Tommy_Fent

It was decent today from us. But the notable difference was that there were 13,000 home fans so when they got going we were always going to come out 2nd best.

I never trust rail replacement busses. I got on one once going back to Glossop which stopped at Ashburys when there was a Citeh game on and they left about 200 City fans stranded. As funny as that may seem to some they would have almost certainly done the same to us yesterday. So I went via Warrington and had no real bother

Sometimes winging a scrappy 1-0 in an awful game can become the turning point for a good run of form. I hope it has given Dean and the boys the much needed shot in the arm we need.

Besides a win on Tuesday would take us to the magical 51 points mark.

You get too much of this "we're too big to care about them (but secretly we do)" crap these days.

I'd say Oldham vs Rochdale is a rivalry between two towns more than two Football clubs but that's how the biggest rivalries in the game have historically come about.

I don't call it betting against my own team, I call it defeat insurance

He needs a few years working underneath a management team before he can take the reigns in my opinion

In my opinion whether he's overreacting or not, we need all the support we can get right now. Maybe instead of trying to patronise part of our ever decreasing fanbase, maybe we should be trying to convince the OP along with many others who have decided to turn their back on the club to reconsider their decision.

I have no doubt that Barry like the rest of us has the clubs best interests at heart and by all means he's entitled to his opinion. But FFS the last thing we really need after two poor defeats is to not only bring all this back up again but to do so in the manner he has done.

I want to see crowds like yesterday paying full-price again and unlike other posters I believe it can be achieved.

And at Huddersfield, Sheffield Wednesday, Blackburn or Brighton?

We bring out a 3rd kit and the club sells more shirts

It wasn't a classic but I thought it was a very satisfying win. We've seen very similar games in the past where we seem to peter out and end up conceeding a late goal. But as the game went on the more we took control

I agree that whatever colour the club decides to go back to for old times sake it'll never be the same thing. I personally quite like the idea of an All-White away kit, but I suppose anything is better than the last two away kits we've had

What year did we stop wearing those colours. (excluding when it was briefly revived 15 years ago)

Another good read. I do agree about their Supporters Trust having their own bar, something to aim for in the future perhaps

They sit deep, Forte can't use his pace, and we're not technically good enough to pass through teams. So we end up hoofing it long, and we don't have the players to do that.

^this

If we dont score at all in a game, I tend to put the blame more on the attacking players

Like I said, I'm not pointing the blame, I'm comparing the two sides. Barnsley did very little and came away with the points, if we played to our capabilities we would have won.

You can't put between me solely on Brown....he wasn't responsible for the forward getting in front of Elokobi or Kean having a weak hand on a soft header.

I'm not putting the blame solely on Brown. All I'm saying is that in a game between two poor sides one mistake was the ultimate difference.

How come nearly every team we play is 'bang average', 'very poor' or the 'worst I've seen'?

 

And with us being so good with a genius manager why is that we don't beat most of them?

 

Never any middle ground for some people...

True, I don't believe you need to play pretty Football at our level, just take your chances. Preston last season being a prime example. The difference last night was that Barnsley looked very low on confidence, they didn't case us any problems and bagged a goal from a mistake made by Brown. Had that mistake not been made I cant see where an opposition goal would have come from.

Very poor performance against a side who were there for the taking. Although seeing how bad M'Voto was for them tonight reminded me that we have slowly progressed under Johnson. It was just a shame we had nobody willing to capitalise on his mistakes.

We're going to be linked with everyone like this now.

 

Editor "Got a story on [insert troublesome footballer]?"

Journo "Erm, not really. Shall we just say Oldham want him, they're pretty controversial."

Editor "Yeah, that sounds like decent clickbait"

^This

I don't mind the term "home for the unloved" if it refers to signing Footballers with a point to prove based purely on their ability. I'm not interested in players with off-field issues who have time and again let themselves down.

On his debut at Stevenage I thought it was great that we had a tricky winger who could cross a ball. Then after that game he became another one of those modern wingers who would take too many touches and end up losing the ball. He was good on a handful of occasions but I don't think the way we've played tried to play has really benefitted him.

So we sold out yet another away end this season. There you have it, conclusive proof that we are MASSIVE

I'd take him, sure he's not been the greatest player we've had but I still see a lot of potential. His better games have been when he's played mostly down the middle. He's definitely not a winger

That argument makes my soul itch.

 

Can we not criticise governments either unless we too are prepared to take on the role of Prime Minister?

Where have I said that people aren't allowed to criticise him or whoever else takes the role on? I just want to see as many fans as possible prepared to take on the responsibility that Barry had.

I think Barry's problem was he got caught up in the stardom of being in the boardroom.

He went from Fans voice to the boardroom to SC voice of the boardroom.

 

Probably easy to do once you are in the boardroom to loose sight of the reason why you are there , especially for somebody who has probably never been in a boardroom before ?

Whoever replaces him will have to remember that there is a very thin dividing line between being in the room as a voice for outsiders and getting involved in the day to day business of the club.

You're spot on, and like i said in my original post we need someone prepared to drop any personal agenda for the sake of being the voice of the fans.

Id argue that he wasn't just prepared to put himself it it, he was prepared to put all of us in it, whether we wanted to be or not.

There's no doubt the way he conducted himself at times was questionable. But I have a feeling not many of his critics would be prepared to take the role on.