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Warrington away would be cool. I watched them play Clitheroe (I think) towards the end of last season, it was a proper tiny non-league ground. I'd love to see us take over.

It's so trendy to shout from the rooftops that you don't watch England.

The analogy stands up. It's a competition we can win, but it's not the Champions League.

Thanks for your input.

I won £20 on the lottery once. Admittedly it wasn't the big jackpot, or even £1000, or even £100, but I was well chuffed. I didn't hand it back because I dream of winning the big jackpot. I accepted the £20 happily, because winning money is why I bought a lottery ticket, it was a good thing and it put me in really good mood.

They're slightly more satisfying when eaten correctly though.

Where did they put the effects mic? Old Trafford?

Your first game was away? Proper Gillingham away material that.

Adam Griffin vs Grimsby in the Celebration Sunday 6-0 win. Overhead kick from a tight angle. Lovely stuff. Edit: I just found it on YouTube; it wasn't as good as I remember, happy memories though.

Absolute howitzer. Was being closed down pretty enthusiastically as well.

I only just realised this is another £24 admission fee. It's going to be an expensive day, at least these cracking pubs suggested by Diego should make the subsequent poverty worthwhile.

There's always one that has to get carried away and spaff it up the wall.

"Must you really insist on sleeping with your Rothman's Football Yearbooks?"

The name Craig Lightfoot rings a bell... However Wikipedia tells me it was Chris Lightfoot, he made three appearances on loan from Crewe before dropping into non-league obscurity.

Well they've rather confidently written us off haven't they. I don't know why we're even bothering sending a team.

I think I went to a friendly or two beforehand, but my first proper first team game was the league cup 2nd round first leg game against Sheffield Wednesday. Team according to soccerbase.com was: G Kelly P Jones C Lightfoot S McNiven A Holt M Innes D Boshell L Duxbury C Corazzin M Tipton C Dudley I remember nothing about the game apart from a Wednesday player smashing into the gate at the bottom of the Chaddy.

I don't think it's a case of him getting tired. It's more that his knee needs more recovery time, this would appear to be the reason he's only played the one Tuesday match thus far. As for not signing Porter because we've won a couple...I would think both Corney and Johnson are wiser than that. The best time to strengthen is when you're strong; there is no panic and you can assess your squad more rationally.

I've been watching a lot of Orange is the New Black recently. A shotgun seems a reasonable precaution.

This. This, this, this, this and this again.

Well you're not wrong.

Have you heard him speak? Unless Barbados is a suburb of Sheffield I'm not sure he's ever even been there.

But men have that same right, so why would you question someone's decision to swear in front of ladies and under 18s but not men? It seems to me you are assuming that men are happy to listen to swearing, something that you just claimed was the height of sexism, no? Oh, and suggesting that swearing is indicative of a poor education is, quite frankly, bollocks. It can emphasise a point expertly when time or space is at a premium. These are all just words, part of learning the English language is learning these words and learning when and when not to use them. Using them on an internet message board is fairly inconsequential. Using them at a job interview, when meeting your partner's parents for the first time or when giving a eulogy could be quite disastrous.

Are ladies not allowed to hear swearwords now? Was all that bra burning for nothing?

I'd appreciate it if someone could put together a thread and pin it so that we can refer to the words we are and are not allowed to use when discussing particular subjects.

I'll agree with Zorro though, traditional is the wrong word. I don't push for that design out of tradition, I push for it because I think it's pretty unique and - when paired with the V neck collar - a masterclass in simple football shirt design. If we wore that strip - and variations of it - for, let's say, a decade it would start to become synonymous with us. We would have a real signature kit. We could wear all blue, or blue with white shorts for a hundred years and it would never be a shirt you could pick out in a line up and say "That's Oldham". That's my two penn'orth anyway.