Niall Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 A friend at work is a Latics fan and his view is summed up in this email to me:Scared? You shouldn't be. We can't score from open play and only have one central midfielder. And our tactics appear to be playing long balls for Luke "Lightening" Beckett to chase. I eagerly anticpate a dour 1-1 draw in the rain.Succint at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderHider Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 A friend at work is a Latics fan and his view is summed up in this email to me:Scared? You shouldn't be. We can't score from open play and only have one central midfielder. And our tactics appear to be playing long balls for Luke "Lightening" Beckett to chase. I eagerly anticpate a dour 1-1 draw in the rain.Succint at least.Could be a good prediction, although i hope & belive we will win.Is Beckett that quick then? That ok though, we'll just put good old Clayfeet on the case, problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niall Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Is Beckett that quick then? Um, no. I think his remark was what passes for irony in Lancashire. In a subsequent email (I am working, honestly) he tells me that they have a very quick lad called Chris Hall who is likely to be on the bench. Dives a lot by all accounts, so watch out for a 90th minute penalty heartbreak......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderHider Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Um, no. I think his remark was what passes for irony in Lancashire. Ahh ok sorry, i should have read it in a northern accent, might have seen the irony if i did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Um, no. I think his remark was what passes for irony in Lancashire. In a subsequent email (I am working, honestly) he tells me that they have a very quick lad called Chris Hall who is likely to be on the bench. Dives a lot by all accounts, so watch out for a 90th minute penalty heartbreak.........Oh dear, we'd better hope that a few of our less 'hands on' defenders play then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Um, no. I think his remark was what passes for irony in Lancashire. In a subsequent email (I am working, honestly) he tells me that they have a very quick lad called Chris Hall who is likely to be on the bench. Dives a lot by all accounts, so watch out for a 90th minute penalty heartbreak.........And how are Clayton Fortune, Louis Carey and Craig Woodman - if Gary Johnson plays them - going to cope with Chris Hall and Luke Beckett running at them? I'm worried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_BCFC Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 And how are Clayton Fortune, Louis Carey and Craig Woodman - if Gary Johnson plays them - going to cope with Chris Hall and Luke Beckett running at them? I'm worried. Will Orr be back. There is no mention of him or Partridge possibly returning soon...? Sadly Woodman will be in the team regardless. Surely Fortune won't be in there again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niall Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Another update from the North:Ronnie Moore has had the pitch narrowed to suit their style (ie. lump it up there). For those of you going, don't expect much dazzling wing-play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andy the oldhamer Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Time on your hands Niall, the girls in the office not letting you put the golf on the TV?It's all true - I expect to see two of the best on-paper forward lines in the division fail to produce anything. We have been holding a high defensive line, and most teams seem happy to do the same to us as they aren't overly worried about being stripped for pace by Killen or Beckett. Add a narrow pitch and you get a crappy midfield scrap-fest. Which is perhaps not that good with only one central midfielder, a coffin dodger on the left wing and Andy Liddell bizarrely failing to be any good.You lot can at least get a half time beer. Don't know if there is apple juice on though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazareth Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Another update from the North:Ronnie Moore has had the pitch narrowed to suit their style (ie. lump it up there). For those of you going, don't expect much dazzling wing-playWhat the hell is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niall Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Time on your hands Niall, the girls in the office not letting you put the golf on the TV?No mate, we're all glued to the Tory leadership coverage. Come on Liam Fox, the Labour Party needs you..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andy the oldhamer Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 No mate, we're all glued to the Tory leadership coverage. Come on Liam Fox, the Labour Party needs you.....He could do more for either party than he could do for Natalie Umbrella if rumour is to be believed. As a football manager he would be more likely to push up aggressively from the back than stick to the right wing, so to speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niall Posted October 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 He could do more for either party than he could do for Natalie Umbrella if rumour is to be believed. As a football manager he would be more likely to push up aggressively from the back than stick to the right wing, so to speak.Now at least the rest of you see what I have to cope with at work?I'm off to the Oldham forum...