Club name ?

[Guest]

Why does gravesend get top billing but your stadium address is Northfleet ?

[chilled out entertainer]

because northfleet and gravesend sounds rubbish

[Mepis]

Agree with that Squawk, they are two Towns in the borough of Gravesham, in 1946 they joined together, Gravesend had the team, Northfleet the ground + Gravesend is the major town, but as a Northfleet born lad i would have liked just plain old Northfleet.

Probably wrong if so i am sure someone will put it right.

[Guest]

mmmmm, bit of a mouthful when singing. do you chant an abbreviated version, how do you get your tongue round say " gravesend & northfleet are going up ! " or have still to cross that hurdle. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/boxing.gif" alt="" />

[Stu M]

No more difficult for us than fans of Dagenham & Redbridge, Brighton & Hove Albion, West Bromwich Albion, Crewe Alexandra or Spartak Vladikavkaz.

[Jeff]

You forgot Inverness Caledonian Thistle

[Slartibartfast]

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[Wobbly Wayne rides again]

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mmmmm, bit of a mouthful when singing. do you chant an abbreviated version, how do you get your tongue round say " gravesend & northfleet are going up ! " or have still to cross that hurdle.

 

Thans for your interest we have progressed very nicely thank you aver the past few years , and yes not only have we had the opportunity to sing about going up , we have actually done it.

We are a club on the up, get on board the red bus , we won't give you the blues.

[FleetFanatic]

"The 'Fleet are going up".....

[American FLEET FAN No1]

Don't forget Borussia Munchen Gladbach(?).......I would hate to be the guy in the crowd that shouted............" GIVE US A ""B""!" <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/doah.gif" alt="" />

[chilled out entertainer]

I like it. Germans probably wouldn't get how funny it was though!

[Guest]

the joke is a not a peculiar to the english,

but here we tend to find Goethe a well of funness. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laughuncontrollable.gif" alt="" />

[Harry J Allstars]

What about the obvious one Leigh Rail Mechanical Institute? Is it that, thats the first thing that came into my head but I may have got the m wrong.

 

Theres a team in Boilivia called the Strongest.

 

Job done (to the tune of Gravesend and Northfleet) We are the Strongest, only in spanish

[Bernard]

Leigh Railwayman's Institute, hence their nickname...

[Harry J Allstars]

Drop the bombshell.... Its not the Railwaymen is it by any chance?

[Bernard]

He's nailed it! A nickname made all the more interesting by the fact there is no railway station at Leigh...

[Harry J Allstars]

Okay so Railwaymans Institute. Right wheres the word beging with 'M' to make them RMI?

 

I dont see any Fleet or Ends of Graves and were not in the North but that didn't stop us.

[David Holden]

It's Leigh Railway Mechanics Institute, and they started life in Horwich which does have a railway station. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Bernard]

I stand corrected (said the man in the orthopedic shoes)

[FleetFanatic]

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Okay so Railwaymans Institute. Right wheres the word beging with 'M' to make them RMI?

I dont see any Fleet or Ends of Graves and were not in the North but that didn't stop us.

I might be wrong but.....

.....Gravesend got it's name from the bubonic plague as the area was used as a dumping ground for the dead bodies? Hence the 'Graves' - 'end' being the end of the journey to the dumping area?

As for Northfleet - River Fleet - Northfleet is 'North' of where it was, hence there also being a Southfleet?