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don't mind City - anyone who hates United even more than I do is alright by me.

VERY good signing at £8m and him playing every week is VERY good for England aswell.

http://www.owtb.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...mp;#entry160266

Taylor

Perhaps the opportunity to set up a new "herberts section" in the ground could be taken?

good idea.

what's Hardy's e-mail address?

when we play Morecambe in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, we will provide you with a free ticket for this game

that's just adding insult to injury making you sit through a JPT game

not the clubs fault but this'll knock a few more off the next gate.

after MK Dons we'll have people in the middle and other end of the stand complaining about the herberts who've been moved near them. guaranteed.

just realised that for the next home game at least 7 of us will be on a cultural excursion to Benidorm for a 40th.

I should think that going to Millwall in a Celtic shirt and getting filled in are activities that could be performed simultaneously...

could or should?

We could go in Celtic shirts to disguise ourselves

i'd rather get filled in

Everything's disappeared from my Itunes.

Just the small matter of over 4000 tracks. Any ideas??

Haven't changed anything, just clicked on it today and there was nothing there.?????

the stewards were good.

Yup, I would call that a large amount of young kids leaving the town... I wonder how many actually return and stay in Oldham... Looking at my facebook contacts not many have there location down as Oldham....

regardless, whether there're 500 or 2000 of them the crowd doesn't drop by 500 or 2000 every year due to their exodus. 10-20 probably. 100 at most. and they'll be replaced by 10-100 12 to 15 yr olds i reckon.

neither your exiled intelligentsia (I bet i've spelt that wrong) nor diego's 60-64 yr old blue rinse army are the solution to/cause of this problem.

This is a joke? I had to move to north-west Wales years ago. Since then i know of half a dozen in the area who came out here to work but who go back to Oldham on a regular basis. Reading posts on this board gives a clear indication that there must be hundreds who have moved substantial distances. Not only that, even when living in Saddleworth it was clear that many supporters came from outside the Oldham MB area (Tameside etc).

you're talking about re-locating for a better job/more money/firm closes down so can't do your job in this area anymore aren't you? yes, I know loads of people who've done that - myself and my dad included.

the other bloke was talking about "moving away to find work" which I read as leaving Oldham, bags packed for streets paved with gold Dick Whittington style.

if you never went to college uni/you probably think that not many people do,

patronising tw@t

532 kids a year leaving the town every year is a resonable chunk... Maybe not a big chunk i will conceed that....

 

Out of that 532 I bet the vast majority never return to Oldham... I no I didnt... (well I did but i moved within a year)

 

The wider point was about young people in Oldham leaving the town and not coming back.... Its not something that just effects people that go to uni... The number of jobs in oldham is low..... People are moving away to find work...

532 18 year olds is a tiny percentage of the 18 year olds in oldham

out of those probably 10-20 might go to Latics on a regular basis.

the number of jobs in Oldham has always been low in comparison to many other areas of the country.

i don't know anyone who's "moved away" to find work, ever (???)

http://www.osfc.ac.uk/welcome/destinations.asp

 

Just one source...

 

532 on average every year (62% of Oldham Sixth form students every year)...

 

Thats a resonable chunk....

no it's not (???)

Maybe a hundred will pay on the day

more than that, surely?

No your not.... You talking about a big chunk these days...

 

One of the issues Oldham is facing as a town is more and more of its young educated people moving away and never coming back....

 

Its a big problem for the town and is something of a problem for the club as well....

a "big chunk" of kids in Oldham go to University?

when did this start?

Think this only adds to the problem - as kids are turn 18 going to uni is drummed down thier throats, and most once out of oldham dont return hom as the job opportunities ust aint there...

i think you're talking about a tiny, tiny minority of kids in oldham there.

The catchment area and interest for Orient is less that all the other clubs mentioned. They have West Ham 5 minutes down the road, Spurs / Arsenal 20mins the other way

not to mention Utd 200 miles away

I'm sorry but the above has really stirred me up.

 

I would like nothing more to go to Boundary Park every week but having a wife, house, child and with the ? above seemingly all jobs at the moment i'm penny pinching, but i put a couple of pennys to one side for a beer every other week to spend in the pub with the lads, of which i get sick cause i'm a tick, so what, i sign up to latics world, but the shirts home and away but i'm no good cause i dont go every week?

then he's not having a go at you either.

it's not rocket science, is it?

do we get owt?

Hazel gets the ball in his own box?! He does tricks for flips sake! One day he'll mess it up!

you do realise Hazell's the black one, not the white one with the huge arse???

Time for some 'sack the board' chants methinks.

have you stopped being an utter cnut or have I just become one?