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Hows everyone going?

Is there anyone able to give me a lift? Will chip in for petrol.

Many thanks.

Hehe - walking from my parents house which is about 100yds away!

Are Ciren in a higher league than Marine?

i'm undecided. Not a big fan of friendlies so may just go round old town for a few beers.

Yup deffo going to this - Seb, not 100% sure I'm taking yet so will have to let you know unless someone else is driving to this as well?

cool, well if anyone could let me know would be ace

Pretty sure both Marine and Ciren are in the Southern League Premier.

How far's it from the train station? Might go

Marine are Conference South now aren't they?

Nah, they're one below the conference south, whatever that may be

British Gas Premier.

Any idea on prices etc for this

£7 adults, £4 concession

Cheers lady if your good i may buy you a drink

I'm always good  :D

I will be the judge of that thankyou :wink:

:o  Very well! So be it!

Lady his mate Geoffrey is lovely, I'd hold out for a bit of Geoff action myself before accepting a drink from macca  :wink:

Fuck off geoff is a gay and loogs like that ziggy bloke

Fuck off geoff is a gay and looks like that ziggy bloke

meet you at the bike sheds then

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Geoff is too smooth to be gay, that famous chat up line he used on Larwood that time still has me in stitches  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

yeah he is a bit slimey he is coming tomorow actually (poof)

maybe I can go to teh game after all then....... :D

stop hi-jacking my thread!!!!!!

Macca's post has just prompted me to remember that Lady owes me a pint still.

And I would offer you a lift Chubbs but Bennett, Fred and Ben have already shot-gunned.

Sorry Chubbs  :cry:

If I was going, I'd give you a lift

your car only got 4 seats? or is the wife going aswell?

I don't remember this  :( what did he say to me?

 :soapy tit wank: well if you can't remember........ :wink:

Is this half naked man, ladies night on at the apartments this Friday still?

Oh yeah I do!  You have a good memory that was months ago!!!!

Seb.....i can give you a lift if you need 1..

She's not my wife, yet.

Fred's dropped out, so I've got a spare seat if anyone needs a lift.

Sam just out of curiousity what time are you leaving to get there - Im not sure what time to leave  :?

Picking Bennett and FlammableBen up at 6.15, so by my reckoning I'll be on the A419 by 6.25 and then at Ciren about 6.50 giving us some pre-match drinking time  8)

Cool was thinking about leaving at around 6.30ish....

where abouts is this actually being played :?

Cirencester...

Genius  :D

Is it at the academy or close by ?

It's by the indoor training arena.

Cheers mate

Sorry couldn't resist  :D

Thats ok i should of worded it a bit better

Corinium Stadium, home of Cirencester Town of course.

From Swindon leave 419 by 1st Ciren exit (signposted "cirencester industrial area"). Take second exit off sliproad roandabout towards ciren, pass Cerney 419 regiment camp and Dobbys garden centre,  follow road to main (Tesco) roundabout. Double back on yourself at roundabout and take 1st left (signposted "Preston"). Club is just under a mile on left before Kingshill school.

From Gloucester leave 419 at 1st Ciren exit signposted godknowswhat (erm, Cirencester I guess). At sliproad double-roundabout turn right down Burford road past BP garage towards Ciren town centre. Take left turn BEFORE roundabout signposted Fairford (this is London road). Follow road and take right hand turn at Kingshill school. Club is just past school on the right.

spot on batch is there a bar at the ground

I believe there is a small one if I remember rightly.  Sonics dad bought me a coke before  :D

I believe so, yes  :beers:

was he grooming you

No he is a very nice man  :)

Yes there is definitely a bar and a function room with bar that will hopefully be opened into 1 to ensure quick serving time.

Hot dogs and cheeseburgers can be bought for a bargain fee too outside (if it's open).

:)

I got sunburnt at Ciren last year I remember. Was air tatoo weekend.

well im not so can i buy you a drink?

You can buy Sam a drink for me as I owe him a pint still  :mrgreen:

Ace, just found out one of the lads at work is playing for Ciren tonight. I'm going to give him loads of verbal for the rest of the afternoon and make sure he has an absolute stinker tonight.

1-0 to Swindon

Arrieta the trialist scored

Good goal as well according to the OS. Looked pretty decent against Marine. I wonder whether it might be worth a punt on him...

Miguel Comminges on the right wing? Sounds like we might not have to play shakes again!

Must be like anouther 'Boub, fullback to winger.

I assume Adam Everiss & Ben Joyce are more trialists?

Yep i think a possibility

He did look more of an attacking option for a full back

Whos adam everiss in team 2 :?

