perfectOzblue

The home games for the first half of the 90/91 season were just magical. Think there was a run where we beat Watford (with David James in goal!) 4-1, Wolves 4-1, Brighton 6-1 and Plymouth 5-3. I can reel off those games and scores like that. I can barely remember who we played last week. Like I said, magical.

"A night in shining armour" somehow sounds more poetic...sounds like a cryptic phrase Alan Partridge or David Brent would use.

David Dunn, Richard Jobson (didn't he get a cap in an overseas friendly while with us), Earl Barrett (I think?). Any others......?

Hope he Sheiks things up out there....

Lomax did okay for a short spell filling in for Eardley. He also played left back for a short while and wasn't too bad. Now Michael Clegg (shudder).....also, i missed most of his performances, but wasn't Jim Goodwin absolutely terrible as well?

A bit more 'low brow' than some of the other books mentioned here but I read Roy Keane's latest book 'The Second Half' on a recent flight back from England to Oz. Read it in one go and enjoyed it, despite my animosity towards Keane as a player (although I would have him in my squad any day of the week). Came across as a man racked by self-doubt despite his huge (on-pitch) personality and character, but pretty likeable and honest about himself and his faults. Maybe not the most rational of thinkers and prone to thinking more with his heart than his head, but someone who came across as a pretty decent man manager. I enjoyed it - and his attitude towards Fergie was illuminating.

Pretty sure he scored in a home League Cup victory over Swansea in our third and final season as a top-flight club (93/94). We lost the first leg 2-1 but won 2-0 at home to go through. Swansea were in the fourth tier then...how times change.

Yeah...think Nicky Maynard scored two for them, someone (Wellens?) scored a late 25-yard free-kick for us but other than that we were complete gash.

So, team for Tuesday: Kean Brown B. Wilson (emergency central defender) Kusunga Sadler Winchester, Woodland, Jones, Forte Wilkinson Philliskirk Subs: Coleman, Dieng, Mellor, Bove, Turner, AN Others.... That is one :censored: team.....

For me, disappointing means players who you genuinely had decent expectations of, but turned out to be total cack, rather than players who just were just useless or who had any potential wrecked by injury. So for me, the immediate ones that spring to mind are: Brett Ormerod (was blatantly unfit - if so, why sign him?) Ben Burgess (ditto) Dele Adebola (that makes three) Rodney Jack (had been great in the lower leagues, but was totally awful for the most part) Michael Clegg (he was atrocious, apart form a brief spell at the start of the 2004/05 season when he had to play as we had no other players) Keigan Parker (talent wrecked by cant-be-arsedness) And, dare I say it - Ricky Holden in his second spell. I was so happy when he came to us, but City wrecked him.....

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can we stop with these bloody hashtags? Sick of them!

Does he look like he is back in his best form now? Wasn't he one of the major flops in our nightmare December?

I'm an ex-newspaper journo (not of any great repute at all I hasten to add) and all I can say is that Independent piece reads to me like it was already written in the guy's head while he was driving to the ground, regardless of what he would have seen at Boundary Park. Just what was the point of it really? Last week, before we got embroiled in the Evans saga, we were a mid-table League One side with no money to spend. This week, we are...a mid-table League One side with no money to spend. As for moaning about the facilities, what did he expect? It's Boundary Park, not Woburn Abbey. I just found that a completely pointless article.

Story on the whole affair (lifted from the BBC) just been on SBS tea-time news here in Australia. Now 22 million more people know us as the team that considers signing convicted rapists.

Yeah, on his day at that level he was a cut above. Bad luck with injuries. But as far wingers we've had go, I'd put him closer to Ricky Holden than Joe Colbeck.

Welcome to OWTB fella - and in time-honoured fashion I'm gonna completely disagree with everything you say and start a slanging match! Nah, not really. You make some strong points and you are probably correct with what you say. BUT: I would say the following: while I'm not defending Montano, if the club did not follow correct procedures for sacking him and he can show that then he may - MAY - legally have a case. Doesn't matter if the club reckons they were justified in sacking him (which they probably were on prima facie evidence) - if they didn't do things by the book then he may have a case. At the end of the day, his career's ruined, future earning potential ruined, reputation ruined, life ruined - if I had been legal advice that I may be able to screw some cash out of the club because they didn't do things properly, in his position I'd probably follow this course of action too.

Could be handy. Started the season with Blackpool I think, but has dropped out of first team contention. Played plenty of games in the Championship for Barnsley. Should be a good signing.

This really is what happens when a) you're a berk who still believes in ridiculous stereotypes and b ) you go chasing the media profile and think you are bigger than your club. He just seems to love the attention to be honest.

Our recent record against Sheff U makes up for a succession of bad luck/cack performances against them in the early 90s when they were a bunch of long ball thugs under Dave Basset. We always seemed to dominate them at BP but they'd try and cheat their way to a flukey draw or win (and usually got it). We never seem to lose against Bradford; do okay against Scunthorpe. Aren't we due to give MK Dons a beating though? Think they've had the better of us recently. I always think with Latics too that we never seem to let the other team's star striker score against us; it's more the guy who has gone 20 matches without scoring or a defender who never scores who gets us.

I was lucky to have missed the Penney disaster as an overseas supporter so I gotta go with 93-94. I can still remember the desolate feeling after the Norwich match and the emotions that after four or five brilliant years, that was it - the party was over. Plus the way it all fell apart towards the end of that season after we had looked like turning it around. All the home games towards the end of that season just seemed the same - us huffing and puffing but the ball just not going in the net. The names still haunt me - obviously bastard Hughes but also Ludo Miklosko having a stormer for West Ham against us, 97-year-old Alan Cork scoring against us for Sheff U....just a terrible end to the season. God I need a drink just thinking about that...

Was it just an accumulation of crap performances or was it him just having the game from hell that prompted the abuse at Barnsley? Weren't we 3-0 down after 10 minutes or something? On the scale of 1-10, how bad was he copping it?

Okay, let's face it - some Latics players over the years have just not been very good. Some of them frankly should never have been signed in a gazillion years - mentioning no names *cough* Terrell Forbes *cough*. The name Toddy Orlyggson still sends shivers down my spine. But what I wanna know is - which Latics players are unfairly thought of as being cack? Which Latics player would you defend to the hilt over a pint? I'll chuck in a couple of names now: Kenny Cooper - seems inexplicably to crop up on these 'worst striker' lists, but he only played a few matches for us. I'm sure I saw him score (and play well) at Swansea at the end of the 2000/01 season; either way, he didn't seem THAT bad (on the Ben Burgess/Steve Kabba/Dean Windass :censored:ness rating). Paul Rickers - okay, not the most talented player ever; okay, kinda summed up the Godawful Ritchie era of crocks and kids; but - he really wasn't bad I don't think. Always gave 100 per cent and scored a couple of important goals as well (Reading at home to help keep us up I think?). Paul - you weren't great but I'd shout you a drink for your services to the blue shirt. Okay you lot - any more while we're at it........

Dean Bouzanis making his A-League debut for Western Sydney Wanderers at Perth Glory, match just started as I type...

Absolutely magical moment, really close thing with Redders' pen versus Sheff Wed for best ever (Latics) moment (and one of the best ever moments of my life) but it is just sullied too much by what happened next......ugh.....

Yeah, the sight of walking over the hill and seeing that away end already packed will live with me forever. I was only 11, just remember thinking 'will football always be this exciting'. Seem to remember we took a load to Port Vale a couple of months later. That away end was packed. We lost our unbeaten record with a crappy 1-0 loss!