tGWB

Cannot be any justified reason not to participate fully with concise responses if the questions are offered well in advance of the meeting

nonanever

No sarcasm or unhelpful messages so far in response from your opening post which shows how serious the topic is to everyone

Don't know who you are but for what its worth, personally I think you've played a blinder and your obvious commitment and passion for our Club is admirable

For me the number of questions need to be significantly reduced to ensure it doesn't feel like an inquisition, so a small number (maybe 10-12 'key questions') that focus on the majority of supporters main concerns which are the finances of the Club. if we cant qualify our financial circumstances, all our other questions matter less.

Everyone at the Club has had 2 weeks to get ready for today

Above everything else, Its what we do isn't it

And we're the only Club in the Football League who cant fulfil our fixture

No revenue and I'd expect there will still be bills to pay despite the postponement

It's not bad luck or the Refs fault, its simply total incompetence

yarddog73

Despite you appearing on OWTB as a 'serial cynic' I used to at least read your posts and try to consider your opinions / views

You've been well found out by continuing your 'bluster'

For me you've lost any credibility at all

Usual 'serial cynics' at it again

Well done Latics

I genuinely think its a really positive response to our Supporters

Down to the players now to put an extra shift in starting this weekend

Was thinking about giving the Doncaster game a miss but I'm definitely going now

Looking forward to a good run of performances and a few wins at Home

Here's hoping for a 'Fortress BP' were Teams really don't like coming

Message to the Club:

Well done Latics for at least asking the Supporters what we think

You're not going to win over 'the serial sceptics' whatever you do and for me no real surprises in the survey results but you've done absolutely the right thing in trying to engage with us and confirming our concerns / views.

Over 1,000 responses clearly demonstrates a lot of 'stay away' fans are still 'emotionally attached' to OAFC (or we have a c30% of our Home crowd support responding to the survey, which just doesn't happen)

However, now you've asked what we think, you really do need to action some plans to try and address our concerns or you risk further alienating our Fans / Supporters

Just completed the survey

It's fairly easy chucking out an on-line survey but a far more difficult challenge to get some positive actions / options from it

If the Club is genuinely serious about improving engagement with its Supporters and committing to improving our Match Day experience, they should publish (in a fairly timely manner) an overview of the Survey as a start point

Fingers Crossed we're at the dawning of a new age

We're about to find out that many senior football household names have been avoiding paying their taxes by receiving undeclared payments

Evidence from The Telegraph will be passed on to HRMC and they will be prosecuted.

The blame for this lies firmly with the recipients of the undeclared payments, simple as for me

With all the money swimming around the Football fraternity its a disgrace

Hopefully a few wont blight the whole of our national sport

deyres42 post (today 08.57)

Football management accepting undeclared payments to deliberately avoid paying taxes is linked in some way to the current political climate !!

wtf

We didn't underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought

I bought 9 tickets yesterday for the Bury game and was informed we had sold well under 1000

A few years ago we would have smashed the 1800 allocation

Could be wrong but my guess is we will be well down on what we would normally take

underdog

I checked out the TrustOldham website yesterday and the few information pages I checked appear to be either incomplete or out of date

The Who's Who tab for example was incomplete

I completed an online form to advise you but didn't get a confirmation receipt

rudemedic and oafc1955,

I'm saying that given a few people might have been working etc and taking your point on many a poor player getting to wear our shirt in recent years, with it being the first home game of the season with new management and a totally new team and it being Jimmy Frizzell Day, 3500 is abysmal

To be frank, I guess I was hoping for just a glimmer that we can change things round

I do like the appointment of Steve Robinson and that we have a totally fresh playing squad and of course the renaming of the Rochdale Road End (hated that name) to The Jimmy Frizzell Stand

Disillusioned by on and off field events over the last few years is no excuse for only 3500 Oldham Athletic Fans turning out

New Manager, entirely New Team, First Home League Game of the Season and the day headlined as Jimmy Frizzell Day, every true Oldham Athletic Fan should have turned up yesterday

Apathy can be no excuse for not paying respect to such a Great Club Man and showing our new team management and players what they can expect to have supporting them should they do well on the pitch

Apologies for the language but:

Our fan base is f*$k^n lightweight !!

