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Luke Beckett v Luton, March ‘05 first time we had a striker anticipate and sniff out a goal since McCarthy....

Tommy Wright v Portsmouth Nov ‘86

Neil Adams v Barnsley Jan ‘89 lost 3-4 and in a horrible run but he was superb that day. 

Big Clyde at home to Tranmere Aug ‘02

6 points out of 30 3 weeks ago I was firmly behind him. I was starting to waver but yesterday he showed he finally has a plan B now he needs to stop whining and continue to show the togetherness* we demonstrated yesterday. Anything next week is a bonus but after that I want to see a run against struggling and middling opposition. 

*except McLaughlin who couldn’t wait to get off the field. 

1 hour ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Fucks sake. First win in weeks and the first click on OWTB I see is a tit-for-tat in low-grade name calling. Have a look at yourselves.

It’s embarrassing points scoring off fellow fans. We’re all blue but part of the reason why we’ve been shit for years too busy jacking off trying to show a fellow fan up instead of channeling their energies into calling the people out that have run the club into the ground. How many of these cyber gobshites actually go to games or would insult their fellow fans face to face?

Seriously, if I was Ackey, Stevie J et al and had seen what this once brilliant board had become - instead of putting my own money in to allow this bitching, I’d pull the plug!

Let’s all grow the fuck up and pull together and cheer the lads to safety and hopefully a bright new dawn come August...

We need:

Placide to rediscover his shot stopping abilities 

Dummigan to be suppprted on the RHS

Gerrard to step up and lead!!!

Bryan to quickly rediscover his form

Moimbe to be a proper LB

Byrne to rediscover his earlier form and higher up the pitch

Pringle to keep it simple 

Fane to carry on what he’s been doing

Nepo to put quality balls in

Davies get in the middle and shoot

Ducky carry on where he left off next week

subs:

AAH wrecking ball for last 20

Wilson, Gardner ready if needed

Radffle off the other spots 

Theres enough there to get 23 points from 48 especially with ED to come in too 

Wellens man man the fuck up and lead us to safety Ritchie would have killed for this squad have a chat with him about being hard done by eh?!

7 hours ago, HarryBosch said:

Placide

 

Dummigan

Gerrard

Bryan

Moimbe (if fit? if Wellens will play him? ) 

McLaughlin

Byrne

Pringle

Nepomuceno

 

Davies

Nazon

 

I still see one or two free agents signing as we have our very own extended transfer window again but they'll likely be French Lads - like that Swede for example - who might not be ready to go straight in.

It seems more and more common for domestic players to have deals cancelled to move on too though so, fingers crossed, there could be someone along those lines to come in...

 

Looking back we tend to have a reasonable or decent February for some reason - not just Shez. 

 

Against all logic I fancy us to beat these Yorkshire bastards. 

 

 

 

 

February kept us up last season 

P7 W4 D2 L1 = 14 points massive

This year 

Bradford H

Bastards A

Dongs H

Dale A

Southend H

7 from 15 is a bare minimum HOWEVER given the amount of games in hand the teams above us have it’s very soon going to be out of our hands unless we put a consistent run together. The home games on paper look ok but the away games look a real handful. Given we’ve won 3 away games in the last 17 months and since Portsmouth our league  record is:

P9 W0 D4 L5 and have lost our last 4 scoring once and conceding 9

If we have a bad February we’re gone...

Our record there - I started going in 86

86/87 L0-1

87/88 L0-1

88/89 L1-3

89/90 L0-1

90/91 L0-2 missed pen Ritchie 

92/93 L0-2 missed pen Marshall

93/94 L0-1

01/02 L0-2 

Graveyard, even when we switched an away game back to BP in the early 80s they battered us 3-0! 

Can’t wait...

No loss better when he was played up front, no end product out wide never beats first man with his cross and he’s about as physically strong and fit as a wet wafer...

toodle pip...

Far from crap he destroyed MK away, they couldn’t handle him. Sadly he thought he was better than he was wouldn’t play for the reserves and is on ridiculous money. 

Reserves lost 3-1 to Fylde this afternoon 5 triallists played.

Day before the deadline and arguably needing to strengthen all departments...

14 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

Why is he credible?

The swedish lad was reported on the continent last week as were the two full backs 

7 minutes ago, lookersstandandy said:

 

 

We've got an Agent involved, he owns us......

I’m sure he will sign eventually - get the feeling PNE will make us sweat a bit for announcing a deal for their player prematurely. 

There’s an element of doubt always is with Latics, how many times have we ‘agreed’ a deal only to see it reneged - especially late on in transfer windows. 

Nothing’s been signed though - when agents and ‘other interest’ gets involved a verbal agreement means Jack shit!

PNE pissed off with us announcing Doyle, trained with them today non-contact there’s other interest.

Played....

They played Andy Ritchie’s narration of the new era video before AL was introduced.

re: the tannoy last season before the last Home game dad’s sister and other family members accompanied me, my wife, my kids and brother. They all paid in to hear dad’s name at his favourite place during the minutes remembrance and applause of those Latics Fans lost during the season - the tannoy in the north stand wasn’t switched on. It was 15 days after losing dad. We heard nothing. You could imagine how we and other families felt. Thankfully the late Gordy had listed all their names (those lost) in the programme.

one of our friends was in the RRE videod the minute and we got to hear dad’s name but at the time it was quite upsetting at the club’s callous attention to detail. To some it might only be a little thing but to us it was a big thing that day. 

1 hour ago, HarryBosch said:

 

I agree, I think, but while we're conceding too many & not scoring enough while Fane's on the pitch it renders him pretty much pointless.

