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Post by peekay on Jul 11, 2006 10:39:08 GMT
If we still have a club after tomorrow that is! Peekay....PEEKAYYYYYYY!!!! Are you still there? Or, more importantly, are Leek still there? Still here! The hearing has been adjourned until 2nd August so PSF's will go ahead in the meantime starting against the mighty Biddulph Victoria on Thursday evening. This week we've added a friendly (?!) against Buxton which will no doubt be about as friendly as the one against St*fford! ;D
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 11, 2006 11:57:10 GMT
Well we've just lost our club captain Sean Parrish, he's now in charge of the youth team at Northampton. He was one of the two players we have that played the holding role well, him and the other (Steve Palmer) are unlikely to play every match because of fitness but we normally had one of them able to play.
Sean was also in charge of our community efforts such as working in schools. He was very good at this so he'll be difficult to replace. From his point of view though it is a very good career move.
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Jul 11, 2006 11:57:57 GMT
[quote=ivan dobsky on the srfc board]I've just bumped into someone out here in the States with a recognisable accent - unfortunately he's an old Leek Town fan. He said theyre in a bad way and owe the Tax man a big ton of cash with little or no help from anyone local. He hasn't been in 10 years. 'Since they went crap' he said. [/quote]
I'm afraid that's one of the things that's doing for you, the fact that the fans who latched onto you in the early 90's expected to win all the time and just got bored and drifted away when you couldn't sustain it.
The second thing that started you on the slippery slope was the crazy league system we have here. Playing in the Southern League for a year must have cost ££££££££'s as did the travelling when you were in the Conference. To me, national/semi national leagues are financial suicide at this level.
Good luck, but you might be better off regrouping a little bit fiurther down the pyramid.
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Post by a_h on Jul 11, 2006 14:40:05 GMT
Edinborough City ( Away ) You've got to go to this one. Edinburgh City play at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edinburgh, this was where Livingston played when they were called Meadowbank Thistle and before they became the original franchise club (eat your heart out MK Dons!). Watch the game and then climb up to Arthurs Seat and watch the sun set over the city, there aren't many finer sights (especially if you've had a drink or six!). Mark my words, that stadium is one of the worst stadiums to watch football in. Really terrible. Your Brechin game is a better bet to go to, and has fans that like football. Im a bit bemused why your club has picked an Sfl club and a south of scotland league club - and not bothered with the "premier non-league" in scotland, the Highland League. Bizarre.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 11, 2006 21:13:18 GMT
Just had our Wolves friendly, finished 0-0. Not bad considering they had half the first team there, was a really close game that could have gone either way near the end, we were equal to them throughout the match. Not a bad start. Rest of pre-season fixtures: 06/05/2006 FC United of Manchester - Home (^NWC 1) - W 3-0 11/07/2006 Wolverhampton Wanderers - Home (Champ) - D 0-015/07/2006 Leamington - Away (MFA) - W 2-018/07/2006 Market Drayton - Home (^MFA) 22/07/2006 Weston-Super-Mare - Away (Conf S) 29/07/2006 Shawbury (played at Wem) - Away (E&S W.Mid) 01/08/2006 Eastwood Town - Away (UP1) 05/08/2006 Northwich Victoria - Home (^ Conf) 08/08/2006 Rushall Olympic - Away (SD1- M) 12/08/2006 TNS - Home (WPL)
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 15, 2006 23:06:58 GMT
HAd our game against Leamington today, got there part way through an earlier game of Telford under 13s and Leamington Academy (Leamington won that 3-1.) Nice ground, nice fans, nice weather, nice result. What more could you ask for?
We went into this game with 6 players missing, one player was taking an exam, 4 others were on holiday and most notably our goal-keeper was injured, only slightly dodgy leg but we chose to rest him as we have Shropshire Senior Cup on Tuesday. We still had a squad of 15 to take with us though.
First half was very balanced, both teams missing a few good chances yet neither keeper had to do much. Went in 0-0 at half time.
2nd half and we seemed to fall asleep, we were defending almost constantly for the first 35 minutes of it with reserve keeper making some excellent saves to keep the scores level. O
On 82 minutes we finally broke forward and new signing Justin Marsden struck a low one along the ground and scored against the flow of the game. We sprung back to life after this and went on to score another, Dean Perrow heading one home from a corner, a good sign seeing as last time I remember us scoring from a corner was back near the end of the 04/05 season where we got 3 of them in a 5-0 win at Warrington.
In the final minute Leamington were awarded a penalty, they shot but reserve keeper Damien Stevens saved, kicking the ball out for the final whistle.
Overall we were lucky to get a win here and can't really say we deserved it, Leamington were very unlucky but it is goals that count at the end of the day (except in friendlies where what counts really is not getting injured.) and we've had too many games where we've deserved to win but lost and those were league games.
Man of the Match: 1. Damien Stevens: Excellent goal-keeping display and a great penalty save.
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on Jul 16, 2006 6:22:24 GMT
I don't think I've posted our list of friendlies! saturdays = 3pm Midweek = 7:45 unless stated otherwise...
Sat 15 Jul (PSF) Worcester City 0 Cheltenham Town 1 An even game with little to choose between the teams, so a good performance by City, especially after Des Lyttle was sent off on 21 minutes for doing a Zidane on a Cheltenham player. The Robins won it 4 minutes from time after a wild off target shot deflected off someone in a crowd of 4 players and looped in completely fooling City stick man, Danny McDonnell.
Tue 18 Jul (PSF) Worcester City 1 Rochdale 2 Another good City performance, this time against a far better looking team than the Cheltenham side who visited three days ago. New BoyCraig Wilding scoreda 51st minute header for City, in between two well worked goals froma decent looking Rochdale side.
