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I would love to get in the playoffs but just can't see it happening, the slow start to the season didn't help and I just can't see us making up the ground on the rest.

 

Shez says 10 wins out of 16 should be enough.......Well that's almost title form and with only 10 wins in the previous 30 think that's a tad optimistic.

 

We all want a striker in at the club but I for one think it will make little difference at this stage, and we would be better off waiting until the end of the season and giving it a real go next time.

 

I don't think the problem has been the lack of a striker as, like last night, the service to the strikers this season has been generally dire.

 

Most of Davies's 13 goals have been engineered himself apart from a great cross from Smalley in the first game against Swansea and the injury time goal at Tranmere when Liddell provided the assist.

 

How many times this season have our strikers recieved the ball running into the penalty area? they always seem to be out wide or have their backs to goal.

 

I like alot of supporters on this site would play Lomax at LB with Livermore moving to LM and Taylor to the right side which hopefully would result in a better supply line to the forwards, however for reasons best known to Shez it just ain't gonna happen!

 

I'm certain we'll be in this division next year and perhaps once again it has been an opportunity missed as next year will be harder still, with possibly Leeds, Forest, Preston and Sheff Wed amongst our rivals.

 

Will we ever get out of this division!!!!!!!

agree with every word.

personally think there is still a glimmer of hope of the playoffs and i wont rule it out until we are still way behind after playing both our games in hand over most. think more could have been done in the summer as i believe, as u did at the start of the season, we signed average players in the wrong positions, with the exception of hughes and davies

Arsenal - No

Man Utd - Yes

Chelsea - No

Everton - Yes

Liverpool - Yes

Aston Villa - Yes

Man City - Yes, Maine Road and Eastlands

Portsmouth - No

Blackburn -no

West Ham - Yes

Tottenham - No

Middlesbrough - Ayresome no, Riverside no

Newcastle - no

Sunderland - no

Bolton - no

Wigan - Yes, Springfield and the JJB

Birmingham - no

Reading - no

Fulham - No

Derby - no,

Watford - No

West Brom - Yes

Bristol City - Yes

Stoke - no

Charlton - No

Ipswich - No

Crystal Palace - yes

Hull - no

Burnley - no

Plymouth - no

Cardiff - Yes

Wolverhampton - Yes

Norwich - no

Barnsley - Yes

QPR - Yes

Blackpool - Yes

Sheff Utd - Yes

Southampton - No

Coventry - No

Leicester - Yes, Filbert St

Preston - Yes

Sheff Wed - Yes

Scunthorpe - Yes

Colchester - Yes

Swansea - Yes

Doncaster - Yes, Belle Vue, Keepgoats no

Nottm Forest - Yes

Carlisle - Yes

Walsall - Yes

Tranmere - Yes

Leyton Orient - Yes

Leeds - Yes

Southend - no

Oldham - Once or twice

Swindon - Yes

Northampton - Yes

Huddersfield - Yes

Brighton - Yes

Yeovil - Yes

Bristol Rovers - no

Hartlepool - no

Cheltenham - Yes

Gillingham - Yes

Crewe - Yes

Millwall - Yes New Den

Luton - Yes

Bournemouth - Yes

Port Vale - Yes

Milton Keynes Dons - Yes

Darlington - No

Hereford - No

Rotherham - Yes

Peterborough - no

Wycombe - Yes

Chesterfield - Yes

Rochdale - Yes

Stockport - Yes

Morecambe - no

Grimsby - Yes

Brentford - Yes

Shrewsbury - no

Bradford - Yes

Chester - No

Accrington Stanley - Yes

Barnet - No

Lincoln City - No

Macclesfield - no

Notts County - Yes

Bury - Yes

Mansfield - Yes

Dag & Red - No

Wrexham - Yes

+Kings lynn

Kettering

chasetown

southport

wembley

sorry ed, by historical aspects, rather than meaning physical buildings, or whatever, i meant the protection against change. look at the clayton playing fields saga. im not saying past propasals for the site were for the best, in all honesty i cant remember any details, but the town has come out and said no development work whatsoever will be carried out on the site. forward thinking or what. i can think of no better location in the entire borough for a leisure park similar to that at sandbrooke park or pilsworth. it would go hand in hand with that of the ajacent retail park. surely the football pitches could be relocated to the site of ferney fields or something, thereby not losing the playing fields. This is all due to a promise made many years ago to the clayton family. surely this could be overcome during talks with the present day clayton family.

