Dave_Og

Justr returned from holiday in SA. Mentioned Furman to a few people.. Not oine of them had heard of him or Latics.

You've been on an OASIS minbus with police outriders to get you to a game on time You've begged a ticket from Ian Stott at half time in the 1990 FA Cup semi-final replay after spending six hours on the motorway You've stood on Reading West station with 14 bags of chips You've asked for a vegetarian meal in the box at BP and watched them wash the gravy off the plate

I know the trust's own website was woefully underused but that's gone now and this has become the most significant Latics on line forum. In those circumstances I think the trust directors, if they are going tp come on heee and explain policy, need to do it clearlyu, consistently and, most importantly, in their own names. Reading the various and numeorus threads is becoming like intruding into a personal debate as there are obviously a number of posters who know each other but are not known to all. It is imposssible to be 100% cconsistent by firing off replies to various postings and it is leading to entirely counterproductive deabte

Does anyone from Oldham go?

Isn't the more important question when the antibiotics kicked in?

Well I know I read him say it, on here I think.

There's not a single suggestion on here that hasn't been made again and again over the years. Started wiith SAFE in my direct experience but obviously pre-dates that. Andthere is Barry's answer. And if he woudl like my answer as to why I am no longer a trust member he can refer directly to his statement that he only gives his own views in board meetings. Shameful.

Indeed. While I love my football they have created one hell of a game of RL over the last few years. Very different form my time of watching Phil Larder, Mike Elliott and Frank Foster up at the Sheddings.

Watching? Going? Interested?

There was a very interesting piece with Mark Arber in the Sunday Times last week. Coaches Arsenal U-13s now as well as playing for D&R

It's radical but thought of asking the club?

What sort of company are you a "none -exec" for? A bit worried that you can't spell it!

There won't be any football on at that time so I'd have thought there would be plenty of pubs hat would put it on.

you're confused - that's the watersports cafe

The Sports Cafe - The most horrendous venue in the history of horrendous venues

Well if you don't agree with what the trust is doing then get involved. So many people willing to criticise, so few willing to put some effort in. Same old story.

Likewise. I tried once when it mattered more to me than it does now.

There appear to be a lot of people on here that aren't happy with the direction the club appears to be taking but I'm yet to read a post that says someone is going to do something constructive about it. Is there anyone or is posting messages under pseudonyms the limit of activisim?

It's irrelevant given what happened to Torex afterwards. It wouldn't have been great to have had the Chairmnan arrested

Best Crooks related quote: BBC researcher: Mr Strachan, Garth's on the pitch waiting to interview you Strachan: Tell him to start now and I'll be out before he's finished the question

No he didn't. Much of his money was tied up in Torex and the Serious Fraud Office haven't finished with that yet. If he had been worth (and by worth I mean have available) ten times £45m I suspect he'd have bought a bigger club in the first place. I realised very soon in his reign that it was built on sand and that played a large part in why, frankly, my main emotion this time round is indifference. I'm very sad about that.

Thank God I couldn't make the meeetings - it was all depressing enough anyway!