Rick Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 An outside smoking area (like at Bristol Rovers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangerinedreams Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 To be making a profit that is ploughed back into the club Ditto!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangerinedreams Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I thought it would be blatantly obvious what was wanted in the new ground, not knocking your thread but possibly the same as you????? Hardly likely your going to see "the club run into the ground after the 1st season" as a post Just an invitation for silly comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangerinedreams Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 An outside smoking area (like at Bristol Rovers) I like that one though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfOAFC Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 16,000 seats and one of those machines that pours 6 pints at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel8157 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 A scoreboard would be nice. Well planned layout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 A PA system that you can actually hear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelaticsfan Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 no poles blocking the view of the game, by poles i mean the ones holding the stand up, not pav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Bars (which serve decent beer not the sort of you used to get in the Royle Bar- where Newcy Brown was the best option). Better Catering faciliites- doesn't have to be much just not run out of pies before half time. Oh and in response to the smokers- smoke free toilets. If you can't last 2 hours without needing a cig then maybe you should stay at home- you manage at work, you manage when you go out somewhere else which is non-smoking so why can't you manage at football. I don't want to have to wade through a plume of smoke just so I can spend a penny thank you. That said a smoking area in a football ground shouldn't be hard to organise- its not like a whole bunch of the concourse area at BP isn't more open to the elements than some smoking areas elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 An OL postcode. Rochdale then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Rochdale then? Or Bacup even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmr Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Segregated section for nob heads! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangerinedreams Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Segregated section for nob heads! I think you will find that the OS has released a number for people to text and give details of anti social behaviour and descriptions, make sure you enter it into your phone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangerinedreams Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 There is also a thread on here you can comment on cmr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetramfixer Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I'd Like Some Ideas For What You Would Like In The New Ground. a metrolink stop! ... not at all biased, but this would prevent me missing games due to work start/finish times! just dump car at work and get the tram! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Segregated section for nob heads! It's called the Rochdale Road End, specifically the block nearest the away fans, so all the nob heads can prove how hard they are with a line of stewards and a 12 foot f*cking moat between them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyGermanLatic Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 An OL postcode. One of thee best posts I have ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 So, what you're honestly saying is a ground in Failsworth, within the Borough of Oldham but that just happens to have an M postcode is NOT ok, but one somewhere the other side of Rochdale that happens to have an OL postcode would be fine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyGermanLatic Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 So, what you're honestly saying is a ground in Failsworth, within the Borough of Oldham but that just happens to have an M postcode is NOT ok, but one somewhere the other side of Rochdale that happens to have an OL postcode would be fine? I think ALL Latics fans (few in hand) are in denial, we will be a MANCHESTER TEAM, teams are named after THE PLACE THEY ARE SITUATED. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markoasis Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I think ALL Latics fans (few in hand) are in denial, we will be a MANCHESTER TEAM, teams are named after THE PLACE THEY ARE SITUATED. Oldham Hornets and Oldham AFC hope that doesn't mean with a OL postcode I grew up an Oldhamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 (edited) I think ALL Latics fans (few in hand) are in denial, we will be a MANCHESTER TEAM, teams are named after THE PLACE THEY ARE SITUATED. What do you actually know of the history of Oldham? Chadd, Shaw, Royton and lots of other places were not parts of Oldham until fairly recently. Moorside was just a few houses on the A62 to Yorkshire when Latics were founded. Bacup, Whitworth, Heywood and Rochdale have never been part of Oldham, but they've all got Oldham postcodes. Do you know why some places have one postcode rather than another? Because someone at the Post office decided to do it that way. They didn't care about towns, places, names or anything else, it was just convenient. There is so much nonsense and re-written history coming out from some people it's frankly ridiculous. If you want OAFC to stay in "Odham", then it should be within what was "Oldham" when the club was founded. Beal valley or Salmon fields is out, so's Sholver, Limeside/Limehurst is out, so is Hollinwood (part of Chadderton originally). Go on, make a list of sites within what was "proper" Oldham in 1895, let's see what we've got as options. And let's see what the people of "proper" Oldham have done for the club over the last 15 years too. Edited August 3, 2009 by real Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickshire latics Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I'd Like Some Ideas For What You Would Like In The New Ground. A Full trophy cabinet !!!! for starters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc0000 Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) Beal valley or Salmon fields is out, so's Sholver, Limeside/Limehurst is out, so is Hollinwood (part of Chadderton originally). So I am not from Oldham Nice one I can go and support a team that wins and not feel guilty Edited August 4, 2009 by oafc0000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 There's a decently sized expanse of brownfield site very near me (or more precise my parent's), good motorway access, the local residents won't complain that much- (no allotment holders for starters) as the alternative is a landfill and it has an OL postcode. However despite it being 5 minutes walk (and that's being overly cautious) away from where my parents live I wouldn't want it to be the site of Oldham's new ground as the OL postcode it has is OL10, for those not familiar with postcodes that's Heywood. Heywood is part of Rochdale (although it was seperate for a decent period of time) and is seen as a bit of a joke between Rochdalians and Buryites. Post codes are not as crucial for a town's identity as you might think (for example if you post a letter to anywhere near the centre of Manchester- you are supposed to call it Lancashire, not Manchester). If those people who live in Failsworth identify themselves as being from Oldham (I think they might) then they are part of Oldham- it doesn't matter what they're postcode says. I'm sure the people of Bacup, anywhere in Rochdale and Heywood don't indentify themselves as being part of Oldham but according to the psot office they are. Its only the fact that Oldham is marginally bigger than Rochdale that the BP's post code is OL1 (otherwise it would be RC16 , or something). Postcodes don't matter to a location to anyone other than the post office- I would much rather have Oldham's ground in the proposed location than almost all the alternatives that just happen to have a OL postcode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego_Sideburns Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) I think ALL Latics fans (few in hand) are in denial, we will be a MANCHESTER TEAM, teams are named after THE PLACE THEY ARE SITUATED. real has explained to you about postcodes being fintended to make it easier to sorti letters, rather than establishing geographical, local government, Parliamentary or any other boundaries. So you are really saying the Club should never have been called 'Oldham', it should have been 'Coldhurst Athletic' because BP is in that Ward of the original County Borough. The proposed stadium site is in the part of Failsworth which is in the Oldham Metropolitan Borough and the Club will pay its business rates to Oldham Council. The allotment land is owned by Oldham Council. The Manchester boundary is several hundred yards further down Oldham Road past Broadway. Eastlands is less distance from the Tameside Borough boundary than Lancaster Park is from the City of Manchester boundary. Following your reasoning, as ManUre's ground name confirms its Trafford Borough location, that club should be known as Trafford United. After all it was known as Newton Heath when the club played in Manchester. The only people in situation denial over the proposed stadium move are those who think the postcode determines everything. Their logic makes the Pirelli Stadium, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire in Derby, Derbyshire. Those wanting to stop watching Latics in the future should drop the postcode argument and look for another reason. Let's have no more of this misinformation which is pathetic. Edited August 4, 2009 by Diego_Sideburns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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