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Also gets good around 376, move on to around 400 and there is pretty little pictures!

As i said, key word is 'regeneration' ply that card and we should be ok, If the development doesn't go ahead, will the last person to leave the town please turn out the lights........

Realised the soppy old git hasn't thought about little Wembley has he? We may need a small part of the Clayton car park, where the changing rooms are ( Some of this may be owned by the club anyway as the land all the way up to the first house on Sheepfoot lane is owned by the club, loads of options for an access roads! There'll be more than enough room (handy being a former QS 'aint it, And we own the access road at the side of the Clayton arms which takes you round to the car park! NIMBY's you have no chance!

I reckon the access road will run diagnol from the hospital car park we own over the waste land that incorporates Darlington Transport over the back of the Rocky and through little Wembley with an exit onto Broadway/Sheepfoot Lane, and incorporating access to the existing residential roads. It will only be a standard two lane road I reckon, taking you in and out of the ground, smaller car park and new residentail area. Will be a bit of nightmare but so is Derby, Bolton etc... one road in, one out. Tough titties NIMBY's!

And they will do.

 

If they look at it long term our plans might be a lesser of two evils for them. The housing market is also doing a belting trade at the minute. What better time to buggar off and get a new house before as they reckon "the valuations of their properties drop".

That is actually something that grates with me too. They had a genuine chance to have a say in what was going on. They seemed to have gone in dead set against it. The end. No alternative ideas offered at all. Just we don't want this to happen.

Realised the soppy old git hasn't thought about little Wembley has he? We may need a small part of the Clayton car park, where the changing rooms are ( Some of this may be owned by the club anyway as the land all the way up to the first house on Sheepfoot lane is owned by the club, loads of options for an access roads! There'll be more than enough room (handy being a former QS 'aint it, And we own the access road at the side of the Clayton arms which takes you round to the car park! NIMBY's you have no chance!

Lets just say that the worst scenario of all occurred in a few years. Obviously a very hypothetical situation at present but if we did end up disappearing and the ground was knocked down, what do these people think would happen.

 

A big plot of land, vast in acres just left untouched because it is what suits them?

 

Or would the land be built on, with even more homes than our development would have ever included?

 

I think we all know the answer.

 

They're fighting a battle they'll never win. If it isn't us, it'll be sold on and someone with much bigger ideas will get the land and do it and I doubt someone with a bit of land will stop them.

Doesn't matter what you own, the council can slap a CPO on it, if they deem the building/piece of land vital to regeneration, ask the residents of Werneth and Derker, slightly different I know, but the same rules apply. Anyhow smoozing with the right peole at the highways agency will take care of that smug old git and his piece of land! Probably another reeason why Hillstone and Ian Hill are on board. A large contractor and a land and property expert.

Well I voted Chris Ha........ nah Warne, has to be.

Would've been Stam if the voting was only up until November, or Gregan if voting stopped at the end January. But for sheer effort, desire and consistency it has to be Paul Warne, he's due a goal too and I've a feeling he bag a crucial one in the next two games...............LEGEND!

When did you send it in, Paul?

I emailed it first thing this morning mate, I would like to see it published!

Mr Paul Prendergast

Chadderton

Oldham

Dear Sir,

I would like to convey my exasperation at the Clayton NIMBYS, again threatening to scupper Oldham Athletic’s plans to progress. The new development is a chance to regenerate land around Boundary Park that has been a festering windswept eyesore for years. Whilst I appreciate the residents may have to venture further to walk their darling little mutts, surely this development will be for the good of the area. The land is of good quality and has real estate value, oh and if the Football Club did go out of business the paper clip counters up at the Civic Centre approved planning permission for 100’s of houses years ago when they bought the ground back off the club in the late 1990’s. Of course the ground is now owned by the club’s owners but as far as I know that planning application will still be current and binding.

This development is a real chance to put Oldham on the map, the facilities will be superb for the football club, a high quality hotel which the town has a shortage of, a health club of which there are only two in the town that I deem to be of suitable standard and of course the key worker housing which will give hundreds of people the chance to purchase an affordable home. If the development doesn’t go ahead because of a few people’s short-sightedness it would be a disaster for a Football Club that has existed for 112 years, and for 100 years on its present site.

