Tommy_Fent

I know a lot gets said about trying to get the fans in and we have the same debate about why we don't get the crowds like we did 10-15 years ago. But does anyone else think that having a home tie in the 2nd round is a good idea for the club to offer some sort of voucher to allow for priority if we get a big tie in the 3rd round? Or would it not be worth it.

Something like Blyth Spartans away

It isn't cool to be enthusiastic, but without enthusiasm half the things we take for granted probably wouldn't exist.

I noticed Shrewsbury have opened a few 5 a-side pitches next to their ground. I think it would depend if there is a Power League or Goals like complex nearby (not being local I wouldn't know)

It will be interesting to know what percentage of our average home gate comes from outside of Oldham (excluding away fans of course). It's frustrating that home crowds are low but I believe there will be hundreds of different reasons why some fans have stopped going. Any big game is a good opportunity for the club to issue questionnaires with tickets to find out some of the answers.

I hope they've watched a more entertaining game than this Madrid vs Liverpool effort tonight

Seeing as my first away match wasn't until 1997, the best I've been a part of was Liverpool in the cup and Wigan in the League. One of my personal favourites was when we went to Huddersfield in the 2006/07 season as the volume seemed to double the numbers. Out of interest how many did we take to Bolton in the 1994 FA Cup? That looked like a fantastic turnout

I remember getting beat off City in the late 90's and I was Sat in the Lookers which was full of City fans, it was bloody horrible........... Hopefully this will be the opposite of that afternoon

It's a no win situation for Dale. An extra 500 away fans would result in additional policing costs as they would have to split up an end. Yet there'd probably be more chance of it kicking off if there were away fans in the home ends. Like what happened at Bury

Don't clubs normally ask fans for their postcode to stop away fans going in the home ends? I'm not sure how they could stop it this time round

I see where you're coming from, I'd personally consider myself more of a Glossopian or even a Mancunian than I will ever see myself as an Oldhamer. In fact if I'm truly honest I just see Rochdale as another fixture. However I also spent 4 of the happiest years of my life studying and living in Sheffield. No doubt some of my friends I've made there will be in the opposite end on the 22nd and I will probably at some point sing a few derogatory songs about Yorkshire. But after the game we will probably laugh it all off and have a pint after a day out supporting our respective Football teams.

I hate to break this to you but I'm in Malmo when we play Crawley

^This a thousand times

But a lot of other clubs at our level charge more than us and still get better crowds than we do, some in areas just as deprived areas as Oldham (Port Vale, Notts County, Doncaster). The only way ticket prices are going to be lowered is if every club took a stance and charged a flat rate. We've spoke about this in numerous threads over recent weeks and I'll say the same thing. If we asked every fan who no longer goes why they don't anymore I bet we'll get a thousand different answers.

It has been poor, but with Rochdale a week later I can see a few giving this one a miss. Personally I'm more excited about this one than I am for Dale

The lead singer was in my local the other week

http://youtu.be/yspXuVsDYoo

Definitely, that was one thing about us when Dowie was manager was how we bounced back from defeats. The fact we've come into this season on the back of another unbeaten run certainly suggests to me that we have it in us to keep momentum up. As long as there isn't a end of season collapse like we saw in 2008/09 and 2010/11.

I'll be missing this as I'm in Sweden. But reading this thread got me thinking that as much as I'd love to see Latics in the Premier League again. At least we don't have to put up with this every other weekend.

Watching back the goals on the Football League Show and you can clearly see pockets of empty seats in the Chaddy End. I think the crowd was about right personally.

For me it's not necessarily about the unbeaten run. It's the reinstalled belief that we can beat anybody in this League.

There is this assumption by a lot of Football fans that because a team plays long ball they're automatically terrible. But especially at our level it often works, especially with the right players and Bradford are a team with those sort of players. We keep the ball to a decent standard, but we're not Bayern Munich and they will get their chances. These teams have a knack of winning a game despite being dominated, therefore it is vital that we're as clinical as we were on Tuesday.

Before my time, but I'm sure someone posted some pictures on here

Exactly, what have they done? Yet they still average crowds clubs like us and Chesterfield could only dream of

The home crowds debate is one which comes up a lot. But the only people who can answer the question why we don't get crowds like we used to are those who have stopped going for the last 10 years or so. Even then I bet you'll get hundreds of different answers. I just think that as a club we have potentially a bigger fanbase than what some others on here may believe. Also the recent success at clubs like Chesterfield and Rotherham doesn't nessesarily mean that it can't happen to someone like ourselves one day. I'd rather we were compared to those clubs than the likes of Bury and Rochdale.