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.

 

It's got to be worth more in revenue than using it for car parking space, right? We have tons of car parking space, even with bit sold to houses gone.

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

There's no getting away from it : as long as it remains pay on the day for the home fans, we'll have some fans in their end. Oldham everywhere. I love it...

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

asked the rochdale twitter page if we are to be expecting anymore, maybe 500/800 or are we to buy tickets for the sandy lane (rochdale end)... if you don'r ask you don't get!

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

You live in Rochdale, I doubt you'll have any trouble getting one for the home ends if you time it right. Heck buy a posh seat and get to watch a game from the warm box, with little/no bar queue, and a bar that serves more than lager/bitter.

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 decided not to, slagging off the team fine (I have little time for Dale) ... slagging off my home town (I'd rather keep to myself what I think of Oldham) and having to listen to all this crap at the game is something I don't want to do.

 

I simply support a team not a town, as do many others I know.

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.

Nooooooo.......you need an authorisation slip....tut.....naughty harry and naughty disjointed...go and stand in your corner with you hands your head until either:

 

1) you need to set off for the Bristol match tomorrow

2) you need to turn the radio on to find any commentary at 2.30pm tomorrow

 

There could be a strapping involve too, well I'm old skool.I got a strapping once and missed being on cheggars plays pop, but that's another story.....not unless you make monetary compensation to playershare of....wait for it, wait for it.....1p

 

By Jove that's it.....you can't attend a game, donate some dosh to playershare or buy something on easyfundraising.

 

Show your support in another method maybe....just a thought.

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

I think it's fair to say the tone of Barry's letter has been summed up by pretty much everyone in the other thread as an embarrassment, we as fans can do our bit to get people down.

 

Spread the word round your work round your local at school or college about how well we are doing we have not just a team but a squad which is playing the best football for several years and a young visionary manager who can get the best out of them.

 

But remember at the end of the day people should come down only because they want too.

 

^This a thousand times

22 quid is too much to pay for a club like ours. A floating fan is not going to pay that when they could spend that on a few drinks in the pub whilst watching City or United on the tele.

 

£18.00 should be the top price they have to pay, it's only 4 quid less but people would be a lot more receptive to it when they can get change out of a 20. They will still spend that extra bit of cash, just on other things like programme, strike it lucky, maybe a drink.

 

I think the crowds for the next few games are going to be very low, we are playing great football but people aren't going to see it at the current prices.

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.

Hope we actually do take quite a good following to this one - been disappointed with the following in recent years and we haven't lost in the last 3 there!

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

This for me when Boundary Park is rocking

 

The lead singer was in my local the other week

http://youtu.be/yspXuVsDYoo

The test will come as to how we react when the run ends and whether we can pick ourselves up and put together another run..... Tbf runs of 11 unbeaten and now 13 unbeaten suggest we can do that. Saturday is a massive test though....

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

Maybe so but let's be realistic what have Forest, Sheff United, Sheff Weds done in recent years?[/b[

 

The fact them 3 clubs had a few seasons in decline while Chesterfield after coming out of admin had it a bit of glory helped proberly at sametime catch a few floaters or youngsters who saw the 3 clubs mention fall down to

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

 

Possible but I'll reiterate, look at Dale. They have just been promoted and are doing well in this division and their crowds aren't even breaking 3k at times. I don't think the rise of Citeh can be under estimated, historically they would pull in around the mid to high 20's and sell out for the big games, then moved up to the mid 30's breaking 40k for the big games, now it's a sell out every week and at a comparable cost to what we can offer. To the floating fan, even if they don't go to city that often we look like a relative rip off. I can see a number of those who used to support us and city being swept up by titles and cup wins and forgetting about Oldham treading water in L1 for the trillionth season in a row (whether we have made progress or not of late).

 

We, like Rochdale, Bury, Stockport and Macc have found ourselves in a uniquely awkward situation. I think we're coping with it better than the rest down to having a decent manager and a chairman who has his priorities straight as far as the club is concerned (despite our disagreements over player sales). I think the only clubs that can be effectively compared to us are those in Greater Manchester, the rest are apples to oranges.

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.