Harry Dowds Green Shirt

There are 2 replays televised see link for the details and the payments due http://savethemightyimps.wordpress.com/tag/fa-cup-live-tv-money-for-201213/ There are only 3 possiblilities Everton V us, Reading v United and Chelsea V Middlesboro. If The redsox v reading game produces a result tomrrow then we are definatley on tv with another £106K in the pot

Officially yes but it would be much appreciated if you could collect as early as possible so that staff can watch the start of the game (for a change)

From 11.00 am (ish)

http://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/news/article/20130212-tickets-652417.aspx

Just get yourself down there with your voucher and tell them what you want. There was a thread on here the other day linking to an Everton website encouraging Everton fans to buy tickets when they go on sale at BP. Most said the club should do something about it. They have. Most fans know someone with a season ticket or voucher . Take some ID with an Oldham address (don't put on your best scouse accent though ) chances are you'll get something sorted. It's called common sense. There are less tickets available than there were at this stage for the Liverpool game. The club are obviously acting on intelligence and are taking all reasonable precautions to avoid trouble. Help the club to help you and you will probably be ok. Hope that helps.

Thanks and done

Yes but the idiots that were throwing coins have now cost the club a few thousand pounds as the police require more stewards AND OFFICERS to be present. I hope that all those going in the RRE for this game behave themselves this time. Also if you see anyone throwing missiles point it out to a steward or police officer. It is for your long term benefit in being able to continue to enjoy the RRE for these big games. Especially the quarter final.

No no no and no again. Was only here 18 months hardly time to "know" the club. Took Halifax down to the conference. He is also more than happy doiung what he is. Had a spell as caretaker but thats all. Definatley not what we need at this time IMHO

The only criteria for a new manager is "who can keep us up this season." Plenty of names have been mentioned already, Adkins, Grayson, Brown, Reid, Dowie, Davies along with heros from the past. At least 2 of the above have the balls to give this group of players the belief and direction to move us up the league to a position of safety. I would approach them on the basis that it is only until the end of the season, which then gives us time to plan properly for next year. Whoever comes in has a maximum of 16 games to keep us up 9 at BP and 7 away. All those home games are cup ties now. We need to make BP a fortress and pick up our points here so that anything away becomes a bonus and not a necessity. I know the sort of manager we need and want it's just a case of can they be persueded to come here now. It should be a no brainer for most of them if they have ambitions to manage again. For them it's a no lose situation. Team in freefall and they keep us up is good on their cv, plum 5th round FA cup game live on TV gives them media exposure and a chance to show what they can do. Fingers crossed time.

Sorry but this is mostly nonsense. There is an update on the OS yesterday regarding the injury position for Changy, Smith & Simpson. You just need to look and read it. Secondly, crowds are down by around 1,000 a game on last season and that equates to around £250K over the course of the season. On top of this, the club budgeted a loss for the season. This so called wad of cash that has come in will help the club pay a good chunk of the bills and the board on the back of the additional income have given PD the money to bring in the 4 additional signings this week. As for £1 million from the cup run, lets look at the facts. Prize Money to date £200K 45% share of net gate receipts v Forest/Liverpool/Everton £200K TV appearance money V Liverpool/Everton £368K So roughly £750K before things like the (deserved) bonuses to the palyers and manager and his staff Less £250k to cover reduced gates, less the budgeted loss, less the extra money for the 4 players this week. The reality is we will have very little in the pot and probably not even enough to cover the £25K required to replace the gutters to the 3 stands were were pissing the rain out during the match on Sunday. However, if we beat Everton, I will gladly accept the points you make

We've had this debate on here before. The slope pre plastic was 6" it was halved when the plastic went down and has remained at 3" when the grass went back down

http://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/news/article/20130129-murray-625666.aspx

Fantastic effort by everyone there today. The dome had to be deflated yesterday as it will not stay up with the weight of snow. It is being re-inflated tonight once the snow is cleared off the pitch. The groundstaff will be there till late tonight so anyone who can still help will be warmly welcomed. The chances are that volunteers will be asked for in the morning for a couple of hours or so to carry out the final bits of snowclearing to the concourses and outside turnstiles etc. Most of this had been done this morning but the focus turned to the pitch after dinner time as people basically became knackered/sore backs etc Having checked the forcast yesterday, the club arranged for plant and gritters to clear the car parks this today. The pitch seems in remarkable condition under the covers and with the forcast tonight for rain and the dome in place I don't see the match being in doubt. Please keep checking the official site and the facebook and twitter feeds for a call to arms in the morning to finish the remaining work. Once again brilliant effort form all concerned today. Spoke to SC late this afternoon and he was both delighted and amazed at the response.

