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The squad is looking as good as it ever has for a number of years. However, having watched Oldham for sooooooo long I must admit that I have a nagging thought. We now have Lee, Liddel, Philllips (hopefully), Taylor and Smalley, all fighting for places on the flanks. I know some of them can play in other positions, but somewhere in the back of my mind is this paranoid feeling that we're going to lose one of them ie Taylor of Smalley.

Reassurance needed for one so badly scarred!!!

Hazzel, Gregan in the middle, Eardley at RB? Makes sense doesn't it?

Don't he think he's a little slow these days?

So that's it then it's fact, Ronnie was a good manager............... LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

How on earth did you reach that conclusion? I said he was crap. TBH we're splitting hairs with this one - the three of them were crap.

My impression was that Sharp had to get rid of the squad asap because we were losing money hand over fist. Talbot was given the support of the new owners/investors.

Still, tactically, not a lot in it. Charisma - not a lot in it as neither had any but Sharp was an ignorant git, which gives Talbot the edge.

It does make you think about Ronnie Moore - crap, but not half as bad as those two. Dare I say it, he even had a little more character than both of them put together. Yes, he's had a dig, but I get the impression he loves the banter and having a wind up/crack.

Not funny in the slightest

Oh, come on. 'Walkin' in Oldham' has the potential to become a club anthem!!!! New vote for club song??

A lot of folk are convinced Redders' time here was cut short because Big Joe had a huff with him and shipped him out. But for a player who in his career has played for 20+ league clubs, surely that tells us more than a few rumours about Joe having the hump with him, right?

If memory serves me right, Joedidn't take him on tour once because 'his wife' (ie redders) 'didn't trust him.'

the conurbation formerly known as Greater Manchester,

lol - dinosaur!!!

That's a decade and a half in fact. The last recession ended after Lamont and Major pulled us out of the ERM, not before time. For some reason, that event is known as Black Wednesday.

There have been several recessions, just not here. The tiger economies suffered badly.

This terrible period of, “Globalisation,” has coincided with the longest continuous period of growing prosperity, increases in employment, live expectancy and so on in history. Now we appear to be about to have the first recession in over a decade, people have forgotten that they used to happen all the time, with nothing very good in between them. Add to that hundreds of millions of people formally in the Third World lifted out of poverty, and it’s actually been pretty good.

I'm wasn't blaming globalisation and never really suggested it was terrible. I was merely pointing out the inevitable ripple effect of a globalised economy. To blame individuals (or even the government) is not entirely fair given the structure of the global economy.

Not making any judgements...

However, now you've raised the subject, an unfettered capitalist system is not a good thing and actually keeps millions in poverty. The unfair trade policies of the west exasperate the problems in Africa. Exploitation by the west at the expense of the poor is rife. Globalisation has made it much easier to get our sports gear from India from some kid 'earning' 50 pence a day. The flip side, western jobs have been lost to call centres in places like India because they're on 10% of the wages earned over here. The only real winners are the big corporations.

Just got back from Chicago. Watching the news is grim. Over 75,000 people lost their homes last month due to repossession!! It ain't getting better. Globalisation!!!

Got my car for sale if anyone fancies it although quite a way fron Oldham.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...E:IT&ih=017

 

Thanks.

'New'. That's pushing it a little!

ive also heard that ronaldo is stalling at united due to this and ronaldinho already knows and he thinks hes having talks with us due to this move but really its city blagging him. also lionel messi was seen at ikea and frank lampard was seen shopping on ashton market with a film crew in tow remarking on how much he loves the place and the excessively cured ham, he did call it old ham but that was lost in translation. its also been confirmed that housing market crashes dont apply in ashton.

Liar. I saw Lampard buying a black pudding not cured ham on Ashton market. He went on to say that the ham was too excessive for his tastes but he was hoping to find some tripe and cow heel.

Gotta say, I'm not JFH biggest fan but I really do fu...(wow, my swear word wasn't filtered...ok, I'll censor myself )....hate Cardiff City FC.....hope he sues their backsides off coz it's fairly clear JFH is telling the truth IMO, when CCFC start with rubbish like "we made a verbal agreement" etc. Why on earth would JFH agree to that when he clearly wants a contract? Idiots!

