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Post by karma on Jan 19, 2024 21:35:29 GMT
Already a number of games called off on Saturday, particularly in the lower leagues due to frozen/waterlogged pitches. Of those currently still on and of interest to me and I hope other forum members :
Norwich v West Brom - Baggies chance to consolidate their great league position
Middlesborough v Rotherham - if results go well Middlesborough chance to enter promotion zone
Sheff Wed v Coventry - Chance for Wed to continue good form to climb out of danger Newport v Wrexham - Wrexham flying high , should be big crowd , c'mon Newport beat the odds
Gillingham v FGR - Forrest Green NEED POINTS, not visited this ground (yet) though I want to try food.
York v Fylde - Both need points but I'm backing York and going to game (if on) Fylde not my favourite team POSTPONED Farsley v Rushall Olympic - I'll be there if York game off .Good win v Scarborough last week ,POSTPONED (other)
Scarborough v Peterborough S - C'mon Seadogs - signed Olly Dyson loan from York, keep up momentum
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Post by hawke on Jan 19, 2024 22:20:56 GMT
I was organising a collection at Valley Parade for an education charity. All set up but now postponed. It was to be before the Bradford City-Doncaster Rovers match. To be re-arranged.
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Post by byased on Jan 20, 2024 0:13:18 GMT
Fingers crossed for York and Scarborough. FGR need a miracle, or rather a more sensible managerial appointment. Dale Vince always seems to try to be clever with an unknown or untried manager, and has got it horribly wrong over the past year or two. Will be watching Baggies on stream with my son, still desperate for a new owner, and some money, but still making the most of a very thin squad. I don't like Fylde either. Wins for Sheff Wed and Rotherham would suit the Baggies.
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Post by newby on Jan 20, 2024 9:55:49 GMT
I'm not sure some of those postponements weren't a trifle premature as we seem to have had a frost free night and temperatures are on the rise.
I suppose you have to bow to local knowledge and of course you don't want people travelling if there really is no chance of play.
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Post by karma on Jan 20, 2024 10:27:52 GMT
I supposed, damned if you do ,damned if you don't, as far as visiting teams and players are concerned.
On Tuesday when Scarborough hosted Boston ( and which was delayed by 30 minutes), I was going to go to York to watch them host Dorking. Now Dorking is on the far side of London, outside the M25. The game was called off late afternoon, just early enough for me to stay at home and Listen to the Scarborough game but a bit late for Dorking half-way up the M1.
I'm in York now, home to Fylde @3:00. There's a lunchtime inspection, hope it goes ahead or back to Leeds for the Farsley game.
Televised games are the worst as the broadcaster will insist on waiting until the last possible minute before 'pulling the plug'.
It has thawed but some pitches might be waterlogged
Edit late Satuday morning, Farsley game postponed 'other'
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Post by byased on Jan 20, 2024 13:09:24 GMT
I see York off, due to "other". Scarborough should be ok with artificial pitch. Been watching granddaughter this morning, pitches are all fine, but a very cold wind!
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Post by newby on Jan 20, 2024 13:32:56 GMT
Does other usually mean dangerous in and around the ground for spectators.
My garden is waterlogged with melting snow because the ground is still frozen just below the surface. I'm thinking of going for an artificial lawn as the groundsman's finding it more difficult than he used to keeping on top of it.
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Post by karma on Jan 20, 2024 14:35:30 GMT
It's never clear exactly what 'other' means as it covers such a lot. Sometimes I've known it mean 'there's sickness in the camp to such a degree that they can't get 11 players , with or without a sub. Sometimes it's because floodlights fail. Sometimes it's because one of the teams is in a different competition though I don't think there were any Fa Vase ot FA Trophy or even FA Cup games today.
As for artificial turf newby, I should have a word with Dave Morton as he has an encyclopedic knowledge of this subject based upon thexresearch he did!
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Post by karma on Jan 20, 2024 15:52:01 GMT
York city's game called off 'other' actually frozen pitch, thought I'd come back to Farsley but their game called off 'Frozen Pitch'. As I was in York thought I'd come to Scarborough but turned back as I'm told some kind of serious accident on A64, still closed from last night! Now listening to game on 'Coast Extra' 0 - 1 at half time. C'mon Scarborough get an equaliser early in 2nd half. Wiles equalises.10 minutes in. 1 - 1 draw .