Of the subs and excluding the goalkeeper our most experienced player(and a midfield player at that) and the one who has played scored more than the other subs put together didn't get on the field today. Why?

I have to say that I would prefer to keep the youth setup. BUT If we are going to do that then we need a manager that is going to buy into that policy and that man is not Paul Dickov. Our current manager has no interest in our young players preferring instead to give experience to premiership teams youngsters for them to benefit. So if we are to keep the youth setup (which as I say is my preference) then the current manager needs to be told that he has to play the youngsters we bring through rather than bring others in. If he won't and we want to keep the youth policy then we have to change the manager. It's the same discussion that led to Warnock leaving us.

No we definately only get 45%. Checked it on Monday

Wow. Open your mouth before you know the full facts why don't you. I'll let Leeslover post the update once he has spoken to Neil Joy this morning. As for the facts, well lets set them out nice and clear so that those who just throw out the thick and in some cases sick comments on here can get their heads around matters. 1) This is an FA cup tie so there are a specific set of rules. 2) After deduction of VAT and match expenses (Police, stewarding, turnstiles etc etc) both clubs receive 45% of the match ticket proceeds with 10% going to the FA pool. 3) In terms of complimentary (free) tickets both participating clubs are restricted to only 50 complimentary tickets. On top of this, the FA in their competition rules also dictate what the organising club have to make available to the FA and their sponsors. In this case the likes of Budweiser are I believe entitled to 50 tickets. ALL other tickets have to be declared and accounted for. So any additional tickets that the club makes available the club has to account a gross £25 to the match return to the FA. By my calculations that means it costs the club 55% to Liverpool and the FA pool of every additional ticket it gives away. Take off the vat and 55% is £11.45 for every ticket it gives away. The club would also lose the £9.37 per ticket if it had been sold so costing the club over £20 per ticket. When you have an all ticket sell out it isn't just as easy as playing everything as any normal match there are specific rules to comply with. Having had the priviledge of doing the job I do on match (and other) days now for nearly 38 years I've got to know most of the requirements and complications. There is no easy answer that is going to satisfy everyone. I work on a voluntary basis yet whenever we have had an all ticket game like this and the City game and even the Wolves replay when Shez was manager I have had to pay for my reserved seat. No complaints from me. I know the rules. I want to go to the game I pay for entry full stop end of chat those are the rules. I'll be there though this Saturday 9am till 7pm and Sunday 10 am till 2pm doing my bit for the club, helping to ensure it's supporters get their cup tickets, trying to keep a smile on the face when all an sundry (well not that many actually but some) on the other side of the window are throwing out some insult or other. :censored: happens you get on with it. For league and other cup ties, it is easier for the club. But when you are sold out you are sold out and those tickets have to be accounted for to the FA and boy are you in trouble if you don't. The fines they dish out are horrendous to a club like us if we fail to submit a correct return. As for those who work on match days I don't know everyones employment status in terms of paid/commission/voluntary, but from what I do know, turnstile operators and stewards are paid a fee. Turnstiles to work from and to a certain time. I think we have around 23 turnstiles and I know that there are a number who don't stay to watch the game they go home. The point is they get paid to do the job, if they sneak in to watch the game when they have finnished and they are allowed to and there are spare seats then fair play. If it's an all ticket league game and it's sold out, if they haven't made arrangements and got a ticket they now have to leave the ground (the reprecussions of celebration Sunday when the club had to answer to the licensing authority as to why there was standing in the sterile area of the paddock) So FMS I won't resort to the further insult and baiting of your post, I'll just try and answer in a reasoned way. The problem is some people would rather come on here and winge and moan and complain (I suppose thats what internet message boards are generally ised for) than actually do something direct like approaching the club, seeking clarification and hearing their side of the matter. You see it's easier to do that than try and sort something out for some people.

