 year olds and on top of his managerial duties he's now going to double up as first team coach as well as Academy manager and Academy phase coach which was his job to start with. Some man this Pete Wild.

 

What's your vested interest in this then Paul?, new to this board in December, you seem very keen on this rather inexperienced team being appointed and by the sounds of it have a vague understanding of the goings on at our club as well as others.

Inspector Goole over here.

Paul - crack on lad. 

9 minutes ago, mikejh45 said:

What's bizarre is someone wiping wet paint off their shoes onto a wall. There are plenty of people who are moaning about the lack of funds in the club and then this idiot wastes valuable resources by sheer stupidity.

Regarding his behaviour, he is the one who opposition want to target not the ones by the tunnel who, I agree with you should be ashamed of themselves.

I don't understand why you want to praise him. 

 

I'm not disputing it, but what I'm driving at is the strangeness of the situation. There aren't many scenarios I can think of whereby somebody gets paint on to their trainers. the two I can think of (at a football ground) are:

a) a banner his crew has created or

b) paint from some work done at Boundary Park

Either way, it's a silly situation to have developed. If he's in the wrong, he should be a man, admit it and pay his penalty.  I'm not praising him as such. I'm saying he and his lot have done a good job energising our excellent away support. His problem is that he makes himself recognisable because of his odd fondness for taking off his top therefore he's painted a target on his back, and, yes, I'd prefer it if he just acted normally. That said, he's trying summit different and he's a kid and he should be allowed to do that.

What exactly has the lad done? On the basis of that letter, he has been fined £50 for wiping wet paint on a wall. It is bizarre.

if we're going to damn the lad for giving aggro to opposition supporters, then are we going to be brave when the older lot do it or cower off? Are we going to have quiet words with them? We have some right pillocks and they're all ages; the mob who organise around the tunnel come the final whistle embarrass themselves on a weekly basis. I've been in pubs all over the place with the idiot element and often heard and witnessed some really stupid behaviour. A lot of these lads have 20+ year marriages and kids. 

Personally, I think the whole ultra stuff is bollocks and I'd praise him - and a lot of these lads deserve some recognition for their loyalty to the club and in assisting in our away support getting the nod it often does - if he come up with some original stuff, but he's a young'un who will hopefully mature and a few on the forum are getting a little but chewy over nowt.

3 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

When you check up on Hale he is a GK coach with a fair amount of experience in that role. He also seemingly runs his own GK school. 

 

I actually think he has done a better job in that role than Rhodes. 

 

You haven't heard of him because he seemingly hasn't played professionally. Hale has all the right qualifications bar that one, which isn't a qualification at all. 

Spot on.

Their problem is that they hasn't played 500 professional games.

If we appoint an inexperienced manager, it will invariably be a player who has retired in the last few year such as Wellens, Dunn, Johnson, Dickov. If we employ someone who has managed before, we'll probably end up with someone who has had a bit of success over two or three year but then seemingly failed thereafter or someone who inspires no confidence and has been at at least half a dozen clubs. Or we can try and be a bit clever and convince someone like Wild to take it.

Nonetheless, our pool from which to chose from is limited and so what we expect from whoever has to be curbed. We've just got rid of Bunn, with considerable backing by supporters, despite him having the highest win percentage, other than Sheridan, for nearly 20 year. Sad truth is that unless our new person secures a play-off season in their first attempt, the backing will quickly fizzle.

I have no problem with putting Wild in place until close season, but he'd be a little silly to accept. His Fulham victory may have saved him from what our last dozen have had from the board and a good section of the supporters (some deserved to go mind).

24 minutes ago, fleetwood Blue said:

Well that was a shit game, how we wasnt at least two down at half time is beyond me..Winchester played with the freedom of the park, always had 10 yards of space..

The weather ensured the second half was just as shocking to watch..

We are down to our bare bones and desperately need another 3/4 players in especially as this is the time of year when injuries and suspensions start racking up..

On a different note, i hope the two blokes who took a tumble on the mudslide coming out of the North Stand at the chaddy side are ok..So dangerous and i cant believe this has never been addressed by anybody at the club before..

I think there might have been a third because I was coming out and a bloke of about 60 was being helped back into the ground and looked in serious discomfort - overheard the coppers saying he'd hit his head, although it looked like he'd knackered his back. I didn't see the fall so could have been one of the two you're talking about.

It needs raising. I might call on Monday and ask why basic steps haven't been fitted. 

1 minute ago, Kusunga_Is_God said:

We let them out play us. There was no plan apart from sitting back. 

 

 If people are happy with medicoraity so be it. No wonder Corney got a free pass for so long until it eventually transpired he was a crook.

They're a good side mate; sometimes that has to be admitted. The performance was far from perfect and without doubt we needed to get stuck in from the first minute. We got better and could have nicked it but Rovers can pass and there is a clear focus on fitness (intense closing down) demonstrated by the unusual half-time fitness session their subs went through. There wasn't a ball in sight until the last few minutes.

