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13 minutes ago, Hands on said:

Ah but when HMRC come mob handed and it is a raid, ie no appointment, with members of the Serious Fraud Office I think it might be a little bit more than late payment.  However let us hope it is the off field activity that has attracted attention.  After all what can a loss making league one club get up to.

Financial irregularities means a big fucking points deduction....

Simon, from the very bottom of my heart please fuck off and make everyone's Christmas.

Yep, the FLT has it's own disciplinary system so yellows and reds don't carry over into any other competition.

2 hours ago, leeslover said:

Stokes should be pardoned to mark Harry getting engaged 

Stokes should be on the next plane out there let's have a bit of aggression in the team, we're too nice.

No settled batting lineup, bowlers dining out on previous tours that won't bowl at the stumps trying to find an outside edge that just isn't there. Another average Aussie team are likely to beat us 5-0 again. Where's the young quick bowlers that are going to get us the 60 wickets we'll need to nick this series?

I’d put Wilson at right back to cover Dummigan on the right against Barcham and go with Byrne and Fane it’s a risk but for one game. I agree that Omrani is no starter. Green is not mobile enough. Flynn’s interesting but he won’t put his foot in. 

Tonight’s where you earn your money Mr Wellens...

We’ll have to take great care that Dummigan gets disciplined support on the right. Barcham on his day can be devestating. He was superb on Saturday at Bristol. Dummigan has been excellent lately but teams do target our right side knowing Byrne’s tendency to move inside.

The Flynn that destroyed us in 20 minutes for Sheff United in 20 mins at bramall Lane in March 2016 is a cracking player. The lazy bastard we signed that hides and doesn’t affect games is a sheisters. The original post is attention seeking he’s pisspoor and had been since day one.

Opening Day was Allott, McNIven D and Adrian Littlejohn (Cnut) then Whitehall, McGinlay briefly, Tipton, Beavers...

Whitehall signed summer 1998 had an injury prone 98/99 interrupted by taking corners duty and therefore never being in the bloody box. Although he won the pen at Maine Road.

A lot forget we actually signed Beavers permanently but he was pretty much injured from the moment he signed and was released in 2001 having made only 6 appearances after signing full time in August 1999. HIs last appearance was in the Auto Windscreens v Stoke in Jan '00. 
 

Had a great impact  back end of 98/99 on loan though. HIs winner v Stoke was vital in the penultimate game.

2 minutes ago, lalalajpkalala said:

Mardon was good.  Another Ritchie loanee to have a good short term impact was Paul Beavers.

 

Earlier in the darker days of the 1990s, Simon Webster was a centre half loanee I liked.

Back end of 1994/95 as Jobson and Fleming were injured for most of 94/95. Webster and Redmond formed a decent partnership. Sharp was forever looking for a beast of a centre back Webster was brilliant for us - we couldn't get him permanently. Shortly after selling Job the following October we agreed a deal to sign an unknown Finn. Stott the shitbag that he was pulled the plug behind Sharp's back and we ha to settle for Michele Vonk on loan who did a great job but again couldn't't afford to make it permanently. What did we do? Well we limped along and signed Toddy Orlygsson and Barlow instead before finally signing a dominant CB in Garnett a YEAR later.

Despite treading shit in this league for so long there's been some fantastic moments 

At a push I'd say Smith's equaliser v Everton that is up there with my best moments supporting Latics. There's been other 'great moments' too over the last 20 years..

My personal favourites:-

Dux putting us 2-0 up at City moments after Kelly's penalty save - March '99

Allott's rocket v Bury Sept '99

Dux's winner at Wigan - Jan '00

'What a waste of Petrol' Reading Sept '00

Carlo's winner at West Ham Nov '02

Andrews' equaliser at Plymouth Nov '02

Baudet's winner at Tranmere Jan '03

Hall's late pen at Mansfield March '03

Eyresey at Stokport Feb '03

Starting the season - August 2003

She's pen at Hillsborough August 2003

JJ's clincher at Swindon April '04

Scott Vernon's winner v City Jan '05

Macca at Scunny Jan '07

Porter last minute v Tranmere Feb '07

Macca scoring at Everton 'Jan '08

Penney getting sacked - May '10

Kuqi's immediate impact vs Hudds Sept '11

Wabara putting us 3-1 up v Liverpool - Jan '13

Erwin's winner v Noblot April '17 (meant so much personally on so many levels)

Menig's winner v Blackburn Oct '17

Mardon was quality his winner at Notts County on his debut set us up for a good January and first half of February he formed a good solid partnership at the back with Thom. Shows Stitch's confidence in Sinnott when Garnett got injured v Chelsea in the Cup. Preferring to bring in a loanee. to be fair to Ritchie I remember very few of his signings (A) Not working out and (B) Not improving the team - that at a time when were feeding on possibly less than we are now. Although the loan market wasn't as rife as it is now. We would have our left bollocks for a striker the quality of Doyle.

Of course Wembley was the line in the sand, BUT even so we'd been unlucky at Newcastle, a d should have beat Wednesday if McCarthy scores that late winner v Sheff United a draw v Spurs probably would have meant we could have lost at Norwich as Everton's fate wouldn't have been on their own hands so 2-0 down would they have come back v Wimbledon? Not so sure. The point is Wembley or not the damage had been done all season at home. 

As I've said he doesn't command his area great and one in one is always a goal. for a 24 year old he's very inexperienced. 1st vs Charlton was a wonder goal wasn't it?

How many goals has Fans Favourite Clarke cost us this season? Now his performances have been criminal at times...

On 07/11/2017 at 10:41 AM, TheBigDog said:

Definitely seen a change in his approach. The goal he scored at Carlisle was a real poachers goal while the goal to win the Bury game was clinical. 

