warehamgas
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 26, 2020 23:50:07 GMT
Wouldn’t mind D and R, Yeovil or possibly Eastleigh, good Conference teams but wouldn’t mind reconnecting with them for a match. And I suppose now it doesn’t really matter if it’s home or away. Is it a national draw or do they do northern and southern halves? I think it’s national but not certain. Cray Valley, South Shields and Skelmersdale might be too much of a banana skin, but we could get some publicity out of it if it were one of those three. At least it won’t be DC managing us in the FA Cup!! 😉 UTG!You're psychic! Let's hope DC maintains his cup record. If only!! OK, we’ll win tomorrow 3-0.😉 UTG!
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Rex
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Post by Rex on Oct 27, 2020 8:30:32 GMT
The lady doing the draw really struggled for a bit, and didnt even pick up on the DC warsaw/rovers link. Yes, great obs especially as she was hired to host our end of season awards two years running. She had a mare at the start!
She did get the Grimsbury manager correct though.. I did wonder if it was her- I recognised the voice. Have to say she did a very good job at the Rovers awards, she did have a bit of a mare last night though!
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eppinggas
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Post by eppinggas on Oct 27, 2020 8:44:39 GMT
Anyway, Pitsea is the rough bit of Basildon. Mind yourself out there... One of the Gaschat kids today described Bishops Stortford as Chav Town. Baffling. Quite possibly the same element who were walking along prior to our penultimate national league game singing "I wanna go home, I wanna go home, York is a sh*t hole, I wanna go home". I don't believe any hint of irony was employed in this instance. I guess every Club has 'em.
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irishrover
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Post by irishrover on Oct 27, 2020 12:20:08 GMT
One of the Gaschat kids today described Bishops Stortford as Chav Town. Baffling. Quite possibly the same element who were walking along prior to our penultimate national league game singing "I wanna go home, I wanna go home, York is a sh*t hole, I wanna go home". I don't believe any hint of irony was employed in this instance. I guess every Club has 'em. Or maybe just a historical statement of fact? I mean 1000 year ago during York's Medieval heyday as a walled City of significant power my guess is that it would have indeed been quite pungent.....
Hashtag United - an interesting development. I share Chewie's unease but I wonder if it really is as faddy as suggested. The temptation would be to say that they will go the same way as the Ebbsfleet experiment did. But maybe that was a little ahead of its time. In a social media age I don't think it's ridiculous to think that new models of forming football clubs (both good and bad) may emerge. I think the whole 'football hipster' alternative football club thing (Dulwich, Clacton, FC United to a point etc) has been aided by social media allowing people to connect with like minded 'doing football differently' souls so there's a positive side of it too..
There's a whole lot of stuff out there now about the different ways people under 30 consume sport compared to previous generations - it seems likely that might well lead to different types of clubs (not neccesarily new ones - maybe just transformations of existing ones) somewhere down the line that appeal to those different set of norms. In other words it seems that younger generations may be looking for something different from the game and somebody will probably try and make money by providing that.
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Post by lostinspace on Oct 27, 2020 17:03:29 GMT
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