I especially detest Ridsdale. Have you seen he's been given a £500,000 bonus despite huge losses. That man should not be in football. Why is it that when a club hits trouble (Leeds in his case - feelings apart) it's the fans and players that get hit with draconian measures brought in by a Thatcherite has-been while the people responsible ie the owner or CoE, is allowed to walk away and carry on somewhere else.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Does this mean that a derilict BP site could be let out free of charge to the travelling community for a couple of years? The phrase, "be careful what you wish for," would spring to mind.

LOL. Nice one. You can imagine old Jimmy Flyn and his tribe of cauliflower eared, erh, 'family' going to the local pubs and chippy. Then there's the circus once a year! And car boots!

Personally, I've never seen anything wrong with moving to the border or just over it. Lots of fans in Tameside and I can't see why we can't become Oldham and Tameside, like Brighton and Hove. A move to Curzon is also quite close to the motorway, which is good for access and business. It would still need all those extras like the hotel. After all, one of the main reasons for development, apart from the poor state of the ground, is to bring on extra streams of income.

Very good call. As you say, he made his debut in that game (Ernie for England!) and played for both clubs so I can't think of anything more appropriate other than every year, the proceeds from the game should go to a cancer charity.

Top ideas. Very appropriate. Can someone speak to someone??

Part one of my fan made Broadway Tribute, part two may be a while coming about...

 

Thanks to everyone who submitted their pictorial memories of our beloved stand in the OWTB gallery over the last year.

 

This is dedicated to Ernie, get well soon mate.

http://owtb.blip.tv/#1047692

Quality - I'm feeling quite emotional.

I love the line "please resist the temptation to pay a personal visit to the site, security people have now been employed to cover the site 24/7 and for safety reasons you will be turned away". I'm really tempted to go with a fold up chair and some sandwiches.

Now their are some from yesterday included in this, but this is basically Teams all over the world..... Enjoy!!

 

