County boy

EDIT: Both crossley and Gray are on holiday

And Gannon isn't.

If you look at that guy's posts on there I'm sure he also said that Frankie Bunn was set to be announced as manager.

 

Still fully expect Mr Gannon to be announced as manager of County. Your coming out of administration arent you in the near future after the legal issue that postponed your press conference yesterday was sorted?

Yeah, that was sorted in 24 hours, the papers have been signed off by the administrator and are with the FL to rubber stamp. They'll be a press conference next week I suspect.

According to the same message board and Posted by faz6335 on 29/5/2010, 7:22 am

 

"There is no doubt about the current situation. Jim Gannon was about to be appointed as County manager, but tha long awaited announcement from the county takeover group scheduled for 3.30 yesterday was cancelled throwing the club into turmoil again, including James Gannon, who along with his trusty(and good freind of mine Peter Ward)assistants futures. Now to put this in perspective. Jim and Peter HAVE been interviewed by latics and are only waiting for confirmation that the county takeover deal has genuinley stalled before taking the two year deal on offer at latics. Thats the only reason Alan Hardy has said that he may have to wait several more days. Nothing to do with second inerviews or any other crap. They are waiting for Gannon, pure and simple. Hope i have cleared the mystery up lads!!!. By the way, Wardy is a geordie lad through and through but has lived in Ashton U Lyne for years. Would be great move for him. Top Player, Top Coach, Top Bloke."

 

My head hurts now - and I'm replying to my own posts!!

 

Thrown into turmoil !!!! What a load of made up sh1te.

think he's referring to this...

Gannon again..

Ooooops. Damn links.

The post below it on that thread actually which names a source (how accurate I have no idea) stating Gannon was not interviewed and listing those who were.

You lot might be interested in this.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If he was interviewed, my personal opinion was that we were his backup plan incase your takeover got put pack even longer.

 

What the hell has happened to Gary Ablett?

You may well be right LC.

Funny thing with GA is that he's still in a job at the moment, but his last interview before he went on hol last week was virtually a goodbye note. Even though he was sold a dud by that ****** Melrose we've been pretty woeful this year, which looking at the league table is hardly surprising news. He's a goner for sure, it's just a question of who is replacing him.

Although I believe it's more than likely he'll be with you next year, what else was he going to say when he's surrounded by a load of county fans in a pub asking questions?

 

Some of us knew for a week before that Iain Dowie was leaving for Crystal Palace, at a fans forum he stood up and denied that he was leaving for Palace yet two days later he was sat next to Simon Jordan as the new Palace boss.

He'd either be truthful or deliberately evasive. Jim Gannon is not Iain Dowie.

If he did rejoin as manager, any idea what kind of budget he will have to work with?

No idea really. The 2015 group have said they are 'well financed' but have said they won't go into specifics until we are officially out of admin.

We remember promises.

Ex owner outside the pub in the play off game v QPR.

Iain Dowie shouting go hard or go home, about 2 weeks before he went

things change

At that point you looked nailed on to be taken over very soon.

That said, Iwill be suprised if he does not join you still. He would be mad not to have us as back up.

It was less then three weeks ago and we were never going to be taken over from that point in less time than that. We've arranged a press conference for Friday which should see us out of admin. So if he has been offered your job he'll have a choice to make soon.

Well if it involved f word's and little doubt, with makes it sound like he wasnt happy, then how come he has been in for interviews, showing he has applied for the job?

It's official he's been for an interview then ? Did the OAFC website tell us all that ? Or just rumours on here ?

Perhaps it's more than an assumption...

Maybe it is, but I'll tell you this for a FACT. After our last game of the season one James Gannon popped up outside the doors of the Armoury public house which is a well known haunt for County fans post match. A number of County fans (myself included) went outside to speak to him. One fan raised a question as to whether he was going to be Oldham's next manager. I won't tell you the response as I wouldn't want you to be against him from the off if he did turn up to be your next gaffer, save to say that there was an f word involved and there was little doubt as to his feelings on that subject. When the inevitable question came about County, he raised his eyebrows, smiled and said "couldn't say".

He could have been lying of course to keep us all on side but the thing with Jim is, he doesn't really do lies, in fact quite the opposite; which is often to his detriment.

Gannon is very pro Trust.. he in fact has done all the accounts for County and worked with the Trust night and day !!!!

Did the accounts ? Are you having a laugh ? What did Paul Cheetham do then ?

Gannon is a qualified accountant but he did not do the accounts. Indeed he was very much out of the loop with regard to finances. He did put together a rescue plan when it became clear we were in the brown sticky stuff and he would have pulled it off if the rug hadn't been pulled from under our feet at the last minute.

Pro trust in principle, yes, but he was very scathing of the set up towards the end and rightly so.

He'll tell home truths no doubt and he'll always do what he thinks is right no matter who he upsets, hence his premature demise at Motherwell and Peterborough.

TBH, there's only one club that would tolerate that side of him for long and hopefully he'll be employed by them again soon.

Bumped into a County old boy yesterday who may or may not have played for you lot in the past and is still in touch with one or two at BP. He told me the three being interviewed this week are Frankie Bunn, Lee Richardson and Mark Crossley. Make of that what you will.

Hello there boys and girls, long time no speak.

Disappointed you escaped relegation, I was looking forward to a bumper NW L2 next season. Ah well......

Re: Gannon. Very likely to be back at County. The only possible stumbling block would be the pounds and pence.

I'd say you held us comfortably for 70 mins - slightly different to 'matched', understandably you came for a point and maybe with the hope of nicking it.

