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To be honest on this occassion I can't help feeling Brazil reaped what they sewed. Maybe not Kaka specifically, but in the moments leading upto this on more than one occassion the Brazil players were buying freekicks left, right and centre by diving all over the place like they'd been shot. I'm not a fan of diving or cheating in anyway, football's been ruined by it but in this case, Brazil got what they deserved. Just a shame Kaka was the one to take the hit as he had nothing to do with it.

100% agree and Lucio is the worse for diving and feigning injuries.

I watched Lost from the beginning and i also felt disappointed/let down.

This whole ending was TERRIBLE. It had NOTHING to do with 6 seasons of lost. It was an end that ONLY explained the "alt universe" that was introduced to us in season 6.

NOTHING was explained about the island or what we have been watching for the last 6 years.

Not wanting to start rumours

A mate of a mate as just seen Maradonna coming out of westwood tesco, maybe he'll be here after the World Cup?

Not played since November - bad injury.

Doesn't play in any positions we need to add-to

Not for me........

Huddersfield Reserves FC

We will deffo sign him then!

Maybe I should not go anymore because I can't trust myself for kicking off with my own fans - not the players or manager - with my own fans.

 

Tracy, people are totally :censored:ed off with what they pay for and see on the pitch, what else can they do other than vent their frustration?

 

Our captain and Chis Taylor have asked you for your support in several articles. Are we listening?

 

Are they listening? These people are in a very priviliged position and are the first to moan when they get a bit of stick. I'll swap a full weekend of 12 hour nights with them and see how they fancy a real :censored:ing job.

exactly - if i was one of the players and saw 2000 of MY club fans booing me i would want to put on performance that would shut them up! Not hide for 90mins because they are booing me!

The "few chavs" stop coming, you will moan about our poor attendences and the fact that people are stopping coming because we are :censored:e. If your that bothered, then encourage some atmosphere yourself.

 

I'm sick to :censored:in death of happy clappers, who sit there on their hands moaning at fans who are passionate enough to tell the gob:censored:e players and manager what we think of them.

 

Matthew Upson said the other week about his fans booing them and singing your not fit to wear the shirt : "I would rather play for a set of fans passionate enough to sing things like that."

 

But you sit on your hands at the next game and, instead of creating a "positive" atmosphere, just give dirty looks to people who say anything negative as we lose at home to another team who are actually :censored:e!!!!!!

+1

Penney's fault, or the players?

 

If we go down, then Penney has to go.

If we stay up, even by the skin of our teeth, then Penney to get a chance to clear the deadwood and see how we are doing by Nov.

 

But again, injuries have not helped, and some players let themselves down.

What is the deadwood? Arent must of the players Penney brought to the club (although must are loanees)?

apparently the dad has landed in Manchester but still hasn't been seen or spoken to his family, basically he's gone missing since landing. source is BBC local news

I know what you are saying, it is the forwards that win the games, defenders stop you losing them.....

Someone try telling that to DP

http://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/page/NewsU...1976121,00.html

postponed

Can you really see use going to Elland Road on a Tuesday night, with the likes of Smalley, Colbeck, Jason Price and inexperienced players like Furman and Stephens going up against Robert Snodgrass, Jermaine Beckford, Neil Kilkenny, Luciano Becchio, Max Gradel, Gary Mcsheffrey, Bradley Johnson and getting anything but an arse whooping?

did you expect the same with Walsall mid week just after we beat them (and they were poor)?????? Did you expect Brighton to get anything today?????

There is always a chance and Leeds are on a bad run whilst we have picked it up last couple of games.

Sorry just read my last sentence...........we'll lose!!!!!!

I've been there a few times recently. Always with a sense of deep unease hanging over me. I'd forgotten but my dad reminded us the other day that my brother and me apparently were begging our parents not to move there from Royton when we were in our early teens! Sense and reason prevailed.

The unease is because the gates shut at 11pm, no one leaves or enters!

Because there isn't any 'Gingers Out' graffiti around Oldham, there aren't far right groups calling for gingers to be 'voluntarily re-settled' to Ireland, gingers don't get their windows put in for being ginger.....

So its still alright to call Gingers then???? its still bullying the "minority" isn't it?