1 Weapons store

2 Pristine fortress combined

3 Always heavy

4 Epsom horse race province

5 Bacon joint can eat no more

6 Anyone for tennis

7 Dirty water

8 Godfather's sugary dogs

9 Burn most of a sporty pianist wearing glasses

10 Smallest coin changes big village

11 Put underground

12 Red cheese in a metropolis

13 Layered wood talks to Scottish jumper

14 Royal glass house

15 Martin's holiday home

16 Actual crazy expulsion

17 Allied ahead of the rest

18 Story brothers beside settlement

19 Tied ropes state

20 Ship's bottom in a populace area

21 Which river crossing?

22 Because, paddle with mother

23 Greek hero from the Iliad

24 Prickly seed case from a Chinese dynasty with meat in a large town

25 Hill carnival pig plays golf with Tiger

26 Central region

27 Harbour opening

28 Sporty toupee with other initials

29 Pitt's motor company conurbation

30 If you have no hair? Do lots of walking

31 Prison clock sound

32 Birthed orifice

33 Good French Elizabeth is game

34 Ancient gymnastic pig flesh - OLDHAM ATHLETIC

35 Gulf makes money whilst cow talk is stolen

36 Jamie Oliver's meadow amalgamated

37 Male fragrance

38 There's part of a fish in my pork

39 Decay the affiliated girl's meat

40 Heavy lover

41 Building society in small city

42 Half instamatic plays cards together

43 Bloke's thorax collective in emergency room

44 Swedish pop group are head of university

45 Garlic and herb chicken produces electricity

46 Below North there's part of a food basket that's heavy

47 Liz stops car for ramblers

48 Set fire to jeans

49 Pleasant

50 Bonnie's vicious partner

51 Mickey taking church with jump jets

52 Secured nomads

53 University combined

54 Santa's reindeer pulling a cow shed

55 270o magic user and her form of transport meets anagram of pale person

56 Fortified wine held in shire

57 Parent is alright

58 Public house trades person without friends

59 Mother is even

60 Almost a smelly animal unified with amusement park

61 24 hour race

62 Wild dog strolls with heavy meat

63 Racecourse in built up area

64 Looking at a book

65 Company stripe completed in good shape

66 Fight a small nail with lichens growing on a milk producer

67 Puddle of offal

68 Automobile allied with Tate's partner

69 Well-mannered man has special K for tea, at speed

70 Pig farmer

71 Pans region leagued

72 Large bird by an ocean town

73 Required to live together

74 Hurry to the lions home with precious stones

75 Not me, air duct in America

76 The second conqueror

77 Part of gold cup racecourse by ocean

78 Tamed small fruit in big village

79 Nimble Hawaiian greeting

80 Stream dish

81 Colourless scorch walkers

82 Wyle Coyote's company and unenthusiastic loss of guide

83 Score

84 Sky loses question of roughage

85 Nomadic cockney breast

86 Crimson sun marks campanologist's tool

87 Nazi intelligent TV dog, gosh!

88 Fly fisher writes book by consolidated lake

89 Green jumping insects

90 Go into the bay with a cathedral

91 Ships team are nothing with one

92 Department store heated to win without me

93 Previous partner consumes food in metropolis

94 Naked candle string voyagers

95 Nearly shivers in an urban grassland site

96 Journey opens door collective

97 The great posse

98 Shudder inducing alcopop

99 Treasure locker, urm, in a pasture

100 Presumably a doctor

101 S joins where coal is from

102 Barry's initial payment hires the car

103 On the urban pitch without a raincoat

104 Window material disappears with gypsies

105 Not to win

106 Push a large weight to top finish

107 Noble insect bends wood

108 Ship's dock. Exclaim!

109 Naval

110 Fire and depart

111 Even flee with prickly flower

112 Drugs are lost from chunky chocolate in megalopolis

113 Cotton factory made of bricks

114 The Spanish angels milky way

115 A pole finish mingles

116 Die

117 Fortification and seasoning without a hot beverage

118 Top of the world heavy voltage in small city

119 South Africa and pancake flipping

120 One hundred toilets in area painted red

121 Old crone's lair

122 Wild cowboy's country unified with Parma

123 Big apple famous tubes

124 Loco simply wanders

125 Small child son of Noah with giddy up device

126 Constricting snake has tea with travel document

127 Famous for sloping pitch

128 Male meadow pulls nitrogen

129 Pound in archaic England

130 A negative vote for the conservatives

131 Breaks the bad actor

132 Friend plays golf with Marko

133 Escaping pig's home

134 Fellows torso, urm, in a big town

135 Stop the wine in a populated area

136 Heavy light and linger on an old word for Great Britain

137 Play football with Chris nearly untied

138 Sporty hobbit

139 Together with a box of winter warmers

140 Windy city burns

141 Clapped out motor with mash in urban area

142 Scandinavian invader upset for going without food

143 Put the pig on it's my cuppa

144 I.e. in unconnected

145 Play cards with Stan's mate

146 Ambulance people's pitch

147 Wood shavings used for packing

148 Duro valley

149 Eriksson half joins McDonalds

150 Stephen's initial coin is together on the heath

151 Play Ultravox really fast

152 Mike Harding's this cowboy

153 Almost turn loch monster to poetic Scotland and thorny asteraceae

154 Formula 1 sport beats a seal

155 Queen's rhapsody

156 Guerrilla's ring is categorised

157 Lay to rest Italian fashion centre

158 His marbles are in densely populated area

159 President's large car in cathedral town

160 Two books of the bible

161 Where people gather for a tea party together

162 Stop the monarch

163 Ocean Roman house

164 Mother tongue

165 You walked a long way

166 Steel town midweek

167 Nearly Fawlty Towers

168 Candle string military institute

