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2 minutes ago, daniel said:

Absolute tripe. We may as well pack up now then if top half NL is our baseline. Are you privy to Frank Rothwell’s wealth? We had the biggest budget in the league last season, and will be top 3 at least again next. It’s all about how recruitment goes and seeing if we can learn from previous mistakes. 

Exactly.

The budget won't be an issue if you choose the right player.

Whoa whoa everybody you're lapsing back into the disasters of the past

Let them go and look forward..... to the disasters yet to come.... Tamworth!!!

47 minutes ago, deyres42 said:

I think given the manager's well documented comments about the need for change you can make a pretty strong educated guess that none of them will be offered new contracts.

Yes I agree. I would guess that too, but as you say it is a guess and going by a lot of comments on here it has thrown up more queries rather than clarify them.

6 minutes ago, deyres42 said:

Not sure you can get much clearer than these ones are under contract and these ones are not...

Yes you can. You can confirm whether or not they are negotiating a new deal with them.

Just informing us what we already know about when their contracts ends does not clarify what is happening for the coming season.

Why is the club so bad with statements?

They must know people are anxious. They must know people are waiting for a glimmer of hope. They must know people are waiting for decisions on players before buying season tickets.

If MM is the honest straight talking guy he says he is, then give us some proper information.

3 hours ago, Dave_Og said:

Many things that I struggle to get my head around, one would be Lundstram.Apparently he'd struggled to adjust to being at a bigger club? He's not got much of a career ahead of him if that's really the case. It's not like he's moved to Real Madrid 

I know Dave but if he gets nervous about playing and is brave enough to tell us all then a bit of support for him wouldn't be a bad thing.

It's all relative what worries you, I worried when my pub team got promoted to the Oldham Sunday premier league

2 minutes ago, yarddog73 said:

Why wouldn't that be available to all fans then?, not looking for an argument it's just a simple question as to how the club communicates to those not part of the Foundation.

Oh no!!! It's looking like the Foundation will have to make a statement about the £1 per month.

That's not the statement we wanted !!!!

I agree with oafc 1955 and League One. I always try and stay positive where possible, but that interview definitely knocked me a bit.

I love a rallying cry and it's something I feel I need to get me going again

Come on Latics , I know some people will pick at any sort of statement but I feel saying nothing is worse.

41 minutes ago, astottie said:

If I've read it correctly Gateshead have known about and been trying to sort the problem with the council for the past 2 years.

The NL could have set a deadline, say 10 matches ago and stated that if Gateshead finish in the play-offs the next team down takes their place.

No team should get a bye 

6 minutes ago, deyres42 said:

Is it massively imbalanced though? Other than a right back and a left midfielder we seem pretty well stocked.

I don't it's the imbalance that's bothering people, it's the effort the players are putting in.

Only just logged on after drinking to forget yesterday, so not sure if anyone has mentioned the two points I have issue with in MM's interview.

I was praying he wouldn't use the "tired" excuse but he did. It's embarrassing to even mention that when Wealdstone and Halifax had to plough through so many fixtures.

Also to accuse the guy interviewing him as using lazy journalism is the the most ironic comment of the lot. He was allowed to waffle on bemoaning these cherubs were knackered. Pick players who hadn't "tired" themselves out on Thursday then.

He said one word that summed up the terrible run of results and MM slates him for laziness. MM then just picked out the odd decent draw against Chesterfield for example and lazily skipped the bad draws and defeats against Oxford etc.

There was a point when the Wealdstone defence had the ball and no-one went towards them to intercept, so they just stood still with the ball.

Eventually I think it was Gardner who jogged forward to get the game going again.

If ever a passage of play summed the season it was that for me.

13 hours ago, BradKnowles1 said:

We lose tomorrow I’m being serious I will boo like I’ve never booed before 

I feel total silence and then walk out is better. Eerie silence shows the total deflation of the fans.

