Simpo

35 minutes ago, yarddog73 said:

We are being given every opportunity here aren't we. Hopefully they'll price it at £5 adults and free for kids.

Prices have to be agreed between both clubs, and Hendon will want to make as much money as they can from the game, as will have Mickleover

5 minutes ago, Tractors Passing Through said:

Can't stand Ed Sheeran.     Grew up in the 80's with proper music, nothing like the absolute garbage they put out today.      The kid supports our team, for that he's acceptable, but for everything else, just a name I fail to recognise.        Well done again on tonight.    Seriously, wish Latics all the best in the season ahead, it's such a shame to see a one proud club where they are now.     Joe Royle was manager for both, he was - and is - a great man.  

Even though we're in a lowly league, the club is in a better state than it's been for many a year.

The future should be bright!

1 hour ago, BP1960 said:

 

It appears to be shared commentary with rugby and other Welsh FA cup matches.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001s3m9

The BBC commentary page takes the direct feed for the commentary for each game, it's quite good.

It doesn't just tune you in to that particular radio station.

Just be prepared, sometimes you only get silence right up until kick off. 

On 8/19/2023 at 11:50 AM, Simpo said:

At the game with my dad, sister and nephew, and Luke Rothwell and Darren Royle have just been chatting with us for ages, just reinforcing how good we've got it with them.

 

It came up that this October will be my dad's 75th anniversary of his first ever game, and we've been offered to go in the directors' box as their guests!

 

We're thrilled, simple gesture I suppose but we're blown away, great start to the day, three points would top it off nicely!

Thanks to everyone at the club for following through with this, our family had a fantastic day on Saturday, we were well looked after

We were on a table with Joe Royle himself, so seeing my dad just get to natter away with him all day was fantastic

https://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/news/2023/october/30102023-simon-barnett-75-years/

Sounds like a knowledgeable lad.

All players are going to have some sort of drawbacks at this level, it's just a question of if you're able to mask them and accentuate the positives, or if the deficiencies are just too obvious and exploitable.

Of course opposition players at this level might but be good enough to exploit them either, it goes both ways.

Sheron in particular is an interesting one, bit inconsistent, but I like him a lot on his good days, and he should get that consistency as he goes into his later 20s. I think people assume he's older than he has (just turned 25 I think)

We will be ball 50 I think

6 hours ago, Sloshed Joe said:

Hallam Hope would be much better suited to the roles that Nuttall & Willhouby were asked to execute today.

Hope asked not to be available for selection yesterday 

At the game with my dad, sister and nephew, and Luke Rothwell and Darren Royle have just been chatting with us for ages, just reinforcing how good we've got it with them.

It came up that this October will be my dad's 75th anniversary of his first ever game, and we've been offered to go in the directors' box as their guests!

We're thrilled, simple gesture I suppose but we're blown away, great start to the day, three points would top it off nicely!

Couto still only 19, but it's correct to say he needs to play games or risk his career stalling.

But TNS are full time, so a good opportunity for him to push on there.

1 hour ago, LightDN123 said:

Oh, and he’s changed his mind from just needing 3 players when he was on the Pod to now saying he wants more players to get the squad to look like how he wants it. Oh this man. He never fails to disappoint. What a helmet.  

The comment was that he was hoping to get three more players in by the Southend game.

18 hours ago, Littlemoor Lad said:

 "I think one of the strengths of the football club last year was the unity between the staff, players and fans."

"Let’s stick together, there will be bumps in the road but when there are let’s all stick together and be loud and proud and hopefully we can deliver for you.

 

Pete Wild.

 

Can we have some of this here?

 

No

Last time I can remember this much buzz about a new striker was Luke Beckett.

It's never felt like we're a club who gets these players who you just know will bag for fun, so when it does happen it feels all the more special 

You could argue that we moved into a 4 at the back when Mansfield came into the final third with Kitching tracking back, but it was very much a 3 at the back system in the main.

Hogan played central and was tasked with mopping up any high long balls, and Hobson and Raglan played either side, Hobson clearly not advancing forward as a RB would.

He drifted towards the right at some points, to cover for Green who would be exposed if he was asked to defend too much, so I can see why some were caught out.

(edit: thought I'd challenge what I thought I saw and asked my dad, he messaged back saying pretty much what I did, but with the amount Mansfield had the ball at the start of the second half it might as well have been a 4)

40 minutes ago, Lee Sinnott said:

Friendlies don't count and all that, but has he really signed a competent Conference centre back and played him at full back all summer...?