On the Corney front, I plead not guilty. I was against him for years before he left and this clown we have I've retained doubts about since he first appeared on the scene. You need to split the fiasco that is the management of the club and the playing field. If we beat Macclesfield, it'll be 10 points from a possible 12. That is play-off form.

16 minutes ago, kowenicki said:

Anyhow... aside from all the hysterical overreactions above...

 

Syllla did ok I thought. 

I thought we'd been sold a pup with 20 played, but he improved throughout and he looks handy.

45 minutes ago, Kusunga_Is_God said:

Wild isn’t ready that’s for sure. Lucky to come away with something today. Manager and players needed quick if want to get into the play-offs.

That's a little unfair. Forest Green outplayed us for the first half hour and Wild altered it at half-time and we improved considerably. It is also the first time this season Rovers have not scored away from home in the league. They're a good side and I'm happy with a point.

That said, we desperately missed Surridge today. We need to bring in a striker as we seldom had anybody in the box today and we unable to get in behind their defence.

Bloody freezing today.

Donny's result today was brutal.

6 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

 

Am I right in thinking this strike is connected to driver-only trains? With there being no financial incentives involved aside from inflation?

Aye. Arriva Northern guards have now had 44 days of industrial action spanning over two years. Last week the Manchester Victoria train station picket line was attacked by right-wingers hence the show of support this morning.

https://issuu.com/rmtunion/docs/gaurds_2016/2

 I hope we can add an extra few hundred on the gate after last week. I consider this to be a really important game as a victory over a top-7 side would mean we go into a more-than-winnable away trip at Macclesfield aiming to make it four league wins on the trot, it will demonstrate we're good enough to get into the play-off places and the confidence and momentum it will spawn heading into the Donny game would be huge.

A loss would confirm in my mind that we'll be playing in this division next year; it'll show we just don't have enough consistency to put a run together good enough to amass points.

18 hours ago, fleetwood Blue said:

Industrial action by northern rail again on the 26th the wankers, looks like i have to drive again..

I was on the picket line with them this morning

Anyway, I'm surprised by the lack of faith in our ability to turn out. I remember Huddersfield filling the Rocky Road in 2008. I think we'll do the same at Donny.

Is anyone aware of a cap on the number of tickets each supporter can purchase? 

3 hours ago, unsworthlatic said:

 

That's not quite true is it? We scored early, then scored right from kick off and also hit the post and had a Forte header disallowed all within the first 20 minutes. Game could have been out of sight!

 

They did however take full control after that. They had some fantastic players. Yaser Kasim and Massimo Luongo in the heart of midfield were excellent! Toffolo at left back was solid as well! Seemed to have a disagreement with the ball boy if I remember correctly

No doubting we made an electric start.

7 minutes ago, underdog said:

lazy bastards then...are showing no respect to cup competitions hahah

He wants to be ashamed.

20 minutes ago, underdog said:

Bastards!!!!....they are so jealous of us having a little bit of something aren't they our greedy little neighbours. was that 1990?

 

They will be after Frankie's record next..tut

With 25 minutes to play and four goals already, Gabriel Jesus could very well have done it.

Anyone think the Bolton-Doidge debacle might unsettle the players?

Mark Cooper is a good manager and his Swindon side was one of the best League One sides I've seen at Boundary Park (Feb 2015 - we won 2-1 but they dominated from start to finish).

EDIT: Funny how things develop: We were 5th following that win; ominously, Chesterfield were 7th. 

24 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

You're right that I won't be but then due to prior commitments I wouldn't have been regardless of the draw unless it was on the Monday. 

As for the disparaging day tripper terminology it's now approaching 70 years since I lived within 190 miles do I'm not going to feel too guilty about not being a weekly attendee. 

There's summat paradoxical about labelling an Oldham Athletic supporter a 'day-tripper' anyway marra. 

I'll join the bet too deyeres42 - £20 to the foodbank on those terms.

9 hours ago, BP1960 said:

 

Doncaster races Friday and Saturday of the match.

 

 

Aye. Good spot that.

Few of us were talking about a day and night in Sheffield before heading through to Donny.

18 minutes ago, NewBlue said:

I almost feel more resigned to losing this than Fulham. Let’s hope whoever the manager is he can get them up for this one...

It's the 4th round of the FA Cup. If a professional footballer playing in the fourth tier can't be motivated by a game like this, then they'll naturally drift into non-league and will be working alongside your average football supporter in a few year.

26 minutes ago, JoeP said:

It's shite, but it could have been worse.

 

Brentford or Millwall away would have been worse.  Also think it's better being away than at home - packing an end out we'll generate more of an atmosphere.

 

And we can win.

 

Lets do this...

You've got it mate.

We could have landed a dour trip to a host of Championship clubs without a guarantee of television or a 20,000+ crowd. Although not what we wanted, we've just seen the lads knock out a top flight club - whatever happens, we've got a memory to treasure. This is a game where we can play toe-to-toe with the opposition and it's certainly not an outlandish proposition to suggest we can win the tie.

I'll be there and I urge every last one who was there yesterday to get through.