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Ok, the majority don't but the club can't just not pay them for that reason. I know of one player particularly. Not sure about the others.

So why weren't the players paid anything over their basic wages?

What a nothing article. "Oi, web monkey, fans are getting restless" "Right boss, what shalll I say?" "Compile a load of guff that implies Failsworth is moving forward" "Right boss" Why has this all of a sudden started moving again?! They can't do anything with the land! It's still in limbo!!

Bob, for a start the club did not employ Franny to do the lotto. That is nothing to do with the club. So they have no grounds to sack him for anything to do with the lotto. They sacked him because Alan Hardy had a meeting with the Hudds lotto people last week. They have been trying to move it over for a while now. There is a lot more going on that people don't realise. Yet more bully boy tactics.

http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-fea...manchester-city FAILSWORTH School is set to be one of the first schools to formally link up with Manchester City FC. The specialist sports college is one of two secondary schools in Oldham which want football clubs to help run the schools. The move would see Failsworth — which is in prime City territory — become a trust with the Blues, Manchester Metropolitan University, The Co-operative, Oldham Sixth form College, and Oldham Council on April 1. It would continue to be funded by Oldham Council, but would be independent of local authority control with powers similar to voluntary-aided schools such as Blue Coat and Crompton House. The trust would own the school’s land and buildings, and appoint some of the governors. The governing body would set admission arrangements within the law — which means they can’t select academically — and employ staff. Radclyffe School, Chadderton, wants to set up a similar link with Oldham Athletic. Failsworth head teacher John Meagher admitted he was a rugby rather than a football fan, but said: “Manchester City is a good link for us to have as a sports college. “For me a key part of this is beginning to work with a number of partners to develop the school and build on the good relations we have in the community. “The trust will be of a co-operative nature and we do share the ethos and values existing within the co-operative movement.” Former Blues’ goalkeeper Alex Williams MBE, executive manager of City in the Community, said the club was also developing a similar link with another high school in Manchester. He added “We have always had great links with Failsworth School and our club secretary Bernard Halford has been a school governor there for a number of years. “We also have links with the school through our junior academy and the next step for us is to be involved at board level.” A flagship Government education policy, trust schools aim to strengthen and formalise existing links with charities, businesses, other schools and universities to improve education. Schools do not receive extra funding, but benefit from the time and expertise of their partners. This could range from work to encourage more pupils to go to university and college, to education initiatives which many sports clubs already run. Failsworth and Radclyffe both moved into new school buildings in 2008 under a deal which sees private companies run and maintain the buildings. They are currently consulting on the plans to follow in the footsteps of Hathershaw School, which has formed a trust with the Co-operative, John Moores University, NHS Oldham, Oldham Sixth form College and three primary schools. Radclyffe would become a trust on May 1 and its other partners would be Oldham Primary Care Trust, University Campus Oldham, the sixth form college the council and the Co-operative. Head teacher Hardial Hayer said: “It is not about finances, we are not going to get any additional money. “The driver is for our school and our school community to take control of its own destiny and continue down the road of raising standards through partnerships. “The expertise of these partners will help us to reach the goal we have set ourselves of becoming the best secondary school in the country. “One of the things about trust status is to formalise these links.”

What's a scoreboard??

Unfortunately the walls have eyes!

Over 5 years. Won't be renewing. Sick of all the negativity. I can't even drink to drown it out as I drive the masses! Believe the club is being run into the ground and I don't want to be emotionally attached when it happens.

Niks hit the nail right on the head. The state we are in isn't just down to the manager. It's the entire club. It's rotting from the inside out. From the owners down to the ground staff. All the negativity within the club is affecting the players on the pitch. No motivation. The owners believed they could take this club further. Now they've realised we can never have the fan base to be a stable Championship club. Failsworth won't happen, the council don't care about sport in the town. I believe it will go to pot, and we will rot in a 3 sided ground while the land around is sold off for development to try and claw some money back. I'm not a Penney outer or inner. I honestly don't know what the best thing would be. I just know the club I love I'd being run into the ground. And please, Hardy is a fan, don't make me wee my knickers!

It was rubbish. Clueless players. Clueless tactics. Clueless manager. Gutted I got a season ticket. Definitely won't be next year!

