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Think it would be very harsh to drop Gary McDonald now. He's played well for me in the last few games.

Stong words from one normally so mild mannered and affable! She must be bad!

lol! Ok, so when you say to anybody under, say 50, the word Brixton - I bet it conjures two other words - one of which will be 'Academy' and the other will be 'riots'. Same with Toxteth - what is it remembered for? It's frightening that these councillors actually think this way, and it alarmingly highlights just why this town has been in demise for years!

This is one of the best I've found on there yet. "is it just me...... swain_drfc Tue 27-Nov-2007 22:26:59 authenticated user: SWAIN_DRFC or is everyone gettin sick of teams coming to the keepmoat to play the first half quite open and if there lucky enough to be drawing or winning just to put 10 men behind the ball and time waste it really is gettin annoying im sorry but it doesnt matter how good you are you cant beat teams like that for example walsall, tranmere, oldham. the only team not to do this, this season at the keepmoat is leyton orient i feel that we will win more points away from home this year as teams will play more open football at there place and that will suit our game" Awwwww. Poor lambs! Somebody should write to the FA about those away team bounders doing that!

Cheers Chris

You got a link to their forum please? Ta

Am I missing some hilariously funny joke here?

:laught16: :laught16: Pull the other one Bash, it's got bells on

Me too.

What's that? inches in height?

Or in Dale's case should that be 'midi' or even 'mini' crew?

Chris, I assume you and Dale will be there, I'm bringing the missus and the nipper. You gonna let Danny and the rest of the crew know?

Absolutely spot on Mr Woolas. We need more high profile supporters like Phil in the camp to make the short sighted council see how beneficial this will be for the whole town.

I'm sorry, I fail to see what's wrong with the Cronicle article. It seems to me that they've led with the Athletic side of the story, countered with the residents points and closed with a comment from Hardy. It look to me as though they've given it fairly balanced coverage and have invited comments from anybody who cares to do so. Lets face it, the Chron could have had a picture of the residents looking smug on the front but they didn't, they went with a thoroughly pissed off looking Corney and Hardy.

Count me in Richie.

Sorry Tony, but if we fold on the back of this, then that's it for me. If I fancy taking in a game now and then I might go and watch Chadderton or at a push Oldham Town, but I could never bring myself to support another professional team. It would feel like pissing on a dead relative's grave.

Quite agreed mate. I've mailed Councillor Bashforth as I live in Royton South and I've emailed my support to TTA.

Inspiral, is there any way we can find out the names of the 11 councillors that voted on the issue last night to email them? My local councillor is Bashforth, and I'll be emailing him to ask him to justify the decision which was seemily based on personal opinion and conjecture, and asking him why - when he said that he would defer to his deputy during this meeting - he decided to chair the meeting and excert a considerable amount of prejudicial personal opinion on the fact that he found the traffic 'figures' difficult to believe. I also intend to challenge them on the loss of the Clayton Sports Hall which is a privately owned facility and one which is currently shut anyway.

Inclined to agree Chickers, the club did seem underprepared in their representations. Don't think the traffic issues helped. The scale has to be reduced and the traffic figures need to be far more accurate for the appeal/subsequent submissions. It's still disgusting how this town is being allowed to go down the swanny by the bureaucrats though. No cinema, no bowling facilities etc. I fear that if the TTA do walk away though, that's the end of professional football in this town.

Ah yes. That should put the cat amongst the pigeons tonight then

Then he shouldn't be such a dopey f***** halfwit then, should he Diego?!

I rather suspect that even above the general cacophony, Mr Miskelly realised that it was he who was the cause of my angst!

He did indeed LL, which almost led to me getting into a punch up in the Chaddy End with one of the regulars in there. It was in the second half when he came crashing out clumsily to try and punch the ball about 3 time but only succeeded in punching our own defenders in their heads. I think emotions were running fairly high as it was, but this tipped me over the edge and in sheer panic/frustration/fear I think I ended up screaming something at him at the top of my voice along the lines of "what the f*** are you doing you dopey f**** halfwit?!!" Needless to say the lad in front of me took offence to this and threatened to beat me up if I didn't be nice to poor little David! We subsequently got into a 'heated debate' and had to be held apart/calmed down by those around us. Just goes to show that it's ridiculous what this game can do to your emotions!

I don't think that they usually print replies to specific letters on the following day, I think it's usually a couple of days later. mind you, if it's not in tomorrow then there'd be no point printing it as it was meant to be read prior to tomorrow's planning meeting.

I felt the need to reply to both of these objectors. This is my email to the Chronicle - I wonder if they'll publish it without censure? Having read the letters from Derek Dyson on Friday 9th of November, and from Simon Hewitt on Monday 12th, I feel compelled to reply. Mr Dyson’s letter compared the new apartment blocks to ‘communal’ properties on Sholver, Shaw Road, Primrose Back and Crete Street. This comparison is grossly unfair in view of the fact that the new apartments will be private dwellings - the like of which are selling for hundreds of thousands of pounds across much of Manchester and across the borough of Oldham - not primarily council properties in relatively deprived areas of Oldham. Perhaps it’s a good job that Mr Dyson is now retired from Oldham Councils Housing Department in view of his archaic views? In response to Mr Hewitt’s points, it’s irresponsible and frankly childish of him to suggest that OAFC plan to build a public highway, particularly as he’s using ‘selective quotes’ from the planning application, which have been taken out of context, to add weight to his scare-mongering. The fact is that the ‘public highway’to which Mr Hewitt refers, is an existing cycle path which would, as part of the councils conditions have to be improved by Athletic to help to reduce the traffic impact of the proposed scheme. Mr Hewitt also fails to mention the fact that the club will also be contributing to the improvement of the pedestrian crossing facilities in the locality of Sheepfoot Lane and Oldham Road - a point which is addressed in the very same paragraph from which he lifted his ‘selected quotes’. Sadly it comes as no surprise that these scare tactics are being employed at the 11th hour by the NIMBY’s of Carlton Way and the roads surrounding Boundary Park, even after the club has conceded on a number of points and made extensive changes to the plans after consultation with the residents. If the development is not granted on the back of these unfounded objections it signals the death knell for a once great club which simply can’t survive in it’s current state.