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Someone of the ilk of Neil Danns hopefully!

MArshall put us in the lead Diego, we should have finished the tie that night, but for a very generous pen in the last few minutes of ET, up stepped Kevin Sheedy and as usual buried it. Vice-Chariman David Brierley won the toss after the game to take the tie back to BP for the 2nd Replay.

hmmmm left-back? Anyone know a club desperately short on the left-hand side?

QUOTE(beag_teeets @ Jan 4 2008, 11:17 AM) My brother in law rates him, "Bob" as he is known has bee nplaying well for Dale, I am not too happy about him going as I thought he would come good for Latics. Surely we should have just let him go on loan to Dale for the rest of the season then had another look in the Summer? We don't know whether Gregan will come back this season, next season is a doubt, Stam could snap at any minute, Thompson might pull his finger out, Trotman could be sold and we are back to scrabbling round for defenders could August. ...and Crossley could retire, Pogs go back to Australia, Eardley get bought, Kalala could throw a strop and quit football, Ricketts complete his move, Allott could take offence at a 'Ratboy' comment and go back to Chesterfield, Hughes could break his parole and go back to jail, Davies could move to Fulham, Lomax could be released, Hazell could move to MK Dons, Gary Mac could move back to Scotland, Wolfy, Kelly, Bell, Black and Chalmers move to Rochdale, Taylor to Leeds, Pearson to Farsley, Alesandra to Everton, and Liddell retires. Then we're left with NO ONE. OH. MY. GOD. And if my Auntie had balls she'd be my uncle............

Yeah, Expect Stu to move to the BBC very soon!

Calm down though......................Marcus Holness has joined Dale permanently on a 2 1/2 year deal. FReebie but we get a sell on clause.

3-1 Everton, Davies gives us hope to halve the deficit to 2-1, Johnson late pen wraps it up. Att: 27,467 (5,279 'tics)

From January 1989-September 1991 we lost only 3 Games at home. (vs Man City 14/1/89 0-1 a certain Gary Megson bagged the winner on his debut for them, Sheff Utd 28/3/90 L0-2 & Hull City L1-2 19/3/91. We also went 7 years unbeaten at home in cup-ties from November 1988-October 1995

Denis Irwin put us 1-0 up in a Littlewoods Cup 4th round tie in November 1987, before we succumbed 2-1 to a late winner from a certain Neil Adams. We did indeed play them in the LIttlewoods Cup Third Round in 1988, with Andy Ritchie bagging an unlikely equaliser, we lost the replay 2-0 after dominating for 85 minutes before the most expensive player in English football at the time (Tony Cottee) bagged two late goals and even saw Rhodesy sabe a pen at 1-0!

The injury was from January-October 1993, his last appearance being on the bench in a 2-1 win at Ipswich in Jan '93, before he made his comeback at Citeh in Oct' 93 and scoring our goal in a 1-1 draw. Sharp's absence is what gets my goat when people criticise Olney, he played up front alone (as along with Sharp, Stitch was out with a serious back injury, linked to his perennial muscle strains) from Jan-Late March '93 when we signed Beckford and IMO did a grand job (Olney), when still quite a young man and along with Neil Adams scored the goals which kept us up. As whilst the Great Escape treble clinched safety, it was the tide turning during late-Feb that gave us that fighting chance.

Think he was 16 (may have just been 17, but it wasn't long before he went to Everton for big money)

Touche!

Yeah, him and a youngster called John Oster who was brilliant for them.

Didn't shed a tear when Wellens left either. Decent player but only in League One, his set-pieces were crap too. Always preferred the all action type midfielder such as Lee Richardson, Nick Henry, Dux etc.... no time for pompous up there own arse types, who instead of taking games by the scruff of the neck, pefer to play tippy tappy crap that goes no where, ala Kilkenny in most home games this season. For every good game players like KK and RW have they have 5 anonymous ones.

