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Ye gods............no........not unless he's improved 100%!

My dale supporting mate says he's hardly pulling up any trees there.

Aye. One of my mates tells me smalleys doing pretty crap and that he will be sent back.

Jus seen our highlight on football league show. Yes, Highlight. We got one highlight

Im really looking forward to this game now. It's going to be a very big big big game. Definately gonna be some banter between fans, suppose it's all fun

Haha, before the game during training, a ball went over the bar and hit a seat in the chaddy and smashed it. Just thought i'd mention that

you joking? don't think he won a header what so ever today.

Nah, im deadly serious I saw him win 1 or 2. but still, no need for the drop

Drop Touncarra.. send him back to the N.E. ASAP.

 

Play anyone but him..trust me he is another Jim Beardall.

I don't think we should drop him at all.

He wins headers and does a hell of alot of running.

Back from the game.

1st half:- we was shocking, colchester definately dominated the first half and it was very boring at times. Their right midfielder shat all over evina at times.

2nd half:- We came out looking a brilliant side with some great passing. All it was lackin was a finish.

To be honest, i've took alot of positives out of this game, 2nd half we looked brilliant, i thought kelly made an impact at times and tounkara was let down by a bad shot. jones came out a different player in the 2nd half and put some decent balls into the box.

The ref was one of the worst i've seen in a while. He didn't have a clue at all.

Unbeaten at home, another point, look forward.

Keep the faith.

I agree 100%. As a long term season ticketholder I am there for most of the games and constantly trying to get mates and colleagues there aswell. Just recently talked my mate who is a red into coming to 2 games............. then we get knobheads like on the radio this week saying they dont want City fans (or probably United fans). Anyone who goes has a responsibility to do their bit this season, it really could be our last you never know.

 

The club also needs to do their bit aswell though and this offer shouldnt just stop in the town, it should be extended to Tameside and other areas aswell. Why give out tickets to kids, just have them turn up for free as long as there is a paying adult with them (and let the adult in for £13-£14)!

It just does my head in, it really does. I love going to latics games. All the stay aways are killing this club.

 

argh, not this again. run for your lives!!!!!

Is that a young wayne rooney with the grey sweater on, in the bottom left?

I really do feel for all us fans who do attend. We get behind the club and support the team all the time. If attendances don't improve this season. Were in serious trouble. Keep the faith.

I went to the game too and I didnt see him diving. If I was tackled like the one he received in the box then I think I (or anyone else) would have gone down in the same way.

I didn't go to the game but on the highlights it looked a certain penalty.

I hate the cheating side of football don't get me wrong. But he is a brilliant player.

If he's winding em up. He's obviously doing something right for our club. Brilliant player, glad he's banging some goals in. KTF.

Brilliant win!

Brilliant win!

losing 1-0.

brentford goalscorer: myles weston (4 minutes) pfft.

Can you please not refer to us as Tics', its horrid.

Lineup:

Brill; Lee, M'voto, Jarrett, Evina; Jones, Stephens, Furman, Alessandra; Taylor; Tounkara.

Subs: Holdsworth, Kelly, Black, Brooke, Gerrard, Dickov, Christophe.

I feel it's a bit mean just suddenly shoving black out of the first team. :/

Tis ashame but he's a player who really does want first team football as he's getting on quite a bit now. Fair play to Dickov though. Keep the faith.

Answer: Shutup

I might be u-16 myself but dont do this! its bad enough with chavs at JPT games!

Aha, reminded me of the shrewsbury game. 75% of the RRE was chavs. :P

it'd be brilliant if the atmosphere suddenly came back to BP. doubt it will.

Wonder how many have been sold now?

can't see atmosphere at bp getting better. even when we win/winning crowd are quiet.

The odd bit of noise comes from chaddy sometimes. Hardly anything. Im up for chanting and having a laugh but hardly anyoner does it, I try starting something off Hopefully the atmosphere will return.. one day.

