Loftyboy

uote name='SholverBlue' date='Dec 5 2010, 23:34 PM' post='450150'] Should cheer everybody up! Thanks, I know the guy on the right used to manage us..who's the ugly one on the left?. Seriously though, what a very tedious thread

Bit off topic but the big time FCUM away following have just had a nightmare watching their team get beat for the second time this season at Ashton United........ I absolutely loved it.

Ashton United

Stockport County are offering free tickets to pupils at my boy's school in Ashton. It's free for an adult and child for their forthcoming game against Torquay, great incentive and we will be attending purely beacause it is a game of football for free. My point is that we won't follow up and return, because even if we weren't Latics fans, the normal prices at Stockport are too expensive for a *nothing better to do on a Saturday" visit. I also never thought I would ever have to think about whether the price would effect me attending a Oldham/ Huddersfield game, sign of the times I'm afraid.

Might as well field a full strength team in a game that can earn more money in 90 minutes that a shop in a few weeks.

It will take a while for the shop to turn over the amount of money a couple of wins in the FA Cup would have made.

Seem to remember in the mid 1980s under Joe Royle, Latics played the offside trap as much as possible (Moore and Linighan) centre halves regularly played opponents offside from a goalkeepers kick, but not from a dead ball goal kick. Anyway the goalies probably couldn't kick it that far over the half way line in those days from a goal kick with the heavier footballs.

How many bucketfuls of coins or extra ticket sales would you need to make up for a not winning at Accrington?. Given the current state of affairs, the Accrington game was a financial priority.

I suppose the ball manufacturers will sell a load of replicas and the FA get a cut. Unbelievable that they have gone ahead with this, surely it would have been tested for visibility under lights and on television and deemed unsuitable. A load of balls.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching my local team Ashton United beat FCUM earlier this season. Ashton fans outnumbered about ten to one in the crowd of 1069 They didn't have a reason to invade the pitch. Ha Ha

I admire your optimism, next you'll be saying England can win the World Cup

I think some of it stems from the fact that Utd and City are so far ahead of us now and the rivalry is going, whereas at one time going back decades we always had a chance of keeping up with them. Does anyone honestly believe we will ever be on a par with them again. Negative..maybe?, Realistic....certainly

Billy Urmson?

Bit late now, but you should have made some last season to hang from the roofs of the stands, to be closed once the game started.

Spot on and so it then becomes a judgement call from the owners and probably the bank and team manager as to what offer, if any they should accept.

Thanks, but I presume all tickets will have been snapped up by now, may try and get one off a tout in the Hare and Hounds.

Is there a Latics team playing at Ashton this week?, I ask this as there also seems to be a game at Rhyl. Thanks

Saw Alan Stubbs at the game, I think he is now on the coaching staff at Everton.

If Raoul Moat wore a stripy jumper and thick glasses he'd be a lot more fun to try and find

Just thinking the same thing, the players do seem to be playing strictly to the system with a fear of making individual decisions.

I'll be there, are they providing the training kit or do you have to bring your own? I will of course bring my own boots and shinpads.

A lot of vested interest in this thread.

Slightly off topic, but a great book for cricket lovers and if I remember right it's called Fatty Batter,an excellant read.

On a side note, my sat nav took me through Tulse Hill (I didn't realise the place existed) after a journey from the M1 across the smoke and over the river on my way to Bromley. I would certainly be "on the sick" if I had to make that journey each day.

Think about the ethics, Pompey reaching the Final sends out so many wrong messages. however it also highlights what is wrong with football today. Personally I hope Chelsea put on a show and hammer em.