The council in this instance have ruled out any development whatsoever in what i feel is having a detrimental effect to the borough, but now do you see what i mean by protecting historical aspects?

hope ive cleared it up but its probably as clear as mud

I must have done about 70ish over about 30 years, I've done a lot of the old ones like Victoria Ground, Baseball Ground, Molineux, Ayresome Park, Highfield Road, The Dell etc.

at last count, i was on 65 in 17 years watching latics, but that includes old grounds like springfield park (wigan) and non-league grounds in the cup (kings lynn etc)

going to every match home and away last season helped me massively, be interesting to actually sit down and add them up again, but until someone puts a list up of every team in the country i cant be bothered looking into it myself

Good points, question is, who elects the 'poor local government'?

granted, we as voters have voted in local government over the past 20 years, but is a situation where you are damned if you do and your damned if you dont. it isnt one particular party who have been in power over the last few years, two, or maybe three different parties have had a shot, and all have been pretty poor.

The fact is Oldham is run by Old timers who wish to ook after the historical aspects of the town, which is a good thing, but it seems to me like they are wearing blinkers, and quite simply dont like change.

Its all very well us saying what we dont like about our town, or what we want. Its all very well to stand and say its all the councils fault, but we cant just sit back and moan unless we have actually turned around and tried changing things ourself. yes, i agree its partly down to the council for mismanagement over the years, but we could have an impact if something was to be organised properly. we showed on the march strength in numbers worked, there is enough of us on here to get something started and then others from across the borough would follow us.

Its all very well blaming others, but what have you done? Time to act!!

There were ten ronnie moores in the air

(in the air)

There were ten ronnie moores in the air

(in the air)

There were ten ronnie moores,

Ten Ronnie Moores,

Ten Ronnie Moores in the air

And The boys from oldham Shot him down

(kicked him in)

And the boys from oldham shot him down

(kicked him in)

and the boys from oldham

boys from oldham,

boys from oldham shot him down

(kicked him in)

There were nine...

There were eight...

There were seven...

There were six...

There were five...

There were four...

There were three...

There were two...

There was one...

There were no Ronnie Moores in the air

(thank )...

All time classic from the Beardy Bus that one, Seem to remember me and Rocky are to thank for that little beauty

Different managers work differently, if shez wants to shout at his players let him do that, and as someone rightly says you will never get a manager worth his salt saying well done or whatever on the touch line if you are 0-0 or 0-1.

if you were a sales rep and you wernt hitting targets you would expect a dressing down, that rule is the same in football. If shez came out and said at the end of a defeat all the blame is on the players i would be unhappy. until then im happy if a few strong words are said on the touchline.

please remind me, did fergie praise his players on sunday when united were 2-0 down? oh but i forgot, he is a crap manager who never wins anything

I used to see him every morning in my student days. ya see, i worked at maccy's on the retail park near Latics and he would never go to a training session without a bacon roll meal every morning. hell, he didnt even need to place an order, i knew what he wanted already. true blue is that bloke, was on first name terms with him, and would talk about latics a hell of a lot. no doubt in my mind he will play at tics if he doesnt retire, and if he does, imo he is a future manager.

No chance he will play anywhere else imo

PS, how a pro footballer can have a maccys every morning and still be world class is beyond me.

last year was some of the best football, i have seen from a latics side, ok, we wernt consistant, but it produced a real feel good factor around the place. wouldnt it be ironic if we got promoted via the playoffs, yet have an awful home record, and people calling for shez's head at various parts of the season.

who knows, it isnt always pretty football that gets you promoted.

