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Parker in loan move to Bury
Reporter: MATTHEW CHAMBERS
Date online: 18 March 2010
KEIGAN Parker has left Athletic to join Bury on a month’s loan.
The Scottish striker has had a disappointing spell at the club since signing in the summer from Huddersfield, making 17 starts and 11 substitute appearances with a return of just two goals.
And with Athletic manager Dave Penney dropping Parker from the squad entirely for the game at Stockport in midweek, the writing was on the wall for a player whose career has been on a downward spiral since leaving Blackpool.
While with the Seasiders, Parker racked up 41 goals in 165 appearances and played a major part in helping the team gain promotion to the Championship in 2007 — knocking Athletic out of the play-offs on the way.
Bury boss Alan Knill will hope that Parker, who agreed to the move yesterday after talks with Penney, can rediscover that kind of form in order to boost the Shakers’ flagging promotion hopes in Coca-Cola League Two.
Meanwhile, the Athletic boss will try to whittle down his host of central midfield options ahead of the visit of Brighton to Boundary Park on Saturday.
The duo of Dean Furman and Alex Marrow dug in at Stockport to help the team to a 1-0 win at Edgeley Park which pushed Athletic closer to safety in Coca-Cola League One.
But on what is likely to be a far better playing surface, Penney — who made a total of five changes from the side which stumbled to a 2-2 home draw with Wycombe — may opt to again switch things round in the team’s engine room in order to get a passing game up and running.
“It was a bit of freshening up as much as anything and a chance for other people to come in and show what they can do,” said the Athletic manager of his changes to the side at Stockport.
“I thought Dean Furman was excellent, while Dale Stephens has been too and he would have played other than him being injured.
“We also have Jon Worthington pushing for a starting role in midfield along with Danny Whitaker and Alex Marrow, so it is nice to be getting a few bodies back.”
Stephens, who had enjoyed an unbroken run of 15 starts since making his first-team debut against Norwich, has a chance of turning out against Brighton after a hip injury.
Comments
Can someone please take DP on (permanent) loan?
What's DP's favourite song?
Surely it's got to be 'Only the Loanee'.
Yes, in or out, you loan 'em all about.
dramasingapore, with fans like you who needs rivals?
What's the matter? Are you one of these 'Reds' that 'can't get a ticket' just on here winding everyone up or what? The days of Royle, Ritchie, Wembley... they're gone for the forseeable so take your 1990's Oooh Roger Palmer t-shirt off. We need to look forward and get behind the team to have any chance of seeing those days again. p.s. I believe there's a bandwagon leaving shortly from Spotland... jump on that mate.
I'm getting worried, Penney has now made two good decisions in a week after making plenty of wrong ones throughout the season. Brill dropped - excellent, Parker out on loan - even better. Neither of these two have warranted a place in the team after extremely poor lacklustre performances from both throughout the season.
I actually live in Singapore and so keep in touch with the goings on by speaking to mates who attend matches. If you are so happy with the situation at BP then you are easily pleased - by the way why choose to 'have a go' at me. You'll notice that almost all posts on the Latics situation are against DP (and others).If you read the board often enough (and it seems you don't post that much) you'll realise the concern REAL fans have and I have supported the club for over 50 years. Not a red!!!
Oh, fan with 7 year old son. It's a bit too far to get to matches but I suppose you think Singapore is up near Thornham. Before you insult anyone please get your facts right.
The future of the club is at stake - can't you see that?
Has "eye see it" really got Parkers name on his shirt? Are you for real lad?
may do parker some good to go on loan. we need to stick with penny and give him until 12 games into next season. please remember as any manger you can only work with the tools proived or the tools you can aford. keep the faith
'dramasingapore' - are you trying to be really annoying on purpose? ive read all the articles on the latics today, and in every one you have put a negative comment.Considering you have never been to a game this season & get all your latics news from here and online, id keep your opinions to yourself because nobody cares. I agree with 'FanWith7yrOldSon' - if you dont like it go and follow another team. Its time the fans stopped being so pessimistic about EVERYTHING because its getting boring now
and its the best news ive had all week about keigan parker leaving. what an absolute shambles of a professional footballer. watch him score a bagful at bury though!
