Dayvan Cowboy

A weapons grade bellend and a truly awful footballer. AVOID

If he reacted like that to a snowball being thrown at hit I'd love to have seen his reaction when he had East End gangsters turning up on his doorstep...

Inspirational poster in the Oldham gym Tweeted by Manchester Evening News.

Have you ever kissed a girl..?

No

I read the Evans website and he still sounds guilty to me, from his own account.

Before that, I knew the gist of the case but no details. This is not the time and place to discuss the things I think suggest guilt.

I signed the petition, and I don't go to the games for obvious reasons, but I probably put as much money into the club than most supporters that do attend. My opinion is no less valid.

Sounds to me like you're just another member of the baying mob. We can't think for ourselves dontcha know?

We are setting off now!!..Just wondering how many fans who threatened not to go went to the ones when Hughsy played for us?

Huh?

Oh help me Mrs Medlicott I don't know what to do

I've only got three bullets and there's four of Motley Crue

What exactly is the 'bigger picture'?

Disappointed with the club for giving into the mob but also disappointed with some people on here. There's the odd character you expect it from but there's a lot of we'll respected, reasonable and smart people on this forum who have suddenly decided they can't think for them selves or use any sort of reason. They have discriminated against him and are in the same league as the social media mob that have partly brought round this whole change of heart.

We look absolutely ridiculous now. At least if we saw it through we would have stuck to our convictions and backed what we started and claimed to believe in. I feel we would have saved a lot of face with a lot of people by following it through

I sincerely hope you're not pigeonholing all anti-Evans supporters with that statement. Not wanting an unrepentant sex offender to represent the football club you support is a perfectly reasonable stance to take.

Poor guy? Poor :censored:ing guy!? HE'S A CONVICTED RAPIST

I'm still not quite sure what people expect him to do? He's a footballer and wants to return to that after serving his time.

 

A combination of utter incompetence from our Board, mob rule and the dark side of social media has put paid to that. Well done everyone, the world is a better place today, feckin idiots.

 

Well, Oldham is a better place with one less rapist anyway.

I'm not convinced i can justify paying £22 a week to a club that has treated it's supporters with such utter contempt this week

A fair amount. We did not learn from it, mainly.I did not agree with that decision either, but he clearly expressed remorse.And It was a first. Twice is careless at best.Did we make a fortune out of Hughes. No.Did he get rehabilitated. Very obviously not.Did he fire us to promotion. No.Did he cause the fans to join together. No.

Exactly, it's not as if our previous signing of an ex-con was a major success. Hughes turned out to be a weapons grade bellend. An awful, awful decision by the club and one I truly hope backfires on them

Maybe they changed their minds after listening to what he had to say?

It shouldn't have even made it to that stage

I think a lot of other clubs are envious of the bollocks we have for going through all this.

I wouldn't call backtracking on an earlier statement that Latics wouldn't be signing a rapist after a dodgy run of form having 'bollocks'. Quite the opposite, in fact

Some people on this site need to get a grip. The media are blowing this thing totally out of proportion. We are not signing a serial rapist who's dragging women off the street and taking them up an alley (no pun intended), this is something that was a result of a drunken night gone wrong. There will be people reading this who, if they are being honest, could have put themselves in the same position Evans did and would themselves have been convicted under the current legislation. I'm not agreeing with what he did but he's paid the price for it. I personally would not have signed him purely for the :censored: it would bring with him but I'm starting to admire Corney for having the bottle to do it. Before some of you pass comments on the situation read up properly on the case and on the judge's comments and some of you will actually think you might have been in a similar situation with a woman and in trouble under today's laws.

 

He's not a serial rapist, but he's still a rapist no matter how you try and spin it. Funnily enough, I don't know a single person who's ever been convicted of rape, and it was a tiny bit more than a 'drunken night gone wrong'. :censored: him, I can't believe people are giving sympathy to a rapist. It's unbelievable

Point being? It hasn't been overturned, and I'll be astounded if it is. Until such a time I'll take him to be a convicted rapist. And rapists are not the victims last time I checked...

Except in this case apparently. Poor little Ched, he's had such a hard time

How many times does it need saying/explaining? This is one man in a world full of :censored:, :censored: happens daily and far worse in most parts of the world

Football is a game and secondary to most important things in life that really matter

FFS get a grip and make your own choices but realise everything surrounding this is bloody way OTT and driven by the media with every tom dick or harry throwing in their fourpenneth

 

Simple: GO or DON'T go but stop moaning about it

"Make your own choices but God forbid you voice your opinion, especially on the message board of the club he's signing for. He only raped a woman!"

 

Yeah, brilliant

I just can't see how anyone could think convicted rapist Ched Evans has been "hard done by".

What a contrast of emotions

People keep saying he has the right to work again as if a convicted sex offender can just return to any form of employment after being released. I wouldn't be able to continue doing my job if I was a convicted rapist as I'd never pass a DBS check. Footballers have a big responsibility within a community and this should definitely be applicable to them. The fact he has shown no remorse whatsoever only exacerbates matters.

 

The club has lost at least one attending supporter due all this. It has handled this whole debacle embarrassingly, and I have no wish to be associated with this shambles

They certainly are a sweet combination. I just hope neither of them desserts us in January.

 

Kones has really put down a marker this season

Don't worry, we won the singing...

 

And the passing, apparently

 

It's quite a bizarre feeling coming out of a game after a loss still feeling pretty upbeat. I thought aside from the goal we matched them for the entire game, and played some lovely football at times without creating too much. You can see why they're top, they aren't a class side like Southampton or Norwich were at this level but they know exactly what to do to win games at this level. I thought they did very well to keep Forte quiet.

 

I've got nothing negative to say about Bristol. Lovely city, friendly people, good team

Right... so, any good boozers near the ground?