Friday 8 August 2008

So have we signed Demar Phillips?

Well?

I am guessing we haven't as I haven't seen any news on this on the web, just that we wanted to sign him and he wanted to sign for us about a week ago. Since then it has all gone quiet. A shame really, because he looked good from what I saw of him on the left wing and may have bought a bit of well needed balance to the team on the left hand side.

Moving on from transfer shenanigans it is time for what is possibly many a fan at Boundary Parks most important decision of the season. Yes that's right folks "Who to Boo?", a tough one this year I am sure you will agree. No stand out candidates this year with the likes of Ricketts gone. However I am sure I am not alone when I say I have a sneaky feeling it is going to be Danny Whittaker. When we snapped him up on a free a sneaky look at his goals from last season got every ones juices flowing. He can hit it with his left and his right, from distance, he must be good! Sadly from what I have seen preseason, and heard off a Vale fan (I know it shocked me too, they do actually have fans), performances like the aforementioned are few and far between. Mr Vale, reckons he puts in a good shift, about 1 in 10 games and for the other 9 he is "beyond shit." Probably the worst type of player you can be with Oldham's faithful vultures baying for blood in the stands! What was he thinking signing for us?

For those of you who are thinking this man doesn't know his boo-boy from his elbow I have constructed a little poll for you to vote for yours down the side.


Now we have got the important issues out of the way maybe its time to discuss a little the expectations for next season. Before the preseason fixtures started I was full of blind optimism as always. The new faces were going to be the missing link and help us walk the league. However, an air of caution has slowly been creeping in. While we have most definitely strengthened the squad and finally seem to have added some depth and fitness, we should not ignore that those teams around us will have been doing the same.

A lack of media attention surrounding the lower leagues tends to lead to fans (me included) making uneducated guesses at the standard of the squads and players of rival teams. We often rate our own players as better than those of the opposition because they are what we know. When we read that Brighton have signed a new left back we think "who?" I am sure their fans will too when they see young Kelvin emerging across the running track.

I am therefore going to make an uneducated guess that both Leeds and Leicester should have the quality to take up the first two places. So it seems that automatic promotion is out of the question this season. Below these two I think this season it is going to be wide open. I can see a rather large chasing pack scrambling to get the 4 play off places that are up for grabs and I am sure we are going to be somewhere within this mix. As long as we are making a sustained challenge for the play offs throughout the season I will continue to give Shez my backing. I am certainly not going to be in the promotion or Shez out camp. Just because we have strengthened preseason does not give us the God given right to steam roller the opposition.

I just hope that the fans get behind the team from the start this year, even if we do not win our first 3 games 5 - 0, as we have our part to play as well. I do have an inkling that by finally moving some home fans into the Rochdale Road End the atmosphere at BP is going to get a much needed lift.

Anyway that's enough prediction bollocks, no man can predict whats going to happen over the course of a football season (apart from maybe the top four in the Premiership). I'm off to shave my brothers head and practice hurling my Danny Whittaker insults at him the LAZY SHIT! BLOODY RUBBISH!

C

Tuesday 5 August 2008

Greetings from Swanage and Preseason.

For Christ sakes...leave it man, shes only 13 years old!

Sorry about that chaps, P.Beavers here, we're down on our annual summer pilgrimage to Swanage and J.Agogo's whiskey abused mind is making him try his luck (force himself upon) the the local girls down the penny arcades! Of course it wouldn't usually matter but the police have apparently said one more strike and he's on the REGISTER!

Now im sure you all must have seen that after hanging up me boots I went Stateside with JAgogo, and while he was banging his way round the many goals of the MLS, I followed my own "banging" dream, entering into the wonderfully seedy world of hardcore pornography. Despite my expert performances in Paul Does Beavers 1 - 7, it wasn't meant to be and the work slowly dried up. Undettered though ive headed back to England even more determined than before, and I'm about to star in my own comeback film Cum on Oldham. Its a jolly old tale, about a "hard" young footballer, joining the local pro side, getting to "grips" with the local women folk. I'm sure its going to be a right old smash at the box office.

We were going to give the Swanage trip a miss this year and do a whole pre-season round up, but the first game we attended against Derby bored us to tears, and JAgogo got chucked out at half time, however as with every preseason we did learn something new and this was our take from the game:

  1. Boundary Park looks a million times better without the Lookers Stand

  2. It cost 50p for a 5 minute session on the Derby Exercise Bike

  3. The new luminous yellow away kit makes JAgogo violently sick when he has been consuming large quantities of lighter fluid during the first 45 minutes.

  4. Been violently sick gets you ejected out of the stadium

P.Beavers


Thursday 24 July 2008

WELCOME...

Hello there!

On behalf of our founders P.Beavers & J.Agogo I would like to welcome you all to our wonderful site. With contribuitions from myself, Messrs Beavers & Agogo and a host of our other exciting chums we hope to take you on a most spectacular web journey, taking in our beloved Oldham Athletic, the beautiful game we all hold dear, along with anything else we decide is worthy of your perusal! Enjoy...

C