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Post by chelstongull on May 8, 2011 11:09:46 GMT
I can only assume that puts them out of the running for the Pie League! Three types of Pukka Pie available including the chicken balti one. Not award winning. It smelt nice! |
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Post by chrish on May 8, 2011 11:22:43 GMT
Three types of Pukka Pie available including the chicken balti one. Not award winning. It smelt nice! Yes I totally agree.  |
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Post by thefarmersfriend on May 8, 2011 11:34:59 GMT
We got there in the end but what a tortuous route and who would have thought that just four points from our last five games would have seen us through into the playoffs? Worryingly our form has tailed off and I think that maybe we have peaked and have probably gone as far as we can. Losing the experienced and capable Craig Stanley is the biggest blow but who knows? The Shrews will still be tasting that embarrassing 0-5 defeat here and will want to put that score right. We were immense that day just as they were very poor we were just very very good. Robinson had a point to prove but has struggled for form of late and just hasn't been able to influence matches in the way would all have hoped. Never the less his contribution along with our other loanees have all contributed to a very successful campaign and to be in this position now is just a bit of icing on the cake which will add, most importantly to our meagre finances. Whatever happens now is in the hands of the gods and as individual players what team turns up over the next two or perhaps three matches. To reach the playoffs in three of Paukl Buckles four seasons is an incredible achievement, I to questioned the wisdom of his appointment when we were at the lowest point in the clubs history but now I wonder just who else could have achieved what he has achieved and stuck loyally and relentlessly to the task with minuscule funds and resources whilst having to fend off insults and unfair criticism from certain individuals. He's done it his way and thank goodness he did. Do you know what Pete, over the years, on this forum and its predecessor, you've had a great knack of summing things as I seem them, and if I read one person's post it's always yours. You're spot on again. For no particular reason, today I salute you! (I haven't been drinking, before anyone asks!) |
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Post by chrish on May 8, 2011 12:05:14 GMT
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on May 8, 2011 12:05:12 GMT
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Post by Jon on May 8, 2011 12:39:08 GMT
Jon do you still think my writing style is better suited to Twitter  You got James to write that report, didn't you?  There was nearly a major incident when Jon's all day breakfast had an egg seepage and nearly contacted the bean juice. He hastily erected a sausage barrier If only our back four had moved half as quick to close down the opposition as I did to prevent bean juice / yolk cross-contamination then we wouldn't have spent the afternoon listening out for the Chesterfield score! On refection, using the words erect and sausage in the same sentence was unwise and bound to be greeted with a round of childish chortling. ;D Complicated travel arrangements all went to plan and we joined loads of other Gulls fans in the Greyhound before the game. Marstons Pedigree and a TV showing Championship football - although Chelston got confused and spent ages looking at the large mirror on the opposite wall trying to work out if it was showing a rerun of Casualty or One Foot in the Grave. It was indeed a very bizarre day - yet another case of a great day out blighted by ninety minutes of crap football. Why would anyone with any sense whatsoever drive for ten hours to sit watching text updates on mobile phones? I sensed how the afternoon was panning out early enough to suggest that we could leave and get to Chesterfield in time to watch the second half there - which would decide our fate. I'm not saying the stadium was in a seedy area, but it was a bit of an education for an innocent Devon boy to say the least. I know someone who wandered in to what he thought was a chip shop on the Attercliffe Road and asked for a large portion. He was a little taken aback when told that would be £50, he should go through the door on the left and take his clothes off and Mimi would be through in a few minutes. I'm not sure if our viewing position several miles from the action distorted things, but it did look as if our defence was quite happy to stand still and let Rotherham waltz through at will. Robertson's obsession with practising his all-in wrestling skills continues to worry me. If we play like that in the play-offs, we have no chance. I'm hopeful that we won't and that we have as good a chance as anyone of going up. On our game, we are capable of beating the other sides in the play-offs - although the loss of the awesome Craig Stanley is obviously a huge blow to our chances. COME ON YOU YELLOWS! |
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Post by chelstongull on May 8, 2011 15:06:18 GMT
This was Jon's 'All day Brunch Fiasco'  As you can see it's more of a road accident and was eaten in less time than Roger Bannister ran the 4 minute mile. |
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Post by aussie on May 8, 2011 16:34:14 GMT
Chris we want to see the Super Girl or are you keeping that photo for yourself? |
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Post by chrish on May 8, 2011 18:09:35 GMT
Chris we want to see the Super Girl or are you keeping that photo for yourself? Haha! She was far too young and it would've been improper of me to take a photo. I have a respectable moral code you know! |
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on May 8, 2011 18:57:12 GMT
Great photos as always Chris, they always capture something about "the whole day out" that is never captured by professional match photographers in their run of the mill match action shots (as much as I enjoy those as well).
The stadium reminds me a little of when Man U became the first English team to return to Europe and played the likes of Pecsi Munkas and Legia Warsaw in front of those terrible open stadiums. The only things missing were the thousands of police / soldiers (often outnumbering the supporters!) and the giant statue of 90's of some puppet dictator!
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Post by jmgull on May 9, 2011 0:03:20 GMT
This was Jon's 'All day Brunch Fiasco' As you can see it's more of a road accident and was eaten in less time than Roger Bannister ran the 4 minute mile. Good work Jon - a close call indeed  |
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Post by aussie on May 9, 2011 5:49:29 GMT
Chris we want to see the Super Girl or are you keeping that photo for yourself? Haha! She was far too young and it would've been improper of me to take a photo. I have a respectable moral code you know! Well that`s a damn shame! |
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Post by alunmeerkat on May 9, 2011 8:51:08 GMT
The photo's are interesting. I am no expert in photography but Rotherham seem to have a ground that changes colour every five seconds !
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Post by petef on May 9, 2011 9:11:05 GMT
We got there in the end but what a tortuous route and who would have thought that just four points from our last five games would have seen us through into the playoffs? Worryingly our form has tailed off and I think that maybe we have peaked and have probably gone as far as we can. Losing the experienced and capable Craig Stanley is the biggest blow but who knows? The Shrews will still be tasting that embarrassing 0-5 defeat here and will want to put that score right. We were immense that day just as they were very poor we were just very very good. Robinson had a point to prove but has struggled for form of late and just hasn't been able to influence matches in the way would all have hoped. Never the less his contribution along with our other loanees have all contributed to a very successful campaign and to be in this position now is just a bit of icing on the cake which will add, most importantly to our meagre finances. Whatever happens now is in the hands of the gods and as individual players what team turns up over the next two or perhaps three matches. To reach the playoffs in three of Paukl Buckles four seasons is an incredible achievement, I to questioned the wisdom of his appointment when we were at the lowest point in the clubs history but now I wonder just who else could have achieved what he has achieved and stuck loyally and relentlessly to the task with minuscule funds and resources whilst having to fend off insults and unfair criticism from certain individuals. He's done it his way and thank goodness he did. Do you know what Pete, over the years, on this forum and its predecessor, you've had a great knack of summing things as I seem them, and if I read one person's post it's always yours. You're spot on again. For no particular reason, today I salute you! (I haven't been drinking, before anyone asks!) Thanks for the compliment just try and take a level headed view I suppose after 45 years of supporting the frustartion and anger levels tend to drop off a bit!. Ah yes the old forum I often wonder whhat happened to many of the people who posted on there. What ever happened to a certain Mr Badcock ? Always had a controversial take on things. |
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Post by petef on May 9, 2011 9:19:55 GMT
Gosh what an awful soleless place to watch a football match Don Valley is. Much sooner have our compact and improving little ground.
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