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Great. Now we await news of Doyle. And I believe Lee Sinnott on OWTB before Alan Nixon any day of the week.

You are winning this transfer window when it comes to OWTB exclusives Lee, great stuff.

You’re all a bunch of... thoroughly decent chaps. And ladies!

Fake news.

It's almost certainly pay delay connected. Every cloud has a silver lining eh?

Happy Christmas gentlemen - and ladies. Nollaig shona. I look forward to being with you in Boundary Park in the new year. Looking into a March trip this time. Even if I head over on my own I can’t wait - I know it takes a lot (including cash) to attend BP regularly and I respect those who do and those who travel to the away games. Ultimately we do it for our love of the club. And I love Latics. And so does my young son (god help him) and his baby brother will too. I digress... Happy Christmas. I’m proud to count myself among you.

We got him on a free transfer. So that side of things won't have cost us a penny. He was on circa 800 euro a week where he was - so we'll presumably be paying him a bit more than that. As an aside, we can now get working on a "hey, McEleney" chant to the tune of "hey, macarena"...

We've completed the signing of Patrick McEleney on a free transfer this morning - set to be announced officially soon... this from a good source who knows his League of Ireland.

Maybe on opening day the club could have a few people there to take notes and suggestions from the supporters there. If people start seeing improvements every week they go there for a pint - some which they may have suggested - then it can really develop into something great. And my first suggestion would be to name it ‘Gordy’s’

It’d be great to get the bar off to a good start... make it a real OAFC HQ. And maybe name it after a Latics legend, big Gordy perhaps? it wouldn’t take much to help create the atmosphere in it - old photos, flags on the wall, jerseys etc - like one of every jersey going back as far as possible. I’ve many I’d happily donate. Then as long as it is reasonably comfortable and welcoming it could be great.

Jack Byrne in Irish edition of Sunday Times today: “I want to keep playing football so it could come down to whether the two clubs can reach agreement. Or somebody else could come in or Wigan could want me back, I don’t know. Nobody from Wigan has spoken to me, so until I get that call I can’t comment”. Not exactly an owtb/world exclusive I admit - but I thought I’d post it anyway.

The Irish Independent journalist who wrote the piece really knows his stuff - he's a Dundalk fan - so he'll know the ins and outs of the move. So yeah - looks like bye bye Byrne.

My mate says he’s very talented and scores spectacular goals, but is a little wary about how he might fare in the rough and tumble of league one, but overall the consensus is it’d be a good signing and we can sort him out like we did with Byrne.

Mate of mine who knows his Irish footballers says this would be a great signing.

Some beers, the time to enjoy them, and a takeover. Easy to please me - except for the last bit I suppose.

https://www.thesun.ie/sport/football/1859343/oldham-athletic-lead-race-to-sign-dundalk-ace-patrick-mceleney-while-ronan-murray-could-join-lilywhites/ Looks like we won’t be hanging on to Byrne in January - this lad is good though.

I think the main reason Martin took Roy on board was to deflect attention from himself - something that has backfired a bit on a few occasions... plus they are mates, and Roy needed to be in someone’s shadow to rebuild his reputation after some of his own managerial bloopers. As it happens, Jewell was once strongly linked with the Republic of Ireland job... Funny how managerial stock rises and falls. Those dodgy pics probably didn’t help!

On a lighthearted note, Anyone else notice how Wellens seems to be allergic to pre and post match interviews? He’s more Itchy Wellens, going on how much scratching he does when the ifollow camera is rolling...

I know there was a flurry of unnecessary new threads opened recently - but maybe now he’s our new gaffer Wellens deserves his own thread?

Yes.

So it’s time for my annual early winter “at least now we can focus on the league” post... At least now we can focus on the league.

I expect that it will continue to happen until the takeover goes through - wen're not even running on fumes right now...

Good Chaddy pic thread, this. I hope the lad gets sorted. Meanwhile the Chaddy pics are amusing. Nice work Lees!

Fair play to Mike Keegan - his Scholes story was spot on.

Two year contract. Common sense prevails.