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Thread | AFC Fylde Match Thread
at 17:53 11 Oct 2024
Looking forward to the game. Proper FA Cup tie for me. They will be fired up after last weeks drubbing of Aldershot and with a new manager to impress. We will have a decent and hopefully vocal away following with the players up for it after being frustrated at Ebbsfleet. Add in the National Leagues top scorers in Houghton (11) and Mitchell(9) and we have the recipe for a great game. Hopefully we can keep the mistakes to a minimum and progress into the first round proper in what appears a far tougher game now than when the draw was made. |
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Thread | Bumps in the road
at 13:02 6 Oct 2024
After a dozen or so games we have made a solid enough start. Top seven, third best defensive record and in the top four when it comes to goals scored. However, there are inevitably bumps in the road and to
lose EEL, Gilmour, Rodney and McNicholas for extended periods is a big challenge for the mana
ger and the rest of the squad. To continue at our current performance level after those damaging setbacks is I think unlikely. Henderson plus our young talent, as they already have,
will once again need to step up to the plate. For us however, realism needs to kick in and we must recognise that there will inevitably be setbacks over the next weeks. A top seven finish without a
number of our experienced key players for this reletively new young squad would be a fantastic achievement. Hopefully those who criticise at the first setback come to recognise the fact and cut both the manager and his young players some slack. Fingers crossed we make the playoffs in our first season under the Ogdens but if we dont I for one will not be critical because I know everyone in this new regime will have done there best trying despite the bumps along the way. |
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Thread | Solihull Match Thread
at 12:45 14 Sep 2024
Tough game today. Solihull no mugs based on last seasons efforts. Have seen them twice this season and they tend to sit tight and play on the break. Also skilled in the dark arts particularly killing time at every opportunity. Patience needed from the crowd and plenty of encouragement. No reason we cant win but not expecting us to roll over them. UPTD. |
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Thread | Sir Peter makes his debut
at 12:21 29 Aug 2024
Sir Peter and family will be at the game on Saturday and a chance for us all to show our apprecation for his commitment to our Club and town. |
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Thread | Burnley bcd
at 15:41 1 Jul 2022
FT. Burnley 1 Rochdale 0
Scott Twyne scores for Burnley on his debut. |
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Thread | Peter Thomas
at 15:49 29 Sep 2021
Youth team won again yesterday but despite inclusion in the pre-season team photo no Peter Thomas again.
Do we know whether he is injured or has moved on (with some sort of compensation to the Club) ?
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Thread | Kinetic Foundation
at 11:54 15 Jan 2021
Interesting that BBM mentions in a recent interview that the Kinetic Foundation was an integral part of Baah's development before he came to us. A quick look at Kinetic Foundation graduates reveals at least two other players we have been involved with namely Yeboah Amankwah and slightly more surprising Rhys Norrington-Davies. Even though Kwadwo came to us direct perhaps we are monitoring Kinetic for potential recruits even after they have been picked up by other Clubs.
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Thread | Biffo's problems explained
at 16:17 10 Feb 2020
David Conn in the Guardian.
It is not one of football’s easiest or most gladdening tasks to sift for solid facts in the current pile of unhappiness at Oldham Athletic, which is shaping into becoming one of the EFL’s crisis clubs.
The owner since January 2018, the Dubai-based former players’ agent Abdallah Lemsagam, suffered a rapid relegation in his first season, has been through a trail of managers including, for one month, Paul Scholes, and is said to have spent £5.8m for little more in return than a League Two struggle.
Lemsagam then reached back into arrangements put in place long before he took over, suddenly stating on the club’s website last month that “it has been found necessary” to make a complaint to the police, about the “financial conduct” of the previous owners. “The allegations are mainly against those who had dealings with Oldham Council when grant money was allocated to the club towards the building of the North Stand,” the statement said.
Over the month since Lemsagam’s complaint, Greater Manchester police have responded by saying they are not yet actually investigating any alleged wrongdoing: “GMP continues to review the nature of the allegations by Oldham Athletic Football Club, to establish whether an investigation is necessary,” the force said in its most recent statement.
These conversations between police and club will no doubt be quite involved, as Lemsagam is going back over the complicated series of deals which financed the North Stand up to six years before he took over. Muddling the issues further the stand, built to incorporate banqueting and other money-making facilities previously lacking at Boundary Park, was closed on safety grounds following the 1-1 draw with Carlisle on 18 January. So the stand, which was intended to herald a successful and sustainable future for Oldham, stands empty on matchdays, a looming reminder of current troubles.
One of the previous owners, Simon Blitz, an entrepreneur based in the US, emphatically rejects any allegations of wrongdoing arising from that series of deals, and he was sufficiently confident of that position to attend a fans’ forum last month and answer questions publicly. He has recently become more assertive, responding to Lemsagam’s police complaint and suggestions of legal action by saying that in fact the club is behind with the rent, owing £200,000, and a loan, £330,000, with further rent and interest adding up at £10,000 and £5,000 per month.
The club accepts it has not paid the rent — although Lemsagam argues that the amount owing is less than that — so amid the swirl of allegations and arguments about their history, that is a firm reality. Blitz’s lawyer, Jonathon Crook, has made it clear that under the loan Blitz has the right to appoint an administrator, so that is a genuine danger to the club. Crook, however, said Blitz regards administration, which would incur a 12 point deduction for manager Dino Maamria’s side and risk Oldham being relegated from the EFL, as “a measure of last resort” and he hopes all will be resolved.
