disjointed

15 minutes ago, deyres42 said:

These are the games that Mellon was brought in to win.

I thought he was brought in to win them all. 

11 minutes ago, Can Neil Redfearn Do It said:

 

I didn't bud, shall catch up on that - I fully expected him to just bring Sutton on.

 

Hogan did alright to be fair so fair do's to him and Mellon.

 

Green is a big loss for the run in

I've been critical of Green, but since he came back in the team he has won me over, we need the width he gives us. Once we start getting narrow it just becomes hoof all, hopefully MM has it worked out. 

6 minutes ago, Can Neil Redfearn Do It said:

Dickenson would be a better bet at wingback (on either side) than practically every name mentioned above, and certainly Hogan

Don't know if you have read what the manager said after yesterday's game, but playing Hogan where he did after Green went off seems like a good move. 

14 minutes ago, oafc1955 said:

But there’ll be no break because the rugby season runs until September I think?

Be every other week in the summer, it will be fine. 

1 minute ago, Hemel latic said:

Am I right in thinking Eastleigh points haven't been added to league tables yet?

Waiting on the attendance figure I believe, I wouldn't be convinced that they are going to be announced as they have had other games this season with no attendances given. 

14 minutes ago, basilrobbie said:

I've been on holiday for a week so this thread caught my eye. I assumed it must be someone bumping an old thread to make a point ...... but it seems it is actually serious.

 

I'd say it was incredible, when you consider your last thirty years of miserable under-achievement, but I have to tolerate the keyboard warriors at Blackpool, who behave in exactly the same way - irrational, volatile and unable to contextualise what they are seeing. And then there is the overwhelming sense of entitlement.....

 

I don't watch you at all, and am quite willing to believe that you are not easy on the eye. But so what? You are playing in a muck and nettles Division, and sometimes you have to adapt to what you are faced with. All I know is that after a worrying start and a change of manager, you are now in the thick of play-off contention, getting significantly more good results than bad ones and giving the impression that the club as a whole is getting to grips with what has been a  precipitous fall from grace. 

 

You seem to have done all that without waving a cheque book in the style of Wrexham or Stockport ; given how competitive the Division is I'd be inclined to give the manager a bit more credit for getting a tune out of this squad. And I wholly accept it is easy for me to look dispassionately at it. 

 

I think around 72 points will be good enough for 7th. That means going something like W4 D4 L3 from here in. If you managed to (say) go W6 D2 L3 you would have a shot at 4th and a home tie to start in the play-offs. Obviously, given the tone of the debate, that may not be the advantage it is usually is. But I would rather the board was tilted in my favour for any one off match. 

 

I don't think the main issue is whether you can make it. It's any six from eight, and they are normally decent odds. I think you have a tough run in, but so do others. The key issue for me is momentum - I know a lot about winning play-offs, and when we have done it we have almost always gone into them in really good form. 

 

So there seems to me to be an awful lot to play for. It's a good time for excitement, ad a very odd one for the panic-stricken OP and some of what has followed it. All in my opinion, which of course counts for bugger all. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good to hear from you again Robbie, the OP did put in a later post that it was just frustration (he does have an air of negativity about him), after a bad result it's sometimes best to wait until the following day before posting anything. Good luck to Blackpool for the rest of the season a sneak into the play offs maybe. 

38 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

The preferred bidder for Rochdale has a whiff of those who bought Crawley. I can see Crawley dropping back into the Conference in the next few years.

Don't worry, the football authorities will see straight through any Inproper owners. 

8 hours ago, TheBigDog said:

37 matches is the cut off point in the National League for 10 accumulated bookings  - then it increases to 15 by the end of the season prior to the playoffs.

 

So if Norwood can behave for the next two games he should be okay…

Oh cheers. 

5 minutes ago, BradKnowles1 said:

I can’t see Norwood starting only just back from a hamstring injury. Garner bagging plenty for us though. 

Norwood is only 1 booking from a 2 match ban, at some point he is going to take a booking, he doesn't want it on the last game of the season if we are going to make the play offs. 

6 minutes ago, kowenicki said:

Good luck to them… which is more than most of their fans wished Bury and us in our darkest days. They still gloat and stick the boot in on Bury on a regular basis in their rather creepy and obsessive 350 page thread on the subject. 

Correct, worrying times if you start to become like them. 

6 minutes ago, Rootshallbloke said:

Afternoon Oldham. It's great to read a decent pre match thread for once. On the Crowther front, he will definitely be playing as he is totally fit and looking more than a bit useful since his signing. How the bloke was stuck in NLN is a total mystery to us . It's Ollie Kensdale that's out as he fractured his cheek bone against Aldershot. Harry Taylor, our other regular CB is also out with a knackered hammy. Despite that our defence is still pretty resilient with our old warhorse, Jason Demitriou still doing his stuff at 37. Harry Cardwell is now back at his best recovering from his last injury and he will probably be partnered by either Danny Waldron or Marcus Dackers. Our away record north of the Watford gap is not all that clever, so tomorrow with be very interesting on the 'who wants it most' front.

