Oldham's preposterously blunt attack

[Simpo]

Four.

We have scored 4 home league goals this season.

Today was the 10th League One fixture at Boundary Park, and we have failed to score in 8 of them.

Including aways, the total is 12 in 21.

We were ridiculously toss at times today.

How bad can it get? Under 30 goals for the entire season? Someone in the top 4 divisions to outscore us entirely?

 

[spireite]

I'm surprised Banks isn't knocking in 15 a season from midfield for you #dynamo

 

[UTS]

Swap Oldhams defence for our attack? Deal??

 

[Lancs@(Bantam)]

Or better still why not merge seeing as you are both fucked financially, your gates should double upto about 6k, Oldhambury.

 

[Andy Proctor]

You got vale at home on jan 2nd if its not off. We are shite away so i wouldnt be surprised if you scored 4 goals in that one match.

 

[S74Blade]

You got vale at home on jan 2nd if its not off. We are shite away so i wouldnt be surprised if you scored 4 goals in that one match.

I can confirm that Port Vale are indeed shite

 

[Simpo]

Or better still why not merge seeing as you are both fucked financially, your gates should double upto about 6k, Oldhambury.

How can you even conceive of such an idea? Surely the very thought has never come up, and.... Oh.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/1999/jan/09/newsstory.sport6

 

[UTS]

Where would the ground be though LancsBantam?

 

[UTS]

Unpopular opinion alert.. Also off topic.

I would support a merger of the three clubs IF the ground was in a suitable location equidistant between the 3 towns of Bury, Dale and Oldham. And only if they thought of a better name than 'Manchester North End'.

Better football and bigger crowds with a stadium still close to Bury and links to the town is some way. I know I will get shot down, but you read that article from 1999 and the problems are still exactly the same, if not worse with the rise of City and $alford.

 

[Dale4ever]

What's in it for us? You're both a mess.

And I'd never want a merger with you both. I wouldn't be remotely interested in a name change and location change, it wouldn't be my club anymore.

 

[UTS]

What's in it for us? You're both a mess.

And I'd never want a merger with you both. I wouldn't be remotely interested in a name change and location change, it wouldn't be my club anymore.

You are also by far the smallest out of the 3 clubs so there is that I suppose. You may be on a high right now, and fair play to you, but it won't last. Not on your crowds, if Keith Hill leaves Rochdale are finished, and I think all Dale fans know that.

 

[ThisTinpotLeague]

Saves the rest of us having to visit Manchester three times as well.

 

[Dayul]

You are also by far the smallest out of the 3 clubs so there is that I suppose. You may be on a high right now, and fair play to you, but it won't last. Not on your crowds, if Keith Hill leaves Rochdale are finished, and I think all Dale fans know that.

I've got to ask you to elaborate the "finished" part of your post. Do you mean the club would cease to exist? League position would likely take a hit if Hill left again but the club's finances etc are in good health, probably the best they've been and that's despite an apathetic local population preferring to armchair support Manchester Blue/Red (delete dependent on who is successful this decade). The noises out of the club suggest a proactive attitude to pricing to attract some of the lapsed fans next season. Given our new Chief Exec had a good track record with Hartlepool turning their pisspoor crowds into less piss poor crowds I'm hopeful for a good result. And who knows, we might do the unthinkable and actually get in the play offs and go up. That'd make life easier. Anyway, i digress...
Bury literally will be "finished" if all of their debt is called in or a successful winding up petition is put forward to HMRC.

Even if Dale were up shit creek financially I wouldn't want a merged club. I can imagine it all being too MK Dons-y. I'd honestly rather watch a Dale cut their cloth accordingly in, say, the Conference North than an OldBuryDale hybrid struggle to be a mid sized League 1 club which is really all I could see such a project amounting to.

 

[Camborne Gills]

Rochbury Athletic anyone?

 

[hold'um Oldham]

Back on topic (because the 2 way merger really.is a none starter)

We are down this year last year was a miracle. Lightning doesn't strike twice

 

[S74Blade]

Back on topic (because the 2 way merger really.is a none starter)

We are down this year last year was a miracle. Lightning doesn't strike twice

Hopefully another nail in your coffin Boxing Day. Hopefully more than Bury who brought 3 men and a dog, 4 in total then.

 

[hold'um Oldham]

We travel in numbers considering how shite we are

 

[UTS]

We travel in numbers considering how shite we are

Not really?

 

[hold'um Oldham]

Not really?

???

Can't decide if ya taking the piss or not but as a percentage of our home support we have always been near the top of the table travelling away

 

[TomPNE94]

???

Can't decide if ya taking the piss or not but as a percentage of our home support we have always been near the top of the table travelling away

Just means your away support is slightly less shit than your home support really doesn't it

 

[UTS]

???

Can't decide if ya taking the piss or not but as a percentage of our home support we have always been near the top of the table travelling away

So what you mean to say is you travel in numbers in comparison to your 3000 home gates.

 

[Fedora Dale]

So what you mean to say is you travel in numbers in comparison to your 3000 home gates.

Bit like Dale then.

And Bury for that matter...

 

[AnimoEtFide]

Let's be honest, all three of your attendances are put to shame by a tinpot part-time football club not a million miles away struggling in the regional leagues, so this whole debate embarrasses you all equally.

 

[Camborne Gills]

Almost 4000 on Saturday wasn't it?

 

[T.A]

Let's be honest, all three of your attendances are put to shame by a tinpot part-time football club not a million miles away struggling in the regional leagues, so this whole debate embarrasses you all equally.

You're a million miles away from being in any of our position though and tbh that's what really matters.

People that get wet over crowd numbers deserve all the ridicule they get.

 

[UTS]

Let's be honest, all three of your attendances are put to shame by a tinpot part-time football club not a million miles away struggling in the regional leagues, so this whole debate embarrasses you all equally.

How is it putting us to shame? You average 2,400. So you have 2,400 die hards? Managed 4,000 last week for a local derby well done..

If we were to reform we'd be getting around the same gates in that league. Stockport only managed around 4,500 when they were in the league so it's not "putting us to shame" at all. What is shameful is how a club like Stockport has spent 4 seasons in the vanarama north league.

 

[Dayul]

What is shameful is how a club like Stockport has spent 4 seasons in the vanarama north league.

You call it shameful I'd call it schadenfreude

 

[Camborne Gills]

What sort of crowds would Dale, Bury and Oldham get if they were in Connie North? Serious question, not a dig.

 

[Dayul]

What sort of crowds would Dale, Bury and Oldham get if they were in Connie North? Serious question, not a dig.

No idea and I genuinely hope none of us find out. I'm sure I've said on here before I'd rather Stockport in league 1/2 than some of the bankrolled non league non entities we've seen in the last 15 years or so.

I'll add that Stockport fans are bloody brilliant for almost all of them sticking by their club. Fair play to them.

 

[AnimoEtFide]

Managed 4,000 last week for a local derby well done..

Cheers mate. However nearly every game in this league is a local derby.