If kiegan Parker does score a bagfull at Bury it goes to prove what everyone knows exept Dave Penney that there is no service what so ever to our strikers, Taylor and Smalley are a disgrace at the moment i would play Millar on the wing on saturday and leave Smalley out altogether and play Lee instead of Taylor, and Dramasingapore has every right to have a moan things down at BP are dibolical at the moment PENNEY OUT
Manager, Dave Penney is reported to have stated that Dean Furman had an excellent game at Stockport, the mind boggles! Alongside the inexperience of Marrow he was totally outplayed by Stockport midfielder, Perkins. Furman, to his credit puts in a 100% effort but that is not good enough, his skills and passing methods are shocking, one has only to look at his scoring record for an attack minded midfielder, ZERO!!! We should get behind the team but please Mr. Penney, FURMAN excellent, huge joke!
Another rank bad decision should have loaned him out to another struggling team in league one, a team we still have play no chance of us conceeding a goal there. What have bury done wrong.
Cowboy footballers!!!!!!ye ha
dont know about his name being on my shirt his name is on my pen
Latics76 you must be absolutely deluded ( or Dave Penney himself ) if you think we should keep Penney not just for the rest of this season but give him 12 games into next season, the guy is clueless and the sooner he's out of BP the better, you must be his only fan.
Penney has done two things right this year. Got rid of Oldham Rugby( which means you don't have to play on a pitch like Stockports ) and loaned out Parker. Hopefully Bury will keep him.
I cannot agree with his midfield options. Furman tries hard but is poor. If we get Worthington back in that would be a real nightmasre, all he does is get booked and foul people and get injured. If they are fit it should be Whitaker and Stephens.
Latics 76, Penney brought all these ' tools ' in!!
"...his name is on my pen"!
Good move for the club AND Parker. I would have loaned him to Rochdale...he would score a hat-full in their attacking side.
Seriously, I bet he sticks a few away for Bury.
As someone who has the fortune or maybe misfortune to attend Oldham games, I can honestly say that the football at Boundary Park at the moment is no worse or no better than it's been for the last 10-15 years. At our level it's just about watching other teams' reserves with the team changing every other week and there is no continuity. Whoever we have as manager, be it Penney, Royle, Frizzel or Lord Lucan isn't going to change that fact.
dreaminsingapore im with you all the way. you put negative comments because there has been nowt positive at BP all season until this week. BRILL replaced in goal and parker farmed out. fan with the 7 yr old where have you been all season not watching latics obviously, Babysitting rg2403 who seems to be another fan of mr penney.
i dont expect the glory days to come back but what have we had to cheer this season... nothing.
its Bury i feel sorry for its end of the promotion push for them now
id like to say thank you to mr parker for his contibution to latics,his scoring record speaks for itself.well done
latics76 you are having a bark arent you. keep penney next season to.
why have the club lost 1000 plus regular fans this season.
not the credit crunch im sure.
3 games for 30 quid was still not enough to entice them back
PENNEY OUT
I'm certainly not here to defend DPs record, but is it his fault he can only get players on free transfers and on loan? Is it his fault that the club is in such a mess that half-decent players won't come here? What will DP's replacement do wearing the same straitjacket? When will fans see who is the real reason why this club is crap? Why can't we have Alan Hardy as manager?
here we go again ammypam and her crusade against the directors, how do you get blood out of a stone please tell me pam.
we have a bigger than average squad for this division admit, lots of loans but who do think is paying the wages.
latics directors and have you not grasped the only folk attending BP this season are season ticket holders.
there is no money coming in whatsoever.
once again what do you want roman abromavich cause what we have is better than most a stable club.
penneys signings
oh and pam like i said before, there are bargain basement players on minimum wage that could do a better a job than parker brill worthington holdsworth colbeck and possibly purdie though another lemon signed by penney.
do you think it was the TTA that told penney to sign these players.
i hope the TTA dont come on here pam and read how appreciative you are of their flogging a dead horese.
i hope i never have the pleasure of meeting you and scotland
i see the club has invited the young asian kidnap boy to BP as a special guest.
do you not think the kids been through enough already.
prob wish he was back in pakistan morev fun than BP.
without doubt the worst player i've ever seen in my life, good call DP. Please stop moaning all of you, it's embarrassing, you won't be happy til we don't have a club.
