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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 8:14:29 GMT
Ground 253 tomorrow, going to Worcester City against Brackley Town at Bromsgrove's Victoria Ground. Quite looking forward to it, saw a couple of Worcester's games in their FA Cup run a couple of years ago. Real shame they're homeless at the moment after leaving St George's Lane. It was a fantastic old ground...  |
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Post by Rex on Sept 30, 2016 10:41:34 GMT
We're going to Easter Road on Sunday for the first time. "While I'm worth my room on this earth..." Love that place, and the sun always shines there  |
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Post by irishrover on Sept 30, 2016 19:24:00 GMT
Ground 253 tomorrow, going to Worcester City against Brackley Town at Bromsgrove's Victoria Ground. Quite looking forward to it, saw a couple of Worcester's games in their FA Cup run a couple of years ago. Real shame they're homeless at the moment after leaving St George's Lane. It was a fantastic old ground... I saw Worcester City play Stockport early in their season - they looked like a side that is doomed to relegation in that league which is a shame given everything they have going against them. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2016 7:20:10 GMT
Ground 253 tomorrow, going to Worcester City against Brackley Town at Bromsgrove's Victoria Ground. Quite looking forward to it, saw a couple of Worcester's games in their FA Cup run a couple of years ago. Real shame they're homeless at the moment after leaving St George's Lane. It was a fantastic old ground... I saw Worcester City play Stockport early in their season - they looked like a side that is doomed to relegation in that league which is a shame given everything they have going against them. They were very daft, sold up St George's Lane for not enough money to cover the new ground. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2016 12:08:17 GMT
Truly fantastic news, I'll be going to Harland and Wolff Welders Reserves as an early kick off. No really.
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Post by irishrover on Oct 3, 2016 12:59:38 GMT
Truly fantastic news, I'll be going to Harland and Wolff Welders Reserves as an early kick off. No really. Blimey there's some serious history in that name! I assume a company like that would have had substantial sporting facilities of their own - is that where you are going? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2016 13:14:09 GMT
Truly fantastic news, I'll be going to Harland and Wolff Welders Reserves as an early kick off. No really. Blimey there's some serious history in that name! I assume a company like that would have had substantial sporting facilities of their own - is that where you are going? Alas no, they were set up by Welders. They play in yellow and black but they're not an official works club like Vosper Thorneycroft FC in Southampton for instance. |
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Post by irishrover on Oct 3, 2016 14:42:53 GMT
Blimey there's some serious history in that name! I assume a company like that would have had substantial sporting facilities of their own - is that where you are going? Alas no, they were set up by Welders. They play in yellow and black but they're not an official works club like Vosper Thorneycroft FC in Southampton for instance. Yes - there's not many left. I don't know to what extent Vauxhall Motors at Ellesmere Port still qualify as that. You see it more often in cricket - with lots of clubs a legacy of that era. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2016 14:49:43 GMT
Alas no, they were set up by Welders. They play in yellow and black but they're not an official works club like Vosper Thorneycroft FC in Southampton for instance. Yes - there's not many left. I don't know to what extent Vauxhall Motors at Ellesmere Port still qualify as that. You see it more often in cricket - with lots of clubs a legacy of that era. In Germany Bayer Leverkusen are probably the most famous factory team, Carl Zeiss Jena are up there as well. RB Leipzig are an ugly, ugly little club though. Bought up SSV Markranstadt, rebranded and moved up the leagues. Luckily Markranstadt have reformed. |
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Post by irishrover on Oct 3, 2016 15:10:07 GMT
Yes - there's not many left. I don't know to what extent Vauxhall Motors at Ellesmere Port still qualify as that. You see it more often in cricket - with lots of clubs a legacy of that era. In Germany Bayer Leverkusen are probably the most famous factory team, Carl Zeiss Jena are up there as well. RB Leipzig are an ugly, ugly little club though. Bought up SSV Markranstadt, rebranded and moved up the leagues. Luckily Markranstadt have reformed. Yeah - I'm not sure being bought outright by a major international conglomerate is remotely the same as starting life as a genuine works team. Internationally I suppose the most famous one of all would probably be the Green Bay Packers. What about the relationship between VW and Wolfsberg? More like Leverkusen or Leipzig would you say? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2016 15:33:30 GMT
In Germany Bayer Leverkusen are probably the most famous factory team, Carl Zeiss Jena are up there as well. RB Leipzig are an ugly, ugly little club though. Bought up SSV Markranstadt, rebranded and moved up the leagues. Luckily Markranstadt have reformed. Yeah - I'm not sure being bought outright by a major international conglomerate is remotely the same as starting life as a genuine works team. Internationally I suppose the most famous one of all would probably be the Green Bay Packers. What about the relationship between VW and Wolfsberg? More like Leverkusen or Leipzig would you say? Oh more like Leverkusen, they're not seen as remotely similar to RB. |
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Post by eppinggas on Oct 7, 2016 8:20:06 GMT
On a slightly different note - how many grounds have people seen Rovers play at? eg Watching Rovers at the Old and New Den counts as 2. Watching Rovers play Palace, Wimbledon and Charlton at Selhurst Park counts as 1.
I'm sure I'll get 'hammered' (I saw the Gas get relegated in '94 at the Bolyne Ground)... but I reckon I'm up to 59.
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Post by strung out on Oct 7, 2016 9:42:42 GMT
Can you count reserve matches?
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Post by eppinggas on Oct 7, 2016 10:15:31 GMT
Good question. My 59 are all first team fixtures - but do include pre-season friendlies (Sutton Utd and FGR at the Lawns). The rest are all league/play-offs/FA Cup/League Cup.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 12:06:32 GMT
My rule is it must be a competitive first team match. So JPT counted up until this season, friendlies don't. But there's no reason anyone else should want to play by my rules.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 12:43:03 GMT
Similar with the 92, everyone has their own rules. I count friendlies but I know many don't, one bloke didn't count 0-0's because he's a f**king idiot.
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Post by irishrover on Oct 7, 2016 12:53:26 GMT
I've not actually collated my numbers for a while. A bit humbling - I thought my numbers would be a bit better than this by now, I'm definitely slowing down.....I have watched Rovers at 48 different grounds (will easily break the 50 mark this year) and have been to a further 13 grounds not watching Rovers (down as far Conference South - I've been to a fair few below that level as well).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2016 12:56:19 GMT
I'm on 253 overall, I'll find out how many Rovers in a bit. I'd assume it'll be around 70-80.
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Post by strung out on Oct 7, 2016 13:15:16 GMT
I'm on 31 grounds total watching Rovers, with a bunch of other non league grounds watching other teams. Also done Reading twice watching Norwich and Leicester.
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Post by strung out on Oct 7, 2016 13:17:57 GMT
As a sidenote, Norwich are probably the league club I've seen at the most other grounds, especially if you include reserve matches, as I've seen them play at Huish Park (when we played them there in a pre-season friendly for some reason), Lodge Road, Yate (for a Rovers reserve match), once at the Mem, once at the Madejski, and a couple of times at Carrow Road following Rovers.
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