Inspiral_Carpet

33 minutes ago, Matt said:

 

I realised I was a prick on here ages ago, so I backed off and removed myself from the internet (almost completely). I had to because I was mentally unwell, and the internet wasn't helping at all. I'm not better by a long way, but at the very least I've emerged from the other side understanding myself a little better, and realising what I have to do.

 

I'm 48 now, and life it too short to be a cunt for the rest of it.

Glad to hear that Matt.

I did something very similar myself particularly by disappearing from OWTB for about 6 or 7 years from 2009.  I was doing and saying a number of things that I wasn’t proud of and it was masking some very real personal issues from which I’m now fully recovered.

Living virtually permanently in an online world whether that is on here or elsewhere can be a dangerous existence to one”s emotional wellbeing.

2 minutes ago, GlossopLatic said:

 

We are very good at ending teams winless runs and our current lot certainly without Wheater look especially generous.

 

With them at a low point and with us at an all time low this game is set up to be an absolute cracker.

You are right.  It’s beer o’clock for us though on the 08:33 from Darlington tomorrow so you maybe confusing me with someone who gives a shit come kick off

7 minutes ago, Frankies6 said:

they have been playing 1 up front and 2 attacking midfielders  should be a decent game one we can win.

I work with a lot of Bradford fans.  They are anything but confident.  Most want shot of Doyle too.

Bradford 5 (Doyle 5) Latics 0 (missed Pen, Vera)

And no, I’m not joining your fucking prediction league before you ask (again)

24 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

Neither. There are no winners currently. If the question was about who I'd want to run the football club I'm still in the neither camp. I will be until the anonymous financial benefactors of the FLG come forward. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that at least one of the anonymous benefactors wouldn't currently pass the 'Fit and Proper' person test to run Oldham Athletic. 

I’m with you on this.

I could never vote for the Clown Led Group.

I want the FLG to be the answer but for now, I don’t know enough about them to give them my vote.  As I’ve said before, I believe that they are an interim party, someone there in case it all goes tits up with the CLG, holding things together until a new buyer can be found.

Got a lot of time for Paul Whitehead.  Wood and Brooke are longtime Latics fans too and I am certain all three have the right intentions.  Those behind them are question marks though and we have waded through enough shit as fans for the last couple of generations that in my opinion, nobody can tell me that blindly backing the FLG is warranted at the moment.

If anyone has Totally Wow iptv, it’s on in the Live football section.

53 minutes ago, leeslover said:

Good job nobody tried to hurt him 

There were quite a few Latics fans shaking his hand before the game.

Expect he will be out for a few weeks with a sore shoulder

10 minutes ago, mikejh45 said:

I was talking to George Williams' dad in my local this afternoon who said George's leg is fractured and that FGR are looking into making a complaint into the tackle with a view to getting the ref and/or EFL taking retrospective action.

I have no idea about the rules but is this a viable proposition?

As Mills was booked, I don’t think that retrospective action can be taken.

I was stood about 5 metres from the incident and it didn’t look bad at all at the time but one of my lads said there was footage on the internet which made it look like a really nasty challenge.  Haven’t seen it myself though.  Hope Williams recovers fully and quickly.

1 minute ago, kowenicki said:

 

Ha.  Why would they tell you?  

 

So tell me again what there business model is? 

Owning a football club is for the very, very rich or the very, very stupid.  I’d be surprised if they are either.

I suspect what they want is a regime change with an owner who passes their fit and proper person test, not the EFL’s.

I would be delighted if that were to happen.

17 minutes ago, Lee Sinnott said:

I was at the FLG evening the other night, I have followed their posts and I have spoken to a few of them. At no point have any of them said they want to become owners...

Maybe they’re being careful about giving out commercially sensitive information?

Defence including goal keeper did well. I was on Sefil watch and thought he was ok. Mills was mom for me and with Hamer, gives us a strong left flank. Other side not so good but Iacovetti was alright when defending. 

Midfield was weak as piss. B-E and Maouche were slightly more visible than Missilou. Thought Sylla did his job pretty well but he’s never going to create much. 