169 To selecta with love, carry out radiotelephone to Noel without his short editor

170 Ar_ives in a magic users big town

171 Initially, take nothing seriously

172 Half Pete plays tennis with a bit of birds of a feather

173 Almost slept the winter away but for Gillan

174 Simply Mick

175 Fee levied for Jewish circumcision in metropolis

176 Wash the muck off

177 What burglars do in urban areas

178 Send home glue stick with the French Colorado messenger

179 Perry

180 One tracked sausage

181 Eat cake together

182 Partly hard vehicle in London

183 Discoverer of America forms a group

184 Men's clothing store in archaic England

185 Elizabeth living in London

186 Lucky clover in the 200 series

187 Peculiar North American country

188 The cemetery finishes and ships group at the top

189 Pump the centre you may dislike Hislop

190 Area for making things without the guy from Steps

191 Loren's mixed up cask

192 Direct current collective

193 Bluebirds flying over

194 Viral colliery and South East

195 Fight thank you, in the city by the Vitava

196 Fine sugar after local area network conurbation

197 Public house used to catch fish

198 Seeing that junior judo grade joins a company

199 African warrior without a toilet is not poor

200 Dad is fine at hairdresser wearing women's underwear

201 Combined remains of huge cigarette

202 Edition of Robert Burn's poems

203 Ferdinand on a short road

204 Go vomit sarcophilus harrisii

205 Train in the red city

206 Grandmother of the Derbavilles

207 Mix up haphazard guitar playing on the lawn

208 Where the heart is together

209 If the moon's up

210 Flowering Saint Nick and Penelope

211 Turn fresh Britain

212 Put down the barrel on the famous train

213 22nd after tin receptacle surrounded by water

214 Bovine lair below without a patella

215 Howler prise quartet mixed up nukes

216 English flower and play tennis with Bjorn

217 Initial natural killer changes direction and starts to resist authority

218 Latin mouth of children

219 Holy greer near the Eiffel Tower

220 Social event with Australian devil and a sun beam

221 Submarine shooting at little Kate's bovine

222 Punctuation mark, my arse

223 Athletes compete with jaws

224 Francisco engine capacity inside gratis Enola Gay target

225 German emperor bosses

 

The first one to complete wins......... pride and the ability to put this on their post!

 

For all you newbies iv given you a clue on number 34... well the answer!

Don't tell me you typed this out? That's commitment!! Or did you get your dalek army to help? Have you got a job? Either way, I'm impressed. Haven't a clue with stuff like this.

The message board is getting abit dull so I thought i'd share a thought of mine:

 

The idea of a poll of people can decide what five thousand latics fans see and hear on a saturday afternoon is beyond me.

A fluo yellow away kit, mouldy old dough & guns of navarone... Tragic!

Ive had enough of official polls, they are clearly getting us nowhere!

 

The only poll i'd sanction would be whether Chris Taylor plays on the left or right, anyone with two brain cells knows which is best.

I know your last comment was tongue in cheek but the fact is that many people feel strangely uncomfortable with right footed players playing on the left. One or two on here are obsessed with it. The fact is that the right footed player cuts in, putting the full back onto his weaker foot, opening space and allowing for a varied angle of delivery. It's in the coaching manual.

Teams in group A have some kind of animal connection (owl, cockerel, bantam etc), teams in group have fans who are animals.

Is this a Darren Brown type bit of kidology. Think about it. At some stage a midfield player will move from a Championship club who has some connection, no matter how tenuous, with old trafford. It's a basic percentages game. Then man friday can say 'see, i told you'. Come on Crusoe, you've been watching Brown on a Friday night!!!

As you can see im not much of a poster on here but im on here all the time reading posts.

 

Does no one else think its a bit odd that shez hasnt commented on any of the signings this summer? It must be some summer holiday he is on.

 

This is in no way a dig as I am 100% behind him but just thought it was odd that Tommy is doing all the interviews all of a sudden. Would be great to hear from shez on what he thinks of the new signings.

Someone told me they'd seen him going into some kind of rehab clinic in Manchester.

OK, no they didn't, I'm bored.

IV just heard its Phillip Mulryne, ex-man utd and Northern Ireland international, bags of championship experience with Norwich, looking for a club after a few bad injuries? Don’t know how reliable this is, maybe Crusoe could enlighten us?

"On 25 October 2007 Mulryne joined Kings Lynn FC on a non-contract basis. He was released by the club on 1 January 2008. It was announced on 14 March that Mulryne was training with Cliftonville"

Looks doubtful, though he is just 30.

good post

 

god, im sick of people goin on about donny. seem to be mentioned in every post these days. boring.

I agree, I never liked the Osmond's as a kid but he was always the ponce who all the girls loved!!! i especially hated Pupply Love. Arghhhhhhhh. Go back home donny.

Very true, I was only messing about though.... u cant really read anythin into that....

...or can you? I think that life for in the Conference, at the bottom, for a young lad - ideal target form some old hasbeen or wanabee - 'lets try it on with the kid' attitude. Only the kid can look after himself...who knows. The yellow was waved AT him, suggesting he has faced the cowardly bullies. See, shezis87, you can read things into things!!! The beauty of doing a lit degree...

Whatever, it's a good signing.