salford ground is why its still small crowds its a shit hole and nothing more than a park field really and plans are in place to build a new stadium and the they are look to league football in the future . football is about winning and don't let people fool you success is a big part of being a fan and only a hand full of fans can really say otherwise and they can not keep the club in business
i keep saying it football has change in the past 10 years and with the like of chelsea and manchester city and other owners the premier league invited them to invest in football clubs and give the league a boost and to challenge the so called big clubs who just kept winning the league year after year and what fun is there in that so that's why its not a game anymore so clubs was put up for sale and money invested and world class player bought to promote both clubs and the premier league
know if lower league clubs want to keep the dream alive they need to do something and fast and first thing is to bring the fans back so that means something must happen to promote the club in the media and bring some quality to the club if that means selling your soul you must take the medicine and swallowing your pride and let the money people or the bigger clubs help your never going to challenge them its gone the dream so move on and keep your club alive and back whatever they think is best
you do realise the championship is one of the highest watched leagues in europe?
There are even non league clubs which get gates of over 2k, I wouldn't really call it a niche product.
I think the lower leagues will get even more popular as the price of premier league football gets more expensive.
Lol.This would be the death of a historic club if it happened. Hate Oldham though so fuck em.
The Championship may well be able to survive. There are some fairly important clubs in it with reasonable historic fan bases. Villa, for example, could get 40,000 through the gates if they were anything like successful.
The lower leagues, as full-time, professional clubs, I doubt. Many are living on gates of 2,000 - 3,000. How sustainable is that, long term?
Did I say I thought it was a good thing? No. But society has changed so much. You are at least as likely to see a kid round here (Bury) wearing a Barcelona shirt as a Bury one. I find it hard to get my head round that. I support City because my grandfathers and father did, and because when I was a kid you could walk to the end of the road and see Maine Road floodlights in the distance. The world just ain't like that any more. Most kids seem to go for the "big" - read successful - clubs rather than the one they could actually watch in the flesh if they could be arsed.
I said on P.2 city were not involved. They still aren't and won't be any time soon.Is there any chance this has nothing to do with City?
There were lads who stripped off and staring swimming in the area that had beeen the first ten steps,of the terrace.My lasting memory of Oldham will always be the away game in 89 when Megson scored a header that squeezed under Andy Rhodes on the plastic pitch at the Rochdale End. It was cracking the flags on the run up to kick off, then the heavens opened. I remember trudging home in my piss wet through jumbo cords and white adidas first tracky top. Those were the days
There were lads who stripped off and staring swimming in the area that had beeen the first ten steps,of the terrace.
Brilliant drainage with a plastic pitch.
Also fucking ruined my leather jacket I bought that morning from 'stolen from ivor'