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As much as I hate myself for saying it, but those odds on 0-0 seem generous/ tempting.

They've peaked too soon. We'll batter 'em.

The way he pulled up, it looked like a long term one to me. He's also been silent on Twitter which isn't like him. However, I think the club will be looking to keep news on all injuries as quiet as possible in the lead up to Monday.

But doesn't the opposite work as well !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you mean naming the team and saying to the opposition, "That's our 11 - deal with it"

I suppose it would if your line up contained Xavi and Messi. I don't see any harm at all in being secretive about the line up and player fitness. If it, for just one week, creates any doubt or convern in the plans of the opposition then, as a ploy, it will have worked. I should imagine that some management teams like to do as much homework as possible on other teams, so if it makes that difficult, why not?

It could be a superb, memorable night.

I just hope( as opposed to expect) that our fans can show a little patience. Even if it was the same score going into the last half hour, there would still be time to turn it around. In reality, the first cries of "Get it forward!" will probably be out before the tenth minute.

I'd definately take a draw (or even a 1 goal defeat) now

Furman's always a big miss. Will be interesting to see how that 11 actually line up in midfield

In tonight’s rarely-wrong Chron, Simpson says:

 

“Huddersfield have offered terms to terminate my contract. I have made a couple of minor adjustments to that, given it back to Huddersfield and am waiting to hear back from them now.”

 

Chron

Seems fair enough. Probably angling for a win bonus from Saturday after all, if he HAD have been able to play for us, the result would've been different. By sitting on the sidelines, he probably did just as much as Rhodes.

Isn't it just an ex-teamate of Cisak's (from Accy Stanley)?

Most likely what they like to term 'banter' though to do it in a public forum could leave the spirit, in which it was hopefully intended, open to misinterpretation.

Might be absolute nonsense and we'll find out soon enough but I've retweeted a Sheffield journalist who said at 10am:

@domhowson: I've been told Chesterfield's match in the JPT tonight with Oldham is likely to beat the cold snap and go ahead.

He then followed up with:

As soon as I get official confirmation over the Spireites match being on, will let you know.

If that was an experiment into the human pysche and behaviours, it turns out I react with much more urgency to the possibility of Simpson no longer being in our squad than I do to the wife ringing me at work.

Git.

I do think that some changes should have been made earlier yesterday but only for fresh legs. Not sure that I'd have thown Morais on at 0-0 though. Parker had a relatively poor match but I worry that Morais can lose posession too easily and, at a time when we should have been looking to keep it solid - especially as their substitutions had illustrated that they felt the need to chase the game, I'd have gone another route.

Something that I was pleased with yesterday was the vocal love for Adeyemi both before and after the match. I'd imagine that the young lad has had quite a depressing week and to show a bit of support was classy.

Agree with Grim. Think Simpson would have seen us through yesterday and given Kuqi support where he was very isolated, often needing to deal with 2 or 3 defenders on his own. On the whole, I thought Kuqi did well yesterday and I don't think he needs a rest. I still think he offers a lot, even when not scoring and think back to before his arrival when we looked toothless up front.

I think it's fairly and reasonably priced. £12 to watch any first team match could never be classed as expensive whether it's on the tellybox or not. However, £12 to watch Latics in a match which could end with a high of having watched them secure a place in a Wembley final, could well be a bargain. Without wishing to understate this, but it doesn't happen a lot.

With a free weekend, City will probably take their players off to Dubai for golf and corporate meet and greets. Our lads will probably be let free with a hour in the arcades in the Trafford Centre followed by Nandos ( as long as they remember to bring their loyalty cards)

Would be nice but I can't see why they would. Although Liverpool may have helped us in terms of dealing with the incident, this only needs doing because the player is under our care. The wronged party in all of this has been Tom, rather than the club.

However, I do get the point that they may have appreciated how we have handled the incident from our end.

I think the club should have appended the smilie to that line themselves.

Cracking write up

It's not the working class game. It's everyone's - or at least we need to view it as such if we're ever to progress. The only way I can see club's like ours thriving is to belong to the community - by being inclusive, accessible and by being different to the bigger clubs in the area.

