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League Two 'Team of the Year' last season

I genuinely can't remember if he was good OR bad - just that in my mind he was rubbish. The early 2000s were my first forays to Boundary Park; the only players I remember fondly from that time are Eyresy/Carss/Corazzin. I can barely remember the rest of that team playing, think I've managed to block most of it out

Rodney Jack was never here! St Vincent and the Grenadines was it? One of my first Latics memories is how much I disliked Garnett. In my mind he's the worst centre-half we've EVER had. On a par with Lord N'Diwa

At least this guy will be able to spell his tweets correctly

That's what happens when you put a neo-Nazi facist in charge of a football club. What a cretin Di Canio is.

It was a well hit penalty from Reid though

Chris Hall is my most-hated ex-Latic, he boils my piss. I dread to think how many hours of coaching he got from Latics, not to mention wages, kit, food etc etc for him to say "ah never mind lads, I'd rather be in Hollyoaks". So many expletives, so little time. His girlfriend is an absolute blurt as well, they're perfect for each other.

My concern is that releasing this information early could compromise the ongoing enquiry into Hillsboro' - this information is due to come out at the end of the enquiry anyway is it not?

But our own particular 'development squad' never claimed to be Elite. And included footballing force Rene Steer, we were clearly taking the piss.

Could he do a job? Yeah, of course. He could take the bins out, clean the players' boots, operate a turnstile or maybe even be trusted with the white line paint. Sign him up!

They really are a bunch of no-mark cretins aren't they. Elite Development Squad.

M'Voto sent off for an 'assault'. Who are they trying to kid? Still, I'm made up for Matt Smith

You mean in the position he came to the club to play in? I can't think of anyone better. In my opinion the best footballer, technically, at the club.

£30,000 for doing nothing at all is a tasty treat.

Has there been an official statement regarding the ticket prices tonight?

I love how Reuben Reid has now been nicknamed 'Nando's boy' It sometimes seems to me that some of our fans would like particular players to just give up. I'd personally love Reid to get his first goal this season and form a partnership with Smith. I think that Reid has the potential to play every game this season, I'm not sure Parker's temperament is right for 46 games a year. That, and his 'international' commitments. I wouldn't go as far as to get 'REID 9' on my new Latics' shirt though. Anyway, I don't think the run of 'x amount of games without a win/clean sheet/two goals scored' should count from one season to the next. We've performed well in pre-season and losing the first game to arguably the 'biggest' side in the league isn't the end of the world. If we perform well tomorrow night, get a draw away at Yeovil on Saturday then give Rochdale a good seeing to next weekend all will be rosy again. Where did I leave my blue-tinted glasses..

Looking at Wesolowski's twitter page he seems to be good friend with a certain Alan Sheehan.. a recommendation from him brought our new boy to BP perhaps?

I thought Paul Black was really good today, seems to be becoming more mature as a defender and showing promise going forwards.

According to the Blunts' website, Ched Evans is 'a couple of weeks behind with his pre-season preparations due to an ankle injury'. Wonder how he got that then, running from the police?

Have we all forgotten Allan Smart?

Is there a way I could buy this as a massive poster from the club shop or anything? It's probably the best photo I've ever seen

Bring your vodka and your charlie?

It is a bit of a ballache getting from Manchester to Latics - back in the bad old days of Oldham Werneth station I was often the only Latics fan on a train full of away fans. I remember that I wore the frigging luminous green away shirt when we played 'Uddersfeeled and it was like I'd painted a target on my face. Luckily the mongs don't seem to have cottoned on to the #24 bus. Inside tip for a quiet journey.. On a different note; whichever moron decided to replace the trains through Oldham with the over-priced, four-thousand-years-behind-schedule trams is a weapons grade, ocean going, steam powered, 24 carat blurt.

The thing I would be most annoyed about if Taylor left is that he is the embodiment of the fans, out on the pitch. For better or worse, he lives and breathes what Latics get up to on the field; every goal, every free-kick, every wrongly-given throw in. It's a breath of fresh air to watch that happen amongst a team who, at times, can look un-interested. His talents cannot be doubted, in my opinion at least, he scores goals as well as creating them, and I like the we he goes about the game. Even if he does win the odd 'dubious' penalty/free kick. He's one of the last real 'fans favourites' we've had since perhaps David Eyres and I think that should be another reason why the club should be hesitant in cashing in on him. To sell him to another club in this league would be stupid, and any club in the Championship can easily afford to stump up £1million. That being said, I'd rather he went to Burnley for £500,000 than to Leeds for any sum of money. They'd have to pay us the entire gold reserve of the USA to get Taylor in that horrible white shirt without me being sick. I'd love to see him stay for as long as he's playing football but the inevitable situation is that he's going to move on, it's probably only a matter of time. I'm surprised he's still here if I'm honest. I think anything less than £1million and we've been done. Though selling Eardley to the Tangerine scum for about 75p and a bag of space raiders shows the kind of money we'll probably get.