OLDHAM Athletic are set to announce a special ticket offer for their two remaining home games to entice more fans to boost a last-ditch survival bid.

Latics are four points adrift of safety with nine to play for, while rivals Stevenage and Barrow both have a game in hand.

The deficit has made Saturday's visit of promotion-chasing Salford City a must-win.

Fans' group Push The Boundary today called for the club to make entry free, or charge a nominal fee if that was not possible.

But with the season ending against Crawley Town at Boundary Park a fortnight later, The Oldham Times understands that in-house discussions were already under way about a dual ticket incentive, although details have not yet been revealed.

In a statement on their website, PTB said: "Given the importance of Saturday's game, we have emailed the club and implored them to do the right thing and make the game free of charge, or if that isn’t possible, to at least to charge a minimal fee for a match ticket.

"We HAVE to fill Boundary Park, beat Salford and take the fight to Prenton Park against Tranmere."

And getting behind the survival bid is the reason why the group is discouraging action against the club's ownership.

There is a growing appetite to resume protests against owner Abdallah Lemsagam and his sporting director brother, Mo, which were prominent earlier in the season when games were disrupted by pitch invasions and objects, including tennis balls, being thrown onto the pitch, while there was a large-scale demonstration outside of the ground in September.

Action against the club's ownership has subsided since Lemsagam announced his intention to sell in January, just before John Sheridan returned for a sixth spell in charge.

And PTB are encouraging fans to wait until Latics' future is decided, one way or another, before protests resume.

"We are on the brink," the statement continued.

"The 2-0 defeat against Forest Green has left us all but relegated. When the club has been run the way it has over the last four years, there is a feeling that this was sadly inevitable, but it hurts all the same. Really hurts. The feelings of anger and frustration really hit hard and it’s incredibly easy to make knee-jerk decisions based on that.

"We do not feel that while we mathematically have a chance to stay up, that it’s appropriate to hold an ‘official’ protest. While we can stay up, our efforts must go into that fight, backing Shez and taking this to the last two games of the season."

But PTB said there would be a shift in that mindset should relegation be confirmed before the end of the season.

"Should the unthinkable happen, details of further action WILL be announced, but for now we feel it’s unfair to embroil Shez in these politics when he has a job to do," PTB said.

"That said, we would never discourage people to voice their opinions however they see fit, as long as they stay within the law. There is no doubt that there are a large number of people with blood on their hands following the demise of this club, and they will be held to account."