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hold'um Oldham

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Anyone got one?

I'll admit I have no clue whatsoever about the goings on down there - or down here I suppose I need to start saying. The little information on the teams I do know about is years out of date in some cases.

It's probably been a case of me being a little stuck up in never even contemplating life down here but I never even bothered to check the league table out.
So what of the runners and riders then? Who are the big hitters? Who are the money bags? Can we expect the three play off losers to be up there again? (At this moment I don't even know who they are I've not quite come to terms with this yet)
Most importantly if we approach this like a proffessional club, not the penny pinching traditional latics way, do we have a chance of success?
I can't be the only latics fan who still quite hasn't come to terms with relegation. Who has been nieve enough to turn a blind eye to league two over the years knowing it will never happen .
We come down not as a billy big bollocks team fully expecting to walk the league. Personally I fear for our league status next year but I don't want this thread to be about latics, I'm genuinely trying to get to grips with this league.

So go on you educated lot. Give me hope
 

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It’s like a box of chocolates.

Chesterfield get relegated with one of the highest budgets, Accrington go up with one of the smallest.

If you’ve got a good manager and a team pulling in the same direction then you’ve got a chance. Add a bit of quality and play offs or automatic are likely.

But be careful, as Chesterfield found out last year, it’s very easy to assume it will be easy, and then you end up dropping into the abyss.
 

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Trust me we ain't walking into this eyes shut. We know we will struggle. The manager is staying and he is questionable at best
We wasn't unlucky. We should have survived at a canter but joke tactics and a can't be arsed attitude saw us down.
I take it very few teams buy success down here then?
That's one positive. What's the average budget like?
 

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Not a clue about budgets, others will have more knowledge, but chesterfields was supposedly £2.5 million and they finished bottom.
 

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Plenty of horrendous away days at stadiums where they can't provide a roof for the away supporters.
 

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Plenty of horrendous away days at stadiums where they can't provide a roof for the away supporters.

We're putting a roof and seating in the away end this summer.
 

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Not a clue about budgets, others will have more knowledge, but chesterfields was supposedly £2.5 million and they finished bottom.

Chesterfields was not over the £2m mark I don’t think.

Mansfield’s budget was £2.5m, and that was probably a top three budget, easily surpassed by Luton and maybe Coventry.
 

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I'd say the key for promotion is to sign goalscorers (if that's not obvious).

Mansfield were seen as the high profile 'spenders' last season, but they only signed Angol and Spencer as forwards, who were never going to hit the 20+ goals they needed. Kane Hemmings was their top scorer with 15. Whereas, we had Hylton and Collins who scored 40+ goals between them, plus Berry and Lee following on behind.
 

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League Two is a fun league. Anyone can beat anyone. Some nice away trips too. I honestly think Oldham fans will enjoy next season much more than struggling in L1 every year. I found L1 quite dull in the 5 seasons we’ve been there since 2011. League Two is a more open league where you can go from relegation strugglers one season to play-offs the next.

Even though we only finished mid table. 13/14 season in league two is still my favourite supporting Bury. It was such a topsy turvy season. We went from relegation certs, to play off hopefulls back to relegation candidates and then finally finished 12th with some big wins along the way.

Then we went up the following season.
 

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I'd say the key for promotion is to sign goalscorers (if that's not obvious).

Mansfield were seen as the high profile 'spenders' last season, but they only signed Angol and Spencer as forwards, who were never going to hit the 20+ goals they needed. Kane Hemmings was their top scorer with 15. Whereas, we had Hylton and Collins who scored 40+ goals between them, plus Berry and Lee following on behind.

We were getting by just fine with Evans in charge though, Rose would of hit 20. A bigger problem was lack of contribution from midfield.
 

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Anyone got one?

I'll admit I have no clue whatsoever about the goings on down there - or down here I suppose I need to start saying. The little information on the teams I do know about is years out of date in some cases.

It's probably been a case of me being a little stuck up in never even contemplating life down here but I never even bothered to check the league table out.
So what of the runners and riders then? Who are the big hitters? Who are the money bags? Can we expect the three play off losers to be up there again? (At this moment I don't even know who they are I've not quite come to terms with this yet)
Most importantly if we approach this like a proffessional club, not the penny pinching traditional latics way, do we have a chance of success?
I can't be the only latics fan who still quite hasn't come to terms with relegation. Who has been nieve enough to turn a blind eye to league two over the years knowing it will never happen .
We come down not as a billy big bollocks team fully expecting to walk the league. Personally I fear for our league status next year but I don't want this thread to be about latics, I'm genuinely trying to get to grips with this league.

So go on you educated lot. Give me hope

Mate, there’s nothing to get to grips with really, it’s like being in League One. Bar the one or two big Championship clubs who find themselves stuck there each year, you could swap the teams round and it wouldn’t look ridiculous.
 
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Chesterfields was not over the £2m mark I don’t think.

Mansfield’s budget was £2.5m, and that was probably a top three budget, easily surpassed by Luton and maybe Coventry.

You could be right. I believe their chairman recently said that he was reducing the budget from £2.5 million to £1 million for next season, whichever league they were going to be in.

Saying that, according to the Chesterfield fans, their chairmen didn’t always tell it as it was.
 

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Well I can’t help you because we’ll be a league above!!Pusb
 

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"League 2"? For the last few years Tranmere fans have just been calling it "The promised land of milk and honey".
 

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You get a lot more teams playing defensively away from home especially if you are doing well.
 

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Indescribably shite football played by, mainly, shite footballers and officiated by shite refs. Some really piss ass little clubs who can’t muster 2000 fans who, somehow, turn you over with ease.

It’s a fucking nightmare
 

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Indescribably shite football played by, mainly, shite footballers and officiated by shite refs. Some really piss ass little clubs who can’t muster 2000 fans who, somehow, turn you over with ease.

It’s a fucking nightmare

Thanks for the six points mate, kept us up!
 

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Indescribably shite football played by, mainly, shite footballers and officiated by shite refs. Some really piss ass little clubs who can’t muster 2000 fans who, somehow, turn you over with ease.

It’s a fucking nightmare
We should piss this tinpot league then going off that!!!
 

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Our away experience is award winning, best in League Two this season, which I’m sure all Cov fans will agree.
 

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