GlossopLatic

4 minutes ago, deyres42 said:

Enjoy is a strong word...

Not guite as strong as "scandalous" to describe the inclusion of Mcgahey or "absolute shite" to describe half the current squad who have got us into the top 7.

I'm sat in my own front room having cracked open a beer on sat night watching Latics feel some of the rest of you should do too it's going to be OK don't worry.

Anyone still enjoying the novelty of watching us fairly regularly on TV it one of the plus points of being National League and being a big draw in it.

Nors should have done better there.

7 minutes ago, yarddog73 said:

I can't imagine Garner has come in to warm the bench.

Probably not but he might have to start there it wouldn't be an unreasonable move.

We'll see.

I'd go with

Hudson

Sachdev Hobson Raglan Kitch

                    Conlon

             Sheron      Lundstrum 

   Dallas       Norwood     Walker

Think it would be a good chance to change formation Dallas and Walker playing wither side of Norwood.

We are coming off a bad defeat and we owe this lot one for what they did to us in November.

Mellon shouldn't have to say much to them for this they should be going out with a point to prove start fast and we can get into them.

I've defended Nuttall on here in the past and really wanted him to do well. I've seen some of the arguments on here about his languid style and possibly not playing to his strengths and they are legitimate. I do believe he falls into the category of "their is a player in there somewhere"

But whichever way you look at it we've not got bang for our buck. For what we paid we should be expecting more from him and we have given him a chance he was a regular starter when he came here and was first choice for most of last season I was hoping pre-season would really get him into shspe but its not really happened for him this season either despite being a starter at the start of the season. Mellon gave him a chance in his first home game and he didn't take it. 

I don't dislike any of our players even those that don't do well (we'll maybe I have in the past but not now) I don't Boo ex players when they return its just wasted energy. I certainly hold no ill feelings towards him who knows he might come back better, or he might thrive at Cheltenham it wouldn't be beyond him to do that EFL clubs were looking at him when he signed for us. But I get the feeling he will fall into the category of could of done better with his time at Oldham he's not the first he won't be the last.

Tshimanga has signed for Boreham Wood interesting....

1 hour ago, Dave_Og said:

Not the point I'm making.  I simply do not understand, never will, never have why away games have to be treated so differently to home games.  Its a football pitch with a goal at each end.  Just set out your style and go with it.  Clearly that has to be adaptable to opposition, conditions, circumstances but saying play 433 at home and 532 away, or whatever, is bonkers in my book.

Home advantage counts. The vast majority of teams win more at home than they do away. 

Think we all agree our achiles heel is playing against lesser sides at home when the emphasis is on us to attack and break teams down. I think we need to start faster in these games get into the opposition quickly press hard from the front and take the ball at every given opportunity, if you don't you give teams a foothold in the game and they build from there.

36 minutes ago, whittles left foot said:

But they are a bad investment-business sense seems to fly out the window with football ownership-something I dearly hope is not going to happen to us BUT the signs are not good at the moment. I am amazed that I actually have to contemplate this after what has happened in the past.

Depending upon sugar daddies and foreign owned money laundering is not a viable business plan but it is happening all around us in this sport.

If you are looking for a financial return they are terrible investments you are right. But most don't do it for thst it's often for a love of the sport and abit of fame too it can stroke people egos. 

I think with the Rothwells it is more a case of civic duty that they are doing this. They probably see it as an investment in the town itself. I think we all realise that their pockets are only so deep and with the parachute payments ending this summer and with the majority of the squad contracted beyond the summer then you do wonder how much wiggle room or resource will be available this summer.

I think they are in this for the long haul though. I do hope though that they aren't gambling on getting promoted and then thinking the club will be profitable because while our revenue will clearly jump so too will the asking price of players that we will need to compete at that level. That said its not something I will be losing sleep over just yet.

12 minutes ago, BP1960 said:

 

At least its not another centre back or defensive midfielder.

True but I feel if anything maybe we need a more creative type of player but we will see.

5 minutes ago, Guy Branston Pickle said:

We've not exactly got an aging squad have we. Who's over the age of 30? Norwood, Garner, Hogan, Gardner who barely plays. Think that's it. Nowt wrong with adding a bit of experience from someone who's been there and done it

Add in Raglan who's the 31 and Fondop who is 30.

Not quite sure what to think of this signing not too sure it's exactly what we need but at the same time I feel abit churlish complaining about bringing in a player with such experience which could be very useful at the business end of the season when we need calm heads and ofcourse I trust the manager. Let's see how it works out.

I guess Mellon didn't rate the forwards currently on our books due to the fact he signed 2 stikers. Surely Willoughby and Reid will be moving on. Moving Nuttall on might be more tricky one feels.

26 minutes ago, Norewgian Gunnar said:

If players go on loan and earn less do the club owning the player not make up the balance of contracted salary. If so we would still be saving money

If you have ever played football manager you will know that loaning a player will come with the caveat of paying a certain percentage of the players wages so let's say Willoughby goes to Fylde on loan for the rest of the season they might only be able to pay 20% of his wages and we pay the rest which we might agree too aslong as he doesn't play against us. We make a small saving and make sure he can't do any damage to us either.

