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After the last meeting it was said that the plans for the new stadium should be available in January. I think the same company that designed the new BP is designing the new ground at Failsworth so I think it'll be pretty similar to what was designed there and won't need much time to alter for the new site. Everyone liked that design didn't they?
The stadium will be pretty much like other stadiums because there isn't much uniqueness you can bring into a stadium, the new BP wasn't going to be unique. You can make a stadium feel like home though and I think that's what we should be trying to do.
A stadium should have great facilities and good views, it's upto the club and it's fans to make it feel like home.
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also on the stadium debate, i think away fans should be shoved in a corner like leeds and cardiff do to away fans instead of giving them an end??
anyone else think this??
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I could write about anything smartarse!
Just my opinion, signing Hughes was a PR disater, as were his well documented antics off the pitch that many on here know about and I'm not talking about the dogs incident. Hughes is a scumbag, goalscorer or not I and many others are glad he's no longer here. Why the :censored: Barry sees fit to post this bollocks when there's far more pressing issues he could be commenting on that peole actually give a :censored: about.
What next, we catch up for a chat with Chris Porter? Chris Makin? Kevin Moore perhaps? Oh and the club wanted rid of Hughes from the the end of November last year - no matter what Bazza says, if he could have been offloaded in January he would have been sold - only person who stopped that was Hughes himself, looking after number one.
Marlon King next?
what is your problem??? only a ex player asking how people are, if you dont like the guy that much why even bother posting???
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think someone needs to tell him he can make more than one phone call a week now
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nothing wrong with the football. Its the best. l have seen in a while. Just hope that we can get a decent crowd against tranmere.
if they reduce the tickets to £10/15 they will not at £20 tho, cant wait for this match along with county away if it goes ahead and tranmere away only because there on saturdays
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Jesus, here we go again......
Jesus, here we go again...... hes right tho..
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great player, shame we didnt have a decent song for him
o we did eyrese eyrese... wonder who made that one up??
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Sign him up!
To think we were pretty much begging him to sign that lucrative deal in January, but come the end of the season we wouldn't even offer him an extension deal to the terms he was already on, despite him netting 18 times for us.
Abbott and Hughes could have worked well up front.
abbott and hughes would have worked well upfront.
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I'm not his biggest fan but I would give him a run in the team along side Heff and drop Smalley to one of the wings.
what about are superstar colbeck, where would he fit in oh and whitts...
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Yes, they want to keep O'Grady, but I think they would rather keep Dagnall if it came down to one or the other.
I think £30/40,000 would be the very most we could expect from his sale, with Rochdale sitting well clear at the top of the table their board should be fighting tooth and nail to keep them both but Rochdale have always been a selling club and even with their current league position their crowds have not really increased very much!
sounds like oldham this when we had wellens & porter, the TTA should of put money in when we were sat at the top but no was the answer
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Have they invited the California Girls?
no they cant make it cause there injured
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safe trip up, bring some food and a flask, we often run out of stock
Oh and wrap up warm
ahh thats the reason why we are moving... get in
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will there be a new training facilities at the new site???
also, nice new fresh stadium better facilities attracts better players better product on the pitch attracts the fans back is this possible??? i think it is... cmon oldham
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It woud be great to get the home areas full, but I just don't see it happening!
I think 7000 will be nearer the mark which if correct will really set the alarm bells ringing in the board room!!!
I think the entertainment level is just as important as the cost and the way we have been performing lately it could be even less!
Is the away section subject to the cut price offer?
i wouldnt make it cut for them, leicester spring to mind anyone
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Attendance on sat , how many will be there.
someone will prob divert you some where else
but ill have a guess of a very poor 7421
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whats the offer for ST holders????? prob nothing
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if only we could invent some sort of program that would de frost windscreens
someone from are IT depo has just said "oh i didnt know that you have to put oil in"
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New stadium is Latics only chance to bring back the good times
As the media hacks tunnelled their way through Boundary Park's main stand to the gym area which doubles as a post-match briefing room at the weekend, noses were sent twitching by what seemed to be an application of fresh paint in some unspecified area.
Either that or Athletic press officer Roy Butterworth had been buying cheap aftershave from the market again.
Top marks to the Athletic staff who battle to try to keep the old place respectable through sweeping, dusting, polishing and painting.
Home is home. It doesn't hurt to take some pride in it.
At the same time, nobody needs the skills of a forensic detective to work out that Boundary Park is very, very tired indeed these days.
It remains rich in memories, but so poor in terms of the basic comforts football folk have come to expect in the modern era.
Former Athletic defender Paul Futcher was back and knocking around the press box before the Colchester match.
"This place has hardly changed in 30 years," he said, pertinently.
Disappointing recent home crowds, including the awful 3,607 figure present last week, indicate that the crumbling state of Boundary Park is a factor in keeping people away.
A ground badly lacking in elementary facilities isn't much of a pull and it can't help the team's fortunes, either.
