disjointed Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Just come back. Strange sort of game. Started at 100 mph, hassled, won back possessions, with some dangerous balls into the box, Red and Croft linking well. Their keeper made a couple of fine saves. How Grounds missed the sitter at the start of 2nd half nobody knows. Then a very unlucky hand ball. We chased the game without much quality admittedly, and the second goal was a gamble that didn't pay off. The players looked shattered at the end, and a good many tics stayed behind to clap their efforts. It should have been 0-0. The Grounds effort was offside anyway, thought we played well 1st half, they seemed intent on getting big jean sent off, 2nd half we did not seem to get going, the handball could easily have been ignored as in this league penaltys dont seem to get given for that, if we do not win Saturday I would say we are down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 No, the bookies have us at between 7/4 and 9/4 to go down. They have Scunny at 2/7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disjointed Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 No, the bookies have us at between 7/4 and 9/4 to go down. They have Scunny at 2/7. 9/4 I know I shouldn't but could be easy money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardie Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 How do you know strong players weren't available ?....if lightweights are all the manager can bring in then he needs better connections. I don't know but I cannot see how a player of decent quality and a reliable pedigree would come to a League One team, struggling to stay in the division, at the sh*t end of the season. Also, I cannot judge the extent of the connections that Johnson has. Latics are in a surreal situation with the manager because of the circumstances under which he has joined the club. We will know better, one way or another, next season..whatever league Latics are in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hands on Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Why if Baxter is so good do our 'strikers' get so few chances? We stay up only if Scunthorpe are worse than us - it is in their hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonesyOAFC Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Gutless bunch of twats. I'm not even gonna bother on Saturday now, no way am I spending any more money watching this lot. I feel even more disillusioned about this squad then I did Penney's. :censored: 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLDHAMADE Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 There is one thing for sure if we cant beat bury we don't deserve to stay up + 1000,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deyres42 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Looks like Papa Johnson is going to have to be in a charitable mood next Tuesday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtimeblue Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Scunthorpe fans will be having the same conversation on their website and conceding defeat no doubt. Think 3 points well be enough, we'll get them and stay up due to Scunthorpe being marginally more :censored:e than us. Then it's party time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisA Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Party time? Marginally staying up shouldn't be seen as success. This shower of :censored: have let us all down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Sinnott Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Party time? Marginally staying up shouldn't be seen as success. This shower of :censored: have let us all down. Couldn't agree more. We'll stay up, but we shouldn't be in this position to start with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 (edited) I'll gladly accept survival but it certainly won't be party time - simply relief at dodging a bullet. For what it's worth I think we're going down - I've thought that all season and seen very little to change my mind. Edited April 10, 2013 by oafcprozac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spadam Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I think we will stay up. The bury game for both us and scunny is the crucial one. Whoever gets more points I think will survive. They are worse than us they lost 3-0 Preston. I can't see them winning any of their remaining games other than bury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laticdickovarmy Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I have a nasty fear that Scunthorpe will beat Walsall saturday and we are far from a cert to beat Bury. The problem is the players wont need to take a long hard look at themselves as many will never wear an OAFC :censored:y again after Leyton Orient away game. I hope the club will have learnt a lesson to tie players down to the club longer for commitment reason and develop the youth more and more. Got slatted on here at the start of the season when I said we will be lucky to stay up and really wanted to be proved wrong, we can say back the club all we want as fans and I can accept players who arent good enough as long as they play for the shirt which some of these lot I dont think do. I will never boo our players but the scenes at Orient away if we go down could be nasty. In response to the original question, I think we might just stay up but only as Scunny are worse and that is saying a lot and a horrible and frankly embrassing from this set of players that we are relying on 4 worse teams. I will get slatted again and maybe mad but I just wonder if Baxter out on Saturday maybe a blessing in disguise as others will have to try and take responsibility and step up to the plate and LJ (who is not to blame in this) may play 2 genuine out and out forwards and help get us further up the pitch and take our chances The answer to this question will be a hell of a lot clearer come 5pm Saturday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtimeblue Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Party time? Marginally staying up shouldn't be seen as success. This shower of :censored: have let us all down. Tongue in cheek. Agreed they don't deserve any credit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonesyOAFC Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I'll be partying about the fact that this :censored:house of a season will be finally over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slystallone Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I'll be partying about the fact that this :censored:house of a season will be finally over ..............and the lions share of this playing bunch will be out of our club - and LJ can rip it up and start again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razza699 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 ..............and the lions share of this playing bunch will be out of our club - and LJ can rip it up and start again. I bet he can't wait you know. A new manager should bring around a turnaround in spirit and desire from the players. They haven't and I think that says alot about them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveecky Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 If there's one thing to learn from a disastrous season, it's that you need some experienced and strong minded players in the side. Man U may win with kids but their kids were brought up in the United way, not begged, borrowed or stolen from some second rate club's reserves and chucked together. I pity Grounds, he's not had a stable partnership with a serious player in front of him all season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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