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6 minutes ago, League one forever said:

Yeah, I take your point. 
 

But betters players still need familiar position. You wouldn’t see Maguire at left back for United just because they’re playing Yeovil. 
 

He plays Maghey again, who was dire last week. He needlessly changes formation (he said the other week 352 is the best use of the squad he has available) so why change it. Just think there was a lot of odd decisions, that at the very least contributed to a poor result. 

Agree that 352 is the best suited to the squad but you can’t play that formation without Kitching, who he clearly wanted to rest. Not 1 other player in the squad is capable of playing LWB. 

13 minutes ago, League one forever said:

I know. This is what makes me laugh. 
 

9 are out of contract in the summer. 

Hogan

Magehy

Couto

Tollitt 

Green

Dicky 

Biscuit legs

Hope

Mikey

 

I don’t think any of them will be offered new deals- (maybe Fondop)  so that frees up a lot of budget. 
 

But they aren’t the issue- people also want rid of-

Ward, Shelton, Nuttall, Kurt, Reid- there is no way we are paying up 5 or 6 of the longer contacts. 

 

I thought Mikey still had another year left after this season tbh, but yeah, he’s the only 1 on that list who gets offered a new contract for me and even if he didn’t I wouldn’t be too upset, I do think he deserves 1 though. 
Of the others, I think the majority of those will  have interest in them on loan etc, but we’d have to pay a large % of their wages still, but even getting rid of those 8 players will be a big help 

9 minutes ago, League one forever said:

I’ve defended 5PM - but I have to agree with this. He did the same against Mickleover and played Hogan at right back. . then add in changing the formation, players out of position- and it’s hardly surprising really. He wouldn’t do it in the league so god knows why he does it in the cup. 

Sorry but when we don’t have a single RB at the club, and only 1 LB thanks to the awful recruitment from the summer, I don’t see an issue with playing a player out of position in the cup at home to Mickelover and Hendon ffs. Hogan is club captain, and is an experienced pro who should easily be able to compete in those positions against part timers from 3 leagues below. I know your only using Hogan as an example here and not saying he’s the reason we lost but that 11 today in that formation should be beating Hendon comfortably. 

3 minutes ago, sjk2008 said:

GK

 

Hudson (First XI)

Norman (Bin)

 

DEF

 

Hobson (First XI)

Raglan (First XI)

Hogan (Bin)

Sutton (Bin)

McGahey (Bin)

Couto (Bin)

Kitching (First XI)

 

MID

 

Sheron (Squad)

Shelton (Bin)

Gardner (Bin)

Lundstram (Squad)

Ward (Bin)

Conlon (First XI)

Tollitt (Bin)

Dickenson (Squad)

 

FWD

 

Norwood (First XI)

Hope (Bin)

Nuttall (Bin)

Fondop (Squad)

Willoughby (Bin)

Green (Bin)

Reid (Bin)

 

 

 

 

 

That’d cost about a million quid paying all those up I reckon What an absolute shit show DU and ST made of recruitment in the summer eh?

2 minutes ago, GKing521 said:

That result is on Mellon. 

No, got to disagree. He has clearly said league is the priority and we have a squad who should easily be capable of beating and controlling Hendon from the start. No way should the likes of Norwood be anywhere near playing in games like this, especially when we have a league game on Tuesday. 

2 minutes ago, sjk2008 said:

I’ll start…

 

Norman

Sutton

McGahey

Shelton

Gardner

Ward

Hope

Willoughby

Can’t disagree with that, apart from perhaps Sutton (as a squad player). Hogan will be off in summer, as will Green I reckon. Somehow need to find a club stupid enough to sign Nuttall too, but I doubt that will happen.

1 minute ago, GKing521 said:

 

 

Errrrr.. 

 

Good solid goalkeeping….

No one can say Willoughby hasn’t had a chance now. Absolute disaster for him today, he was appallingly bad. 

What a massive disappointment Lundstram is turning out to be also, something doesn’t quite seem right with him. 

2 minutes ago, latics22 said:

Actually just googled it! Is the final the 12th or 4th sure they said 12 th on the pod

National league final is the 4th I know that!

Just now, JoeP said:

If we went up, we'd survive in League Two.  We've got a much better team even now than the one that came down.

 

The line that "we're not ready to go up/would be good to get into the play-offs just for the experience" is the biggest load of nonsense I've heard with regards to Latics for ages - and it's a competitive field!

Agreed, seen loads of people say we’re not ready to go up, which I find completely bizarre tbh with you. We have a good manager, we have a fair few out of contract players and so presumably room for signings, and we have players under contract who would do a job at league 2 level. We of course have some problems with surplus players on good money, but thats not enough of an issue to say we wouldn’t compete in league 2. 

1 minute ago, Monty Burns said:

nah tues be reet its only goin in the minus for about 18hrs we can handle that.

are we at home on the following sat?

No, Eastleigh away. 

8 minutes ago, yarddog73 said:

Is that confirmed or expected?

Well I saw on Monday we had sold 650, which was official, and their manager said 800 expected in an interview I saw earlier. Either way 650-800 is very good. 

800 or so travelling down. Fantastic effort. 

If he carries on at current pace of around 50 miles per day he’ll be at the halfpoint in 1 week. Unbelievable effort, what a hero. 

49 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

It will never be acknowledged but in my mind the primary objective of the youth set up is to sell players before they get anywhere out first team and hope they sell ons work out occasionally 

Does that ever make us close to breaking even in terms of what it costs to run an academy? Obviously never guaranteed to sell a player a season, but to me it seems like we don’t produce enough talent to make it in the 1st team to make it worthwhile having a youth team. We have in the past, but in recent years all we’ve had is Couto, Vaughan and Sutton. 

15 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

Didn't someone go on Love Island from this league recently?

I recall a Castleford Tigers RL player going on it. 

1 minute ago, League one forever said:

No signing is guaranteed, but Id like more proven at this stage of the season, we need players who will definitely make the difference not punts. 

Tend to agree, but if we are somewhat restricted in terms of finances this january then i’d rather save the bulk for a proven midfielder and rb/rwb.

Low risk, cheap signing. Been on loan at Morecambe but recalled by Blackburn due to lack of playing time. A few of their fans say they’d liked to have seen more of him. 
Welcome.

Ethan Walker…..

Read on Twitter we are after Connor Barrett from Fylde and Sinclair from Dale. There’d be uproar from Dale fans if we signed him. Can’t see it. 

Decent day of results overall, dropping only 1 place and no one above us only Chesterfield winning, who are way out of reach anyway. 

14 minutes ago, Wardie said:

Ex Hartlepool manager, Askey, claims the Stones goal was offside.
I think he knew what was coming.

 

 

Stones 100% onside. Hope however is a ? and it’s a case of was he interfering? He did make a move to the ball, but quickly saw Stones was in a better position and backed off. Seen em given, possibly 50/50. 

Askey sacked! 

Just now, BP1960 said:

I can see good money coming in for Hudson, he's commanding his area very well now.

If so use some of it for Mancini, he's  clearly not 100% fit yet, but it can be seen he's a quality player.

Just what we need a player like Mancini, wonder what sort of contract he is on and if Hartlepool would accept a cheeky bid. 

29 minutes ago, mick26 said:

Must be some bad weather in the Atlantic as some of the boats have been turning back on themselves - looks weird on the race map.

Yeah I saw that, and in the last 24 hours a few of them had done minus miles. Presumably Frank missed it, as it was the group a bit further ahead and Frank had done 25 miles in 24 hours.