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[bobg]

Excellent all round display today against a good looking Oldham side. For me Scott Kaighan was outstanding as was the whole pack of forwards, credit too to Jason Mossop his defence was outstanding, 80 mins of good hard graft from the whole team, just one word about the referee, in the first half he was very fair, however in the second he seem to take against "Town" for some reason, but despite that we where very good value for the win.

[wonky]

Excellent result, beating a very good team with relative ease. Hopefully this can be a platform to build, and send a message to the rest of the league. Well played to all the team

[Keith T]

Definitely a very good performance from 1 to 17 for Town. I don't have any arguments with the referee (Mr Leahy) other than how many times do you warn a team about high tackles without sending someone to the bin. Other than that I though he had a decent enough game. Big Ginge was rightly dismissed for use of the elbow in the tackle (leading with his elbow) which he had previously been penalised and warned about earlier.

Some excellent individual performances today, as well as an excellent team performance. Any one from Matty, Stack, Mossop, Frazer, Kaighan, Carter, Coward, McGoff, Bainbridge, could have picked up the man of the match award. The team have now set a benchmark for the season at home and the only downside is that only 473 were there to watch them. We need to get the message out to all the ex-fans that this team could have success this year, especially with a strong support behind them.

[anok4u]

exellent stuff we played some awesome rugby today, a very good all round display...our coaches will be breathing a huge sigh of relief at least they wont be getting sacked

[unicorn106]

Superb 80 minutes from Town today, we dominated the game apart fom a ten minute spell in the second half when matty was spelled off, we lost some direction and gave away a heap of penalties.

We all knew how good matty is going forward at the play the ball, but his defence is awesome, at one point I counted ten tackles on the belt end, the guy is so fit. Gus got the MOM award but you could have given it to just about anyone in a Town shirt today.

We have another tough one next week at Donny, if we can produce anything like todays performance we could be in with a shout, we then have 2 winnable games against S Wales and Gateshead before we meet our much loved neighbours on Good Friday.

Another poor crowd today, the weather will have put some off, but it seems only the real die-hards are turning out, the message needs to be put across to the missing fans that we now have a team worth watching.

UP THE TOWN

[griffin4]

well done all! super scotty kaigans try was worth the entrance money alone. the only sad things about today are the crowd and 5 messages on this thread about a brilliant win from a much improved team and club. you sometimes wonder what has to be done to boost attendances and so boost the club. this vicious circle of poor crowds holding the club back is frustrating. i'll do my bit trying to persuade ex fans i know to come back because this team deserves more support on that show!!

[dkw]

Magnificent result today, and I am as happy about the defence as I am the attack. Oldham are a very good side, yet we comfortably controlled them for the majority of the game.

[homeandawayer]

What a performance, the defence was awesome .. aggressive and organised. Even when they looked sure to score somebody including the halfbacks came up with a monster tackle.

In attack we took almost every half chance and could have had a couple more through Stack,Mossop and Fraser. Kaighan was good last year but this year he's gone up a level , we definitely lose direction especially in defence when Matty goes off as for MOM ??? take your pick.

Four points against two of the top teams and to deprive them of a point is a great effort...love it!!

[Keith T]

well done all! super scotty kaigans try was worth the entrance money alone. the only sad things about today are the crowd and 5 messages on this thread about a brilliant win from a much improved team and club. you sometimes wonder what has to be done to boost attendances and so boost the club. this vicious circle of poor crowds holding the club back is frustrating. i'll do my bit trying to persuade ex fans i know to come back because this team deserves more support on that show!!

I agree griffin4, it is a problem how we get fans back to DP. I keep mentioning the fact on Town's Facebook page in the hope that some of the 1800 or so friends of Town take the hint and turn up. I know many of them that post on the Facebook page live away but there must be a good percentage living locally that just don't bother to go to matches. We will have to keep up the drip, drip, drip method and hoepfully it gets through.

[wonky]

Would it not be an idea against south Wales to possibly do admission half price, people will only believe the improvements if they see for themselves, so with a bit of advertisement and word of mouth from the die hards we could bump the numbers. And let's be honest we should be able to do a number on the scorpions.

[gillmeister]

Its going to be a long slow process getting fans back as theres been to many false dawns. We couldnt break a thousand fans when we went unbeaten at home all season with guys like limmer and sione in the team. Ive said it before but I dont see the crowds improving significantly until Town get out of this division

[town88]

I agree griffin4, it is a problem how we get fans back to DP. I keep mentioning the fact on Town's Facebook page in the hope that some of the 1800 or so friends of Town take the hint and turn up. I know many of them that post on the Facebook page live away but there must be a good percentage living locally that just don't bother to go to matches. We will have to keep up the drip, drip, drip method and hoepfully it gets through.

