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Oooooh idea time. K bear with me on this one. I have a Reebok poster of Shevchenko in my room and the whole point of it is that Shevchenko is/was a brilliant striker, he wears Reebok, therefore you should buy Reebok to be like him. And I was thinking, well, what is it about Oldham that'd make us worth watching? There's loads of stuff but the first thing that popped into my head was Neal Eardley. He's a Welsh international and he scores absolute screamers. So I was thinking about some sort of dramatic image of Neal Eardley scoring a screamer with a tagline of summat like "Neal Eardley - Welsh Wonder". You could have them for loads of players and plaster them around Oldham like having "Mark Allott - Returning Hero" so it kinda spells out this is Oldham Athletic and this is what you're gonna get in the upcoming season, therefore, you should come watch us. Catch my drift?

When John Sheridan took over as manager, did we do anything major to promote it? I mean when Sven took over at City, they had like a million signs everywhere saying "Ol' Blue Eyes is Back" and I must say it got me quite interested. Going off the more advertising idea, I think it'd be cool to see some sort of tag line for the upcoming season that'd sound as intriguing and make a non-fan think 'I wanna be a part of that'

Just to clear that up, Wolfy says he went off cos he'd picked up a knock in training and playing had aggravated it

It's Friday! Who studies on a Friday?! And stop arguing with everyone!

Who cares that he's signed a one year deal? What we SHOULD be talking about is the fact that on that free news bit ont fissial site, Lids says we're thinking of swapping Davies for a microwave and Eardley for a toaster surely Davies is worth atleast a fridge?

Yeah I agree it probably will end up being good for us BUT I must say that it is absolutely ridiculous that Shinawatra is even considering sacking Sven. He's the best thing thats happened to their club for god knows how long and it just beggars beleif that he's being sacked after one season! City actually grew on me since Sven became manager so it's really bugged me this has

Fissial text says Aberdeen have made an enquiry about Macca Hope he doesn't go

can't beleive you just said that father

Awww bless him! How old is he now? Like 28 or summat? Makes no difference, I'm still too young for him anyway I'll just have to make do with stalking

Thats my cue

Man Utd or Man City - I liked Sven as England manager and want to see him do well at club level Liverpool or Everton - if I supported any Prem team it'd be Everton Arsenal or Tottenham - wouldn't chose Arsenal over anyone until they start fielding English players Southampton or Portsmouth - have a soft spot for Pompey Newcastle or Sunderland - Newcastle think they are bigger than they are (agreed) Rangers or Celtic - no idea why Real Madrid or Barcelona - tough one, think I'll say Barca cos they have Messi Ajax vs Feyenord - I think the name sounds better than Ajax AC Milan or Juventus - they have Kaka and Maldini Bristol Rovers or Bristol City - cos they aren't in our league Boca or River Plate - dunno, don't know anything about either of them Dortumund or Schalke - they have a player called Florian Kringe and I thought it was a cool name

I'm doing my artwork thank you very much

Last time I did that, I bumped into Tommy and Dux but I was too scared to say anything

don't need to, my uncle knows him so

Come on, share it with the group

Fine, I don't fancy buying a Barca and Chelski rip off. Happy?

lol I thought it was bad when I saw someone with a Kilkenny shirt on gutted!

Oh yes of course I'm going to go buy a shirt that looks like a Chelski rip off

Hope he keeps Stam for atleast one more season. Y'see, I have him on the back of my shirt and I don't wanna go through next season with a players shirt who int even here anymore

Few interesting points made in the interview: He wants to keep Lids, Crossley and Macca He is shouldering the some of the blame for this season Wants to bring in 4 or 5 players He's already making enquiries There's a couple of Polish players we're looking at Still a slight chance of making the play offs So all in all, I thought it was quite a positive interview

Bet it's Gary Mac

Yeah but he did a cracking job at Everton and they're not exactly a poor side are they?

Don't agree. I think on his day, Smalley can be absolute quality. Saturday was a good example of that, making that brilliant run down the right and setting up Taylor. If he gets more consistency and of course more confidence, then he'll be brilliant for us

Am trying to bully me sister into buying my seat as a late birthday present That reminds me, ages ago, somebody on here came up with an idea that when the stand gets demolished, they put some sort of boarding up around it so the fans can do some artwork. Anybody reckon that'll actually happen? Cos I think its a really nice thing to do

Is it sad that I actually really want mine?