Where will we play?

[tandle]

14 hours ago, roughyed34 said:

Club was offered concrete for nothing for terracing, CCTV was offered but Mr H failed to communicate with the person who offered it, Rugby Oldham offered help but were rejected. Mr Quinn bought into the club and there were signs of light at the end of the tunnel,for whatever reason that didn't last. We were supposed to have a free stand and seats from Salford to install...never happened although the stand in kit form was at the ground! A covered stand like Avro have now at the clubhouse end wouldn't exactly have broke the bank.

The clubhouse never had any draught beer, the whole clubhouse was shocking in terms of decor, the clubhouse should have retained its local links with the pool/snooker/darts teams but they were turfed out, massive opportunity lost to generate income for the club by running the place as a proper social club and function room,not just "open for the match" on a Sunday.

Never mind developing the ground,it would have helped had the club actually paid the rent and secured the ground and made improvements bit by bit, what happened to the buy a piece of the pitch scheme btw? Why didn't the club do a scheme like squad builder but have it as groundbuilder instead?

Of course we didn't have the money to do the pitch/fencing to the standard it is today, but the club (as a entity) did literally nothing to improve facilities. 

A small band of volunteers tried to improve what was there at the start to their credit,but they were sold down the river by the Chairman not paying the rent, their effort ultimately wasted.

It was never the best ground for us in the first place but it was ours ,after all the fanfare of Oldham back in Oldham etc back in 2010 after being nomads for so long I would have thought more effort would have been made to improve the ground during our "ownership"

Alas it didn't happen, some improvements (not just ground ones either) don't take huge financial input but they need a bit of ambition and forward thinking. People will help if they see the club trying to improve things, unfortunately most see the club (non playing side) as backwards thinking and insular. If that is unpalatable then so be it, truth is that's what most fans I speak to every week feel.

We take 1 step forward and 3 back as a club.

Mr H has kept the club going, that is unquestionable and I'm sure we are all grateful for that, on the commercial/marketing/income stream side of things the club is and has been for many years an unmitigated disaster. With a bit of foresight maybe income generated while we "owned" the ground would have provided a bit of finance for improvements down the line, as it happened no income,no improvements. That blame lies with the club.

 

 

 

whitebank stadium owners Oldham council.

leaseholders pepper coin rent avro fc community football club.

football association award grants to improve community clubs grounds and facilities.

avro have spent qver £100.000 of their own monies on ground improvements

Oldham rlfc spent f=  = k all.tell me where would Oldham rlfc 1997 ltd be without the above

organisations being involved.

 

 

[roughyed34]

Homeless

[tandle]

we have not always agreed on some topics 34, but you are a thousand  per cent right on this one.

ch seems to be a past master on how to live off the backs of others over 22 years experience.

anyway to change the subject a bit when I was talking to a avro committee man he said they avro intended to build a stand two thirds the length of the pitch on the whitebank rd side. anybody any ideas or thoughts

 

 

[roughyedspud]

There's a boom in the football lower leagues in erecting these fabricated steel grandstands

https://www.stadiumsolutions.co.uk/ourwork/accrington-stanley-fc/

[moorside roughyed]

On 05/07/2019 at 00:21, roughyed34 said:

Club was offered concrete for nothing for terracing, CCTV was offered but Mr H failed to communicate with the person who offered it, Rugby Oldham offered help but were rejected. Mr Quinn bought into the club and there were signs of light at the end of the tunnel,for whatever reason that didn't last. We were supposed to have a free stand and seats from Salford to install...never happened although the stand in kit form was at the ground! A covered stand like Avro have now at the clubhouse end wouldn't exactly have broke the bank.

The clubhouse never had any draught beer, the whole clubhouse was shocking in terms of decor, the clubhouse should have retained its local links with the pool/snooker/darts teams but they were turfed out, massive opportunity lost to generate income for the club by running the place as a proper social club and function room,not just "open for the match" on a Sunday.

Never mind developing the ground,it would have helped had the club actually paid the rent and secured the ground and made improvements bit by bit, what happened to the buy a piece of the pitch scheme btw? Why didn't the club do a scheme like squad builder but have it as groundbuilder instead?

Of course we didn't have the money to do the pitch/fencing to the standard it is today, but the club (as a entity) did literally nothing to improve facilities. 

A small band of volunteers tried to improve what was there at the start to their credit,but they were sold down the river by the Chairman not paying the rent, their effort ultimately wasted.

It was never the best ground for us in the first place but it was ours ,after all the fanfare of Oldham back in Oldham etc back in 2010 after being nomads for so long I would have thought more effort would have been made to improve the ground during our "ownership"

Alas it didn't happen, some improvements (not just ground ones either) don't take huge financial input but they need a bit of ambition and forward thinking. People will help if they see the club trying to improve things, unfortunately most see the club (non playing side) as backwards thinking and insular. If that is unpalatable then so be it, truth is that's what most fans I speak to every week feel.

We take 1 step forward and 3 back as a club.

Mr H has kept the club going, that is unquestionable and I'm sure we are all grateful for that, on the commercial/marketing/income stream side of things the club is and has been for many years an unmitigated disaster. With a bit of foresight maybe income generated while we "owned" the ground would have provided a bit of finance for improvements down the line, as it happened no income,no improvements. That blame lies with the club.

 

 

 

Spot on mate, 100%

[moorside roughyed]

On 05/07/2019 at 16:02, roughyed34 said:

Homeless

I believe that this will happen in the not too distant future. I hope to god I'm wrong. I fear we're near the end of the road. 

[jroyales]

When sooperdooperleague get full control of all the money, sadly that will be the demise of lots of clubs.

[moorside roughyed]

1 minute ago, jroyales said:

When sooperdooperleague get full control of all the money, sadly that will be the demise of lots of clubs.

It certainly will be the case. Elitism is taking over, the big get bigger, the small can sod off. And we thought Union was elitist, the word joke springs to mind only its not funny.