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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Mar 2, 2006 21:01:03 GMT
For Ilkeston town, Robert "there's a tiny house" Gill from us (Hucknall)this week Ilkeston! God! We had to go there, in the SOUTHERN League, would you believe! We are so spoilt these days - you try tellin' some of these ex Ryman bods about travelling to places like Ilkeston for away games. Midweek. In the snow. On a pushbike. (Ok. Not a pushbike) but the fans had to take as much time off from work as the players to make some of those fixtures !
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Post by coops on Mar 2, 2006 21:18:45 GMT
We are so spoilt these days - you try tellin' some of these ex Ryman bods about travelling to places like Ilkeston for away games. Midweek. In the snow. On a pushbike. (Ok. Not a pushbike) but the fans had to take as much time off from work as the players to make some of those fixtures ! Try being in the Conference, last season we had consecutive trips to Carlisle and then Exeter! (Or it may have been the other way round!)
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Mar 2, 2006 21:35:07 GMT
We are so spoilt these days - you try tellin' some of these ex Ryman bods about travelling to places like Ilkeston for away games. Midweek. In the snow. On a pushbike. (Ok. Not a pushbike) but the fans had to take as much time off from work as the players to make some of those fixtures ! Try being in the Conference, last season we had consecutive trips to Carlisle and then Exeter! (Or it may have been the other way round!) Yeah, but that's the price you pay innit! That'll be the Conference National, that will. Seriously, I wonder how part time clubs manage in your league. The relative few that are left, anyway Timeoff, travel costs, all the rest of it. I know we all strive to get there, snd some of us would probably settle for one season up there - just for the experience. But how many we could take away to, York, or Exeter midweek is anyone's guess.
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Post by wsm on Mar 2, 2006 21:40:23 GMT
We are so spoilt these days - you try tellin' some of these ex Ryman bods about travelling to places like Ilkeston for away games. Midweek. In the snow. On a pushbike. (Ok. Not a pushbike) but the fans had to take as much time off from work as the players to make some of those fixtures ! Try being in the Conference, last season we had consecutive trips to Carlisle and then Exeter! (Or it may have been the other way round!) according to tony kempsters site weston do more miles than nine of the confrence sides. might explain why our away support's so sh1t
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Mar 2, 2006 21:45:01 GMT
Our furthest evening journey all season was Goole in the FA Trophy. We drew 1-1 on the Saturday. Couldn't make the match though as the supporters coach left at 3:30 meaning that after school I had 15 minutes to get ready and to the New Bucks Head for the coach, I made do with listening to radio Shropshire for score updates.
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Post by medibot on Mar 3, 2006 0:04:36 GMT
giggy, giggy, giggy... Have you not heard of bunking? Scoot off between lessons, nobody'll notice. Did that a few times myself to make games Thinking about it, furthest i've been to see Sutton is the much mentioned time i came back from a Korfball tournament in Eindhoven, via an early morning train to Amsterdam Schiphol airport (complete with a neck-breaker run down the stairs at the Dutch equivelant of Clapham Junction to make a connection) and from there, a plane to Bristol Airport, then a bus to Bristol Temple Meads and then the train to Newport, a walk to the bus station and finally the bus to Newport Stadium for about 2pm and some well deserved food in the clubhouse. Also the amusing reactions to people asking where i had came from ;D All of that with a blazing Dutch lager induced hangover. We won 4-2, it was bl**dy brilliant and well worth the effort. Beat that for distance tinpotters! ;D ;D
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Post by coops on Mar 3, 2006 0:08:39 GMT
Ha! I flew back from the Falkland Islands to see Tamworth V Ilkeston. I had four days R and R and luckily the scheduled RAF flights were perfect. The jet lag messed me up for days though!
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Post by medibot on Mar 3, 2006 0:11:47 GMT
Wow, i stand corrected. From an island full of sheep to watch the Lambs Were you stationed out there or something then?
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Post by frankiegth on Mar 3, 2006 15:29:48 GMT
Hucknall had to travel to Blythe Spartans in mid week a few seasons ago, and they had to do the same in return.
Bloody ridiculous.
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Mar 3, 2006 15:48:41 GMT
's actually a long way, that innit! I thought, what with you being all Unibond and local, like a few hundred yards apart an' all, you were being funny. Multimap reckons on this being about a 336 mile round trip I don't do geography for a living.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Mar 3, 2006 16:15:21 GMT
giggy, giggy, giggy... Have you not heard of bunking? Scoot off between lessons, nobody'll notice. Did that a few times myself to make games Thinking about it, furthest i've been to see Sutton is the much mentioned time i came back from a Korfball tournament in Eindhoven, via an early morning train to Amsterdam Schiphol airport (complete with a neck-breaker run down the stairs at the Dutch equivelant of Clapham Junction to make a connection) and from there, a plane to Bristol Airport, then a bus to Bristol Temple Meads and then the train to Newport, a walk to the bus station and finally the bus to Newport Stadium for about 2pm and some well deserved food in the clubhouse. Also the amusing reactions to people asking where i had came from ;D All of that with a blazing Dutch lager induced hangover. We won 4-2, it was bl**dy brilliant and well worth the effort. Beat that for distance tinpotters! ;D ;D They've figured that one out though, they now just do a register at the start of every lesson and go balistic if you're not there. Apparently as a prefect I'm also meant to be setting an example. Did plan on saying I had a hospital appointment but my parents wouldn't sign the letter.
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Post by frankiegth on Mar 3, 2006 16:36:49 GMT
Unibond and local ;D We even had an away game at Gretna (not mid-week) once. Still now we're in conference north we only have to travel to Barra and Workin'ton. Bad enough for us but even worse for Worcester and Kettering
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samd
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Post by samd on Mar 3, 2006 17:34:19 GMT
Most of our squad was signed last seaosn and some over the summer and we've hardly made any changes. Recently we've signed ex-Newcastle Utd midfielder Jamie McClen and he has been good but one new signing this seaosn really stood out.
Adam Bartlett, ex-Newcastle Utd reserve goalkeeper, our regualr keeper Craig Turns who is really top class got injured and was out for a couple of months. It was the night before an FACup match at Wakefield in the 1Q round. The only keepers we had was a 16 year old lad and a sundya league keeper.
We managed to sign this bloke just before the deadline and he was brilliant - Turnsy is been back for a while now so Adam has been playing for Prudhoe in the ANL and soon will go to the USA.
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Post by coops on Mar 3, 2006 23:03:59 GMT
Wow, i stand corrected. From an island full of sheep to watch the Lambs Were you stationed out there or something then? Yup, six months up a mountain working with the RAF. Roger de Courcey did a concert for us, he can't handle his beer.
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Post by medibot on Mar 4, 2006 14:01:50 GMT
More likely he couldn't handle the amount you lot were giving him. Didn't have the pleasure of Jim Davidson company then? He always buggers off to the Falklands to do shows for the army.
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