Andy b Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 there is currently no such investor is there. I am sure we are being played Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozman Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 29 minutes ago, PatchLatics said: Statement from Trust Oldham in today's @OldhamChronicle regarding the ongoing mystery over the potential investor. #oafc From Matt Chambers on Twitter. Surely the Trust should publish this to us before the Chron? Someone from the Trust provided an update on here last night, which was baicallly 'we've not been told anything by the club about the potential new investment'. I doubt much has changed between last night and the Chron's print deadline this morning. Nothing wrong with getting their message out to a wider audience via the Chron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singe Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 32 minutes ago, Andy b said: there is currently no such investor is there. I am sure we are being played As Lee Sinnot says, surely he would not be that stupid. I'm 75% excpecting it to fail, based on history, it's is a very risky game to play without it signed on the dotted line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singe Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 43 minutes ago, UsedtobeWozzer said: By us do you mean the small percentage of OAFC fans who hang around on OWTB? I think the Chron's audience is slightly larger for getting a suitable message out. There are not that many more people read the Chron!! It has a circulation now around 9,000. Virtually all local newspaper circulation has plummetted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaddySmoker Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 23 hours ago, HarryBosch said: You fucking HATE the North Stand don't you. I don't think any man has ever directed such anger towards an inanimate object before.... You can fool all of the people some of the time................................................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaddySmoker Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 11 minutes ago, singe said: There are not that many more people read the Chron!! It has a circulation now around 9,000. Virtually all local newspaper circulation has plummetted. What about all the people who read it free online? Stop being so naive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorvik_latic Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 2 minutes ago, ChaddySmoker said: What about all the people who read it free online? Stop being so naive. And then shared on Twitter, Facebook etc. People are more likely to read it on there as opposed to publishing it on the Trust website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latics_Fanatic Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Has Corney been played? AL in talks with Corney about possible investment into the football club. AL brings in trialists (which we are yet to sign but Placide seems to be done.) The deal then seems to be falling apart, but we may be left with no other option than signing AL's mystery trialists at the last minute. Too speculative? Over-thinking? Probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozman Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 The statement is on the trust website now: http://trustoldham.co.uk/trust-statement-regarding-investor-talk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP1960 Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OAFCinWolves Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Mr Lee is looking at Barsnley now, so he was looking for a club and we must of blew that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hands on Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 I accept that the long term impact of TTA has been the slow decline of our club but we are still in league 1 and we did welcome them in. Unfortunately the statement last week by Corney might in retrospect be seen as a tipping point because it revealed once again how poorly run this club is now. No doubt he felt he had to say something because of the impact the embargo was having and went one step further by indicating that the right sort of person was in the final stages of investing/buying (who knows what now). We live on hope and that is what he offered. Problem is it will only make matters worse if he doesn't deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaticMark Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 For those who remember the dark days of 2003. This situation reminds me of another (former) football agent, Vidar Fossdal, and his mystery Norwegian consortium. They were, for a short time, our big hope of a takeover and survival in the summer of 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/o/oldham_athletic/3075367.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitygoo Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 18 minutes ago, bozman said: The statement is on the trust website now: http://trustoldham.co.uk/trust-statement-regarding-investor-talk/ This shows, to me, that the trust has been rendered useless for the moment. Thats more than likely through no fault of their own and highlights how poor the relationship with corney must be. Id be happy for corney to sell to anybody now regardless of whether he thinks they're good for us or not. The way he's run the club i cant understand how he can claim to not want to hand it over to someone who doesnt have our best interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bozman Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 10 minutes ago, OAFCinWolves said: Mr Lee is looking at Barsnley now, so he was looking for a club and we must of blew that one I think that's a different Mr Lee. Chien Lee, whose consortium also own Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorvik_latic Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 3 minutes ago, Fruitygoo said: This shows, to me, that the trust has been rendered useless for the moment. Thats more than likely through no fault of their own and highlights how poor the relationship with corney must be. Id be happy for corney to sell to anybody now regardless of whether he thinks they're good for us or not. The way he's run the club i cant understand how he can claim to not want to hand it over to someone who doesnt have our best interest. It's not though. We have legal rights with the way the 3% is set up. We also work hard on other avenues of protecting the club for the fans (ACV etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singe Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 45 minutes ago, ChaddySmoker said: What about all the people who read it free online? Stop being so naive. It's actual average is approx 10,000 visits per day. OWTB is approx 1,000 per day. Sanctimony level on max. You are making incorrect assumptions from an aside comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pk200 Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 6 minutes ago, bozman said: I think that's a different Mr Lee. Chien Lee, whose consortium also own Nice. Lee is 2nd most common surname in China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlossopLatic Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 We were doing so well up until the start of august actually looking like a proper football club. Yet with a certain level of inevitabity this appears to have gone to shit spectacularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 35 minutes ago, Latics_Fanatic said: Has Corney been played? AL in talks with Corney about possible investment into the football club. AL brings in trialists (which we are yet to sign but Placide seems to be done.) The deal then seems to be falling apart, It's no more "falling apart" than it was ever definitely happening. Nothing has changed and we know absolutely nothing more, or less, since Corney's interview.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaddySmoker Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 8 minutes ago, singe said: It's actual average is approx 10,000 visits per day. OWTB is approx 1,000 per day. Sanctimony level on max. You are making incorrect assumptions from an aside comment. So in which world does 9000 plus 10000 not exceed 1000? How is an aside comment distinguished from a comment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 20 minutes ago, Hands on said: I accept that the long term impact of TTA has been the slow decline of our club but we are still in league 1 and we did welcome them in. Unfortunately the statement last week by Corney might in retrospect be seen as a tipping point because it revealed once again how poorly run this club is now. No doubt he felt he had to say something because of the impact the embargo was having and went one step further by indicating that the right sort of person was in the final stages of investing/buying (who knows what now). We live on hope and that is what he offered. Problem is it will only make matters worse if he doesn't deliver. Why? Matters would be exactly the same wouldn't they? I don't get this perceived wisdom (on here & Twitter) that the long running shitshow will become an even worse shitshow just because this investment doesn't come off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CD's Orange Heels Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 4 minutes ago, jorvik_latic said: It's not though. We have legal rights with the way the 3% is set up. We also work hard on other avenues of protecting the club for the fans (ACV etc.). I'm not a member of the Trust but it seems to me that they're doing all they can to protect the greater interests of the club. The reason why they're being frozen out by Corney is because they're asking difficult questions behind the scenes. If Bazzer was still in charge this wouldn't be happening and Corney would be able to get away with anything he wanted. It must be really difficult for the Trust to balance how they deal with the way Corney goes about his business. The Trust shouldn't be getting any grief for any of this, it's as usual all down to Corney and the terrible way he runs the club. It seems to me the Trust are in a difficult position and are doing all they can to get the truth to the fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP1960 Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 16 minutes ago, pk200 said: Lee is 2nd most common surname in China. Won is not commonly seen at Oldham Athletic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 19 minutes ago, Fruitygoo said: This shows, to me, that the trust has been rendered useless for the moment. Maybe your (& many others) expectation of what they can achieve with their token 3% is unrealistic. It's akin to when people were up in arms about the Lib Dems not scrapping tuition fees through their position as very junior partners in a coalition. They chipped away, got a few concessions here & there and provided a bit more accountability than there would have been without them. That's how I see the Trust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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