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I still think it is a travesty that the club have decided to just bin the fund off and keep the cash. This is important enough not to be locked and some pressure must be applied to the club to either hand the cash over to the Trust, spend it on other things for fans or (begrudgingly) actually put signs up to call the Frizzell stand just that.
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12 hours ago, kowenicki said:
Absolutely ridiculous.
Lower percentages have led to full strikes previously.
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Tories hit 50% in one national poll today.
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A lot of these polls are clear cut. Keep this team together and we'll have a good side next season.
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On 29/03/2017 at 3:05 PM, jorvik_latic said:
With letting ourselves get to the point where a WUP has been issued (we're given plenty of notice to sort this), it's not just the HMRC debt which can be taken into account.
Getting a bit worried about the timing, if others have jumped on board, when does the season 'officially' end?
Dont want points deductions after the last game.
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Any candidate running in Oldham on a ticket of ownership change at latics would get my vote.
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10 hours ago, Smiler13 said:
I have been a supporter longer than most of you on here and I travel over 150 miles round trip to attend matches. I started supporting Oldham 62 years ago and have seen us play in every division.
So what?
Almost the same text as that open letter (can't remember which one...!).
The club needs all fans whether the travel 150 yards or 150 miles and supported the club six months or six years. It makes you no better or worse than anyone else who goes to BP and supports the team. That couple have got cash to donate, great good on them, but just because they've followed the club for fifty years makes them no better than me, or you.
This whole thing has been an unbelievable farce and smacks of sheer desperation on the part of the club. A few others have said the fund should go to the Trust, it says that on the TIFOSY website so that it what should happen.
Next we know we'll get a statement about the boards will be packed up and sold due to an anonymous offer through an open letter.
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I actually don't have any words.
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I have no words.
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1 minute ago, underdog said:
who owns them club or corney new company?
This. Given recent threads it wouldn't surprise me if he's leased them spunking fans cash up the wall.
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Just now, Stevie_J said:
I never have and never will vote Tory. But, I think what you're getting at is that currently all of the options look pretty dreadful. I like Corbyn, and I'm dreading the manner in which he'll be demonised by the press in the coming weeks, but he's backed (or not, as the case may be) by a party full of closet Tory career politicians, and as a result Labour as a party doesn't know what it is. As for the Lib Dems, as discussed above, I won't vote for someone who believes homosexuality is a sin and who does not have a default position of promoting equality.
I am getting at that but I can't say I subscribe to the red Tory view. The question for the labour party is pretty simple, come close enough to the centre ground, ala Bliar and they'll have thirteen years of government or stick with Corbyn et al and re-live 79-97.
Personally, I see the Tories as more moderate then they were then.
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1 minute ago, Stevie_J said:
For the record, I fucking detest Theresa May.
Who would you rather have as PM, out of the possible candidates?
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15 minutes ago, singe said:
No idea, not sure he does either.
In, out, in, out, shake it all about.
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20 minutes ago, singe said:
I don't get how people are having a pop at Farron for not squaring his personal beliefs with his voting beliefs, yet are happy to vote for Theresa May to take us out of the EU,w hen she supported staying in!
Which one did Corbyn support?
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Just now, opinions4u said:
Well it might explain our low agents bill.
Yeah, quite.
This is quite long from here, but I've highlighted some bits in bold. The club are sailing very very close to the wind here.
http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/policies/intermediaries/agent-regulations
An Intermediary or an Intermediary’s Organisation shall not have an interest in a Club. Similarly, a Player, Club, Club Official or Manager shall not have any interest in the business or affairs of an Intermediary or an Intermediary’s Organisation.
Such interest shall be defined as:
(a) beneficial ownership of more than 5% of any entity, firm or company through which the activities of the Club or Intermediary (as applicable) are conducted and/or
(b) being in a position or having any association that may enable the exercise of a material, financial, commercial, administrative, managerial or any other influence over the affairs of the Club or Intermediary (as applicable) whether directly or indirectly and whether formally or informally.
