Wizzer

Been reading various posts on here about staying at BP with the help from the council and i have 1 question ARE YOU ALL FOR REAL?? Complaining about little things like the main stand, chaddy end well i wanted a new ground.... As it stands at the moment the club is dying! this is a fact Crowds -DOWN Ground Falling Apart - down to 3 stands Playing Budget - Dropping Owners - Down to 1 No site for a new ground No money for a new ground There is 1 way to stop all this, a new ground or to redevelop BP, look at every club with a new ground in the lower leagues, bigger crowds = bigger playing budgets, better corporate facilities = better playing budget and better revenue streams = better playing budget Dont get me wrong i dont believe or trust the council but the site at the Lancaster Club is worth £0! FACT you cant build on it! You cant get planning permission it was only worth £5m as they knew we needed it and there was no other site in oldham. Land is only worth what someone is prepared to pay and no one apart from the council wants it!! Another point, the 3 Amigos charge all the purchases back to the club in Loans the £5m they paid for the Lancaster club was a loan, if the council put a clause in that means they have to spend that money on the ground and not in their own pocket surely a positive. Yeah the main stand is falling down but if we have a new main stand with everything in it, bars, betting shop, new club shop, hotel, gym and anything else then the club will be making so much more than they do now. If your an invester would you rather put money into Chesterfield or Oldham? Simple Chesterfield as they have a brand new ground and last year got a better attendance than us.....yeah nearly 7000 every week. No invester wants to take a club on that the first job is to build or redevelop a stadium If this is an option i would snap the councils hand off. It means the club will not be in league 2 in 2 years or even the conference, you say it cant happen look at the conference, stockport!! in the conference wasnt that long ago they were in the championship (div 1 at the time) bradford and swindon in league 2 ex prem teams Lets get real this could save our club and bring in revenues that mean the main stand may just turn into a small seating stand and the chaddy can be rebuilt, money brings money and at the moment we dont have any. Look at Blackpool built their ground up from a :censored: hole to a nice ground with 3 brilliant stands and 1 temp stand. Bloomfield road is 10 times better ground than boundary park and there development was done before the prem money came. GET BEHIND THIS DONT SLAG IT OFF

I understand who we have signed but after those 4 signings you mention Dickov himself has said there are more signings to come Yes i agree signing a player is a drown out process which is why you normally hear rumours!!

Seems very strange that we are less than 2 weeks away from the season and by his own comments he is still a keeper, midfielder and striker short and there is no whispers looks like we will be going down the loan route for a striker, unless he feels rueben and smith are the answer with feeney and brooke backing them up Is Euan Holden likely or was that never on the cards?

From what i was told at the wigan game is that the club has a number of french trialists the left back with the Neamar haircut is rapid but poor on the ball and speaks very little english Did we have a coloured central midfielder against Salford?? he looked brilliant against wigan, got stuck in, good touch and pass and was very vocal with good english (french accent) Anyone heard anything about french trialists??

i was told by someone from the club he has been released

Just checked pictures and yeah its dave parton. Looked decent 2 good saves

back 5 solid - Zander and Mvoto looked good together Midfield 4 - Taylor, Filipe, Furmen and trialist did well kept the ball very well top 2 -Reid and Smith looked really good, smith towered over everyone at wigan and their defenders are all 6ft plus and he won alot of headers and kept the ball well. Reid took the goal well They used about 8 trialists of which 7 came on late Trialist keeper came on and looked decent made a couple of good saves (from stoke) Central Midfielder - french looked really good, put in some big tackles, always talking and stood out of his 20 mins Left Back - Didnt speak much english and struggled to communicate with the team but was rapid Warren Feeney did bugger all in his 30 mins, he didnt kick the ball and just had a go at people Overall good performance and some good positives

Yeah at the training ground and behind closed doors but my mate is on the coaching staff at wigan

Off to watch the game today, will try and get some names of the trialist for you lot

Porter has taken the money and joined sheff utd....