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Michael Owen is a living England legend. Anyone who has written any of the above ridiculous reports please tell me who else would have scored a wonder goal against Isreal in the 49th minute last Saturday. You do not get to 38 international goals by being a one trick pony. Show some respect and football knowledge to acknowledge a striker that will be talked about for many, many years to come, long, long after Shearer, Wright, Sheringham, Johnson et, all - except messrs Greaves, Linekar and Charlton (for now). What odds another OWEN goal against the Ruskies on Wednesday?

Couldn't agree more chaddymatt, their pace had the Accy defenders in a spin, but fair do's to their No 5 as he was always there on Craigs shoulder. After such a dire first half by the TEAM, not just the odd individual, can i also give a special mention to a player who seems to have Tics fans divided, Lidds. I thought his second half contribution was some of the best open play we have seen from Lidds for a long, long time. He was running at defenders picking out short and long passes and getting shots off, proving he is not just a great crosser of the ball. Well done Mr liddell, more of the same please. Whens the draw for the next round and how many are left in ??

Tis true Diego, but alas unlikely

Me and Neil Adams Headband are organising a trip to Las Vegas for Rickys mega fight with Gobby Mayweather on December 8th, after which Ricky should retire as a living legend, cos there is no one else to fight at Light Welterweight or Welterweight. Anyone going, interested, watching on TV etc.

Totally agree Rocky, Rest the main players and bring them back for the final at Wembley (sorry, thats the red wine kicking in), but the Paint Pot Cup and the Carling Cup aren't money spinners, whereas the FA Cup can reep rich financial awards. Rather see a fit Crossley, Gregan, Thompson, JP, Killer, and Davies run out at Brunton Park next Saturday than run the risk of injury. Then again, the way the young lads have performed in pre-season, give them some meaningful experience in a serious encounter.

Agree with many that Killer (see thats better than KK as most called him a couple of years ago) is the final piece of the Shez jigsaw. He will give us so many options. Its my opinion that he will come out of the stalls with ALL guns blazing cos as Rocky posted the YouTube clip, he wants to represent his country and he can't do that wollowing in the Brum Reserves. I think we will see a fully focused Killer trying to put in consistent top performances and another reason he has only signed until December MAYBE because he is trying to put himself in the shop window and pick up a permanant signing in the January transfer window to a bigger club or break back into the Brum first team. Disagree with most of the potential starting midfield line-ups proposed. Mine would be Taylor, Allott, Killer, Lidds. Everyone seems to have Lidds on the bench when he is the only player in the club who can CONSISTANTLY cross a ball ino the box accurately. Allott is a throw-back to the yard-dog midfielders and showed far more energy, vision and passion than Kalala at Rochdale. I know you cannot judge on one performance and i did not see the Clyde game but my above midfield would start against the Wendies BUT i will gladly stand corrected a million times to the judgement of King Shez, whoever he picks in whatever position will do nicely for me. Bring on the Welsh Boys cos I can't wait.

There is only one way to watch the Tics away and that is on the World Famous Beardy Bus. As per usual, five for the Groves Myster please Mr Beard. Thats :- Alan Groves Perm Lieutenant Pigeon Harry Dowds Green Shirt Nava Neil Adams Headband Shall be waiting at 9:30 with bacon butty and shopping trolley of booze at the White Hart. Beware of Chaddy The Owl, he is a darts and pool shark (You have been warned!!!)

This is an absolute classic , i'm with you Blue Guru, The Specials bring back soooooo many top memories. It's simple and catchy. Someone get in touch with Franny at the club and make sure Tics make this THEIR goal celebration song before some other team nicks it.

Sorry maddog, Must go now cos my Living Room is FULL of ice from that iceberg moment (slopes off to hang his head in shame) Anyway, you little know it all, you'll be telling me next that The Cheeky Girls didn't originally release "Hey Jude"

How about :- "Lip Up Fatty" by Bad Manners for Fletcher from Bournemouth "Ghost Town" by The Specials for Gillingham "Rat In The Kitchen" by UB40 for Mark Allott (sorry, i'll have to go now before i get shot with any further ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Like it Mark, can't "BEAT" a bit of SKA (see what i did there?) Must be a possibility with The Killers Ruby song and changed to :- "Hughesey, hughesey, hughesey, hughesey.............please feel free to add more cos lyrics aint my thang

