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45 minutes ago, aaronoafc said:

He wants out, clear as day.

He certainly doesn’t appear to look as confident and upbeat as he was in his early interviews!

After the Unsworth debacle their must be get out clauses inserted into his contract.

If there was I’m pretty sure attaining a playoff position would have been one of them.

Whether he walks or is sacked is anyone’s guess but I still don’t think he’ll see next season out!

34 minutes ago, LightDN123 said:

Yeah true. On the flip side, it’s inevitable the players will have bad games and preform badly in spells, we need to be prepared for that. 
 

The booing has gone past being ridiculous. Fans boo when it’s 0-0 at half time these days, it’s cringeworthy.

It’s not necessarily the fact it’s 0v0 at ht it’s the fact that invariably we haven’t even had a shot on target or even a shot on goal!

You have to remember this is the 5th division, entitled or not, we are 30 years in the wilderness and people (me included) can’t get their head around where we find ourselves.

Add the fact that we are now 2 seasons into the Rothwell era and unfortunately any improvements on the playing side have so far failed to materialise.

It’s all about frustration really.

19 minutes ago, diggleblue said:

I like Mellon but sometimes I think he's becoming Unsworth in disguise. 

What's he saying today?

We've played a lot of top teams recently.Rochdale?Oxford?and drawn too many that we should have won.I wonder if he and the players are on drugs?I feel for him but come on. The players have shown no desire. Hopefully he can sort it out.

He’s coming out with the same bullshit he comes out with after most games. 
I’ll give him a close season to reshape the squad but If I’m honest I’m really not convinced he‘s the man who’s going to get us where we want to be.

Another abject season will not be acceptable and If we don’t start like a house on fire come August the pressure will mount considerably and rightly so!

 

17 minutes ago, LightDN123 said:

I do think us as fans have to take some form of responsibility for that. 

You have to be taking the piss!! Fans have followed them in numbers all over the fucking place this season and got practically nothing in return.

Even the Athleticos have been very subdued over the last few weeks and the disconnection between fan & player is as bad as I’ve ever witnessed.

Total responsibility has to be taken by the management and this absolutely horrendous squad of serial underachievers!

13 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

A rousing something off

Can’t imagine there’ll be much clapping going on. If we get beat tonight then Saturday will be toxic to say the least!!

Do you think they’ll even bother with the end of season awards night?

I think it could well be the lowest attendance of the season. 
 

21 minutes ago, BP1960 said:

  

So you think MM has actually been to watch him on loan to make his mind up for himself?

Well we get regular reports on our players out on loan on the website so I’m guessing somebody is!

5 minutes ago, yarddog73 said:

If Couto is the answer in front of Kitching then we really are fucked, he was torn apart pre season at places like Chorley by journeyman wingers, I've not seen him play since about Christmas but don't suspect he's turned in to Roberto Carlos overnight. He's another one who points a lot without actually doing much and even though he is still relatively young I can't see him being Mellon's bag anyway.

If he had a future here he would have probably been recalled by now!

2 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

That we may recruit players that are seen as an upgrade but until they get out on the pitch and prove it the jury will be out.  There was very little criticism of any of the signings over the last 20 months, until they played...

Because they all appeared to be decent signings on paper? TBH I wouldn’t have thought that the vast majority of our fanbase really knew too much about any of them first hand.

All we can go off is their previous record and trust that the recruitment department have done their ‘due diligence’.

I still think that even with the shortfall of quality in key positions any decent manager/coach should have been able to get them to perform to a far better standard than they have shown!

2 hours ago, spanishfly said:

 

FWIW I don't think the season ticket money is actually that big a deal. It's relative peanuts in the grander scheme of things.

So, we apparently sold 4550 season tickets. If you average that out at £200 it’s around £900k and with the increase for next season a similar take up would be almost £1.2m….I’d hardly call it peanuts!

46 minutes ago, deyres42 said:

God willing  

I wouldn’t be overly upset if he resigned or was sacked but I think next season will be a reset anyway and in that respect I don’t think getting another manager in will change things very much to be honest.

The only acquisition to excite me would be Pete Wild but that’s probably not an option right now especially if he were to get Barrow promoted.

If it weren’t for the Lemmies he would almost certainly have still been here and we’d probably have been at least one division higher.

We had the perfect manager here already, unfortunately, it was at the wrong time!

