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Post by bonehead on Feb 13, 2007 12:44:41 GMT
It's dead easy to get drinks at Gateshead, giggy. All you have to do is sponsor the match ball ;-)
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Feb 13, 2007 15:38:49 GMT
www.telfordutd.co.uk/show_news_item.asp?id=2501For the record: Unibond League are now top of the villains list. Arranging the game for Monday 26th March. Telford to Gateshead is the longest journey any team has to make all season at 239 miles, a good 5 or 6 hours to get there. It isn't rocket science that the lonest journey of the season should under all circumstances be played on a Saturday. No Telford fans will be able to make it as they have work/school/college and won't be able to leave that early. The players will be hard pressed, they have to take off a full day of work at such short notice. Employers already have to be very understanding and would most likely respond to this much time off at such short notice with two words, the second one being off. They will then get home the next day and have to be ready for work in a few hours aswell. This could work in a league where players are full-time but when all the players have full time jobs to contend with it will not work and they're idiots to think it possibly could. Even if no Saturdays were free for both teams they could have made one free, they've messed our fixtures around enough this season and so they can't possibly use that as an excuse. The Gateshead match itself was infact moved to accomodate North Ferriby's trip to Gateshead, we now don't have a game that Saturday. Ferriby to Gateshead is a far shorter journey than Telford to Gateshead and is infact shorter than the journey we make to Fleetwood tonight. Surely if they changed it once they can change it again? As you can tell I am not in the slightest bit happy, I can not make the replay now because I have college that day and can't miss Biology tpo get there on time as I've already missed a lot of Biology already htis year through doctors appointments. I think both clubs are unhappy with this date as both urged the league to make it a Saturday and hope that they appeal about the date and know for a fact that our manager is absolutely fuming. I have sent an email to the league telling them in no uncertain terms exactly what I think of the idea, though it was a cleaned up version of what I wanted to say.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Feb 14, 2007 3:09:56 GMT
Update: receved an email from the Unibond Crisis solved by the looks of things, fixture needed as a provisional date to sort everything out, hopefully the game will in fact be able to be played on a Saturday after all. For those interested, the list of games at the end came about with a Unibond Cup game being held between Matlcok and Gresley being postponed several times. The semi-finals have been arranged now but they still had to play, the winner of that play Kidsgrove, winner of that play Whitby, winner then enters the semis. They finally got the ball rolling with the match being played at Christchurch Meadow (Belper Town FC) and finishing, Matlock 4-1 Gresley. Matlock play Kidsgrove at home next week and winner will then I assume play Whitby (at home I think) the next week. Hopefully when all this is clearer they will be able to sort out what is possible. Atleast it also proves that they do infact care about the logistics of a game and will try to make this work.
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Post by peekay on Feb 14, 2007 7:55:56 GMT
Atleast it also proves that they do infact care about the logistics of a game and will try to make this work. Sonds good in theory Giggy but the league doesn't have the greatest record for rearranged fixtures. Last season they rearranged our fixture at home to Blyth Spartans to a Tuesday night in February when there were still a couple of blank Saturdays for both clubs later in the season.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Feb 26, 2007 0:59:56 GMT
For the record they never did change it, we were given the option of playing this on a Saturday but then travelling to Ossett the very next day. From a selfish point of view this would have been easier for me but it would have been harder for the team having to play two long distance away games in a weekend. Especially now when every point counts. When it came down to it both options were terrible and the league has said they won't give any more dates. Not only is it utterly idiotic that the longest distance any team in the Unibond travels all season (500 mile round trip) should be played midweek it also shows an inconsistency where we've had the raw end of both deals. The fixture was already moved once so that Ferriby were playing there that day, however they have now decided they don't want to mess with their fixtures - after messing ours around on several occasions this season. I'm now trying to figure out how on earth I'm going to get there, if a supporters coach does go it would have to leave at 1:30 at the latest giving rush hour traffic. I am considering whether it's worth emailing them again telling them I (and everyone else at the New Bucks head) am very disappointed with the decision, though in full knowledge it doesn't matter what I say as they've already made up their minds.
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Post by medibot on Feb 26, 2007 3:17:50 GMT
Bunk off Giggy, i still regret the day i didn't bugger off early and go to Kettering away.
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Post by bonehead on Mar 16, 2007 10:08:43 GMT
If you're talking about the fixture I think you're talking about, medibot, you could have delayed going to Kettering for a couple of hours! And you'd have seen an away win :-(
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Post by medibot on Mar 16, 2007 13:29:56 GMT
Yup, that's the one, i would've been on the players coach if i went though. Back in the crazy days where me and amber went to away games on the players coach.
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Post by ambersalamander on Mar 16, 2007 19:49:17 GMT
I enjoyed that one, because I usually get mega stressed if I think I'm going to be late for a game, but I knew it couldn't kick off without me because I was with all the players!
It was a crap game but at least we won.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Mar 16, 2007 19:55:41 GMT
I have booked a seat on the coach up to gateshead, will miss two lessons by te looks of it. I don't however plan to tell either teacher that I won't be in their lesson because I'm watching football in Gateshead though, can't see either of them taking the news too well.
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Post by amberaleman on Mar 16, 2007 21:48:42 GMT
I enjoyed that one, because I usually get mega stressed if I think I'm going to be late for a game, but I knew it couldn't kick off without me because I was with all the players! It was a crap game but at least we won. We seem to have wandered a little from the original subject - but what the hell! I went up to Kettering for that famously delayed match. Some nice Oakham JHB in the bar, as I recall. By the time the players came out for the warm-up , I worked out that I'd have to leave at half-time if I wanted to be sure of getting home that night. As I hate missing more than about 30 seconds of any match, I decided not to see any of it - and walked away from the ground just before kick-off. As it happened, we won 1-0 with a goal...in the first half. Arsenal had an amazing Champions League win that night - I think it was 5-1 at Inter Milan. I remember listening to the R5 Live commentary as I waited forlornly at Kettering station.
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Post by ambersalamander on Mar 16, 2007 22:20:47 GMT
I'm the opposite. I'll always make sure I see SOME of every game, just so I can say I made it and because I might see something entertaining(!)
I once begged my mate not to turn back as we were stuck in traffic on the way to Boreham Wood; we eventually arrived at the ground with 9 minutes remaining of the game, including injury time. We lost 1-0.
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Post by medibot on Mar 18, 2007 0:52:43 GMT
Well, i missed a goal and the first 35 minutes today and i'd say it was worth the £20 extra (train, cab and entry) i had to pay to make it for the rest. Just for Irish Ross's goal and Braindead taking a hit
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Post by ambersalamander on Mar 18, 2007 15:17:15 GMT
And seeing MiB
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Post by medibot on Mar 18, 2007 23:01:12 GMT
Naturally Mr Indestructible of Basingstoke! (just ask about his car crash last year)
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