The objections to this development are incandescent of the attitudes of a townsfolk that has stood by and let their town die. We’ve lost our only cinema, countless swimming pools, an architecturally superb old town hall that’s been moth-balled for years, oh and the railway warehouse fiasco….anyone got a quid!? Then of course the same Oldhamers sat back and let their Rugby club die, they gained a second chance yet still don’t support their local team. But of course the biggest travesty was the town sitting back and letting our jewel in the crown be destroyed bit by bit…..Tommyfield, a world famous landmark that has been allowed to drift into history.

I suggest the Clayton Nimby’s focus their attentions on the council slowly eroding the Clayton ‘Town Green’ by the back door. Pubs and car garages ring a bell? Believe me it is only a matter of time. Concentrate on saving the Clayton dog toilet and let the rest of the land OWNED by the club be brought into the 21st Century.

Yours Faithfully

Mr. Paul Prendergast

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I've mentioned this before, and can't remember if anybody replied so does anybody recall a game against Chelsea in the 80's when a load of manyounighted turned up in the belief that they could join up with Latics and get at Chelsea. They came in the Chaddy and grouped up on the CP side, started moving accross the back signing "we hate Chelsea and we hate Chelsea" or summat like that, when they got to half way all hell broke loose at the Chaddy charged at 'em witha "we hate manyou and we hate manyou", I was about 2 or 3 barriers up from the front behind the goal and looking around it was like one of them cartoons where theres a fight and all you can see is a huge dust ball with arms and legs flailing out of it. Eventually Barry 666 and his mates restored some order and hoyed the mancs out, of the ground and town, I think. I looked at the Chelsea fans on the RRE and you could see them pointing, probably all going :sign0094:

I'm sure that was the 4-1 defeat to Chelsea in October '88 Stipey . I remeber 'cos the Scum were on Telly the day after v Everton - First live game of the season. Remember cacking it when it went off well I was only 11 at the time. When I realised it was Man Yoo my owd fella hads to give me a clip round the ear 'ole to prevent me joining in!

As for experiences of United's 'friendliness' as I had just turned 16 and wasn't a member, when we beat them 1-0 in '93 I had to go in the Looker Rocky Road paddock - non-members, full of Scummers who threatened to bash my head in for celebrating wildly and ripping the pish out of their sad Man Yoo asses :getbent: and it was looking decidedly ropey 'til a load of my owd fellas mates appeared behind me with about 10 mins to go, so one of the super tough Mancs gobbed off again about what they were going to do to a skinny 16 year old when a couple of the lads I knew proceeded to rearrange his route canal work free of charge! Just as Craig Fleming almost made it 2-0!

Why bring Ronnie into this? :huh2:

As in CHRIS MOORE'S MONEY! :dozey: :hitwall1: ;)

Shez fer me anyday

We had this discussion on the train home on Saturday. a lot of the younger lads raved about Dowie. We were a big side under Davros, but with little flair, we tended to grind and battle our way to results based on our solid defence. There were a few highlights, such as the 6-1 v Mansfield, the wins at Derby and West Ham - but in the main we were rubbish at home. Under Sheridan we fear no one, we are very good at home and have tended to annihalate most teams at BP,then we go into their backyards and play them off the park, with many opponents stating what a good team we are; Gillingham, Swansea and Huddersfield to name a few.We can fight, scratch and battle our way to points too but for sheer passion and ability with the football this team is streets ahead.They want to be here too, not like many of the mercenaries we brought in with Moore's money. (Cough, Wijnhard, Hill, Dowie, Harbin, cough) The good old days are back and that for me is down to Shez, Tommy Wright, Dux and TP all Latics through and through, with a real affinity to the club.

