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Baffling why anyone would want to give the Away Fans clearly the best of the 'End Stands' Other than from a nostalgic point of view it makes no sense at all The Jimmy Frizzell Stand offers growth for more Home Fans should we improve the performance on the pitch, whereas if we swapped Stands we would be giving the larger Stand to the Away Fans, who lets be honest, other than a few Clubs don't get remotely close to filling the Chaddy End btw, my Dad and Grandad took me to my first game in the late 60's and we stood in the Chaddy End so I fully appreciate the History

Hope its not postponed We have a number of Frankfurt Fans over for the trip

Away at Hyde United where Darren Kelly is the manager would be decent and their 4,250 capacity should take most of our 'travelling' fans

Think we need a sprinkling of reality Before yesterday we had won 3 games in a row under the guidance of Richie Wellens, who for me has done a brilliant job of producing a much better of style of football than we've seen for a very long time and is getting results However, despite facing ex Premier League Champions and local neighbours Blackburn Rovers for the first time in the League since 1993, our official attendance was only 7,784 of which c3,500 being Rovers fans. So despite the massive improvement in results, the Media attention (tv and newspapers) regarding a new manger appointment and if we won, it would the first time in our Club History that a new manager got 4 wins in a row,only 4,300 Latics Supporters turn up ! We have paid our Club Staff and Players late again and not for the first time. Recently published financial data point to annual trading losses in the £millions. Our Club is in desperate need of financial help, be it from a Takeover or an Investor and not for just a few £million Anyone who is prepared to spend £millions in our Club will most certainly have their own ideas on who they want to appoint in both 'on the field' matters and likewise 'off the field' matters. I would be seriously concerned if they did not want to. Yesterdays game was the most I have enjoyed at Boundary Park for years and I truly hope Richie Wellens will play a significant role in the ongoing future of playing staff. However,I would be really surprised, if there is not a new manager waiting to be announced as part of the financial help deal that we critically need

leeslover remarked about the ownership of the North Stand and I confirmed we rented it from Brass Bank Ltd Where are you picking up a point about OAFC 2004 Ltd owing rent for the ground ?

ChaddySmoker Are you saying the Fans Meeting notes regarding the renting of the North Stand from Brass Bank Ltd (as extracted above) is incorrect then ?

The meeting notes clearly state the Club 'rent the land & buildings from BBL @ £100K per annum (recently reduced from £150k).

The Fans Meeting with the Chairman confirmed that Brassbank owned the North Stand and that we pay £100k / year to rent it

Accounts registered 26th September 2017 are for year ending 30th June 2016 The document registered is a balance sheet not a Profit & Loss account Points of note are: Tangible Assets (assets having a physical form such as buildings land machinery) have reduced to £3m from £4.3m in 2015 Debtors (what is owed to us) is £230k from £637k in 2015 Creditors (what we owe) is £11.7m up from £9m in 2015 Profit & Loss (summary of costs and expenses v revenue) present a Loss of £8.9m up from a Loss of £4.4m in 2015 A balance sheet doesn't give a full picture of a business financial standing, particularly relating to who our Creditors are Anyone wanting to acquire our Club would have to be convinced of the valuation of our Tangible Assets (relatively straight forward)) but the size of our Creditors (what we owe) and who we owe, would be the challenge depending on the Creditors expectations (ie how much of their monies are they expecting back / prepared to write off) The Creditors amount of £11.7m would need a negotiated settlement or the amount to be refinanced Its worth noting that this financial data is from over 12 months ago and could have changed significantly over that period A new buyer or Investor would obviously have access to current financial trading and current debt liabilities All the above information is in the public domain and to speculate further would not be 'good form'

League Tables take the emotion out of it and we're not 2nd from bottom of League One for nothing Of course it would be brilliant if an ex player brought us success, but for me its highly risky and unlikely We have an immediate problem that needs resolving, whilst setting realistic ambitions on our future and lets be brutally honest, our Club has been in a spiral of decline for a number of year both on and off the pitch, resulting in reducing numbers watching games at Boundary Park, generating less revenue. We need to make Boundary Park a Fortress where opposition teams dread coming to and they go back with very little Better Home form will lift us up the table and if sustained is the only way we will gradually build our attendances which improve revenues and with it our ability to attract more players of quality, as they do exist as recently proven (Bryan Byrne Doyle Gardner) I really cannot see anything but 'previous management experience' achieving this for us And does anyone really think we have someone waiting to pump Oil Sheikh multi £millions into our Club

Its all about opinions of course But for me, the Manager of our Club is the single most important job of all and I wouldn't risk putting our future in the hands of anyone who has never 'managed' a football club previously or at least progressed with football experience and guidance Footballer to Qualified Coach to Coaching Staff to Assistant Manger to New Manager, all day long

boundaryblue80 / singe RW has no management experience at all so an extended run as Caretaker Manager would be naïve Having him part of the coaching team or Assistant Manager to enable him to learn off an experienced Manager maybe Agree entirely that with him only recently giving up playing that he could well be really valuable to a new experienced Manager Seriously, if we get this appointment wrong we're very likely to tumble into League 2 and we cant keep missing the drop by a few games every single season

You cant seriously believe a man who was part of the coaching team has magically turned everything round for us in a few days The recent additions of Eoin Doyle, Kean Bryan, Jack Byrne and less recently Dan Gardner have give us a better chance to compete for sure but we've seen that in recent games Really hope that Richie Wellens spell as Caretaker goes well and maybe he can become part of the new coaching team but giving him an extended run as our Manager, I think not

This is not a time for sentiment and certainly not about considering appointing ex players with no/little management experience at all If we don't get this next Manager appointment right we seriously risk the drop into League 2 which holds the 'trapdoor to oblivion' Chesterfield and Port Vale are currently in the bottom 3 of League 2, very similar Clubs to ourselves A Manager of experience is critical now

Only way to stop a 6'5" striker is to stop crosses coming in, yet we play wing backs who are more attacking orientated than defenders. Great formation if you're expecting to comfortably win a game. Rotherham were fast playing down the flanks, rarely playing through the centre so got enough crosses in to win 3-4 games We obviously set up our formation without having a clue about how Rotherham play !

