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What a bastard i am in the smoke overnight at xmas do......might take in West Ham instead.

How tinpot.

At least we wont lose this weekend  :D

my train ticket......

And at least every other side in the League won't have a game in hand on us. Restores the balance of ours being the only game played last weekend. Karma, innit?

Probably saved us a dicking tbh. As morale must be low. At least give us some time to get back into the (erratic) groove.

Agreed with Sutton this could be a blessing, Oldham are undefeated at home and flying high whilst we are indifferent to say the least.  By the time the game is re-arranged we might have found some form and they may be having a dip in form so the game may be more winnable.  Our next game is home to Tranmere as well so good chance to build on the Wednesday win with another 3 points.

I've always wondered why they simply don't swap the fixtures in these scenarios.

I expect our ground would probably be ok, so what would stop us playing Oldham at home on Sat, and then away in April instead?! Is it ticket related (i.e. would get lower gates by changing fixtures at the last second)?

Suppose they can do no corporate sales for the day, no sponsorship for the match or programmes and plus arranging the stewarding at late notice would be challenging as well.

Hardly anyone would go for a start. Those not going to the away game would have other plans. And no one would travel from Oldham. +  organising police, stewards, catering, prgramme etc etc etc.

Gives us valuable time to practice not being shit.

And as Im back and going to matches again as of the 18th, that is a good thing.

I'm happy that its off.

Really wasnt looking forward to it. Might do the team some good, although it will probably make no difference at all!

I think the break will do the team good. I hope they will view the game after the break as a chance to make a clean start because it will make them a lot more psycologically prepared than they would have been going away to Oldham tomorow

We should rearrange it for Sat Jan 8th.

We're supposed to be at Leyton Orient that day but they are in the FA cup still. I assume Oldham are out as well..

Yh they lost to accrington

 Expected, but still shit....when you've had a shit performance, you need a game asap.

 JD now probably wont see a game until 2011

That's alright. He's already had a few!

JD old pro....old pro's trick get yourself a suspension at Christmas to enjoy the festivities.

Not sure how the pitch can be frozen it has been about 6-7 degrees up in the NW today and raining - for a change!

North East is really mild too. Do they have injuries or somefink?

Boundary Park is the highest ground in the country (the way they go on about it you would think it was in the bloody andes) therefore probably has its own micro climate!

Oh no it's not.....

That's West brom isn't it?

Highest in Prem League.

And the country.

I could have sworn there was somewhere higher, oh well, I consider myself corrected :_

Oldham is cold.

But FCUMs game the other night was on...

Its a conspiracy i tell thee

Gutted, were about 12 of us going up on the piss, all dressed as santa :(

I wonder if that might be a possibility?  Will allow more Town supporters to go than if it's re-arranged for a Tuesday night.

Also will detract from the fact we should be playing Derby..hate 3rd round days when we are not playing....they wont arrange it for then....too much common sense in that kind of decision.

Definitely, it's rubbish when we're not playing.  I almost forget at times that there is still football going on!

Me too. The whole media goes FA Cup whiteout and when we're not playing it just really rubs it in we didn't make it. All the worse when it's because we lost to rubbish due to being even more rubbish

In fairness, we have done that sort of thing before and I think they will do it on this occasion.

They have been getting a bit of stick oop north apparently.
Not doing there upmost to get the game on.....plenty of matches in that area went ahead with almost perfect surfaces.
Saying that Oldham is a cold place even in a heatwave!
May have been a good thing for us...some good results yesterday that keeps us well in with a sniff off the playoffs.

You'd have thought Oldham would have made some effort, given that a win could have put them a point off an auto place.

 In some ways this season feels a bit like 2 years back when at the same time we were 2 points worse off than now.   Like then we couldn't defend, but relied on Cox for goals....like then we went out to a then decent non league side in the cup.

 Wilson came in on Boxing Day and saw one of the more abject displays of recent years v Gayers.  Like then Wilson identified the problem at the back and got in Greer, a player with a decent record but little recent football due to injury....

 Then we were 1 point off the drop zone this season 2.  That season we very nearly went down, history doesn't necessarily repeat itself, but we need to see that this season is probably now about damage limitation.

Like I've said in another thread, the pitches had thawed out as temperatures were ok thursday night until last night. I had football in Blackburn in the morning yesterday, the problem was more waterlogging than frozen pitches. There was a little bit of snow lying about - but I was surprised they called it off Friday, especially with the weather forecast neither stating cold temperatures or heavy rain up here.

Hartlepool looked a good bet for relegation a while back...they win there game in hand they are a point off 6th  place.....we beat Wednesday last week...they are now second after dicking the Gas.
Just need a run of three wins and the doom could be lifted...but that seems a looooooooong way off at present.
Still feel Brighton could slip up....this lge is still wide open.

 Not so sure about Hpool....their season has been curious, insofar as they'd conceded most goals at home and fewest away in the div.  Always feel if you can defend away, then there's a chance of picking up 1-0's which is what Pool have done. As things stand we've little chance of winning away unless we score at least 3 or more, and we've done that 3 times and still not won...

I was saying the same thing on Tuesday night.

An identical season......cannot defend and rely on our star man up front to keep us up....

When are they going to reshedule this???

FA Cup rd.3 weekend would make sence!

So would learning to spell!

They won't rearrange it for then, it would be too logical, they will put it on a cold tuesday night.

They did re-arrange it for the FA Cup weekend so thats a nice result we can get over our dismal FA Cup exit with an away win at Oldham..............hopefully.

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/8745585.BREAKING_NEWS__Town_s_trip_to_Oldham_rescheduled/?ref=rss

Bloody hell, the Football League showing some common sense for once!  Fair play.