You couldn't be further from the truth. The club will never be able to do right for doing wrong anyway, so I don't bother about that. What gets my goat and this thread sums it up perfectly is that the club gets bollocked before it's actually done anything wrong. I've said it before and I'll say it again becasue in terms of a football club it definatley applies. You can't please all of the people all of the time, but you can please some of the people some of the time. Stick to that and it's about as good as it gets. As for "a long grim history of completely :censored:ing about their own fanbase" This club is no different from many up and down the country. We are not a big City team, we are a small town team. We have to make do, when we get success it's hard to maintain it, when the inevitable happens, there are years of decline. A base needs to be found and built from again and with a little luck some success can then be achieved. BUT, we are not the only ones. From when we were in the premiership I can name you a number of teams, some much bigger than us who have seen that decline, the 2 Sheffield Clubs, Leeds, Leicester Swindon, Bradford, I could go on. It's happened to them all. Their crowds go down, the fans accuse the clubs of lacking ambition etc etc. I've seen it time and again at our club. When I 1st started watching Oldham in the mid 60's, I recall 3rd division crowds of 4 and 5 thousand, I remember relegation to division 4. We sacked the then manager Jack Rowley and the club were accused of going for the cheap option in Jimmy Frizz. But Jimmy brought stability and had a little luck as well. He brought us success in terms of 2 promotions, a couple of cup runs including to the 5th round at Anfield in 1977. He was allowed to bring in the likes of Bobby Collins and Bill Taylor to assist him and kept the club in the 2nd division for 8 seasons where we competed against the likes of Man U, Man C, Sunderland, Aston Villa, Norwich etc etc. But hey that wasn't good enough for our fanbase who accused the club of lacking ambition. Crowds dropped and dropped from 12,000+ in 74-75 to a low of around 2,800 for a Tuesday night game in Frizz'z last season (81-82) Jimmy was sacked. The club again accused of taking the cheap option in appointing Royle. The fact was Joe wasn't cheap, in fact he was almost free because he just wanted to prove himself even knowing from day 1 the precarious finances at the club. But the club had no choice. The chips were down and lady luck was watching over BP. Yes the club didn't have a pot to piss in. It was skint. It had to appoint Joe (john Wile from West Brom it would have been otherwise) But Joe did what was necessary. Kept us up, wheeled and dealed, some signings came off, others didn't but from that low point, the club found it's base, it's pivotal moment from where success would eventually come again. Joe through hard work then got some luck. You don't just pick up the likes of your Irwins, Barretts and Warhursts, you need that bit of luck and he got it. We just missed out in the play offs and ended up selling Tommy Wright (he just got to good an offer from Leicester) again the club was accused of lacking ambition, so what did they do, they signed Rock Holden (what a slice of luck that was. Sell 1 of your best players for £350K and sign an even better 1 for £165K) and the team took off had a superb cup run and then promotion to the top tier and a 3 year stay, crowds of 15 to 18 thousand. Yes we have had hard times and decline in the 19 years since 1994, yet we haven't fallen as far as others, Swindon and Bradford have both dropped as far as the 4th division. For me, the current regime showed too much ambition. Strange to say I know, but that is what I believe, because I think they should have sold Chris Porter when the money (£700K+) was on the table from Plymouth, instead we lost him on a free because they wanted to keep him in the belief that doing so gave us the best chance at getting promotion. I said we should have sold Chris Taylor to Scunthorpe when the £500k+ was on the table. Instead they backed the manager and again it backfired. I think we should have sold Mellor & Winchester to Fulham at the start of last season and pocketed the £400K. Instead the board, more concerned about the fans re-actions, again backed the manager who insisted they were part of his plans. Personally, I wish the club would put any worries about the fans to 1 side. We have always been and always will be a selling club. When the money is there. I'd take it virtually every time and re-ivest. Not just in the squad, but in the infrastructure. Yes mistakes will be made, they ahve been god knows how many over the years, but if they are made honestly, in good faith and not repeated and lessons learnt so what. We have had a few false dawns these last few years, but strangely I get the feeling that despite everything the good times are not far away. It won't take much for us to take off again for a period. Yes it could quite easily slip the other way, but I don't think it will. One bit of luck could turn it for us. Jose Baxter signing for longer could be that springboard, PD or a new manager having that bit of luck that both Frizz and Joe had, someone coming in with a little investment, enough to clear what debt we have and put something into the infrastructure. Any of those things could be that catalyst. But you know what, even if/when that happens there will still be posts accusing the club of this and that and pissing off the fanbase. If the fanbase are really that bothered, all 15 to 18 thousand that used to come, club together, buy the :censored:ing club and turn up and pay everyweek. It's about the only way the club wouldn't be able to piss off the fan base. But there again it probably still would. Rant over.

Your apologies can be directed to Simon Corney & Neil Joy C/O Oldham Athletic Football Club. You know, sometimes this club gets bollocked before it's even done anything.

What are you complaining about. The statement does not make reference to the Rochdale Road end. Yet!!!!! That will come out in due course. Have faith. I think you will be surprised and be owing the club an apology

I think you'll be able to guage his reaction when arrangements are announced probably tomorrow. You may well be surprised

Friend for a fiver voucher will not apply to a cup game. Nice try though

Your correct I think. It was posted November 2012 so I thought it was this seasons. However it looks like the TV fee is the same for rounds 3 and 4 the rises for rounds 5 and 6. So we wuld get the £135K

Makes no difference as they are getting the large section of the RRE