Manager Mellon urges Latics fans to stick with team
MICKY MELLON has pleaded with Oldham Athletic fans to get behind the team at Boundary Park next season – insisting their negativity is encouraging opposing teams.
The Latics managed just six home wins in the league last season – one of the worst home records in the National League – and contributed to Mellon’s side missing out on the play-off places.
Addressing over 200 supporters at the club’s Fans Forum on Tuesday night, Mellon said: “We (the management and coaching team) come here and create the team and we have to give you something that you want to be proud of. I get that.
“Opposition managers, in their team talks and in their tactics, are telling their players as they prepare to step out onto the Boundary Park pitch, ‘If you keep Oldham quiet for 15 minutes and you give them nothing, the fans will turn on them and they will go under’.
Quiet
“It isn’t criticism from me. It’s just a fact that we’ve been made aware of from opposing managers and coaches. Every club that we speak to is saying ‘you know what we did Micky, we kept you quiet because the crowd will turn on your team’.
“I watch the games like you and I would be disappointed as well but it would be wrong of me not to say that opposing teams are using this now for their benefit. I know it is difficult – you all want success.”
And he joked: “I have to watch it as well… you are not alone!”
In a bid to appease the supporters, Mellon said: “I would just as