Agree, 17 corners vs Walsall, he took them all, no variation in delivery, just fannying about with short ones down blind alleys. His insistence on taking EVERY single minute free-kick also got right on my tits too. If he signs he signs, but if we're going to be throwing about the sort of figures mentioned, why not go for Danns? Big, strong, athletic and the shot of a mule! KK imo has been part of our shortcomings this season and the reason the team has often looked unblanaced as we were trying to accomodate a player into a system that we didn't play all pre-season. Two of , Allott (player of the season for me), JP and Macca, with two out and out wingers will do for me. Defo need a target man and a left-back too. I'm not panicking over centre-mid.

£10k as well, scandalous!

For those young enough not to remember:- Whilst being a tosspot of the highest order and the general consensus being that he was a a crap manager to boot, my own feelings re: Sharp are somewaht mixed. He is probably the finest out and out target man this club has had, due to the fact he did it consistently in the top-flight. His 15 goals in 91/92 saw us to safety in our first season back in the big time and his brace at Maine Road will live with me forever! As will his stunning 4 goal haul vs Luton in April '92 and the fact he consistently scored against the Scum, albeit to no avail as they usually scored 5 or 6! However his miss at Wembley at 1-0 will haunt me forever too! My main gripe with him was when subbed by Royle he threw away his shirt and the armband, (can't remeber the oppo, think it was either 93/94 or early 94/95) that to many was unforgivable. His time as manager culminated in the acceleration of a decline that began in the 92/93 season under Royle, tbh after relegation we had been very poor under Royle and the change if i'm honest was best all round and probably 18 months too late. Sharp wasn't my choice, I wanted an experienced man but he did temper this to a point by bringing in Colin Harvey and for a while from late November to mid-Jan the play-offs looked a real possibility, then injuries and the Boundary park sand-pit kicked in and at one stage relegation looked a real possibility too, we recovered sufficiently to finish in mid-table, but not before we had been treated to the footballing brilliance that was Neil Moore! He then proceeded to let Andy Ritchie, Andy Barlow, Rick Holden and Neil Pointon all leave (probaby at the behest of Stott and with only kids to replace them the writing was on the wall.) He did sign the awesome Simon Webster on loan though, even tougher than Andy Holden methinks! 95/96 started promisingly but then Jobbo had to be sold and we had to make do with loan signings such as Michelle Vonk (Big regret we didn't sign him), Paul Wilkinson (although a tart, weas just the sort of striker we needed at the time), before he paid a ludicrous £350k for jigsaw Barlow and around the same time we rejected a chance to sign triallist Sami Hyppia!) The fact we never replaced Jobbo cost us, but strangely not really in the goals gainst column - in fact in the League we didn't concede more than 2 goals in ANY game all season! 96/97 started under a cloud, with the long-forgotten JOhn Morrow our only summer signing, again we'd lost player (s) Paul Gerrard, Paul Bernard, Mark Brennan, Lee Riochardson wanted out, Darren Beckford etc.. and after an horrendous start (We didn't win until 5th October!) we had recovered to give ourselves a fighting chance by mid-December, then we sold Gunnar Halle to Leeds and the wheels well and truely came off! After being hammered by a lousy Grimsby Team at BP 3-0 on my 20th Birthday, Sharp resigned, but quite rightly imo tookm a swipe at the board's penny-pinching."you can only chop at a tree so many times before it will fall". He was right and not even Colin could save us despite much wheeling and dealing in the transfger market! Sharp as a manager wasn't as bad as we thought at the time, it was the wider picture that killed us, he did bring in some very good players and some crap ones! Ian Snodin was probably his best signing. Whilst JOhn Gannon, John Morrow and Neil Moore being amongst his worst! He also gave young lads like Rickers, Serrant and McNiven there chances and signed great servants like Garnett and Kelly.

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/shar...ts-cup-win.html Sharp expects us to shut up shop??? http://www.oldhamathletic.premiumtv.co.uk/...1205519,00.html Praise for Shez from Andy Holden, one of my favourite ever players despite him only ever playing 20 odd games. A true 100%er to coin a phrase and helped turn the 88/89 season around.

