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Gutted for the guy. The 1 player who everyone knows wants to do whatever he can for England. Will definitly miss his influence behind the scenes and his ability to come off the bench and either score or set someone up from a set piece.

Surely though, the majority of the people who look on their website and go in their club shop will be Northampton fans not scum, Liverpool Arsenal etc.. so who will buy them? I cant imagine any of my mates thinking i'll pop down to latics to get my new City, United shirt if we thought about doing it.

They were both clear penalties, the thing our players were complaining about was the overhead kick that was close to taking gregans (i think it was him) head off just before Taylor's handball. how he got away with that I'll never know.

To be fair Mr Sinnott slags off just as many players that we have signed aswell.

Fair enough seem to remember you posting somthing in a reply to me a few months back saying how wrong we were to sack him. But fans will show their feelings at a match every club fans do Burnley being another club wanting thir manager out already. Nothing wrong with singing/showing your displeasure during a game directed towards the manager that should not effect the players at all.

I think they got rid of Shez for more than 1 reason. The drinking culture at the time was way out of control and it started with the manager himself. A total lack of discipline didn't help either (star striker deliberatly taking out our star defender in training , Windass, the dogs it all added pressure plus the fact once all this got out the teams performances dropped and poor results followed. Nevermind the countless poor loan signings brought in over the ever impressing youth team like Allesandra. score a hatrick dropped virtually straight away for Ormerod. Shez lost it in his last 3 or 4 months in charge and i think the few months out did him the world of goodand seems to be doing well at Chesterfield.

Probably the fact he's still hurting from the fact that we sacked Shez when he was quite supportive on here of him. This despite a number of disasters on and off the pitch especially after xmas last season.

Spot on with that. Yes I think we will stay up only due to some of the :censored: in this league but I don't want to see another season of this. The guy is clueless makes pointless substitutions, plays countless players out of position and continues to play uninspiring football bar a few performances and he seems quite happy with the way things are going. How many loanees have we had who are suppose to have been our answer to the goal scoring problem? I make it 4 now this season and i think they have managed 3 goals between them. As most people can see the problem for most of the season has been our failure to create chances but its always a striker who is brought in. how about a winger who can beat a man and put a half decent cross in Mr Penney? Taylor no longer wants to know since he won't pass a medical for a move out of the club, Smalley has been poor but the lad is being played up front half of the time when he is clearly not one and Colbeck, well that must be the worst bit of business since we signed Wayne Gill. When it was announced in the summer that Penney would be the new manager I was happy with the appointment if not blown away by it, as I had seen enough of his teams at Doncaster and Darlington to know that he tries to play football the right way. Well how wrong was I! After Tuesday night I came away from BP thinking that is what we are capable of, if the team is left to playing football rather than Penney insisting on 2 banks of 4 all the time. but today we was back to the same team we have seen for 90% of the season. Wycombe earlier in the season was the game I decided Penney would never succeed at this club and had to go and since then, very few performances have suggested to me I was wrong. When we play the better teams in this league it is almost a routine loss. We have a couple of chances they score theirs and Penney comes out with the same old comments of needing to be more ruthless in front of goal. We have not won one game against the top 6 ( incase any one wonders the record stands at 8 defeats and 3 draws from the 11 games against them so far) When was the last time we had a record that bad! Infact im pretty sure we have only won twice agaist the top half of the table this season. All in all this season has been a nightmare and I have never felt as low as a latics fan. Whatever happens now happens, but we have unfortunatly left ourselves open to a realistic chance of relegation and I fear if that happens then that could be very difficult to get things back to the way things once were, especially with the likes of Bury and Rochdale possibly coming up leaving us below our 'little' neighbours. Roll on tuesday night.

Had a decent game for an hour but then totally faded after that. Not good enough for this level has he has shown throughout his 2 years here. Blue Square standard/ lower league 2 team at best.

He seems to be playing more down the middle now and doesn't go out wide anywhere near as much as a winger should do. I assume this is down to the managers instructions. But yes nowhere near the player he once was and needs to toughen up.

I think David Penney Just plays 4-5-1 anyway Mr Sinnott. oh by the way my sister still thinks your a knob

Hopefully in future they do so they don't listen to our inspired leader's, tactical and motivational half time team talk.

There was an agent on talksport who was talking about Liverpool having to pay Benitez £20 million to get rid of him. He basically said that 99% of contacts have clauses in that means they don't have to pay anywhere near the full amount and in Benitez case it is probably less than half of what is reported. Whether or not this is the case with Penney I think only He and the owners/ Alan Hardy will know this and they won't be making it public knowledge in any case.