An interest for the purposes of clauses (a) and (b) above includes an interest of:
(i) a spouse, child, stepchild, parent or sibling of the Intermediary, Player, Club Official or Manager (as applicable); and/or
(ii) a company in which any legal or beneficial interest or any proportion or share is held by the Intermediary, Player, Club Official or Manager or any spouse, child, stepchild, parent or sibling of the Intermediary, Player, Club Official or Manager (as applicable) (save for a holding of less than 5% ); and/or
(iii) a company over whose affairs financial, commercial, administrative, managerial or any other control or influence can be exercised by the individual or any spouse, child, stepchild, parent or sibling of the Intermediary, Player, Club Official or Manager (as applicable). -
3 hours ago, jorvik_latic said:
Alan Middleton is also an FA registered football agent - http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/policies/intermediaries/fa-registered-intermediaries-list
He was also fined £30,000.00 for Fronting (acting as a frontman for an unlicensed representative) in the transfer of Calum Chambers to Arsenal - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/26/arsenal-fined-warned-breaching-agent-rules-calum-chambers-fa
Is that legal? To be loaning money to clubs as an agent?
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16 minutes ago, Stevie_J said:
Ruth Davidson gets a fuckload of media airtime for someone whose party has one seat in Scotland (the same number as Labour and Lib Dems).
It is a bit different though because of the Scottish government. The Tories are the second largest party and labour are getting lost in the unionist fight.
Either way, it would be of benefit to all if labour did well in Scotland.
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I imagine like a lot of people, I've had enough of Brexit. I would be surprised if we left within the next two years but I do see it happening not too much longer after that.
What I want out of this election, more than anything, is a weaker SNP. Sturgeon is coralling the Scottish people into another indy ref and now really isn't the time for us or them. The Tories are doing ok in Scotland (very ok given their recent history north of the border) but they won't take too many seats. If Labour could win seats anywhere, it could be in Scotland under Kezia Dugdale but Ruth Davidson seems to have a better understand of the split between Westminster politics and Scottish politics.
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2 hours ago, rudemedic said:
I'm quietly confident that our record with him as ref is a pretty good one.
I know he was the ref when we beat Forest 5-0 in Shez's first season as manager. Forest ended up with 9 men.
He's reffed us three times in the last ten years.
One of those games he sent Eardley off, so most of the main stand like him.
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So. No TV debates eh?
Empty chair?
or another U-turn.
I did wonder if it's against some sort of election commission rules regarding balance...
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30 minutes ago, TheBigDog said:
If only we had the opportunity to put questions to him face to face....
Broadcast live, perhaps?
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3 minutes ago, jsslatic said:
I just can't wait for Clarke to 'welcome' Calvin Andrew.
Clarke is too professional for that. Sadly.
Edit: Although some chant about Andrew being a coward could be in order.
Incidentally, he played left back for Dale a few weeks ago.
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Just now, Stagger Lee said:
Whichever way the vote goes is less important to me ( as an outsider) than one party or another getting a clear mandate to negotiate the UK independence talks. Discussing the Brexit with the EU from a divided and insecure base could be a recipe for disaster.
Lib Dem, Labour, SNP coalition?
*Shudder*
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Shocked at the timing. Feels like we're going to have wasted two and a half months of brexit negotiation time.
Either that or she's already coming across issues when negotiating and wants a firmer "fuck you" to the EU.
Corbyn the Clown, Farron the fantasist and Sturgeon the snaffler have a lot to prove.
FAO: McFluff - Scoreboard
in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum
Posted · Edited by blueatheart
https://www.tifosy.com/en/campaigns/bring-matchdays-to-life-with-a-big-screen/updates/knowthescore-re-launches-3095
#KnowTheScore is re-launching today with Trust Oldham and its Director, Simon Brooke, officially giving their backing to the campaign. The campaign aims to generate £120,000 to buy and install a new screen at SportsDirect.com Park and is now going to run until the end of the season.
Once installed, the screen will improve the matchday experience for fans, with live scores, replays and fan engagement. All advertising revenue generated by the big screen will be reinvested directly into football operations, and the club believes that this is a crucial step on the road to sustainability and long-term success.
This is a campaign for the fans, by the fans, and the screen is therefore going to be a fan-owned asset. That means that ALL money raised by the campaign will be ring-fenced for fan activities and the screen ONLY, as determined by Trust Oldham.
Simon Brooke commented, “this isn’t a charity pot… it is an asset for the fans and…revenue from that will go into fan initiatives next season. Get behind it!”.