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And the fans' reaction to that very early goal.

Bolton have been under a transfer embargo for more than a year now. However, they are allowed to sign players on a one in, one out basis.

Hope they price it sensibly. Throwing a prediction for the final two friendlies out there, Sheff Weds and Sunderland.

Dylan King, released from our youth team, named in Baraclough's first N.Ireland U21 training squad (alongside Dummigan)

New League Cup sponsor.

The top line reads "national radio rights", I believe local broadcasts will be unaffected. This deal makes sense in that case, as rather than broadcast a Championship or League One game, in weeks without Prem fixtures, R5L would focus on rugby, or cricket.

On ours as well. Not sure about the Stott recall deal, but I can imagine the Stalybridge one is part of the Osei transfer. They've been relegated this season, a Northern Prem side now. That's our first game then, fitness test more than anything, but a lovely place to watch football (and rugby league) in the summer.

We've just announced the first friendly, and it's back to Nash. I've been in 2013 and 2014, the first time got there late after work and missed Schmeltz scoring on his debut, the second time we demolished them 8-1 as we got ready for a strong start under Lee Johnson. Unfortunately one of their players broke his leg too. But I'll also remember their chairman shaking the hands of Latics fans on their way out, thanking us for a bumper crowd, which I've not forgotten as a nice touch. Last two times we played them, they only had experience of playing at the lowly Evo Stik Div.1 North level. They've consolidated two leagues higher at Conference North level since then, with a nice cup run too, so we shouldn't expect to put 8 past them this time! It's also further along in pre season than our previous encounters, so should be a bit more competitive in general, with less early subs. Also, I might be able to get to that Bolton youth team game, it's even closer to where I live than the Macron. The Chron says we have a July pre-season plan like this: Saturday 8th Away (Stalybridge) Bath training camp Tuesday 11th to Friday 14th: (Salisbury Wednesday, Cheltenham Friday) Tuesday 18th Away (Curzon) Saturday 22nd Away (Accrington) Tuesday 25th Home (possibly Middlesbrough) Saturday 29th Home

Sat July 8, 3.00pm - Stalybridge Celtic (A) - Tickets, Adults: £7, Concessions: £4, Accompanied U16’s: FREE Weds July 12, 7.45pm - Salisbury FC (A) - Tickets, Pay What You Want! £1 to access main stand seating. Fri July 14, 12noon - Swindon Town (Neutral) - Behind closed doors game Tues July 18, 7.45pm - Curzon Ashton (A) - Tickets, Adults: £6, Concessions: £3 Sat July 22, 3.00pm - Accrington Stanley (A) - Tickets, Adults £10, Concessions £5, U12s £1 Thurs July 27, KO 7.00pm - Girona (H) - Tickets, Adults £10, Concessions £5, U12s £1 Tues August 1, KO 7.30pm - Man Utd XI - Tickets, Adults £10, Concessions £5, U12s £1 Youth team fixtures: https://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/news/2017/may/17052017-youth-team-pre-season-fixtures/ I'll try to remember to keep this updated.

Can't wait to be able to moan on here about United and City fans being in our end at the playoff final next May. ;)

I remember well that it was a cool million we supposedly bid for Jason McAteer.

Agreed. Often using a classy midfielder who gets the ball moving around the field quickly. But I think he gets in strikers' heads as well. Chris Porter as an example didn't look like he had such a good season in him when he first signed.

Sheridan often gets strikers firing. Porter with us, Craig Davies a bit with us, and lots at Chesterfield, he got two 20 goal seasons out of Reuben bloody Reid at Plymouth. Whether it's Erwin or someone else, I'm very hopeful we have a striker getting us regular goals under Shez.

Yeah, at a Q+A he joked that he did it on purpose, because he'd rather a northern team won the league.

Watch him put the goalkeeper on his arse here: Sublime.

Daniel Jones has been a bad football player for a good few years now.

It's a Sunday 12noon game. ;)

He had his first child in August 2016.

I'll be interested to see where he ends up, more so than your average loan player that's for sure. But I agree, if he ends up back in League One, there's 24 Championship teams that will be missing out.

Here's some attendance stats from the last 3 seasons: 14/15 15/16 16/17 (incomplete)

Positive way to end the season all round really. If Bolton mess it up next week, and Blackburn come down, average attendance could get a healthy boost next season. But it's Latics, so maybe not!

Posted a bit info from today's programme in another thread. I don't say much on here about the running of the club, but my thoughts are this. Dislike the man all you want, that's fair enough, we're all entitled to our opinions and we're all Latics fans at the end of it all. But come out with accusation after accusation to Simon Corney, and don't back it up with solid evidence and/or a no strings attached meeting with the chairman, then I have no time for you. With love and good intentions, enjoy the game, keep the faith, - Simon B

2 page spread from the chairman in the programme today, mostly positive and looking forward to the future, while admitting getting through month to month has been difficult. Regardless, the rumour told to a Latics fan by someone at Fleetwood that we paid £100k for Holloway looks to be true. He also says "we spent another 500k in January to ensure survival, and although I believe it has been money well spent, it certainly caused you a lot of headaches." Speculate away!

That site also shows how much our home form suffered when we started playing with a wide open side in 2008. 08-09 wasn't so bad, but after that, while our away form has never been terrible, we have been consistently crap at home. Only now, with the new stand finally operational, are we showing signs of recovery. The stats don't lie. Even when we finished bottom half 11-20 years ago, we were competitive at home, usually winning more than losing. Love stats, me. ;)