Ah prepare for bottle football at the bottom of the chaddy. And kids playing tig at half time

It's my 25th season this and the 8th out of the last 9 I've had a season ticket. I'd say to those complaining about the facilities (and to be fair i've done my fair share of this) yes I agree the facilities are poor but are they any worse than when you started going? When I started coming to games you pissed against a wall in the Chaddy End and as a kid you often had to cling to the fence to get a good view! Choice of food and beverages was meat and tater pies, hot drinks and a bag of crisp if you were lucky, and maybe clix chewing gum that blew your head off. We had a squad of 14 if we were lucky. So what's different?

 

The ground has lost a bit of soul with the loss of the Broadway Stand and it does still feel strange even though this is the third year since it was dropped, for those that want a matchday experience, I've always rolled up at ten to three, watch the game vent my frustration and sod off at the final whistle and whinge, celebrate or commiserate in the pub. A lot of things have changed since the good old days, some for the better - some definitely for the worse.

 

One thing that has never changed is that no matter how :censored:e we are there's always that sense of anticipation and trepidation when walking down Sheepfoot Lane on matchday. Despite the doom and gloom around the club over the last few years, Oldham Athletic are my club, it's what I do at least every other Saturday - I don't want a medal, same as I don't want to hear why people are not going - we know why! You've simply given up, got better things to do, got bored with it. I've been on the brink but Oldham Athletic are my team and I'll still be watching them if they end up playing the likes of FC United and Marine. I'll be honest, partly down to finances, part disaffection has seen me reign in my away days (although I'm going on Saturday and should have gone last week but for illness)

 

The biggest issue we have, and it's not facilities, the smoking ban, the prices, Beelzebub Hardy, Corney and Co, Stands being dropped, over zealous stewarding, pies running out, Chavvy kids in the RRE, The drum etc etc etc - these reasons don't help of course but I think the biggest single reason for disaffection is 14 years in this division. There's no freshness, its the same teams year after year, everybody can beat everybody and we're seen to be treading water. Every false dawn that goes tits up 02/03, 06/07, 08/09 added to the complete balls made of the Oldham arena project adds to the growing apathy and that's key to the falling attendances. The fanbase is there, it is just incredibly dormant. In the late 80s our swashbuckling cup-runs rekindled interest in our crappy little club, unless we can do something similar - certainly a promotion or PO Final/JPT Final then we'll continue to see attendances hover around the 3,500 mark.

 

What does bother me is the club seem to have given up trying to entice people to BP, I hope Failsworth happens as it is a new start - hopefully with new vibrant ownership that do not promise the world, then give up at the first sign of not getting their own way like TTA did in 2006.

 

Those that ask me "Why do you go and watch Oldham?", "We're not the greatest, never have been, never will be but they're my team and an integral part of my identity. My Grandad was a fan, my dad is, I am and my two kids are."

 

Like others have said, I don't support Latics for glory, I support them for that split second of unbridled joy such as Frankie Bunn nicking the winner at Villa, Stitch equalising at The Dell, Roger Palmer's last minute at home to WBA, Ian Marshall's late winner v Notts County, Ian Olney's late goals v Leeds and Tottenham, Neil Adams late, late brace at Goodison, Stitch's late winner v Middlesbrough, Andy Holt's winner at Wrexham, Steve Whitehall's winner v Millwall, Tipton's equaliser v Bury, Colusso v Bury, Butcher's winner v Colchester etc, etc most of those games meant nothing in the grander scheme of things but to us Latics fans for that fleeting moment (and a good few days afterwards) they mean everything and that's why we support a lower division team. ANY win means the world to us!

 

And of course there's the real special moments too that many of still dine out on Wembley Twice, THAT Penalty, wins at Maine Road, beating United at BP and numerous giant killings. And the reason why so much of this is buried in our deepest consciousness is that for every late-goal or giant-killing there is a Bradford Cup Replay, a hammering at Oxford or Spurs, not turning up at home to Southend, hammered at Rotherham or Reading or not scoring in 20 odd games like last season.

 

I'm a Latics fan, because you never know what you're gonna get. Yes we can try and predict what will happen and sometimes we're right but the one thing you get from being an Oldham Athletic supporter is variety! If I wanted to win every week I'd follow United, City or Liverpool (Ahem ) I think many of the stayaways should stop thinking of reasons not to go and think about why they're Latics fans in the first place. At the end of the day it's 90 minutes football if you want to go, go...

Superb post pal. Summed it up tbh.