Ginger, and from Shaw. Fate hasn't smiled on you, has it mate?

Not ginger mate, try again. Much worse areas than Shaw, although the night life is like a funeral!

okay, okay, I get the feeling my poll has gone on too long..

 

Gingerism?????.....is it in the dictionary ???? So how do you get the gingers down to BP from a hypthetical marketing point of view?

 

Free Iron Bru and a ginger nut biccie at half time?

 

So c'mon, you named a hypothetical market target, how do you get them to BP?

How come its ok to take the mick out of "gingers" on here, as some of the things said above can be offensive but taking the mick out of skin colour is offensive and people are being monitored for it???

what about the "non booers" drown out the booing by standing up and singing, cheering the team on and hopefully the "booers" will either shut up or join in?!!

All this "yes we scored two goals" stuff got me thinking

Would we have scored two goals if there was only one or two goals in it with 10 mins to go?

I think Swindon may have took the foot off the gas after the fourth goal but fair play to Latics (esp Colbeck) for not giving up.

I reckon 4-3-3 is the now the best formation for us to adopt. Price is not an out-and-out striker (hence his goalscoring record). He is like Keigan Parker, an 'attacker' (although hopefully he will actually be able to play football). I think we should play Pav as the central striker, with Taylor and Price either side of him. If Aljofree has signed, he can play right-back. Goodwin can move into centre mid as the ball-winner with Stephens and either Furman/Whitaker as the attacking midfielder. The only danger is that this may actually make Latics a semi-attacking team, which David Penney seems vehemently opposed to. Let's give it a go though.

Thoughts?

Aljofree is a left back but i like your idea. tThe 4-4-3 can become 4-5-1 when defending (or away) with taylor and Price becoming midfiled/wingers ready for any counter attack.

Flight Delayed Missed Match!

given the forecast today for stockport there is no way any respectable rational referee can call the game off, or for the pitch to not thaw. only as low as 4 tonight so it should thaw overnight, 6's tomorrow - no way can it be off. if it is then blatant cheating is at hand.

Could the pitch not get flooded with this rain forecast and the snow thawing?

"Water Hogs on the pitch"

not happy bunnies are they !

 

http://www.millwall.vitalfootball.co.uk/fo...104&start=1

 

warning ..lots of naughty words..

Pot, black, kettle............im sure theres a sayin with them words!

Everyone get voting! lets try and win something this year

Also has highlights of the 6 goals bring back memories

forgot link

http://leaguecup50.com/default.aspx

This is a copy of a post on OAFC and makes some interesting obsevations!!!!!

 

 

 

Posted by VERYBORED [user Info] on 7/12/2009, 2:14 am

 

Greetings to you all - first time post and to be honest driven to it by all you purveyors of mediocrity(not all of you but most). After 35 years of die hard OAFC fanaticism i am compelled to put it to you straight.

 

To those that will happily watch my beloved OAFC die as a competitive football team (and maybe as a club)- please carry on with your pacifist acceptance of the sheer garbage that is currently employed at Boundary Park. In 35 years i have not seen such a destructive period at the club, one that has been so hard to stomach in terms of the attitude of those in charge and those on the pitch.

 

Firstly the management/ ownership. Forget the ground move, this is side show to current events. The manager has zero interest in rapport with the fans; I just cannot get any sort of feeling for his devotion to the job or to the fans. As a man i can't identify with him because he is such a none event. His signings, whilst made hastily,are universally poor and i think we all know this. Whatever the reason he has employed the wrong staff - but this does not excuse him from dismissing those he inherited in such a ridiculous way. He is yet another manager that will stubbornly use the players that he has brought to the club at the expense of others and to me this has proved criminal with the performances of Dean Brill and the absence of any striking options whilst O'Grady is out of the club and Alessandra is injured whilst out of the club.

 

Signings and players

 

Joe Colbeck - chief wimp, wouldn't want him working in my company if things got tough. The man is not focussed on winning, he is too focussed on avoiding being in the right place at the right time.

Dean Furman - headless chicken and terrible passer of the ball. Whether he has a pit bull at his side or not he will not score goals and he will not make the killer pass.

