LaticsChris

"WE ARE LATICS" sounds best to me.

 

Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard - there is pretty much nothing that separates them. Great English midfielders, but not greats who can do it at club and international level. Scholes a better passer of the ball, Gerrard and Lampard both much better goalscorers (Lampard especially). Gerrard a bit more all action, Scholes more of a dirty cynical b*stard who managed to get away with it quite well. But if you swapped any of those 3 about, the fortunes of their respective clubs would not have changed at all I don't think. If Gerrard played for United and Scholes for Liverpool, United wouldn't have been any less successful.

 

But the 3 of them, they are nowhere near as good midfielders as Xavi, Iniesta, Pirlo, and especially Zidane. And they managed to do a good job of showing that whenever they pulled on an England shirt. As soon as they were out of their comfort zone of having top quality players at their clubs around them, they couldn't perform. Unlike Xavi. Unlike Iniesta. Unlike Pirlo. Unlike Zidane.

There's a lot of sense in what you say there. It's worth pointing out though that we've never seen Xavi or Iniesta out of their comfort zone in a sub-par team. They've both always had the same class players around them.

Really loyal to Liverpool http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/4653041.stm

£32m. How quaint.

Had a letter today to say I cant have a season ticket as its in the top two rows of the rocky and the club isn't using them next season for ST holders.

It apparently impedes thes view of those in wheelchairs.

Fair enough but they could have told me sooner so I could have had a look at where else to sit or even change stands and views etc.

 

Wonder how that will be enforced on matchdays as it was hardly an issue last year??

The fact that these measures have been implemented would suggest disabled supporters thought otherwise.

3 things:

1. Rochdale away - just loved how rowdy we all were, then the result just topped it off, even if they say they don't care about us.

2. Fleetwood away - the fact we had fans on three sides of the ground, the two worldie strikes to lighten an average game and all the players celebrating with the fans.

3. The north stand construction thread...,lightened a many dull day seeing new improvements being made to what will be a brilliant new stand

This post reflects our season very well really. The first two thirds had some real high points, but by the final third we were really scratching around for something to cling to.

Ah, Daniel Johnson. He was good.

Has to be Rochdale away for me. Just fantastic.

The fuzzy warm feeling of the season has been watching the Belfast Iniesta come into his own.

He's right though

He's an important man, if only as a reminder that it's possible to be both a monumental tit and correct.

Remind me what did Dowie achieve last time he was here and why hasn't he been in management for over 5 years now?.Been there done that no thanks !!

Comfortably our best season in the last 21 years.

From Pennine Way to Wembley Way.

Elton Welsby >>>>>>>Adrian Chiles and Richard Keys combined.

In all fairness, Gordon Lawton is greater than Adrian Chiles and Richard Keys.

Highlights (No sound)

 

Some very well taken goals there.

And that camera angle! Miles better than the one we've seen for first team games the last two years!

I quite like those socks.

Classic football socks: one colour to the leg, another to the turn-down.

Think the club have seriously overestimated how many corporate seats they will get.

I'm fairly confident that despite the club's ineptitude in so many ways they will have carried out some market research on the subject and have made a reasonable prediction based on that research, rather than Jenny deciding by consulting a tarot.

He's with shez at Plymouth isn't he?

He's Shez's Performance Manager at Plymouth and has managed to get Reuben Reid to perform.

Well I never. Maybe there's a possibility they could get the old band back together then...

"I'll see you at Oldham Baths at 5am sharp young Carl. Bring your boxing gloves."

If dowie is the man for the job we won't be worried about their fitness after 60 minutes. That was the strongest team I saw at latics.

John Harbin was the main man behind that. I don't know what he's upto these days but they were a brilliant team. I think he returned to Australia to work in rugby league last I heard.

I've voted for three players of the season and two goals of the season.

But how did you circumvent all the preventative measures the club put in place?

 

 

I can just hear the uproar when fans are asked to move from Rocky to Chaddy end

"I remember sitting through those great years under Dean Holden in The Rocky Road End, I can't believe they're shifting us into the away end."

Maybe not.

Also it's the last time the Zigga Zagga chant will refer to the home supporters when listening to the Chaddy roar.

I was thinking this earlier. From now on it'll have to be a much more abstract "Chaddy roar".

has he even applied ? Does he want it ?

Don't worry about that, Corney knows some lads with a Transit in the Leeds area.

 

Thanks

Found it.

Thirteen goals in a day. Nuts.

...is it on the internet anywhere... Don't think I've ever seen the interviews...!?!

I'd guess iPlayer is worth a shout. It was on either BBC One or Two on Saturday at about 10/11am.

Also echo the earlier poster above, that if they played the league cup the same time they do now...earlier then we would have battered Forest and if my mind then beaten united and they would have said goodbye to fergie.

 

iirc season was shortened so england had time to prepare for italia 90 so final was earlier than usual just our luck

I'd always thought the final was played much later than usual so I had a look. The 1990 League Cup final was on 29th April. The '89 final was on 9th April, the '88 final on the 24th April and the '87 final on 5th April.

So if anything it was played later than the previous finals but not by much. It looks tremendously late compared to this year's 1st March final though.

Oh what might have been...

It was great watching it on TV on Saturday morning, they even showed the pre-match interviews with Royle, Barlow, Milligan and Marshall.

Corney should offer Neil Redfearn the job, it's looking unlikely he's going to be at Leeds next season with his contract expiring, he's also had his assistant taken away from him by the clown of an owner and 6 first teamers have been told they can't play today, if we offered him the role here he could have full control of team affairs/transfers worth a punt ?

Just make sure Redfearn doesn't speak to Paul Dickov...

I have a source close to Delroy's defence team and he has let me know on the quiet that they will be utilizing the rarely-used but highly effective "No, I Really Am That :censored:" defence.