You are right peanuts Andy was good at rugby as well. He played at Wembley with my schoolmate Mick Ford (who went on to play for Wigan and manage Oldham RLFC) as a junior schoolkid before the Challenge Cup Final in (i think '77). I played with Andy at football for the Oldham town team, he went to Hulme Grammer and was the only kid on the team that wore a gum shield and even at 15 he had thighs like tree trunks. In them days (1982) there was no such things as Academys for youngsters and there would be one match a year when all the clubs scouts would attend and the guys that shone would be picked up by a club. In 1982 the trial match was against Bradford (not that you are interested but i played up front and had a stinker). Andy, as ever, was brilliant at left back against Bradford and after the match our coach (Graham Hollinshead from Grange School) came into the changing rooms and asked Mick Ford to talk to one scout (he signed for Tics for a season before being released then he persued his rugby career), Ian Smith went to Bolton (he is now a Super League Rugby Referee) and Andy went to Notts Forest, i'm not sure if he went for one or two seasons. Andy was a great guy and even at schoolboy level we all knew he would make it professionally. I'm chuffed i could share this memory of him with you guys.

No, i'm with you (ich bin mit du - thats a bit of Austrian there for you folks). RAPID VIENNA it is for me Mi mam is an Austrian (as you can probably tell with my accent!!!)Aunties, uncles and tons of relations all live in Vienna, beautiful country SH** at football but then again with David James in goal they looked like the Brazil'70 team against England. Non-League - Ashton United, Father-In-Law is Chairman and i served my time as Secretary Scotland - Gretna, been to watch them with Ashton when they were in the Unibond League (Their Managing Director and Secretary are husband and wife Ron and Helen MacGregor, the most bestest and niceset couple you would ever wish to meet in football. I am absolutely loving their success. Next season they will break the Old Firm grip on the league and take the Chapmions League by storm (Jesus, this whiskey is strong, think i had better put the bottle down!!!). Spain - Real 'LA LIGA CHAMPONS' Madrid - sorry Mr Punkster but Senior Bckham just had to win that title, pure Hollywood Germany - Eintracht Frankfurt, was in Frankfurt for Englands first World Cup match against Paraguay, great country and greater locals Portugal - FC Berares, 2nd division team who are SH** but a local waiter who served us for two weeks in Portugal for Euro 2004 told us all about them

Very, very touchy subject but we all know our judicial system is not the worlds best with unfair sentences meeted out each day with major differences in burglars, car thiefs, speeding motorists, murderers etc BUT lets not forget, Lee Hughes did not set his sentence period our judges did so you can't slte the lad for not being sent away for longer. Yes, he is a first class numpty, a coward etc but so are thousands of other wrong doers whose misdemeanours don't make the press/radio/telly etc. He's guilty of a horrendous act BUT he has served his time. We have poiticians ram down our throats every day how we must encourage jailbirds back into the community and give them a new start whether they are joiners, taxi drivers, shelf stackers OR FOOTBALLERS. We are Oldham Athletic looking to strengthen our small squad and if Shez thinks the footballer Lee Hughes will do that then welcome aboard Lee. If an ex jailbird was to gain employment at your workplace would you resign in disgust or keep your job and keep your anger inside? Lee Hughes wants to get back to work, he's not Fred West or Doctor Shipman for goodness sake. I know it is impossible for everybody to share the same opinion but IMHO i can't condone his previous actions but for footballs sake, surely he is worth a chance

Remember that game well exile, the Mackens sang the "Vic Halom King Of All Geordies" song longer and louder than the Chaddy that day. I remember when Vic was at the Tics that i was just a wee bairn of 11 or 12. He had a house in Grasscroft opposite Lovers Lane and at the time i was at Saddleworth School and lived in Springhead. Every afternoon i would barge my way to the upper deck of the school bus and ensure that i was sat on the left side of the bus just to make sure i could see over the road wall and see Mr Haloms house (i'm not a stalker or anything folks, honest). I swear he was once getting into his car when i went past, then again it could have been his neighbour but at the time it was a stone wall sighting in my book and i went home a very happy Tic. Also seem to remeber him scoring two or three at home against Carlisle AND it was on MAach Of The Day and i was sat directly behind the Chaddy goal on the advertisement boards with a flag in my hand, a scarf on each arm and a scarf round my neck. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh happy days

