Anyone been to a pre season match today?

[tringarmy]

Originally Posted By: thespursfan

I am staggered at the figures mentioned in Gavins post, were they accurate? Hendons costs running at ten times income? and only £13,700 generated at the gate,I cant work that out.

It also means that their management & admin staff are on £70-80k a year!! (£120k wage bill minus £40-50k players wages.) Either that is a staggering amount or they failed their GCSE Maths

[Wader]

I have attended 3 pre-seasons so far (2 neutral) and had the most ridiculous experiences at all of them. I love pre-seasons! The 4th will be a hard act to follow - bring it on!

[Jeff Hamnett TSF]

been on the pride wader? bean spill...

[Wader]

If I hadn't stayed away in a hotel after Saturdays neutral pre-season I attended, I could easily have bean spilt on here. Luckily for me I was in a Holiday Inn Express without internet access. God, was I hungover on Sunday - and the Mrs was worse than me!

[Rhodes]

Football Man will be on in about five or ten minutes, he was at Waltham Forest v Dagenham and Redbridge tonight.

[Wader]

I was at the amazingly stunning Shuttleworth College for tonights pre-season. The invited London team entered the thatched roofed pavillion to get changed in the scenic parkland and countryside setting with their mouths agape. The changing rooms are beamed and about 8' square, the away one with an old Victorian park bench in it. They laughed like drains and thought they had been transported back to Dickensian times. Simply beautiful secenery surrounds the grounds of the mansion and as a backdrop to a good match it was another excellent pre-season outing.

[Rhodes]

Yes I have to say that it looks like an amazing venue from the attached link, I wasn't actually aware there were playing facilities there and I will bear it in mind for the future:

 

http://www.writtle.ac.uk/pge_MainDisplay.cfm?ID=6

 

[Maldini66]

I feel another ground share coming on

[Wader]

The football training area and pitch are out of bounds from Sunday for 10 days as Arsenal Youth are there - as they are every year apparantly.

[GRS67]

Just thought I would bump this thread up today. What matches have you all been to?

 

Edgware drew wtih combined Counites side North Greenford utd 1-1, the Edgware goal coming in the last 5 minutes.

[Sharming Paula]

I went to Basildon v Kentish Town.

Saw 5 mins of game so cant comment. I'll let Rhodes fill you in

 

We (Canvey) played Southend Utd last night. Lost 6-1. Crowd of 1150.

Only really see first half - 2nd half was mainly in the bar.

[Wivenhoe Urchin]

Burnham Ramblers 2-4 AFC Hornchurch

 

Two early goals scored by us to complete the first half.

Burnham came into the second half with a long distance strike, then two quick goals by us again midway through the second half, with Burnham pulling one more back near the end.

 

An entertaining match and some banter to go with it!

[NAIL IT]

travelled to takely to watch brox boro but game cancelled !! helpful chap there told me of another game that was reasonably close!bishops stortford (swifts?} lose 2 0 v stansted!anyone know why the boro game was cancelled as pitch loooked fine & chap i spoke to had no idea why it was called off!!!

[Rhodes]

Basildon United 2 Kentish Town 0, I only saw the first half as I had to take an injured player to hospital with the help of Paula who turned up.

[cantos]

Paula helped?

 

Did the player have a groin strain?

[Sharming Paula]

He did have a lump Cantos. He was a bit young for me though - looked about 17.

[GRS67]

Is that the first time Paula and Rhodes have met?

 

We have wealdstone at home on Tuesday night!

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted By: cantos

Paula helped? Did the player have a groin strain?

Sorry folks, my internet died on me last night and I didn't get a chance to explain properly. One of our players dislocated his shoulder shortly before the interval and I asked Paula, who had only just turned up and was half way through a pint, if she could possibly drop us down to Basildon hospital. She didn't think twice about it and I said I would give her a little something for her trouble at a later date, we didn't even get time for any tonsil tennis which was disappointing, she dropped us off and then went back to Canvey probably wishing she hadn't bothered.

[cantos]

You disrupted Paula half way through a pint!

 

You were lucky you didn't end up with a dislocated shoulder or worse.

[Horace]

From my knowledge of Paula, I doubt the veracity of your account of events - if she was driving, she wouldn't have been consuming a "pint". I know you like to embellish your stories with inaccurate padding - is this such a case, and was she really drinking a fruit juice?