BP1960 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 29 minutes ago, leeslover said: At last something useful from the thread. Mr Smoker reads the paper that swore to keep Mrs Thatcher's flag flying high after she left! I only buy the Daily Mirror for my wife, she likes the the TV guide. I'll stick to twitter, all human nature is on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP1960 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Just now, BP1960 said: I only buy the Daily Mirror for my wife, she likes the the TV guide. I'll stick to twitter, all human nature is on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy b Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 38 minutes ago, rudemedic said: It’s not a cherry picked peak. It is what the Landlords inherited. For some of 2001 we were still owned by JW Lees. To have a worst attendance record than them shows you how badly the Landlords have run the club at times over the years. Your definition of nowhere and mine are pretty far apart too. If we let people into the next game for free how many do you think we would get? We got nearly 14k with people locked out when we did this in 2003. we'd get 8-9k tops if we did it today The club no longer exists to most of the town. The decline in fan base is very real Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 3 minutes ago, Andy b said: If we let people into the next game for free how many do you think we would get? We got nearly 14k with people locked out when we did this in 2003. we'd get 8-9k tops if we did it today The club no longer exists to most of the town. The decline in fan base is very real Disagree, we did it around 2-3 years ago on a tues night didnt we? All home stands were full! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlossopLatic Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 41 minutes ago, Andy b said: We have been overtaken by countless clubs. What's behind their ability to achieve that is not something I am party to. Fact is we have declined on all fronts under SC, other than our league position. Plenty have gone the other way, many have stayed about the same. Few have declined. Simply making the point that the 'we could have done a tranmere' argument doesn't really stack up for me. They and stockport are very much an exception to the rule. We could have done a tranmere/stockport without corney. Law of averages says we probably wouldn't though. If we were 17th in league 1 and 14 years later we are 17th in league 1 then surely the maths says that exactly the same amount of teams are ahead of us then as are now . So Stockport and Tranmere while their cases are the most extreme cases they are the not exceptions to the law. So I dont think we have "declined on all fronts" stagnated Yes! Seen far too many false dawns definitely, but declined on all fronts not really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedtobeWozzer Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 1 hour ago, leeslover said: At last something useful from the thread. Mr Smoker reads the paper that swore to keep Mrs Thatcher's flag flying high after she left! He’s merely following the only only valid thing Thatcher ever said or did when she said the first paper she read every morning was the Morning star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaddySmoker Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 1 hour ago, leeslover said: At last something useful from the thread. Mr Smoker reads the paper that swore to keep Mrs Thatcher's flag flying high after she left! I only buy it for the letters page to check how our retired army officers are doing in the home counties! (And the obits for when they reduce in number.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L1onheartNew Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 57 minutes ago, BP1960 said: I only buy the Daily Mirror for my wife, she likes the the TV guide. I'll stick to twitter, all human nature is on there. Mostly sub-human. Still trying to get blocked again by Trump. As such, I can probably include myself as one of the subbers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robboman Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 51 minutes ago, daniel said: Disagree, we did it around 2-3 years ago on a tues night didnt we? All home stands were full! We did it last season when the Chinese were in town Got about 6 or 7k i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Burns Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 15 minutes ago, robboman said: We did it last season when the Chinese were in town Got about 6 or 7k i think Club panicked and locked loads out. I just about snuck in the chaddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnafoafc Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 1 hour ago, daniel said: Disagree, we did it around 2-3 years ago on a tues night didnt we? All home stands were full! The crowd vs Peterborough was nowhere near the scale what it was for the Grimsby game. Admittedly the Grimsby game was on a weekend rather than midweek and there was still hope but BP was rammed that day, people resorted to standing on the old terraces in the main stand if they could get in the ground. I genuinely believe the fan base has been eroded massively over the last 14 years. Not all the landlords’ fault but they’ve played a big part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 7 minutes ago, johnafoafc said: The crowd vs Peterborough was nowhere near the scale what it was for the Grimsby game. Admittedly the Grimsby game was on a weekend rather than midweek and there was still hope but BP was rammed that day, people resorted to standing on the old terraces in the main stand if they could get in the ground. I genuinely believe the fan base has been eroded massively over the