Wardie

Marketing should take a look at the product on the pitch, the facilities and service off the pitch and ask a fair price for admission. £10-£12 seems about right. Even with better performances, I don't think attendance will increase because the club is asking way too much for admission. It's just not worth it when you also factor in the cost of a programme , food and drink and travel to and from the ground. Throw in a few kids, and the money could definitely be better spent elsewhere.

Just the way it should be done. If 'Dale can do it, then why the bloody hell can't Latics? That's why he doesn't WANT to come back...and who can blame him?

If that's the case, he might as well go now. We need a settled side and settled management team...I would be happy to see Abbot and Blackman playing up front as a regular pairing. The chances of O'Grady and Fleming returning in January are looking increasingly likely.

At the moment, we are one of the "poor sides".

I think Blackman and Heffernan up front from the off would have been a more likely line-up.

Now 1-0 up against Brentford. I'ts amazing what a bit of faith and a settled line-up can do. Oh, and a new manager (well, caretaker boss)

Heffernan replaced by Parker! Yet another striker consigned to the "graveyard".

What makes you think we'd be more consistent and win more games? Consistency has been lacking for quite a few seasons and being at the top of league 2 certainly won't boost the attendances. I'll give you the 'confidence factor' argument, but that would only happen if we bounced straight back. A settled line up should see us out of trouble and that isn't going to happen this side of the New Year.

The whole World and it's dog.

Here we go....0-1

9-1 and that could double up as the score.

Makes sense. Sky sports has it down as 4-4-2.

Why Colbeck up front with Heffernan? Why not Smalley, Blackman or even Brooke? Puzzling to say the least.

A relegation fight is imminent.

Twice as big!

Location apart, the bottom line is that we SHOULD build a stadium with a capacity that suits the fanbase. We are not going to get crowds of 12,000 in this division. As long as the facility is there to expand, should we attain and sustain promotion to the championship. Even with a slight increase in attendance in a new stadium and increased revenue streams, we are not going to make enough money to acquire the standard of player to drag us out of this league. That may happen if the TTA make enough money out of the sale of the land at BP, but somehow, I don't think they'll be spending any of it on the club. They will have a better chance of selling the club to someone with ambition if we are in a spanking stadium with good facilities and revenue potential.

With investment, ambition and support from the town and council alike, how can they go wrong?

Disagree. I think a lethal or clinical finisher would make all the difference.

Well, considering we've ended up with a team struggling to score goals, playing in a three-sided shed of a stadium, already relying on loan signings, a lengthy injury list, not enough pies to go round on a match day and a fickle public that won't support any form of improvement for sporting facilities, let alone support the club. I think you've got every reason to be worried. Btw, a club will only "belong" to a fan if that fan has got his heart in the club. Something that's hard to do at the moment.

The Boundary Park 'hoodoo' is well and truly set-in. It's amazing...new management, new players...same old 'hoodoo'. Maybe it is time to leave the place.

He's young and maybe the estimates were 'worst scenario', but it doesn't look as though he will be involved too much.

You couldn't make it up, could you? Well done to the 'Tics today, we usually don't fare well at their place, although I think we have the edge overall. Another clean sheet as well.

Bob, we haven't even got a "drawing board" left. You only have to look at the subs bench to see how thin we are on the ground.

We are looking decidedly lightweight at the back, again.