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[beacs]

" Fans are the heart of football" Sir Matt Busby


" Fans are the heart of Oldham Rugby " Beacs

[allroughyed]

" Fans are the heart of football" Sir Matt Busby


" Fans are the heart of Oldham Rugby " Beacs

Fans that stay away are the Heart of Oldham Rugby are they ?

[beacs]

knew you would bite LOL you cant resist ha ha ha ha

[allroughyed]

I'm right though, aren't I ?

[beacs]

couldnt care less of your opinion , i aint the only one !!!! my family have put heart soul and a hell of a lot of cash into the club in well over 70 years of my Family supporting the club and now we are in a position of seeing the club going down and out again

[thecrab]

yes beacs you arent the only one....
reading that league table after another defeat this weekend is totally depressing.

[Steve the Roughyed]

This quote from BEACS says everything. "my family have put heart soul and a hell of a lot of cash into the club in well over 70 years of my Family supporting the club and now we are in a position of seeing the club going down and out again".. He/She is not the only one feeling like this by a long way. The whole scenario apart from running the under 23 and youth teams to provide good players for other clubs is totally depressing. I first went to watch Oldham at Watersheddings in the late 60's and have been a regular ever since until this season where the only game I have seen is South Wales away because I was in the area on a weeks holiday. So why have I not been down to Whitebank field this season?
1. My forecast for where we would finish based on the squad and the uninspiring coach was somewhere between 6th and 8th in a season where a top 4 finish was critical.
2. Whitebank is not a stadium it is a millstone. Very few visiting fans will come more than once when they have seen the place and so attendances and atmosphere plummet
3. The game in general has become boring
4. And finally (for the moment): I check this forum every day, why? because deep down I love ORLFC.and yet those of us who have voted with our feet for very good reason and not attended are vilified as if we don't care. Sorry but we do and as a result we are very depressed!

[john in oz]

As my username suggests, I live in Australia and have done for the last 20 years.
For many years prior to that I had lived in the south of England and my opportunities to watch ORLFC were limited.
Having said that, I saw my first game in 1956 and watched that great side, including its 3 successive Lancashire Cup wins and championship win against Hull, until its gradual break up.
Thereafter there were good and bad times...................the disappointment of the loss in the three game Challenge Cup semi final against Hull KR, the euphoria of the Challenge Cup win over Wigan in 1987, the all too brief period when the peerless Frank Foster graced the Watersheddings turf..........too many memories and names of players great and not so great to have worn the red and white hoops.
Now following ORLFC through this forum and the online Oldham Chron, it is heartbreaking to see how low the club has sunk.
Dyed-in-the-wool supporters will always turn out to watch their team, but even the staunchest of them has a point at which he, or she, says enough is enough.
The great days of the past are exactly that......past......and very unlikely ever to return.
It is to be hoped that the club, in some shape or form, can carry on and that sufficient people turn up to support it and in some way the spirit of all those Roughyeds of years past will live on.

[thecrab]

Spot on Steve the Roughyed

[RunItOffAfi]

The light at the end tunnel, coming away from Whitebank after another dreadful display last Sunday, was that there's only one home game left in probably the club's worst ever season (Remember the nil wins season was in the then equivalent of the current Championship). I used to look forward to matches, but, this season and last, I've wondered at times why I'm at Whitebank, when I could be doing something more useful and exciting, like de-worming the dog! As well as being two bad seasons, quite frankly I'm currently finding the whole Oldham RL experience exceedingly boring, with very little hope of it getting any better. As someone posted last week, when Benson left, one down, one to go, and, for me, the sooner the better. I've watched Oldham for over 50 years, but, next season, I'll certainly be choosing my games, if any, so that's another season ticket holder gone.

[beacs]

And the plot thickens , i deffo would love to know how many wont renew season tickets next year , i know already that people around me wont be doing , and my family wont , many people will pick and choose their games next year , Carry on Die Hards you should club your money together soon and instead of giving it to CH buy him out instead LOL LOL !!