Ex Reading academy youth player aged 16 or 17

knowledge.

Full time 1.0.

We're defintley getting relegated. :P

we beat em 7-1 last year, only a 1-0 victory this season means we're destined to fail.

sigh  :cry:

oh please

Look on the bright side, 1st clean sheet of the season :D

What a load of rubbish  :mrgreen:

I see our strikers are on form once again :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

What strikers?

Exactly we aint got none :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

corr and sturrock?

the spanish boy scored a good 25 yarder. ball sat up nicely for him and he just laced it in over the keeper.

i don't think his all round play is anywhere near good enough for league 1 standard though. same with the portuguese kid.

same with the sturrock lad too come to think of it.

that was the most boring game ever.

Sturrock Out.

sod the game 40minutes for a burger  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:

...and they had probably cooked the burger before you started queuing too.

nah i watched as half of it evaporate once he stuck it on

and its all dv's fault for gassin

Corr maybe sonic but sturrock never.

probably the most interesting thing about the match was that dermot gallagher was the referee.

i've said it before, i'll say it again and i will throw it back in your face(s) later on in the season.

sturrock jr is a fucking good player and offers us something nobody else we have - or had - does. he will be an important player for us this year.

FACT!

I agree Mr Sonic. He's got something, but whether we'll see it time will tell

Conguezor whatever his name his.He looks a very handy player

Food:
Burger - take order, put 1 burger on, wait for it to 'heat' (precooked shit). put together in bun. Take next order, put 1 burger on, wait for heat.....there's a fucking queue numb nuts, put on several burgers.

Game:
Nothing game really, typical pre-season.

Tall trialist #9 (Guima) confirmed my opinion that he is shit. We won't see him again.

Shorter trialist #10 (Arrieta) - scored a great goal but spent the rest of the game trying to do too much to impress (flicky fanny football). Would be surprised if he is still around tomorrow but the better of the two.

Of the new boys - Blackburn has impressed me more than Aljofree. Can't make my mind up about Comminges.Steve Adams (trial) didn't catch the eye, neither has Easton yet. Very early days for these boys yet though...

Ciren were reasonably well organised/hard working. Never really in the game though, except one header that hit the bar. The beast also hit the bar with a header. No Roberts tonight, nor Nicho, who was at the ground with his uncle.

Was that Dermot Gallagher reffing?


Parking: Got out nice and quick. Back in Blunsdon by 9:33 :)

I shouted abuse at Dermot and he laughed and acknowledged it....and Ben bought me a drink.....that was it.

Would have liked to see more of Blackburn but definitely looks promising.  Liked Comminges - good singing IMO.

agree with Batch #9 was gash

who the fuck is consequenzor? is he some mad spanish superhero?

I have just been to McDonalds and have a guess who walked in??

THE BEAST!!! With his son getting some grubba!

Ill happily be waiting sonic if it happens.

Jezza is quality.   :D

Yeah he is! He was waiting about 20-25 minutes for his food whilst i sat and ate mine! Sucka!

I've just looked at the squads and subs! And knowing quite a few Ciren boys that are in there i think one of them should be no where near that side!!! JOKE!

after reading the match report it looks like sturrock's game plan of 'crosses into the box' is in full flow.

funny that commingues played on the wing today, something me and DV discussed earlier.

at SS aljofree looked like he was in desperate need of a game, i think he'll turn out like williams in the end.

Also Rufus B and one of the presumed new investors was there ... both sat next to Andy Cryer at the start of the second half. Wonder if he managed to get blood out of a stone there???

He probably can't say anything publicly though i wouldn't imagine

Who Cryer?

course he can.

Dunno Rich - I just saw them sat together. Couldn't see if Andy managed to get any probing questions in. Did get another shot on my camera of this bloke, though. God only knows who he is.

On another note, talked briefly to Ady Williams who says he's back running again so might be back sooner rather than later. Seemed in good spirits.

His uncle was in Brum 8)

Happy days. That was pretty dull. Cracking goal from the trialist (first half striker at the supermarine game, no. 10) Apart from that he was shit. The winger dude looked ok, but not that good. I'd expect someone on trial to be proving a point by ripping apart our non-league cousins. Maybe, more than he did anyway.

 Wasn't as fun as the Supermarine game. I missed Sonic. He makes me laugh. Sam and Bennett are light weights. I'm also better at football than them. Especially drunken Sam outside the Kebab Van. Bye bye football.

Stopped of at Los Gatos and then the vic on the way home so just got in. Took a bottle of the lovely Spanish House Red on my way. Tasty stuff.

ooh, what is it?