We have only 3500 true fans and if that's all we have, how on earth do we expect to generate enough £s to build our future

I've struggled myself in recent years with all that's been going on but I wouldn't have missed yesterday for anything

You don't have to be a football genius to work this one out

In our 20th Season in the same League, its highly likely we will start the 2017/18 Season again in League One

Late push for the play offs hopefully, but despite the obvious strength of our new management team, I suspect it will be at the lower end of the table again

opinions4u

Guess that's one of the things that keeps us going to the footie

People at the same game, supporting the same team, see different things

Glad I'm not a Ref eh

I was sat in the stand were a couple of fans give Cassidy some verbal mainly along the lines of telling him to use his size and strength and put some effort in (in fairness with a few f**ks chucked in)

Maybe wrong of him but, Cassidy did respond, which for me at least showed some passion - didn't hear him telling anyone to f**k off

Anyway on to the more important issues of the football we served up

Early doors I know but . . . .

Defence looked fragile with the free kick being conceded due to a foul trying to stop their forward who had skipped through 2-3 earlier attempted tackles

Keeper had no chance of stopping the free kick from just outside the box and you have to question how we lined up the wall to defend it

Attack wise, we had two headers which their keeper comfortably dealt with and none of us could recall a single shot on their goal

Like I said, early doors but Steve Robinson has a right job on his hands just from our August games. Walsall and newly promoted Northampton at Home. Millwall Bury and Bradford Away

Not good is it when you're thinking of scrambling for points v those teams

Instead of getting more players in, I'd seriously be thinking of registering a wagon full of sandbags that we can build at the edge of our penalty area

Really had my Club loyalty tested these last few months with everything that's going on, particularly with the shock (to me) departure of Sheridan after he saved us from the drop

Got to the stage of deciding to pick my games that I thought worth attending both at Home & Away

Cant explain how "f in brilliant" it feels this morning with the new Manager appointment

Try as a might to kid myself I don't care anymore, OAFC in whatever guise is simply in my DNA

"We get knocked down

But We get up again

You're never gonna keep us down"

Smiling again

"Can't smile wide enough"

Much better than last seasons with a decent collar for a change

Blue & White Home Kit - no one can complain at that (can they!)

White & Blue Away Kit - well smart

No Red

Either by default or design, getting someone who has been part of getting Northern Ireland into the Euros sounds like a cracking candidate for making our team much more difficult to beat to me

"Fortress Boundary Park" back on the cards

Shefki, managing and motivating the team supported by Sean O'Driscoll looks a better option (and realistic) than anything else I've seen posted on OWTBs or on Social Media

Finally, something encouraging

Definitely not going to any of these games no matter who we are playing

Hope that two Premier League U21s get into the Final at Wembley to play in front of a likely lowest Wembley attendance ever

WTF is happening to Football

I'm just gonna put my head in the sand and hope it all goes away n we start the new season with a few amazing signings secured by John Sheridan and a supportive Board

1. The Premier League Teams are already reducing the scale of their Academies never mind running a 'B Team' in the new 'FL80' and they currently loan most of their younger players out to FL72 teams to gain experience already

2. There is no way at all that Celtic or Rangers would give up their entry into the Champions / Europa Leagues to play football in the English Leagues

3. No more 'daft midweek fixtures' Away at Southend or Home v Teams travelling hundreds of miles with only a loyal few fans making the journey

Just an opinion . . . .

Keep the Championship but with only 20 Teams

Keep League One but only 20 Teams with 4 Teams falling from the Championship

Introduce a Northern League with 20 Teams and likewise a Southern League - Leagues would be made up of 8 teams from League One, the current 24 Teams from League Two and 8 Teams from the current National Conference

Whilst there is less League games I would think playing more teams on a Saturday that are within 'reasonable travel times' will boost attendances and likely make up the concerns of revenue loss with less games

It's an absolute winner for me