Nohairdontcare

I think we are in big trouble and it will get worse before it gets better, if it gets better.

Ha! Good point.

One of the first things RW said when we were relegated was that the recruitment policy needed to change. That doesn’t appear to be happening.

To adapt the question to Ireland to qualify for a World Cup or Latics, given where I’m from... i’ll always love Latics more. That was clear to me after I realised how I’d celebrated a certain FA Cup goal versus Everton more wildly than I’d ever celebrated an Ireland goal... So 100 per cent Latics.

I think he’s the type of player who needs to be in comfortable surroundings to thrive. Unfortunately for all concerned, we are anything but comfortable. “The best player in Ireland” tag would have been more realistic if he had progressed to his potential. Pity it didn’t work out. Best of luck to him from here on in.

I'm looking into doing the whole away trip thing this year... I've only done one Latics away game before and that was Crewe. Grim... Speaking of grim - my grandmother was from Grimsby, and I haven't been there since I was a kid - so I'm eyeing up Grimsby v Latics on September 15th which fits in nicely with other stuff I have on work-wise... I presume there's busses that go from Boundary Park, or would most Latics fans hop on a train? Either way, I'd back plenty of beer for the journey...

Info has most likely dried up because there's not much in the way of new info at the moment, not because Wellens is gone.

I'd be flabbergasted if Mike started mouthing off about his sources. He's just not going to do that - nobody would speak to him again and he'd be out of work in a flash.

I’d wonder how anyone could prove RW was the source... he isn’t going to admit it surely....

Fact is we are League Two. So it’s not a surprise that we haven’t got the sort of name as manager some expected. Best of luck to Frankie. But I think it is clear that you’re either up for what AL plans or you are out, at OAFC now (to state the obvious). Wellens said recruitment policy had to change. He’s gone. I’d wager Barry - bloody hell, Barry again - said: “Don’t hire a French manager, the supporters will go nuts... Hire someone who wants it enough you can throw them a bone or two then do your own thing without the manager annoying you”. So yeah, I think supporters’ opinions have been underestimated. We’re Abdallah’s Athletic now, and I’m not optimistic. Also, is it something that would bother AL, to have TP out of the way? I suspect someone bussing in their own foreign lads wouldn’t have much interest in TP’s work. My prediction for where we finish next season - 17th.

My sentiments exactly.

This is encouraging.

He’s fit an “unheard of French bloke” description anyway.

Yeah, but at least they made a bit of an effort and spoke to a former player... The articles that just rip off quotes from the official site are worse. It wouldn't take much in the way of resources - a phone and a bit of imagination and a young reporter looking to make a name for themselves as a sports reporter - to get a fresh Latics story out every day.

Lee Sinnott's my main source of news these days.

Upvote for the info - not an expression of delight about Barry's involvement!

You must be good at standing up to yourself so.

I wasn’t joking or trying to be funny. I know what decade it is and I am 41. I’ve grown up. If you miss the point as spectacularly as I think you have, I’m sorry for you. If you are a wind up merchant, you need to find new things in life to do.

Probably the most absurd post I’ve read on this forum. And that’s quite an achievement.

If we announce a new manager tomorrow I’ll think fair enough, AL had his man lined up, on we go. If w don’t, I’ll start to believe nobody was lined up and we’re in, to put it mildly, a right mess. Either way, we’ll learn a lot about AL over the next week or so, I’d say.

I’m going off what Lee says - but he certainly seems to know his stuff.

What worries me is that the timing of RW’s sacking would usually lead me to believe we’ve the successor already lined up. But the implication that Clark was sounded out but isn’t interested leads me to believe we absolutely don’t. Bit of a soap opera, Latics.

As an aside, and this isn’t a jibe at the original poster, but the ‘keep the faith’ motto has worn so thin it doesn’t mean anything to me... and given what we’ve been through in recent years and where we are now it makes me want to wince when I read it.

Hint! Hint! Hint!

Give us a hint!