Now proving to be a useful backup player from the bench.

 

Doyle has not scored in the last two games but I expect him to play and score tonight. It may be worth giving Holloway a longer spell off the bench and possibly even a start tonight.

Different player when he's in the box, instead of marking the full back under Shez. He's a handful in the box.

22 hours ago, boundaryblue80 said:

 

Bollocks

Agree with Wilson he's not brilliant and could command his area better but he's hardly thrown any in. Ruddy is simply not ready.

Despite the fun and games with Placide (And he is entertaining and his kicking is superb), he has let some really crap goals in. He was poor at MK and in other games has the tendency to go to ground very easily and watches the ball into the net too often for my liking. His best all round performance was still his debut. Placide is functional but if we are to grind out 1-0 wins then Wellens I think will be in the market for a keeper in January.

Having said that Placide, Doyle and Byrne are worth the admission fee alone this year..

1 hour ago, palmer1 said:

 

Gunnar would not have made any difference at all.

 

I think he'd had an bad injury and we did have capable replacements.

Turning point was Simon Tracey doing Sean McCarthy, red card and they bring on Ireland's International Keeper. Cheers!

So many ifs and maybes that year. The thing that killed us was not winning at home until 27 November. FIVE home wins all season destroyed our hopes as we weren't awful away.

Last minute equaliser at City - 2 points

Capitulation at Liverpool - 3 points

David Seaman wonder show the week after - 2 points

That's 7 points in an October 1993 fortnight we threw away. We should not have gone down that year and the squad we had should have pissed the Championship the year after. Appointing Sharp was the biggest mistake we ever made BUT selling rather than recruiting and accepting we were little Oldham after relegation was fucking criminal. Stott, Brierley, Hardy et al sold any legacy for our kids down the river. Corney's got a lot to answer for but a lot of where we are is the groundwork of Stott....

5 hours ago, Lee Sinnott said:

I still can't believe this happened. No wonder we went down...

If I remember rightly he went over there for an extended period in the spring of 1994 to try and get fit for the World Cup. He only made one more appearance for us that season at Newcastle in April after getting injured at Bramall Lane on NYD. He wasn't dropped, simply injured and then struggled for fitness, reserve games that season piled up due to postponements and a first team pile up due to the FAC run and more postponements. If you think the pitch has been poor over the last few years you had to see it back then it was dire, not conducive to help players recovering from injury.

We'd loaned players out to Scandinavia before in the 80s with Neil Edmonds and Norman Kelly playing over in Sweden. 

Gunnar signed for £280k the same day we paid £300k for Paul Kane. It took me a long time to appreciate Gunnar but the year we went down he was the shining light until we sold him in December 1996.

Sorry yeah 61! ??

4 hours ago, oafcmetty said:

Smug Roberts is city

Still an unfunny prick 

Dummigan was excellent imho tonight arguably my MOTM given how exposed he was and left 2–1 over and over yet he really put a shift in - won the hall back time and again and gives us an option when breaking quickly.

byrne’s temperament worries me tonight booked for losing his head over a drop ball arguing with team mates - and for the first 20 minutes of the second half it had clearly affected him. Take a deep breath Jack and fucking grow up you’re no use sat on the sidelines. You’re massive to our midfield we need you out in the meadow!

Wellens really can do no wrong at the moment Green misses a gilt edged chance to win it the AAH buries that at the end. Absolutely buzzing and as for Jonny Placide what an entertaining crazy fucker he is!

it wasn’t pretty at times tonight but we dug in and scored two excellent goals. Bury if they sack Clark will be top half they’re a good outfit.

Just now, Wardie said:

I would not listen to song for the sake of listening to music but I love to hear it at Latics. I absolutely hate 'Meat Pie, Sausage Roll...' along with the pathetic 'Keep the Faith'. Pies, Bovril, mind-numbing cold and cigarette smoke, stood in a somewhat rickety stand...and the noise...real football.  

Earliest memories of going to Latics, Oversized Meat and Potato Pies, tobacco smoke, Oxo, bog rolls thrown onto the pitch as the teams come out. Clinging to the Chaddy Fence, scrambling for autographs pre-game and EVERY game pre-match announcer starts his day with 'Mouldy Old Dough' - BIG part of Latics Tradition for me.

The guy on the radio last night is a winding up cock womble that deserves his Season Ticket cancelling for the mere suggestion that an unfunny shittyditty written by an equally unfunny Red Scummer in an attempt to take the piss out of us should replace a big BP tradition...

6 minutes ago, Wardie said:

How many fans at any club that has been subject to a takeover, known a great amount about the deal to buy the club or the person/group buying it? Not very many, I would guess. We can Google search the Internet, speculate on Twatter, Faceslap etc. etc. but we will never know the ins and outs or the reasons why whoever buys the club has done so...unless they go public...and even then, many people would still be suspicious and negative. It could be a project, someone with the means, who has an itch to buy a football club and wants to do it relatively cheaply, attempting to build it from there. Maybe Corney got lucky and found just the right person to do that or maybe Lemsagam heard through whatever means and contacted Corney himself. We may never know.

As for your nagging doubt...why not just put it to one side and enjoy the current football being served up, along with the air of excitement that some much needed investment may just be coming along to augment the club? Just because the EFL may have asked for more information does not mean anything is wrong or "dodgy" about the proposition. The fans have to get shut of this negativity, it's been around too long and only feeds on itself, growing bigger.

If it falls through, then it wasn't meant to be. It's no great loss...the World will still turn.

Absolutely loving it and have done pretty much since 20 mins in against Charlton (Last 20 at Rotherham apart)

We also missed a penalty during the initial 90 mins. (Hughes)