PENNEY CANT WE LOAN YOU OUT TO THE BOYS SCOUTS TAKE THE REST OF YOUR SIGNING WITH YOU OH DONT FORGET PURDIE
Cheers Funkster. I may not live in OLdham (fanwith7yearoldson - and rg2403) but I don't suppose you can see that I am a concerned fan (living overseas doesn't take away my moral support). It is you who are being rather blinkered. I see things as they are and not as I 'think they are'. Get real and think about the dire situation the club has got itself in to. Wholesale changes are needed but when it take place is another matter. Take off your rose-coloured glasses and be realisitc. Penney out!!!!
dramainsingapore.. usernames don't mean anything most of the time. Unfortunately on this occasion, both of ours do. You DO actually live in Singapore, I salute you for keeping interested what's going on with Latics and looking out for their scores. I apologise for suspecting you were red. Everyone is entitled to their say, of course. It's just that my username is genuine too. I DO have a 7 yr old son whom I take to every home game, (Funkster) It's hard 4 him 2 enjoy it when every1 is moaning.
funkster37 - i HATE dave penney, his style of football, his terrible interviews, his programme notes, his tactics, his signings - everything about the man in a football perspective. Im aware the latics are in a dire situation, but all the moaning and the whinging in the world will not help the players, who are all on 2 year contracts anyway. the only thing that you and the likes of singapore steve do is preach to the converted. Say something positive or constructive and u mite get some respect.
rg2403 there is nothing positive or constructive that anybody can say about Latics at the moment, even the 1 nil win over Stockport the other night left most fans at the game leaving as if we'd been beat ( and i was there ), and also being a season ticket holder there is nothing going good a BP either, nobody on here is after respect all they are after is DP out of our club and for the players to actually show some interest in wearing the Latics shirt and not just picking up their wages.
I love it on here, Rg2403 blasts dramasingapore for being negative then at the end its, all his negatives!. can anyone here say also the directors have done a good job?, in all honesty can you?..... damn right they have not. And Funkster what a load of toss you expressed, all the money the TTA have paid in loan signing might have done better getting 2 or 3 permanent signing and may have been cheaper with all the wages wasted loaning cheap crap from lower divisions.
Like it or not football is a entertainment business in the sports department, and all these directors can sing one song.....Oh how hard done too the fans have not supported us. So we will take the land from under them, give them false hope of promotion in 2 years, 5 years later facing relegation, make a complete balls of getting a new ground built, alienate most of the fans, cut the funding 2 the bare bones, employ a waste of space as manager......
Start a benevolent fund for the Penny crocks past and present.....need i go on?. yes funkster the TTA have done a stirling job here making a decent league one club into the biggest joke in the football league, and it says it all when the highlight of the fans for the season at present is Brill being dropped and Parker dropped and shipped out on loan. let Ammy have her say and wind your neck in.
Cheers 'Fan with 7 year old son'. Good to see the young ones (like your lad) are being taken along. Just a pity the fare on show is so mediocre at present. I hope it does not put him off. Yes, opinions are an individual thing so no use falling out with anyone. However, rg2403, I have to ask why you make personal digs? The club is failing its supporters even you must accept that? Oh, and I am not called Steve. Enjoy the match - and let's hope they win. I still say PENNEY OUT!
funkster - yes, they were all Penney signings. Who signed Penney? When Penney goes, I expect we'll have a different manager on loan every month. If you are happy with the situation that the owners don't spend any money so that we see the continual deterioration of the club, that's up to you. But most other people aren't, they are staying away in droves.
ammypam, OLDHAM SCOTLAND - Sometimes I really worry about the mentality of so called Oldham Athletic.
Clubs like Portsmouth, Crystal Palace, Stockport,Darlington are in administration, because they lived beyond their means, and the last time we had a "owner" who spent "money" look what happened when he pulled the plug suggesting that this is what you want for Oldham - administration, relegation...
So unless, you know of some Russian, Saudi... Billionaire willing to invest, get real
Scrapheap, where did i put spend plenty of money? and as i "PUT" all the money wasted on pathetic inferior loan signings from the dregs of the football league, we could have bought 2 or 3 decent players and that is fact!, as for over spending lolol 500k spent might have brought more in, in gate reciepts, with fans returning to applaud the TTA for doing something instead of their usual Nero routine and moaning at stay away fans. God help them next season when next to no one renews their tickets.
Pity you do not see the bigger picture as season tickets sales are the players wages during closed season and what will hurt them more is digging deeper into already empty pockets!.
Pity you do not see the bigger picture as season tickets sales are the players wages during closed season and what will hurt them more is digging deeper into already empty pockets!.
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Gutted about Parker. Just had his name on my shirt as well...
By Eye See It @ 18/03/2010 12:17:16