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 No mate, we're all glued to the Tory leadership coverage. Come on Liam Fox, the Labour Party needs you.....I'm glued to reading about Guy Fawkes and his valiant attempt to blow up Parliament - it's that time of year once more to celebrate with fireworks Where Guy Fawkes failed Oliver Cromwell succeeded but 50 years later in killing the tyrant King, abolishing the House of Lords and outlawing the corrupt toff ridden Church of England There is hope my fellow Englishmen, there is hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 No mate, we're all glued to the Tory leadership coverage. Come on Liam Fox, the Labour Party needs you.....i think you will find Cameron is their man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 i think you will find Cameron is their man.A total non-entity with a drugs question mark over him who bears more than a passing resemblence to that sleazebag Portillo. I bet Gordon Brown is popping the champagne corks right now. Mind you the alternative Mr Davis who wants to reach parts of the country they've never reached before isn't exactly going to set the world on fire either.Far as I am from being a Tory I wish they'd at least pick a leader who could look even slightly dangerous to keep Tony and his cronies in line. The future's bright, the futures ginger.Nibor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 i think you will find Cameron is their man.With Margaret Thatcher all but dead I need a new Tory to hate - the snob/toff Cameron will fit my hate criteria nicely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StapleHillPhil Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 A total non-entity with a drugs question mark over him who bears more than a passing resemblence to that sleazebag Portillo. I bet Gordon Brown is popping the champagne corks right now. Mind you the alternative Mr Davis who wants to reach parts of the country they've never reached before isn't exactly going to set the world on fire either.Far as I am from being a Tory I wish they'd at least pick a leader who could look even slightly dangerous to keep Tony and his cronies in line. The future's bright, the futures ginger.Nibor With Margaret Thatcher all but dead I need a new Tory to hate - the snob/toff Cameron will fit my hate criteria nicely Two reassuring posts. From the way 5live have been reporting the Tory leadership campaign anybody would have thought that Cameron had won a general election by a landslide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheshire_red Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 One thing that really, really worries me is that they are playing hoofball, we don't have a first ball winning defender! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 A total non-entity with a drugs question mark over him who bears more than a passing resemblence to that sleazebag Portillo. I bet Gordon Brown is popping the champagne corks right now. Mind you the alternative Mr Davis who wants to reach parts of the country they've never reached before isn't exactly going to set the world on fire either.Far as I am from being a Tory I wish they'd at least pick a leader who could look even slightly dangerous to keep Tony and his cronies in line. The future's bright, the futures ginger.NiborNow that we are well and truly off football speak i have to say that the sensible and intellectual choice for the Conservative Party would have been one of the three candidates who are no longer in the running; i would always pick experience over novelty as BCFC have proved recently so Ken Clarke was streets ahead of anybody.Cannot quite believe this Cameron is probably going to end up leader. not sure whether to cry or laugh. Cannot see a ginger future my friend unless Gordon Strachan joins the Lib Dems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Ahh ok sorry, i should have read it in a northern accent, might have seen the irony if i did.It's not your fault. It should have been typed in a northern accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stortfordred Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Now that we are well and truly off football speak Perhaos a solution to both problems would be to nominate Craig Woodman as Tory Leader after all he ain't left wing and it would get him out of Saturday's game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andy the oldhamer Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 It's not your fault. It should have been typed in a northern accent.You can hardly blame Niall. I sent the comments to him by email and I type without my Northern inflections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Mosquito Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Perhaos a solution to both problems would be to nominate Craig Woodman as Tory Leader after all he ain't left wing and it would get him out of Saturday's game. Yippee, Craig Woodman for Tory leader - the thinking man's choice. He satisfies all the Tory idiot criteria for Tory leader i.e. not much cop as a left winger and very third rate in his other profession - that is as a third rate, old third division footballer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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