Just noticed Mike Dean and the linesman can't stop themselves from looking at Bridge as he gets to Terry.

He's a goal machine. 4 goals in 3 seasons and all that whilst having the difficulties of having to change clubs twice

We would still probably fail to score.

I know when he signed for us it was a 1 year deal with the option of another. I pray to god it isn't similar to David James' contract at Portsmouth where if he plays in a set percentage of games it automatically adds the extra year!

It makes you wonder. The only other reason could of been financial and we would of had to get someone out before bringing him in, which will of been a tough job with the way some of them have performed this season. But then again I doubt he's on much at Chesterfield.

Pretty much spent the last half an hour in their half of the pitch. Their to centre mids were crap unfortunatly we don't have the players to create clear cut chances Stephens apart, or anyone who can take a half chance. But we have known this all season but our leader has continually failed to solve the problem.

Played well today and bossed the game for the majority of it, but another loss and another blank. We created very few clear cut chances when you consider how much of the ball we had. I know everyone said we expect 0 points from these 3 games but we couldn't of asked to play these 3 at a better time Leeds 1 win in 8, Colchester were poor and we should of won the game if we had a forward who could score, and Norwich have been playing very poor aswell over the last month and required late goals to get results and I thought apart from Holt they were as :censored: as us. Still I expect our lack of goals and negative tactics for the 1st 25 games or so to be very costly come the end of the season.

Spot on. Any team thats has a starting midfeild at the end of Feb who have 2 goals between them and one of them came from the spot and the other, when the scorer was playing up front at the time has serious serious problems. I don't believe that it is down to the quality of players though it has to come from the mindset of the manager. The majority of the time the 4 midfielders are no more than 10 yards ahead of our back 4, even when we played well at Swindon (45 mins) and Walsall they were all coming from deep posistions to support Abbott and Price, and had to bust a gut to do so. I'm not saying they should be up there leaving the defence exposed but surley most teams will have players who naturally stay further up the field and allow them to offer options to other players. We simply rely on the front to do it on their own and if we still have the ball by the time the midfeild arrives then the opposition are usually set up well enough to defend the ball.

I didn't go tonight 1st game I have missed since Brighton due to family reasons but the result and the way the performance sounds then I'm not suprised in the slightest infact, I pretty much knew how tonight was going to go. We did ok at Colchetser on sat but didnt score we were :censored: against Tranmere and Millwall and didnt score we have played well this season and not scored, its all coming down to the same thing and the manager has had all season to address this but still hasn't found the answer. We all knew that the 3 games agaist the top 3 was going to be hard but should we really be going into them thinking 'anything we get will be a bonus'? Going back over the last 5 years or so I and many others have gone to places like Leicester, Leeds, Sheff Wed and Forest thinking and knowing we will get something because we have quality, passion and a bit of belief in ourselves, but this year I go into the games agaist the bigger/better teams hoping not to get embaressed as we show no evidence of these qualities. As I will be doing no doubt by the time Saturday comes round and we play Norwich. After Sat we have 5 'easier games' coming up but if we get into a losing habbit then we are in seroius trouble especially as we are entering the final quater of the season. Unfortunatly for us all those teams will be thinking the same and will be going into them expecting to win as we have done against the Scousers and Walsall. Have I given up hope of survival? No definitly not, but with each passing defeat and poor performance I am starting to accept that it is looking like the most likely scenario.

Saints were the best but even they were rubbish which shows how bad this season has been for us. Trannies away the worst, it would of been Wycombe but they got a fully deserved point against us with ten men.

I personally have never enjoyed myself in Manchester whether it be shopping, night out or somthing else, but there has always been this feeling in my head that I wish I was anywhere but here, its a :censored:hole (so is Oldham but its my :censored:hole). As for Mancs themselves they seem to have this need to prove to people that there someone important, some like to think there 'hard' lots try to think that there gangsters and can get the boys on you if you happen to look at them in the wrong way. As this topic stems from the move to Failsworth I have found the places on the edge of Manchester like Failsworth and Middleton to be even worse as they try to prove to any one that will listen that they are Mancs by doing there best impression of Liam Gallagher ( 'alrite our kid' is usually the one I'm greeted with even when I have no clue who I'm speaking to, never mind the fact that I'm not being their younger sibling) Also the accent manages to make the Scouse one sound slightly sexy!! By the way I'm in favour of the move to failsworth.

Barmy flags use to be the best place on Chew Valley Road up in Greenfield.