 

Then, as you say, it kind of fell apart towards the end, but with a little luck and an awesome display by Fon Williams you held on.

 

Seems Ablett has got you well organised, and has done his best to find a formation that protects the lack of experience in the squad. If you can keep hold of the likes of Fon Williams and Oli Johnson - and hopefully be able to add a couple of new faces - you have something to build on and could well surprise all the pundits who have you nailed on for 24th place.

 

I honestly didn't begrudge you the point by the end. We huffed and puffed, but you did enough to hold on.

 

By the way, at the end I'm not sure Fon Williams was booked for time wasting so much as to stop him lamping your number 3!

I thought we certainly matched you for that first 60-70 mins. We played as much decent football as you and created about as much as you (one chance each by that stage I think). Thereafter, yes, held on. Just.

agree with that, you looked very solid for a young team but with 10 - 15 to go your centre halves looked to be breathing out of their asses and yor keeper new it ( hence the running to the half way line every 10 mins), good point for you boys

 

know its only first day but agin you seem to have talent - will need mor up front though

Well we're fitting square pegs into round holes at the moment. Our midfield is so young and inexperienced we almost have to play 5 in there to keep us solid. Sadly it leaves Thompson badly isolated upfront, he's no target man as you saw today. With 3 or more decent bodies in we'll do OK I reckon.

my opinion

 

brill - looked solid off what he had to do ( dont judge him off what he didnt)

both fullbacks looked very solid, if our fullbacks do that all season i will be happy but could improve

greegs and ruben looked very solid, but stockport had nothing, they both played superb (especially greegs) but wait and see against better oppo

holdsworth - ok, some nice touches but didnt look match fit to me

taylor - busy first half not much more - injured

holdsworth - loves a tackle , busy all game broke it up, got caught in possesion afew times

furman - ran all day,but thought when in possesion got bypassed for spells, came into alot later on but fear he is being made a superstar (off other fan opinion) before he has earned it,could be speacial - dont add pessure please

parker - ran . skillful ,but nothing special for me -give him time

abbott - held up well, looked busy always, great touch, should have scored at the end, or passed to byfield - one or the other

byfield - looked interested, beat men , scared them, 10 mins is nothing- could be good, wait and see

lewi - ?

whittiker - did very well when he cam on, thought he scored with a cross at one point- super sub on the first day, but dont start him if you dont need to

 

MOM - ABOTT- WILL SCORE GOALS AT THIS LEVEL - WE NEED HIM - COULD BE A NEW HERO BUT UNLESS WE WIN PROMOTION OFF HIS GOAL HE IS NOT A LEGEND - just wanted to sort that now

 

 

i do fear we will be the draw specialist in this league but we are organised and i will give them time -may mean more than one season

FWIW I thought we matched you comfortably for 70 minutes but as one would expect from a team of kids we faded badly in that last twenty and you could easily have nicked it as we went to pieces a bit at that stage.

Hello soulless bowl

Sadly, you're not the only ones on a collision course with a souless bowl. I think however both our club and yours have decided it's the only way forward. I'm sad to say they are probably right.

no, a guy who plays for my football team played with him at dale before he was relased himself

I actually had the pleasure of coaching Jim when he was 15/16 in local junior football here in Stockport. Indeed it was from my team which he joined County. Not long after (he barely played half a dozen reserve games IIRC) he made his debut, as a substitute in the Championship, against Norwich City, after Andy Dibble was sent off about 10 minutes in.

Jim always had massive potential, and started off like a house on fire, with a number of superb performances, culminating in winning our player of the year award in his first (or second) season. Sadly, County were to embark on their dark days of relegation under any number of idiotic managers who saw fit to persist with a young boy in the most precarious position of all and who failed to take him out of the firing line and develop him properly.

After a number of pretty horrible high profile errors his confidence was shot and he was eventually released. Not too sure how he did at Dale (although punching rather than catching seems to be an issue he can't shake off) but he went to Chester at the back end of last year on loan and did pretty well IIRC.

Brought along properly he could have gone far, maybe he still will if he's sitting in reserve for you guys and working with a decent goalkeeping coach. Having said that, I doubt he'd realistically be challenging for No1 this season at least.

Definately, he's not as good as "Sir" David Healy, but still a very worthwhile signing, I would just hope that in the unlikely event that we did sign him, he stayed injury free.

We had Feeney at County for 18 months or so after pinching him from Bournmouth. Back then he was a completely wholehearted player with pace to burn. Will not be a consistent 20 goal a season man though. He's not that good a finisher in all honesty.

Yep, Ablett has been confirmed.

An interesting one this, which it's difficult to have an initial 'feel' for.

I'm sure you are all desperate to know that County's CVA with creditors was agreed this morning. As such there shouldn't be any points deduction for next season.

I believe they have a deadline to come out of administration if they meet that and buy back their golden share in the Football League in that time then no points deduction leeds didn't meet this deadline and didn't buy back their golden share thats why they were deducted 15 points. Although I am not 100% sure of the rules.

That's about the long and short of it, except you have to come out of admin by a certain date with an agreement with your creditors for payment (CVA) to avoid the points deduction.

Wheeeeeeeeeyyyyyy hhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

I didn't position it as fact, did I?

 

And I did acknowledge the club's public comments.

 

But you must admit the timing is convenient. A bit like not banking the season ticket cheques until July.

 

 

 

Maybe. Maybe not. You only have the club's public comments to go off to reach that conclusion.

Still wrong though. We've been fighting off admin for months. The cheques were not cashed to protect the supporters who may well have been screwed if we did.

I in fact have much more to go on than the club's public comments. I would not suggest that the statement provided was 'fact' unless I know that it was.