Of course I don't want it to be sanitised. Saturday afternoons will always be the time and place where people can vent, sing, rant and support their team, and so they should, but there will always be a line. We need to accept that football operates in the entertainment/ leisure industry and, to an extent, our survival depends on competing for the same money that families will spend going to the cinema, days out or what have you.

I was in row 6 of block 125 with my 5yo son on my knee so he could see. Quite a few around me had obviously made a day of it but they were great. They stood up when appropriate but, thankfully, not longer than necessary as when I stood up I needed to scoop my lad up with me and he's not a baby anymore. One 'merry' soul behind me even tried chatting to my (shy) lad but was completely non-threatening and had him laughing. I told him not to worry about fruity language/ chants (when he apologised for using it) because my son knows which words can and can't be used and he wasn't aggresive or constant with it.

However, I could see how in other blocks, there were problems that would have ruined our night whereby simple consideration for others would have alleviated any problems.

Done...

I would like to nominate Gary Davis from Oldham Athletic as the NPower fan of the year.

It's one thing to go to home and away matches for the club you love - I'm sure plenty of other nominees will do that - but this guy does it for reserve and youth matches - even using social media to feedback updates to those of us cosying up at home whilst we try and forget about our latest set of disappointments. In fact, such is his dedication to the club at all playing levels, whilst us relative gloryhunters were watching our passage through the FA Cup watching us beat Southend, securing a tie at Anfield, Gary decided to follow the youth team down to Norwich on their own quest for glory.

Any other boxes that need to be ticked in order to win the award such as being an avid collector/ hoarder of all things Latics. Yes, he's got that covered. In fact, to say that he's a keen Oldham fan is like saying that Frank Sinatra was a bit of a singer. I believe in 2011 he saw 120+ games involving Latics which it just ridiculous from every angle.

He can be contacted via his website at http://www.museumdelatique.com (http://www.museumdelatique.com/contact.htm) or via Twitter on @museumdelatique

Regards,

Didn't you even go to Norwich with the youth team instead of watching the firsts v Southend?

Spot on. Sick of the moronic comments on other message boards about him supposedly over-reacting, "look at what players like Cyrille Regis had to put up with, they never reacted like that". Well you know what, the world's moved on since then and i'd like to think we've made some progress. Tom Adeyemi's grown up in a world where racist abuse isn't an unfortunate fact of life that you're expected to put up with, and experiencing it for the first time in the biggest game of his career so far must have made it all the more upsetting. If he hadn't reacted, no action would have been taken (i'm sure we've all heard racist abuse at some point and not reported it or confronted the tool responsible, i know i have), the gob:censored:e in question would almost certainly have carried on doing it in the future, people around him who are young/impressionable/stupid enough would think that it's acceptable, and the :censored:ty circle remains unbroken.

 

100% agree. As I've mentioned previously, Tom's desicion to about face and confront the yob (probably knowing that the others would turn against him as well) was not only right, but amongst the bravest and dignified actions I've seen on a football field.

You really think that having sound temprament on a football pitch includes having deal with racism?

Gobsmacked.

Call me ignorant if you wish, but I find that tar-brushing me as ignorant just because I haven't experienced racism first hand, is itself a display of ignorance.

 

That is some messed up logic there.

It's probably not the place to get into the in and outs of it because I really don't think anything you read on this thread would get you to really think and consider your opinion save to say that real prejudice and discrimination isn't very nice and I hope that you and yours would never experience it. In a progressive, modern society (which I hope everyone would want to be a part of) we need to be self-aware of the impact that these things can on individuals and groups and deal with them.

To say that you hope Tom "learns from the experience", I find odd. Tom reacted in a way that he's entitled to and I admire his stance and bravery because of it. Instead of just accepting these things as part of playing in front of a larger crowd or 'banter' he challenged the moron who did it. Proud of him. I hope you can learn from his example.

If, as is quite likely, much is made of it in the media this week then maybe the club should get the players to don the 'Kick Racism Out...' t-shirts as worn against Bury.

I'm sure at Huddersfield he'll get a warm reception from those of us going - along with the occasional, usual call to get his arse into gear! I'm sure that as a club and as a support, we can put our arm round him as I'm sure he's feeling quite :censored: at the moment.