 

For once you have already won one title against us as you bought more of your tribe to Roots Hall than we will probably be bringing to Boundary Park. At the moment our numbers are around the 350 mark, but it could be more by ko. Looking forward to a really entertaining game tomorrow despite the arseholes that masquerade as referees in this league.

 

Ps - Jack Bridge is on fire at the moment

Safe journey to you all, it would be good to get at least 1 decent ref this season. After 10 minutes we can normally tell if we a gifting you the points. 

1 minute ago, TamarBridgeLatics said:

This gives a very good report on the original Stadium For Cornwall plans that fell by the wayside:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium_for_Cornwall

 

And this is the latest update: https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/stadium-cornwall-site-become-truro-8879206

 

Trouble is, things are done dreckly here in Cornwall, and it's anyone's guess when anything will be built, especiallyn if Cormac are involved.

Are Cormac the contractors on the A30 upgrade. 

3 minutes ago, yarddog73 said:

Norwood for Fondop

Conlon for McGahey 

 

Southend's midfield won't be as static as Eastleigh's were for the first 75 minutes on Tuesday. I'm expecting more mellonball and subsequent head scratching at 5pm.

It's inbuilt, I fear another shite home performance. 

58 minutes ago, the_mighty_bosh said:

 

At time of writing Truro doesn't have a football ground in Truro that they can use, as Treyew Road got sold off to a supermarket a couple of years ago and there's been loads of false dawns with stadiums.  Although they are due to be moving back there for next season. 

 

In the meantime they groundshared with Torquay for about half a season, before groundsharing with Plymouth Parkway for a year and a half.  But this year's rush to get fixtures played due to constant postponements has led to where they are currently.  Gloucester has an artificial pitch which at least gives them a better chance of getting the game on.

 

 

Surely a bit of forward planning would have seen a football ground being built first. 

1 hour ago, the_mighty_bosh said:

Stretching this thread title a little as it's National League South (and a Latics forum of course) but...

 

Truro City's nomadic existence reached a whole new level of farce today.  Starting the season playing in Plymouth (2h30 round trip from Truro) they agreed to groundshare with Taunton (near 5 hour round trip) out of fear of not completing their "home" fixtures due to so many postponements. 

 

Of course Taunton are struggling to complete their own home fixtures with their already boggy pitch and, since this agreement, Truro haven't managed to play a "home" game in Taunton.

 

So when Truro play at "home" to Taunton on Saturday, naturally the match is taking place at National League North side Gloucester City's ground.  A 400-mile, 7 hour round trip for a home game!  It would actually be 2 hours and 100 miles (round trip) closer for Latics to play a home game there.

 

Add that to Torquay's financial problems and it's fair to say that non-league football down here in the South West isn't looking in great shape at present.

Was in Truro last weekend, I didn't know any of this, why are they not playing in Truro? 

16 minutes ago, yarddog73 said:

Stat of the day.

 

If we had got the result at home to Kiddy we'd be top of the form table over the past 8 games and on the brink of the top 3, given I've had about three meltdowns in that spell that's not a bad return and it still has us 4th I think in that period of time with 14 points.

The frustrating thing is since we have put ourselves in the play off positions we then conspire to lose against a weaker side at home, we could be 2nd or 3rd already. I know it's only a game and I've learnt to shrug my shoulders and say ah well but FFS. 

12 minutes ago, League one forever said:

So you’d play 5 5 and sack them all off?

No 7 at the back is the starting point. 

I don't care who he plays in midfield it's up to Mellon to make it work, we need to have some width in the side, a mate of mine forever bangs on about BP being to wide for us and other teams love it. 

Law of averages means bypassing the midfield will work one day, it might not be dead in the water. 

6 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

 

We really should appreciate how lucky we were to get a local man doing it for  the right reasons

Totally agree, the Rochdale fans I know would in an ideal world take a Frank. They are not stupid enough to realise that this isn't going to happen. I hope this turns out OK for them. 

11 minutes ago, Worcester Owl said:

I upvoted that with sincere thanks - on my one and only appearance I got a big fat zero!!!

I was lucky, I appeared before they started the quiz. 

Just now, Lee Sinnott said:

It's a very loose link to the National League, but the Wealdstone manager went to Notts County a month or so ago and it's turned into an absolute disaster for him...

What happened to the previous County manager. 

Just now, mcfluff1985 said:

whos manager did we get sacked two seasons on the trot? Bradfords maybe?

Yeah, Stuart McCall. 

9 minutes ago, oafcmetty said:

Got a source?

I'd say check what he predicted, it may not be too far away, trying to pull a fast one. 

Just now, disjointed said:

Seems a bit hit and miss with these Southern leisure centres, it might be a game where they don't give one. 

See above. 

1 hour ago, JohnG123 said:

anyone know the attendance from last night ?

Seems a bit hit and miss with these Southern leisure centres, it might be a game where they don't give one.