Don't know about any other games, but he was part of 3 at the back today

Pitch played proper, no demons in it or loose turf line you can get on some freshly laid pitches

You can tell it's easier to turn and control the ball

First bounce from a long ball takes it on quite a bit, but then it doesn't run out like plastic, it holds up alright

Weird to see away fans in main stand but I can't see there being any major issues

Raglan looks good

1 hour ago, Lee Sinnott said:

True, but this is David Unsworth we're talking about...

No, not Unsworth, sorry, I was referring to fans putting Raglan at RB in their predicted teams (presumably because they've heard he's played there before, but only a handful of times according to the rarely-wrong transfermarkt!)

Seen a couple of people talk about Raglan at right back

He's barely played there in his career and for me you play your best players in their best positions

But we'll see

Nice that.

We've had seven orange away kits since I was a kid, that's my favourite since the iconic mid-90s one.

I reckon we'll play everyone twice, home and away

Not too overegg the issue of whether we're going to sign this, admittedly good, player or not..

But perhaps don't place too much weight into what Twitter gossip says, one way or the other (and that goes for all unofficial sources really), especially when a relatively short time has passed.

In the end, it's all speculation, as is my next sentence.

Yes, his agent seems the sort to run at the last minute, Clyde Wijnhard style, but on the other hand it could be that it's sorted and we're now negotiating with Solihull over their compensation fee.

Who knows who else we might be after, I'd love another Raglan moment 

On 6/30/2023 at 1:33 PM, Ackey said:

Will drop a couple of early caveats... it was hot as fucking hell. Impossible to dash from A-to-B because you were too busy sweating to death. Hit the Mrs really hard and she's not as music-obsessive as me, so certainly took things a little slower than originally planned. I am not complaining mind you, had a fucking great time and very much believe in the "you do your own Glastonbury" mantra.

 

That said, here's my list as best I can remember it:

Friday

• The Hives
• Craig Charles
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• Chvrches
• Fred Again..
• FourTet
• Floating Points B2B Daphni
• Sherelle

 

Saturday

• Cable Street Collective
• Roo Panes
• The Magic Numbers
• The Sharon Shannon Trio
• Badly Drawn Boy
• Lizzo
• Fatboy Slim
• Analog Soul
• Ben UFO
• Baronhawk Poitier (tiny bit)
• Scalping

 

Sunday

• Cassetteboy vs DJ Rubbish
• The Big Moon
• Cat Burns
• Porij
• Blondie
• Editors
• Elton John
• Hybrid Minds ft Tempaz
• Wilkinson

I will do a more comprehensive breakdown of anyone you're interested in - I won't bore you with doing a play by play  

 

Absolutely he did. The fella crowdsurfing a blow up bed was hilarious, too. He's basically on a mission to play every single stage at Glastonbury. He did three or four sets this year, the Park one being the only one on a stage big enough for the Beeb to cover. Apparently his set at the Greenpeace tree was amazing. I skipped that as it's in a pinch-point and gets mental busy when over-crowded. Plus I'd literally watched him at Park, so have to pick your battles and see other things. 

 

Anyway - sixth year, still love it. Still need to put more shade up. Still need to control the flows better at the big stages (Elton was scary at times, especially being a football fan and knowing what the worst can bring). But I'd never rather be anywhere else. 

Nice, was also my sixth one, really blown me away again this year, feeling really grateful for it all.

The bed crowdsurfer was one Woody Cook, Fatboy Jr, haha!

@Matt the Four Tet set was on the imposing iicon stage, and by all accounts he played a suitably brain melting DJ set, including a My Bloody Valentine track.

Fingers crossed for next year..

https://www.instagram.com/p/CuCUjyuqfm9/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

There has been the odd question mark raised against Darren Royle's past, but he seems like he really knows his onions with football administration.

In that respect, the club has been crying out for someone like that since probably Alan Hardy was chief exec.

Worth noting that most non-league contracts end as soon as the season finishes, not on June 30th as is the case in the Prem and EFL.

So I'd expect our earlier signings to be from teams our level or lower, and so wouldn't worry that we're not aiming for players coming from higher clubs, if that is the case.

Chesterfield's prices have gone up quite a bit, seem to be about £340/350 on average, yet they've sold slightly more than us.

Add to that they've already got a good team together, then they're favourites next season for me, unless Notts County don't go up.

But I'd put us right there behind them.

2 hours ago, Andyt84 said:

We always seemed to do well against Wolves as we beat them the season before that when they had John De Wolff playing for them.  I searched for a photo of Beckford wearing the Keeper top as I have recollections of it being the programme front cover a few weeks later.  I didn't find anything although there is a clip of him playing in goal for Norwich and making a good save. 

https://twitter.com/Tommy_Oldham1/status/1654112184954241025?t=pjngRvF2KRr_WKTQxETMGQ&s=19