Magic Mikey

We've conceded the same number of goals as the team in 8th, and only 2 more than the teams in 2nd and 3rd. We've scored the third fewest in the league. It's fairly clear where the problem lies - without Baxter we'd be down already.

For a team battling relegation we haven't suffered major dickings, so many times we have lost to the odd goal. We've held our own many times but not stuck the ball in the onion bag.

Sepp Blatter - straight in the c-box

I would think that the cameras etc will move to the main stand, to show off our spanking new Broadway Stand.

They could use the directors seating area or behind it, after all the directors and guests etc will be sitting in luxury in the new boxes.

Will the current camera position be able to remain once the building work starts? Maybe have the cameraman on top of one of the portakabins.

Is that Mrs Byrne?

Joined last summer but no posts until the Byrne quote today hmmm

I think we should be careful about how we label some people. If we're not careful we'll run out of suitable words.

 

May I suggest we start with the basic premise that only Richard Littlejohn is truly a :censored:.

No, I think Martin Allen, in his own way, deserves to go in the c-box. And a bloke I used to work for in Doncaster.

On the bright down side, at least you'll be able to watch the game if you have one of those houses opposite. Devaluing your property.

 

FTFY

No.

 

That stuff remains on the other side.

Thought so, no bulldozers straight away then.

If this new stand ever see's the light of day the main stand will surely be bulldozed. Back to three sides for another 7/8 years!!

Do the plans for the new stand have all the match day facilities of the main stand in them, changing rooms, tunnel etc?

Correlation does not imply causation.

I think I understand why the lucky pants I wore against Liverpool aren't working properly. Maybe I should wash them now.

that bloke in the main was me i have been going for 40years home and away thats the worst i have seen today .

Has to be a wind up. Someone might call out something silly in frustration, but no one could be genuinely trying to condone it with utter bollocks like that.

Couldn't agree more about the Simpson comments. Gave the ball away in attacking positions and idiotically jumping into their centre halves with no chance of winning the ball, they get a soft free kick and pressure off.

WTF was their kit, it was all green against our all blue, with the sun in your eyes it was hard to tell them apart, the ref should at least have made them wear white shorts. Maybe that's why we kept passing to them in the first half.

Thing is Swindon like Ipswich is a pretty well off area i was suprised at how cheap Portsmouth earlier in the season.

Look at the nearest premier league competition they have. These clubs don't bear comparison with Latics.

I presume that the contract he signed in January included a clause that he could leave if a club offers a certain amount. I would guess that the amount is not as high as the figures being banded about here.

 

I don't know this to be the case but I'd be amazed if it isn't. Before people criticise the club for lack of ambition etc. it clearly made more sense for us to agree a deal whereby he played for us for the rest of the season and then we got say £500k for him rather than he left for nothing in January.

Totally agree, getting him to sign on any basis amazed most of us. Whatever else we get out of Jose, be it appearances or a fee, PD and the club did brilliantly.

Here it is:-

"Spot the gaffe"

Gaff and gaffe are both acceptable spellings.

Smith's goal would have been immense whichever end it went in, but it was even better for the fact that it was down at the Chaddy. Had it been in front of the RRE it would have been amazing, but not the same.

Unless the RRE was the home end and the scousers were in the Chaddy.

I used to think that, but the Chaddy End against Liverpool and Everton changed my mind. I'd been going in the RRE for my fleeting visits for years before, but it was absolutely electric in the Chaddy. I can see why people love it still and don't want to move. Plus some of the diehards in there will never move.

I know there would be resistance from some quarters, tradition and segregation are the only reasons I can see for having it as the home end. Based on view, facilities and acoustics the Rocky wins hands down for me. I speak as someone who stood / sat in the Chaddy for decades.

 

Disbelieving staff at Boundary Park, which is only a stone's throw from the webmonkey's house and is useful for when his mum calls him in for tea, would not believe the infant was Latics' webmonkey.

 

They thought the 6-year-old was too young when he told them who he was.

 

Webmonkey (not pictured for child protection purposes) experienced problems gaining entry at 5pm yesterday when he arrived unannounced on his way back from picking up a Happy Meal and doing his homework.

 

Rather than returning home, webmonkey decided to go to Boundary Park so he could make an early start on his series of typographical errors and limited English language skills.

 

He explained: "I was batring down the dooor and they woul'dnt let me in. They must of thought I was a drunk cuming in off the street.

 

"And when I told them I was Latics' webmonkey, they wouldn't believe me saying I was too young.

 

"I had some convincing to do, but fwihwfrouihwfouiwefuwfioehfweuio fcnwenfw fwenowin."

I drunk cuming in could be messy.

Ah is it? I assumed it was still indonesia as the Fila brand still owned by JD Sports, as is Carbrini.

I know Fila and Cabrini are linked, pretty sure JD is a sports shop that sells Fila and Cabrini amongst many others. Whoever makes them they will shove the manufacturing out to wherever it's cheapest. Next batch in could be different again.

Whilst I don't think this one is as much of an identikit as previous shirts (e.g. the first Carbrini one that was basically the Bournemouth kit with different colours), as Monty states when you're shirts are being manufactured by JD sports in an indonesian sweatshop somewhere and being bought by the club for probably no more than £12 a shirt absolute max, you're not going to get a completely unique design, and there will always be an element of 'identikit' in there somewhere.

Have we announced a move away from Fila? If not surely next season's shirt remains the same. Incidentally, I just had a look at a couple of shirts. This season's Fila made in China, last season's Cabrini made in Indonesia. Not sure where JD come in to it.

Forgot to add my comment ha ha, brilliant this might adopt the "can you hear the moaners sing?" One.

Sleep deprivation isn't kicking in just yet is it?

I really hope they keep the under 16's at £10 as well as they make up over 1/3 now of our ST holders I was last told by the club

I hope so too, children are our future, as a wise man once said. As I previously posted I bought 2 and my son takes a mate to most games. The lad who comes most often is a City fan but he loves coming and has bought a Jose away shirt, the pair of them sit right behind the goal in the Rocky, they get a real kick out of dicking about with Chaddy (goading him to nick the Hartlepool keeper's water bottle), getting a thumbs up from Bouzy, a level of intimacy that you can't get at a bigger club.

If the club charges a standard price I won't be able to afford to bring him. As the product on the pitch improves we will be committing more of these youngsters for life.

3.5% cashback for Latics at Toffs via PlayerShare WebShop.

 

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Just tried to place an order they are having technical difficulties with their payment gateway, I'll try again later. I'm going for the 1970's Vic Halom blue top for my son's birthday. I've had one for years and it's done well. Not bad at 25 quid.

Sky are showing the repairs live, Martin Tyler is commentating. Let's hope he doesn't get slated.

I had a look on toffs, they do a 1950's shirt but the illustration shows a folded up shirt so you can't see the design, different badge design to the one on the programme. They have the option of putting a name and number on it. Rather spoils the retro look.

David Hopper, general secretary of the Durham Miners' Association has described Di Canio's latest statement as "a step in the right direction". You couldn't write it.