Goaltender – Dean Brill – he sucked last season
Left D-fenceman – Paul Black – he’s young and hungry like a tiger
Right D-fenceman – Kieran Lee – formally of Manchester Yankees
Centre Real Estate – JJ Jarrett Junior – playing in foreign fields, normally he’s a centre rover
Skipper – Reuben Hazell –
Left Wingman – Joe-Louis Alessandra – back from time-out with a long injury
Centre Rover – Dean Furman – Dickov wants him further up the back-bone
Centre Sniper – Dale Stephens – the man on major and minor penalties
Right Wingman – Richie Jones – another player formally of Manchester Yankees
Power Offence – Ournare Tounkare – signed on Thursday from the Sunderland Black Cats
Sleeper – Warren Feeney – who comes from Northern Ireland
So the season faced off with the Latics kicking to the Tranmere Rovers fans in the arena, and the game started with some prime real estate from the Latics d-fence, Hazell winning the ball, JJJ with some good passwork to the centre. The first chance fell to Alessandra whose snipe at the heavy metal was pushed to the side by the Tranmere Goaltender. The first score of the game came from a passout from a corner kick ending up in the enforcer awarding a minor penalty for the Latics on the 18, which was dispatched by Stephens who went low-longside into the goal. This came with 30 minutes past in the first period, following on from that Tranmere nearly had a score when a rush-attack was converted into a high-pass into the Oldham box Tranmere Power Forward Enoch Showunmi had a head shot that went wide of the heavy metal to the Goaltenders relief. At the intermission the scores was zero to 1 to the Oldham Latics. Following on from the intermission into the second period some great real estate from the Oldham d-fence prevented any forms of sniping from the Tranmere offence and with 36 minutes gone in the 2nd period the Oldham Latics put the game to bed with a breaking pass up to the Left wingman JL Alessandra who played an assist to Stephens who sniped a power shot low-shortside into the goal for another score 2 to zero. The Tranmere offence created a score from a corner kick-out which was converted high-longside over the Oldham goaltender by Ian T Moore, who is seen as a jackass to the Oldham Latics supporters. But the enforcer blew for the end of the 2nd period and the end of the match-up which was very satisfying for the Oldham Latics who beat the Tranmere Rovers by 2 to 1, leaving the Latics 7th on the League 1 ladder.
