Before it gets crazy

[Bartleby]

Are you on glue?
Oldham were fucking awful. They made us look a lot better than most teams have this season.
And they're not a very good side, they are 22nd in this league.
And your claim that we are one of the best sides in the country at the minute, well, our previous four league results were loss, loss, draw, loss. Hardly makes us among the best in the country. Look at the under-21s, our first team aren't even the best at Sheffield United right now.

A victory against anyone is welcome, but to suggest it makes us somehow amongst the best in the country is wildly generous to say the least.

Oldham were indeed awful but Barney was being sarcastic (and possibly does become alter-ego Ricky when he's on glue). So often we have been behaving like a charity to the sides at the bottom this season, so nice to give one of a em a bit of a pasting though eh?

 

[longinthe toothblade]

Though before today they'd only lost 2 away all season and conceded just 14 away. Walsall the only team in the division that had lost or conceded fewer away from home this season.

So what point are you making exactly. Are we 'world beaters' again because we turned over relegation threatened Oldham at home.

For all your positive stats, they are third bottom for a reason and WE are 11th for a reason also.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

So what point are you making exactly. Are we 'world beaters' again because we turned over relegation threatened Oldham at home.

I'm making a point that despite their league position the vast majority of teams in this league have struggled to beat them at home – so it wasn't as easy a fixture as the league table suggests. Does that mean our woeful season is somehow old news? Of course not. But equally the result shouldn't be passed off as something that was always going to happen – indeed plenty thought we'd lose given recent form.