last 14 years. Not all the landlords’ fault but they’ve played a big part. Oh absolutely I agree, I had a season ticket and they wouldn’t let me in, my fault for arriving at 14:55. There were thousands locked out that day, however I still think we’d fill the stadium if we ever did a free saturday game, unfortunately it would be full of people who would never return, but the people of Oldham love a good freebie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego_Sideburns Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 On 12/15/2017 at 1:17 PM, oafc_lover said: Even if AL only had a similar wealth to Corney, his contacts in the game are so exciting (going off his old Instagram photos) and given Moisley said he also has a commercial background, I’m looking forward to seeing some good sponsorship deals in the future which can hopefully propel us. Also given he seems to have a good stature in the game, my betting is when the time eventually came for him to move on, he’d have a much better chance at getting us that oil rich tycoon we all crave than Corney ever had. http://sport-maroc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Abdallah-Lemsagam-Arsene-Wenger.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafc_lover Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 4 minutes ago, Diego_Sideburns said: http://sport-maroc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Abdallah-Lemsagam-Arsene-Wenger.jpg I wish he hadn’t removed all his old photos on Instagram. It was a who’s who of world class players/coaches. Really exciting what he can do for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 On 28/09/2017 at 10:07 AM, Latics_Fanatic said: Koukash might be looking for somewhere to invest his cash. Stepped down as the owner as Salford Red Devils. thank corney for not going near him https://www.facebook.com/groups/730819413678888/permalink/1612554968838657/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kowenicki Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 3 hours ago, peanuts said: thank corney for not going near him https://www.facebook.com/groups/730819413678888/permalink/1612554968838657/ Good luck with that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfluff1985 Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 5 hours ago, peanuts said: thank corney for not going near him https://www.facebook.com/groups/730819413678888/permalink/1612554968838657/ Ha. People were pissed off because he didn't sell to him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyPimp Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 19 minutes ago, mcfluff1985 said: Ha. People were pissed off because he didn't sell to him People were pissed off because they’d had enough of Corney’s austerity measures and were desperate for any dope in a suit to rock up in his place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcprozac Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 At the time I was keen for Koukash’s involvement. But we’ve dodged a real bullet there. still would love to know what AL’s plans for the club... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz_Oafc Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Reading that, Couldn't you just change Salford to Oldham and Koukash to Blitz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarddog73 Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 15 minutes ago, Gaz_Oafc said: Reading that, Couldn't you just change Salford to Oldham and Koukash to Blitz? And the £9 million to £25 million - or whatever it is to buy Blitz out lock,stock and barrel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardie Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 44 minutes ago, oafcprozac said: At the time I was keen for Koukash’s involvement. But we’ve dodged a real bullet there. still would love to know what AL’s plans for the club... I imagine his immediate plans would be League One survival and then take it from there. Koukash, with hindsight, was definitely a near miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kowenicki Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 2 hours ago, JohnnyPimp said: People were pissed off because they’d had enough of Corney’s austerity measures and were desperate for any dope in a suit to rock up in his place. Yep. Shows you how wrong people can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lookersstandandy Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 15 hours ago, Wardie said: I imagine his immediate plans would be League One survival and then take it from there..... ...that’s not really a plan, merely a statement that sums up the present situation. Some of us - I accept not everybody feels the same - would like to know how he intends to improve us, assuming he wishes to do that, unlike the previous regime who saw maintaining League One status as a worthy achievement. Maybe now isn’t the time, but I think it would be a wise PR exercise to put some (not anything that compromises his negotiating position, with either other limited companies we are competing with nor other suppliers he may wish to buy services from) meat on the bones. I hope to hear from him in that regard over the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaddySmoker Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 On 19/02/2018 at 10:32 PM, lookersstandandy said: Some of us - I accept not everybody feels the same - would like to know how he intends to improve us, assuming he wishes to do that, unlike the previous regime who saw maintaining League One status as a worthy achievement. What previous regime? AL has only acquired less than a 50% interest, with a 50% share of the voting rights. He cannot change anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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