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No Baxter, either.

 

Imagine if we played with such intensity and passion with our best player in the side....

Do you think players get complacent with Baxter in the side and rely too much on Jose. He's out the side and now they have to up their own game and secure 2 games from 2 and six points.

Could be pure coincidence

Playing for a contract (somewhere) but could he keep it going all season... I hope he could and it happen in a Latics shirt

:censored: it, I'm on the beach now thinking if August and the possibility of playing Wolves home and away next season!

I wonder how many Lee Hughes would have scored for us this season?

The last player to break the curse of BP being a strikers graveyard.... Hopefully LJ can put this finally to bed next season

Genuine question but what is Barry's position on the board?

I don't want to come over as inciting an argument but is he the fans representative or just the clubs unofficial mouthpiece who's wheeled out when the villagers are revolting?

I have merely pointed out that he was given the last ten games to make good and will continue to do his best.

...and next season too I trust Barry.

Nobody's blaming LJ.

It's the players who have let us, the club, Simon Corney and Paul Dickov down. The quicker the majority of ths bunch are gone the better......

...I just hope LJ is backed in the summer to rebuild, deliver the attacking attractive football he promised along with the 3 goals a game OAFC are to score to boot!

I think Scunthorpe will get 6 more points (Walsall & Bury) but we'll get 7 from Bury (w), Yeovil (d) and Shrewsbury (w). It'll be squeaky bum time at 23rd though as we'll be in bottom four at that point....although I think we may sneak a win against Crawley too.

2 up top - Smith & Barnard - from now on please and crosses into the box.

Would you put Iwelumo back in though?

pub?

lol they play like a load of pissheads

And you know the biggest gripe for me is that at the end of the season they will all just f**k off somewhere else leaving us with what ? ....

 

Beginning of the end

Yes they can all f**k off but it's not the beginning of the end. We won't go down and even if we did then this club is bigger than any one player or a team. We'll lick our wounds, dust ourselves down, rebuild, regroup and start all over again come August; be it League 1 or 2!

I will only accept defeat if we're mathematically down.

I still believe we'll get one point more, or maintain a better goal difference, than Scunthorpe

I'd bin all them... yesterday they all spout off via Twitter of the importance of this game and then go into hiding as soon as the whistle is blown.

Biggest load of over paid, over confident yet underwhelming players we've had in a long time. I'm afraid the dilusion was instilled by Dickov and Johnson's now had to pick up the pieces and no matter how much motivation, the fires not in their bellies and I wouldn't want to be stood next to any of them in the trenches,

Build the side around Baxter with grit and determination fed by his creativity and Johnson can start his own dynasty putting to bed the smoke and mirrors spouted by Dickov.

I hope we do and can put this season behind us. Give LJ the summer to rebuild and then judge him when we're halfway through next season.

Interesting tweets from Ian Marshall putting the cat amongst the pigeons.

You can't make a silk purse.....

Fortunately I think there are worse teams around us and the two games in hand plus goal difference should see us safe.

Mammoth task rebuilding in the summer but if LJ practises what he's preaching and creates a side following his work ethic then we can put this season behind us.

Why wasn't he snapped up on loan ?

I asked myself the same when he was available. TP knows him well so maybe he didn't think he could add to the team...or not on radar of LJ or others

Wasn't aware of that but that's wrong for clubs at this level

OK..get well Dean and make sure you beat any club close to us in the table

Black, white, brown, yellow, green or whatever...skin colour is irrelevant when it comes to supporting a football club. If we were much more successful then we would entice more through the turnstiles and I'm confident it wouldn't be 100% white representing that increase.

Man United have a fair proportion of non-white fans because they're successful. Was it Bury who had an Asian player but I don't recall the Asian contingent increasing.

There's no harm in actively targeting non-white fans because the greater number of fans the better in supporting our club both financially and for an greater atmosphere.

We should look beyond skin colour but the left wing media are quick to infer things....

That bloke who we don't want getting injured.

 

Cos we pay his medical bills!

Is that right? He's a contracted Doncaster player now so surely they pick up the tab as part of T&Cs of loan? We wouldn't cover this as we'd be victim of any clubs training regime.

Regardless it's a meh from me. Didn't show his true value when here and he's an ex-Oldham player now as I very much doubt we'd see him in an Oldham shirt again unless we have a testimonial for Billy Quamby.

Dean who?

It won't go away until the two blokes are managing in different divisions.

Or once the apprentice beats the master.....

Sports scientists are one thing but at this level it's more leadership and influence from the manager. If that manager is an ex-player who has focus and aspirations to become a manager then they would know how to get players fit, maintain fitness and discipline.

If a players needs an extra person to motivate them then do we want them in the squad?

It amazes me when you see managers with a whole entourage of assistants for specific areas. I always think that if someone has to surround them with help then they either can't or won't expand their knowledge in those areas. Laziness breeds laziness.

Plus I'd rather have an extra Korey Smith playing each Saturday then a backside on the bench with a clipboard and stopwatch.

Someone else who discussed the role was shocked at how poor the training and preparation had become.

They wasn't surprised in the slightest that the players were blowing out their backsides within 60 minutes. This is probably why we folded so many times in the second half.

Sounds like LJ recognised this too and is the first thing being addressed.

i,ll give him 6 months an he will be gone

That's the spirit!

Doesn't sound like Croft will be playing the full 90 minutes?!

If we could get someone similar to Aaron Maclean alongside Barnard then well be laughing.

Do you reckon we'll see a new face up front before kick off tomorrow, possibly Saturday?

I'm so relieved we avoided the likes of Brian Little and John Gregory - :censored: me, that would have been the final nail in our coffin!

Thanks to the 12 for keeping us all in the loop. I feel a lot more confident now having read all the above and the attitude of Lee and his actions so far regarding recruiting new faces, handling existing players and identifying weaknesses with the view to address are very encouraging.

Hopefully Corney will support Lee with strengthening and then enable Lee to build a team that he wants - pace, pressure the opposition in the final third, supply from the flanks and crosses aplenty with creativity in the middle.

A big step in the right direction and hopefully Lee can succeed where Dickov failed - talking the talk but delivering too.

Would be interested to know more on Corney's rant regarding the messageboard as posters on here over the last 48 hours have been justified. However, touching on Prozac's other post; anyone who has threatened Corney, sent hate mail or got personal deserve banning for life and should be banned from here. Like him or loathe him this is unacceptable!