Blue_Guru

Probably a tester to see how many lapsed fans we actually have floating around. Good idea to gauge what the actual fan base looks like these days...o.e for the usual cry of £100 season tickets etc.

You miss my point... the long term vision needs to come from the club first before people will cough up hard earned. Especially after the turmoil of last few years... It is most likely that some stay aways will take up the offer of the free game and even if we win convincingly won't return. This is because they need more assurance of product on the pitch over the longer term...

Great incentive... I really hate knocking the club in their efforts however I think something like this needs to be part of a bigger plan to really entice stay aways back. Most that only attend a few games like myself are seeking longer term visions for the club rather than a cheap free game here and there. Hopefully Sheridan will produce the goods and it will encourage a few lapsed fans to return.

Exactly I think the difficulty is with the loan system shutting its hard to change people around when you find people just aren't up to it. The presurre is on the manager to acknowledge the weaknesses to the fans so they show that they know change is necessary without killing player spirit. It's tough and the transfer windows make their life harder.

One thing that is clear is that you have a greater chance of being successful when you are in a more positive environment. Let's try and get that back once again... probably why Sheridan wanted to start on Monday to prepare for the next game better. A loss today could kill some positivity

Quite a sad and narrow minded outlook IMO... Sounds like you haven't ever had a great relationship with your employer. You talk about an employer as solely the business and for some its very different to that. I consider my employer to be my boss and immediate peer group not the company name. Loyalty so far has proven highly valuable for me personally and I know it is looked on fondly by our business. Now if you work in recruitment or some other dog eat dog industry I can understand your point of view however in football terms I think loyalty is more important than you suggest.

Press release saying the grass isn't always greener then kiss the badge on his tracksuit and pledge his life to the club till his dying day...then all will be forgotten and we can all move on in harmony as one!* *(Subject to Swindon FC offering him £50 a week more)

100%

I get your logic but you have to admit it's bloody desperate isnt It...the next unpaid bill is only around the corner and soon we will run out of all our saleable assets.

How much would we get if we scraped off the paint from the roof of the chaddy in scrap value??

Obviously Lee Johnson has advised his dad that you can get a shift out of him if coached correctly!

Could we get a mole in and onto the board?

Fair play you are officially mental

The tip of the iceberg...

You make my point for me...that lack of certainty in the fickle world we know as football is exactly why he was right to take more money at Notts County. He knew full well it would only take a poor start to the next season to be under pressure and he would be on the dumpster again (like last time Corney did it) so he took the only 'certainty' of a higher paid contract at Notts County.

Now you know that's a different kettle of fish!

Of course he will get another job.

You are right the grass isn't always greener...but we are hardly inspiring people to be place worth being loyal too are we. He was leaving one :censored: state of a job to go to another :censored: state of a job on significantly more money. He will have made more out of it plus his pay off than he was offered from us.

People have said it time and time again...Blitz is the bank and Corney is the administrator...they are finding every way of recouping their investments whilst trying to balance the revenues of the football club. They acknowledge that a successful football club (or at least one that balances its books) is important but they do have other revenue streams and assets that they are willing to cash in on and is their priority. They have done a lot of this since Blitz lost interest in the football side. The problem now is they have stripped so much they are at risk of killing the lifeblood of OAFC and now are facing the club not being able to balance its books. But I imagine this just means that next year our budgets will be cut further with the excuse of dropping a division as the reason and they will add any losses to the sum owed to the banker (or Blitz). They have two valuations for the club 1) the cost to buy everything which will be valued at whatever sum they see as the minimum they want to recoup (higher cost) 2) the cost to buy the football club and they keep the brassbank income streams (lower cost). I imagine their price tag for everything is too high and no investor is dumb enough to just want to buy/invest in the club (it would take a lot of investment and a long time to get us out of the mess we have been put in)...that is why it's taking so long to find this mystery buyer! Someone posted earlier that if we had 6,000 fans every week would Corney be the problem then? The reality is we don't have 6,000 fans a week and the reason for that is people have decided there are better things to waste their lives and money away on. Like it or not life is short and people are realising more and more that we all want to spend our little time on this earth experiencing things that satisfy us and make us happy. Oldham Athletic at this time (and for a long while) has given very few people anything to be happy about (consistently) and that is well and truely the owners fault.

Haha he got 'lucky' identifying players and coaches he thought could get us out of the mess we were in? Jesus I would hate to be your boss! I'm indifferent to bringing him back, I think we will go down sooner or later regardless, if not by another miracle this season. But Sheridan deserves all the credit he got in relation to how he saved us last season. I understand people's anger at how he left us, until we know all the facts there will always be peoplenon both sides of the camp.

I think the fact we can't retain possession and therefore chase games is the reason for our fading in and out of games.

I think it is a mix of not being able to pay him off (if his contract was longer than a rolling 6 months) or not being confident of bringing anyone else in. They really struggled on summer and are probably wary of making a rash decision and then having no one sufficient lined up! Similarly if they are reigned to going down now why waste money paying someone off this season? They may as well let his contract run out and then find someone in the summer for League 2.

I can't believe after every loss that the man in charge still praises the teams efforts? His determination to remain positive and praise his team after every poor result is blind and desperate.

Where's his interview? Can't see it on LP yet

because we chase rather than control games...even the fittest men in the world can't chase the game for 90 minutes. Working harder than your opponents is in someway counter productive, need to think smarter at this sort of level.