Shanner Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 On 18/07/2017 at 07:34, Bully Wee Villa said: When are you going? As our first game has been moved to half 5. early November (forget the date). Wolves are at home that day too. I suppose there's a decent chance your game could be moved if you're doing well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivo den Bieman Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Down south this weekend prior to heading off for work for a few weeks. So tomorrow it's a friendly between Stevenage and Charlton at Stevenage's lego box, which I have never visited before. Hopefully see some abuse of Charltons Bond-villain owner too, not that he'll be there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunfermline Don Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Just been to Coniston v Cartmel. Lovely ground and ideal for a Dons fan as there were fields of sheep on 3 sides of the ground!G]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170721/e7a5f3fadec5f1e41df35bca78489ae9.jpg[/img] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Wragg Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Down south this weekend prior to heading off for work for a few weeks. So tomorrow it's a friendly between Stevenage and Charlton at Stevenage's lego box, which I have never visited before. Hopefully see some abuse of Charltons Bond-villain owner too, not that he'll be there. Down in London this weekend too. Heading to Brentford v Southampton tomorrow. Anyone acquainted with the 4 pubs around the ground?From what I've read the Griffin is the best, The Princess Royal the worst. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 19 minutes ago, H Wragg said: Down in London this weekend too. Heading to Brentford v Southampton tomorrow. Anyone acquainted with the 4 pubs around the ground? From what I've read the Griffin is the best, The Princess Royal the worst. If it's your only visit to the ground surely you to go all 4 basically just because you can. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Wragg Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 If it's your only visit to the ground surely you to go all 4 basically just because you can. Since I posted I've discovered it's now 3. One has bitten the dust. Will probably head over early enough to do the other 3. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Good move! Didn't realise one had gone either. Shame but not surprise these days unfortunately. Have fun anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMDP Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 I went to Brentford - Southampton yesterday too. Decent game for a friendly, finished 2-2 with an excellent Fraser Forster howler.Third visit to Griffin park, the pubs around the ground are much of a muchness tbh. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qos_75 Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Serie A fixtures out today and Roma v Inter is on the weekend we are in Rome. My joy was only fleeting as it has been moved from the Sunday to the Saturday night for TV and we have already bought tickets for an event on the Saturday night. Arrghhh! My only hope of a game now is if the Inter v Spal on the Sunday we fly back is changed to the Saturday for TV. It seems very unlikely. Hee-haw on in Florence while we are there either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Wragg Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 I went to Brentford - Southampton yesterday too. Decent game for a friendly, finished 2-2 with an excellent Fraser Forster howler.Third visit to Griffin park, the pubs around the ground are much of a muchness tbh. We went to the Griffin and just stayed there due to the pishing rain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 (edited) 11 hours ago, qos_75 said: Serie A fixtures out today and Roma v Inter is on the weekend we are in Rome. My joy was only fleeting as it has been moved from the Sunday to the Saturday night for TV and we have already bought tickets for an event on the Saturday night. Arrghhh! My only hope of a game now is if the Inter v Spal on the Sunday we fly back is changed to the Saturday for TV. It seems very unlikely. Hee-haw on in Florence while we are there either. if you're in milan for the weekend of 9th September (Inter v SPAL) then there's Atalanta v Sassuolo, Bologna v Napoli, Juve v Chievo and Hellas v Fiorentina all within an hour or so on the train; pretty sure there are going to be two games every Saturday (18:00 and 20:45), so decent chance that at least one of them gets pulled forward - you're probably looking at around £15.00 (Bergamo), £30.00 (Bologna), £25.00 (Turin and Verona) for a return ticket... some mention of the possibility of a third Saturday game at 12:45 too, but can't find confirmation for that at the moment... Edited July 27, 2017 by Herman Hessian 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qos_75 Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 15 hours ago, Herman Hessian said: if you're in milan for the weekend of 9th September (Inter v SPAL) then there's Atalanta v Sassuolo, Bologna v Napoli, Juve v Chievo and Hellas v Fiorentina all within an hour or so on the train; pretty sure there are going to be two games every Saturday (18:00 and 20:45), so decent chance that at least one of them gets pulled forward - you're probably looking at around £15.00 (Bergamo), £30.00 (Bologna), £25.00 (Turin and Verona) for a return ticket... some mention of the possibility of a third Saturday game at 12:45 too, but can't find confirmation for that at the moment... Cheers Herman. I will look into that. We are heading to Milan from Lake Como on Saturday 9th, probably arrive about 11.00am. I will look into those games and try and sell benefits of attending one of them to my wife. Ha! We are missing the Roma - Inter game for the Opera - The Barber of Seville. When the tickets were booked, I had the option of Saturday of Sunday but thought I would be wise keeping the Sunday free for the football. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMDP Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Was at Fulham-Wolfsburg yesterday. Fairly standard preseason stroll with Wolfsburg levels above and winning 3-0 and Mario Gomez scoring twice -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanner Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 supposed to be going to Fleetwood on Saturday but they're being awkward about selling us tickets. is Fylde a decent alternative for a game? how do you pronounce Fylde? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman Hessian Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 10 minutes ago, Shanner said: supposed to be going to Fleetwood on Saturday but they're being awkward about selling us tickets. is Fylde a decent alternative for a game? how do you pronounce Fylde? anything that involves not going to Fleetwood is a good alternative to going to Fleetwood - it's a dispiriting, miserable shithole that will suck the life from your very bones and leave you feeling spiritually crushed, morally bankrupt and physically debilitated Fylde rhymes with mild, and has to be a far better option... Added bonus of not going to Fleetwood is that you will also avoid being anywhere near Rotherham fans, who are the one, solitary sub-set of the wider football-watching demographic who will regard Fleetwood as "a really nice place"; and you'll catch lice, scabies and worms off them... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanner Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 10 minutes ago, Herman Hessian said: anything that involves not going to Fleetwood is a good alternative to going to Fleetwood - it's a dispiriting, miserable shithole that will suck the life from your very bones and leave you feeling spiritually crushed, morally bankrupt and physically debilitated Fylde rhymes with mild, and has to be a far better option... Added bonus of not going to Fleetwood is that you will also avoid being anywhere near Rotherham fans, who are the one, solitary sub-set of the wider football-watching demographic who will regard Fleetwood as "a really nice place"; and you'll catch lice, scabies and worms off them... you not really a Fleetwoody sort of cat then? I take it the Rotherham scummyness you mention has something to do with the restrictions on getting tickets. might go to Fylde then. Hadn't heard of them a week ago. Cheers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 32 minutes ago, Herman Hessian said: the place just reeks of Fishermans Friend That's a tad more accurate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanner Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 1 hour ago, Herman Hessian said: it used to be a thriving fishing port and ferry terminal, with daytrippers flocking to the seaside and the popular pier by railway; then the railway was closed, the pier burned down, the fishing industry died on its arse and the ferry service was stopped; the place just reeks of urban decay and general despair, plus the locals are lancastrian which mitigates against them being anything approaching civilised Rotherham fans are, of course, just depraved simpletons; it'll be the convergence of two defective genotypes that could throw up some genuinely new, mutant lifeforms if there's any cross-contamination - the mind boggles.... that said - Morecambe and Southport are both at home by way of alternative entertainment - with Boston United visiting Haig Avenue, so the whole area is really going to have a surfeit of horrific retards for the day - ouch ! Bought tickets for Fylde so the thrills and spills of Fleetwood can wait for another day. Was at Morcambe a couple of seasons ago. These North West English seaside places generally leave me feeling a wee bit depressed anyway with their faded grandeur and foosty amusement arcades but Morcambe was an especially abysmal experience. When we went back into town in the pissing rain after the match and the places was absolutely lifeless despite it being May. Having said that I found their fans nice enough people and had that long-suffering gallows humour about them but not somewhere to rush back to unless your glutton for melancholy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 10 hours ago, Herman Hessian said: anything that involves not going to Fleetwood is a good alternative to going to Fleetwood - it's a dispiriting, miserable shithole that will suck the life from your very bones and leave you feeling spiritually crushed, morally bankrupt and physically debilitated Fylde rhymes with mild, and has to be a far better option... Added bonus of not going to Fleetwood is that you will also avoid being anywhere near Rotherham fans, who are the one, solitary sub-set of the wider football-watching demographic who will regard Fleetwood as "a really nice place"; and you'll catch lice, scabies and worms off them... was at a Fleetwood game last November.not the most wonderful place in the world but youre grateful to be there rather than blackpool after your tram ride 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdenbeath Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Been down on the south coast over the last week and took in a few games. Was at Eastleigh v Sheffield United which ended 3-2 to the Blades in the pissing rain. Decent wee ground at Eastleigh now they have added a new stand, covered enclosure and new bar/offices since I was last there. On Saturday I was at Dorchester Town v Exeter City with Exeter winning 6-1. Then on Sunday I was at AFC Bournemouth v Valencia with Valencia winning 1-0. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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