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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 29, 2024 15:38:11 GMT
Please can we try a shot at some point.They have had ten and us Zero!!!!!!!!!!! Lofty tries a shot now!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 29, 2024 14:28:05 GMT
I doubt many L1 teams will have a stronger bench when neither Vaughan or Crama can even make the bench! Not sure if serious.. Topper is ALWAYS serious!!!!! See Loft starts for Vale.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 29, 2024 13:23:04 GMT
Where's the best place to drink up here? Awful place.Leave M6 J15 on way home and eat at one of Eccleshall's 8 pubs.5 miles from j14 to return home.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 27, 2024 22:47:06 GMT
Their first win for a while last week (and they are in desperate need of points to stay up), at Burton.Nice ground but the surrounding area of Burslem is dire.Cheap beer though.Our season is fast petering out but we so need a committed performance to restore the faith .We lack genuine pace sadly but hopeful we can do a lot better than of late. Burslem is one of the five towns(some say six) which form the City of Stoke on Trent . Robbie Williams hails from Burslem but posh it ain't.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 26, 2024 18:42:56 GMT
Refereed at Twerton; Bath v Barnet.Chap on visitors bench threatened me as we left at HT for refusing to give his side a penalty.I reported him and he said his name was'F------ BASIL BRUSH.' Reported it and Barnet had to send me a team/group pic so I could pick him out.Barry Fry phoned me at work to see who it was and was Gob Smacked when I answered the phone and said ,'Stafford Police Station'. Who was it then? - don't leave us in suspense The trainer-Magic sponge man.Don't think his real name was Basil Brush though!!!!!! Attachments:
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 25, 2024 15:44:04 GMT
Refereed at Twerton; Bath v Barnet.Chap on visitors bench threatened me as we left at HT for refusing to give his side a penalty.I reported him and he said his name was'F------ BASIL BRUSH.' Reported it and Barnet had to send me a team/group pic so I could pick him out.Barry Fry phoned me at work to see who it was and was Gob Smacked when I answered the phone and said ,'Stafford Police Station'.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 25, 2024 15:36:47 GMT
Three you are right.Locals told me ,'Bristol' were the best team seen at Vale Park this season'.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 24, 2024 11:21:42 GMT
Ryan Loft just notched a vital goal for Vale, 1 up at Burton. Hope he's not heating up for facing us... Best goal he scored for us was away to Vale.Suspect that goal (we did score three) swayed them to buy him.He also scored a cracker away to Exeter but overall a big disappointment.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 23, 2024 20:20:46 GMT
Chesterfield back up.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 20, 2024 16:10:15 GMT
Hope we can score before then!!!!!!! Ran the line at their old Springfield Park ground once in an FA Cup quarter final v Leeds.Saw the floodlights( pre Sat Nav) which navigated me from afar only to end up at Wigan's Rugby League stadium!!!!
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 19, 2024 10:01:14 GMT
Talking of Exeter,they have picked up of late wheras Muff like us are on a losing non scoring streak.Exeter were at home to Burton last game and so few visiting fans,the away end was almost empty. Visited Exeter's excellent training set up and they really involve the community there.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 18, 2024 16:26:58 GMT
Beer Albion v Elmore.Most picturesque ground anywhere.Superb catering facilities,new clubhouse,match programme and free raffle ticket.£3 and that includes seated accommodation.Richard Walker always in attendance.Lives locally but still has his Brummy accent.K.O 3 pm but down the road in a Cup game Lyme Regis v Colyton ,K.O 2 pm Sunday.Superb catering facilities and covered seated accom there too.They say Lyme's pitch is too small but as it's on the edge of a cliff they can't extend!!!!
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 17, 2024 12:12:22 GMT
View AttachmentTo those who rarely go further north than Yate,'Paddock' is/was a very common term in the Midlands at grounds for the area where terracing was infront of a seated area.Another idiosyncrasy is the option that is Half way line flags.Don't think any clubs have 'em now but they were always optional.Sidmouth Town still have 'em down here. I never knew that half way line flags were optional. Out of interest, did you ever go to the old Lympstone ground?(I think they may have had 2 different pitches)My mate played in goal for them many moons ago and told me they had a tree on the edge of the pitch with the touchline going around it! Would love this to be true but he may have been pulling my waterer! Can find no evidence of your tree which would have been deemed dangerous but here is a pic of LYM PSTONE FC.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 16, 2024 13:28:58 GMT
To those who rarely go further north than Yate,'Paddock' is/was a very common term in the Midlands at grounds for the area where terracing was infront of a seated area.Another idiosyncrasy is the option that is Half way line flags.Don't think any clubs have 'em now but they were always optional.Sidmouth Town still have 'em down here. Once refereed at the Michelin Ground in Stoke and a half way line flag was actually on the touchline.Pointed it out and was told no-one else had ever noticed it!!!
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 16, 2024 8:24:57 GMT
Two Match Day threads but no GGMI.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 15, 2024 21:17:03 GMT
Description:Stoke City FC played at the Victoria Ground for 119 years, until May 1997. This is the view from the Boothen End towards the Stoke End of the ground. The Stoke End was open until a stand was built in 1979. Stoke market clock tower can be seen beyond the highest part of the terraces. The Main Stand (or Boothen Stand) is to the left and the Butler Street Stand to the right. A standing area at the front of the Boothen Stand was called The PADDOCK. Spent many happy hours in the Paddock at Stoke's Old Victoria Ground.Jimmy Greenhof,Alan Hudson ,John Ritchie, George Eastham et all.Once reffed a Central League game there and the Stoke skipper was none other than Paul Randall but don't think he ever settled in the illustrious Potteries. Attachments:
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 15, 2024 20:24:10 GMT
Yes,to some a paddock and to others,enclosure.Paddock/Kop had more northern connotations.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 15, 2024 14:15:24 GMT
Recall going to a fireworks display at Eastville-1950's sponsored by the Evening Post I think.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 15, 2024 10:33:05 GMT
Brilliant.Hadn't realised there were so few seats in the south stand.
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Post by Colyton Gas on Mar 15, 2024 9:43:46 GMT
To be followed by the history of the flower beds at the Tote end.Unique.
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