Get behind our exciting team

LATICS managing director Simon Corney

I’M not surprised Simon Corney was upset with the crowd of 4,600 when Latics played Cheltenham (Chronicle, March 25).

I know times are hard, but in a town the size of Oldham can we not find five or six thousand regulars? What more do people want?

The owners have invested in good players and fought to keep talented young lads at the club, and the result has been winning football.

It might help crowds if Latics had a ticket office in the town centre, which I know other clubs have done, but the best way of attracting fans is to win games and play good football.

They are doing it this season and deserve more support.

HARD CORE




HAVING watched a very boring Premiership match between Portsmouth and Manchester United, I must agree wholeheartedly with Simon Corney’s comments in the Chronicle.



It must be soul destroying for the owners and the staff to see such a poor crowd after the excellent win at Leeds.

John Sheridan has bought well to assemble an exciting team, playing fast, open football.

No doubt about it, Latics were excellent against Cheltenham last Saturday and the score could have easily been 8-0 – what a pity so few were there to see it.

Nothing beats live football, so please Latics fans turn up to watch. What a tragedy it would be if one or more of our young stars had to be sold to make ends meet.

If we don’t support our local teams they will go out of business (just look at Luton and Bournemouth), then all we will get is an endless diet of the same few Premiership teams and their overpaid stars, who we will all get fed up of watching.

I call on all the supporters from the glory days to get down to Boundary Park and support the lads – you will not be disappointed.

ALWAYS A BLUE




ARE there any other Latics fans – real Latics fans – as fed up as me with hearing comments about the team from people who don’t even attend matches?



Latics have started the season with a bang, yet they are still having a go – “the bubble will burst” etc. It’s almost like they cannot wait for us to lose a game.

I also get really annoyed by the people who say “I’ll go back watching Latics when they buy some new players.”

How can we buy new players without sufficient income from supporters?

I know lots of fans who don’t attend and then expect me to describe the details of how we won.

Get to Boundary Park and see for yourself, the lads are playing some brilliant football.

TRUE BLUE