ghostofcecere

I'm guessing the sales aren't going to well at this stage as they club are pushing the fact it's an all ticket game. Don't know why it is but as fans we are useless at buying tickets up front (B.A.L.L.S, B.O.A.S.T and other travelling fans excluded), the Blackpool playoff game was a good example. If the small section of the RRE would have been kept free for pay on the day Latics it would have sold out. I'm sure the Leeds game is all ticket on Police advice but if sales are still slow I would relax the restrictions for home fans. We are giving Leeds 4600 tickets and with it being a midweek game I can't see that many bothering to travel without tickets. Still don't think it will be a 13,800 sell out, that never seems to happen.

Yeah good point; I'm guessing because the club have mentioned the Richards windfall then player contracts are transferrable assets. In which case we must have recieved the Fitz Hall money.

Are you sure we would have recieved any of this? The contracts of Hall etc. were held by Oldham Athletic, not the newly formed Oldham Athletic 2004. Did the transfer take place before or after the new club was formed?

Not really, only creditors could have killed us such as the Inland Revenue. Moore could not be classed as a creditor despite loans etc. as he was Chairman of the board.

Good point. It's official then, Gary Kelly's disco pants are in fact the best. This can has been confirmed by the internationally recognised testing method ISO70002 for arse to chestness.

Far be it for me to 'diss' a Latics legend, but Adam Ant did wear some fancy pants in his hay day.

Eh? Well right up to the point when he sold all our best players off on the cheap and stuck the money in his back pocket.

Legend has it they were better than Adam and the Ants; though I don't think this was ever proved.

PMSL

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My first game was in 1974 when my Dad took me to see the last 15 minutes (for free!) of the Leyton Orient home game, mainly because of the spectacle of a black player playing, the late great Lawrie Cunningham. How out of place does that statement seem now! My Dad took me on and off from that point onwards; but I consider my first real season to be the 86/87 play off season when Mike Cecere (hence the user name) got a hat-trick at BP against the enemy Rovers and then scored in the play offs at home to Leeds which nearly took us through the final against Charlton. As has been said above Cecere was very average at best, but to me he wore the blue shirt and therefore was a legend. He was also very nice to me when I met him on Sheepfoot Lane once during the School holiday's when he gave me his autograph. I guess I probably also fall into the catagory of someone who gets all nostalgic about the pinch me years. But I'm not ashamed of this one bit, I was 18 at the time; and those of you who are that age now, can you imagine going to Wembley for a cup final, beating the best teams in the land by big margins at BP, and then watching your team win the league to go into the top flight? This gave me the chance to go and watch the team I love hold their own at the likes of Anfield, Highbury, Stamford Bridge and White Hart Lane (I'm not gonna say Old Trafford 'cos we always got stuffed there). My faith in Latics over this time has only been tested once and I'm ashamed to say I failed the test. Watching the Ronnie Moore side in the last season he had with us was the worst time I have ever had watching Latics (including Cardiff at home!). The final nail in the coffin was the last game of the season against Scunthorpe, where even with nothing at stake we still couldn't go out and attack a side and deliver the entertainment that has (Sharpe, Warnock and Talbot aside) been a feature of my years following the club. I took a good look around the ground at the final whistle, left my seat and thought it was the end of an era, Latics had left my life. I did not renew my season ticket last year; and I have to admit I'm a bandwagon jumper as I started going again in December when things were looking up. I'm not proud of this at all. I have got a season ticket again this year, so I guess I'm to blame for our demise. But really my point is this; you can't blame people for reminiscing about those years, they were the most succesful in the history of the club and many of us present then are still going now. My Dad is 71 and still has his season ticket in the Main Stand Paddock, he describes those years as by far and away the best in over 60 years following the club. But I agree that all of us need to get behind the team at this point and look to the future not the past; Chris Taylor is not Ricky Holden, Craig Davies is not Andy Ritchie, Neil Eardley is not Denis Irwin but what they all are, are Latics players and for that they are my hero's. I can't think of one example of a player, or a team improving after recieving abuse from the support. Whatever your status as a Latics supporter, young or old, the thing that bonds us is a blind faith in the club; and if we stick together and keep the faith, maybe one day we will see the glory days back at Boundary Park.

They are so infrequent I would be suprised

Well as you are fully aware Mr. Sideburns, The Chron is rarely wrong.........................................................

To early to turn on Shez, but Coco makes a very valid point in that it is not just this season that we have struggled, the truth is that we have been poor since February.

Change the players. Gregan should not be picked just because he is captain; the truth is he has not played well since we signed him permenantly. Too many players not playing anywhere near their best such as Taylor and Eardley. Also we desperatly need Kilkenny fit and back in the side, Hughes made some very intelligent runs on Saturday but nobody could supply the killer pass.

I've heard he's tough nut to crack

Sums up most of the players who play at League 1 level I guess.

Mark Allott connection maybe?

WTF!? No appearances for anyone so far this season!

Your Mistress as well eh!

Simple isn't it getting a successful England side. Play 4-4-2, fill the team with players showing good form for their clubs, pick the best team rather than the best 11 individuals. I wonder why no-one has thought of that before even people on £4M a year, and why it took a load of injuries to make it happen! P.S. The two Cole's were bobbins.

Yeah fair play to you mate. May I suggest we have a re-vote after the Southend game then?

Yeah I was Rick, you were there with your kid and Hursty I think.

Best Centre Half I've ever seen in the blue shirt, worth every penny of the £460,000 Big Joe payed for him. Bumped into him in the John Milne in Milnrow last Christmas, and spent quite a while talking with him, he's a real gentleman. As has been pointed out he now does a lot of work with the PFA and now resides somewhere over Halifax way.

I hate all drums and bands at matches full stop. When I first saw the Dutch do it versus Wales at the Vetch in about 1988 it was new and funny but 20 years on it's just boring. I was't to bothered about the drum at Latics, if fact sitting in the Lookers Upper, I was suprised when it first got mentioned on here as I couldn't hear one from my seat. But after Carlisle this season I want rid of the thing, it just totally killed the atmosphere by drowning out all the singing.