GlossopLatic

1 min 15 a young shez in hot pants

Thats the best post on this thread

So you have never ever ever ever gone in the home and have you ever sat near to an away fan at BP andif so what were your thoughts on them?

When you consider that they could of easily migrated their few season ticket holders in the pop side to the cheadle end and accomodated them there then I think they had an obligation for doing so, and I think the proof will be in the pudding on this one as they will no doubt do that when Leeds come to Town. What I think we both agree on is that the people going in the cheadle end looking for a ruck are utter c:censored:ts and they should have kept quiet like the other Latics who went in the home end and didn't find any trouble. So partly I agree with you, I just felt Stockport themselves could and should have done a little more, and probably will do in future.

I'm sorry but yes Stockport should have given us more tickets are you saying that 3 points is more important than the safety of those that come to watch the game an innocent bystander could of got caught up in that shall we give Leeds the small section of the RRE when they come. I'm not pinning the entire thing on Stockport because as people have said if you go in the home end and I have done it in the past then you keep your gob shut if certain individuals went in the home end and goaded the home fans when we scored then its their own fault if they got a shoeing as far as im concerned. But as a football club Stockport County have a responsibility to ensure peoples safety when they attend Edgley Park and will no doubt do more when they play the likes of Leeds who like us will easily sell out and could have a few in the home end.

He is quick and strong. But at the moment not much of a goal threat.

Nevertheless if you were to take two of those players out of Liverpools team and they were playing West Brom at Home they would still be looking to turn them over atleast if they were serious about challenging Man U and Chelsea. Against Leicester the week after we are going to need all the big guns blazing but Hereford at home we should have enough in our squad to beat them minus greegs and Hughes if we are serious about promotion.

I'm not ranking them specifically but saying that Hughes must be in the top 3 strikers in the division and Gregan would be in the top 3 Centre Halfs.

Not the wisest of moves? thought Jones was the one positive to come out of last night strong composed and a tidy footballer to boot. Certainly if you compare his performance to Eardley's who was given the runaround they got in behind him to often. I'm not pinning the whole blame of last night on Neals shoulders as we badly missed Gregan in their to marshall that defense but I just hope the lad gets last night out of his system quickly.

Their will be alot of people who will have seen last nights results and expect us to float back down the league into mid table. We need to prove that isn't the case. We will be missing Sean Gregan for this game and possibly Hughes and while accepting that these 2 are the in the top 3 players in the division in their respective positions we can't purely rely on them to get us promoted as both could well like last season spend a large chunk out injured. If we are serious about automatic promotion we will come flying out of the traps and put last nights shambles behind us. We are looking for a reaction from the players now this result should be a wake up call.

I'd go along with that although Lewis to be fair does put himself about well for someone his size Ive always felt. I would also love to know when we are going to see Kieran Lee is he fit? is his head right? QPR were keen to sign him the lad has some pedigree.

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Agree 100% having been in a similar position to kieran when I was at uni in Salford I can appreciate its a bit of a pain going to matches I certainly didn't attend week night matches in this time but did with the saturdays. Regarding the Scunthorpe, Colchester, and Hereford situation I would be very surprisesd if their situation wasn't the same as ours just that we are not aware of it.

good job he's got an away ticket otherwise it would be Robinsonslover

As hardly any club at this level makes a profit at all plus the potential added policing costs and potential for trouble then I think its is far less hasle to give the away fans more tickets.

Correct me if I'm wrong but originally wasn't building meant to commence about Febuary time meaning opening for 2009-10 season so we were already going to knock it down while building on the residential development took place. As things stand we have a capacity for 10,500 which is enough all considering at this level the only problems will be if we get promotion thats when the capacity constraints will become a problem.

Good to see we have found something we agree on However I don't think we are a helpless victim as you say, their is plenty to be optimistic about the future while the credit crunch has meant that the development of the stadium has had to be but on the backburner I am confident it will go through. The squad we have built is good, we have a manager with a good future and a youth system churning out good talent. We will go onto bigger better things. In the ideal world TTA would have come in in 1995 which would have given them a much better starting position compared to where they picked us up in 2003 but it wasn't to be. Nevertheless they are here now and are taking the club forward.

