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Hands on

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  1. Of course we all wish him well and hope he will turn the corner. He fits well with current signings as he is only 19 (just)! If £1200 is our target wage how much should we pay him?
  2. What would we talk about. I'm against this TV inspired nonsense. Two wrongs made the right result.
  3. Paul Black was just not good enough. For those who have forgotten by the end of every game he played the opposition was attacking almost exclusively down the right. This didn't happen with either Mellor or Diallo but Mellor if we can keep him is the future for the midfield. Jones made an impression both ways so not at LB.
  4. 11 in 16 for under 18s and 9 in 13 for reserves - 20 in 29! At that rate he would make our season. Playing against Premiership reserve teams is he stepping up or down?
  5. Being away at start and end of season doesn't seem right!
  6. It says on course to sell 1000 by the start of the season which means more than 1611 have been sold to adults and other concessions. Tis a great idea even if it doesn't add to the supporter base.
  7. Isn't this one where we share gate receipts so shouldn't we offer to play the game at Hillsborough?
  8. One advantage of waiting until the players are desperate is that there will be no chance of what we then bring in performing as a team from the start. Instead of an end of season, do I mean second half, slump we can start badly as well! I know the problem is money but the intention just to stay up will end up in Lactics only ever having the possibility of going down. The future is no longer bright just an awful shade of blue!
  9. It is clear that this lad is a replacement for Lee. I hope he does well.
  10. Our replacement for our best player is Connor Brown. Must be good because he never appeared in the first team!
  11. Dickov should stay but he will have to make changes to survive. There is no way he can sign a team anywhere near as good as our pre Christmas performance suggests. It will be the post Christmas team we get and 20th will be a good finish. Christ we have signed a right back!
  12. There is no way they are going to introduce cheaper seats having knocked down the stand that had the cheaper seats in its paddock. I’m against spending anything that does not have to be spent unless it is on a new stand. I don’t actually buy the theory that numbers are down because we have a crap stadium. Numbers are down mainly because Oldham is not a properous area, the tv is full of football when we play and we are in a Division 1 survival mode. A £20m stand will not pay for itself.
  13. Bouzanis doesn’t agree with the general assessment of him as he has ambitions to play for Australia. I like a man with ambition and suspect he must have been given some assurance about first team football - he is going nowhere in our reserves with Cisak as number one. The wonder news could be Cisak sold and money in balanced by one or two signings.
  14. It may be tangerine but, not to go on, it does also have the right colour blue. Yes the home kit is nice and will look good on a Carlisle supporter but it is the away kit for me.
  15. Tough talking on the ‘two weeks to decide’ and now to save about £4492 in fees. Well the first didn’t happen so will this? I just hope Lactics are not in the minority but I suspect it is not all for one and one for all but rather everyone for themselves.
  16. Hard to beat!!! I must have watched a different team. So many stupid goals were given away.
  17. I’m in the Trappattoni and Hodgson camp in that our first priority is to make ourselves hard to beat. Spend any money we have on the defence. Kuqi had a cracking season until his service to the team took all the sting out of him. Whoever we have has to play up front and not all over the field. Tounkara is great entertainment so I would have him and if Kuqi will stay play them both with Smith as sub and to give them a rest. Big is beautiful.
  18. The list demonstrates that Latics are definately in the business of staying up rather than going up which will probably end in going down. The players we have are only contracted for one year. The nine offered contracts will have been offered less money so it is no wonder that they are taking their time. Supporters disposable income will contiue to shrink as the Government cuts begin to bite (you ain’t seen nothing yet) and this will force a year on year downward adjustment in players wages so no business man is going to offer contracts for more than a year. This time next year we could have nobody! We have to wait but why not moan as this is a downward spiral.
  19. Artificial. My first game was against Ipswich on the plastic which we won 3 2. No I don't want the plastic back but the artificial pitches are so much better and I'm sure would cost less in the long run. If they also installed under soil heating no lost fixtures better cash flow and no fixture congestion. And I hate to say it, there is also the possibility of sharing a new stadium with Rochdale on a cheap field between us and them - money is just going to get tighter and tighter so I would rather have that than Division 1 North with part time players.
  20. "LATICS RELEASE NINE PLAYERS Posted on: Mon 07 May 2012 They are Ryan Brooke, Djeny Bembo-Leta, Matt Carr, Keanu Marsh-Brown, Phil McGrath, Josh Parker, Reuben Reid, Paul Black and Zander Diamond Dickov has told a further nine out-of-contract players he would like them to stay, though no new deals have been made. They are likely to be done later this week. The players Dickov wants to keep are Kieran Lee, Robbie Simpson, Bradley Diallo, Yousseff M'Changama, James Wesolowski, Dean Bouzanis, Kirk Millar, Filipe Morais and Chris Taylor. He says they will be given between 10/14 days to decide whether to accept after which they will be withdrawn." So there you have it 14 days from the end of the week commencing 7th May was last Friday the 25th May. What they need is to publish an update tomorrow so the hoards of supporters who are ready and waiting to pounce on the season ticket offer on Saturday will have some good news and a Spring in their step. We could have a poll to see how many of the nine we will keep - my guess is 4.
  21. Did we really play 4 4 2 all season or didn't we often just play "up and at 'em"? I would love to see us play two banks of four with a view to keeping a clean sheet!
  22. I love the optimism! M'voto, Clarke, Brown and Tarky (with Cisak) would be great but Simpson is a problem because he will get injured and we can't afford to pay anyone for half a season. Unless everyone knows something I don't I can't see Utd letting us have Reece Brown for a season long loan and unless they do we need to look elsewhere. I'm not saying we shouldn't have loan players but we would need them for the season, and only in real emergencies, so that we can build a team. Clarke will have gone before we get our wallet out!
  23. There are those we don't want, those we have made offers to (but still no news), some we have our eye on but will be cheaper if we wait, and those on our books who are available to anyone else who has two pennies to rub together. Who I wonder will be playing when I go to Mossley on the 11th July! Who is going to buy a season ticket tomorrow when there is no news on transfers - well not no news just details of those who are leaving or wanted by others. Could it just be that SC is trying to save a few weeks wages?
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