slider1 Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I wouldn't want a merger to happen, but if it did I'd probably support them at the start and see how things go. I have no affection for any other club, so can't see myself choosing another team. I enjoy live football though so for me it would have to be the new club. Like I said though I wouldn't want it to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamjonesyyoafc Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 At least teams like Mossley and Curzon Ashton would gain a few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 The only way I can see it working is merge and franchise the club outside of this area completely, Cumbria for instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De_La_Vega Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 No interest. I only watch Latics to stop them going bust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazlatic Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 3 clubs with longstanding traditions merge full of hope for a new beginning. The new club struggles to muster 3500-4000 fans. New club goes bust and hardly anyone sheds a tear... Its a 'no' from me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 It would be Phoenix or nothing for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yard Dog Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 We'd be more hated than MK Dons and Man United (and Leeds) put together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy Ward Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 if no latics maybe have a look at chaddy f.c. ,but after watching latics for 40 years so far it just would not be the same . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancy lad Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 No interest. I only watch Latics to stop them going bust And I would rather us go bust and reform than see a merger. Corney crack's on that he loves Latics but talk's like a :censored:ing idiot sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scapegoat Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 I think this will always look attractive on paper from the accountants / business point of view. But football is a game of the heart, not the head, and an initiative like this would inevitably end in failure. Ground sharing is tough one. Location for three different geographically based teams will inevitably mean that it impacts of people of at least 2 if not all 3 clubs - middle of nowhere, not really our stadium etc. Lets be honest, even in Liverpool where is makes sense to share one nice shiny new ground, and they are located a stones throw from each other and they cannot make it work. The ideal of a local group of teams trying to combine some aspects of administration (training facilities, transport contracts, kit deals, even website / ticket management) make some sense and could work out OK. You never say never in football, and at some point this - or some equally crackpot idea elsewhere - might take place and we will see what happens. MK Dons - whilst hated by a lot of football fans - are a relatively successful League One side in a nice stadium, with a marginally growing support. Madness sometimes happens. If it did - I am nor sure what I'd do. My head at the moment says, probably give up on regular live football and do other things with my life. Maybe go and watch the odd local game of a team that is in good form and playing nice football. However, who knows how I would feel at the time. If I wanted the regular local football team that I care about, then following another team would in some ways feel wrong (they would have been the opposition at some stage). Packaged rightly, with the right momentum at the start and a chance to follow a team with no prior associations (negative ones).....you never know. But I think that if I, or others, did find themselves doing this - it would be a minority and not the majority. The final alternative would be to support a reformed team in the lower depths of the football pyramid. Not sure that I could be bothered to be honest. The standard of football on show in League One is bad enough at times, not sure I could face total dross for a decade whilst a team attempted to get back to the same level as Latics now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 We'd be more hated than MK Dons and Man United (and Leeds) put together. You mean we'd be like Chelsea? Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBosch Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 I'd jack it in all together, I suspect most would. I'd follow the newly formed Oldham Athletic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
help_shiny Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 (edited) the new club would be very poorly supported - and 80% of those that did would come from whichever of the three towns the new club played in - unless someone came in with oodles of money and took them up and up. That would attract new fans - like all the Wigan,Swansea,Cardiff fans who have appeared, as if by magic, in modern times.The chances of someone coming along with oodles and oodles of money are slim so probably best to discount that possibility. As for the current fans the large majority would either jack it in or support one of the inevitable 3 new clubs in the NW Counties League. I'd throw my lot in with the new non league Oldham and would have some sort of relationship with the merged club only if they played in Oldham. A good idea would be for Bury & Rochdale to sell everything they've got, merge with us and play at Boundary Park. In a few years we change the name back to Oldham Athletic. edit - I've also remembered from the first time this idea floated was that the Football League would insist on the merged club playing in the division of the lowest ranked club. Anyone fancy merging AND becoming a League 2 club? Edited April 24, 2013 by help_shiny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagger Lee Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Devils advocate (please don't throw stones) If we got a brand new main stand out of it, ensuring that Boundary park would be forever the teams stadium. If we kept the blue shirt, kept the main name OLDHAM in the new name then it would NOT be the end of the world. But then why the heck would Rochdale sign up for that? P.s. Was this merger idea the reason Scott had to quit as Chairman? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SholverBlue Posted April 25, 2013 Author Share Posted April 25, 2013 I don't support the murdering of any clubs, for our benefit or any businessmen's benefits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego_Sideburns Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 A merger would be the end of Latics and the end of the road for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlossopLatic Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Me too. exactly the same. Would be my local team to here, but same principle. Although I suspect there may be a phoenix club if that happened, which I would probably support. I can understand training facilities sharing, but doubt things like marketing, who ever took it on would be more inclined to favour their own team first. Lets hope that with our new development that they come to us rather than the other way round. Can;t se the benefits of Bury trekking all the way to Oldham for training though. Logic would say Rochdale is in the middle of the 3 towns so most "logical" (Logistically) would be most based there. Which would hasten our demise further IMHO. I am suprised though, that a local buying consortium is not created for things like the Catering contract, energy, mobile phones, stationery, certain admin, phone answering, printing costs, maybe even ticketing,. A bit like some local councils are doing. Think there is an opportunity there. The idea of outsourcing some of the back office stuff such as admin, accounts, and marketing may make sense to all 3 clubs interms of reducing overheads. With regards to training facilities if we could build a facility that allows us to share and is better than what we have and allows us to share the costs that again would be fine if the economics are in our favour. The idea of merging is a non starter due to the nature of football fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudemedic Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Seems "When Saturday Comes" has been reading this http://www.wsc.co.uk/wsc-daily/1163-june-2013/9853-oldham-rochdale-and-bury-finding-life-tough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brierleys555 Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 For me a merger is a no no. only because it wouldnt work. when oldham cease to exist in any form then I will stop watching football all together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SholverBlue Posted June 2, 2013 Author Share Posted June 2, 2013 I can't believe the "no" vote isn't 100% but then again some Wimbledon fans did follow MKDonalds PLC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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