[Tony Mac]

I too have suffered through seasons when my hopes for the season have been dashed - this season certainly being one of them. I have also been elated during other seasons when Oldham have exceeded my expectations. That is the nature of supporting any team of any sport. I will still go to as many home games as I can next season and it will be in the hope that the team achieves or exceeds my expectations. I will probably be disappointed once again at the end of next season but I just don't know. You have to go through hard times to truly enjoy the good ones, and I truly believe that there will be good times at some point in the future, and I want to thoroughly enjoy them when they arrive.

Now, at no point have I breated anyone for saying they will not be going again, or that they will never go again whilst CH is there as I believe everyone should be entitled to have their say. I would just like to finish by saying it would be nice to be afforded the same courtesy.


Tony Mac
Chin Up, Chest Out

Edited by Tony Mac, 14 August 2012 - 04:41 PM.

[diehard 1]

Hi all

now everybody on this messageboard has good opinions about either how the club should be run or which team goes out on the field, which player should be dropped or which coach should be appointed, it doesnt matter if you go every week or just go when you can, at the end of the day we are all true supporters of ORLFC, we all adore and love the club and we will never change our views good or bad.

ORLFC IS IN ALL OUR BLOOD
SUPPORT AND LOVE THEM THE WAY EACH AND EVERYONE DOES.

UP THE ROUGHYEDS!!!!!!!!!

[sheddings69]

Hi all

now everybody on this messageboard has good opinions about either how the club should be run or which team goes out on the field, which player should be dropped or which coach should be appointed, it doesnt matter if you go every week or just go when you can, at the end of the day we are all true supporters of ORLFC, we all adore and love the club and we will never change our views good or bad.

ORLFC IS IN ALL OUR BLOOD
SUPPORT AND LOVE THEM THE WAY EACH AND EVERYONE DOES.

UP THE ROUGHYEDS!!!!!!!!!

Couldn't have put it better myself mate - I certainly won't be renewing to watch us play University teams.

Fingers crossed for some big changes.....but I won't hold my breath.

[ultimate roughyed]

Unfortunately, unless something dramatically changes we won't be renewing our 4 season tickets next year. Having supported the Roughyeds for 30 years I've never felt so depressed about the state of our club. Taking 2 small kids is a nightmare to our ground so until our extremely poor facilities improve I doubt we'll be going. The way the club is run (lack of communication in terms of the ground being the biggest problem IMHO) also needs to change radically although I'm not necessarily a member of the 'I won't go if CH is in charge' brigade. His treatment of RO is also unprofessional at best, having witnessed this at first hand following a conversation he had with AR earlier this season.............I won't go into the specifics but in a nutshell he was only interested in the amount of money RO could give him (forging relationships first doesn't appear on the agenda!).

Don't bank on next season being as easy as playing against a load of university kids, they will certainly have a point to prove and the travelling could well take its toll on our team.

[HARRYRUBY]

The team this year as obviously not been good enough.

The squad as a lot of young players, Some coming from SL Teams.
Older players such as Roden and Noone.

In hindsight would it not have been better to have a strong first team with establised players to be able to be on a par with the clubs who now occupy the top four places in the league.

Its Ok having three teams but to me the priority should be a strong first team

The younger players should have the ambition to play at an higher grade and standard but is Championship one going to be the extent of their ambition.

Will we be able to keep the good young players or will they go to other clubs rather than play in Cham,p 1

[bearman]

I can't believe what has happened to you this season.
I travelled up to Whitebank to see both the Barrow games. In the league you narrowly beat us and then you backed that up with a much better win in the Cup.
You were a good side then and were certainly as good as any team I have seen this year, but you were dreadful at Craven Park.
What suddenly made a workmanlike team into a bad team?
Whatever, I really hope you can get over this blip [please start by beating Workington].
Good luck guys.

[Bedford Roughyed]

Couldn't have put it better myself mate - I certainly won't be renewing to watch us play University teams.

It's a team sponsored and linked to the uni, not the actual uni side. The name isn't great though.

[unsilentmajority]

Won't be long until the local derby won't be Rochdale, it will be, saddlworth, st annes and waterhead

[roytonyed]

" Fans are the heart of football" Sir Matt Busby

Someone needs to create a filter to exclude all MU references.