downender2

It really would be a sad day if a fine old club such as Oldham Athletic were to disintegrate. After we had the nightmare of administration and near liquidation at Huddersfield Town I can totally understand and sympathise with how you must all be feeling. All rivalry aside, I'm sure I speak for the absolute majority of Huddersfield Town fans in wishing you all the best in your quest for survival

you a true yawkshireman...??

to all latics..have a great day...3 points will be a huge tonic after whats gone on this week...

us moving to, eg Rochdale, under duress until we return to Oldham is nothing like someone stealing Wimbledons identity & football league place, taking over the club, & changing its name & permanently moving it to a bigger town 80 miles away.

 

even us moving a few miles down the road permanently is nothing like it.

 

i hope neither of the above happens btw

me too...but.....gulp...

the irony's lost on me

 

do you know if you're coming tomorrow yet?

not suprised...

and...

yes I do....

I'm not

fecked off...

and....not going to explain to a man of your undoubted intelligence...

_{(we could end up like franchise fc.....???)}

our last league game of this season...MK Dons

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yes - and at the time there were 2 camps - one who demanded blind and unceasing ambition and the other who saw the reality of the position. We are in a no win position - the club owns nothing, the council don't want to be involved, and the landowners now want their money back.

and we have a bloody good chance of making the play offs and who knows what after that....fekkin brilliant..

I think 15k is a tall order, but I would be happy with 5k.

I can understand you think it futile, but retrograde, how do you justify that.

I am not aware we are asking £20m fund, just find and approve the land

Sitting doing nothing but bleating about it though, what does that change?

retrograde to the extent that if you can only obtain say 1k signatures...the authority (council0 will just take this as an indication that only a certain percentage of latics support can be bothered to sign the petition and the remainding % are that bothered about a new stadium in the borough..

I'm not knocking anybody for doing anything...I'm just trying to remain pragmatic as well as playing devils advocate.

I'm not sure on this but the failsworth development project came with a fair bit of backing from central/regional govt, which i'm not sure would be available IF ( huge IF) the council did come up with a suitable alternative site....(pigs flying..comes to mind)

I'm generally a fairly sceptical chap, so excuse the neg vibes in all this

still worth trying

fair play

hear hear

thought you'd be fed up of being mocked....

not travelling tomorrow mate....well pissed off

tbh....unless you can muster up @ 15k + signatures...IMHO..this is a futile if not retrograde couse of action...

the council do not see us having a new stadium as 1 of their priorities right now as they are having to make huge cuts in budget and make important decisions on front line and statutory services...

us having a ground to play in in Oldham is irrelevant to them, no matter how they try and bleat so apologetically about the failsworth fiasco

as I said...just my opinion

we are heading to Tameside..if i was a betting man..blah blah blah...

Tis indded option 3! So says the g/f who is Brazilian

So says the g/f who is Brazilian

don't believe ya... the brazilian g/f bit...

Go on, own up. Who put their own surname in that site?

 

I love my family motto - woe to the timid

my family motto is "get your retaliation in first"

Curzon Ashton (Capacity 4000)

 

Bower Fold Stalybridge (Capacity 6000)

 

Ewan Fields Hyde (Capacity 5000)

 

The Butchers Arms, Droyelsden (Capacity 3000)

Ashton United at Hurst Cross..4,500 capacity (250 seated)

thing to consider here as well is the wear and tear on these pitches..especially if we have a long spell of bad weather....which we unfortunately are reknowed for...

1949/50. I was 5 years old and I think it may have been Accrington Stanley or Workington. I know they wore red anyway but it's a long time ago. Sadly, I don't get there as often now.

 

As an aside, how about we actually carry on supporting the club, the players, the manager and everyone else involved at Latics, irrespective of where we end up playing, rather than getting involved in a blame culture. The club needs us more than ever now, so deserting them if we have to make a move that isn't popular simply hammers one or two more nails in the coffin.

 

From my point of view, when I travel up from Bristol, I will continue to support the team from the town I was born in and supported all these years, whether they're at BP, Bower Fold, Gigg Lane, Spotland, Tandle Hill or British West Hartlepool. Why? Because, although I'll be sad to see them leave the spiritual home, I love the club and will never, ever desert them.

if we/they do a Franchise FC kind of deal ...I doubt i'd have the motivation to travel wherever it is we/they end up playing or to away matches...

