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Knew this was a winning kit as soon as I saw, best we've had in years! Been too long since we had a proper goalscorer too. Lovely.

Reading between the lines, could he end up as a board member if he's a mate of Lemsagam? That could work well.

If it doesn't work out we'll just bring Sheridan in at February time, chill. ;)

This is brilliant!!! Haha! Aside from the craziness of it all, I love listening to him when he's on the BBC for summer tournaments. Not only did he have interesting and original ideas on TV, the manner he put them across was very easy to follow and charismatic. This would translate very well to training sessions and tactical meetings.

Famalicão are 2nd tier, not 3rd tier, for what it's worth. He doesn't have to be amazing, hopefully he's at least decent. ;)

He's a winger rather than a central attacking player. Which is handy with Kyeremeh's injury layoff. Played a decent amount of times in the Portuguese Prem, and a handful of Europa League qualifiers with Petrolul.

Here he is saving a Zlatan penalty (1:10 in)

That's the thing isn't it, season after season, it wears you down. It's the home results especially, they've been poor for a decade. If they could just sort that out it'd improve the mood substantially.

So we played quite well today yeah? ;) Such a shame we have a failing team year after year isn't it. Fingers crossed they find the solution. Even when it doesn't seem likely, fortunes in football have a funny way of turning round on you. Keep the faith.

Late change based on Walsall teamsheet possibly? See their fans upset about selection, 6 defenders someone said.

Erm. Altered team just announced!! Ben Wilson Dummigan Gerrard Clarke Hunt Fawns (!) Banks Fane McLaughlin Amadi-Holloway Davies SUBS: Brian Wilson, Edmundson, Green, Kyeremeh, Obadeyi, Duffus, Osei

Heh. I think they can both just wear Wilson when one of them is a keeper.

One of the Duffuses is supposed to be Davies, silly billy!

I mean Ripley isn't beyond the realms of believability. You could theorise that we've been the only solid offer to have him as their number 1 all this time, and the widespread news of his availability is an effort by his dad/agent to get a better offer from somewhere before finally settling for Latics at the 11th hour. It would make sense of how much was made of imminent Bristol City and Blackburn transfers, and then seemingly disappearing again. Trying to attract Number 1 offers. But I just feel we'll have some other mug with the gloves on Saturday. We'll soon find out either way!

It's actually Mr Oldham himself.

Bench is just named as 12 13 14 15 etc. due to having youth and trialist players in there.

Good Checkatrade Trophy preparation innit! But seriously, it's fine, a friendly against decent enough football players.

Stryjek has precisely zero first team experience, that's what would put the frighteners on it for me.

A Wolves fan on twitter has just mentioned there's a rumour of Harry Burgoyne coming to us on loan. Played 7 times for WWFC last season, including a 2-1 win at Anfield in the FA Cup. Seems highly rated, and has trained with England U21s.

Yeah, same prices. Checked to see if Oxford are talking about us yet, and they've been buying tickets at £20 a throw, with the warning of it going up £4 on matchday.

Confirmed on Latics shop, home socks blue, away socks navy. Depends how it looks on the pitch (Guessing we're debuting our kits in the two home friendlies), but I'm thinking the away could end up being my favourite we've had. http://historicalkits.co.uk/Oldham_Athletic/images/Oldham_Athletic_2017-2018-2nd.gif

I'm fairly convinced we'll seldom be using wingers this season. Wing backs in either 3-5-2 or 4-4-2 diamond looks to be our best set up. If you get the correct players, using wing backs can be likeb having an extra player. Unfortunately, Ryan Mac would also be our best wing back. Least we'd have Dummigan and Hunt.

Some eyebrow raising posts so far! Lots of conjecture, and an interesting case of thinking that by six figure sum, the chronicle actually means five figure sum. Honestly it's an interesting quandary. We all like McLaughlin, but if the fee is decent, and if we're likely to lose him for nothing in a year, it makes sense. We live on a fine line financially, so if it helps us get another good player, and pay or staff on time, I'd be inclined to back the manager It helps when you can trust the guy in the boss seat, rather than other gaffers we've had lately.

£10 Adults, £5 Concessions, £1 U12s NOTE: 7:00PM KICK OFF

And Osei!