Stainrod

Latics 3-1 ht 2-0 att 3279 Doyle

Dons 2-0 Latics ht 2-0 att 4,588

Rochdale 2-0 Latics ht 1-0 att 5,122

Oldham 2-0 Gills ht 1-0 Nazon att 3,521

I feel an appeal coming on.........

Absolute travesty...........gutted.

Absolutely travesty..........gutted.

Latics 2-1 Walsall ht 1-1 Doyle att 3,717

Oxford 1-3 Latics ht 0-2 Byrne att 7989

Ahem......

A win might just take us a long way on Monday. By my reckoning all of the teams around us look likely to struggle. Never works out that way does it but there's the potential for real progress if we can put in a performance.

The highlights on the official site look embarrassing, not one attack from the real Latics!!!

Remember we lost the first five games, the reason we struggle now. Right call at the right time.

I can't see why we now play Gardner and Byrne so far apart, they had real early signs of developing into a quality partnership early on, what has happened to that? Patience running out for Fane, if he's in as a ball winner then the tracking back for their third yesterday was unacceptable, take a look again on TV. Wilson lack of pace in the centre found out for the first and Bryan messed up with his back pass when clearly Wilson told him to pass upfield. still in our hands with a favourable run in, might need 52 points thi season!

Latics 2-0 Blackpool ht 1-0 Doyle att 4,223

Wigan 3-0 Latics ht 2-0 att 11,389

Latics 2-0 Portsmouth ht 0-0 Davies att 4211

Coming for you big boy.

Bury 1-3 Latics ht 0-1 Nazon att 5767

Scunthorpe 2-3 ht 1-2 Davies att 3414

Latics 2-0 Southend ht 2-0 Davies att 3,388

I think there is argument that suggests that we can all look back at earlier dayys through rose tinted glasses and we have a natural inclination to look back on the good times rather than the bad. I was 10 in 1970 and had a inkling towards Chelsea (typical young football fan, following the top teams), Chelsea won the FA Cup that year and followed up with the European cup winners cup in '71, an attractive team to follow. At that time my dad would take me to see them at United and City, we went to a few other matches in Manchester around then too. Then something magical happened, a neighbour took me to see my local club at Boundary Park, a night match, v York City I think, did we win 2-1?, I don't really remember. What I do remember is the excitement of watching at night under floodlights. This was my town's own club, this is for me. I couldn't care less that it was division 4. Unbelievable that, having seen Osgood, Hutchinson, Hudson and Best, Charlton, Law, and Bell, Summerbee, Lee that I couldn't help but fall for Latics! They were my team now, walking from Oldham and down Sheepfoot Lane with my scarf tied round my wrist trying to look hard (I was 10/11/12!). Wood, Whittle (did he ever not score from a penalty or free kick?), Bebbington, Bryceland (my favourite), and of course Shaw. I'm one of those who love the tangerine strip by the way, didn't know we had played in blue historically at the time. Of course we got promoted that year and won enough money month after month from Sporting league sponsors Ford to build a new stand. So successful was our unglamorous fourth tier team that Ford never sponsored in that way again, always makes me smile that. It was around this time that Grovesey arrived. I often wonder if he was as good looking back as we all believed, this was, after all, third tier football, the answer? Course he was, spell binding dribbler and entertainer, again a cracking side going on to get promotion from the third tier in style, Groves and McVitie, two entertaining wingers. We then spent a long time in what's now The Championship, Loved the Paul Atkinson/John Ryan partnership, Simon Stainrod of course, Alan Young and the underrated Mark Ward., I always felt hat was our rightful level, even on the way back down from the top. Not convinced now, maybe good times ahead. It's in your blood isn't it.

Latics 3-0 MKD 2-0 ht Byrne att 3466

Rovers 2-2 Latics duck ht 1-1 att 14234

Latics 1-2 Bradford ht 0-1 Davies att 5879