Here you go Gregan - a Football League legend Paul Fletcher 29 Sep 08, 10:30 AM When I think of my favourite players from the Football League Sean Gregan must come out on top. There is something about Gregan on a football pitch that I have always found inspiring. It is not his pace - he never had much - or the deftness of his touch. It is not his dribbling skills or a feint that leaves opponents foundering. He can certainly pick a pass and is a decent header of the ball but it is not these either. No, it is his swagger. He moves across a football pitch, home or away, like he owns it. It breeds confidence. It makes people believe. Pushing 35, Gregan is at Oldham now and no longer a commanding central midfielder. As with many others before him, he has dropped back into the centre of defence. However, the competitiveness burns as brightly as ever and it must have frustated Gregan to watch from the sidelines as the Latics drew 1-1 with Huddersfield. The suspension is a legacy of a professional foul on Hartlepool's Ritchie Jones and the defender will miss a further two games. Despite dropping two points against the Terriers, Oldham remain top of League One after five wins and three draws from their opening eight fixtures. It is exciting times in a particularly cold corner of Greater Manchester. Gregan knows all about success at this level. He skippered Preston to the League One title in 2000 and West Brom to the riches of the Premier League in 2002. Gregan, who started out as a professional with Darlington in 1991, has played in all four divisions and made more than 500 league appearances. Understandably, such an experienced player is not getting carried away just yet. "It is early days and for a club like Oldham a few injuries or suspensions will hit you hard but the quality in the squad has improved and I think we have as good a chance as anybody," Gregan told me. Gregan is one of several senior players at Boundary Park, with the likes of Mark Crossley (39) and Andy Liddell (35) also adding experience and guile to a squad that contains talented youngsters such as defender Neil Eardley (19) and midfielder Chris Taylor (21). Greegs, as he is known, is relishing having younger players around to "do the running" on the pitch and reckons they can only benefit from the good habits and experience that senior pros who have seen it and done it can pass on to them. But if he had his way things would be a little bit different. It is with an almost wistful sense of nostalgia that Gregan recalls his own days as an apprentice at Darlington. "We would be out in the freezing cold and the snow, cleaning the stands, then the dressing rooms and after that boots," remembered Gregan. "Now the young lads come in and leave at the same time as us." It is not just a case of sour grapes or a slightly sadistic streak, for Gregan it is about hunger and desire. Gregan illustrates his point by recounting a conversation he had with then Leeds manager Kevin Blackwell shortly after he joined the Yorkshire club in September 2004. Gregan was shocked to hear that some apprentices earned £75,000 a year, describing it as "ridiculous". With those sort of earnings at such a young age, thought Gregan, the youngster would think he had already made it and take his foot off the gas. Last year the very same injury and suspension problems that Gregan is wary of this season forced manager John Sheridan to blood some of his younger players. They sometimes lacked a winning mentality and would let their heads drop if Oldham conceded. "There is a different air about the squad now," reckons Gregan. Twice this season Oldham have trailed by two goals - the Latics went on to draw one and win the other. I asked Gregan whether he sees many similarities between the Preston side he captained to promotion at the start of the Millennium and the current Oldham side. Preston spent more money, had a bigger squad and a better stadium than the Latics was the Guisborough-born player's assessment. It is a different story with the managers. David Moyes, who has gone on to be a real success with Everton, was in his first permanent managerial position back then, as Sheridan is at Oldham now. In Gregan's experience, both are ambitious, like to get the ball down and play with width and always look to try to win a game, never simply to avoid defeat. And both are extremely passionate. If that occasionally lands them in trouble, then so be it, reckons Gregan, better than Sven-Goran Eriksson "who looks like his granny has just passed away". Gregan had already joined Preston when Moyes was promoted to manager but initially joined Oldham on loan. Dennis Wise had made it clear that his days at Leeds were numbered and Gregan was keen to have a look before committing to what would probably be his final move. He had played against Sheridan and knew that he had been a quality player - "You could not get the ball off him" - and he was not disappointed by what he saw in training. There was a lot of time dedicated to ball work and it became clear that Shezza, as Gregan refers to his boss, shared Moyes' desire to try to win every game. "It is enjoyable and when you get to my age that is what you want," reflects Gregan. The managerial road is one that I could easily imagine Gregan travelling down. In conversation Gregan is forthright and honest. He speaks very well about the game; what he has to say makes sense and moves beyond the usual level of cliché that has become standard fare in football these days. He is not averse to the odd quip but knows when to be serious. A natural leader as a player, he is the current Oldham captain. All of that, though, will have to wait. For now, Gregan wakes up each day looking forward to the 90-minute drive that takes him to training from his home in Harrogate. His philosophy is that you can never have too many promotions and he remains intent on winning another one. It would give me real pleasure to see a player I have always regarded highly win another promotion. Who are the players you most admire from the lower divisions?

I don't think he has actually had a go at TTA he certainly didn't in the last post he blamed the two PAST boards not the currrnet one. Ive read plenty of the corporals posts and challenged him on his views he seems to puts the blame more on the state of football generally and that we are forever going nowhere.

To be fair to the Corp he is having a pop at the previous boards of directors and council not TTA who talked about a new stadium for years and never had the drive to make it reality so he does have a point on this one. Only TTA have had the drive to push it through and because the way the world is at this moment that will have to be but on hold and take a little longer than first hoped.

I don't think we are the only team who will be caused problems by Dickinson he may not have been amazing for you this season but he is a good player and will be a handful for alot of teams he faces.

To be fair though today (and maybe its because we have been spoiled with excellent football recently) we were disappointing If we had lost today would you have said we wouldn't have deserved it?

Spot on knowone showered themselves in glory today Lomax's distribution was poor today but so was everyoneelses really.

Yeah I agree with that our passing today was shoddy we just kept giving the ball away it was careless and we didn't play with a real sense of urgency either I thought we seemed to amble along we lacked tempo. YES I know we are still top YES I know we are still unbeaten and YES we could have lost that but we will have to do better than today to remain there. Davies well he will get his chance make no mistake about that and I would back him to take it However it would have been unfair to drop Lewis today maybe next week Davies will get his chance.

To be fair it really shouldn't come to this as we have never had this much of a problem in the past (well atleast not for the last 15 years anyway) after the first game my dad said that their would be alot more trouble this season because of the fact that home and away fans were in the RRE and sadly he is being proved right our policing bill is going to sour this season because of it. Personally if it was upto me I would let the fans in the large section exit by the Broadway side of the ground only as then they can't get to each other as they come out as quickly.