ghostofcecere

We can see the fans expectations by the drop in ST sales.

Mine are for us to be mid to bottom of the table, flirting with relegation for most of the season. I can also see a scenario where Marco does a midnight flit and we end up in administration and get relegated. I’ll begrudgingly take my first expectation as the preferred outcome at this stage. 

I have no plans to visit BP next season, my support for Latics will be away days only. 

2 hours ago, latics22 said:

I prey we can do it but have we ever won 6 on the bounce which realistically is what we need. Add that to the previous 4 wins and two draws, making us unbeaten in 12

We won the first 5 in the 1991 promotion season, not sure we’ve done anything like that since in the league 

37 minutes ago, kowenicki said:

 

As in “I have paid all the final demands and current bills”. Long term debt hasn’t gone anywhere. Can’t have.

I suspect this is the case

9 hours ago, Ritchierich said:

Back on topic, after our season pretty much ended today is anyone seriously bothering with this game now? Mansfield should outnumber us 

Not been since Scholes left so I won’t be bothering. Sadly, I’ve not missed it one bit... worrying times.

9 hours ago, Dave_Og said:

It's completely and utterly irrelevant. 

Well yes and know... it’s irrelevant that someone is interfering with the team and causing unrest, this needs to stop.

But it’s relevant that Marco is actually telling the truth when he says HE’S not interfering himself.

19 minutes ago, latics22 said:

Problem is it’s the managers saying hes the problem not hisbrother. Admittedly Marco doesn’t look like the type to  challenge people face to face  

Have they actually come out and said that though, or is it that we’ve just assumed it was Marco causing the problems?

3 minutes ago, simplythemostimportantkick said:

If only I loved the club enough to get worked up over a fucking bus !! Jesus Christ, some on here need to know every little detail of everything. Can anyone tell me when AL had his morning shit ? 

He’s not had it yet, we’re on stop supply with Andrex

4 minutes ago, archiecat said:

Cut the guy some slack,he has put his life savings in and is trying his best 

I suppose we will find out if that’s true or not when the accounts are eventually published

I would absolutely love it if the Trust called this idiots bluff and started legal proceedings against him. 

2 hours ago, oafc1955 said:

Under normal circumstances this could  have been a massive game and you’d have been looking at 7k+.

What a complete waste of yet another season for our fans

It says it all when our home attendance is less than the amount of season ticket sales we had. I doubt the crowd will

break 5K with the amount of people boycotting

7 minutes ago, underdog said:

I was meeting fans who had joined the Trust  outside Laticzone to give them their cards.

 

I was talking to a fan about his card when Birkett came right up to my face pointing and Shouting that "the trust are all liars and he will expose us..."

 

I asked him to step away from me as I am feeling threatened and he continued until two police office heard me saying again I am feeling threatened and they came between us and moved him on. Even the police asked me what it was all about and i explained he is not happy with the Trust and left it at that. 

 

It did actually shake me up a bit, I mean I am no little wall flower  and have seperated many a fight at the college,  grew up with 80/s football violence and all. But you don;t expect one of your own not to understand how intimidating that can be and that it is not acceptable behaviour.

 

Apparently he is on Face ache about it all.

 

I am still a little shaken.....the hubby wants to do his own shaking.

 

 

 

You should have reported him you shouldn’t have been made to feel like that, more embarrassment for the club and the former Trust chair that he’s their “chosen one”

1 hour ago, Handsy said:

There was all the ones who didn’t turn up  hope they enjoyed doing something else with their day  they could of come down to the ground and tried to get others to do the same but they probably couldn’t be arsed

I had a good day too, I didn’t miss it one bit strangely like I thought I would. 

Pleased for those that turned out though and that the team won for them

With hindsight it seems Brassbank seem far more contentious when selling assists assosiated with Latics than Mr. Corney was, and they were supposed to be the enemy. 

Interesting that Barry Owen was there, he’ll get onside with anyone who’ll give him a free ticket that bloke

3 hours ago, Andy b said:

To be clear, this resignation came last week and before Saturday’s meet had been confirmed. 

 

It has no bearing on the trust’s position regarding the current situation at the club as expressed through various channels

over the last 7 days. 

 

See you on Saturday.

 

I hope a replacement can be appointed quickly, the Trust has real momentum at the moment and it needs capitalising on. Also I feel a Trust figurehead is required during negotiations over the purchase from Brassbank.

The club and the owner in particular have dodged a bullet here with this weather, I can’t see any form of protest being up to much in a Tuesday night. The boycott will go well though.

You have to feel for Wild, he has to do whatever the bullying owner says as he has kids, mortgage and bills to pay, he can’t risk getting on the wrong side of him.

On 2/10/2019 at 7:01 AM, ghostofcecere said:

Gone within a month if our owner doesn’t change his ways

I was so close

3 hours ago, deyres42 said:

My own protest is simple, not another penny until the Lemmy's have gone.