Very true sydney, In those days my dad took me to the games and sat me on the advertisement boards directly behind the nets. When you saw the away fans pouring out of the Rocky Road End you waited to see if the headed for Sheepfoot Lane, in which case my dad would grab me and we'd run towards the main car park or alternatively if they ran out towards the car park, we ran up Sheepfoot Lane. That is unless it was Sunderland, them crafty Geordies ran to the Chaddy from both ends (bloody mental them lot), didn't fancy taking them lot on at 7 years old!!

I remember plying Cardiff at home in the early 70's on a baking hot day and the Chaddy taunting the Taffy fans with :- "WE'VE GOT WATER, WE'VE GOT WATER" Also to all away teams at three-quarter time when the gates opened "You'll never take the Chaddy" By the way Mr Adams, keep your ageist jokes to yourself!!! (bloody cheeky young whipersnapper, come and say that face to face and i'll beat you within a whisker of your life with mi ration book).

Hi leeslover, Yeah ditto to my good buddy neiladamsheadband, had mine done 6 or 7 years ago in Albert Square, Manchester, company called Optimax who have been going around 30 years. My best man at my wedding had his done 3 or 4 years before me and we are both still 100% ok. As Mr Adams said, technology and eye procedures have changed but it is the best thing i have ever done with my glasses, subscription sun-glasses contact lenses and cleaners. Bit of advice pal, GET EM DONE

Bit Harsh that coming from A SHREK lookalikey

It has to be the Warne-myster for the Groves-myster. He has come on leaps and bounds this season and yes, some may call his finishing, but then again his finishing has also come on leaps and bounds compared to last season. If he continues to improve his game season on season, next term he will be the new Billy Sharp, (or a pretty good Luke Varney at least!!) Agree with all shout-outs for Wellens, pure class that bloke, also Haining has been a rock and Gregan, ohhhhh Seaney-boy if only Leeds would have let you come sooner, but then again the Stam/Haining partnership looked superb until Stefan took a knock at Cheltenham (had to mention Stam cos my wife would leave me for him at a mintes notice - come to think of it, has anyone got Stefans number?????)

Unfortunately, Stu, as far as we know, we cannot put any official badge on any of our merchandise, as they are the property of the club. Oops, forgot about that Stevie, Never mind its the thought that counts. Can't wait for the design, i'm getting all giddy. Hope OWTB haven't used them dodgy phone centres for that ballot counting

Good point BlueJazzer, In keeping with Mr Groves era, perhaps the old badge (As on 'TOFFS' tops, owl standing on ball and Oldham written in a scroll underneath). Just a thought?????

Very disapointed with our efforts today but from the kick-off i thought Bratfud played some excellent, composed football for a team near the foot of the league, they built from the back and had good quick movement up-front. We were, AGAIN, slow. sluggish and predictable with poor quality balls into the box and hardly made their keeper moved. THEN, groundhog day, felt like Orient and Brentford all over again, a sending off then we woke up. WHY???? I don't accept the excuse "Well they're at the bottom and fighting for points". Excuse me WE are at the top and fighting for points. Where has our passion, desire, swagger, constant flow of crosses, men in the box, take the game to any opponent gone. We should not be looking over our shoulders at Swansea or Carlisle. We will obviously get into the play-offs but we ned to go in with some form cos the play-offs are not for the fain-hearted and three mamoth battles are in store. Come on blues, lets attack, attack attack and take games away from our opponents for the next four games, cruise through the two legs of the semi-final and get our rewards at Wembley. OK rant over, i'm back on track now. I'm going to calm my nerves with a large Malt Whiskey and count the minutes to the Cheltenham kick-off (i just had to get that off my chest, then again i could do with getting a couple of stone of it as well) I, as ever, will KEEP THE FAITH

Bit harsh!!

White for the Perm-myster boys. It's looking mighty coooooooooooooooooool Stevie Personally i don't think it needs "GROVES" on front and back, just on the back IMHO Not bothered what the design is, i'd have one of everything you come up with, as long as its white i'll squeeze a Large over my Grovesy perm (sheesh, i wish i sometimes had hair