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Post by ojiveojive on Sept 30, 2007 17:37:48 GMT
Well, according to the BBC, that's what the idiots that organise the fixtures have handed us. Due to their ineptitude they have decided that they need an extra week at the end of the season for the play-offs so they have decided to move the last but one Saturday game to the previous Tuesday night, the last game of the season will also be brought forward by a week meaning our longest journey of the season will now have to be made on a Tuesday. Tinpot or what? I guess I really should applaud it! news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/7018848.stm
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 30, 2007 17:42:13 GMT
Nobody, as far as I can tell, is happy with the Conference's rearrangement of end-of-season fixtures. We are losing a weekend trip to Bognor.
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Sept 30, 2007 18:12:30 GMT
It's ridiculous.
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Post by DJhinckley on Sept 30, 2007 19:10:12 GMT
I prefer your post on the other board, it's more my style...
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Post by ambersalamander on Sept 30, 2007 19:10:45 GMT
Oh? Do tell!
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Sept 30, 2007 19:15:05 GMT
Last season we had to travel up to Gateshead on a Monday in the Unibond, missed half a day off college to get there in time.....and then we lost 4-3 to a very late winner after we came back from 3-1 down at half time. I emailed the league twice over that, first they told me it was a provisional date and was likely to change. Shortly after they announced it wasn't changing, one angry rant late night email later I get the reply:
Your trip to Blyth is by the looks of it even longer distance however. Seems a very odd decision to move the end of the season forward a week, surely they could have worked out if there would bea problem before hand and sorted the fixtures out accordingly.
Doesn't affect our match too much (home to Vauxhall Motors). I honestly have no idea where Vauxhall Motors are based but it's close enough for us to be going there midweek.
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Sept 30, 2007 19:17:27 GMT
Last season we had to travel up to Gateshead on a Monday in the Unibond, missed half a day off college to get there in time.....and then we lost 4-3 to a very late winner after we came back from 3-1 down at half time. I emailed the league twice over that, first they told me it was a provisional date and was likely to change. Shortly after they announced it wasn't changing, one angry rant late night email later I get the reply: Your trip to Blyth is by the looks of it even longer distance however. Seems a very odd decision to move the end of the season forward a week, surely they could have worked out if there would bea problem before hand and sorted the fixtures out accordingly. Doesn't affect our match too much (home to Vauxhall Motors). I honestly have no idea where Vauxhall Motors are based but it's close enough for us to be going there midweek. LIVERPOOL Or, for DJ, and I liked your reply
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Post by DJhinckley on Sept 30, 2007 19:20:14 GMT
Doesn't affect our match too much (home to Vauxhall Motors). I honestly have no idea where Vauxhall Motors are based but it's close enough for us to be going there midweek. how can you be in this league for over 3 months but not know where Vauxhall Motors play? They'd say the Wirral is not Liverpool, but we all know from Rhyl up to Southport is all Scouseland
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Sept 30, 2007 20:11:49 GMT
I knew it was roughly that area as I'd looked at the map on Tony Kempster's website. Normally though I just look at the name and find it on autoroute so I know where it is. With Vauxhall being named after the car company (as far as I know) this didn't really work.
Also in my defence my sense of direction is awful, I may or may not have commented on here there are two places I won't get lost, The New Bucks head and if I'm lucky my house.
If it's near Liverpool though then I guess that's close enough for a midweek game to/from Telford. We've managed considerably further than that atleast.
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Post by coops on Sept 30, 2007 20:29:01 GMT
It hasn't worked out too bad for us with our home game against Harrogate being the one moved to midweek, but the incompetent twots also did this two years ago which meant we lost a lovely last game of the season at Scarborough to a Tuesday night.
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Sept 30, 2007 21:05:49 GMT
Those of us with longish memories could sit and tell sad stories of the ineptitude that is contained within the bulk of Mr Strudders! It does look like someone suddenly realised that OOh! There be playoffs - when are we going to have those? and should we factor in the time it will take to resolve all the legal challenges that are part & parcel of live in this progressively more Tinpot environment??
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Post by DJhinckley on Sept 30, 2007 22:17:01 GMT
personally I couldn't believe when he was announced as general manager. sure enough the first thing I expected him to do he did, that's blag on about how great he is because he does the fixtures by hand. well now he's fucked it up by hand will he blag on about that.
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Post by ojiveojive on Sept 30, 2007 22:25:33 GMT
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Sept 30, 2007 22:48:28 GMT
they came to us on a monday night last year and didn't complain. We went to Workington on a Friday night - in fact that was easier for us than the Saturday.
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Sept 30, 2007 22:51:18 GMT
Last month: This month:
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