Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

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Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by officer_dibble » Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:38 pm

Let’s capitalise on website traffic and get a match day thread going.

Will the police get paid and turn up (you’d hope so given the opposition)?

Will the orange warriors be in situ? Meeting tomorrow at the Council re the safety certificate. Obviously no 5-O and no stewards = no game. I imagine that’s unprecedented so another first on the cards?

Noone and Wheater suspended. Magennis probably out; The Don as well? Both injured on Saturday, and probably down the GP in a queue with your nan for an appointment. Seem to recall teams in this situation end up with more youth players in the side by the end to avoid paying bonuses etc...could it be the cheapest side available is the one picked?

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Re: Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by TANGODANCER » Mon Mar 04, 2019 10:24 pm

Like mill walls (if not Millwall) Nothing new for me, I lived almost twenty years opposite an old mill wall. It was stone, not brick, so not quite grim, more interesting. Led to adventure land as kids.

As for the match, I'd imagine the visitors on Saturday will still be wondering why the pies (pasties) haven't come when the final whistle goes as it stands right now. Not to think too deeply on it, but it could be a real circus if things don't get sorted. Have we paid the programme printers and the car park attendants?
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Re: Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by Harry Genshaw » Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:10 am

If the fixture's cancelled and the league thinks there's any doubt about us fulfilling future ones, that could be the end game itself couldn't it? Our records expunged (?) & the division being reduced to 23 teams. The only precedent I can think of would be Maidstone about 20 years ago.

To follow on from such cheeriness, if it does go ahead - a 0-2 defeat.
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Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:22 am

Fixture expunging also happened with Aldershot in 91/92 (after 36 games) and Accy thirty years earlier. It’d be a boost for Birmingham...

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Re: Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by Enoch » Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:03 am

I was going to this one, recent events have dulled my enthusiasm.

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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:38 pm

EFL making noises about fulfilling the fixture.

Living in a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its mill architecture I can confidently say that stone v brick is a false dichotomy. We have both. Neither are grim.

Millwall on the other hand are grim at the best of times. Fxck 'em: 6 nil to us.
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Re: Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:56 pm

Enoch wrote:
Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:03 am
I was going to this one, recent events have dulled my enthusiasm.

2-0.
What you need is to borrow my future Tesla model S.
But, legal disclaimer, you need your own flux capacitor and need to be beneath the clock at 10:04pm...
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Re: Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by Enoch » Tue Mar 05, 2019 3:27 pm

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:56 pm
Enoch wrote:
Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:03 am
I was going to this one, recent events have dulled my enthusiasm.

2-0.
What you need is to borrow my future Tesla model S.
But, legal disclaimer, you need your own flux capacitor and need to be beneath the clock at 10:04pm...
It would be nice to go back and tell the fu*kers not to discharge him.

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Post by TANGODANCER » Tue Mar 05, 2019 6:23 pm

A team of valiant supporters have volunteered to step up and play for free on Queens Park should Millwall arrive and find the Unibol shut. If Millwall aren't afraid to play, Marc Iles will be in goal, Tony Kelly and Alan Nixon will play backs and Ivan Campo will come if Neville will give him a free haircut. The rest are Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb....with John McGinlay as lone striker. They will have to play as Christ Church Wanderers or K.A. wants a cut of any money collected using Bolton's name.

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Post by Jugs » Tue Mar 05, 2019 6:25 pm

Give all this off-field tomfoolery, it'll be a minor miracle if we win on Saturday :pissed: :pissed: :pissed:

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Post by TonyDomingos » Tue Mar 05, 2019 6:55 pm

This has the potential to be the shortest match thread ever.
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Post by officer_dibble » Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:23 pm

Haha
If it’s called off it will be one of the longest in recent history!

From catching up today it seems admin at BWFC have been in communication with the Council and police. They have until lunchtime tomorrow to provide “comfort” the necessary safety measures can be implemented.

I’ll be very surprised if it isn’t on...Council won’t want to be behind a points deduction/fine no matter who is to blame.

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Post by Harry Genshaw » Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:26 pm

If there's one game in a season where you want to be sure security is robust, it's bloody Millwall
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Post by TonyDomingos » Tue Mar 05, 2019 8:05 pm

If t'council weren't satisfied this afternoon that the game could go ahead, I struggle to see what the club can do by tomorrow lunchtime that will change their minds.

It seems very unlikely anyone will blame the council if it is called off.
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Post by officer_dibble » Tue Mar 05, 2019 8:19 pm

Club have written to the council (as opposed to a public ‘Chairman’s notes’) since the meeting. Not sure what they have said or the response to it but there has been dialogue.

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Re: Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by Burnden Paddock » Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:54 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:
Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:26 pm
If there's one game in a season where you want to be sure security is robust, it's bloody Millwall

On the plus side Bruce should have a ticket going spare. When I say plus ...

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Re: Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Wed Mar 06, 2019 1:56 pm

Council has confirmed the game is on.

Christ, it's like we're a parks team.

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Re: Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by Prufrock » Wed Mar 06, 2019 2:02 pm

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Re: Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by Jugs » Wed Mar 06, 2019 5:07 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
Wed Mar 06, 2019 1:56 pm
Council has confirmed the game is on.

Christ, it's like we're a parks team.
You can't keep us down!

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Re: Backs to the Millwall, Sat 9/3 3pm

Post by TANGODANCER » Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:30 pm

Apropos of not much except I was thinking of Ireland, and suddenly thought....hey, whatever happened to Stephen Ireland our saviour in disguise? So what did?
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