rudemedic

Ooh nice one i might use that next year but is a bit late for this year as i've a season ticket. Cheers good to know.

Is that a new thing for this year because it is the first i heard about it, and does it apply to only the chaddy end? Why should students have to pay £13 to get in cheaper when those between 16 and 19 and working full time get in cheaper anyway, another example of how unfair supporting Latics can be

Sorry Diego, I'm not about to join your campaign as its not me who has now got his bus pass, i'm much more interested in getting a student discount. But you got the point of my post in that life isn't fair and people will always get benefit for the sake of others. Some pensioners make a lot of money (much more than the average wage) but they get the benefits of being over 65/60 still. We are all Oldham fans and some are more hardcore than others (going to committe meetings, travelling about 200 miles to go to a home game etc.) and we all want to club to do well but to say someone is deliberately cheating the club out of money for getting a NSM lower seat and the getting an upgrade is wrong. However, deliberately getting a cheap NSM ticket to get upgraded into the chaddy (or whereever) is wrong as opposed to getting it because you prefer getting wet or more likely its what your budget can afford.

I've got one of the best seats in the ground (NSM upper, front row, on halfway) and the reason i've still got that seat this season is because my Dad wanted to stay in the NSM in order to get first dibs on season tickets for the new stand. I like new initiatives which try to bring more money into the club such as the £1 games last season but it seems that season ticket holders get the bum end of the deal for these initatives without being compensated (I personally don't want much a free programme or 10% off in the shop for that day but it'd have been nice to have had soemthing). This year and last both my Dad and I didn't go to enough games to make a season ticket worthwhile but yet we still paid for one. However when we brought our Doncaster tickets for the cup we both got in for concession prices my Dad recently got his bus pass so doncaster see him as an OAP (unlike Oldham) and I'm a student so i get in cheap as well (unlike Oldham where if you are in full-time employment and earning whatever money you can you get in cheap if you are under 19, but us students who are older- i'm 23 and on a course which has lasted a lot longer than 3 years- can't). This is something which i think the club could fix. There are lots of things the club could do to make it fairer for someone but not for others (for example ticket prices could go up elsewhere as a result) and if people see loopholes and use them then that's fine by me i'd personally not do it because i'd have to live with a dishonest decision on my conscious and been a strong supporter of this club i'd rather not cheat them out of money. People will moan about it all the time but that is the way of life, but to have a go at people for some loophole when you may get benefit elsewhere is wrong. Oh and btw i got soaked as well on saturday (albeit not as bad as others) but that's the price i pay for being on the front row.

To the tune of 'Deliah' (semi-intentionally celebrating his welsh roots) "Neil, Neil, Neil Eardley" and then like the weetabix advert: "He only hates Man United" Plus I hope someone had the bright spark of checking his heart out fully as we don't want a repeat of Marc-Vivien Foe or Asa Hartford

Neil Redfern Gunnar Halle (who is and probably will always be our most capped player, whilst at the club) John Sheridan Tommy Wright Andy Holden Paul Warhurst Andy Barlow

Exactly Diego, its not hard to get basic facts right about a football game. I mean i know the Wolf is small (and a few players would have volleyed that ball) but its obvious it went in of his head. Plus that report says it was his first league goal for Oldham, does the goal he got at Blackpool in the play-offs not count then (as it wasn't a cup game). EDIT: Actually maybe it is harder to get a match report out than i give people credit for given my penchant for using the edit facility

Entirely agree it was obvious that Crossley got there first and his clearance just hit the blonde 'my boyfriend does my hair' wa***r. How come people who are supposed to report on these games get the facts so wrong (even if someone just wrote the guy's script- then it was that person's fault). The BBC are just as bad with their text reports of games, for example they said that Kilkenny scored from 8 yards, which he blatantly didn't. How hard can it be to sit at a game and write 250 words about what just happened?

Personally i think it depends on the child but as a rough guide if they go to school they can stand behaving for 45 mins to go to Latics. I know i went to Latics just after i started school and was OK but my dad took my older brother when he was a bit younger than that and he ended up getting lost going to the toilet (my dad had already taken him once and it wasn't that far away) anyway he ended up sitting next to one Mr. Stott until my dad found him. Having said that my brother doesn't really care for football (he's a bit of an armchair fan) and he has been caught reading a magazine on MOTD when Oldham scored. If i was taking my child to their first Latics game i'd sit in either paddock in the corner (with the exception of the Lookers and the RRE) as these areas don't tend to be all that full with people complaining about your child moaning. Or I'd try the Lookers upper again in either corner for the same reason. Having said that i don't think any true Latic should moan at someone taking their child to a game when they are that age as the alternative often becomes them supporting a 'glory team' which is a sin.

Exactly there are enough mediums for the club to advertise with but yet they 'insist' on only using the Chron and occassionally the MEN; they work but there is a saturation point where all the extra people who would come already know about it. It is not all that expensive and with the prices being charged it shouldn't be too hard to recuperate the cost.

