Re: Oldham (A) : Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:15 am  

Scarey71 wrote:

Alternatively, we didn't have families then and went on the lash afterwards and weren't bothered about work.

Now we have kids and are trying to hook them in to keep the club alive it's a pain arguing with your 9 yr old having to explain why she can't come but her older sisters can. Convenient as phuq that!

How rediculous.
Having kids is not just a recent phenomenon
People still had young children 15 years ago when we played on Sunday nights!
But it was Bullmania then sucessful team and lots going so it want an issue. Now its down at Dewsbury in the Championship its too late to play .

Re: Oldham (A) : Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:54 am  

Give over, Odsal was never swamped with families on filthy Sunday nights.

Re: Oldham (A) : Mon Mar 09, 2020 1:02 pm  

I don't remember late Sunday slots. We had the Friday 8pm & Sat 6pm slots (both sky), then the usual 3pm Sunday. Our televised slots seemed to be more Friday than Saturday which was a shame as a curry after a Saturday evening game went down well.

Re: Oldham (A) : Mon Mar 09, 2020 5:25 pm  

bulls2487 wrote:

The fact I and others travel 2 hours plus to get to a game means you aint getting home to 11pm on a Sunday night so thats already lost money for the club. Also plenty of parents with kids aren't gonna bother with early start Monday.
With our young fan base now you aren't going to see many who have watched us play late nights too.

Sorry about that. I now realise the error of my ways and fully understand that the club should be considering how the change of kick off time effects you directly, even when they have no actual say over it whatsoever!!!

As someone who regularly travelled from Scotland for over 5yrs to watch games I should really have asked the club to have considered me in their plans and asked for a 12noon kick off... silly me

Re: Oldham (A) : Mon Mar 09, 2020 5:28 pm  

Scarey71 wrote:

Alternatively, we didn't have families then and went on the lash afterwards and weren't bothered about work.

Now we have kids and are trying to hook them in to keep the club alive it's a pain arguing with your 9 yr old having to explain why she can't come but her older sisters can. Convenient as phuq that!

Yes that is true as we never attracted any children whatsoever in those days so it became irrelevent.

Re: Oldham (A) : Mon Mar 09, 2020 7:08 pm  

bullinenemyland wrote:

Sorry about that. I now realise the error of my ways and fully understand that the club should be considering how the change of kick off time effects you directly, even when they have no actual say over it whatsoever!!!

As someone who regularly travelled from Scotland for over 5yrs to watch games I should really have asked the club to have considered me in their plans and asked for a 12noon kick off... silly me

Well the attendance was down 900 on the Featherstone game so take away 200 fans easily cost the club 10k+ what's more important to a club that is skint at this moment in time?

Re: Oldham (A) : Mon Mar 09, 2020 7:20 pm  

bulls2487 wrote:

Well the attendance was down 900 on the Featherstone game so take away 200 fans easily cost the club 10k+ what's more important to a club that is skint at this moment in time?

You're really not getting the point are you? The club had no choice but to play the game at 6.15pm.

My point about 6pm kick offs in the past was that 15k people didn't have an issue with it then so why would it be an issue now.

God help us if we do ever get back to SL as there will be at least 3-4 games on a Thursday evening that kick off at 8pm. Folk will literally implode!!!

Re: Oldham (A) : Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:08 am  

bulls2487 wrote:

Well the attendance was down 900 on the Featherstone game so take away 200 fans easily cost the club 10k+ what's more important to a club that is skint at this moment in time?

You do realise that the RFL decided the game would kick off at 6.15 pm for the benefit of the Our League app?

Re: Oldham (A) : Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:37 am  

paulwalker71 wrote:

You do realise that the RFL decided the game would kick off at 6.15 pm for the benefit of the Our League app?

Yes but a club local to ours refused to move the KO and the game wasn't chosen for OurLeague on the back of this.

Re: Oldham (A) : Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:48 am  

bulls2487 wrote:

Yes but a club local to ours refused to move the KO and the game wasn't chosen for OurLeague on the back of this.

Right well when the time comes for this division to try and secure it's own tv rights I hope that club gets told to do one when they come looking for their slice of the pie. Short sighted thinking at its worst.