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You know what? I can't really vote on this one; no-one jumped out at me at the game; nor now i've had time to think post game. No standout contender at all for me. 1st time in a while this too...

Ha! OK sweetie...

We might do BP, subject to player changes. I'll give you an OWTB chuffy badge if it happens...

No it wasn't? Chubs is right footed. It was put across the box, onto Chubs right side. He had an option to give it back to Dieng, who had made an angle for him to do that, or - clear it up field. He did neither. He fecked about with it, played a wank ball to J Wilson, who found himself under pressure and miss-hit his clearance, and we were out of position, in a poor shape and shipped the goal as a direct result. In no way, shape or form could any blame for that goal be levelled at Dieng. Chubs' fault all day long...

Older astroturf pitches are the reason that, at 34, i can sometimes stuggle to even walk without severe knee pain. Granted that was from playing Hockey not football, and I was regularly twatted on my already dodgy knees with a wooden stick too, but still. I can well understand LJ's point about some of the players. Those types of surfaces, albeit tjey're now of a better quality and standard than the 1980's and 1990's versions, are knee wreckers. So, i would guess Kelly, Forte, Elekobi, Lockwood, B Wilson, Ibhere, and poss Turner would all be in danger if it ever happened...

I think you're actually digging a bigger hole...

Really? Why? What could Tidser have done that Kelly wasn't already doing? IMO, Tidser was not the sub to make, at all. If Forte had to come off, and i'm not sure did really, if he did, then surely the change was Dayton to come on, with Philliskirk switching up front, Johnson moving to the number 10 role, and Dayton going to left. But, its a game of opinions isnt it...

It's worked. Why look to change it?

Yeah, I didnt really enjoy the earlier kick-off time. Threw me all day too, yeah - not for me.

Cool, ta - will do monday or tuesday...

...4 people. You've missed off the brother filming the thing...

So, fair is fair. I owe £5 for Daniel Johnson scoring. I've not paid into this before, how do you go about it?

As good a player as James Wilson has proved himself to be, he is extremely quite on the pitch. From my seat close to the pitch, you really hear him say anything. Nor Dieng. Big George was this season's organiser, and Lockwood was last seasons. It still amazes me that footballers can be so quite whilst going about their job on the pitch. Whilst the Dieng and Wilson partnership has done surprisingly well as a stop gap, the minute Big George is fit, he should be put straight back in IMO, not least for his leadership...

Were we not playing the diamond when we played Coventry and he tore them a new one,scoring 2 goals? Why does a couple of below par performances from Forte, when he could have had the flu bug or be struggling with a minor injury, automatically draw a conclusion that our very successful recent tactics have been "sussed out"?

We need to work on corners though, and Brian Wilson needs extra training on picking out our players with low crosses once in very decent positions. Chubs should give his bloody head a wobble too for his part in their goal. I mean James Wilson's clearance was poor; but i lay the blame at Chubs for putting him in that position in the 1st place. Daniel Johnson looks a tidy player mind...

We were a little guilty of trying to overplay on the edge of, and in the box today; Philliskirk in particular. For all our domination in the 2nd half, we didnt massively work their Keeper. But, for 89 mins of the 92 (only 2mins of added time, really?) there was only one team interested in winning the game. 2 points dropped and it was a bit frustrating at times, but - i've sat through far worse and - well, we did enough; just about, to really have deserved all 3.

He's not been as he has been previously these last couple of games. Has he had the flu that's gone around?

+ 1

His website? Funded by his extremely forgiving girlfriend's wealthy father. Ran by his legal team and his family members and friends. Yeah, that's exactly the place i'd be visiting for a balanced and well rounded take on the events that happened and continue to unfurl. As LeeSinnott says, right now; he's been found guilty by a jury of his peers and is a convicted rapist. He was innocent until proven guilty; which he was. If he wins this appeal, it puts another spin on things, but right now - he's a rapist. And that, currently, is a FACT (copyright OWTB for the uppercase fact!)

Yep, but is it really our problem if he needs game time? He's not our player.Kelly doesn't need a rest - he gets that every afternoon after training finishes. Tidser looked decent enough on his 1 game for us. That's not enough to warrant a clamour for him to replace one of arguably our most consistent performers, our Captain, and one the most central key cogs in the way we're set up and currently play. There's not even a debate to be had here as far as I can see...

I was going to post a longer reply again on this, but JoeP has pretty much covered it all for me: cheers mate! It's not about our National side "being :censored:" for me (i mean, would that ever be a real reason for a Latics fan of all people?) - it's about a complete lack of identification with these Premier League 'superstars' on their £200K a week salaries.

Is Santa online now? All those wasted bloody stamps when I could've been emailing him...

Ha! ...and now I know what i'm asking Santa for

I've been saying for a while, even with the extra confidence from results, "this is the sort of side who'll come and get a spawny result" etc We've then beaten them. I fully expect us to :censored: Crawley, play them off the park and score several goals - i've not got that feeling of a looming 0-1 away victory for Saturday. So....to that end, that's a nailed on spawny 0-1 away win then!

Aye - echo what's being said above: always found her to be very nice, very polite and very good (!) in all the ticket office dealings i've had with her. All the best & I hope she enjoys a fantastic retirement.