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Thread | Club Advisory Board
at 12:54 14 Feb 2025
This is the initiative we have been waiting for.
The opportunity for all the critical voices on here to stand up and be counted, a chance to influence and make yourself heard where it matters.
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Thread | Boston Match Thread
at 17:05 28 Jan 2025
I must admit that I am really looking forward to this game in the hope of seeing us carry on the fine form we showed on Saturday. Granted the opposition is different and somewhat buoyed by their own victory over the weekend but I am hopeful we can follow up and take advantage of a series of fixtures which could see us spring up the league over the next month. I don't expect Boston to capitulate easily and we do need to be at it from the beginning to prove to any doubters that we are capable of putting together back to back quality performances. One word of caution however based on the goal we conceded at Barnet, its worth noting that Boston also tend to rely on a long throw specialist who is inclined to bomb the goalmouth. Liam Hogan and Sam Waller beware.
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Thread | Penalties
at 19:53 15 Dec 2024
TVOS will correct me if I am wrong but I don't think we have been awarded a penalty in league and cup games this season. Apart from the possibility of unfortunate refereeing decisions that must surely be a direct consequence of our failure to attack and penetrate the opposition penalty area with sufficient aggresion to create an error. Something for Jim to take note of I think. |
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Thread | Tamworth Tuesday
at 13:23 15 Dec 2024
Unless Jim and the players are able to find a way we are in for another potential bore fest. Tamworth have no obligation to entertain and following a few early season thrashings tend to set up to frustrate, a method that has brought them some success recently and which inevitably works against our slow possesion based style. To avoid the usual depressing sonario against this type of team surely Jim sees the need to start the game hard and fast and keep going forward even if we are fortunate to score early. For once I would like to see the oppostion defenders have a torrid time instead of sitting back comfortably while we pass nonchalontly around the edge of the area. I would love to be pleasantly surprised but I suppose in all honesty I am steeled for more frustration. |
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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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