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nah id go for tandle hill. by far the best part of oldham

or thornham in royton!!

why is peter ridsdale commenting on oldham?? its a bit random

ha that leeds fan (spainboy??) has probably posted more times than me, i hope your not saying he is more of a latics fan than me haha

i think by his name is a oldham fan!! who probably takes an interest in rochdale because of our players on loan there??

As much as a like byfield as a player he hasn't impressed me a lot since coming back and although i think he could do a job for us, id rather us have blackman instead i wish him all the best and hope he doesn't come back to haunt us.

i go to leeds met mate, i do sports business management. its a really good course, you have to majority of lectures at Headingley Stadium, were the rhinos play and were the cricket is played so you get a good feel of how a club is run. most of the stuff i did in my 1st year was like marketing. were we had to hyperthetically plan an events for the day of a leeds carnegie rugby union match, a bit like celebration sunday for us to try and get more fans coming to the rugby club then we had to present it to our module leaders and the chief execuative (i think it was him anyway) of leeds carnegie. this year apart from the work experience module, i will be doing a module of football . this i hope is really easy and all i have to do is watch football all day but knowing my luck it will be what length the grass should be on a football pitch and another one on mass media, were ive been told its on how the sports media controls society, which sound pretty good. my course is all coursework as well. i hope this has helped. that all i can really think of at the minute and if you need any more information on the course just PM me of something and ill be more than happy to give more insight into it.

50/50 for me. that alex baptiste looks a very good player and will push eardley for a starting spot

Cheers mate but hopefully the thing with Colin Moore is a go-er, but cheers anyway also cheers Sheridans_world for moving it to this forum, all the help off everyone is really appreciated

yeah i have just organised meeting him for a chat about it, cheers again chaddy

cheers fellas for the replies. yeah that would be great chaddy if you could do that and cheers ritchie for the advice, i think the uni do something with oldham as well were a student goes to do thier work experience there but it means coming home everyweek to do it instead of doing it over 3 weeks or 120 hours, which would be my preferred option.

Hi all, need a bit of help, i will be starting my 2nd year at uni this sept doing a sports management degree and we have to find work experience for ourselves to do in jan for 3 weeks. havin tried latics and not getting a reply as well as being told i can't do it at city, united, sportscity etc. i was wonderting if any of my fellow latics fans had any ideas on were i could do it around the oldham/manchester area?? ideally somewhere in grassroots football as this is were i see myself after i get my degree. cheers for any help

If i was shez i would take them along.... whats the worst that could happen?? haha

Cheers Gordon for taking the time out to reply to everyone. I don't think anyone is questioning how hard you and the rest of the commerical department work, in my experience the programme is one of the best around, even including various england programmed that i have bought and is great value for money. my main worry is the customer service of the club. the programmes and pies etc. selling out is a very minor thing but it affects peoples match day experience and especially away fans, the merchandise in the club shop i found ok, nothing special but if it has the crest on its good for me and i will be going down in a few weeks the purchase a few things for decorate my house at uni. one problem i have with your reply though if you don't mind me sayin is that the staff are getting fed up with the continued criticism. now i understand that criticism is annoyin but i would hope you and the club make the negatives into positives and think try to sort out all the criticisms to try and make the the fans happy.

last season i wasn't allowed to have windass 5 on my away shirt (although it turned out to be a good thing ) because they was no one there to do it, i do feel at the time it was a bit unprofessional even though it wasn't the biggest deal and i didn't lose any sleep on it. i think the club has gone down hill commerically wise a lot since sean jarvis left, when he was here the marketing and commerical department was very approachable and went out of there way to help the fans. now it seems the club don't really care about the fans and although i am sure thats not the case it doesn't help when your trying to get younger fans to support the club.

so true is unbelievable, its not a coincidence that so many of these strikers who seem to be awful go on to have good careers at a higher level. killen, burgess, cooper, adebola to name a few who have gone on to arguebly better levels and stayed there after being branded awful here. i'm not saying that these players were any better than what we have here at the minute but it goes to show how you can't write off players without giving them a proper chance to show what they can do and calling byfield the worst latics player ever after 10 games, were for most of them he was infit and playing in a team on a bad run just shoes how clueless some of our fans really are. and they must never have seen maheta malango play for us

not with Gunn in charge. ceraitn people aren't meant to be managers, people like tony adams for example. bryan gunn is one of them. they need a new manager before they can think of challenging watch now though, i bet they win the league and set a new points total with gunn in charge haha

Kenny Cooper who is now one of the MLS's top strikers and getting linked to championship teams? the same ben burgess who scored today in the championship for blackpool? a shame we cudn't afford either of them! get a grip and give the lad a chance

yeates was one of the best wingers in league 1 last season for colchester 500k for him is a bit cheap i think, it would be like selling taylor for 500k i don't think we have been shafted, eardley was only worth what blackpool were willing to pay and what we were willing to accept (although if i was in charge i would have wanted a bit more money of blackpool or even a sell on clause?) so i think its fair business.

Chris Makin?

http://www.southendunited.co.uk/page/NewsD...1744255,00.html not completed yet! go on dave sneak in there!!

Looks like we missed out on that sunderland defender, southend looking to take him on loan. lets hope DP gets in there quick and snap him up! Its not too late Dave!!

agree about needing a defender and a keeper more (and for all we know DP might do as well) but he also feels a striker is needed, and unless DP knows were the next billy sharp is then i am more than happy with byfield challenging abbott and parker for a starting spot haha we weren't able to afford him

Maybe so, but dave penney is looking for a striker and out of them three byfield is the proven one. can you or anyone else who dislikes byfield name another striker, who we can get on a free and who we can actually afford, who has a better goalscoring record than byfield?