1 hour ago, oafc1955 said:

19 in 104 before he joined us, less than 1 in 5. That record alone wouldn’t warrant paying £100k and £3.5k a week unless he was pretty outstanding…..which he is not!

Off the top of my head £ for £ I can’t think of a worse signing and I include David Currie & record signing Ian Olney too!

Queensy Menig 4 games 1 goal and over £500k outlay in wages that is the worst signing in the clubs history in terms of value for money.

1 minute ago, True Tic said:

Someone was selling raffle tickets in the main stand on Tuesday 

Rattles 

Speaking of things you don't see or hear at football matches anymore

Rattles Remember them?

They were still a thing from my first memories of going to football matches in the early 90s I remember but died off as the decade wore on.

41 minutes ago, simplythemostimportantkick said:

BP definitely rates himself a better manager than Mellon. I’d stake my balls on it. 

He'd give Dan Gardner a 10 year contract.

3 hours ago, yarddog73 said:

Or alternatively we can just contribute by posting what we've seen today on the Woking match thread, novel idea I know but it may catch on.

By all means do I'm not stopping you. I actually wasn't having a go we've lost 1 - 0 at home in a very winnable game the criticism is very justifiable.

1 hour ago, nzlatic said:

Exactly this. I just think too many are searching for proof we won’t go up. Self preservation so hopes aren’t dashed like they have been over the last 3 decades?

 

We will finish in the top 7 so will have a shot at it. Plenty of time left to improve more in the areas we need to. And we have the manager and plenty of players in the squad who’ve done it before. Most other fans have experienced lots of promotion seasons so will know that it’s never perfect and bad games do happen. 
 

Too many poor performances today but if you add Conlon to the team that finished the game then I think that could be quite an exciting forward line. And even with that lower level of performance we still created chances. 

I think a few will need this message board tonight to have a vent and get it out of there system it probably best to let them do it.

21 minutes ago, Ritchierich said:

oh fuck off

 I'll put that down to the understandable frustration of getting beat 0-1 at home to Woking.

On a more serious note I think this highlights where we are at the moment a team that will win more than it loses and should get 75-80 points but is unfortunately capable of throwing in the odd typical Latics moment like today. We will get in the play offs it could go either way we could very well still get promotion the teams around us are equally fallable as today's results show.

But if we don't go up this season then it won't be much of a jump to improve it for the season after and make the extra steps to promotion.

Today was frustrating but the roof hasn't fallen in on our promotion hopes yet.

On 1/26/2024 at 9:38 AM, GlossopLatic said:

1-0 defeat and some hystetical douche coming on here saying they hope they never see any of the current squad play for us ever again

I did warn everybody

1 minute ago, Ritchierich said:

We’re still shit aren’t we? No surprise really as the same half arsed weak minded players are all still there. It needs completely overhauling and unlikely MM can do that this season.

 

I know we’re still solidly in the playoffs but can anyone seriously see this lot battling their way through 3 “cup finals”? Not a feckin chance

And as predicted someone stepped up to the plate

In other news Bromley and Barnet both losing.....

1 hour ago, yarddog73 said:

More reason for doing away with the defensive formation at home then, I'd be sacrificing a centrehalf and putting another attacking minded player in there, give Woking the problem.

Splitting hairs abit here from me but 3-5-2 isn't necessarily a defensive formation as such it's just that we've often played a midfield that is more defensive minded with 3 defenders 2 wing backs in Sutton and Kitching and Mcgahey in the centre it has at times asked abit too much of Lundstrum to do the creating who I think is more a box to box midfielder than a creative one. Now we have Conlon in there I'm a little more confident on our ability to make chances

If Hogan is suspended we could well go to 4 at the back and potentially bring on either Dallas or Walker or maybe bring both in and move Fondop to the bench and go 4-3-3. 

The important thing is we have options 

43 minutes ago, GlossopLatic said:

1-0 defeat and some hystetical douche coming on here saying they hope they never see any of the current squad play for us ever again

On a more serious note I'm expecting them to come here dig in get men behind the ball and make it ugly we've struggled a couple of times with that this season it will be a test. We've beaten Barnet twice by Barnet playing a high line and Norwood and Fondop getting in behind them and terrorising them we might not probably won't get that space in behind them tomorrow it might require abit more guile and quite abit more patience to break them down.

1-0 defeat and some hystetical douche coming on here saying they hope they never see any of the current squad play for us ever again

56 minutes ago, yarddog73 said:

Hip flasks for shin pads

Yeah you expected to see him pull one out of his socks half way through the game and during a drinks breaks he'd light a fag while leaning agsinst the goal post.

Such a shame we didn't have Gary Harkins for longer than we did he was a proper cult hero looked like the type of  bloke you literally dragged out the pub at 5 to 3 but he could properly play.