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Post by medibot on Feb 26, 2006 21:23:18 GMT
Since i stumbled into a conversation on the train (Sutton shirts are great conversation openers, esepecially when recognised) and a cab to the ground with the football correspondant of the Bognor Observer yesterday, i was wondering if anybody knows their local reporter, or just reads their reports and what they think of them?
Sutton reports are usually submitted by the club secretary, Tony Dolbear, (fair, impartial, knowledgable reports too) as there is just one sports guy at the local paper and he doesn't spend much time at Sutton games to write much.
There has got to be some super-biased nutters around or whatever though...
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Feb 26, 2006 21:28:49 GMT
Our Shropshire Star reporter is Chris Hudson, though he is a Scumbury fan he tends to give a fair, unbiased report, though sometimes nicer to us than we are ourselves.
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Post by medibot on Feb 26, 2006 22:03:44 GMT
Cool, i read the Shropshire Star when i'm up in Wales, being relatively near to the border everybody reads the County Times and the Shropshire Star and he seems ok from what i remember  Actually, veering off topic, there's a lad who hitch hikes and walks to every Shrewsbury game from the village (Montgomery) and some how always makes the 20 odd miles to the ground in time whatever the weather  |
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Post by coops on Feb 27, 2006 8:32:30 GMT
I know ours, Roger F*ckin' Skidmore.
A thingy(!) of the highest order who has slipped from reporting on Aston Villa for all the local papers to reporting on Tamworth for the NLP.
Skidmark, coming to a Midland Combination team near you anytime soon, hopefully.
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Post by roofless on Feb 27, 2006 16:39:17 GMT
My uncles play football with Rob Tanner.... (the better Tamworth reporter!) but they are Brummie uncles who know him from God knows where!!
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Post by frankiegth on Feb 27, 2006 21:54:57 GMT
Andy Donaldson is our B.T.P.O.B. and writes the reports for the NLP.
Richard "scoop" Silverwood gives us plenty of column inches in our local paper. As an ex-chairman of the club it's hardly suprising. What is a matter of opinion though is how positive/negative he is.To be honest I think he's pretty fair.
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Post by ojiveojive on Feb 28, 2006 15:55:36 GMT
Skidmore is a Tamworth supporter who used to write the non league column for the Birmingham Sunday Mercury, before he was ignominiously moved sideways for sexist and anti Irish remarks in consecutive weeks. When Moor Green beat Tamworth in the Birmingham Senior Cup Final, after he had forecast a Tamworth whitewash, he had to endure our anti Skidmark songs before he could escape with his tail between his legs.
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Post by coops on Feb 28, 2006 17:02:41 GMT
Ooh! A Poor Green fan!
How is life at "Birmingham's turd, sorry, third club" these days?
Sorry, I'll stop now!
Any news on ever moving back to Moorlands?
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Post by ojiveojive on Feb 28, 2006 17:11:10 GMT
Life's pretty good at the moment, 9th in the Conf North, through to the final of the Worcester Senior Cup and the semis of the Birmingham Senior Cup.
No news of any return to The Moorlands, my prediction is that the chairman will take over Solihull Borough, sell The Moorlands for 10 mill for development, recoup his eight hundred grand investment, bring Damson Park up to conference standard in the hope of Conference football and alienate all the Moor Green fans.
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Post by frankiegth on Feb 28, 2006 17:28:31 GMT
Ojiveojive, how many of your supporters would be prepared to make the trip to Solihull. When we (Hucknall) played you your support seemed a "bit thin on the ground". That inspite of the bar staff looking like they'd been hijacked from a beauty pageant. Can't think why I had so much beer that day, it weren't just 'cos we won.  |
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Post by ojiveojive on Feb 28, 2006 18:13:19 GMT
Hi frankiegth
We've lost about a third of our support since we've been playing at Solihull. There were only 221 at the game against you, down from about 350 before the fire.
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Post by frankiegth on Feb 28, 2006 18:32:32 GMT
That's not too bad. I know if we had to travel a few miles for home games the support would almost totally evapourate. Had a good day at yours. Good result, entertaining game (all 110 minutes of it ;D) nice people aswell. This may be a bit of a give away to my ID. Your supporters were kind enough NOT to tell me where to put me drum, I'd like to thank them for that  |
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Post by ojiveojive on Feb 28, 2006 18:47:58 GMT
Glad you enjoyed it, not  Seriously we are generally welcoming to other fans. We'll give the keeper and backline severe grief, along with the ref and linos, of course, we like a bit of banter but mostly we just want to see us win a good game of football and if your keeper plays well we'll tell him so at the end. Your keeper (James Lindley) played about a dozen games for us a couple of seasons ago, so we let him off lightly! |
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Post by frankiegth on Feb 28, 2006 18:59:28 GMT
Sound very much like you've the same attitude as us mate. Suprised you let James off lightly, he made some fine stops in the added on time.
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Post by ojiveojive on Feb 28, 2006 19:00:57 GMT
We Woz Robbed  |
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