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

During our 90-91 promotion season, went to Vale Park when we were unbeaten going into the game. Sat in the stand in the first available seats......about row 9 (the first 8 rows were taped off). The gits scored and the home animals tried to climb into our stand....a scene a bit like going over the top of a WW1 trench until this police sergeant ran to the front and beat 7 shades of crap out of the Vale fans. Scary at first but funny when the Vale fans started cursing the copper for not letting them having a go at us and receiving another smack!!!

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.

Probably support the new oldham athletic. Don't feel any connection to any other club. Be nice to go though non-league and help them clubs out.

Ashton United

That is an absolutely massive point.

 

The majority of football "fans" these days set foot in a stadium about 5 times in their life, 2 of these will be guided tours or if they get a "corporate".

 

To actually go and sit in a ramshackle ground rather than watch on a screen is an alien concept. It really is a whole new ball game.

 

Thanks Rupert.

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 shut up shop then eh...

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.

Is there something to congratulate about Saturdays result ?

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.

thats correct and its always been the same

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.

Taken from the FA's website here is the prize money for this seasons FA cup on a round by round basis

 

First Round Proper winners (40) £18,000

Second Round Proper winners (20) £27,000

Third Round Proper winners (32) £67,500

Fourth Round Proper winners (16) £90,000

Fifth Round Proper winners (8) £180,000

Sixth Round Proper winners (4) £360,000

Semi Final winners (2) £900,000

Semi Final runners-up (2) £450,000

Final winners (1) £1,800,000

Final runners-up (1) £900,000

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.

Why do they mess about with things that aint broke .

 

The FA know FA

 

I really struggled at times yesterday to see the ball but on balance it probably helped !!!!!!!

 

Only the football authorities could come up with an autumn coloured ball in the autumn

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.

Exactly, although I would say not being able to afford to go and see the original club is just a disadvantage of supporting a big team and not a reason to set-up another one. What if AFC Liverpool make it to the bigtime? Are they still going to charge everyone £5 (or whatever they charge now) to get in? No one can afford to be a purist in football.

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

yes maybe not in the next 5 or 10 years but in the future. everything goes round in a circle.

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

I must confess (well, anyone who has seen my rants on here of late will already know) that I am utterly flabbergasted by this City thing. I thought - up until the other week - that it was a central tenet in our faith that we hate Man City. Then I find out that apparently nobody does anymore. When did this happen? Last week, last month, last year, 10 years ago? When? Was it not sung every single game for several years that "We only hate Man City" and then little ditty about having the wings of a sparrow and flying over Maine Road etc? Not 10 or 15 people but hundreds shouting their lungs out? And now I see people expressing embarrasment if 10 or 15 people stand up and shout that they hate Man U and Man C. Who are these people? Where did they come from? What happened to football? When did it become so......crap?

I feel like a fundamentalist jihadist who been away for a few years to come back and find his comrades have shaved their beards off, pledged their allegiance to the United States and confess bemusement to my beliefs.

How did this happen? Is it to do with the Chaddy having its heart ripped out when they put seats into it, the club folklore died with it?

I feel absolutely no affinity with the people who own and run the club but that's by the by, the fans make a club after all. But to find out that the fans arent actually the fans I thought they were has utterly bemused me. Have I even been supporting the same club? Have I fallen into a parallel universe were everything seems the same until one day you realise it's all very very wrong? I cant be supporting the same club - I realise now the club I support exists only 15-35 years ago and not in the here and now. I'm a relic of a long gone, and would seem utterly forgotten age.

I need to go away and build a time machine, not to just be in a simpler time where we hated City, they didnt like us and all was good and the Universe was in balance and harmony. No, not that - what I must do is find all of your fathers and stop them ever meeting your mothers. I need to stop this abomination.

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

I saw Billy Urmston in the BP car park a couple of home games ago. He started a conversation with me and was full of praise for what Dickov had achieved so far. He said he was there to watch a couple of players, but said he wasn't going to name them.

Billy Urmson?

The aim would be to buy in the shop, but someone then measure and install so it is 100% right.

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.

He is only worth as much as someone is prepared to pay for him. The case of ourselves and Leeds is very different unfortunately our respective clubs ambitions are somewhat different Leeds may be hoping to be going into the premiership in 12 months time, we could well be in administration again.

 

To be fair we have covered ourselves here by giving him a 5 years contract but if monies tight we may have to take what we can get that unfortunately is how it works.

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.

Latics fans team are playing Hurst Cross FC at Ashton United on Sunday for the Ernie Cooksey Cup. All proceeds to charity.

 

I'm sure that's what you mean

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

B'pool scout was at oldham.

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

O'eer missus.

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

Anyone think Enlglands performances mat Latics last season?

Lack of effort, scared of each other, scared to pass the half way line.

 

Capello.

Rich Mans Dave Penney?

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

Pre Season Training

 

 

Paul Dickov and his coaching staff would like to invite you all to an open training day here at Boundary Park. The date has been set for Friday 23rd July 2010 and will start at 10.30am and admission is FREE!. You would be advised to arrive a little earlier so as not to miss any of the training. It will be a real insight into how Paul and the coaching staff conducts their training sessions. There will also be a chance after the training has finished to get the autographs of your favourite players. More details will follow on the clubs official website as the date draws closer.

 

 

cut and paste from club email

My dad's intervesting. Especially when it's cold.

A lot of vested interest in this thread.

White Line Fever - Lemmy. Sod all this football malarky - that's a cracking read.

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

Pure invention. They only think that more people are on the sick for that reason because people like you always say it. Yet you never come up with any evidence to support your claim. Ludicrous!

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.

Just beaten spurs 2-0. What a great achievement after the season they have had!

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.