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Good article, he's not neutral though!

only cost me £14 for a student ticket so nearly as cheap as my season ticket

Damn right.

Crikey, didn't realise at the time what a cracking goal that was in terms of the build-up.

Singe, I think the entire Rising album would be more appropriate! Faith will be rewarded?

The power you have over OMBC is to exercise your vote. Unfortunately, OAFC fans must make up only around say 2-3% of the population of the borough (based on our recent attendances). The truth is the rest of the folks simply don't care about OAFC.

This is the sole reason I'm a fan. My dad (who is from Chadderton) first brought me when I was six and I've been coming back ever since. I was born and live in Preston and feel no affinity with the town/borough of Oldham other than its the place where the football team I love is located. I once had an interesting discussion with a non-footballing friend regarding what makes us football fans actually support the team we do. These were some of his questions and my answers: Is it the town? Nope, I'm proof of that. Is it the players/manager/staff? Nope, they change over time - we didn't all follow Shez to Chesterfield. Is it the fans? No, definitely not! So is it simply the name of the club on the shirt that we support? At what point does it become just a name? Difficult one to answer. I guess for me, it's become part of who I am and even if I wanted to, I couldn't simply stop supporting OAFC. I could choose not to attend games. I could even choose to go and watch another team. But I'd still support OAFC. The point at which the team we pay to watch ceases to be OAFC, now that's another matter. If in the space of one close-season the club moved from BP, changed the manager and entire playing staff and changed the colour of the shirt, would it still be OAFC?

Of course we'd all love to have our own state-of-the-art facilities but short of promotion, Richards being sold and a few thousand fans returning, that won't be happening. A ground-share with Rochdale could be viable and I wouldn't be against it in principle. The fixed costs of running the ground must be pretty high so to share them with another club makes sense for both clubs. At the moment OAFC is not a going concern so we can't rule out anything that allows us to still support our club. Would both sets of players share the same training pitch though?! I could imagine Taggart going on the sabotage each morning

Penalising Charlton would be ridiculous. Officials simply need to exercise more common sense or be given the freedom to do so. An example - on Tuesday we took a throw-in and an extra ball bounced on the pitch. Rather than letting us re-take the throw, the referee ordered a drop-ball. Probably correct to the letter of the law but complete nonsense in the circumstances.

Think you cost yourself £58 betting against Chesterfield.

I believe severance payments up to £30k are tax free. Not sure whether this applies to footballers but I imagine the club/player would come to a compromise - we don't have to pay them their total remaining wages, they get a nice tax-free lump sum. No doubt lots of lower league players make a nice living doing this.

I agree completely. Anyone who says "mong" is a mong.

Chris Taylor lives and breathes Oldham - I would hate to see him leave, for any money, but £250k is an insult. I'm not sure why our fans feel the need to constantly get on his back. I think he'd be the first to admit he had a poor season last year but didn't they all? Dean Furman was useless last season too but I don't hear our fans complaining about him now. Taylor has been getting better and better this season and we'd be foolish to let him go when we have a realistic chance of making the playoffs. If we do nothing this year then we can re-assess at close season but until then at least, CT should remain a Latics player.

Haha, probably at the end of next season when they're trying to get rid of them!!! Think I'm going to open one tomorrow.

Did you walk out with a shirt or do you get it at a later date? Looks like you can also apply on their website - careful not to join the Rochdale one! http://www.skipton.co.uk/savings_and_inves...dhamAthleticAfc

I've also criticised him in the past but he did play well today (although he does lack pace). Typical that just as he's starting to show a bit of form he gets injured again!

Can we not terminate his contract now? Please...?

Agree, he's our best option.

The loan players' parent clubs are probably paying all or most of their wages.

Chris Taylor is the son of god.

He'd certainly be useful if he plays like he did against Hudds. But what's the betting we sign him and he turns into Keigan Parker?

I was hoping to go to this, not been to Wallsall before but have an accountancy exam on Monday and need to revise! If its postponed I'd try to go to the rearranged fixture.

Both work and home - but only when I'm clocked off at work!!!

Unless I'm mistaken that spill last night was his Dean's first mistake of the season which cost us points. Everyone seems pretty quick to forget that he saved a penalty as well. Get off his back - if he makes mistakes consistently I'll be shouting for his head but he's been ok so far this season.

Not sure why Stephens has been made a bit of a scapegoat - most of the players had a shocking second half. We were sitting too deep and letting them attack us (much like they did in the first half). And since when did Kieran Lee become a central midfielder? He's playing very well at RB but I'm not sure I'd move him to the middle. If Stephens WERE to be dropped (and I don't think he should) I'd give Jones a couple of games in the middle. He was dreadful last night but he's being played out of position. He showed a bit of promise early on in the season and Hartlepool fans seem to rate him (playing in the middle). As for the points dropped being Dickov's fault, I don't think many managers would have done differently at 3-0 up with the substitutions. The players on the pitch were good enough to shut the game down and see it through at 3-0 or 3-1. Winchester WAS left exposed when White came off but he looked absolutely knackered when subbed - not sure Dickov had much of a choice with that one.