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Nah PW teaches them with the Manchester FA I think he said, just gonna do that first and then go from there

It would be good if we had a city style points system or something, but end of the day we aren’t big enough of a club or pull in a big enough crowd week in week out, nor feature in big enough games to warrant doing something like this just for the sake of the odd FA cup run Hopefully we will get more tickets from donny, then we can go from there

Yeah ive heard they’re class! Really looking forward to doing it. I was going to do it through Lancashire FA but then started at Latics so obvs makes sense to use that as my way in

At the end of the day though we are a ticket office, we have to sell tickets. We can’t sell to customers based on how long they’ve supported the club for or how many games they have or haven’t been to this season It’s swings and roundabouts. If you wanted a ticket that bad then make sure you’re first to the ticket office or first to buy online. Unfortunately we can’t please everybody

We did to be fair but I think everyone did regardless, we still would have done 4 per customer for the reasons I detailed to deyres above

We do care who we sell them to. Hence why we would sell 4 to a father of 3 who wants to go to the game with his 3 kids who are at school whilst he’s coming to the Ticket office to buy tickets before work etc etc etc We did 4 when on general sale for Fulham, why would we change that now? everyone who wanted a ticket for Fulham got one nobody knew that we would take this many to Doncaster. Even I couldn’t guess two per person is stupid, especially when people work, are at school, and there’s no home game between now and the game. Nobody else has complained?

I genuinely don’t know if he’s being serious or not. Don’t mind either though. Don’t like ignoring trolls, better to just call them out and prove them wrong! If he’s not trolling then hope he realises now why we do four per customer Yeah everyone works hard! isn’t just me, Sue the woman I work with should be retired and should be working with us part time, at the moment she’s doing full time hours. Ashleigh the commercial assistant should be focusing on commercial but was a massive help today. ive seen Sam get some slack on social media, I mean we all do, but sam’s a credit to the football club and he’s going to be a massive loss to us. Dom the media assistant started just before me and he’s still getting to grips with the role, like myself our new club secretary mark Sheridan puts in a right shift and does a lot of late nights, he’s really hit the ground running taking over from Richard and he’s also a credit to the football club they might not like me going on but they all deserve a pat on the back from the fans too. Not one person slacks off so it is nice when good things get said about us all!

Sometimes it’s down to safety/stewarding/policing reasons though. It costs clubs to open a section of the stand up or give a section of the home end to away fans as they need to pay for more stewards, more policing, and obviously take into account the safety aspect of things. sometimes the cost of this isn’t worth it... plus we don’t know how well Doncaster are doing for home tickets, or how many they anticipate will POTD. will enquire though and of course provide an update on the outcome

Hopefully doing my level 1 with PW next summer so who knows! (obvs joking)

Gonna ask first thing tomorrow but it’s probably unlikely, they’ve already give us 25% of the grounds capacity which is 10% more than what we are entitled to (FA rules)

Okay next time we will just do one per customer, then if a couple want to go with their kids, they’ll have to get their kids to come to the Ticket office and purchase and then have seats not even close to their parents Not very logical is it?

Thanks guys! hope everyone got sorted out. Been absolutely manic today

Thanks for that Steve happy to help!

That’s exactly what I’m hoping for!

Thanks As long as we beat Doncaster, draw a top team away, and the hard work continues... then I think we’ll be fine!

I wish!

If you have any issues buying online get in touch either via phone or the ticket office Twitter/Facebook page Used to play right back! but I think Hamer and Hunt are a little bit better than me

Thanks for the kind words . I only started managing the Ticket Office in September so it’s nice to hear fans speak highly of it now, that was the goal! And we are always looking at ways to improve. When it quietens down or during the summer I’m going to try and get some supporter feedback etc so obviously will post it on here also obviously I can only do so much atm via the Ticket Office but I do want to be connected to the fans (being one myself) so being active on here, social media, and being a friendly (most the time!) face at the Ticket office helps that!

The end of the day though, footballers are human beings. It’s a short career, and they have to take into account the variables of ambition, loyalty, success, being closer to family, standard of living, etc I feel connected to the players. Yes I work at the club so it’s a bit easier... but I want to see George Edmundson and Tom Hamer do well, I think Langy can go right to the top he’s that good and technically gifted. Peter Clarke gives his all every game despite being THIRTY SEVEN (I genuinely think some fans forget that), COG is the nicest man in football, and it may show on the pitch sometimes, but he’s a work horse and I admire his professionalism. Missilou and Nepomuceno are different class, I get excited when Nepo gets on the ball, he’s the best left winger we’ve had in years. As long as they give their all whilst they’re here, if they move they move. It’s not on us to decide for them or vilify a human being for making a decision, even if they are professional footballers

It is four but we will allow for five. It’s always four just so people aren’t ridiculous and try and order like 10 or 15 as one customer... as it puts off potential touters I know we’re only little Oldham Athletic but if we didn’t have restrictions then it would be very easy for people to buy a lot of tickets for £10 and flog them to supporters for £20 online it will be max 4, that’s just because of the setting on the system though... via the ticket office we’ll make exceptions for 5

Valid point but it’s not as if we haven’t signed “English” players this season too. COG, Andy Taylor, Ish, Iverson, Lyden, Baxter, Giles Coke, Lang And also, when was the last time we had two home grown players featuring regularly (and performing well regularly) in the starting 11? Plenty of teams in the lower leagues have plenty of foreign players that play for them. Missilou has probably shown more passion for the shirt than half of the lower league journeymen we’ve signed in the past. Isn’t that what it’s all about?

Yeah they’ll be online at tickets.latics.co.uk from 9:30AM onwards pls order them online, the ticketmaster service we offer is really good and it’s there to help fans and make life easier for all concerned

Yeah, they should be available from 1PM onwards, or so I was told. There is limited availability though as I think once those 50 tickets are gone, that’s it

We sent about 50 back which Macc said they would make available at their Ticket Office