Felt sorry for Wilson and Azankpo. No service and had to run their bollocks off as FGR’s game plan was to pass it around at the back before launching a 20% ball out to the wings. Rapturous applause from the locals when 1 in 5 of the attempts stayed in play. 

Sterile ground in the middle of nowhere. No atmosphere and an atrocious homer ref.  Don’t mention the 4 hangovers either. I daren’t check the hotel bar bill until we check out tomorrow. 

After they’d scored it started to rain.  Then Vera came on.  To cap it all, when it seemed like it couldn’t get any worse. Joseph Mills was announced as man of the match. The tart. 

8 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

 

Attending Law Relating to Banking evening classes was what made me leave banking!

You quit too soon Dave.  Practise of Banking II was where things really got exciting

1 hour ago, Dave_Og said:

It's not my area but I think it can just be registered to give preferential creditor status rather than against specific assets

It’s a long time since I used to teach Law Relating to Banking (living the dream eh?) but IIRC, a floating charge (mortgage debenture) will be crystallised and secured against all assets of the Company if the debt is called in.  The debenture will also give other rights such as being able to appoint your own named insolvency practitioner effectively meaning they will work to protect your interests rather than anybody else’s.

57 minutes ago, kowenicki said:

 

You aren’t the FLG target audience then.

Our bar bill from Cloud 23 may prove you wrong

4 minutes ago, kowenicki said:

 

Hmmm. A stroll around the northern quarter, perhaps a bit of Tapas at Evuna, and a few drink at some trendy bars in the centre and Spinningfields... or a chippy on Rochdale Road of an all you can eat in a Harvester followed  by a pint in a pub that’s seen better days. I’m thinking businessmen or holidaymakers might opt for the first option. 

 

 

I stayed round that area on Deansgate a few weeks ago and would have murdered for pudding, chips and gravy.

59 minutes ago, wiseowl said:

He was watching us at the Rochdale friendly - sat in the directors box in Main Stand - you couldn't miss that chin anywhere!

He has been working for Rochdale for the last 32 years so his focus probably wasn’t on Latics!

2 hours ago, Dave_Og said:

 

That's a bit like a Southerner assuming Oldham must be near, say, Darlington - 'coz they're boaf in ve Norf'!

Funnily enough, I was referred to as a Midlander at work today (by a Geordie)

30 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

It may be worth noting that the following fixtures are at risk of postponement due to international breaks. 

 

September 7th - Plymouth (a)
October 12th – Mansfield (a) 
November 16th – Stevenage (a)
February 15th – Forest Green (h) 
March 28th – Northampton (a) 
 

For those planning trips and pre-paying hotels/ trains, the fixtures at Cheltenham (4 Jan) and Salford (25 Jan) fall on FA Cup 3rd and 4th round dates.

4 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

It's not that he wouldn't be granted full access, more that a non exec wouldn't expect it. Their role is generally to challenge strategy rather than check if the milk bill has been paid. 

In normal business, yes.  A football club, a significantly dysfunctional one at that, is far from normal.

I’ve worked with a number of NEDs.  None of them have ever had a lifelong emotional investment in the company.

I guess we just need to see how this plays out over the next 3 months before he gets shit-canned

20 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

He appears to be well qualified but I question his sanity.  Bear in mind this is a non executive appointment. That means he will not necessarily be privy to the operational minutiae. 

You are right Dave that he may not be given full access but if the intention was to appoint a patsy, then there would have been candidates who would be easier to manipulate.

I’m surprised by this appointment.  Without seeing the rest of the applicants, his CV (looking at his Linked-In profile) is what I would have hoped for.  He looks like a NED who can challenge effectively.  Hence the surprise that he’s been selected.

Cautious optimism from me.

My other true sporting love for the last 40+ yrs has been the Green Bay Packers.

Shares in the Corporation are basically worthless. But many thousands of people pay $250 a piece just to “own” a piece of the organisation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers,_Inc.

Sometimes, an investment is worth much more than any intrinsic value.  

More information is is needed but I’d love to own a part of Boundary Park.