I wouldn’t cross the road to watch us at the moment!

4 minutes ago, BP1960 said:

Just wondering, is the assistant manager on a 3 year contract too? 

Probably, but he’s still employed by The New Saints fc too isn’t he, so he might be on a temporary contract of some sort?

Perhaps we would still get a fee at the moment and maybe it would be more favourable than a gamble as to his future progress?

3 minutes ago, BP1960 said:

I'm more concerned if Alfie Atherton goes.

We’d better be lining up a decent pro contract for him then hadn’t we, otherwise he’ll be gone!

15 minutes ago, LightDN123 said:

Well he can’t get in a match day squad that contains a 28 year old centre back and a central midfielder who can’t pass a ball.

 

So he’s currently about 6th choice in a midfield that’s weak as piss. 

I’m not disagreeing with you and the fact he’s given him an 18 month contract is alarming to say the least!

He may have been bought with the future in mind but he hasn’t shown much potential so far.

For me, It was a totally pointless signing when we were crying out for players who could go straight in….baffling to say the least!

19 minutes ago, LightDN123 said:

I’ve said he’s shite from his first sub appearance. Looks like Micky agrees. 

Ah…I see, that must be why he’s given him an 18 month deal then?

2 minutes ago, Littlemoor Lad said:

Sadly, it's time to say goodbye and I've gone for all of the above to go, yep, even Big Mike.

Others should/will be joining them I'm guessing, although I can't say that I'll lose any sleep over it.

 

Yep…..we’ll be writing the last 2 years off and almost starting from scratch again unfortunately.

Whether it be Mellon or whoever, the board have a massive decision to make.

One thing is for sure we absolutely cannot afford to make any more mistakes!!

4 minutes ago, Lee Sinnott said:

That's definitely not true. Wijnhard scored 5 goals in 4 days that season and definitely got a few more along the way...

26 appearances 10 goals

OK, the football has been really poor and we haven’t progressed as we would have liked but the club need you more than ever! 

If you listen to today’s BPAS podcast on you tube you will have a better understanding of just how much the Rothwell’s have put in and continue to put in to our football club. 

We don’t go to Oldham to watch fantastic free flowing football, if that’s what you want then stick to watching the Premiership on Sky/TNT etc. 

Next season we lose the parachute payments from the EFL and as a result will lose our academy. 

If we want our club to grow and prosper then we must buy a Season ticket, if sales fall off due to the product on offer the Rothwell’s might just start to think what’s the point, if the fans aren’t behind us why should we bother. 

Even though I will only be able to attend perhaps 50% of the games I’ve bought one at £220 which works out at £9.56 a match. 
We almost lost the club altogether and IMO it’s a small price to pay. 

We’ve come along way in the 2 years post ‘Lemmies’ but the owners aren’t going to get everything right all the time. 
If we stick with them and support them financially I have no doubt whatsoever that we will definitely get there! 

The football over the last few years has been awful and not worth the money at all but we all want a successful club contesting the promotion places. Keep backing the club and we will get there! 

I urge all of you to get that

season ticket and show Frank that he is not wasting his time and his money!! 
 

8 minutes ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

 

Once you stop seeing him joivially walking freely around the ground before each home match and on away days then it's start-to-worry time. 

 

Successful business people learn quickly from mistakes and never make the same ones twice. I'm sure it went on record (via DR's podcast interview maybe?) that they had a plan to achieve promotion to the FL within four years. The sooner the better would be a bonus. I don't think that's neccessarily off track, but we've had a bloodied nose in the first couple of rounds.

We’ll have done well if can get there in another 2 seasons!

22 minutes ago, BradKnowles1 said:

No direct trains out of chesterfield after the game

Hopefully none in before the game too!

39 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

I don't believe for a single second that the last couple of months is all down to the quality of the squad, not for one second. If that was the case no way would they have gone in the run that took us 5th and looking nailed on for the play offs. Something happened.

Even if something has happened and they have downed tools, they still need fucking off for being unprofessional. There is no excuse for not giving of their best for their employers and the supporters!!

Just now, Dick_Valentine said:

Shambles all round tbh 

1 minute ago, Dick_Valentine said:

Watch us go and win there in front of 150 Latics fans. Seriously though, what a shambles this is 

Our shambles or the league’s shambles?