I've been in the lottery for yonks. I've always had my prizes. I have a letter at home entitling me to 2 free match tickets. So I am one customer that can vouch for receiving what I have won. Where are these people that supposedly haven't received things? As Lags has said... bully boy tactics. You know who you are and you will be reading this!! People aren't daft.

Haven't been on here for quite some time as everything I hear about the club is really getting on my nerves. I think certain members of staff within the club need to grow some big hairy balls, act like men and realise that they aren't 6 in the playground at school again. Oh and the fans aren't as stupid as you think we are. Things like this, the will they won't they new ground planning housing farce has really put me off being a Latics fan. Not the bad football. All the crap behind the scenes. Smacks to me of people who want out and are slowly but surely killing stuff along the way. Girly rant, but I've had enough.

Haha, they've changed it now! As if we're the breaking news story. The world of football is soooooo exciting today.

Did anyone just see it mentioned on SSN?? "Stockport Oldham called off, so for those fans who were heading there, I guess it's more difficult for Oldham fans, but Stockport fans stay home" Someone doesn't know their geography!!!!

I am not going to go through all the posts in this thread, but I was just wondering why TTA are reacting so much to this??? If they have the best interests of the club at heart then they wouldn't be goading fans, through you Barry, to confront them about leaving. They're supposed to be business men running a business, something I assume they are good at. You will never please everyone. Surely they know that? So if they really had the best interests of the club at the forefront of their mind, they would know that deep down, what they are doing is right 100%. And they would ignore the negative points the fans are coming out with. Twitchy bum me thinks, but that's just my opinion. And I kind of agree with Prozac, I don't see how being part of the Trust AND a club Director isn't a conflict of interest. Just saying like.

It makes no difference to me whether the club is in Failsworth or stays where it is. I live in Bury. I have to travel anyway. So my pre-match routine will not be changed. So that is not my reason to be against the move. I'm not trying to scaremonger. I am saying what I think. Based on bits of information I have gathered from different sources. And on what I make of it.

No I know that, I mean in the recent past! I have seen worse lack of interest than that. Makes me ask myself why I bother sometimes?! Oh yeah, cos it feels illegal not to go!!

Anyone who has Latics in their heart would not move the club to Failsworth. I'm going to come out and say it, but I don't think TTA care anymore, they want out, and this is their best way of doing so without incurring more money losses than has already happened. The council have long had favourites for passing planning permission. They will be getting what they want out of this move. The football club will then live in an area away from core fans, isolating some of them, and will not attract new fans as they can trundle down the road to watch City for less money. I believe this is a bad move for the club. I don't think we will survive.

I don't agree with people singling players out for abuse, nor singing for Shez. Too many thick little boys joining in with their big, 'ard mates. BUT what really winds me up about this is that they didn't look interested. I'm so annoyed. It's been a while since I've seen such a lack of trying. Fair enough, there were the odd spurt of energy, but nowhere near enough.

Sod it, I'm diving in. There's something fishy going on here. I can't understand why the council have now decided to work alongside us and support the club. Oh wait, yes I do, they want houses to be built on BP - affordable social housing. Can't do that unless the football club relocates. So how can they achieve that little nugget? I know, give us permission somewhere else. That might as well be Newton Heath. On green field land that really should not be developed. I don't like this one bit, even though I have said in the past maybe it's the only way. Now I'm changing my mind. OMBC back scratching anyone?

That video is hilarious. But now I'm drowning in all the male saliva..............................

I agree. Moving to Failsworth is a slippery slope. It isn't the right place. Something aint right in the club. I'm sensing doom and gloom!!!

The problem with a site that is already developed is that you will have demolition costs and potential contamination. From an environmental point of view, this is better as it's a brown field site and will be leaving green, ecologically valuable sites alone. But there is a cost implication. And that is what will always be at the front of TTAs minds.

Excuse me but we're not 'standing in line' as you put it. Nor are we lemmings. We have an opinion, like you have yours. You have the same opinion of other people. That doesn't make you a lemming. So get over yourself, you aren't unique.

Oh my God my head hurts after trying to read all that. Well, what this comes down to is really, it's nothing to do with us. It's not our club. We don't own it. We don't own the land. If TTA want to move us, then it's going to happen. The best thing you can do is try and have constructive input into what happens. If they consult properly. You're all going round and round in circles, asking the same old questions and it won't change what's obviously going to happen anyway!