TyldesleyLatic

You’ll get a follow up e-mail with a PDF attachment to it – that’s your ticket
The bar code is on there – Print it off, fold it up & stick it in that turnstile gizmo come match day

I’d imagine that there’ll be at least as many Latics fans there as there were for the Blackpool game going off its importance. I read there were just over 3500 Blackpool there in a crowd of about 19k so about 15.5k Latics even with the telly.
I know the rugby lot don’t seem to turn up for their play off games but from memory ours have always been a higher attendance than normal.
If it’s the Friday night the “school in the morning” parents probably won;t keep their kids away either

Didn’t Marshall bugger off back to the West Indies with John Deehan’s sheepskin coat?[/quote]

I can’t remember Richard Marshall. Was he a loanee or a trialist?[/quote]

If it’s who I think it was then he was a trialist.
Came over in the dead of winter when it was freezing & we had snow to boot. Think they took him to Springfield Park when the reserves were playing & at some point during or just after that game he said he didn’t want the trial coz he couldn’t live anywhere where the weather could be that bad.
I don’t think he ever even got to unpack his suitcase

Best loan signings for me are those who the club brings in, they stay & you get many good years of service out of them. So over the years I’d include the likes of Ian Kilford & Paul Rogers (even though I wasn’t his biggest fan) in that. Oh & Tony Pennock
For worst – & for some reason I can remember far more of the duds than the good uns I’d have to nominate the likes of Stuart Whittaker, Peter Thorne, Patrick Van Aanholt, Scott Sinclair, Moreno, & that Ryan Tunnicliffe
EDIT – also up there wuith duffers was Terry Cooke. He’d torn defences apart when he was in the 3rd division with City but was dire when he came to us not that long after (bar a last minute equaliser away at Chesterfield). How did a player get so bad so quickly? Although if rumours I heard at the time of going out on the lash in Bournemouth the night before our crucial last game of the season there were true he seems to have had a bertie big balls attitude too

EDIT 2 – I also remember some guy we got on loan from Stoke in the late 80’s/early 90’s (Phil Hughes/peter Atherton era). Seem to remember his surname being Boughey or something similar. Scored 2 in 2 & then we sent him back???? :blink:

The only reason that I can think of is that as its World Cup year, Championship teams are more likely to have players involved in the world cup, so moving it forward gives em more rest/time to work with their national squads ahead of that.
Not sure how big a difference 2 days makes but there you go

Calm down we WILL be in the play offs next week of that I have no doubts whatsoever.
We have been nailed on candidates since that fantastic run in February and march and maybe the surety of that has fed through to the manager and players causing the recent iffy results.
Saturday was a massive wake up call however I doubt Birmingham will be as tough a test given their dreadful form of recent weeks and I am certain we will have it nailed by tomorrow night because.nobody at the club will want to cock it up now!
I seem to remember Palace struggling to make the play offs last season and then getting it together in the play off semis and final.
Tomorrow will be very nervy but I think we will have too much for them not to get the result we need.[/quote]

Not that he has any great insight into the workings of the club, but Steve Claridge said something pretty similar on the football league show at the weekend. The presenter asked him if Latics recent stutter was down to tiredness & said that he’d be surprised coz of how Rosler has rotated the squad even if it hasn’t always been to good effect. His feeling was that after looking pretty much assured of a play off spot a few weeks back but pretty much unable to get up automatically that subconsciously the players have taken their foot off the gas a bit & come up against teams recently battling for one thing or another who have had that bit more hunger about them which has edged it

I’m pretty sure that the PFA voting takes place in December or early January.
If that’s true I’m not surprised that there’s no Latics players in it. The team weren’t in the division for the first 8 months of the year & up until mid December they were pretty shit

EDIT – Wikipedia says it’s voted for in the spring (March) but still, Latics only really came into the play off reckoning after the vote. I’m flabbergasted that none of our strikers made it in there!!

When Rosler was appointed I think it was thisnorthernsoul that published an interview with the editor of the Brentford fan beesotted.
The overall vibe of the article was very positive about Rosler & praised all be achieved but it did also state that not everyone was happy with him & he’d had a public run in with some of them after a game. On top of that, and probably more relevant to this debate, the writer of the article (a confessed Rosler fan) that his strict rotation policy had meant they didn’t get as many points as they should probably have done. He also told the story that at the start of this season the players also told him they didn’t like it & he changed it

I’d agree with that.
I’d said to a mate (not long before Gomez scored) that Latics were playing some fantastic stuff but it was all fizzling out in the final third.
Waghorn certainly seems to know where the net is better than any of our other forwards do but I don’t feel that he’s as good as an in form McManaman on the right hand side & I don’t feel he’s got the right attributes to be the spearhead of the front 3 (lone striker/call it what you want). When the ball was being cleared quickly from defence to attack I can’t recall Waghorn winning anything in the air over Reading’s defenders & I wouldn;t expect him to either. Fortune for me is best at that role but he can’t hit a cow’s arse with a banjo in front of goal.
Maynard I don’t rate at all