Nothing makes the people of Bury etc more likely to get tickets than those from Oldham, however my point was that if the club were really serious about promoting this game as being all-ticket and a sell-out then they shouldn't rely on only advertising in the Chron they should use other local papers and papers for places where some people who wouldn't normally go to Oldham but don't like Leeds live. How much is an advert in something like the Bury Times if its something like a £100 then we would only have to sell 5 extra tickets to recuperate the cost. Marketing for a Leeds game in the Greater Manchester region is NOT rocket science. I mean all it could take is someone sending a text to the chris Moyles show bad mouthing Leeds and saying we are going to take them apart and if he reads it out there's a whole bunch of nearly free advertsing right there. Sometimes i think the club couldn't sell a piss up in a brewery. As for the crowd we took to Leeds so what we quite often take that many to local away games e.g. the 3000 we took to Huddersfield, most of those people who went to Leeds would have gone no matter what day it was. However, it is a lot easier to get extra people to go to a game if it is on a Saturday.

The only thing the Chron is good for is telling you about the Latics, and that's only because its only place they ever put anything. It is chuffing hard to get hold of if you live outside Oldham (and why would you want to if you aren't a Latic). There are much better local papers if the apathetic of Oldham don't want to go why not try the Bury, Rochdale, Heywood, Middleton, Stockport, or even Botlon, Huddersfield and Bradford local papers never mind the 'fabulous' paper that is the Manchester evening news. I'm sure that there are enough people who hate Leeds enough to go watch them hopefully get beat at Boundary park. The other thing is i'd like to thank the FA for giving us the leeds home game on a tuesday as opposed to a Saturday which no matter what you say will lower the attendance.

Singing at Oldham is dependent on many things. Mainly how well we are playing, what the song/chant is (and its timing), where you are and the opposition. As an upper lookersite i would sing but i'm not going to sing on my own (especailly as i sit on the front row on the halfway line and i'm very easy to spot), however i find that if we are playing well and its a good chant the lookers does actually make some noise now and then. But there occassions that i'm very much aware that although i'm fit and healthy the people behind me aren't always so and although i want to sing they may not like it (which creates a problem). When i sat in the chaddy i sang a bit more because i was near people who tired to sing (and no they weren't near the 'muppet' choir) and would join in with them especially as they deliberately avoided any offensive songs. However at the moment Oldham aren't playing very well and although this means the fans could sing to motivate them it doesn't happen. Especially if there is something else to stop it such as moaning at the ref. Plus who were we playing, Southend, who are not exactly our biggest rivals and although they have an ex-Latic playing for them he was neither love when he was here nor was he hated when he left (unlike say Luke Beckett). I think if we had been playing any team who we could class as rivals or have a big away following the atmosphere would have been different.

Very fair point and even with my young person's its still more expensive than driving myself and the train times are actually slightly worse than that

That's not a bad idea at all although i'm quite tempted to go to Walsall by train (or via my parents in Heywood) and i may have to work when its the Cheltenham game.

As a new member who is a resident of Durham i'd thought i'd better add my name to this list. Shared transport, especially for the away games, seems like a good idea even if its a case of meeting up for a particular train.

I think the problem with the drum is either the drummer himself (not as a person but his skills) or the fact that he uses an inappropiate drum. Often he drowns out any singing, doesn't get the right rythm and has a very limited repetoir. Drums at football can be quite good (there's a Spanish drummer who is very good) and can make certain chants better but bad drums need to be stopped. As a member of the Lookers Upper I don't havent too much of a problem with the drum at home games but if possible i wouldn't sit anywhere near him at away games.

IMHiO, Sean gregan is not and has never been a centre-half (in a back four anyway). I know he may play there for Oldham but IMHO he is a defensive midfield player and we should try and play him there if possible (its where he made his name at Preston). He could play as the spare man in a back 3 but i don't think that works very well (see Crewe last season). He is the best passer we have in the team and playing him ten yards further up the pitch means he can play killer balls for Davies and Hughes to run on to. OK he might not be able to run for 90 minutes in midfield but how much running did shez do in his time, if you play him with someone who can run all day it probably won't matter. He is simply not quick enough to play centre-half at this level where a majority of the strikers have a lot more pace than him. This has been our problem this season that Thompson seems slower than Haining (not that Haining was particularly quick) and enough teams have a player that little bit quicker than Thompson (plus a player quicker than Gregan). Plus what i've seen of Trotman he looks reasonable and Stam might play this season if he stops spending all that time injured, so we have 3 other centre halves. However, of our central midfielders only Kilkenny looks close to Wellens, McDonald has been poor ever since he conceeded that goal at Carlisle, I've not been impressed with Kalala, Allot is Allot so i think it'd be best if Gregan was played in midfield as its a matter of strength in depth at key positions, especially with kilkenny out for another 5 weeks.

Name? Rudemedic (although my real name is Ben) Location? Durham (though i'm originally from Heywood) How Long Supporting the Tics? 19 years this month Best away match you've been to? beating Chelsea 1-0 in the premiership in Oct 93 All Time Greatest Player? Nick Henry Biggest Rivals (in your eyes)? Wigan