Kiegan Parker - the most shamefully self-interested player to wear the shirt for many years. How do you motivate this idiot?

Joe Jacobson - who knows, but i'll have a bet.

Jon Worthington - defensive, hard tackler? Squad player for me.

Andy Holdsworth - Squad player.

Rob Purdie - ?????

Whittaker - abandoning his team and fans every week now.

Smalley - same old none committed, just get by attitude.

 

Pawel Abbott - OK

Sean Gregan - the only committed / talented player we have week after week.

 

The point is that a good manager would at least be able to get this team to try - The only exception and very visible exception is Gregan whom must be totally amazed at the attitude of his team mates, including those players Penney has not signed. Whittaker and Smalley's attitude is a disgrace at the moment. I have seen better from Whittaker but never from Smalley and for me he is always been weak mentally. He is no longer a kid and he just doesn't want it enough.

 

Did you all know that we employ 38 players and yet we all complain that we have no money - 38 weekly salaries for players!!!!!! minus 1 for O'Grady.

 

Ok to the point

 

If Gregan can demonstrate the will to win every week why can't the rest of the team. The manager must motivate these guys to better things. I'm sorry but if i see energy and determination from only one team member and this is allowed to be the way week in week out then i don't accept it.

 

This also goes for the fans. If we accept that this is the case then it will be so.

 

I have seen many comments on here that we are a small club, few fans, crap ground etc etc and this is the wrong attitude. We were small, poorly equipped and followed by few 20 years ago. Boundary Park has always been poor and not having the Ford Stand did not stop us being top of the division this time last year!!! If we tell the football world that it's OK to come to play with Oldham and take the mickey out of us then they will or its OK not to try because we will put up with it then thats what we get. We have high standards and always have had and it's nothing to be ashamed about. Believe me if you carry on accepting mediocrity then that is what you will get. Try this - with crowds of 3000 we built a premiership football team watched by 20000 every week and we did it through good management and shrewd buying. That is the benchmark, just like Barnsley, Scunthorpe, Peterborough, Blackpool and to a lesser extent Wigan.

 

On to the owners - if ever they needed to get the fans involved then this is it. I cannot understand why they are now so distant from events. Enough criticism through various channels of the dwindling numbers of fans. The fans have gone because the entertainment has been so poor for 10 months. Joes return saw the immediate potential at 7000 fans - give them the entertainment and they will be back. These guys need to put the focus on the team and manager to get the fans back and not to blame the fans for desertion. The team has deserted the fans. I still can't believe we are in this position today having been top of the league this time last year. What on earth were they doing allowing Joe to rip the team apart if he was not staying? I hold TTA culpable of the football position we are in today. They have allowed the team to be ripped apart and have made the wrong appointment. Its time to engage the fans and understand them because surely the c..p on the field has been noticed. Time for a little pressure on Mr Penney and a lot of pressure on the team. Without the fans the club will die, without Penney it will not. For me get Lee Duxbury in charge quick. Time for some Oldham blood to get stuck in and remind these players that we are not a gravy train.

 

Final point - just imagine you are working for a company and all the sales team fail to deliver every week and from your position in the office you know its mainly down to effort. Your job is at risk because they arent trying, guess what you do - what you don't do is stick your head in the sand and hope it all works out because it doesn't. Stop the blind acceptance that things are OK because they are not - this is the worst football that any of us have seen in 35 years!!!! 15 goals in 20 games!!! Act now or you will be watching Div 2 football next year.

Please do not give the players any more excuses by saying that as a small club with few fans and a poor ground we deserve it because we don't!!!!!! If you point to the economics i will point to the fact that we are in the top 75 clubs in the country and there is are thousands of footballers out there looking for a game.

Hit the nail on the head! Agree with pretty much everything said

Somebody's been blowing your horn!

 

But congrats on being the first daft transfer "rumour" of the day.

By the way, if only person believes something is it a rumour ?

I didn't really believe it as you say just wanted to be the first "rumour" of the day, Beating RoyleArmy is an achievement but maybe he is still in school?

Edited title. Be more careful!!

cheers Don't want to upset people.

Its more of a question if any one else has heard this? My mate (i know friend of friend sounds like "poo") is usually "reliable"