4 hours ago, south east latic said:

 

Why would that be the case?

Perhaps the bigger budget required in League 1 isn’t palatable?

I don’t know.  I just couldn’t understand why some of our players were celebrating a nil-nil draw away at Cheltenham when as fans, we had started the match boosted by the Exeter defeat that meant a play-off place was in our own hands.

Just got home though and it was a cracking away trip.  Shame about the football

11 minutes ago, south east latic said:

 

I didn’t go yesterday so can’t comment on the game but that sounds eerily similar to Northampton last season. At a time where you’d expect a group of professionals to be leaving nothing on the pitch, most looked like they couldn’t be arsed. It’s that sort of performance/mentality which makes you question why you bother as a fan. I’ve never left a ground feeling more dejected than at Northampton for that reason. 

It was different yesterday to Northampton.  Most players did give a shit but I think they had a different objective to the rest of us.  Iversen slowed the game down, we took off a forward and replaced him with a fullback, Clarke and Edmundson hugged each other ecstatically at full time.  They were playing for a clean sheet, the win wasn’t important.

The only thing we could come up with when talking about the disappointment last night is that somebody has decided that we don’t want to be promoted.  Sad.

7 minutes ago, True Tic said:

Bitching and moaning ? Damn right I am. This club I love is being pinged around like a kid in a divorce court and you just continue with your bleating oh if only Scholes had been allowed to operate properly etc etc.

 

What a manful thing to do of Scholes, betting paid a tidy sum of money as a pundit and as a little side show just talk about his time at Latics, only a few little convenient snippets obviously because of legalities, and you are taking every bit of that as the gospel? - and you tell me hes come out and told us now so that's that! ok sorted then! Jesus.

 

 

Settle down and behave yourself...

So you struggle to read as well as listen.

I’m out.

30 minutes ago, True Tic said:

And we will never get a true transcript will we! Obviously only get Scholes slant on it where he just couldn't operate in those terrible conditions etc - nothing on perhaps he had bitten off more than he could chew with this management lark as suggested by his one win in seven matches.

 

This chairman is clearly a major problem and his way of running things just doesn't suit this club (or any club), but don't tell me that Scholes poor run of results in charge is all down to him because that's absolute nonsense. What was it that AL did that caused that poor run? The long term future of our club with the current chairman doesn't look good but that run of results and then his subsequent premature disappearing act is probably more down to himself deciding to cut and run when things weren't working from the off.

 

Would Scholes have made a good manager? who knows, he didn't give himself and anyone the chance else to find out!

7 minutes ago, True Tic said:

Indeed , and nobody criticising Scholes is praising the chairman which some on here seem to be getting mixed up with, but how can we focus on rumours, biased comments (clearly Scholes isn't going to criticise himself) and come to any realistic conclusion? We cant

 

Did Scholes take as much care with his thoughts about leaving, and the impact that would have on the club? Only he knows

 

I'm not labelling him a pampered premier league player either, he has always shown an interest in our club and seems to love football in all its forms!

 

The bigger picture involves much more than Scholes and I suspect the issues with this chairman will unravel as time goes on, the truth does have a habit of getting the last word!

 

My point is (and its my point/opinion) that Scholes walking away was not just down to the antics of this chairman but more a mixture of things including his ability and confidence to manage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few weeks ago, you were bitching and moaning telling us all that Scholes should come out and say what happened.  Now that he has, live on TV, you’re telling us it’s just rumour and bias.  Last night, you said you hadn’t listened to the discussion and judging by your ill informed comments, you still haven’t, or you’re choosing to hear what supports your argument.

Did someone mention bias?

AL said he had asked his legal people to look into ‘the lies told in the press’ following Scholes’ departure.  Do you really think the BT Sports Producer told Scholes to shoot with both barrels in a live TV discussion?  He said a lot more than I thought he would to be honest - including that he hadn’t done a particularly good job.

What he has done though is totally expose our obnoxious owner publicly.  Whatever anyone thinks, that’s possibly the best thing that could have come out of this sorry saga.