Reg Smeeton
Walking Encyclopaedia
 Offline
Posts: 34913
|
 |
« Reply #17115 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 17:24:29 » |
|
Im a little sceptical of how far down the road we went with this Gosport lad.
Probably not very far, as the A32 is a bit of a nightmare especially during rush hours....it being more or less the only road in and out of Gosport. It's a funny old place....apparently the largest place in Britain (by population) with no railway station. I worked there 40 odd years ago, and the traffic was crap then.....foot ferry to Pompey handy mind. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ardiles
Offline
Posts: 11588
Stirlingshire Reds
|
|
« Reply #17116 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 17:30:58 » |
|
Probably not very far, as the A32 is a bit of a nightmare especially during rush hours....it being more or less the only road in and out of Gosport. It's a funny old place....apparently the largest place in Britain (by population) with no railway station.
I worked there 40 odd years ago, and the traffic was crap then.....foot ferry to Pompey handy mind.
Mansfield must have run it a very close 2nd prior to the (re?)opening of the Robin Hood Line (in the 1990s?) |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Reg Smeeton
Walking Encyclopaedia
Offline
Posts: 34913
|
|
« Reply #17117 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 17:45:29 » |
|
Mansfield must have run it a very close 2nd prior to the (re?)opening of the Robin Hood Line (in the 1990s?)
The honour of being the only FL club not served by a railway station was with Mansfield.....when it was solely served by the Mansfield and Alfreton Parkway. Gosport used to have a single track branch up to Fareham, but lost it as long ago as 1953 |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
kerry red
|
|
« Reply #17118 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:03:51 » |
|
Amazing how almost any thread can end up about railways
Toot toot!
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ardiles
Offline
Posts: 11588
Stirlingshire Reds
|
|
« Reply #17119 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:07:29 » |
|
The honour of being the only FL club not served by a railway station was with Mansfield.....when it was solely served by the Mansfield and Alfreton Parkway.
Gosport used to have a single track branch up to Fareham, but lost it as long ago as 1953
I'm good, damn it. Wikipedia: Mansfield Railway Station'Before the station was re-opened in 1995, the town was the largest in the United Kingdom without one, all the more remarkable when it is considered that Mansfield pioneered the railway in the East Midlands. The then nearest railway station, Alfreton, was known as "Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway".' |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ardiles
Offline
Posts: 11588
Stirlingshire Reds
|
|
« Reply #17120 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:08:08 » |
|
Amazing how almost any thread can end up about railways
Toot toot!
Well, we are Swindon.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
wiggy
Whippet fancying, T-shirt flogging cunt
Offline
Posts: 2612
Whippet Fancier
|
|
« Reply #17121 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:20:30 » |
|
I lived in Pontypridd for 3 years, where the locals claim that the platform at Pontypridd is the longest in Europe.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Thank [insert deity of choice] for beer and peanuts
|
|
|
|
kerry red
|
|
« Reply #17122 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:22:58 » |
|
Aaaaaaargh!
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Bob's Orange
Has brain escape barriers
Offline
Posts: 29794
|
|
« Reply #17123 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:23:35 » |
|
Back on topic. Jon swift is very highly rated and sounds promising as a replacement for Yaser and luongo and reeves who sounds like he is leaving.
But more importantly, I signed him for burton Albion in fm2013 and he was immense in my rise up the leagues. A good signing for sure.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
the gorgie boys, for Hearts in Europe.
|
|
|
Red Frog
Not a Dave
Offline
Posts: 9047
Pondlife
|
|
« Reply #17124 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:28:09 » |
|
Any insights as to why Rotherham cancelled his six-month loan? Hope we're not in Dean Parrett territory...
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Tout ce que je sais de plus sūr ą propos de la moralité et des obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois. - Albert Camus
|
|
|
|
kerry red
|
|
« Reply #17125 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:28:20 » |
|
And he wrote Gulliver's Travels, too!
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
kerry red
|
|
« Reply #17126 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:29:50 » |
|
Any insights as to why Rotherham cancelled his six-month loan? Hope we're not in Dean Parrett territory...
He was never going to be a Fatty Evans kind of player - he got MoM on his debut for them |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Bob's Orange
Has brain escape barriers
Offline
Posts: 29794
|
|
« Reply #17127 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:35:30 » |
|
Amarii bell heading back to Birmingham paving the way for a swift signing.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
the gorgie boys, for Hearts in Europe.
|
|
|
OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR
- FACT!
Offline
Posts: 15073
|
|
« Reply #17128 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:44:10 » |
|
He was never going to be a Fatty Evans kind of player- he got MoM on his debut for them
Why not? |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
kerry red
|
|
« Reply #17129 on: Friday, January 2, 2015, 18:45:33 » |
|
Likes time on the ball not chasing lumps
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
