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Post by therealist on Jul 5, 2014 2:24:49 GMT
Requesting fixtures? How bizarre.
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Post by p4perlant3rn on Jul 5, 2014 6:10:22 GMT
Welcome to the conference.
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Post by empirebaypete on Jul 5, 2014 6:28:23 GMT
Well I imagine they don't just put the fixtures out without taking some things into account. I would think both Rovers & Torquay were asked about the games between them, if in fact they weren't even asked for.
Here in Australia we're usually home on New Years Eve. We ask for this fixture. Not this year though, as the season is changed a bit to fit in the Asian Cup. Next year NYE game is back. 6.30 Kick off. Game over, outside for bands & circus acts etc. 9 pm fireworks. 9.30 off home for some beers.
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Post by martyhopkirk on Jul 5, 2014 6:54:29 GMT
Requesting fixtures? How bizarre. That's how it works in the Conference which is not too dissimilar to the FL, the level of consultation just happens to be ia notch up that's all. Every club including Bristol Rovers would have had the same opportunity, obviously I have no idea to what effect. Marty... |
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Post by lockleazer on Jul 5, 2014 6:57:50 GMT
Good bit of work by lincoln ... you dont need your biggest game of tge season on boxing day/new years day as traditionally crowds are good on those days only... better to have it when normally a lower crowd would attend.. it creates extra income
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Post by mjhgas on Jul 5, 2014 9:08:55 GMT
Ha ha! Just wait until we play a very small club where the fans change ends at halftime!!! Some will have no segregation! Whatever next, beer on the terrace with the opposition fans?
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Post by Bridgeman on Jul 5, 2014 9:22:04 GMT
Ha ha! Just wait until we play a very small club where the fans change ends at halftime!!! Some will have no segregation! Whatever next, beer on the terrace with the opposition fans? How does that work, do we just walk across the pitch ? You can imagine the welcome away fans will get if they try and get in the Blackthorn End at half time.....mind you we could send some of our lot down to Idiots Corner as part of the exchange  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2014 9:44:13 GMT
Ha ha! Just wait until we play a very small club where the fans change ends at halftime!!! Some will have no segregation! Whatever next, beer on the terrace with the opposition fans? isnt that how it should be in all football really? i so wish it was |
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Post by mjhgas on Jul 5, 2014 9:48:25 GMT
Ha ha! Just wait until we play a very small club where the fans change ends at halftime!!! Some will have no segregation! Whatever next, beer on the terrace with the opposition fans? isnt that how it should be in all football really? i so wish it was Yes, it would be good! Perhaps we can trial it with the 3 away fans from Woking? In all seriousness, it would be a good thing! Leeds United enjoyed sharing our terrace a few years ago!!! |
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Post by mjhgas on Jul 5, 2014 9:49:31 GMT
Ha ha! Just wait until we play a very small club where the fans change ends at halftime!!! Some will have no segregation! Whatever next, beer on the terrace with the opposition fans? How does that work, do we just walk across the pitch ? You can imagine the welcome away fans will get if they try and get in the Blackthorn End at half time.....mind you we could send some of our lot down to Idiots Corner as part of the exchange You just stroll around the terrace!!! (Don't forget your flask & lunchbox)! |
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Post by Bridgeman on Jul 5, 2014 9:51:23 GMT
How does that work, do we just walk across the pitch ? You can imagine the welcome away fans will get if they try and get in the Blackthorn End at half time.....mind you we could send some of our lot down to Idiots Corner as part of the exchange You just stroll around the terrace!!! (Don't forget your flask & lunchbox)! Oo....can't wait |
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Post by lincolnfan on Jul 5, 2014 9:59:08 GMT
Ha ha! Just wait until we play a very small club where the fans change ends at halftime!!! Some will have no segregation! Whatever next, beer on the terrace with the opposition fans? isnt that how it should be in all football really? i so wish it was That's how it used to be boys and girls. Typewritten roneo programmes as well. No subs. No debate about formation 1-2-3-5 it was. No internet debate afterwards either. Down the local newsagents later to find out how everyone else got on for those places with a Saturday Pink Un or Green Un or whatever colour it was. Queues outside the newsagents waiting for the van to arrive. Oh, and a thick fug of roll your own, Woodbines and Players Weights. Probably best without the last three but no one knew better then...........helping to push start the visitors team coach after the game. Watching your goalkeeper arrive at the ground on his bike with his boots in a bag over the handlebars or hung round his neck............Football League 1950's. Not a copper in sight unless directing traffic outside. Still, all things change for the better don't they? |
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Post by PessimistGas on Jul 5, 2014 10:02:29 GMT
