ronnieblair

I think a valid point is raised here - Latics have been naive if they did not raise up front the matter of what percentage of Demar Phillips wages Stoke wanted us to pay. Yes Sheridan still wants the lad at BP and so do most of us on the board - but hopes have been raised and a player potentially misled. So 'complete load of tosh' no I don't think so. 'Little or no business dealings' again I don't agree with that comment either - if you conduct your business deals the way latics have gone about this deal then Ithink your career is on a road to nowhere.

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BigDog, we're on the same wavelength. Some of the viwepoints expressed by others have simply been baffling: the point I made was that Oldham have, and continue to string the lad along in the hope that we'll be able to pick him up on the cheap.

 

That for me is not the sensible 'wheeling and dealing' that Blitz talked about, it is using the lad as a pawn whilst we attempt to manipulate events. That to me amounts to shoddy treatment, despite the views of those who think Latics can do no wrong.

 

Your subsequent car purchase post is absolutely spot on. Thanks for your support.

I must admit that I’m very disappointed in the way that Oldham Athletic has gone about the business of the ‘on off’ Demar Phillips loan deal.

I feel sorry for Phillips who has done everything that has been asked of him and more during his time on trial at Boundary Park, and has now seemingly dropped off the radar. .

I used to be proud of the fact that Oldham Athletic was a club that acted with integrity at all times, but I feel that we have badly let the lad down. I know this has been said before but, was the cost to the club of any eventual loan deal not discussed at the time the lad was brought to Boundary Park?

Phillips would surely have been better served by spending his pre-season with a club that had a proper grasp of the reality of the Championship style wages that would be associated with his signature, and not with one that simply shied away when these were actually brought onto the agenda.

Should Oldham not sign him now – as seems likely – we might just be leaving him high and dry again for yet another season. Pretty poor treatment in my opinion!

smothered in lard

Stuck in Edinburgh airport at present, flight delayed, I'm now not due into Exeter until 11:00 pm, that means midnight into the hotel in Plymouth - rubbish!

Just wondering what is the longest flight anybody has taken to watch the blues in action? I'm certain that people have made flights from Canada to watch a Latics match - but have you flown further? And if you have, what's your story?

I see Neil Eardley won another Welsh cap yesterday, coming on with about 3 mins left on the clock. Not much time to get involved there then!

Tell me, did anyone watch the match? and if so - did he get a touch?

>Name?

Martin Lasan

>Location?

Livingston, Scotland.

>How Long Supporting the Tics?

35 years+

>Best away match you've been to?

There have been so many, but the recent New Years Day victory at Leeds was very pleasing.

>All Time Greatest Player?

Rodger Wylde.

>Biggest Rivals (in your eyes)?

Tranmere