Oldham Reation.
#1
Posted 19 August 2023 - 01:48 PM
Damn good 'un, too.
In fact we won the league one year.
Yeah, such was the quality of the lads - as opposed to manager, I hasten to add - we won game after game, week after week, month after month.
But of course we did eventually drop points, leaving the boys feeling absolutely devastated. So I simply gathered them together and told them to have a look at the opposite team who were celebrating as if they'd won the FA Cup, Eurovision Song Contest and Grand National all rolled into one.
'Those celebrations', I said, 'are the greatest compliment they can possibly give you'.
It took a few moments but the players eventually understood.
That, my friends, is the Oldham reaction today...
#2
Posted 19 August 2023 - 01:52 PM
#3
Posted 19 August 2023 - 01:55 PM
#7
Posted 19 August 2023 - 02:20 PM
#10
Posted 19 August 2023 - 02:29 PM
calvin plummers socks, on 19 August 2023 - 02:24 PM, said:
Oh no, you’re going to start talking about Ashley Billyeald’s dreadlocks in a minute aren’t you?
#11
Posted 19 August 2023 - 02:30 PM
By adopting such ultra negative tactics he's telling his players they can't beat us by playing football. He's telling his fans they can't expect their team to beat Town with football. And he's telling his employers he's incapable of recruiting a squad capable of beating us with football.
The response is in their hands...
#12
Posted 19 August 2023 - 02:48 PM
Bluekent, on 19 August 2023 - 02:20 PM, said:
I thought the exact same thing. If that was us then I’d be celebrating, of course, but more breathing a sigh of relief. At this stage of the season, after a performance like they’d put in that was just a bizarre reaction. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot in the “banter” industry and I wouldn’t normally use it but if that were our fans then it would be a bit embarrassing, to be honest.
Then you have the idiots having a go at the goalkeeper, if reports are to be believed. That’s a different level of ridiculous
#14
Posted 19 August 2023 - 02:52 PM
The Earl of Chesterfield, on 19 August 2023 - 02:30 PM, said:
By adopting such ultra negative tactics he's telling his players they can't beat us by playing football. He's telling his fans they can't expect their team to beat Town with football. And he's telling his employers he's incapable of recruiting a squad capable of beating us with football.
The response is in their hands...
Try telling that to José Mourinho. His Inter team set up in exactly the same way v Barcelona (2nd leg Nou Camp). He knew if they tried to match up to Pep's Barca, they'd have been easily dismantled; so, he chose to counterattack instead. Inter won 3-2 (on agg).
If you know you're inferior, why the hell would you play in a fashion that makes you even more vulnerable?
In his post match interview, Norwood said they'd purposely set-up to invite us on, deny us space and counterattack......it worked.
We needed to kill the game and we didn't. Ultimately, because we created just ONE clear-cut chance and Grigg fluffed it.
Nah, football is a results business. Doesn't matter how you set up; it's the result that matters.
This post has been edited by Misnomer: 19 August 2023 - 02:53 PM
#17
Posted 19 August 2023 - 02:57 PM
warfey is a spireite, on 19 August 2023 - 02:53 PM, said:
I'm hoping he'll come good. Right now, I can't see any difference between him and Quigley... and I genuinely mean that. In fact, in just five minutes, Quigley found more space and better positions than Grigg did in eighty minutes.
#19
Posted 19 August 2023 - 02:58 PM