petelatics

Merry Christmas to you too. Well to my eyes he looked very similar to the player you described except he looked quite dangerous when the ball came close to him - you must remember his raw pace!!!! He needs to work harder otherwise he'll turn up in League two.

Good point - let's see how they back it up!

I generally feel ok up until the game starts - I now never expect us to win so any disappointment I might have felt has been diluted!

Sounds like it's not worked as they hoped - be surprised if he plays for us again. Still it's not as though we're short of strikers!!

I think the problem this year is that we are reaching Christmas with a lower points total than previous seasons. So, without that cushion we are going to have to sort out our home form. I know Dunn wants to improve the team but how many decent players want to join a fight at the bottom of the table.

I remember Colchester bought a couple of decent strikers, including Porter, which got them out of trouble last season. And Notts County brought in a new manager the season before last. I have given up hoping for a new, experienced manager and am awaiting the inevitable. Be surprised if we can attract decent players in our league position and with our record of being late payers.

I look at the teams around us and do wonder how many we could take three points off!

Wonder if the players would keep the manager? If we hang onto Dunn passed New Year as Corney seems to favour, then if things don't improve we're stuck with him until we go down. Personally I would give Dunn the next three matches and if things haven't drastically improved bring in an experienced manager. Then the new guy would have the January window.

Probably need 50 points to be safe so we need another 31 points from 23 games. I suppose if we could possibly get our home form going we might have a chance otherwise we're sunk!

Well you people are right about us not having a club without Corney. However his recent decisions : Ched Evans, the appointment of Kelly and Dunn and the North stand (late opening and problems with the function room with no explanation) have been poor. If you like it as it is then fine. I won't renew my season ticket next season if there aren't radical changes. The club is badly run from top to bottom, we're an embarrassment!

I do think that some sort of protest us required unless we want to see our team in League Two. We might not be able to get rid of Corney but an experienced manager would help our cause and unless someone new comes in before January then we are stuffed!

Supporting Latics is like one of those bad relationships - can't live with them, can't live without them!

Yes, but us beating Sheff Utd would have lead to a different set of events leading up the draw which would have resulted in the balls being pulled out in a different order. In any system, just a small change in initial conditions will almost definitely result in different outcomes, like if you spin a ball on roulette wheel 100 times from the same number, its next to impossible that you'll land on the same number 100 times in a row, it's called chaos theory, the butterfly effect and all that Edited by PlayItLivo, Today, 07:52 PM. Chaos theory? Yes that sums us up!

Basically I wouldn't go to the games if I hadn't bought a ST. I've stopped going to away matches and actually I'm not bothered how the team does this season. I've had enough. I appreciate Corney's money and the bank's has stopped us losing our team but his recent decisions: Ched Evans, choice of manager since Johnson left, the north stand - he's turned us into a joke.

Was at Rochdale when Kuqi's scored that screamer - it was so far out, so well hit that it was hard to believe what you were seeing. Best goal for me for it's spectacular quality!

Should have made Ryan Lowe our first signing of the season

Was Lee stood on a box?

It must be a tricky business trying to bring players into a small club on low wages when there are loads of other League One teams who can pay better money and have better prospects.

I wouldn't move Winchester. He's too light weight to have in the centre. I think LJ took our two strikers off because they had run themselves into the ground plus we still hadn't a goal to show for all the pressure. I think he hoped Wilkinson would stay in the middle - not wander around - and that the crosses would find him. Thought they both did ok when they same on but with the benefit of hindsight I'd have kept Philly on. If it had come off and we'd scored the winner it would have been a master stroke. Some you win... But we didn't lose! And wasn't that some save by our keeper from Macdonald?

I thought we started well but Poleon looked frustrated towards the end of the first half. Second half we were playing long, high balls that their number five gobbled up. Very promising though.

On his interview with Gordon, when asked about Noble being released, LJ said we'd soon read about it in the papers so he wasn't going to comment. I assumed that Noble had done something wrong, judging by the look on LJ's face. Very strange. LJ could have just said that Latics are re-signing him and letting him out in loan to improve his fitness. Odd!

There's a quite a few Latics supporters that really don't want Porter at any price. The last thing we want is for one of our players to be booed.

He also said that a top six place wasn't out of the question. It was like a home for ex Latics managers!

Not sure of his goal tally but if my memory serves me well, he struggled to hit the net and often missed the goal altogether. Yep - sounds perfect. Does he limp and has he any connection with Bristol City?

Very impressed with the way Latics closed out the game. We lost a bit of energy and maybe our shape when Forte went off plus I think our front two had run themselves into the ground. To prevent a team like that from testing our keeper in the second half was very impressive. Not the finished article yet but I'm very encouraged.