Latics and England

Widening the net slightly, Germany 1 England 5.

I would imagine that any English football fan over the age of fifty who didn't see England win the world cup must have some regrets.

So, open up the small section of the Rocky Road End to Latics supporters.

 

BUT give non-seat specific season tickets - you could even allow Season Ticket holders from other areas to use it.

 

Therefore,

 

1, You don't get the issue of more quiet fans taking up space next to singers and therefore singers too dissipated to join in with each other

2, Singers don't upset those with small childern or who don't want it to be too noisy

3, Atmosphere improved due to proximity to away fans

4, Beer served, so eveyone is tanked up

5, Accoustics are better (providing there is some sound - as if there is no sound it doesn't matter what the accoustics are like)

6, If you get wet due to being too near the front, you don't have to go in again if it is raining

7, More intimidating to away teams as we have fans on all 4 sides of the ground

 

I am sure that there are more reasons why I am a genius......please feel free to agree and add other reasons why this is a great idea.

 

 

We could then e-mail the club and ask for a short term trial to prove or disprove the outcome.

 

PS Jus because The Beatles recorded at Abbey Road doesn't make them loud

I agree that this idea is pure genius... mainly because it is something that I have been in discussions with the club about for several days.

At the moment it is a non-starter for reasons that I would rather not go into at the present time (as I think the potential uproar from divulging what the sticking points are might derail the whole process).

I am hoping to have further discussions with Alan and the Chief safety officer next week to see if anything can be sorted.

Ipswich to get promotion

Liverpool at Anfield, 1st game in top flight

Blackpool away the year we took over Bloomfield Road

Genoa away in the Anglo Italian Cup

What have your favourite five games that you have attended been for the period covering the whole of last season and the first half of this.

No reasons are needed, just a list of 5 games.

Here are mine to start us off.

This season

Everton (a)

Leeds (a)

Tranmere (a)

Millwall (a)

Last season

Scunthorpe (a)

Norwich away how could I forget? went on Barlow's, on the way home the mudflap proceeded to slip and catch on the tyre, it melted most of the tyre away through pure friction, we were on a very narrow and dark A -Road at the time and miles from anywhere. Luckily another coach stopped and picked up a few. As for the rest of us we had to wait an eternity for ATS to arrive and we limped back into Oldham around 3am. Fair play to Stormin' Norman the driver he dropped the remaining passengers off as close as he could to their homes, but what a nightmare day!

There's a blast from the past... Norman the Barlows coach driver. What a miserable barsteward, but he was the one Barlows driver who could actually find a football ground.

Whenever there was more than one coach going, you'd always head for Norman's, knowing that you'd see kick off. The same couldn't be said of the others.

Ignoring th obvious Wembley and QPR journeys, I think some depressing ones that spring to mind are:

Grimsby (5-0 and about ten degrees below in the League Cup)

Spurs (5-0 - Gerrard had a mare)

Port Vale (Every bloody time)

Reading (won 3-1 in the FA Cup but then some Southern get put the window through right next to me - it was freezing all the way back to Hilton Park where we changed coach)

Tranmere (Drew 2-2 from two up. They scored dodgy goal in injury time... cheered up when we got back though as we did the Gerry's 5-1 in Munich)

I must admit, I'm quite shocked by this. I certainly can't remember the club failing to run any type of coach before. I'm sure that you will find someone who's driving who'll be kind enough to give you a lift.

If I do miss this game it will be the first one home or away in all competitons since November 2005, some of which I've gone to pretty exceptional lengths to get to and whilst I appreciate where the club are coming from I have to say I am disapointed they haven't tried a bit harder to get around some of the obstacles.

November 2005? Were you under the influence of alcohol in Geneva by any chance?

Think it might have been 2 years when Makin went to Marseille, but this could have changed or i could be wrong. This is beginning to smell more than the Teves scandal.

Chris Makin was in France for 366 days!

Porter completely screwed over not just ourselves but Bury as well.

I don't believe that he genuinely wanted to move up to Scotland but he will have received some serious money for doing it. I have no doubt that he, and his agent, will be on a percentage of any sell on fee that Motherwell receive.

At the end of the day it was upto him and he made his decision. It would be nice to think that after what has happened at Motherwell recently, he will have had the opportunity to look at himself and realise that there is more to life than chasing an extra few quid and possibly realise that he has a lot to be grateful for (in no small part down to the faith shown in himself by Bury and Oldham).

For us, however, it is time to move on. That part of our history has gone. Let's concentrate on ensuring that we hang on to the latest crop of promising youngsters or at least get fair compensation if they are destined for bigger things.

"when (he) saw the Oldham he said" appears twice! Who would write a song like that?

It would appear that there is a repeated line which appears like poor song writing but I agree with Beardy, his version is what I've always sung.

I guess it is possible, though unlikely of course, that the lyricist could have been some p*ssed up Latics fan in a pub, rather than a professional songwriter.

