mikejh45

25 minutes ago, kowenicki said:

 

Can't be an AL/ML signing.

1 minute ago, JoeP said:

 

Not sure the fact that Bryan or Doyle haven't said anything adds much to the argument that he's good to work for..

That comment works both ways.

1 minute ago, deyres42 said:

Bryan and Doyle wouldn't have had issues with wages.

I thought Gerrard, Byrne and Davies all left before wages became an issue so that is not a reason...….also, according to Byrne's supporters on relevant threads, Byrne wanted to stay.

1 minute ago, HarryBosch said:

 

Is there a particular reason you've upgraded him from the usual "of his generation"? 

Because he's now on the cusp of being our next manager and he is going to take us Champions League winners within 5 years...…...c'mon, buy into this!!!  

1 minute ago, simplythemostimportantkick said:

Exactly. Even if things are bad , it’s good to see some professionals actually remain professional. 

I would add that's why Clarke was always a more sought after player than Carlisle's chumpie.

8 minutes ago, mad4it said:

Bunn hasn’t made any comments about the chairman, but plenty of others have , Davies, Gerrard, Byrne et al

And all with an axe to grind, I would add.

I haven't heard any negativity from Bryan or Doyle but someone may put me right on that.

Also, Clarke might have thought his Latics career was over after Wellens let him go out on loan and so had opportunities to comment but he remained ultra-professional and seemed quite matey with AL following the win over Fulham.

22 minutes ago, mad4it said:

Or perhaps (as the media now suggests) that team selection was influenced from elsewhere?

Who really knows!!! It's easy for recently departed managers to say it was the Chairman's fault...….they are hardly going to admit to being crap themselves.

3 minutes ago, mad4it said:

Apart from Carlisle,  the team were playing quite well under Bunn, beat Bury and lost narrowly to Exeter... 

I think any improvement in the first half of the season post-Rhodes removal was down to Max Wragg. I also never felt that Bunn knew what to do to change tactics mid-game!!!

6 minutes ago, mad4it said:

Or perhaps his lack of available options 

Not having that.....PW got them playing with confidence very quickly.

11 minutes ago, youngen said:

 

And thats Brangers problem. His best game, and he was 5 out of 10.

Your opinion but I thought he was better than 5.

1 minute ago, Clifford said:

 

He also picked the side that could well have beaten Donny on Saturday, or is he only picking the team when we play shite? 

Did you not read OWTB Alterative Rulebook Page 5, Paragraph 4, Clause 8, Sub-Clause 3?

"Any good news about Latics must not be linked to AL".

1 minute ago, Clifford said:

 

AL picked the side that beat Fulham so perhaps he should get some of the credit Mr Wild has been getting?

Woof.....batten down the hatches.....Contentious Post Alert!!!

45 minutes ago, palmer1 said:

 

It even says in general in the quote it means he can do better than Oldham hence the pay & the fans comments which he is currently doing no? 

 

Bunn put Surridge against him twice but yeah no pace, he just didnt get a kick in 2 games but that was all Bunn not Surridge or even Gerrard.

 

I wonder why I'm  posting on this board far less frequently these days, thanks for the reminder.

 

 

If you meant better than Oldham then why not say so in the first instance and be clear because I still read your comment as doing better than Carlisle.

And If you had bothered to read my posts you would have seen that a number of people had the same opinion. But I will ask you directly....if  an O'Grady/Surridge partnership badly failed and couldn't break down Gerrard/A.N.Other in the home fixture.....does it make tactical sense to play the same two up front in the away fixture?

As to your last point....we live in a world of differing opinions however daft you may think mine are and I may think yours are....if you can't deal with that then maybe it's right you walk away.

8 hours ago, palmer1 said:

 

What do you mean? Really?

 

I was speaking in general but if you dont think 4th in the league, paid every week/month on time where the fans love him isnt better then you're a typical owtbs poster.

 

 

Yeah I bet he wishes he was still at Oldham. Yeah all Bunns fault! 

 

 

You posted previously "In general that means he's probably a decent to very good footballer who will go on to betters times elsewhere".

That reads like he can do better than Carlisle but recent history suggests otherwise.

And your last line above is nonsense in this particular debate. I said Bunn was clueless for not putting pace against him not once but twice. Like I said tactically inept.

7 hours ago, mad4it said:

No but it did against Macclesfield, Crawley, Grimsby, Colchester, Bradford and Bury , so much so that 10 of the 12 goals scored by surridge have been scored whilst playing alongside O’Grady 

We got stuffed at home against Carlisle with O'Grady getting "beasted" by their two big centre-backs therefore giving Surridge nothing to work with. Why would you go into the return fixture with the same tactics and lineup with an expectation of a different result?

Getting a 6-0 thrashing up there showed up Bunn's lack of imagination and tactical nous. 

1 hour ago, mad4it said:

That never was going to happen, Surridge always played better playing off O’Grady, in the same sense that Doyle scored the major of his goals playing off Davies 

And that really worked well in both matches against Carlisle!!!

1 hour ago, Stevie_J said:

For me Branger’s had his moments in the last two FA Cup games, such as doing a good job of keeping possession and running the clock down against Fulham, but I think his decision making is poor and his delivery from set pieces is truly awful. I have no idea why he’s taking them. 

57 minutes ago, lookersstandandy said:

 

....I’ll hazard a guess....

Hang on.....Maoche takes our set pieces and he was absent for one bloody game not the whole season.....get some perspective!!! 

39 minutes ago, yarddog73 said:

Daft that they couldn't of been in place for yesterday but I suppose AL needed his few weeks in Dubai and we wanted to concentrate on the League anyway 

That is a crap attempt at humour and/or logic. If Scholes comes in, it will be to his timetable.

I thought Branger had one of his best games for us. When he went out on the right, I thought he caused enough mischief to tie up two defenders with a third hanging back. Lang showed less on the left hence Nepo overlapping

39 minutes ago, palmer1 said:

 

In general that means he's probably a decent to very good footballer who will go on to betters times elsewhere.

 

Some absolute shite have been held up as world beaters on here over the years, until a few months later when they're a  hate figure. 

 

 

 

 

Really, I mean really.......better times...where for f***s sake? He's found a level that suits his age and physique. 

And if Bunn was a manager instead of a coach, we would have exploited his physical deficiencies.

8 minutes ago, archiecat said:

Hehe, like I said Michael he is no OWTB pin up boy.

Clarke didn't pull any trees up at Bury in that loan spell maybe he is a better fit at BP. 

There is no maybe....he has been immense on his return considering his age.

5 minutes ago, archiecat said:

Apart from the tunnel incident at Chesterfield, I don't think Gerrard did too badly on the pitch.granted he would never win a popularity contest on here.

Big mistake last season letting Clarke go and keeping the fat, divisive bastard. 

1 minute ago, Steve_R said:

So because people said it on here, that's what would have happened

Stupid argument because it never happened BUT we have seen several times in the past he gets shown up for pace. 

7 minutes ago, Ryan said:

9-1 over two games was it?

Read back on here, many people said if we had played Surridge and Lang to run at him then results would have been different and would have exposed the gobby lump. Poor team selection by Bunn.

5 minutes ago, archiecat said:

You took your time!

You show me an example,just one of him not being a bad un.

Oh,and you can't have because he signed Maouche

He got rid of Gerrard......plenty of bonus points there for me.