isnt that how it should be in all football really? i so wish it was That's how it used to be boys and girls. Typewritten roneo programmes as well. No subs. No debate about formation 1-2-3-5 it was. No internet debate afterwards either. Down the local newsagents later to find out how everyone else got on for those places with a Saturday Pink Un or Green Un or whatever colour it was. Queues outside the newsagents waiting for the van to arrive. Oh, and a thick fug of roll your own, Woodbines and Players Weights. Probably best without the last three but no one knew better then...........helping to push start the visitors team coach after the game. Watching your goalkeeper arrive at the ground on his bike with his boots in a bag over the handlebars or hung round his neck............Football League 1950's. Not a copper in sight unless directing traffic outside. Still, all things change for the better don't they? Can I hear the music from the Hovis advert?  |
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Post by empirebaypete on Jul 5, 2014 11:20:50 GMT
How does that work, do we just walk across the pitch ? You can imagine the welcome away fans will get if they try and get in the Blackthorn End at half time.....mind you we could send some of our lot down to Idiots Corner as part of the exchange You just stroll around the terrace!!! (Don't forget your flask & lunchbox)! Only the flask & lunchbox? Not taking the dog then? I can't really see this change of ends thing happening when Rovers play away to be honest. But if someone does see someone at an away game with their dog please post a picture. |
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Post by lympstonegas on Jul 7, 2014 7:05:41 GMT
You just stroll around the terrace!!! (Don't forget your flask & lunchbox)! Only the flask & lunchbox? Not taking the dog then? I can't really see this change of ends thing happening when Rovers play away to be honest. But if someone does see someone at an away game with their dog please post a picture. I hope we are taking our 4 legged friends here !! |
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Post by mehewmagic on Jul 7, 2014 15:59:36 GMT
isnt that how it should be in all football really? i so wish it was Yes, it would be good! Perhaps we can trial it with the 3 away fans from Woking? In all seriousness, it would be a good thing! Leeds United enjoyed sharing our terrace a few years ago!!!
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Post by brizzle on Jul 7, 2014 16:29:04 GMT
isnt that how it should be in all football really? i so wish it was That's how it used to be boys and girls. Typewritten roneo programmes as well. No subs. No debate about formation 1-2-3-5 it was. No internet debate afterwards either. Down the local newsagents later to find out how everyone else got on for those places with a Saturday Pink Un or Green Un or whatever colour it was. Queues outside the newsagents waiting for the van to arrive. Oh, and a thick fug of roll your own, Woodbines and Players Weights. Probably best without the last three but no one knew better then...........helping to push start the visitors team coach after the game. Watching your goalkeeper arrive at the ground on his bike with his boots in a bag over the handlebars or hung round his neck............Football League 1950's. Not a copper in sight unless directing traffic outside. Still, all things change for the better don't they? Now that's spooky, lincoln. Do I take it that you had the same colour sports papers where you're from, as we did in Bristol? My father used to send me down to the local newsagents to buy both the Pink 'Un and Green 'Un, and he would then spend the rest of the evening reading them . . . no TV (to speak of) then, of course. If he went to the pictures (The Metropole, in Sussex Place), then he would take them with him to read in the intermission. And it was always the case that boys would gather at the top of the Tote End car park, to walk with the players as they arrived at the ground. Different times then though. |
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Post by lincolnfan on Jul 7, 2014 17:03:42 GMT
Yes, same at Lincoln, Grimsby, Hull - anywhere served by a regional daily produced a Saturday evening sports paper and they were huge sellers in their day. Queues outside the newsagents waiting for the delivery van to arrive. I think there is one football paper left in the whole of Britain - last big one to go was Newcastle. Was reading an obit of one of the old stars a couple of years ago and it told how he used to arrive for home games on the same tram that supporters would be travelling on.
One of my earliest childhood memories at Sincil Bank was seeing the smoke from the steam trains float across the pitch - there was a freight line and sometimes they got stopped at a signal. You could see the engine crew hanging out of the cab to catch a view of the game........
And what about excursions by train to away games. I'm sure you had them back then. Of course, no one wrecked the train in those days and it was good business for the railway.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 18:34:29 GMT
That's how it used to be boys and girls. Typewritten roneo programmes as well. No subs. No debate about formation 1-2-3-5 it was. No internet debate afterwards either. Down the local newsagents later to find out how everyone else got on for those places with a Saturday Pink Un or Green Un or whatever colour it was. Queues outside the newsagents waiting for the van to arrive. Oh, and a thick fug of roll your own, Woodbines and Players Weights. Probably best without the last three but no one knew better then...........helping to push start the visitors team coach after the game. Watching your goalkeeper arrive at the ground on his bike with his boots in a bag over the handlebars or hung round his neck............Football League 1950's. Not a copper in sight unless directing traffic outside. Still, all things change for the better don't they? That genuinely sounds incredible... |
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