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Two weeks till the fixtures are out?

Post by TKIZ! » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:40 am

Just thought I'd ask who you like to see us play int the first five or so games? Who would you like to play in the opener?
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Post by ChrisC » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:58 am

Wigan at home first up please :D
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Re: Two weeks till the fixtures are out?

Post by si2008 » Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:10 am

wigan away for me with the backing of 4000 wanderers fans
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Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:55 pm

Nah, save Wigan. First game's big enough anyway. Just some winnable games to get the wagon rolling...
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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:46 pm

Anyone for me - we have to play 'em all twice.

Might be good to get QPR early though as they might have 11 people that only met the week before... :-)
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Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:03 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:Just some winnable games to get the wagon rolling...
The beauty of division 2 is the fact they are all winnable. Whether we do so is another matter :)
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Post by coffeymagic » Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:19 pm

When I was a lad football used to go away for the summer when me and my chums would spend the long sunny days building rafts, travelling the water ways of the Mississippi and solving crimes involving escaped slaves.

It's hard for you kids to imagine these days when football fills the back pages of the papers 365 days a year but for a couple of months there was nothing until late july when the BEN would print a few pictures of a muddy Julian Darby walking around the Bolton Dog Track laughing with perhaps a Gary Henshaw or two.

Around this time the fixtures used to come out and me and my chums would sit down, pens in one hand, ham and tomato sandwiches and glasses of Ginger Beer in the other and work out the forthcoming seasons results and attendances.

I remember one year by Christmas Bolton were top of Division 3, unbeaten and attracting over 40,000 fans per week to Burnden Park.

Needless to say we went down that year.

Do kids still do this?
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Re: Two weeks till the fixtures are out?

Post by Burnden Paddock » Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:35 pm

A home derby. Not fussed which one of the inbred feckers it is.

I have a feeling that it's gonna by Yeovil away though.
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Post by Harry Genshaw » Fri Jun 07, 2013 4:27 pm

Last 2 years at least we've started on the road, so must be due a home game soon.

Bournemouth away then
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Post by davroduk » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:11 pm

Who cares who is up first , second or third.
Have to beat everyone.
Get on with it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :whack:
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Post by William the White » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:58 pm

Burnden Paddock wrote:A home derby. Not fussed which one of the inbred feckers it is.

I have a feeling that it's gonna by Yeovil away though.
Our bunch have that down as a weekend away - early august might be nice...
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Post by TANGODANCER » Sat Jun 08, 2013 12:09 am

coffeymagic wrote:When I was a lad football used to go away for the summer when me and my chums would spend the long sunny days building rafts, travelling the water ways of the Mississippi and solving crimes involving escaped slaves.
Made me laugh that. When we were kids Barrow Bridge still had a boating lake, but summer was the cricket season when we slaughtered the West Indies and the Aussies on Holy Harbour. :wink:
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Post by bobo the clown » Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:00 am

living at the top end of Horwich when we weren't playing footy or cricket or building dams or playing on the railways we were up Rivi being Robin Hood with our own full scale castle.

I told my lads, born & bred in a far more politically correct age, that we played 'war games' which we called Japs & English. Their jaws dropped. {Mind you, the look I get when I ask if anyone fancies a Chinky is a sight to behold}.

eeeh, we were poor, but we were happy !!.
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Re: Two weeks till the fixtures are out?

Post by Prufrock » Sat Jun 08, 2013 4:16 am

Sorry to ruin it all but we used to play 'out' constantly, all summer. We had the Playstation, but no-one cool played it when you could be out playing real football.
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Post by Dave Sutton's barnet » Sat Jun 08, 2013 11:43 am

Prufrock wrote:Sorry to ruin it all but we used to play 'out' constantly, all summer. We had the Playstation, but no-one cool played it when you could be out playing real football.
Same for me, except for PS read Commodore 64, then Amiga, then MegaDrive...
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Post by Worthy4England » Sat Jun 08, 2013 12:00 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
Prufrock wrote:Sorry to ruin it all but we used to play 'out' constantly, all summer. We had the Playstation, but no-one cool played it when you could be out playing real football.
Same for me, except for PS read Commodore 64, then Amiga, then MegaDrive...
Youngster - pffft.

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Post by Enoch » Sat Jun 08, 2013 12:28 pm

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Re: Two weeks till the fixtures are out?

Post by adamworthy2002 » Sat Jun 08, 2013 12:30 pm

I hope it's QPR and I hope we destroy them again!
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Post by thebish » Sat Jun 08, 2013 12:53 pm

Worthy4England wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
Prufrock wrote:Sorry to ruin it all but we used to play 'out' constantly, all summer. We had the Playstation, but no-one cool played it when you could be out playing real football.
Same for me, except for PS read Commodore 64, then Amiga, then MegaDrive...
Youngster - pffft.

Atari 2600, ZX Speccy, Amiga, PC... :-)

I never owned any of them things... them were for the rich kids... :(
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Re: Two weeks till the fixtures are out?

Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Sat Jun 08, 2013 1:19 pm

The extent of my home video-gaming as a youngster...

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Until many many years later when I got an upgrade to one of these...

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