Play-Offs

[Holy Joe]

Oldham have looked pretty strong upfront. Didnt watch the Halifax game, but it seems they've been pretty ruthless in both their playoff games.

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

In fairness to Oldham, they look very strong and they’ve absolutely blown Halifax and York away

 

[bazzashrimper]

'injured'? Bringing off the keeper like an outfielder when 'injured' can't come soon enough.

They’ll never do that of course, but what they could do is allow the opposition captain to select an outfield player in lieu.

 

[Roger The Alien]

Whoever win tomorrow, will have an chance of going up.

Although Oldham have a manager who won promotion twice from NL.

 

[ColinMorrisWalksOnWater]

You can certainly see why Kev prefers possession football. York have been direct for most of the night and created nothing from it. When they did play it short at the back, they gave Oldham a goal.

 

[ColinMorrisWalksOnWater]

They’ll never do that of course, but what they could do is allow the opposition captain to select an outfield player in lieu.

Or make the team bring on the sub keeper for say 10 minutes.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Whoever win tomorrow, will have an chance of going up.

Although Oldham have a manager who won promotion twice from NL.

Third time unlucky?.

 

[Barling Magna]

Blimey. York have been poor. Out thought by Oldham and thoroughly outplayed. Oldham will pose a real threat to FGR or us at Wembley.

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

F.T.
0-3

Oldham get to the Play Off Final

 

[EastGreenNutter]

York have not turned up, feel for them.

 

[Tommy2holes]

York have not turned up, feel for them.

That 2 week wait is a killer for momentum

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

That 2 week wait is a killer for momentum

@Tommy2holes ...and hopefully York are not the only team to suffer lack of momentum!

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

And there you have the NL in a single match.
The lack of consistency is the only consistent. I wonder whether the enforced break also helped do York?
If so, that bodes well for us.

 

[getintoem]

I think Oldham turned in a very professional performance. They stifled York and the home side had no answer to it. There is no doubting that Oldham are a very good side but if we can win tomorrow night I would still fancy our chances at Wembley.

 

[ColinMorrisWalksOnWater]

I think Oldham turned in a very professional performance. They stifled York and the home side had no answer to it. There is no doubting that Oldham are a very good side but if we can win tomorrow night I would still fancy our chances at Wembley.

So would I and I would back us to put up a better performance against Oldham than York and Halifax put together.

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

York City finished with a whopping 28 points more than us. Oldham only 5...

...just saying

 

[Lincoln Shrimp]

It's a funny old game....Latics fans have been slagging off Micky Mellon since January calling him a dinosaur. Now he's a hero and they're 90 mins away from returning to the EFL.

They snuffed out the the threat posed by all York's danger men, and in Mike Fondup you've always got a chance given his strength and aerial dominance.

Having said all of that, if we are fortunate enough to get to the final ourselves, I'd still rather be playing Oldham than York.

 

[Sleaford Shrimper]

I feel particularly sorry for the York City fans, given the hard times that their club has been through and the support that they gave to us during the darkest days of Ron's ownership when our players weren't getting paid. It would have been nice to meet them at Wembley.

 

[Farmer Fossett]

If we do make it to Wembley I can see crowd being over 50k

 

[LBBlue]

York City finished with a whopping 28 points more than us. Oldham only 5...

...just saying

Yep a 46 match 9 month league season changes to a two week cup knock out competition. One false move and you’re out. But of course without the play offs most games would have been meaningless since the end of February. We could end up being the club with the record low number of league points that gets promoted.

I don’t think the set up does the clubs that finish 2nd and third any favours. It’s a mockery that a club finishing 7th in a league can get promoted as one of two teams.