Matt

I dont think they need guidance, I think they need to grow up.

I think the two can be the same thing.

Theye have had some concrete answers but refuse to believe them. They also refuse to work with the trust.

That is why they need guidance.

Sweet Jesus this lot need stopping.

I disagree, they need guidance - nothing wrong with a pressure group asking difficult questions as long as they consider the answers they might get. They need to work with the trust for this line of supporter interaction to be effective.

He's just emphasising his effortless social superiority.

:censored:ing hell.

Despite the guff, no proof on man-made climate change 95 percent is no more a proof than 9.5 percent.

 

:censored:ing hell. Modern day witch trials - a panic suggesting that malevolent scientists were operating as an organized group for their own gain.

I can't understand why, as humans we can go from the Wright Brothers to Yuri Gagarin in fifty-odd years yet we have Texas, Boris Johnson and Daesh.

Exactly the kind of response Id expect from a imbecile.

Carry on and you'll lose your status. You are not winning anybody over with such behaviour.

I suggest you visit other clubs' meetings to get experience, you're miles off.

 

I've no problem with you having a different opinion. But if you don't like the way others have responded to you then taking it out on someone else entirely does you no credit.

Perfect.

I suggest the few fans we have left don't tell each other to go and support another club for simply wanting an owner willing to make us successful.

There's a way of doing that, and your previous reply wasn't it.

Where have I said Salford appeals to me you daft ------?

I suggest you leave it for a bit.

In other EU countries they just keep holding referenda until the government gets the result it wants.

Neverendum.

If they're good enough they're old enough.

PPL is based on aggregate annual attendances. OAFC might be about 150000 which is about £430 plus 20% for music that emphasizes incident.

Venues with an aggregated annual attendances of 1m people would be charged £3000.

Making a shooter playable for non-twitch gamers is the one thing that drew me to Overwatch. There's no match scoreboard to start arguments or crowing, and team players (healers, shields, builders) can earn one of the 4 MVP slots per match just as easily as damage-dealers. I've been playing as a turret builder and a healer and enjoying it just as much.

I'm tempted with Overwatch - Battleborn looks like fun as well.

My 4X days are long gone, and I'm gash at run and gun as well - so me and four other mates team up on Siege whenever we can - we're in the understanding that you can't really play this unless you've got comms with the majority of the team, and we don't talk to :censored:ing Americans. Not after the Kings Fall raid incident, so if there's 3+ team mates we usually jump on ranked.

Played Division since day one, and sold it about two weeks ago when it turned into :censored:ing Destiny.

Got Dirt Rally and Forza 6 to break it up a little, but currently enjoying the single player story on Frontline Revolution. The MP side of the game is a bit flimsy,

just employ some people who are better at generating it via the various methods available to a football club?

Problem with this is that with the current structure, there is no way of measuring performance. Okay, you could say still being in L1 is measurement in itself - but who generates investment interest, and how is that interest monetized? Who isn't pulling their weight? Perhaps they are - who knows.

I have just witnessed an almighty change in a clubs' leadership - we were sleepwalking into a new era, assuming that those in control had the best interests of the club in hand. The truth of the matter was is that it was cronyism of the highest order - top jobs for all the boys, with hardly any financial progress or development given the resources at their disposal. As a consequence the membership pressurised the board, provided resolutions and members votes to change the culture of the board; important MV's and resolutions were passed at the AGM with the board resigning. The subsequent EGM will see the membership voting/interviewing for new board members hopefully with proven track records to progress the club. We see exactly who these people are, their experience, their worth.

My point is that, SC doesn't have to answer to anybody - there is a club and there is Simon. The club is his, and he can do what the :censored: he wants with it.

Perhaps there is no point, and I'm just rambling - however, it's so frustrating when you are unable to see the worth of those trusted to do decent job.

So, we're agreed. Get the fans to pay more and cut costs, which usually means the wage bill. So, fewer players/players on lower wages? Fans to have input in the day-to-day running of the club (given the unity shown on this Board, that should be easy).

I can now see the attraction of a fan takeover......

I'm willing to move with supporters trust control of the club.

Not just Oldham fans who recognise how good this site is ... from the Notts county forum

 

Good to read, thanks for the link.

That's nice to hear - thanks for posting it here. And thanks to everyone who continues to donate; it's very much appreciated.

I echo those sentiments, thanks for all of the support over the season.

I'd like to add that there will be an upgrade to the forum later on this week, there shouldn't be much disruption in the UK as I'll try to plan the work overnight.

Thanks,

Matt.

 

Sure, of course. But whether it's £10k or £100k it's a regular ongoing commitment that fans who want to own the club need to be prepared for.

As a side - what happens to OAFC's FA Cup final ticket allocation?

Yes, that's sort of my point. You need fans willing and able to fund the purchase price and cover costs of around £100k a month, since money will only turn up in fits and starts (season ticket sales, player sales, cup runs, etc). You can't rely on monthly income matching monthly outgoings steadily.

I don't think the fans have the appetite to do it

I suspect so; we'd never know unless it needed to happen due to catastrophe.

Barry Owen would be thrusting themselves forward to run the show, no thanks.

He probably would, however would he get elected onto a member-elected board? I doubt he would have a mandate. It's surprising who comes to the front when leadership is needed.

I don't think paying for a scoreboard is really a great indicator of fan involvement. Is it a necessity? It's nice to have one I suppose, and it can be used for revenue - or so they say - I've not seen the financial projection. However keeping the 120 year OAFC bloodline going is a different matter entirely.

:censored: me. He's parachuted in to do complete an objective - keeps Latics in the division, then :censored:s off for something else whilst not showing club loyalty whatsoever.

Unless you're house bound watching VHS tapes of the pinch me years on repeat - this is how the game works these days, and SC is probably making the best of a :censored:ed up situation.

With non-OAFC fundraising, please ask first before posting.

For his undeniable shortcomings as a vocalist, I've always thought of Ian Brown as a decent lyricist

Excellent point, I agree.

Northern Uproar were a fair few years after weren't they?

Yeah, I was making the point that we'd listen/buy any old crap if it was in the scene. I've got two CD singles to prove it.