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Anything 85-86, 84-85, 83-84, 82-83

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Hot Dog Gate

Vialli - Gravy, Jan'99

Cottee - Gravy, Nov'88

Southall - superb every time

Mike Taylor the steward of the bars

Mark Tyler cup replay Dec'00

Darren Beckford's wonder goal v Coventry League Cup Oct'93

Beardsley/Cole super show Nov'93

"We want Joe......................"Carrow Road May '94

Match Day Curries

Losing out on George Reilly - Signing Frank Bunn instead (Dec'87)

Betsy's miss at Wrexham

"What a waste of Petrol" 5-0 at Reading Sept '00

Gary Kelly peforming miracles week after week in a pisspoor team

Steve Whitehall's last minute goals v Wycombe and Millwall 99/00

Redfearn at Hull

Getting coined at Hull - Dec'01

3-1 up to 3-3, then Marshall unleashes his exocet v Notts County March '92

3-0 down after 7 mins at White Hart Lane Sept'93

Carlton Palmer's og Jan '95

John keeley fantastic until we signed him!

Tommy bloody Johnson!

Julian "Where's yer handbag" Dicks

Chris "Has yer boyfriend done yer hair" Day

Sean McCarthy's somersaults

Paul Rickers rocket at Scunny

John Morrow

Brian Tinnion kicking Tommy Wright all over the field 1/4/89

Tony Henry's 'tasche

Roger Palmer's 'tasche

Ricky Holden's celebrations

The guy with the squeaky voice at the back of the Chaddy (mid-late 80's)

Aroma of tobacco, Bovril and pies on a cold afternoon stood in the Chaddy

5-0 up twice only for both games to finish 5-3 (Portsmouth March '89 & Forest Aug '92)

Willie Donachie controlling midfield at 40

Asa Hartford looking well past it

John Kelly's perm

Peter Skipper being rubbish

Peter Litchfield

Winston Dubose

Andy Rhodes' magic act!

Nick Henry's screamer at Grimsby

Richard Graham's miss at Sunderland

Andy Gorton throwing it all away - twice!

Mike Milligan's stormer v Everton Dec'91

Richie Wellens scoring at Bloomfield

Ian Olney's winner v Spurs

Eric Nixon =steward of the bars!

Any time Stuart Barlow's returned

Andy 'Puddin on a muffin' Barlow

Neil Pointon's gloves

Paul Gerrard's knee supports

Robert Lee's strop

Orpheo Keizersweerd

Standing in the Kop when Barlow scored that OG!

Joe Royle's programme notes

'The Dodger' scoring at the Chaddy end in his Testimonial

Tommy Wright's chip v Portsmouth

Frank Bunn's hat-trick in the Rose Bowl Aug'88

Garnett's og v Rotherham March '01

The pitch resembling a sandpit 92-00

Laziest ballboys in the Football League

Portakabin exec boxes

"I bet he drinks Lees Superb Beers" after any exceptional moment on the Scoreboard

Wagging Finger when an oppo player gets a dressing down from the ref - Scoreboard

Mouldy Old Dough

Fanfare for the common man

Scott Mcgarvey's mullett

Ian 'Beast Man' Marshall

Jermain Johnson putting us 2-0 up at Swindon April '04

Celebration Sunday

THAT SUMMER!

FINALLY getting a decent striker in Beckett

Diego Cervero

Losing 2-0 at Darlington when they were bottom of the entire League, without a win! Lge Cup Sept '88

Bradford November '04

Colusso at Bury - March '02

Beckford's winner at Bolton

McCarthy's leveller at Bolton!

Milligan's backheel at Maine Road Aug '92

Adams 2 in a minute at Goodison Feb '93

Penalty for Handball by PAUL GERRARD!!! AT Elland Road Feb '93

Roger Palmer's equaliser v Everton Feb '90

Adams just being unable to connect to Palmer' flick at Wembley

Mike Milligan standing on the the ball, leaving Webb and Robson thinking 'where the Flip did that little rubbish go?'

Robson then proceeding to hack him down!

Olney's 2 in a minute v Liverpool May '93

6-0 pre-season deafet to Norweigan part-timers July '93

Aldridge walking at BP an '93

Eyresey's farewell goal

Tommy Wright's return and deut goal v PNE Sept '97

The wind on the plastic paradise v Birmingham April '87

Stoke battering us and still nicking the win FAC4R Feb'94

Standing in the Holte End at Villa and trying not to go mental when Nick Henry scored!

Guy falling arse over Tit over the hoarding in the Lookers (April '02)

Still going to the 2nd Leg v Qpr even though my wife was overdue with my daughter by 3 days

Panicking all the way there and back hoping she would wait until I got back!

