Not very confident at all. Looks like they won't have a new manager in before Saturday either. http://www.owtb.co.uk/index.php/topic/46876-barnsley/
Yes, they don't seem to be factoring in that it is Barnsley they are talking about. We tend not to fail until we've done enough to give our fans hope first! Once again though, just reading that thread on their board they all seem to be reasonable and, well, adult. There are a couple of people understandably narked at the circumstances, but compared with the extreme views that are spouted on here their bulletin board looks a pleasure.
All they need to do is bring Roger Palmer and Andy Ritchie out of retirement, stick them both up front and they'll score a hat full.
Interesting that one of the posters calls himself David Currie. I forgot that he played for them as well. What a player he was and Clough stole him for £750,000 then let him rot in Forest's reserves.
Plastic pitch, muddy bog, it didn't seem to make much difference. Either it bounced over our defenders heads or got stuck in the mud. I'm sure David Currie had a shot that was heading in only for it to stop a couple of yards from the line in a puddle. Between 1981 and 1995 we played at Boundary Park 12 times. I went to every single one of them and we never won a single game. I finally broke my duck in January 1996, but then a couple of weeks later was the FA Cup game people are talking about.
Remember us equalising late on start of Steve Cooper's first season with us, he scored 1-1 I think. That was on that plastic pitch - the ******* thing.
I'll never forget the two home games around 89-90 when we wo with late own goals two years on the trot. Mike Milligan got one of them and Imthink Willie Donachie might have got the other. I can't remember which way round it was, but one lobbed the keeper amd the other suffered the indignity of it bouncing in off his kite!
Might be some mither saturday given as jay put it... bent over and greased up Oldhams a rough little **** hole at best of times.
The season after the infamous cup tie (our promotion season), we won 1-0 there thanks to a Neil Redfearn penalty, after Clint Marcelle had been brought down by their goalie Gary Kelly. After the game, in the car park, a couple of Oldham fans were claiming Clint had dived. "Do you mean like Gunnar Halle?" my mate asked. They claimed they'd no idea what he was talking about!
The Gunnar Halle one is the worst penalty i've ever seen given and still remember the chron picture now with Archdeacon a good 3 yards away when Halle fell. Like Jay said, Oldham was a place we just never seemed to get anything at. Including a midweek game when the original cup tie was called off after a treacherous drive through fog to arrive at a completely clear Boundary Park!
I'm pretty sure it was Milligan who lobbed the keeper and own goal that was futcheresque in its execution.
Didn't Currie 'almost' score a free-kick against us for Oldham? I seem to remember him curling in a free kick and him wheeling away to celebrate only to find that the ball didn't cross the line. Cue abuse from crowd. I don't think I dreamt it...
Yep, right in front of the Ponty, after we had been singing songs suggesting he was part of the travelling community. When I say 'we' I was referring to the wider Ponty masses, rather than myself, as I was still pretty much in awe of Currie. Certainly one of the most exciting players I've ever seen in a Reds shirt.