Luis Enrique

did they do this? they do this every damn game when reading out the home line up. we know we're sh*t, we don't need our own PA pointing it out to everyone, to absolutely no discernible effect! hopefully the new broom will sweep this away...

and please, no more 'come on chaddy end, you're too quiet.' yeah we know it. but telling us off isn't going to help. it's just embarrassing.

dave, I could not agree more. of all the many things wrong at the club, the loan system is the one that does the most damage to my affinity with the team. I'm sure there are fans up & down the country that feel the same way. I often feel I know some of the opposition players better than I know my own team. it's killing the game & the experience for me. the idea of oldham becoming a club that takes risks & is prepared to try something different to the rest of the pack (whether this or something else) makes them instantly more interesting.

I've had a ST for more than 20 years. undecided at the moment. I have literally dreaded having to go this season. a feeling I've never experienced before no matter how poor it's been in the past. the ground is now a joke, the 'atmosphere' non existent, the football from Oldham (& just about every other team I've seen) frankly pathetic. crucially for me, my friends & family have now drifted away from it & I go in my own. it's become a painful, tedious experience. I have taken no joy from this season at all. I feel no affinity whatsoever for this group of loanees & journeymen. they are indistinguishable from the opposition.

clear out the dead wood? that leaves us with sean gregan next season. I suspect he's tired of being a one man team, never mind making it official next season.

i was born in chadderton and spent the first few years of my life there but since then i've grown up and lived in manchester and probably always will. there's never been any question about supporting oldham as all my family do / did and that's where i am originally from. but i've spent far more of my life now living in manchester than in oldham and as far as i'm concerned i'm a manc and i'm an oldham fan. manchester is a fantastic city that i love and am tremendously proud of. it has one football club i hate with a passion and another that i'm happy to see succeed, except when they are in our division. i've never owned a gun though. this thread is fascinating, keep it going haters!

Hi Barry, whilst I can understand your view as a Director of the club, surely there are some legitimate concerns raised here, amongst some of the more hysterical points, that, as the fans representative, you could &, I would argue, should be addressing. for example: fearing that a move to failsworth may be the death of the club doesn't make me an enemy of the team or the owners. it's legitamate concern. having a director tell us pretty much to just shut up, never mind the director who only exists to represent the fans, is pretty hard to stomach. people are just genuinely concerned that the club they love is dying. you know a great deal more than we do. we are bound to have opinions about this & are right to ask questions & get answers.

ha! I've done 3 55+ hour weeks in a row. I deserved a day off today!

I got my first season ticket in '88 & have had one every season since. today is the first time in all that time that I didn't attend a home match through choice. it's staggering to see the state of the club off the field today, and also how that is reflected in the shocking lack of footballing ambition shown by the manager & his players. on Wednesday I worked a 13 hour day, raced up from London for the match & was rewarded with a performance that showed a lot less effort & ambition than I had showed in getting there. just couldn't face it today. I'm not proud of this in any way at all, merely stating a fact. whether we go down or not this season I genuinely fear for the future of this once proud club.

a foul is a foul, regardless of where the ball is, unfortunately.

not going on saturday

I've kept my trap shut til now but I am right on the brink with this lot now. that was the most depressing spectacle I can ever remember. & I've barely missed a home game since '85. why should I tip up at this 3 sided dump to watch a team of players I don't know, in the bottom 4 of the league, settle from the kick off for 0-0 at home, with just a handful of other desparing, miserable fans? seriously, I'm struggling to see the point right now.

at the risk of getting boring, can't look beyond marshall's daisy cutter against notts county (everyone says 92? i can't remember.) an absolute rocket. the rick holden overhead kick at newcastle (in 88? 89?) is also an incredible goal, shame more people didn't see it. i'm fillin up...

even if this game was free for everyone, i wonder how many people would turn up?

amen

feel sorry for shez and will certainly remember him as a great servant of the club. i genuinely think that the recent poor results would have been tolerated at least until the end of the season. the reason shez is gone now is that the board's concerns off the field rather than on the field have just become too great. you can get away with that stuff to some extent when you're winning, but once results dip too you're dead in the water. these concerns have been around for a long time. once you've decided enough is enough and you feel the manager is not the right man, really what is the point waiting? there's no sentiment in football these days. and i guess it's hard to take sentiment into account when you're pumping your own cash into the club to keep it going every week... 9 more matches must feel like a lifetime to the owners in that sense, even if it doesn't to us. all the best shez.

i missed scott mcgarvey's goal against brighton in the fa cup in 1990. i was gaspin for a pee & couldn't wait any longer. i was back in time for the winner though

i would imagine shez is more than happy to have a job at all and is not being coveted by any club in a better situation than ours. can't imagine him jacking it in for a second.

hmmm i'm tempted to bite but no, not worth it

you are doing this purely as a wind up aren't you? please tell me you are.

ricketts was the best player on the pitch in the first half by an absolute mile. in the second half i can't remember one decent ball played anywhere near him. the reaction of some of the crowd at the end to his being named star man was just embarrassing.

i can't believe what i'm reading in this thread this morning! was ricketts excellent last night? of course not, but i genuinely thought he was one of our three best players on the night. the guy got zero service and zero support from his strike 'partner' but won his headers, showed great control and some decent passing too. would surely have scored in the second half too from our one decent cross of the night had he not been shoved in the back and under the ball.

afraid so stipey. it's been ages, but for some reason it just feels like time to get back to the good ol' days

Name? heg Location? manchester How Long Supporting the Tics? 22 years Best away match you've been to? sheffield wednesday, 1990 All Time Greatest Player? roger palmer Biggest Rivals (in your eyes)? manu