Luis Enrique

i despise absolutely every single thing about united and always have done. bloated, arrogant, obnoxious scum. summed up by their new favourite chant "we're man united, we'll do what we want." quite. c***s.

i can't stand city when they are in our division and some of my favourite oldham memories are of beating them at maine road. roger palmer hat trick being a particularly happy one. but when they're not in our division, then i have no beef with them at all. most of my mates are city fans. the ones i know have a healthy sense of humour about their past troubles and appreciate how ludicrous their current situation is. but why not enjoy it while you can. i appreciate not all city fans are this level headed. but then i know a lot of oldham fans i think are morons too.

i suppose i have stronger views on this than many here as i've spent the vast majority of my life living in manchester, having left oldham when i was a kid, so i've always had a strong view on this issue. i was born in oldham and support oldham but by virtue of where i've lived my life, i'm as mancunian as i am anything else.

well that's the evolution done. anything for the creationists?

Looked a penalty to me.

 

Red card? Well he was last man and Taylor looked as if he would get a shot in.

 

If it shouldn't have been a penalty well tough. We were due a slice of luck.

not sure he would have got a shot in given he was throwing himself to the ground there no matter what happened

I think regardless of who stays and who goes there'll be a lot of loans next season. I suspect there will be zero money for transfer fees. That means youth players, free transfers and gambling on unproven loan signings in the hope of sparking a bit more quality.

i would gladly watch our own youngsters learn their trade in the first team next season, accepting that some will succeed and some will fail.

i cannot be doing with a revolving door of loanees throughout next season. it really is testing my patience with lower league football right to the limit now.

of the current squad the only players i would be very keen to see again next season are lee, furman, alessandra, morais and taylor (much as i can't stand him.) not fussed about anyone else.

I think having no money is somewhat more damaging to the club than anything said by a few internet personas on a message board.

 

Too many people are too easily led by baseless rumours and conspiracies, but it seems some are equally easily led by the content and structure of official statements.

 

I'm sure Simon can technically back up his statement that we have no debt, and in that context the imminent threat of administration would appear to be false. But he was quite clear about the rest of the story too - there is currently neither a plan nor a budget for next season.

totally agree with this. and i think it's a bit rich to moan about scaremongering when the simple fact is that for two months in a row there wasn't enough money in the club to pay the staff.

one of the best of the current crop? yes.

more passionate about the club than any of the others? absolutely.

legend? not even close.

i didn't hear the interview so i can't comment specifically on its content.

i don't believe that corney or anyone else is setting out to shaft the club. of course he wants to find a solution that suits him, his former colleagues on the board (who we are in debt to) and the supporters.

but i would urge caution in reading too much into anything that corney says in public. he is not given to giving careful, considered answers. he wears his heart on his sleeve, is over-emotional, much is said for dramatic effect and a great deal is posturing and PR. very few people really know the depth of the problems we face or what the potential solutions might be. and even forgetting the over emotional nature of the man for a moment, much of what he says is contradictory, depending on what impression it is that he wants to create at any given time. one day he is trying to pressure the council by pleading the brink of extinction and the necessity of leaving the town with BP not being an option next year, the next day he is painting a brighter picture of the future to placate the fans and attract investors and talking about another year or two at BP. i suspect for as long as the club remains in existence, or corney remains in control of it, the public perception of what is happening will continue to be manipulated to suit whatever short term objective has been prioritised that day.

so whilst i don't suspect corney of some evil hidden agenda designed to line his own pockets, i also take everything that he says with two huge fistfuls of salt

don't we only have about five of the current squad on contracts for next season at the moment?

i would expect a much smaller squad next year.

signing lee up presumably means we can sell him in the summer if necessary, or he will be one of our tiny squad next season.

right now it doesn't really cost us anything does it?

 

I do not want to get started on what i think of Hardy, he is a man imo way out of his depth as a chief executive in 2011. I think it is appalling that day to day he is the man running our club!! Astounding.

 

i suspect alan hardy has more common sense in his head than the rest of the board put together.

whether this is damning with faint praise i will let you be the judge.

 

Say We lose 1,000 fans, not a wildly dramatic figure.

 

personally i would expect us to lose a lot more than 1,000 fans.

As Markoasis said not too long back, a few clubs have seemingly lost out financially big time by having Nike as their kit manufacturer. Rotherham being one, where basically most of the sales revenue went to Nike rather than the club, and their club shop was basically turned into a nike store. Or as quoted from a Rotherham fan

 

Just Sport Pro group [same bunch who will be taking over Bradford club shop] which is a company connected to Nike took the franchise to the clubshop and obviousy took alot of money away from the club. Also the quality of shirts were poor too. They were basic Nike templates and not good material either.Link Here

 

I was also told the following re Nike:

- That the lower division teams 'Nike' kits arent actually made by Nike, their made by a local company who are allowed to use the nike franchise.