Can we please get a win tomorrow and move above our bin dipping friends before we start laughing at them too heartily?

It must be depressing being a Hoof FC fan at the moment but at least they must be cheered up a bit each time "The General" posts

Lyrics (unless someone know differently):

 

I've been a wild rover for many's the year,

and I spent all me money on whiskey and beer.

And now I'm returning with gold in great store,

and I never will play the wild rover no more.

 

(Chorus):

And it's no, nay, never! No, nay, never, no more,

'til we play barsteward Rovers. No never no more!

 

I went to an alehouse I used to frequent,

and I told the landlady me money was spent.

I asked her for credit, she answered me "nay,

such a custom as yours I could have any day".

 

(Chorus)

 

I took from me pocket ten sovereigns bright,

and the landlady's eyes opened wide with delight.

She said "I have whiskeys and wines of the best,

and the words that I told you were only in jest".

 

(Chorus)

 

I'll have none of your whiskeys nor fine Spanish Wines,

For your words show you clearly as no friend of mine.

There's others most willing to open a door,

To a man coming home from a far distant shore.

 

(Chorus)

 

I'll go home to me parents, confess what I've done,

and I'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son.

And when they've caressed me as oft times before

then I never will play the wild rover no more.

 

(Chorus)

I think we all know that they are not the words, but this is a family website and so the real words in full would not be appropriate.

Alehouse

Landlady

Money was spent

Custom like yours I can get any day

Brothel

Big Mama

weapon was bent

Suck any day

Toilet

Head tendant

Last penny I'd spent

**** in the corner and just walked away

And then we go with tradition and finish on:

"I'll go home to me parents, confess what I've done,

and I'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son.

And when they've caressed me as oft times before

then I never will play the wild rover no more."

Well besides a couple in the chaddy end we dont sing all the verses only this.

I can think of at least three of us so that'll do me.

It used to be said that we had a song about every team in the country but we do tend to be quite restricted in what we sing these days.

oafcok put a thread on here just before the Forest gama where people posted their favourite all time Latics songs and then we went through the vast majority of them at the City Ground.

Maybe we could try that before games. People can request songs they want to sing the next day.

Diego can't play this game though, I've been there when he's walked upto a DJ to hand him a request (or two hour playlist to be more accurate). The guy only got to stop playing them when the strippers came on!!! !!!

I always believed it was no ney never and IM sure a few years back it was in the program I think against city in a friednly just a little A3 piece of paper with it on. And your right it is burnley and I never sing this as tbh what on earth are blackburn to us. Id sooner sing And its Oldham Athletic OLdham Athletic FC theyre by far the greatest team this world has ever seen. And its defo up the footbal league we go.

It is definitely "No Ney Never"

I don't think you can really say it is a Burnley song. I accept that they sing it and I do not know the history enough to say who sung it first but we have always sung it for the seventeen years I've been watching Latics so to me this is one of our traditional songs. I don't know whether Burnley sing all the verses either

My favourite is always:

 

"Sheridan's blue pints on me"

Also...

"A friend" once misheard this as:

 

E I E I E I O

Up the football league we go

When we win promotion

This is what we'll sign

We are Oldham We are Oldham

We will f :censored: k the kids!

 

Wasn't that the Hartlepool version?

I remember the first game I ever went to, walking out of the ground why the fans were singing "Away, away, away, away" when they were at home! I was only a kid, I'd never even heard the word Ole (don't know how to put the accent on)

Fat Sam must be gutted.

I'm sure he'll get a nice pay-off but I bet it is nothing compared with the little earner he could have made during the transfer window!

I think it would have to now be given to Shearer or we are back in the crazy situation where a new manager is constantly looking over his shoulder.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Wor Bobby back in some capacity though, if he is well enough.

The point was that there is some increase but that it is not sufficient to financially justify the decision.

A price reduction does not lead to a marked increase in the number of people who turn up at Boundary Park. We have tried it time and time again.

When it was free (Celebration Sunday) it was full. The time we charged a quid, I seem to remember we got about eleven thousand. That's right, even charging £1 we couldn't fill the ground.

On a number of occasions we have charged a tenner which has tended to lead to crowds of 8/9 thousand if it is against half decent opposition.

I believe that if we charge the usual £18 against Huddersfield, the crowd will be about 10,500 - 4,000 Yorkiers and 6,500 of us. Assuming 1 in 4 are kids, that leads to revenue of about £165k

Charge £15 and the crowd might be 11,000, but I doubt it. That gives revenue of under £150k and no better atmosphere.

To fill the ground you'd have to go down to a tenner but as already discussed that would not be allowed under FA rules. The revenue from this , if it was allowed would be under £120k assuming the ground was full (10,000 adults @ £10 and 3,500 kids @ £5)

Exile'll be after your blood

Multi-threading

Arsenal away please.