For me, the reason for such a heavy defeat, which to be fair could have been by an additional 2-3 goals, is fairly simple. Against a team that had already scored 5 goals we lined up with a 3-5-2 formation against a 4-1-4-1 A 3-5-2 formation was even more disappointing when you're defending against a 6'5" striker You'd think that with our starting formation that we were the team having scored 5 goals in a game already !! Doesn't anyone watch the opposition in advance of us playing them

IF we get any new investment its highly unlikely to be anything that will massively change the fortunes of our Club Hopefully though something that will enable us to continually improve our squad, as we've seen in recent weeks with the introduction of Eoin Doyle Jack Byrne Kean Bryan and less recently Dan Gardner. The addition of a 'well known' player at the latter years of their career would be a bonus For me, I'd most certainly stick with John Sheridan who with funds to strengthening the squad could well get us to a play off place. If our supposed new investor was a billionaire oil sheikh, I'm pretty sure we would have all known by now

Much improved performance yesterday particularly from midfield with Dan Gardner Jack Byrne and Kean Bryan fairly much bossing the game Eoin Doyle is class for League One and we seemed more dangerous with him partnering Davies than Holloway. Hopefully we can hold onto him after January The new lad No27 Nepomucenco didn't look like he had played 'wing back' previously but to be fair it was his first game and I thought he looked to be playing better in the 2nd half but clearly was tiring towards the end Young Edmundson was against both attackers and defenders (for set pieces) who were from 'the Land of the Giants' and I thought faired well all things considered As for conceding the penalty, whilst the actual attempted tackle was a little naïve, the mounting Fleetwood attacks should have been disrupted by our management team making a couple of substitutions and knocking a few minutes off the added 4 minutes. Definitely more optimistic having watched us over the last few games

Where did you read that ?

Midfield looks something like decent now with Jack Byrne Danny Gardner and Kean Bryan (when fully fit) with all of them looking to play the ball forward Eoin Doyle has a class first touch and took his goal exceptionally well. Don't see him as a lone striker so we will need to find him a partner fairly sharpish and tbh I'm not at all sure who best fits that role. Davies movement is poor and hardly ever wins a header, Holloway wins a fair share of headers and could be the more likely to help feed Doyle. Totally baffled why we continue to start so flat and every team in League One must know to chuck everything at us from the start. Ben Wilsons confidence must be an issue now so we need to try our new International Keeper for the Fleetwood game

I would suggest that a 3% stake in any business gives you little other than the option to comment about who is buying the remaining 97% shares, certainly not the option to prevent any majority shareholder shares purchase Its easy to think 'cloak and dagger' dealings by the Chairman but realistically, why would anyone discuss Club intimate dealings with a 3% stakeholder especially if the relationship is all but broken down

Your recent posts have advised that the relationship between the Chairman and the Trust has broken down so not surprising that any confidential information is not being discussed with the Trust I would also suggest that holding a 3% stake in the Club would only warrant a courtesy advance notification when any significant change to the Club structure is imminent. 3% certainly would not warrant active involvement in any detailed discussions Just being realistic

Well for what its worth, the Oldham Chronicle doesn't appear to be prepared for any announcement of significance regarding the long term future of the Club Todays back page headlines being: Hectic day awaits Shez Transfer deals are set to be completed

In Saturdays Programme under Academy News, Tony Philliskirk stated "Last season alone, we sold Chris Renshaw to Everton, an under 12 to Liverpool and under 9 signed for Man City" "Our under 15 player Jack Williams went away to an England training camp and was the only category 3 player there and in the game he played, he scored two and set one up" He also talks about when a player first starts with us, its about educating them the Oldham Athletic way Reads really well and sounds very encouraging and I love the thought of 'the Oldham Athletic Way' but we don't seem to feel it in the first team

It simply isn't about spending loads in the transfer market Both John Sheridan and Richie Wellens were combative and played every game to Win Tommy Wright another combative player with a decent goals to games ratio What bemuses me is that all three seem unable to at least get their playing attitude into our players and you wouldn't be looking forward to having to play against a team with a 'midfield' including Richie Wellens, Tommy Wright and John Sheridan ! What happened to 'coaching and improving' players ! Attacking and Defending Corner Kicks Attacking and Defending Free Kicks Maximising 'Throw Ins' Pressing and closing down the opposition Pass & Go, NOT just hoofing the ball Being fit enough to keep going for 90mins On Saturday our lone striker had virtually all the 'passes' to him in the air against two giant Wigan Defenders, No33 being 6'7" We're highly unlikely to ever get enough to simply buy in talent so we seriously need to improve on our coaching and player attitudes to playing for our Club