This

I won’t be attending anymore games whilst this owner is at our club. I will however participate in the planned march.

Gave up after Bury, I thought we’d have a new manger bounce and have an exciting run in, flirting with the play offs. Typical Latics, we did fuck all as usual.

Time for me to recharge the batteries for next season.

1 hour ago, GlossopLatic said:

Just seen his Facebook hes turned into a moron now, he seems to be getting involved with the other Morons too. The ones who make saturdays fixture a heavy handed police affair.

He certainly arrived at the Staff of Life pub with some very naughty boys on Saturday

1 hour ago, GlossopLatic said:

 

I think its a sign people are more philosophical of the situation Scholes has inherited hes had 2 weeks and with 4 games in those 2 weeks hasn't had time to really try anything new with the team yet. Its going to take time this.

 

Its frustrating that Bury have regrouped from relegation far better than we have but alot of that comes down to the fact that they have got a man in at the back end of last season who had time to assess the squad. This gave him a head start in recruitment in the summer and he has done with backing and support rather than interference.

Ive said for a good while now that we seem to start every season with a virtually new team and in some cases a new manager. It then takes a few months for things to gel, we start to get going, then we have a poor transfer window and a shit pitch in January and we are back to square one.

We really need to start to build now for next season, keep a nucleas of a squad, get rid of the chaff and have a clear set of targets for the summer, and FFS spend some money on the pitch!

As Barry Blatter might say “let’s start to do things properly around here,” then we might have half a chance.

10 hours ago, oafc21 said:

Well over the top, they couldn’t wait to start lashing out at anybody in view, I know there was a few tools trying to leave but the police tactics was a disgrace,as for the bury tossers in the stand to the left spitting and coining the Oldham fans ( brave wankers) was left to do anything they wanted to do, it’s a sad situation that people like yourself have to get caught up in this situation, GMP at there finest 

Made me laugh how they were giving it the big “I am” when they thought we were being kept in, and then were all hiding at the top of that stairwell when they saw we were actually out

10 hours ago, Bunty Blue said:

Whoever assessed the situation and decided to keep one end of Tics in the ground at the final whistle must have been smacked off their heads - too many halftime Vimtos. The logic behind this course of action was risible and flawed, not least because:

• If they wanted to clear the car park first and ensure the safety of away fans, don’t let the other stand of Tics out as they, er, could if inclined, quite easily be in said car park possibly exchanging pleasantries with the Bury kids - so objective not achieved 
• The announcement 10 mins before end of game was inevitably going to lead to a couple of hundred fans deciding to leave there and then. Yet the club and police seemed to be caught a little off guard, panicked, closing the gates and shoving everyone back thereby laying the foundatition stones for the ensuing trouble 
• then deciding to push fans back to the part of the stand where the Bury fans could goad and hurl coins (cowards) was pure genius
• they then deployed riot/tactical unit police in three lines to show excellent communication skills whilst handling reasonable requests to leave with “I’m not listening. I don’t care what your reason is and no point telling me as I’m not listening.” 

 

So,  having created a more inflammatory situation than if they had left it, they invited an aggressive reaction not only from some of our fans who enjoy a bit of trouble but many others too. They also made it difficult and stressful for everyone as my experience shows:

• I approached the first line and before I even said anything, was pushed back and told it was pointless asking anything as they weren’t listening
• even when I politely asked if I could go as I have Parkinson’s and needed to get back home near Huddersfield by 6pm to take next vital medication and showed them a card stating I have PD they continued to respond with “I’m not listening”  and “Don’t show me anything as I’m not looking.” until eventually I was forced to go down the line of identikit impassive officers amidst  the chaos, asking each one if I could leave. 
• Then, having go through line 1 I encountered their close cousins in line 2 who also played “pass the parcel” with my request, ensuring I asked them all before letting me through, having delightfully added an element of stress
• the third line and gate-keeper was almost reasonable in comparison and I only spent two minutes discussing my request.  Opening the gate led to further frenzy as a few fellow Tics surged towards it. However this wasn’t necessarily the gatekeepers fault. 
• I noted more riot police running  towards the West Stand, rather gleefully I thought as I picked my way through some home fans who perhaps had left early to beat the traffic. 

 

I’m never convinced keeping away fans in the ground at the final whistle works as a method of ensuring  safe passage as home fans can simply assemble and wait to confront or pick off away fans who are now easy to identify. 

 

Anyway, despite the best efforts of the local police and Bury FC  officials I managed to get home in time and want to say thank you to a fellow Tic who saw my Parkinson’s card and helped my cause by asking for me to be let through. Very much appreciated (apart from referring to me as an “old man”!).

 

I hope everyone got home safely. A great turn out which deserved a better result. 

 

 

 

 

I think you definitely need to send this account to the club, the police and the Football Supporters Federation

9 hours ago, oafc0000 said:

Nice story - sounds like you have never been to an away day before ...

Just go away you dick head, why do you always pop up when thou know there’s ill feeling around.

Absolute parasite.