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Ian or Glynn Snowed-in

...fingers crossed for a bit of soft focus eh Will?

Erm, you might want to look into a mirror and ponder that sentence further.

There looks to be some quality in the championship this year from the newcomers.... folk like disjointed won’t want to be in that relegation zone for long or else it’ll be long way back to the promised land.

Dickov got the other.....

I think I covered Smith..... but if you know you’re offering Taylor a paycut and he’s therefore unlikely to stay, why not try to maximise the asset by selling instead of letting him leave for nowt....!?! I’d have liked to have see us gamble - by awarding a decent contract - to one of Lee, Stephens or Tarky - on the basis the intention was to sell for good money. Alas we didn’t on any, which indicates poor planning.

One might hope....

...my understanding / Reading of that was that we were under financial restrictions and couldn’t afford to.... as opposed to not wanting to!?!

Anyone know or be able to estimate when the 1st round proper draw will be? 4th Nov is the fixture date....

....questions the planning from the manager & owner at the time doesn’t it.... either sell him before his contract ends or find the funds to resign him early enough.... assuming they realised the asset they had. If they undervalued him, more poor planning. IIRC, he was signed before Shez was first sacked, but Shez didn’t play him much.... he became a fixture under Dickov, admittedly at RB.... but the club messed it up one way or another. Ditto Matt Smith.... albeit he didn’t look like much of an asset until the FA Cup games. Add Taylor, Tarky & Dale Stephens to the mix and you would say we’ve let too many very good players leave for not enough return over last 5 years. One hopes we might get better at it with new owners who clearly understand the player market.... the major concern -without understand the new owners modus operandi - being the club may still not be the primary beneficiary.

When d’you start panicking?

Quality work Singe.... both you & a259 look like Brian Clough’s Forest 1970’s sides.... destined for Premier League fame.

LJ has turned him into a striker..... and it was LJ who brought him to us on loan from Brizzle City. I think it’s fair to say LJ likes him and his judgement & coaching appears sound. Good manager is LJ.

MAC.... and everyone else.... put the Seedorf rumours to the back of your mind for a moment.... you’ve all got until 2:50pm this afternoon to post your Portsmouth away Prediction in the following thread;

Sorry chaps.... was away last night so didn’t get chance to post a reminder. bristol has updated the tables after..... Bristol.... and will catch up on the other games over the coming days, health permitting. We’re only 10 games into a 46 game season and we’ve got the cup to come in Jan, so if you’ve missed the odd game you needn’t worry, there lots left to play for yet.

I also remember Bradford City bringing a few to watch Sean McCarthy’s Latics debut, at home to Southampton maybe?

Not satisfying the brief exactly, however memorable debuts; Craig Fleming @ Old Trafford 90/91 Lee Richardson v Charlton 94/95

I watched Clarke despair at his efforts at least once today.... Shez's comments about his performance are laughable.

Set the team up as he did between Jan-May 2016 and Jan-May 2017 then.... the nonsense he's serving up now suggests he's forcing the owner(s)? to pay him off.

No chance..... he won't give up his pay off.

Sure - he's doing his job by scoring - but when we haven't got the ball he doesn't move.... that's Sheridan's instruction. Sheridan is to blame for that performance. He's thinking of his pay off before he's thinking of us supporters.

My first game this season.... Sheridan is completely to blame for that. Sing his name all you like.... 3 at the back is a nonsense with Clarke & Gerrard. Gardner, Bryan & byrne might be pretty going forward, but they're awful at tackling & defending.... the shape is a mess... and Davies - albeit scoring - is so immobile it's a joke. Awful. Awful. Awful. If he gets sacked he's only got himself to blame.

Latics 2 Shakers 0 [HT 1-0] Doyle 5,005

Pompy 1 Latics 1 [HT 0-0] Byrne 17,411

Latics 1 Posh 2 [HT 0-1] Doyle 3,014