1800 or so there is over 3000 on it i try my best to get them down but we need a few wins on the belt end to tempt a few off them back

[Oneday]

Even though it was a poor crowd its good to hear a strong vocal support at home now. The more that join in the better. To stop Oldham getting the BP was excellent esp when they started to get on a roll and were chucking the ball around desperately. Carters tackle stopping a certain try at that point was superb. I thought Towns handling in those conditions was exceptional. If we can put in a 60 or 70 min like that at Donny must be confident of a result?

[Keith T]

1800 or so there is over 3000 on it i try my best to get them down but we need a few wins on the belt end to tempt a few off them back

Sorry friend, I didn't mean to offend you just too lazy to check the total when I posted the message and I do know how hard you try to get some support.

No doubt if we get a few more good wins under our belt some will come back to us.

[unicorn106]

Would it not be an idea against south Wales to possibly do admission half price, people will only believe the improvements if they see for themselves, so with a bit of advertisement and word of mouth from the die hards we could bump the numbers. And let's be honest we should be able to do a number on the scorpions.

excellent Idea 'Wonky' in a time of recession £12 and £8 concessions its a bit steep for some people to watch this standard of RL. If the game was publicised in the right manner and prices reduced it would be interesting to see the response, surely its worth a try.

In the late 80s we were bottom of the RL and were playing in front of 500,I never thought I would see a decent crowd again. A couple of years later Ray Ashton comes along and builds a cracking team of mainly locals with a couple of class overseas players (Paddy and King Kenny )and the place was rocking again.

Unfortunately times have changed and it isn't as easy to get them back, there is just too much competition with sport on the box. Add this to the fact that the dream of reaching the pinnacle of the game has been taken away for ever by the ostriches at Red Hall, and it becomes clear why every single team is struggling to pull the fans in.

Look on the Oldham forum and they have a thread devoted to where their missing fans are, it makes interesting reading.

[dkw]

The worst I can remember it was that stupid season when the RFL in their infinite wisdom had that ridiculous set up of a league with 6 temas ( I think it was 6) and we ended up playing Carlisle 6 times in a season, including cups. I can remember an attendance of around 250 for one of the Carlisle games.

[Keith T]

The worst I can remember it was that stupid season when the RFL in their infinite wisdom had that ridiculous set up of a league with 6 temas ( I think it was 6) and we ended up playing Carlisle 6 times in a season, including cups. I can remember an attendance of around 250 for one of the Carlisle games.

That was in 91 - 92 , dkw, when we finished bottom of an 8 team Second Division. Carlisle beat us 4 times in the league and once in the Lancashire Cup but we got our own back when we beat them in the Preliminary Round of the Challenge Cup.

Our top try scorers that season with 6 each were Buck Armstrong, Paul Penrice and Neil Rooney and our star signing of that season was the one and only Ben Lia, who managed to play 5 games (one as substitute). The year after was the start of our successful period when we finished runners-up to Keighley in the Third Division and went to our first Old Trafford Divisional Final against Fev from Division 2.

Edited by Keith T, 22 March 2011 - 05:20 PM.

[anok4u]

wasnt the carlisle match the one were a certain councilor did a streak??

[dkw]

That was in 91 - 92 , dkw, when we finished bottom of an 8 team Second Division. Carlisle beat us 4 times in the league and once in the Lancashire Cup but we got our own back when we beat them in the Preliminary Round of the Challenge Cup.

Our top try scorers that season with 6 each were Buck Armstrong, Paul Penrice and Neil Rooney and our star signing of that season was the one and only Ben Lia, who managed to play 5 games (one as substitute). The year after was the start of our successful period when we finished runners-up to Keighley in the Third Division and went to our first Old Trafford Divisional Final against Fev from Division 2.

Your right, it was 8 teams not 6. What an horrendous season that was to watch, Was it Ray Ashton that was coach, or had he been replaced by Dean Williams by then? Ah, Ben Lia, that brings back memories....all of them bad. Did we sign him from Widnes?

[Keith T]

Your right, it was 8 teams not 6. What an horrendous season that was to watch, Was it Ray Ashton that was coach, or had he been replaced by Dean Williams by then? Ah, Ben Lia, that brings back memories....all of them bad. Did we sign him from Widnes?

Ray Ashton was coach until December when Dean Williams took over. Lia had been at Widnes the previous season and hadn't done much for them either. "Cocky" did streak against Carlisle but I can't remember which game it was!!!