Wed 19 Jul (PSF) Malvern Town 0 Worcester City 4 A second string City side triumphed easily over Southern League Malvern Town, thanks mainly, to a second half Troy Wood hat trick. His first was a little after the hour mark when he beat the offside trap and rounded the 'keeper, the second, five minutes later was the result of a root one 'ball over the top' and his hat trick came in the final minute as he fired a free kick into the top corner. All this, after Danny Hodnett had fired City into a deserved, early lead.
Sat 22 Jul (PSF) Evesham United v. Worcester City
Tue 25 Jul (PSF) Gloucester City v. Worcester City
Thu 27 Jul (PSF) Worcester City v. Walsall
Sat 29 Jul (PSF) Worcester City v. Bristol Rovers XI
Wed 2 Aug (PSF) Bromyard Town v. Worcester City
Thur 3 Aug (PSF) Worcester City v. Sheffield United
Sat 5 Aug (PSF) Worcester City v. Kidderminster Harriers
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 16, 2006 9:33:34 GMT
We drew 2-2 with Horsham. It was a stroll in the park, well the 2nd half was, anyway. Lots of action in the first half. And, well, since medibot's brother was in goal for Horsham, it was vaguely amusing that we were 2-0 up at half time. I don't think we got near the Horsham goal more than three times in the second half; perhaps we'd decided it was their turn to score goals, which they did. Lovely day. Carsh*ton next, heh heh heh.
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Post by bonehead on Jul 17, 2006 20:31:05 GMT
9 mins to go and we were getting stuffed 3-0 by a full-strength Peterborough side this Saturday. At the final whistle the score was 3-3 rofl, and that included two goals in the last two minutes from a sub.
Re the forecast pre-season game against a top 5 Premiershi* side, I was totally wrong. It isn't against a youth team. It's against Man Ure Reserves. So I could see Craig McIlwaine do Rooney a favour and be 'enthusiastic' in his challenges on Ronaldo <eg>
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Post by medibot on Jul 17, 2006 23:55:53 GMT
So that would be Kettering v Whoever that big nasty mr ferguson doesn't like anymore XI
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 18, 2006 21:14:04 GMT
Just had our Shropshire Senior Cup semi-final with Market Drayton Town. They have several of our old players in their ranks, particularly noticeable was their goal-keeper Andy Pryce. While with us he played two games, lost 4-2 at Kendal and 3-1 at home to Willenhall. Today he didn't do any better, right on the 2nd minute he let in his first goal, BEN TWIGGER took a free kick, supposedly to cross it in. It missed every player before bouncing past him into the goal. He then proceeded to conceed a DEAN PERROW hat-trick with goals on 23, 34 and 41. The second of those being particularly weird, with Pryce running out to challenge Perrow's strike partner Steve Foster who then took a shot which hit the post, Perrow went for the tap-in but seemed to fall over, still putting enough force on for it to roll calmly off the post and into the goal. Half Time: AFCTU 4-0 MDTFC Second half started brightly with fairly attacking play and a 5th goal, this one courtesy of LEE VAUGHAN on 53 minutes. We then seemed to go to sleep and be content to keep it at that. Market Drayton pulled one back on 61 minutes when none other than former Buck CRAIG RYAN took a shot, reserve keeper Damien Stevens caught it at first, then dropped it, then caught it again, then dropped it into the goal. The score stayed at 5-1 after that goal. Some peculiar decisions made both ways by the referee who in turn denied us a cast-iron penalty and booked our player when someone kicked him . Failed to spoil a good match which leads to a showdown with the Shrews at the New Bucks Head next week (though I'm on holiday then ) Motm: 10.Dean Perrow: Good performance, especially in front of goal, hence the hat-trick. 06/05/2006 FC United of Manchester - Home (^NWC 1) - W 3-0 11/07/2006 Wolverhampton Wanderers - Home (Champ) - D 0-015/07/2006 Leamington - Away (MFA) - W 2-018/07/2006 Market Drayton - Home (^MFA) - W 5-122/07/2006 Weston-Super-Mare - Away (Conf S) 25/07/2006 Shrewsbury Town - Home (League 2) 29/07/2006 Shawbury (played at Wem) - Away (E&S W.Mid) 01/08/2006 Eastwood Town - Away (UP1) 05/08/2006 Northwich Victoria - Home (^ Conf) 08/08/2006 Rushall Olympic - Away (SD1- M) 12/08/2006 TNS - Home (WPL)
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 19, 2006 0:51:27 GMT
Ha ha we just lost to carshiton and i am still laughing!
I've got a pigeon and his name is reginald
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Post by peekay on Jul 19, 2006 6:25:58 GMT
We lost our opening friendly vs the mighty Biddulph Victoria on Thursday evening. (a match I didn't attend) I think we were possibly the only team in the country without a game on Saturday but we did beat Morcambe 1-0 last night with the goal scored by Mark Devlin. Next up: Buxton on Saturday followed by St*fford R*ngers next Tuesday.
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Post by ojiveojive on Jul 19, 2006 8:10:50 GMT
We didn't have a game on Saturday, either. Our first pre-season friendly is on Thursday night against Bromsgrove Rovers.
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Post by bonehead on Jul 20, 2006 18:16:25 GMT
So that would be Kettering v Whoever that big nasty mr ferguson doesn't like anymore XI We can't take on half the world! We originally had a friendly arranged against Franchise Utd's first team. Our chairman went out of his way to defend opposition from the fans about the fixture in a reasoned manner. Then he heard that Franchise Utd had arranged a home friendly against Brighton the previous, so obviously the chances of anyone better than reserve status turning up at Rockinghorse Road were pretty slim. And more or less did to their chairman what the British (cos it was English and Welsh) bowmen used to do to the French army during the 100 years' war ;D
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