The commentator was sure the Scarborough Goalie Whiteley, pulled the ball back from over the goal line but possibly didn't realise (and fortunately neither did the referee or linesman) There's no such thing as a bad point.
Performance of the day , probably Newport 1 - 0 over Wrexham , must have played out of their skins because a team that has a man sent off , as did Wrexham, redouble their efforts and are hard to defeat.
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Post by karma on Jan 21, 2024 12:48:40 GMT
And Hit Wicket , I've been reading in 'the Sundays' about supporters at Newport queueing up for tickets for the home FA Cup tie next weekend v Man Utd , one guy getting there at 4:00am! The ticket office wasn't supposed to open until 10:00. And one guy in the queue didn't want to be interviewed as he should really be at work (reminds me of my school days 60odd years ago where one of my mates skipped school to queue up for York City Cup tickets but had his picture taken for the The Press or Evening press as it was then called - boy was he in trouble).
Hope it's totally sold out , new temporary stand increasing capacity to 9,500 ( incl 1,400 travelling fans)
I understand at the end of the 1 - 0 defeat of Wrexham yesterday, fans were chanting ' Manchester United, we're coming for you'. Should be a club payday of £400,000 but 'it's not about the money, money money'. Well it is a bit but to dyed-in-the-wool supporters it's about more than that. And the takeover. Hope it's a good game and with the right result next weekend.
Even with all that money coming in I'd still turn off the heating in the away dressing room.
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Post by karma on Jan 21, 2024 14:07:39 GMT
I didn't listen to the game but a 94th minute penalty seems to have saved Leeds United's bacon , with a 2 - 1 home win over Preston.
Vital points as Southampton seem to have hit a purple patch. There are no easy games.
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Post by newby on Jan 21, 2024 14:26:59 GMT
A penalty looked the only way Leeds would score despite constant pressure in the last 20 minutes or so. PNE played with ambition and probably deserved the draw.
However they shouldn't have finished with 11 men on the pitch, the ref was disgrace who seemed to think the players needed to be allowed 3 fouls each before showing a yellow card and completely lost his authority before the end.
I am not the most impartial judge but I'm sick of seeing our pleasant young lads being kicked up in the air by cynical journeyman cutthroats.
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Post by karma on Jan 21, 2024 15:28:01 GMT
Not the same thing newby but how many times have you seen a team time-wasting by being slow taking a throw in (often passing it between 2 or 3 players before it's taken)
Or intentionally taking a free kick from the wrong place knowing the ref's going to blow up and the make them take it from the right place
Or the goalkeeper being warned lots of times for timewasting eg taking the goalkick from the opposite side of the goal area and not booked early but in the 89th minute.
Ok the new rules are meant to add on timewasting but it's still disruptive to the flow of play and slows the attacking team's momentum.
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Post by hawke on Jan 21, 2024 16:52:50 GMT
‘our pleasant young lads’. ah a splendid description of LUFC and YCCC players! hear hear
Thinking of the FA Cup, I do recall going to Elland Rd at about 5.30 am to queue for semi final tickets v Coventry in 1987 and having to leave at 8.30 to get to work ticketless.
Somebody was pushing in and queue jumping. I was told not to complain as he was a well known hooligan. That night I watched Look North and there he was at the front of the queue about to buy a ticket!
I wrote to LUFC, a lengthy letter, about this and, to be fair, they eventually offered me 2 tickets.
Two months later I decide to sleep overnight outside the ground for Play-Off tickets. I overslept! People were walking past me!!!! I need not have done so anyway as the queue was not that long….
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Post by karma on Jan 22, 2024 13:03:30 GMT
Championship tonight Leicester v Ipswich where do we want the points to go?
I think if you are a Leeds or West Brom supporter (and others too), you'd go with Leicester who look uncatchable it seems.
If Ipswich slip further maybe another team can climb over them for the 2nd automatic promotion slot. Dog eat dog . Leeds have a mid-week game to try top close the gap further.
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