Two home wins since February show that Athletic don't prosper at their partly-demolished home, while visitors love the place. As one wag pointed out on the Chronicle Comments section of our website: “No successful fortress in history has had only three sides”.
It is abundantly clear that for the club to survive and succeed in the future, Athletic need to cut the current Boundary Park loose as soon as possible . . . which makes it so important that the owners' plans to relocate to Failsworth are backed by the fans.
There are plenty of objectors, just as there are plenty of people who thought that John and Edward were a good turn on the X-Factor.
Wrong bit of Oldham? That's one you hear a lot, particularly from those who live within walking distance of the current ground.
It may be closer to Manchester than Boundary Park, but that should make it easier to attract new fans from different areas of town.
Too small? Let's walk before we run, eh?
A 12,000 capacity is absolutely fine for a club of Athletic's present size. There is little worth in fans rattling around some gigantic sarcophagus and current crowds aren't anywhere near such a mark.
Why not stay and redevelop the current ground? Well, that ship appears to have sailed.
The owners have decided that in the current climate the original plans simply aren't viable.
Some will wish it were another way, just as I wish I were blessed with Leo Messi's ball skills and Brad Pitt's looks.
What about the residents? They are entitled to voice concerns, though in fairness it would probably help the image of FRAG (Failsworth Residents’ Action Group) if they held fire on objections until the plans are revealed, so that they knew exactly what it is they are objecting to.
Nothing is set in stone, but it doesn't hurt to look at the glass being half full rather than half empty over the £20million development.
Oldhamers often seem conditioned to be negative.
Athletic's owners are clearly optimists — otherwise, why invest in a dream by buying a League One club in the first place — and seem to be committed to driving forward a new, exciting stadium project which will hopefully benefit Oldham as a whole.
Similar stadium ideas have borne fruit and worked a treat for both club and, in a wider sense, town, in a host of other places around the country. Why not here?
Surely it can’t be coincidence . . .
NINE professional clubs have moved into new grounds while playing in the Football League this century and all but one — Colchester United — have experienced a consequent immediate rise in attendances.
Average attendances, old and new
Cardiff City — Ninian Park, 2008-09 (Championship): 18,044; Cardiff City Stadium, 2009-10 so far (Championship): 21,056.
Relocation distance: 0.6 miles
Increase: 16.7-per-cent
Colchester United — Layer Road, 2007-08 (Championship): 5,509; Weston Homes Community Stadium, 2008-09 (League One): 5,084.
Relocation distance: 6.7 miles
Fall: 7.7-per-cent
Coventry City — Highfield Road, 2004-05 (Championship): 16,048; Ricoh Arena, 2005-06 (Championship): 21,302.
Relocation distance: 3 miles
Increase: 31.1-per-cent
Darlington — Feethams, 2002-03 (League Two): 3,312; Darlington Arena, 2003-04 (League Two): 5,023.
Relocation distance: 1.1 miles
Increase: 51.7-per-cent
Doncaster Rovers * — Belle Vue, 2005-06 (League One): 6,139; Keepmoat Stadium, 2006-07 (League One): 7,746.
Relocation distance: 2.9 miles
Increase: 26.2-per-cent
Hull City ** — Boothferry Park, 2002-03 (League Two): 12,843; KC Stadium, 2003-04 (League Two): 16,847.
Relocation distance: 2 miles
Increase: 31.2-per-cent
Leicester City *** — Filbert Street, 2001-02 (Premier League): 19,835; Walkers Stadium, 2002-03 (Championship): 29,219.
Relocation distance: 0.1 miles
Increase: 47.3-per-cent
Shrewsbury Town — Gay Meadow, 2006-07 (League Two): 4,730; Prostar Stadium, 2007-08 (League Two): 5,659.
Relocation distance: 1.8 miles
Increase: 19.6-per-cent
Swansea City — Vetch Field, 2004-05 (League Two): 8,458; Liberty Stadium, 2005-06 (League One): 14,112.
Relocation distance: 3.1 miles
Increase: 66.8-per-cent
* Doncaster moved to the Keepmoat in the latter half of the 2006-07 season.
** Hull City moved to the KC Stadium halfway through the 2002-03 season.
*** Leicester played their first game of the 2002-03 season at Filbert Street.
MK DONS are counted as a new club and therefore not included in the comparison.
Current League One club Southampton opened their new St Mary's stadium in the Premier League and are also therefore left out, while Burton Albion did so while in the Conference and are also excluded.
cant wait to walk
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at least he comes off his line tho
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Not by me silly boy he did it last season when he got frustrated in the play offs, by him
ahhhhh ill just shut up then
anyway was it DP whos highjacked heffs off us in the 1st place????
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sold 4K and rising so I've heard like last time
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Hope no one boos him or they'll end up getting head butted.....
im gonna booooooooooooooooooo him... lets see how hard you are
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his football is crap......
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there will be more at norwich than charlton, so i wouldnt say die hards
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