Paul Furlong!

Keith Edwards!

Royton Broadway full of Leeds coaches May '87

Late treble v Brentford Jan '01

Tipton's last minute equaliser v Bury Mar' 01

Allott's winner v Luton, after Abbey celebrated their equaliser in front of the Chaddy! Oct'99

Bare chested hail storm conga at Cardiff Jan'98

Conga at Maine Road Sept '91

Andy Goram's return!

Andy Goram Legend!

John Keeley diving out of the way of Cambridge's winner Dec'92

Karl Duguid's penalty miss Layer Road March '00

Andy Holt's winner same game

The Fog - same game

Stoke abandoned

Then Fog almost postponing it again!

Joh Sheridan

We've got our Odham back!

Rick Holden's trilby

Latics toiletries

Stuart Pyke

It's a goal!

Oh no!

James H. Reeve

Tommy Docherty

Pogs celebration v QPR

John Eyre's winner same game

Food poisoning at Hartlepool

Dennis the Menace kit

Sportspark 2000

The scruffy kid who had long blonde hair, looked like a girl pushing the brew trolley round BP late 80's early 90's

Losing to a last minute penalty at Millwall Feb '00

Paul Jones last minute winner v Wigan April '00

Olney's late brace v Leeds Aug'92

2 late goals v Barnsley Nov'04

Killen's 10 goal burst Nov/Dec 04

Ritchie's record of scoring in 8 consequetive games

Jim Kirton

Chris Henthorne

My dad arguing wth Elsie head steward in Lokers lower and getting cobbed out! procedding to miss our last three goals v Birmngham Dec'95

Frozen pitch v Walsall Dec'00 but game played anyway!

when latics play tranmere on sat will you boo or clap him when he comes out of the tunnel???

:trollarse:

Bob, sometimes pictures speak more than a 1000 words! Gutted myself as I'm in the sponsors lounge that day(missus has decided to pay for the whole shebang as i'm 30 on Thurs' 8th so 5 of us doing it in style on Sat! ,would've loved to have given him grief, still may just moon him through the window!

Always in the bag. They scrapped and fought with us all the way but we held them off, just. Three goals away too

Great start, but instead of building on it we went into our shell and were pretty poor for half an hour. Nicked a good goal close to half-time, then never in danger until we started the Ole's late on and giving our customary consolation away proceeding to give 700+ Latics fans bums of the squaeky variety. Plusses for me today, Wellens shooting on site, Charlton best he's been for weeks and Rocky wasn't as bad as some are making out! Oh and Ports deserves a mentioon for a brave finish. Minuses - Taylor very quiet, tightly marked but subdued and Shez not bringing Dabo on! Seriously though massive 3 points, a few rumblings of discontent from Last week around me :sign0094: but we've put that to bad with 4 out of next 6 at home, by the end of Feb' things could be really looking good. KTF

Lookers Lower , alternate between there and the Chaddy every couple of years. Like the 'Paddock' as you feel on top of the action and the unrestricted view is decent from my seat on the half-way line. Plus my lad can see better in the Lookers (or NSM!) Whilst the Chaddy will always be my spiritual home, 8) I feel there are too many incosiderate little :censored:es who prefer to throw chips at people or just plain arse about for 90mins. :twisted: Still can't beat a last minute goal at the Chaddy End though!

Name? Paul Prendergast

Occupation? Full Time Mature Student

Location? Chaddy

How Long Supporting the Tics? 21 Seasons (First game 22/11/86 Beat Palace 1-0 at BP, Tommy Wright scored.

Favourite Game (not the obvious one!)? Swindon 1 Oldham 2 (24/4/2004)- Against the odds we had survived in more ways than one!

All Time Greatest Player? Tommy Wright

Favourite Current Member? Sean Gregan

Where will we finish? Top 2

Biggest Rivals (in your eyes)? Tranmere, Blackpool

And Finally, You became a millionaire, Oldham were available to purchase, what would you do to make our club Secure for the future?

Build the new stadium asap and transfer ownership to the trust, but only after assembling a Trust Board consisting of a board more representitive of 'normal' Laticsfans (Daz, Dave and Derek excepted)