Oldham Athletic (A) League 1 Saturday 13/2/10.

[Wyrley_saddler]

Nichollls off, Byfield on

[Crewe Saddler]

Julian Gray makes his Saddlers debut, replacing Netan Sansara

[Saddlers Man Dan]

Carnt complain with thoes subs and the timings of them. Hopefully they pay off. :)

[Crewe Saddler]

According to the BBC stats we haven't had an attempt on target yet, with 65 mins gone.

[latviancheese]

According to the BBC stats we haven't had an attempt on target yet, with 65 mins gone.

According to Wm we did in the first ten minutes.

[Duke]

Scott Dann equalizes for Blues

[geoffwhiting]

cack, Pawel Abbott gets one against us!

[1933]

Losing 1-0

[1933]

Jabo has scored two for Stockport - we could do with him.

[King Crimson]

MOC was in "The Advertiser" talking about our miserly defence. Basically, saying if we keep out the oppo and score even once, we'll win. He said he was prepared to go very cautious on the tactics to get results this way. Trouble is, when you go cautious and then concede, where will the response come from? Come on boys!

[Duke]

lost 1-0 disappointing result

[Rich Evans]

Just looked on the beeb and saw no shots on target and only 3 off. What guano! Mind you leeds are losing.

[King Crimson]

Just looked on the beeb and saw no shots on target and only 3 off. What guano! Mind you leeds are losing.

Leeds equalised in the 95th minute. :evil:

One goal for us in the last four games. Not good. :(

[1933]

Disappointing result.

Will be interesting to hear what the guys that went made of Gray's sub appearance.

I think a creative midfielder is a must.

[philthesaddler]

I think thats 2 wins in the last 12 games in all competitions.

"promotion contenders"

[philthesaddler]

And we havent scored more than 1 goal yet this year!

[windowman]

and we sell out of balti pies

[NEWPORT SADDLERS DAD]

And pasties.

[windowman]

:lol:

[Asps]

Disappointing result.

Will be interesting to hear what the guys that went made of Gray's sub appearance.

I think a creative midfielder is a must.

Just had a voicemail off Belgiansaddler who was at the game: -

"Atrocious, absolutely shocking performance, never had a shot on goal, awful game from 2 of the worst teams I've seen in ages. Gray came on for 30 minutes & never touched the ball, looks another blindingly useless signing"

Hutchings & MOC out!!! Thats all I have to say.

[BathSaddler]

I expected a bit more than that after the exertions of Tuesday night. No shots on target and a corner count of 9-1 against.

If we are defensive at Oldham what are we going to do at Leeds - park the teambus in front of the goal and hope for the best?

I hope the comments of MOC is not a sign of things to come - I see little point in boring us all to death.

I look forward :( to hearing the comments of those who were at Boundary Park.

[BathSaddler]

Disappointing result.

Will be interesting to hear what the guys that went made of Gray's sub appearance.

I think a creative midfielder is a must.

Just had a voicemail off Belgiansaddler who was at the game: -

"Atrocious, absolutely shocking performance, never had a shot on goal, awful game from 2 of the worst teams I've seen in ages. Gray came on for 30 minutes & never touched the ball, looks another blindingly useless signing"

Hutchings & MOC out!!! Thats all I have to say.

Apart from that, ask him was it any good 8) ?

[Jockey]

Hutch OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PT]

A truly awful performance.

We lacked creativity, guile, determination, guts, spirit, innovation and intelligence.

For Richards and Till to still be on the park at the end was a joke beyond comprehension. They are two of the most cowardly footballers I have ever see. Richards spends more time with his back to the ball than actually facing it. It makes the jobs of the two young full-back behind them nearly impossible. No outball and no defensive cover either. They are both quite literally a waste of space. No surprise then that their goal came when Westlake for the umpteenth time was isolated against two opponents. If Hutch can't see this then he is thoroughly incompetent and it is no surprise that his managerial mentor (Paul Jewell)can now only find work sitting next to Merse on Sky Sports.

Oldham were rubbish, we were worse. With twenty minutes to go we were actually wasting time as though 0-0 at Oldham is something worth holding onto. It isn't. Nicholls, Sansara and Taundry must wonder why their 5 out of 10 performances merited the hook when there were loads of 2's and 3's, but then they weren't signed by CH.

Julian Gray - A more anonymous debut you couldn't wish to see. There's always a reason why once rising stars end up at Walsall at a relatively young age - it's usually attitude, and Gray seemed as though a cold Boundary Park in February was the last place on earth he wanted to be. But then again by ten to five there were a couple of hundred of us who would thoroughly agree with him.

[Cheesebag]

After freezing my nads off for a few hours I have decided to give my match report the indepth, thought provoking analysis our performance deserves.





CACK

[Sadders]

Just got back. Absolutely horrendous performance. Have you ever seen a professional football team that can't muster a notable attack or a shot on target in 93 minutes? Terrible tactics, no adaptation, no creativity. The worst away performance since stockport away in league 2!

[belgiansaddler]

It was absolutely shocking. Pathetic performance. We honestly never had a shot. You can see why Oldham are where they are, but to be honest they dominated the match, without really threatening much. The defence coped pretty well with them and ince made a couple of really good saves but as for the rest, shocking is the only word for it. If you cannot create a single chance against a team as poor as Oldham then something is wrong. Oldham, although poor, thoroughly deserved the result. It's not even worth going through player ratings apart from ince (good), westlake ok, clayton Mac very good, vincent ok, sansara no positional sense whatsoever and the rest garbage.

The ref was a clown and their keeper should have gone off for a two footed lunge at deeney which could have given us a very undeserved equaliser. I was dying for Alex Nicholls to do well but he did nowt, although to be fair he had no service. Byfield completely lost it when he came on getting involved in a fued with one of their players. Till my only comment is why? Same for Richards. Pathetic.

On the bright side the chilli pies were nice and they served cider at half time. Onwards and upwards :D

[tinned]

Where am all the happies now after they couldn't wait to post their thoughts after a very rare win on Tuesday. Just face we'm a cack team witha cack manager that, by the rules of chance, managed to roll a double 6 on Tuesday night.

Where's the talk of play off's now?

[matt-thesaddler]

Mid table team. When we win it we are all happy. When we lose its HUTCHINGS OUT. I know iv done it in the past. But we have to learn to live with it. Hutchings wont go unless Bonser sees sense. We know he wont so why moan. Gets us nowhere. Iv give up moaning about him. Didnt like him from day 1. Still dont like him now. Writing HUTCHINGS OUT will get you no where. Iv done it before but now i dont see the point to be honest.

[latviancheese]

Just seen the Attendance aswell, very similar to ours. Dont know what they average though.

Bad result today, especially with the performance to go with it.

As far as the play offs go anyway we would never make them, there is such a gap between 6th and 10th. But i dont see any reason why we shouldnt be pushing for 10th.