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Post by peekay on Jul 4, 2006 22:57:58 GMT
We've added friendlies against St*fford and Newi Cefn Druids(!) to our existing ones against Morcambe and the usual bunch of teams from the surrounding area.
If we still have a club after tomorrow that is!
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Post by bonehead on Jul 8, 2006 10:27:06 GMT
We have fixtures ranging from the might of Cobblers (no, seriously!) being played today to the even mightier Stony Stratford. Rumour has it (the chairman still has to do a lot to convince me) that we will have a friendly against a top 5 Championship team. Or should that be against the youth team of a top 5 Championship team?
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 8, 2006 10:30:48 GMT
Who's "we"
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Post by coops on Jul 8, 2006 15:45:57 GMT
If we still have a club after tomorrow that is! Peekay....PEEKAYYYYYYY!!!! Are you still there? Or, more importantly, are Leek still there?
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 8, 2006 15:59:34 GMT
If we still have a club after tomorrow that is! Peekay....PEEKAYYYYYYY!!!! Are you still there? Or, more importantly, are Leek still there? I think Leek have been given an extension so that they can sort things out, that's the last I heard. _________________________________________________ We had our club open day today, there was a bouncy castle (which I'm just a bit too big for these days), a thing to test how fast your shot on goal was (it hadn't started when I got there, next time I went past it had finished), several stalls for everything from the Shropshire FA to Samaritans & a road safety thing. Got my season ticket (£90 now I'm a student) and went to buy a shirt, for an extra five I got the shorts and socks aswell so I'm wearing the full kit with pride. Went on a tour of the Stadium led by the club secretary, the new community learning centre added to the East Terrace is cool! The players came out and trained infront of the fans, they then got put in the stocks one by one so fans could throw wet sponges at them. The players looked less dead than expected seeing as the managers had them running up and down the wrekin as fitness training (The Wrekin being a big hill just outside of Telford.) ___________________________________________________ (Giggy's random ramblings time!) The Wrekin is Shropshire's biggest hill. Legend has it that it was created by a giant that we now know as the Wrekin giant. He decided that he was fed up with Shrewsbury (and their snobby attitudes) so he came from his home in Wales with a shovel of dirt to dam the river and flood Shrewsbury. On the way he got lost (and geographically walked past Shrewsbury by this point. He saw a man walking up the rode, he asked him where Shrewsbury was and told him his plan. The man was a cobbler from Wellington (the best part of Telford as it houses me and the New Bucks Head, it's also the least chav-infested part) he didn't want Shrewsbury flooded as he got much of his business from their people. He took a sack of broken shoes he was carrying and tipped them all out. "I'm walking to Shrewsbury" he said "and so far I've worn out all these shoes on the way." The giant didn't have time for this so he put down his dirt, wiped the mud off his boots and went home. The shovel of dirt is now what we call the Wrekin while where he wiped his boots is the Wrekin's foot-hill, the Ercall. There are two things we can learn from this story. 1) The Wrekin Giant was a lazy git who couldn't even finish the job of flooding Shrewsbury....now we're stuck with them. 2) People were less hostile in those days, the cobbler would have been seen as a hero then, these days he would be lynched by an angry mob of Telfordians.
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Post by ojiveojive on Jul 8, 2006 16:52:28 GMT
I used to go gliding off Wenlock Edge, it's one of the very few places where you actually get pulled over a cliff to launch the glider and I wouldn't live in the farmhouse below for anything!
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Post by coops on Jul 8, 2006 22:50:55 GMT
Does anyone else use the phrase "All around the Wrekin" meaning all over the place or being sent on a wild goose chase? Or is it a Black Country thing?
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 8, 2006 23:01:09 GMT
Obviously we get that one here, my Grandparents live in Leamington Spa but still used it even before they knew what or where the Wrekin was.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 9, 2006 2:08:41 GMT
Wait... you've got all the same things for your club open day as us... did you steal our ideas?
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Jul 9, 2006 2:19:13 GMT
Does anyone else use the phrase "All around the Wrekin" meaning all over the place or being sent on a wild goose chase? Or is it a Black Country thing? It was a Black Country thing. We always used to say it because from parts of the Black Country you can see the Wrekin in the distance. It was used to describe someone who gave long, rambling explanations to make a point when a few would have sufficed. Another one we used was if someone lived in an area far away or difficult to get to, they were said to live "Somewhere round the back of Bill's Mom's." Who Bill was we never found out, like the poor Will who often gets fired at in war movies.
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Post by bonehead on Jul 9, 2006 9:25:17 GMT
Wait... you've got all the same things for your club open day as us... did you steal our ideas? I'm pretty sure I support the team with the second oldest Supporters Trust in the country (England at least) - and you have the nerve to ask who 'we' are??
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 9, 2006 11:20:05 GMT
Oh bonehead, I only asked because you keep pretending you can't say the name of your club! I'll do it, so there. KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING TOWN
Ugh... you know when you say or see a word so many times that your brain disengages and refuses to recognise it as a word?
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Post by medibot on Jul 9, 2006 17:34:16 GMT
Yeah, it didn't happen with Kettering but i've had it happen before where seemingly normal words suddenly seem ridiculous.
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Post by frankiegth on Jul 9, 2006 22:45:32 GMT
Teams ranging from Greenwood Meadows (whooooo) to Notts county and Chesterfield for us.
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Post by bonehead on Jul 10, 2006 20:30:33 GMT
Oh bonehead, I only asked because you keep pretending you can't say the name of your club! I'll do it, so there. KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING KETTERING TOWN Ugh... you know when you say or see a word so many times that your brain disengages and refuses to recognise it as a word? I just refuse to be included in the number of KTFC fans that come over as arrogant on Conf North and other websites, Ms Iguano. Mind you, it's getting harder and harder to not want to be Conf National arrogant at the end of this season Which reminds me - must go to Heroes and Villains
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