- With nike, clubs get much less input into the design of the shirts and sometimes basically get told which design they are having, or a choice of templates. ALthough this point I would question as when Bradford recently announced their deal with nike, they said they were getting an 'individually designed kit' just for their use.

 

I am pretty sure with Latics they basically order the merchandise from Carbrini/whoever else makes it at Cost x, and sell them for price y.

yeah, i can well imagine that nike, adidas and the big guys absolutely shaft the smaller clubs, so certainly not blaming ours for not taking that route. unfortunately though, the current kit manufacturer just does not do it for me, not something i'm happy wearing. well done again for getting in there and doing something positive.

good work carl.

I wear footy kits for running.

I have no idea how deals work between clubs & manufacturers & I'm sure there are lots of issues either way but personally I won't be buying an oldham kit til it's nike, adidas or umbro.

Sadly this whole thing reads like a pathetic tit for tat PR war. A group of over emotional kids squabbling noisily & embarrassingly in the street.

I have no faith at all in either the council or the current oldham athletic board to resolve this. Everybody needs to grow up. Fast.

& I think any talk of plans being in place to stay at BP for 3 years or options available to move or share right now are extremely premature. I don't think simon corney has the first idea what he's going to do next at the moment.

Was there that night back of the chaddy singin my heart out "has macari had a bet" "wheres your handbag julien " "were going to wembley twice". One of the best nights ever at boundary park if your to young to of been there times the atmosphere at goodison after maccas goal by ten. amazing night Watched my old vhs copy of this and southampton away only last week still get that same buz even now .

I was thinking along similar lines. younger fans today just won't be able to imagine what that night was like.

incredible team, incredible night, incredible atmosphere. will we ever see the like again?

I was in the lookers near the hammers fans. when it got to 4-0 I remember a grizzled, middle aged fella standing up on his seat & dropping his trousers to literally wave his tackle at the pitch.

horrifyingly gruesome & yet hysterical.

i don't live in oldham and haven't done for years, so in terms of the practicalities of getting to the matches, moving out of oldham makes no difference to me, within reason.

but i am fundamentally opposed to oldham, or any other club, moving out of their 'home.'

whether it is wimbledon moving to milton keynes, or tottenham to the olympic stadium, it's just wrong. they become something else.

if oldham aren't oldham any more, i may as well go do something else.

i thought it was a pretty disappointing day all round today. we were clearly the better team but apart from a ten minute spell in the second half, never seemed too bothered about finding top gear and therefore never put them under as much pressure as we should have done.

having said that, their goalkeeper made the £20 admission seem a bargain.

best. goal. celebration. ever.

never laughed so hard when we've conceded a goal.

That was Barnsley, I bet. Not a massif following at Wolves.

yeah, seem to remember getting on for 4k at barnsley that day?

nothing like that at wolves.

Remember it well, it was a cracking day out and celebration. If only we knew then how the season was to pan out. Though during the cup runs of the season prior perhaps we should have known.

funny you say that because, after the cup runs the year before, i remember feeling that day that there was an absolute inevitability about us going up. brilliant day.

How is city only a fiver more than Latics? Cheapest ticket for Blackpool game was £44. Fact. I went

Pretty sure you can sit in the north stand for £26 for any league match at city. Maybe need to buy in advance to get that price. They also do 3 match tickets that I think work out even cheaper.

You'd think given the dire financial situation and desperate need for a cup run, we'd have played the strongest team available to us in an attempt to win the game and progress in the competition.

that's the thing i can't understand either. i'm not getting into second guessing the manager who i think has done a good job so far this season, but when going out of the cup = "financial disaster" in the eyes of the chief exec, how is it that the manager can fail to pick the strongest team available? just doesn't make sense.

a real shame for me if lomax is off. as some have said already, clearly he has lost his way, but that is true of many under the last regime. he played an absolute belter against everton, the lad definitely has something about him.

i didn't go yesterday so can't comment on the match specifically and i am certainly not complaining about the result, or taylor's goal scoring record this season, but i don't mind saying that i find the way he plays the game a complete embarrassment and totally unnecessary.

high point: ooh roger palmer. end of.

low point: not so much a single point, but the slow nagging feeling that developed over the last few months that i didn't want the season ticket that i've had for each of the last 23 years anymore because every game i was just looking forward to the final whistle so i could go home again. i realised this season i have fallen out of love with the club that used to mean (almost) everything to me.

The story of our season is not 'no luck in front of goal'.

amen.

lack of quality or lack of adventure would describe our season far more appropriately than lack of luck.

unlucky is a long way down the list.

great result,

dreadful match,

two abysmal sides.

nothin else to say surely?