welshgaz

Crowd 4600. Looked to be at least half that from us.

One half of me says judge Dickov when he isn't missing his best players and the other says he should be coping better with what he has got. Either way I'm gutted tonight.

Thought he did ok. Not aggressive enough in my opinion but did drag people out of position well. Super ball for adeyemi too.

Here's 3 crazy bets I've had this season 1) Lewis to get 10 league goals for morecambe 2) Reid to get 10 from open play 3) kuqi to get 20 league goals. I'm definatly going to be 30 quid lighter.

All I can come up with is Harry Harry Bunn to tune of Harry kewell! Oldham fans are not exactly renound for making good chants up! What can we expect from him? A poucher who plays on the shoulder?

They can have him

 

at Dale in 2010 making 11 appearances, scoring once

I thought he was A threat at boundary park this season. Guaranteed to score tommorow now!

Was Frankie even that good Scarborough apart? Been told off a few people that Royle picked him ahead of Palmer in the cup final when he really shouldn't of done.

With over 1500 sold I think we will see nearly 2500 now it's pay on the day which isn't a bad effort.

Matty fryatt ??

He is catching for Hull I think.

Correct Patrick.

He was on the bench when we played them recently

Possibly.

 

Or, if you look on the official site Reid is wearing a long sleeved shirt in the game against Sheff Utd at home but in the latest gallery action against Yeovil he is wearing a short sleeved one, perhaps he has switched to the short sleeves and the club want to cash in on the long sleeved one?

My money is on that he has got to fat for the one he was wearing at the start of the season.

Thought ball had a decent scoring record?

Maybe not.Personal information

Full name David Michael Ball[1]

Date of birth 14 December 1989 (1989-12-14) (age 22)

Place of birth Whitefield, England

Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

Playing position Striker

Club information

Current club Peterborough United

Number 9

Youth career

2007–2009 Manchester City

Senior career*

Years Team Apps† (Gls)†

2009–2011 Manchester City 0 (0)

2010–2011 → Swindon Town (loan) 18 (2)

2011– Peterborough United 34 (8)

2011–2012 → Rochdale (loan) 14 (3)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct

But has barely played, however he would rip some serious arseholes in this division after in effect a year's rest. Be like a caged gorilla waiting to be released… (not a racist remark, before the thought police seize on it…) TBH i'm not sure i'd want to go back. The fact no-one else has taken a punt on him says a lot as he mostly did ok here. We need a nippy, poacher to compliment either Reid or Kuqi.

 

 

However my money's on someone :censored: like Scapuzzi, or someone who has failed to rip any trees in loan spells elsewhere like David Ball.

Thought ball had a decent scoring record?

I would of thought youngster. My wild punt would be David ball.

Don't think we need a lump, we need nippy and able to poach, but who? Christ knows! Where's Billy Clarke? He getting a game?

He is at Crawley. Surely Dickov has a loanee in mind.

I've woke up this morning, still as pissed off as I was last night. I didn't go, I was all set to go on the official coach until finding out I was working today. I'm glad I didn't go...

 

Kuqi hasn't scored in open play in each of his last 16 League Games. During those 16 League games we've scored only 14 goals, we've won only 4 of those games and scored more than one on three occasions. Take out those 3 games and it's 6 goals in 13 games!!!! Not good enough, with players like Morais, Taylor, Simpson and KMB we make chances (mostly) but the wrong man is in the team to take advantage. Every striker goes through a drought and you do feel for Kuqi, but if we had not seen this blind faith bollocks with Tonk last season, then maybe my patience would not have snapped. Two or three weeks ago, I thought we'd done enough to be safe, now i'm not so sure. The LUCKY win at Sheffield, hid the cracks imo and i'm convinced that we are about to embark on another run like last season. Dickov is not learning from his mistakes. He talks a good game, but does little to back it up with a team that makes the same mistakes week in week out, that runs out of steam after an hour.

 

Saturday is now massive, if he starts with Kuqi and we lose AGAIN, I feel the worm will turn. He's done a decent job here and brought in some decent players. But his loyalty to one or two has undone a lot of good work in both his seasons here, yes he's been hampered in both years by losing his midfielders, but he has options already at the club. He should have the balls to use them……….

I agree with everything you write. It's almost as it dickov is too stubborn to drop kuqi after publicly backing him. I expect to see him in the sideo on Saturday for what will be a tough game as dale will be fired up.

The knives are out tonight aren't they? Lets be honest, did anyone expect a win? Let's not forget there's a reason Stevenage have been up and around the play-offs for most of the season. We've got an injury crisis, with Furman, Wes, Simpson out that's 3 of our best players out. We had a CB/CM at left-back and a striker upfront who can't score in front of an open goal currently. Start of season most people said we'd finish bottom half/mid table which is where we are now, with a couple of games in hand on a few teams around us.

We're going round In circles on this board. Yes people at the start of the season would be happy with lower mid table but it's the manner of how we find ourselves where we are. Concentration levels, failure to keep clean sheets, failure to play well in both halves, dickovs annoying persistence in playing out of form players, or player should I say. Running out of steam again, yes it's down to injuries but there's still enough quality in the team to avoid these consistent defeats.

Fuming and I didn't even go. Told we should have had a pen and Taylor and kuqi almost came to blows. If you can only muster 1 shot on target in 90 minutes then we get what we deserve. Knocks the stuffing out of us nicely for two tough away games.

When has he played there apart from Liverpool where he had a good game? Glassman has gone off injured.

Don't think anyone saw that coming. Fingers crossed it works.

Hope norwich are paying his wages, he will do if he's cheap.

The step ups huge. I'm sure Matt smiths record would compete with the best strikers outside the football league.

Agreed if your under 10 you get hooked on what your dad introduces you too. That's what happened with me. Saying that there was a lot more to do when I started going, the junior Latics lounge In The lookers and the guess the gate. Playing on the video games a half time made sure I attended every other week!

Seems like such a Simple idea and one that wouldn't be too risky financially.