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I'm with you YD on this ...we simply have to try something new. If you go to a match with a couple of kids you feel like you've bin mugged just to get in and are reluctant to spend anymore inside the ground. If we can get more fans to commit to a season ticket then they will definitely spend more on the day. We also have to get Bars in every stand and capitalise on the extra punters. People are getting bored at Boundary Park and are leaving in droves, and it's partly due to a lack of excitement. The atmosphere in a full stadium, eg. Huddersfield in the cup is so much better. The whole matchday experience would be better. Nobody wants to sit in a half empty stadium and if we can do it on the pitch as well, next season could be brilliant!

Although the housing market has stagnated their is still a huge market for affordable housing for eg. first time buyers, to get on the property ladder. If the housing built is at the right price then there won't be a problem! TTA won't have gone in to this blind and I think, will have other options to fall back on.

Did anybody ask the panel if there was any truth in the rumoured signing of Fabian Yantorno from Gretna?

How can we be so sure that it wouldn't generate the required number....if we don't try we will never know. Bradford had the bottle to try something new and it worked! From my own personal point of view I can only get to 1/2 the games due to shift work but if the season ticket was priced at say £200 I'd definitely get one as I could afford to miss a few games and not be out of pocket. I may also be tempted to book time off work to attend games I wouldn't normally go to. They have to do something next season to get fans, especially the young kids, through the turnstiles...it's not just the match ticket when you add the car park and a programme your talking £26 and that's without food or drink....Throw in a couple of kids and it's beyond the reach of a lot of fans and far too much in my opinion.

Official SMS text...Crossley wants to play on for another year. New contract...Yes or No???

It takes all sorts to create a message board....some posts will be utter garbage and some posts will not, don't take them too seriously...It will take more than a few silly posts on a message board to get the manager out! If you were waiting for sensible posts only there'd be hardly anything to discuss. Chill out!!!

Just why did Wadsworth really leave?

What do you base these assumptions/facts on. How can you know he has no contacts in the game and that his man management is poor. What real evidence have you to support the players lack of respect. As far as arrogance goes there's no one more so than a certain Alex Ferguson and look how successful he's been over the last few years!!! If it's your opinion then fair enough, but you talk as though it is all fact!!!

Actually 4 in 24 in SPL and several MOM awards before his injury...a reasonable return for a midfielder in a struggling team. According to the Gretna FC site he has already been released from his contract. Mick Wadsworth said that another club would have come in for him anyway because his form was fantastic before his injury. Might be worth a gamble as the medics have said he will make a full recovery.

Every footballer in our team is!!!

We can debate all day about these two players and we all have our own opinions. Taylor is a very good player at this level, and Oldham through and through, however, it has been said a million times that he should be playing on the right and I think constantly playing him on the left has held back his progress. I cannot believe after all this time that we still have no natural left footer at he club. If we'd stuck him on the right when Liddell got injured I feel we could have been looking at a £1m+ player now, the guy was on fire on the right when he came into the side and it seems like such a waste of a talent. Eardley gets some unwarranted stick on this site as first and foremost he's a defender and a bloody good one at that, who's still learning his trade. He's had no right winger in front of him nearly all season and thus no outlet to release the ball to....when Liddell played there at the begining of the season he was a different player. Out of the two we could probably afford to lose Eardley, as Lomax, I feel, has just as much potential, however you don't get promotion by constantly selling your best young players. There's no way Liddell ( at his age ) is going to come back the same player after a serious injury and such a long layoff, and to keep him, and sell your promising youngsters, is not the way forward. As far as fees go you've got to be looking at upwards of £500k each before I would consider selling.

To be fair you don't get moaners travelling 200miles for a nothing game...These are the die hards and you don't expect anything else. They'll have their fair share of moaners at the New Den just like everybody else.

Got another Ricketts on our hands then have we?

"It's obvious he's not a target man".......then why the hell did we sign him because we've needed a 'target' man all season. We always play our forwards up on their own so no difference there then!!!

Yes, your'e right, he would murder this division, but he'd need good players around him. Would he have made that much difference to the team who played on Saturday? He's a great player but he's played with great players all his career and somehow coming to Oldham might not be such a good idea!

No, it does apply in League 1 also.

He was also injured for 80% of his loan spell...he had just began to assert himself and had a blinder against Leeds and that's why he was signed. You can't blame him for going to Leeds but I'd have hin back tomorrow if it doesn't work out.

Bring on next season!!!!

Sounds just what we want......At the end of his career, with a great recent injury record. Didn't he turn us down at the begining of the season? He'll probably play a couple of games and be out injured till next season, along side our other overpaid youngsters, Gregan and Liddell!!!!

Southend did win!!!!

Got to be Huddersfield as they are so close and YORKIES!! Just think if we could get into the championship next season...........Burnley...Preston...Sheff Wed...Blackpool...Barnsley. Wat a bloody difference it would make, playing that lot at home and away every season!!!

I reckon a draw is the best we can hope for, as Shez says Luton are in a totally false position and have some of the leagues better individuals, having said that, even without the deduction of 10 points they would still be in the bottom four. We've got so many injuries and now a total stranger in goal..I just can't see this winning run continuing. If we could play our first choice eleven for the remaining games then I think we'd go up via the playoffs. I don't think the defence will let us down but I just can't see us causing them enough problems at the other end. I hope he plays with the two wingers as it will give us more of a threat, otherwise It'll be a backs to the wall performance and can see a Luton win...perhaps 1 v 0. I hope I'm wrong!!!!

Thinking the same myself. The lad has no first team experience at all and if he plays tomorrow it will be his proffesional debut. A real kick in the teeth for Bell and yet another weird decision by Shez. I bet he's never seen the guy play! Surely it's better to play the devil you know in this case. If Bell's good enough for the bench for half a season then he's got to be good enough to play.

Just where do you get the available £700K from? Our budget was based on recieving a fee for Porter and we got nowt...TTA still spent the cash but don't think it's automatic that they'll spend the same again and judging by the drop in crowds ( don't forget the salary cap ) we may even have to pull in the purse strings to balance the books!! We were budgeted to lose about 800K this season so on transfers and cup money we'll just about be at breakeven if we're lucky!!! When we get everybody fit we have a pretty strong squad and I think we'll rely heavily on our home grown talent who have done us proud this season. They'll all be a year older and wiser and could make a big impact next year. Unless there's a mass exodus of players as in previous seasons then I think a couple of quality signings in the right areas may be enough.

You really are a selfish bah humbug guy...we have a percentage of young kids at the club who have Chaddy as their hero. I'm glad you don't run our commercial department!!!!