It's sickening Paul. And it's not just the club aspect either, it's the whole town for me. I live less than 2 miles from the centre of Oldham in Royton and I haven't been into the town centre itself since about October. It's a run down, scruffy, horrible :censored:hole of a place, and it depresses me to think of what the town has become. I used to love going out for a beer on a Saturday night in the town centre as well. You used to get all kinds of characters out from the kids through to the 30-somethings throught to the old boys and the grannies on a night out. Used to be a belting night, but I've not been out in the centre now for about 3 years, cos it's flaming horrible.

 

It's just all just very VERY depressing!

 

On a side note, I recently read Stuart Maconie's excellent book 'Pies and Prejudice'. I can't remember quite how he puts it, but guess which was the only town during his whole tour of the North of England where he was genuinely disappointed and underwhelmed with the arrival into the town and it's general air of depression?!

pie eating know it all...Maconie...pffttt...

It's ok we'll be fine in 2021! 2021

58k capacity...pahhh!!

we have a dog...a sheepdog...??

whats his/her name..and is it on loan or on contract?

didn't see anything on the official site about this...

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all this talk of Curzon Ashton, other grounds in Tameside include Ashton Utd, Droylsden and Hyde...all i think with 4K + capacities...parking at all 3 is a nightmare mind..

“The anger that was expressed is a risk you always take when trying to deliver a key regeneration project.

I've read this part of the statement a few times and still am unsure what it actually means?

the use of the phrase " knocked back" is appalling in an official council statement, and

We make no apologies for daring – and striving – to find a solution......the conceit and arrogance is unbelievable

There's a lot going for The Tameside stadium, plenty of scope for development, lots of parking space, popular shopping town nearby, good road, rail and bus links (and soon metrolink), and although outside the borough it's not considered alien territory to some like Failsworth.

Maybe worth considering.

and still be an OL postcode...

coat on...

not ALL united and city fans are complete tossers

i think we'll be on the train from Greenfield about 12ish as our best laid plans for a lift didn't take into account the driver being a massive Sky Red

driving straight up from cidersville...IF...it comes together

i like to think its encouraging ppl not bullying, gettin em by the scruff o the neck n marchin em down their is bullyin where im from...i merely think he is callin ppls bluff....they/you/me want the club to be deemed as makin n effort......so lets prove it. if hes spoke to fans n they ave said they wont pay 20 brick.....then all he is saying is look wat we ave done, now its your turn to prove it, money where your mouth is chaps......we ave supported some :censored:e in the past, n right now its smile time, ppl need to stop bein so sensitive, i wouldnt mind Barrys job, id be feckin scrappin every week,

I like the cut of this man jib.. .

can't be arsed reading 12 pages

it'll take more than this to keep me from my pie and peas

will you have your "close personal protection team" with you...

huge outside chance I might be having this...

Followed Oldham home and away for about 12 years, started going to Watersheddings the same tie I started going to BP. As I say I campaigned, wrote letters and protested about leaving 'Sheddings, I was part of a small voice. The rest of the town sat back and let it happen as far as i'm concerned. (The same town that has allowed this situation to develop at BP with poor crowds and a dilapidated stadium that will soon be gone forever - but that's another discussion.)

 

I tried to get behind the Phoenix Club but the town had deserted the club and playing at BP, Hurst Cross, Bower Fold, Sedgeley Park etc… just deepened my resentment. Oh and the fact that Hamilton is a cock. I fell out of love with RL for three or four years, eventually I began going to the odd game and got more and more interested in St. Helens, such so that I now regard myself as more of a Saints than Oldham fan. I had a season ticket for a couple of years and may get another one once they're back in St. Helens. This year I'll go to the odd game but I get just as much pleasure from watching my son play for St. Anne's. I'm glad to see that ORLFC have now got their permanent home after 14 years on the road, Sadly, I've moved on...

 

I must admit part of me does worry whether I and others will go the same way if we (OAFC) lead a similar nomadic existence...

glory hunter

This is a serious question and isn't really a dig at anyone as I am hardly innocent on this one.

 

How many people on here regularly have a go at the people of Oldham not supporting Latics, yet support a Super League Club over the Roughyeds?

can of worms mate...can of worms...