Understanding the old deals, which were consigned to filing cabinets almost eight years ago, is time-consuming work which does raise some apparent questions, to which Blitz says there are clear answers. He and two co-investors, Simon Corney and Danny Gazal, bought Oldham in 2004 from a financial crisis which had plunged the club into administration, and their plans from the beginning included commercial and property developments.
Lemsagam is arguing he cannot make sense of why in May 2012, the council paid the club £3.38m for a site in nearby Failsworth, called the Lancaster Club, but Oldham Athletic itself did not retain that money. Instead, it paid the £3.38m immediately to a company owned by Blitz. On the same day, Oldham council made an additional payment to the club for the Lancaster Club site, of £1.2m, specifically to develop the North Stand. The council made the £700,000 grant the previous year, also to build the stand, requiring the club to maintain community programmes and other social benefits.
In 2016, when the stand was built following these three deals totalling approximately £5.2m, Oldham Athletic agreed to surrender to Blitz’s company, Brass Bank, the club’s rights to all revenues from the new banqueting and other facilities. The club retained only the right to sell match tickets and some sales outlets, and a deal was done for corporate boxes on matchdays. In return, Blitz wrote off a debt the club was stated to owe his company, of £3.8m plus VAT.
Lemsagam is asking why the £3.38m the council paid the club for the Lancaster club site was then passed to Blitz, and why Blitz then only loaned a similar sum back to the club to build the stand, and took ownership of the commercial rights. Lemsagam told the Guardian in a statement that when he “found out” about this, he initiated lawyers and forensic accountants to look into it, and they have “managed to find very few answers”.
Blitz, though, says the answers are long-established. His lawyer, Crook, explains that the council did indeed buy the Lancaster Club site from the club itself. He said the site was in fact owned by Blitz, but the council wanted the purchase that way, directly from the club. So it was done as a “back to back” sale, whereby Blitz sold the site to the club, which immediately sold it on to the council, and paid the proceeds to Blitz’s company. That was publicly documented; the Land Registry records the two sales of the site on the same day, 25 May 2012: from Blitz’s company to the club, then the club to the council.
A spokesman for Oldham borough council said the council’s dealings with Oldham Athletic “have been transparent and well documented” but declined to explain why the Lancaster Club deal had been done in that “back to back” way.
Blitz’s position is he had bought the site originally because the council proposed it for a new stadium, but the council was then unable to develop adjoining land, so they agreed to buy it back from him.
The sale of that land was not directly related to building the North Stand, he says. Separately, to finance that, he lent the club £3.8m. Over his years of ownership, Blitz says he put in around £14m, points to the reduced rent on Boundary Park and says the North Stand deal is good for the club as he wrote off the £3.8m owed.
Lemsagam says his investigation is continuing and legal action being considered. Blitz’s lawyer said: “The suggestion of criminal conduct is categorically denied, and we have had no contact from the police. The club’s allegation that it has grounds for bringing legal claims is also denied; the position is that there are substantial sums owed by the Club to Brass Bank which it is refusing to pay.”
All of which makes the Oldham Athletic wonder years, Joe Royle’s managerial feats which led in 1992 to the club happily becoming a founder member of the Premier League breakaway elite, feel like a very long time ago indeed. [Post edited 10 Feb 2020 16:19]
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Thread | Possible Target ??
at 22:42 8 Jan 2020
Danny Rowe transfer listed at his own request at AFC Fylde.
29 years old 160 goals in five seasons. Wants league football. Could we afford him ? Would we want him ? |
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Thread | Richard Chaplow
at 12:01 3 Jan 2015
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Rochdale want ex Saints midfielder Richard Chaplow on a deal until end of the season.
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Thread | Bunney
at 16:44 4 Feb 2014
The time must surely be coming for KH to give Joe Bunney a run in the team.
Clearly KH has nurtured and protected his development in the same we he has Jamie Allen. However, everytime I have seen his cameos recently he has played well and been a threat to the opposition. More importantly despite still looking like he needs a square meal he has appeared stronger and seems to last the pace better than he did early in the season. Its also worth noting that as a team we did not do too badly against Leeds when Bunney started up front with Hogan.
With the doubts over Donnelly's confidence it seems the ideal opportunity to try and fit Bunney in because with game time and experience I think he could become a greater goal threat than Georgie. |
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Thread | November a month to fear ?
at 00:51 26 Oct 2011
After Saturday we face teams throughout November who on paper are far more capable than Exeter, Chesterfield or Leyton Orient.
Based on our current form we could well get hammered in every game. Its clear therefor that next month could make or break our season and in my opinion possibly decide the fate of Steve Eyre.
Normally, I look forward to our upcoming games with optimism regardless of who we play but sadly after tonight I think November is a month to fear, particularly if we fail to collect three points at the weekend.
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Thread | This sums it all up !!
at 18:43 22 Oct 2011
Rochdale really should have had the points wrapped up by half-time such was their early dominance. Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro, Marcus Holness, Neil Trotman and Nathan Ecclestone all had good chances, before the latter broke the deadlock.
Ashley Grimes latched on to Steve Tully's dreadful back pass and crossed for the on-loan Liverpool man to score from close range.
Despite being a distant second best, Exeter incredibly went in at the break on level terms. David Noble's long-range shot hit a defender and Nardiello reacted quickest to poke the ball into the bottom corner.
Nardiello put Exeter in front when Jake Taylor was pulled back inside the box early in the second half and the striker converted the subsequent penalty.
Taylor wrapped up the points for Exeter with a drilled shot from a narrow angle with 10 minutes to go after good work by Liam Sercombe.
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Thread | David Ball
at 22:52 19 Sep 2011
Ball played for Peterborough in an earlier round of the Carling Cup. Does that rule him out at Aldershot ? |
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