Not United, please not United. I want to enjoy the day and I'm afraid, I just couldn't enjoy losing to them (and we would)

On TalkSPORT radio this morning, Everton fan Mike Parry said how hard it was for him to come to terms with the result but added "it must be fantastic to be an Oldham player or fan. It must be the greatest Cup result in the Club's history."

 

At last I'm able to agree with 'Porky' Parry about something!

Yesterday was absolutely amazing, just what football should be all about, but the 'greatest cup result in the club's history'? Not for me.

I feel on top of the world but after the win at Bolton in '94, I was on a different planet entirely.

Surely the apostrophe comes after the owner of the item, e.g. "The dodgy car of Dad" would become "Dad's dodgy car".

 

Therefore "the first public performance of it" would become "it's first public performance".

 

That's my understanding anyway. Apologies if wrong.

Anyway, why did you miss out the apostrophe's in "song's", "video's", "Blue's", "lad's", "fan's" and "week's"

Would that be the dodgy car that means that for all you know, we have only won six away games in a row, mind you, to Diego, 6 and 7 are interchangable aren't they... And number one is Frankie Bunn.....

I can see us two nil down at half time, a couple of thousand glory hunters going home before the second half starts with us coming back to grab a late equaliser from Smalley in the dying minutes. And I guarantee that come Sunday morning, you wouldn't be able to find anyone who would admit to not having been there at the end!

When we signed Hughes, the press reported him to be earning £80k a year, thus approx £1,500 per week.

I would guess that based upon this, we won't have anyone on considerably more than this.

A lot of people let themselves down today. The chanting about Ricketts was a disgrace. To then return home to find that elsewhere a player had sadly passed away on the pitch just emphasised the point.

Our football club has some fantastic supporters. Our ability to regularly take a thousand plus to away games when clubs with average home attendances of twice ours couldn't dream of that is something about which I am proud. Unfortunately we have some absolute ****holes as well.

We have no idea why Michael Ricketts left the club. There have been a large number of rumours but we don't know the truth. We also assume that he will be signing for Walsall next week, but again, we don't know. He could be back here if things don't work out.

To me, the chant that summed up these so called fans was the laughable "How many pints did Ricketts have?" midway through the second half. It showed just how much intellect went into their song choices. I can just imagine the conversation that led to that one... "Wotz that song wot people sing about Gregan? It's got the word w*nk in it so let's sing it about Ricketts"

I notice that nobody has come on this board and actually defended the "Die" song so presumably nobody from this cross section of supporters got involved in the chanting. I'd love to think that this was the case.

The Gumbs situation left a nasty taste. He was a full international but because he played for a 'minor' nation he was refused a work permit despite two appeals and Arlene McCarthy the Euro MP getting involved. Similar cases involving bigger clubs had been passed with no problems at all. Once again a smaller club had been shat on from a great height by both the FL and the Govt.

The worst thing about the Gumbs situation was the fact that Wrexham were able to sign two of his compatriats due to different criteria for granting work permits existing in England and Wales! It is nice to know that everyone plays on a level playing field!

I got all but Oldham County. Can't believe I didn't know that. It wasn't even one of those "Oh yeah" moments when he read out the answer, I didn't have a clue.

Just been replaying Sky plus.....

 

What is Oldham Athletics nickname?

Who was the club's manager in the 2002/3 season when they reached the playoffs but lost to QPR?

Oldham's largest home crowd came to see them play which team in the 4th round of the FA Cup in 1930?

Which controversial character became the chairman of the club in 1965?

What is the name of Oldham's official mascot who won the Mascot Grand National in 2002 and 2003?

Which Welsh international goalkeeper joined Oldham from Fulham in 2007?

Oldham played their 1st competitive game at Wembley against Nottm Forest in the final of which competition in 1990?

Who scored a record 141 league goals for Oldham between 1980 and 1994?

The most goals ever scored in a football league game was on Boxing Day 1935 when Oldham lost to Tranmere Rovers. What was the final score?

Who were Oldham's opponents in the 1990 FA Cup Semi Final and replay, both played at Maine Road?

Which player did Oldham sell to Everton for £1million, only to buy back a year later for £600,000?

In 1899 Pine Villa changed their name to Oldham Athletic when they bought the football ground Sheepfoot Lane from which club?

Who scored 6 goals against Scarborough in the League Cup in 1989?

Kevin Betsy turned down the chance to play for which country in the COSAFA cup to help Oldham?

Which former Oldham player won 64 caps for Norway?

When Earl Barrett collected the Second Division title in 1990, the trophy mistakenly bore the name of which club?

To celebrate coming out of administration, Oldham's new owners gave free admission to everyone for a 6-0 win against which club?

Who scored 2 goals against Ipswich to win Oldham promotion to the First Division in 1990?

Oldham toured Rhodesia and which other country in 1967?

 

I didn't know 4 of them

 

His parents should be very proud of him. He seemed intelligent AND grounded. Good job all round....!!!!