Stainrod

What is encouraging is LJ's network/family of scouts, together hey will have a lot of knowledge/clout with those available. Need to ensure that we have the squad picked as early as possible.

Lets give Montano a game again if we need width, maybe he's not impressed LJ in training??

Posted this another thread by mistake, sorry if you have read it already.

I am told that Walsall let kids have a season ticket for 46 pounds. Each home game they attend they get two quid back in cash!

If they attend all the games they get the season for free. Great idea to encourage attendance and slowly draw them in.

What do you think?

I went to the Port Vale v Burton Albion match last night - only cos I work with supporters of each team - 7-1 to PV by the way.

Anyway, they reduced ticket prices to about £9 for home supporters only, it was £20 in the away end (where I went!!!). Didn't think that was allowed? Surely that encourages away support in the home end? It worked though there were over 10,000 there as opposed to he usual 6-7,000. Don't we always pass any offer on like that to away support too?

One of he lads I was with told me about what he thinks happens at Walsall which I think is a superb idea. Kids (which I think means 16 and under) pay £46 for a season ticket. Each time they go to a game they get £2 back in cash!!! If you go to all home games you get the season for free. Seems to me getting a couple of quid every fortnight would be appealing to a ten year old! If it encourages them to go then they may get hooked and end up shelling out for years like the rest of us. Great idea.

Agreed, tangerine and blue, started watching Latics 1968/69 so that kit means a lot, even got a replica made of it, certainly stands out more than blue.

Tell them to get the youth team in as well as the fans, reserves too? This game must go on.

How about Kevin Davies? Being released by Bolton at the end of the season, must live locally, what a signing he'd be!!!

3 percent of the population go to Latics, if 20 percent of the population are Asian then pro rata you would expect 3 percent of 20 percent to support the team. So, 100,000 x 20 percent gives 20,000 x 3 percent gives 600 that we would expect to make up our support, clearly it Doesnt.

Just saying.

I tend to lose interest in our players once they have gone, pretty much immediately. Must be a character flaw.

Big Gordy in there too at the end!

Ok on laticsplayer

Is son double bluffing though!!!

May not work out to badly if it gets rearranged, might be an easier match later in the season if they have had relegation confirmed! That said surely we should beat them in any case.

Worthington never got a mention with us, have we missed out there?

Don't get the anti Phil Brown stuff, 99/100 of managers will have failures on the CV if they have been around a while, not many will have successes or will have managed for lengthy periods in the top two divisions.

Can we really expect someone with a better pedigree to be interested in us? If he's affordable and wants to come then get him in.

Listened to the Sufc commentary at times today, even they could understand the crowds frustration. They admitted that ALL the big decisions went their way!

Connor brown should be up for it

Before we go overboard about much of this squad lets not forget that they have got us into a relegation fight, they can't be that good can they. It's all about consistency this game and we won't get anywhere until we have a first team that will regularly get 7 or 8 out of 10 week in week out and not just on the odd albeit glorious occasion. The players must know this and hopefully will feel a responsibility for where we are despite the admiration we give them for a great cup run. There's a lot to do yet lads, get your heads down and get us out of this mess.

We used to get 20 mins or so on Latics Player, I thought Mvoto's run was a cert to be on

I was a bit disappointed, once we were one up and they had a man sent off they dominated for fifteen minutes or so, after that it was all Latics and we ought to have created more than we did, don't know why we struggle to put ten men away. Nevertheless three points, though against he bottom of the league at home against ten men we ought to have done better.

On the bright side another in, onwards and upwards, well one lads.

Can someone explain what happened as I didn't see it (other than Ovita's push)

Isn't it time we moved on from this, I sat amongst the Kidderminster fans with my Latics scarf on and enjoyed really good banter with them even as we took the lead, time everyone grew up.

Good spot disjointed, doh!

Great use of the English language on this thread, very articulate lads, well done

Go to bed lads, it's late.