Where are you going?

Sometimes in my darkest, self-loathing moments I worry about being over obsessed with things, and what people must think of me. Then I read one of Chewy's posts and it reminds me there is always someone else more obsessed and nerdy

Anyone been anywhere today?

I took Chewy's advice and popped to Cribbs v Clevedon at The Lawns (Rovers training ground).

To call it a ground would be a bit generous as three sides are hard standing and the other side has two separate stands that amount to about 60 seats in total.

Great spacious clubhouse with modern tellys and a good variety of ales, lagers and ciders. Didn't see any hot food which would've gone down a storm on a day like today, but there were some rolls that had been lovingly made by the elderly gentlemen tending the bar.

The only gas interest I think on show was Jack McKenna playing for Cribbs who was a young midfielder who came through with Ollie Clarke, but pretty sure he never made an appearance.

Cribbs won the game 1-0, which was probably deserved as they had 2 goals disallowed for offside and a Clevedon defender was lucky to escape with a yellow when he hauled down a Cribbs player cleanthrough. Was very impressed with the standard of football however with Clevedon especially looking to play out from the back at any given opportunity.

Enjoyable afternoon, certainly something I'll be doing more of!

Ticked Weymouth last night, another new ground and a pleasant day. I forget that Weymouth is basically the other side of the world despite being not that far away, tempted by Brimscombe later but that's subject to a pitch inspection.

Off to The Valley today, not a new ground for me, but my first time with Rovers, making it 169 different grounds with The Gas.

I liked their old place. Huge stand behind one goal and big old terraces. The away end was not so impressive on my visits there, due to the fact the land was sold off to a supermarket. Apparently in it's day it was as big as the one behind the opposite goal. I have been to the new one a couple of times, it is one of the better new grounds, but not a patch on the old place.

It isn't completely built round like Mangotsfield for example, but it's nice enough, and it's good to visit our local teams further down the pyramid. A lot of these teams were playing pretty much parks football not so very long ago, nice to see how many have progressed.

Cheers Gents, will update how I get on - not ruling out Fleetwood yet!

Have you got a corker of a non-league ground planned whilst ooop north, Chewy?

Pretty sure I'll do another Dublin trip in the summer, just want to try and find a three game weekend. Done Bohs, Rovers, Pats, Dundalk and the Aviva, so there's still plenty around Dublin to do. Tolka is high up the list now.