Fuck knows the writing is all in Spanish. It's from Navarra and it's pretty tasty. Slightly smoky.

nice. i'm drinking sangiovese again, also good.

you up for a pint on sunday or are you working?

Definitely up for a pint Sunday. That's like my Friday.

Pah, my 'sauces' (sic) are rubbish.

The only enjoyment I got out of the game was heckling Matt Bulman.

Me : "Are you not going to take that from the other side Matt?" (goal kick, he had been wasting time)

Bulman : "No, I'm playing for a draw"

20 seconds later he's picking the ball up out of the net

 :mrgreen:

Great goal from Arieta. He deserves to be kept on a trial basis partly for the goal, and partly for some decent touches in general play. Seems to find space well by dropping off the front line. He did also fuck some things up though.

Guima is shit. Cant run or head the ball despite being a big cunt. Get rid.

Aljofree has a good left foot on him, one cracking though ball in the 1st half.

Dont think the minge is a winger, looked better as an attacking full back.

Blair was really really shit I thought. Struggled to hold the ball up, didnt seem to make any of his intelligent runs, basically contributed fuck all. He's better than that and needs to start showing it.

Genarally we wernt vey good, although vivaesh has clearly got Ciren working hard and well organised. We played too many long balls up front, where all of our strikers stuggled to hold it up and bring others into play.  

I'm not in panic mode yet, but it did underline the need we have for a couple of stikers with a bit of physical presense to hold the ball up or pace to get in behind. At the moment without Barry we have neither.

As things stand I'd stick Peacock back up front temporaily til Bazza is fit or we sign some strikers, although he was one of our better players last night starting in centre mid and then playing on the right for a bit 2nd half.

I think it's important that neither Robbo or Peacock play up front again.  They need to 100% focus on their new positions as they are not good enough strikers for league 1.  If Peacock gets squeezed out of midfield he'll end up on the bench.

Get new blood in up front, or persist with these two trialists for a bit.

Spot on with that.Peacock will make that midfield spot his own something dv mentioned last night which i agree with was its good to see peacock pushing on into the box from deep now aswell

Spot on with that.Peacock will make that midfield spot his own something dv mentioned last night which i agree with was its good to see peacock pushing on into the box from deep now aswell

I disagree Jan. If Peacocks not good enough to play up front in L1 then I'm not sure what level that puts the trialists and B Sturrock at based on last nights performances.  Sunday league?

The way I look at it is we have plenty of cover in centre mid, and none whatsoever up front. So the obvious thing to do is stick the fella who has played up front for 95% of his career back there. I know he dosnt score enough goals but would at least win things in the air and hold the ball up.

Obviously in an ideal world, we'd just sign a couple of quality strikers then Peacock could concentrate on playing centre mid, but I cant see that happening in the near future.

That makes sense Jan - Sturrock knows as well as we do that we need firepower - but at least he's not using Robbo or the Cock, persisting with trialists - whether good enough or not allows our former strikers to concentrate fully on battling for their places.  I suspect we might see Peacock or Roberts up top again next season but only in a scenario when we are 1 down with ten to go, or if we suffer a major striker shortage.

Thing is with that is sturrock WILL bring in strikers and now is a ideal time for peacock and roberts to get used to the new positions

That's why you fucked off a few years ago Colin, you'd chuck Blackburn up front you dosy knobjockey.   :wink:

Being serious for a min, this is only the second half of footie either of this two foreign lads have played.  Do you know how well the triallists know the team, the language, the formation???  I don't think that Giuma (sp) looks that bad and neither does Arrieta.  In defence of Giuma he's been playing up front with a youth teamer and a pretty inexperienced midfield behind him, he's hardly gonna look like a world beater.

I will reserve judgement until they come back from Austria, where they have had time to bond as a team, get to know the way different players operate, get to know what's expected.  Then if they still look shit, ship them out.

True - I'm just gonna back sturrock - he had the balls to sack off the Bayo deal - and I trust him to find an adequate alternative(s).

 :mrgreen:  If I was still in charge I'd have signed a striker by now. Admittedly he'd have cost £300k and been worse than Guima, but at least we'd have a striker :wink:

Seriousley I know what you are saying, and I'm far from being at panic stations just yet.  But sturrock wants crosses into the box, as things stand we only have 2 players really capable of attacking balls in the air, one is crippled and the other is playing centre mid.  Hopefully we'll sign crouchy and Jan Koller today and all will be well :wink:

I guess we could call him  "Town Cryer" ?

And a lee peacock recons both strikers should be signed up.