JonesyOAFC

This Llama - Luis Suarez

I reckon Robbie Carlyle would do a great Dickov.

Makes it all the more sweeter. Horrible classless club with horrible classless fans.

Notice how everytime Liverpool are on tele at Anfield the commentators always comment on Liverpool fans being 'very knowledgable'.

 

The above would suggest otherwise!

They're the most deluded, mental set of fans in the world. Anyone who is on twitter should follow @RAWKmeltdown, they update the most particularly mental posts off that messageboard. And there's plenty to choose from.

I got the train back to Preston from Saddleworth this morning and was grinning like a maniac the whole way back. Especially proud seeing passengers reading various newspapers with Latics emblazoned across the back of every single one.

if you have a 4x4, you'll be fine...

 

anything other than that, you should be okay later on when the thaw has set in (according to the weather) but it would probably be mid-afternoon

 

it's just taken 40 minutes to get from Heyside to Chadderton so...

I've no such luxury I'm afraid, I'm relying on public transport...

You mean the thing that's grinding on you the most is that those people were right?

 

Entertaining football doesn't get you out of this division the right way. Results do.

Well, they weren't. We sacked Moore, and got into the play-offs playing better football the season after. I'm not sure how that constitutes them being right?

My hindsight comment was regarding the fact that those people somehow feel the blame for us being where we are now is down to those who wanted Moore out, which is complete and utter bollocks. There was nothing to suggest from that season that Moore would've taken us up at any point.

I need to get back to Saddleworth tomorrow, have I got any hope? It's a pain in the arse to get back to at the best of times...

At this level he's a solid manager and builds fairly solid teams. The 'pinch me' seasons under Royle have spoiled us a little, not that I wouldn't swap them for the world like. Our fans have the zest for free-flowing, barnstorming football with two awesome wingers that pump twenty pin-point crosses in every game. Any manager that doesn't play anywhere remotely like that (Moore, Talbot, Warnock) get dogs abuse when things don't quite go to plan. We're reaping exactly what we've sewn here. Not giving a manger time has just seen us progressively get backwards. Tranmere will go up this season. I could have been us had we not been complete brats about it.

 

 

And in all honesty, I don't see a problem with that. From a fans perspective, football first and foremost is supposed to be about entertainment (well, it is for me anyway). I've only ever seen us play in this division, so I'm used to mediocrity and haven't got high expectations. I just want to see Latics play, or attempt to play attractive football. Moore had us playing some absolutely dire stuff at times, with a bunch of players who could clearly play good football, as Shez showed the season after. I think the thing that's grinding me about the Moore situation is the people suddenly coming out of the woodwork essentially saying "I told you so". Well, congratulations. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Yeah, Moore only saved us from relegation and turned us into a playoff contending team in his next season, whilst signing some of the best players the club has had in years. He was proper dog :censored:.

 

 

Dickov in.

He wasn't proper dog :censored:. He just wasn't that great. And certainly not the Mourinho-esque revolutionary some are suddenly making him out to be.

Bournemouth and Yeovil battered us.

Exactly, it doesn't routinely happen. Comfortable 1-0 defeats are even more frustrating in my opinion.

Far lesser teams than Liverpool have put 4 5 and 6 past us under no tactics dickov

 

 

We've never been routinely battered under Dickov, not this season anyway. It's the fact that teams consistently cruise to one or two nil victories against us that irks people.

Remember, it isn't who wins the game that counts, it's who wins the passing

Some people really need to get over Ronnie Moore. It was 7 years ago, despite revisionism he actually wasn't very good for us, and we were far better the next season under Shez which justified the decision to bin him. Move on.

Reid

"And what the lad has done here is he's had a shot and it's literally gone into the net, and you have to say it's a top top goal."

Andy 'Describe to the viewer exactly what we have just watched with no tactical insight whatsoever' Townsend.

FIFY

Although if you're short for cash I'll accept a pint and a packet of Brannigan's Beef and Mustard.

The Nervous Tic

It's my Twitter name, but I'm prepared to donate it.

hehe, satire

He doesnt have to give him the playing budget of Leeds or Huddersfield....

 

He will want to repair his reputation, look what he did at blackpool with no money

His reputation is hardly in tatters tbf.

Serves them right for Sacking Clarke

Why? Clarke's an awful manager and probably wouldn't have got them promoted in the first place.

My word that is some horrible defending

Lots of whiskey

I can't see where the next win is coming from.

Didn't mean for the whole 90 minutes of course.

 

BUT it's good to get songs going for a change - i remember when BP had an atmosphere, even when Big Joe returned we had some atmosphere left.

 

Now, we have :censored: all and it's embarrassing!

The reason there's no atmosphere isn't down to there being no drum though, it's down to years of drab, uninspiring :censored:e on the pitch and ever decreasing attendances. The best atmosphere's home and away from BP in recent years haven't had a drum.

Maybe I'm biased, as I really dislike drums at football in general. They're up there with vuvuzela's and those clappy stick things that were handed out at our last playoff games...