Might aswell replace him with a lesser player that might create or score.... 

 

Pringle's been a huge disappointment. Shite.

Can we send him back before the deadline and get another loanee in? Benyu too.... 

Byrne will produce if he keeps doing what he's doing.

Gardner I can't get my head around. He was very good early in the season but has gone backwards massively. 

 

Assuming Pringle stays in I'd try Maouche ahead of Gardner for 2 or 3 games.... 

Fane and Gardner from the bench for a bit.....

Totally agree, both have come here for a stroll around the pitch - waste of a wage contribution. Overloaded with luxury players and not the grafters that'll get us to safety. Byrne, Gardner and Fane were good enough earlier in the season. We've got the Irish lad to come in and stick Nepo back on the left. 

I genuinely think our luck has run out, we look tidy enough but very toothless. The rot set in against Rochdale for me. We struggled to break them down and only the brilliance of Doyle was the difference. Rochdale stifled us and closed us down, when teams do that we look pretty with our tippy happy passing but lack the final ball and any sort of penetration in behind. Wimbledon closed us down and defended for their lives - it was enough for a point. Apart from an awful Northampton side that stood off continually and had the 2010's version of Perry Suckling and Andy Gosney (Kids ask yer dads) in goal we have really struggled to create and lacked real fluency. People are mistaking bouts of possession for pressure. Keepers making save after save is pressure, playing 98% of the game in front of the opposition is not - its simply too easy for them.

Wellens needs to go direct, being a horrible team will be what saves us - fleetingly we did this at Shrewsbury and it brought about Davies' one on one and the equaliser through AAH. The pitch at BP is an embarrassment and Corney's legacy of under investment in the basic tools of the job,  any pass bobbles massively negating the effectiveness of our passing game.

Losing key players to injury has played its part as has losing the loanees, They've come back to a manager and team under pressure and with a great deal of off-field uncertainty. Bryan looks short of match sharpness and Byrne looks subdued. Gardner has been poor for weeks. BUT my biggest concern is the goalkeeper, the manager has alluded to this in his interviews on a few occasions 'any shot and it's a goal' and I agree. The guy is entertaining but we need a goalkeeper not a sweeper. January alone you can argue that he was at fault for the winners at Shrewsbury and Charlton, one of the Leicester goals, Peterborough's opener, the second at Shrewsbury in the cup and the second goal yesterday. He's costing us points, will Zeus be any better? Not so sure, but I'd be looking at a new goalkeeper not arsed if he's good with his feet I'd prefer a solid shot stopper.

I agreed with binning Clarke - what about offering him a player coach role in the summer? He's articulate the fans and players respect him - but Gerrard concerned me with his lack of communication yesterday, he's the senior pro in that team and he needs to step up for his manager and his manager needs to ram that point home. Nepo is not a fullback he doesn't defend, tackle or properly go for headers BUT he can cross a ball. Play players to their strengths. Dummigan seems to be a bit of boo boy, but often he is massively isolated at RB and left with 2 on 1 time and again going forward he needs to work on his final ball. BUT the issues from the summer have haunted us all year, poor keepers, No LB, no pace at CB, few goals from midfield and no variety up front. I don't buy Doyle being the be all and end all. BUT having movement up top is key, too often Davies and AAH  run the channels then stand with their finger up their arse. To only have one or two in the box yesterday time and again was criminal and back to the bad old days of Penney and Robinson. 

We have a big squad and a lot of players are underachieving. Wellens needs to take them out and have it out with them, he also needs to stop blaming individuals in his interviews - it's a fast track to losing the dressing room and that'd be a massive shame after the togetherness we showed through late Sept - Early Dec. Bringing a left back in this week and others will help the situation but signing players in groups and being brought into an already over bloated squad - many the owners choices that simply aren't good enough is plain daft. The players that come in need to improve us and Wellens must be given a free hand. What I don't want to see is a foreign coach parachuted into this sorry situation. If that happens we'll be down by Easter. However, I think Wellens needs an experienced no. 2 for now or a Director of Football to allow him to concentrate on coaching. AND I would consider Clarke into the management team in the summer. 

So for now I wouldn't sack Wellens - last week I was 100% behind him but after a mostly poor performance at Shrewsbury (i'm not having we played well when most of it was tippy tappy going nowhere) and the rubbish we served up yesterday through his crap team selection and obsession of square pegs in round holes I'm down to about 80%. We need 4 points from the next 9 minimum or he has to go sadly. I didn't want Shez to go but we HAVE to stay up. He has my backing - for now, ask me again at 9.45 on 13th February.

Definitely a health and safety issue and one that the stand's health and safety certificate issued by the local authority and the Fire Service is prevalent on. Probably something as simple as forgetting to switch it on but that asks serious questions of is the Ground's Safety Officer doing his job?

So is there going to be a new board? What’s its make up and who’s who?

Great to hear Stitch narrate...

“We acknowledge the part Mr Corney has played in the club’s history.”

????? yep, we acknowledge it - we ain’t going to thank you though....

ever...

Enock Kwateng and Wifried Moimbe arriving from Nantes both defenders 

48 minutes ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Love the simplistic view of "He's shit up front but he's a lump so stick him in defence and the problem is solved" 

Don’t forget he’s a converted CB...

Crocked but yeah i’ve thought the same 

1 hour ago, Lee Sinnott said:

Your point stands, but Pointon only ever scored one goal directly from a corner - Southampton at home in 93...

Scored direct against Sheff Wed too 4 weeks earlier 7/4/93 D1-1 at BP get the video out 

Whether he’d been shite or not doesn’t justify the shit he’d got he’d made about 10 appearances for us.

second half of the season he was excellent.