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What are you doing saturday ?

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With slough not having a game this saturday what game are you going to or are you having a saturday off.

Looking around theres not much of interest unless

 

FA trophy

 

maidenhead v chesham

uxbridge v dorchester

 

im even thinking flackwell heath v bicester

 

you gotta help me saturday afternoon shopping beckons eek

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This Saturday myself, Chris Sliski and Roy Merryweather will be making a fleeting visit to Holland to look at a recently built stadium built on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

 

From what we have been told this new stadium, which is home to a club called Rijnsburgse Boys, is very close to the specifications we would like to implement at our new stadium in Slough. Our visit is at the invitation of the architects responsible for this new development in Holland and it should prove very worthwhile in deciding what our future stadium could look like.

 

Roy has already been given a guided tour of the ground a couple of months back and has informed the other members of our management team the many advantages it offers to our plans. In additional to the main stadium itself, they also have a 3rd generation all weather pitch plus other playing areas used for training and coaching their junior teams.

 

From conversations we've already had as a management team, the majority of new facilities built in the United Kingdom are way behind our counterparts in Europe and many simple lessons can be learned from them, just by the way they have become very functional.

 

Rijnsburgse Boys who own the ground, have a very similar background to

ourselves, twenty miles from the capital, Amsterdam, they are also surrounded by many clubs similar to what we have here in England. They even play at a similar standard to ourselves in the Dutch League. However the main difference is most of the teams seem to have very modern facilities and because of this have become very much the integral part of community life. The community spirit derived from such a network of clubs is vital to the game in this country. Lets hope when our dream really becomes a reality, Slough Town FC will begin a new wave of support within the borough and once again are able to retrace our steps of the past with the authority that a real senior non league football club should, on a much sounder platform than ever before.

 

Unfortunately our Chairman (Steve Easterbrook) can't join us this weekend due to a previous personal commitment, but he will be teaming up with Roy again in the near future to gain his own valuation of the site and a personal sighting of their stadium layout. Steve has made it perfectly clear to us all, no venue will not be visited if it can prove in any way, beneficial to our future plans. This club has ground shared long enough, we must now strive long and hard in achieving our ultimate goal and be ready for the next stage of our development.

 

After some discussions and a full guided tour of the ground on Saturday morning, we are heading off in the afternoon to Lisse to watch an away fixture for Rijnsburgse Boys. Alot of matches in the lower divisions of the Dutch senior leagues still attract attendances of over 1,500, we are told Lisse will be expecting at least those numbers this weekend.

 

I'll keep you all up to date on the findings of our visit, in a future addition of the match day programme.

 

Glen Riley.

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Is it still waiting to be approved in principal or is it going to happen and just the miles or red tape to get through? What is happening at Wexham Park, I never quite understood the thinking behind leaving the ground standing and not making money from Slough as tenants (like Windsor and Burnham have) I know it is all complicated and crappy but doesn't seem to make a lot of sense?!?!? (I am guessing there is a mile long thread that goes with that one!!) Just interested as even as a Windsor fan I would like to see Slough have a home, too big a club to be allowed to drift into obscurity and no team should be homeless.

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Still awaiting to be approved but it's slowly but surely heading in the right direction, we've all been very patient so far, just need to be for a little bit longer. Yes correct I won't be going through the Wexham Park story as it's too long although I'm sure you can find the info from somewhere/someone.

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That trip to Holland sounds really good, it may not be the same one but I think I saw a community stadium in Holland on Sky Sports News once when they were talking about the quality of grassroots football over here and there, they certainly are impressive and it would be brilliant to get anywhere near that quality of stadium with our new place.

Personally I'm probably going to be home watching the England game on tv on Saturday, being a Slough regular means I don't get to watch Saturday afternoon rugby anymore!!

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Ashby Ivanhoe v Ratby Sports, Leicestershire Senior League Premier Division, 3pm kick off, Hood Park!! Ivanhoe hoping to bounce back after a 9-3 (yes, 9-3!) defeat to the league leaders last week! However, a comfortable 6-1 win midweek against Barlestone in the Coalville Charity Cup (watched by me, my daughter and about 50 other hardy souls) should have gone a long way to getting the 9-3 (I hate writing that!) defeat out of the system.

 

Well, you did ask!!!

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hi all dave here while others south coast bournemaouth and holland

i sufferd legnthy delays on first great western 20=+ del on fast so ended up shuffled on a five car turbo and stopping service to padd then over charged 30p for a coffee and stud up the very poor english man serving and get right change

then rugby scrum to get on bakerloo line tube to marylabone took nearly 40 mins instead of five and five ettempts to get on full trains very unusal but for me what is unusal

 

met liz my girlfriend some 4 mins late then struggled again to get on bakerloo train to picc circus

then more delays on picc line to south ken

great time in sience museum with auntie uncle and there little daughter evie evon playing in the plastics area within the plastics and i think some photoes to prove

 

great bus ride on number 14 to look at xmas lights and excelent japanease meal and more xmas lights and walk abouts piccadilly carnaby st and regents st and home on bakerloo good service this time from oxf circus and fast trains to high wycombe for liz and fast train to slough and yes del 2 bus to burnham to sleep

 

cheers all zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzerrrrrrrr

 

dave programmes

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