Does it mention the vicious animals who turned up at BP that day? namely 11 Southerners in Orange? (not tangerine)

summats fishy about this, how many housing estates do you know in Oldham that would be concidered a decent location for a night club? i reckon its much more likely to be Butterflies, or Henry Afrikas, or something similar.

now the january transfer window is closed, the seasons run in has begun, but just where do we think we will finish?

personally im a realist, top half is achievable, but with our limited squad playoffs will be just out of reach, even with our games in hand

and the upside...

we get 3 months out of the 2nd hand one,it goes tits up and we've completed the circle of life.

im all for the brand new screen, just pointing out from the wording of the article it sounds like it may take a little more time

good idea, only downside i can see is it might be 4-5 years before we get a scoreboard, from the sound of the article.

Doncaster

new stadium development

similar size and status

always after te same bloody players

Both kits are carlotti

I'd still try and buy him, 22, knows where the net is, 6 foot odd and the ball sticks to him.

 

If he is a bit lame then Weds should knock some money off.

id go for him, but only on a free, not worth spending money on this bloke.

kevin blackwell.....was doing ok until luton went into administration.

If Lutons style of play is anything to go by when they played us up here, when they cheated, and assaulted there way through ninety minutes, he can stay in oblivion for me.

unles of course the yorkshire shower want him back

I think there's only Mike Fillery who played less minutes than Lee before leaving the club!

moussa dabo? dont think he completed a full second of appearances in a latics shirt did he?

For everyone you know who wasn't bothered, I bet I knew 2 who were. A lot did have gripes with him, but they were still gutted he went. And if they weren't (the small minority IMO), they know little about football....if they're happy to see 20+ goals walk away from a side.

i agree when Porter left the side it was a loss in footballing terms, but i was one of those who wasnt that bothered about him leaving as he obviously didnt want to be here. i want people in the shirt who want to play for us, want to do well for us and want to get us promoted. how many of you can honestly say his performances after january were fully committed?

Yes he was a loss, but i was more annoyed we lost the transfer fee rather than the actual player. Wellens was a loss, but if he dont want to be here good riddance

nowground redevelopment has been given the go ahead this debate is irrelavent.

there will be so much upheaval in the next three-four years, every single one of us will be forced to change stands at some point. this will be the greatest chance we have ever had of grouping everybody together, and getting a singing section going. i have no doubt whatsoever that once the new chaddy is open, this will become the new hub of singing, and it will have a roof that shows off our singing capabilities as well.

as for the fact of nobody can hear the chaddy, well i sit in the upper main stand towards the rocky road end (i would rather sit on the side and get a half decent view at home rather than sit in the chaddy with posts and see very little of the play towards the rocky), and it is a myth you cant hear the chaddy, but i must say it is nowhere near the level it should be at. it isnt a roar, its more like a squeak. nothing against the chaddy enders, just stating a point.

When we get the new ground i will be in the new main stand probably, or the current main stand depending if we get a singing section on the sides of the ground. nothing would get me sitting behind the goals at home, the view alone doesnt make it worthwhile

if it is true i would want 5 mill from money bags qpr

Tbh i dont really rate him. i saw him play every game for us on loan last year and against us at bp. he had two average games for us last year, one god awful game (against Brentford away) and one good game. granted he scored two against brentford, but one was a deflection he got in the way of and another was a penalty he demanded taking. before that he was actually getting booed from oldham fans for showing a lack of commitment, and stopped one step short of sticking two fingers up at us when celebrating the equaliser.

I will be fully behind him if he becomes a tic full time, but i wont be overly disgruntled if we dont sign him. i just feel there are better targets out there

It wont make you play any better playing in tang, but it will make it easier to spot your man that fraction of a second quicker.

every little helps

i like the tangerine, why not just have an alternative tang kit? we have an alternative blue kit for home games every year. whats the difference?

NOooo we should vote on the 2nd change strip, Tangerine has to be the first choice away kit, surely

that is the most sensible post i have ever seen.

Latics should be blue home and tang away from home. its tradition (as of this season)

an update of tang would be acceptable.

dont understand how they can have blue kits as a second strip though.

voted for none cos i dont like any