Being completely disappointed in them is better than anger, this only brings anger back at you. Sorry dad mode kicked in

1 hour ago, jsslatic said:

8 days left of the season and still no news - going to be behind closed doors this isn't it?

Yes it would have been nice to have an update even to say there is no update

Actually I would have liked to know what the options are being thrown around because if it ends up being further away I really needed to try and book an early finish in at work.

Well never mind I think you're right about the behind closed doors bit so it won't matter.

10 hours ago, BP1960 said:

 

Yet early season in usually decent weather it's one match a week.

Exactly. In my head the season should finish the first Saturday in May, it's now finished mid-April.

So squeeze a couple more night matches in early doors. It would help a lot by the end of the season.

Let's see next season if the NL learn from the mistakes from this season.

2 minutes ago, Dickie Down said:

The club should be representing their supporters publicly on this.

 

They have getting towards 2000 people who need to make arrangements for tomorrow night and are completely in the dark.

 

Say it's at Harrogate. That's at least an hour each way further. There will be many who can't do that for a variety of reasons.

 

It may be happening in private, but it would be very good policy to represent the supporters in public pretty quickly.

 

I would think a lot of people have booked a train to Halifax. So are they going to put on buses from Halifax station to wherever it's being played?

25 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

 

yes, because the ref's job is to assess whether it is fit to play at that particular time

That is exactly what has caused the situation we are in. Crazy

4 minutes ago, oafc1955 said:

No chance the game will be moved at such a late stage!

As it stands yes, but we don't know if plans are already being made in the background because as I mentioned earlier the club, well actually both clubs, aren't giving us updates.

If alternatives are already ruled out they should tell us that if only to stop us speculating and googling clubs close to Halifax

I don't recall ever being in a situation like this. 

We keep thinking they might switch to somewhere else but who is to say that pitch won't be waterlogged.

Can you imagine we all set off to somewhere else and it's called off at the last minute!!!

1 minute ago, Lee Sinnott said:

A pitch that isn't playable for a game of football can often be playable for rugby...

I agree but when you ground share then surely you have to consider the implications of playing on it,  and if the rugby don't then this situation will crop up season after season.

If you inspect a pitch and it's bad but more or less playable, but you knew if you played on it it would be unplayable for the rest of the season, would you pass it fit?

2 minutes ago, Boyyou said:

Not sure that "our pitch is shit and the Council don't maintain it" is mitigating circumstances. After several postponements this season ( 8 I think) at what stage do you say it is undermining the integrity of the leagueand hand out fines and other points deductions?

A club is not just allowed into a league based on match results. The ground and infrastructure must meet certain criteria. Surely Halifax is failing in this.

I know people will say you can't stop the rain but when other clubs get matches on and they are the only ones who don't then they are failing to meet standards that the NL must set.

Just now, Dave_Og said:

Can't say I know anything about the set up at Halifax but is there any reason why the football club would be able to claim primacy?

I agree we don't know the agreement between both clubs but surely when they do negotiate with each other a common sense approach would be the team finishing the season, with a deadline to do so, takes primacy.

Again, to me, that is common sense, and they should be working together and helping one another, but I am just naive.

8 minutes ago, LaticsEddie said:

They have communicated- still trying to flog tickets!!
https://x.com/OAFCTickets/status/1777294545845162314https://x.com/OAFCTickets/status/1777294545845162314

Haha I know!!! April fool a little bit late!!!!

1 minute ago, Dave_Og said:

I suspect strongly that there's a mitigating circumstances clause

Would they say allowing another team to ruin your pitch (twice) as mitigating? I would say it was stupidity.

If both times a football match couldn't take place on it then the rugby shouldn't have been allowed.

I normally try and stay positive regarding the club but I think the communication from them has taken a nose-dive recently.

Latics must be liaising with Halifax so it would be helpful to fans to know what ideas are being banded about, whether an option of an alternative venue has been discussed, if and when there is a pitch inspection etc.

Basically anything rather than radio silence.