I went to the first game (as I only saw my dad once a fortnight, I only went to 9 games that season and only started to go on my own at the start of the Championship season after I got my paper round!) the 2-2 draw, me and my brother clinging to the old Chaddy End fence to get a decent view in a packed ground. Everton scored two in two first half minutes, we should have had a pen and Ian Marshall dubiously had a goal disallowed, then we came out second-half upped the ante, got a dodgy pen then a fantastic header from the dodger secured the replay. Remember listening to the 1st replay and it sounded like we played them off the park and only an iffy pen late in extra-time saved them. As for the second replay I remember it being called off due to wind damage at BP, then when it was played it took place on 1/4 final day, again we fell behind but the Dodger soon equalised and then an extra-time penalty from Ian Marshall saw us into the 1/4's. Couldn't wait to go for a 'Pink Final' that night! Happy Days as it really was a treat to go to games in back then, as I say I only got to go pretty much week in week out from the Championship season onwards, now it is 2nd nature and a little of that magic of going to Boundary Park of the mid-late 80s (i'm not talking of the glory nights, more yer 4-1 home defeats to Derby and Chelsea or a late winner vs Plymouth to secure the first win of the season, or a late dodger brace to clinch a draw vs Swindon etc...) is no longer there. Although I was gutted to miss the Leeds game and many other aways this season, having been there and done it all over the years it doesn't rankle as much as it would have done say 15 years ago.However I was still charging round the house like a lunatic when the goals came through on NYD!!!! My last away game was Donny in the JPT and i'm beginning to think I'm better off at home! Although I'll be there at Goodison and maybe 3 or 4 other aways before the end of the season, funds permitting.

17 corners, inumerable free-kicks of which he took every one and created sod all. Shut the door on the way out Neil. Never wanted the jumped up little gob:censored:e back in the first place. Occasional glimpses of what he can do but all too fleeting. Make no bones about it guys and gals, as KK proved last time he is no good in a relegation battle and after the last 2 home performances thats where we are heading, our away form will fade guaranteed. Unfortunately Shez has created this situation for himself, leaving us with an unbalanced squad (for the second season running) that STILL does not practice set-pieces properly as our manager prefers to do things of the cuff! FFS! Wellens was over rated too. As I've said all season we'd be far better with two battlers in midfield. (Or a so-called talisman that can take a friggin' set-piece!) Win it, get it wide, not rocket science is it?

You can be registered to a club but not have a contract, thus non-contract forms arrangements. (Antoine-Curier, O'Halloran, David Lee etc..) He was registered with us but he did not sign a three-year deal, (allegedly) what he did sign was more along the lines of "we'll give you three months, show us what you can do, then you'll get your longer deal." Thats why he was shipped out with the minmum of fuss, at little cost to us.

Ricketts is definitely available for selection, Big Gord has mentioned it on his editiorial page in yesterday's programme. Should be interesting, but guaranteed to bite us on the that one. But as he was never officially our player*, I guess we didn't really have too much of a say in it. *Lets just say when the three year contract was put before him no-one had a pen, so it wasn't actually signed! (Allegedly)

We've done this one until the cows come home, it all came to a head during the Summer of Hell, when City came over for a friendly, the attendance was widely questioned that day too from within the JK Latics regulars. To counter this Alan Hardy offered 3 fans the chance to openly observe how the attendance for matches at BP is compiled. (I was one of the three, Mike Stott being one of the others) The system is fully computerised with monitors showing how the ground is filling in the boardroom, the Police control box and in the office at the back of the Lookers Stand, all turnstiles have CCTV so no-one can drop the gateman a dodgy tenner and vault the turnstile etc... The figure given normally includes all complimenteries and the Corporates and sponsors etc... often there is a marginal difference in the final figure but usually nothing too drastic. The club has to withold a small percentage of its capacity due to FL rules and as stipulated in its Safety Certificate granted on an annual basis by the Local Authority, GMP & GMF&RS, possibly around 3%, it was 4 years ago so that figure may or may not be right, email AH he will clarify) If the club was found guilty of any wrong doing then its safety certificate would be revoked and immediate suspension from the Football League would follow. In a nutshell, manipulating the attendance is nigh on impossible at BP.

Diego, Ricketts recieved 5 bookings during his short spell with us, forcing him to miss The Udders away game. Yesterday was his 8th booking of the season, is there a ban for 8 bookings? I know there is for 10.

Nay, Nay and thrice nay!