Pilgrims' Patter
The Forum => The B-Ark => Topic started by: Ken Fox on December 09, 2009, 09:56:20 PM
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It looks like Stocksbridge Park Steels don't want to come to Boston on Boxing Day. :o
http://stocksbridgepsfc.com/news/details.php?news_id=806 (http://stocksbridgepsfc.com/news/details.php?news_id=806)
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dont blame them!Atleast they can have a good drink on Xmas Day!
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sorry kon cant agree with you there its another fixture that aint pilling up and let alone that it is our boxing day game which i think most fans look forward to.they say on there site that it is to short of notice but to be fair it was pretty much on the cards well over aweek ago.i for one hope the league make em make the fixture
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Stocksbridge had been told by the Unibond league that they will now have to play Boston United away on Boxing Day, the fixture which was originally Kings Lynn's.
Even the Unibond can't possibly postpone a fixture on the basis that a team's players don't fancy it. They will have spent the entirety of their playing career playing on Boxing Day - and this year the calendar has been kind to them and given them six clear days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day. The league told them that they'd probably have to play us presumably about a fortnight ago. Frankly, they've got to get over it and fulfil their fixtures.
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what happens if SPS players had already planned their Boxing Day?Maybe they are all going away for xmas ;)
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Seems SPS think they can have fixtures arranged at their choosing it was they that messed about with the schedule without speaking to the league or us on the away match so is this petty tit for tat or have they a man on the Management committee?
Off the O/S
Article Date: 24 Sep 2009
SPSFC v BUFC
Boston United are awaiting confirmation on when their away fixture against Stocksbridge Park Steels will be played.
The game was originally scheduled to take place on Tuesday October 27 at Bracken Moor — but Stocksbridge have announced that the match has been put back 24 hours to accommodate a Sheffield Wednesday reserve fixture.
However, United officials were not consulted about the switch — and discussions are now taking place between the clubs.
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Maybe they are all going away for xmas ;)
They are.... to Boston, make em play it for fecking around with their fixture.
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surely the Unibond League will make them play?
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It looks like Stocksbridge Park Steels don't want to come to Boston on Boxing Day. :o
http://stocksbridgepsfc.com/news/details.php?news_id=806 (http://stocksbridgepsfc.com/news/details.php?news_id=806)
So in essence they are saying they can't be bothered hiring a coach and anyway the players have made plan's to visit the in-laws on that particular day. The arguement is won hand's down with the clincher "any rightminded person must agree." Well not most right-minded people in Boston who want to spend Boxing Day watching the footy! Carl Heggs got alot of flak when he called the Unibond a "pub league" but incidences like this don't look good!
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Confirmed as our Boxing Day opponents on the Official site ;D
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http://www.bufc.co.uk/article/3094370/Boxing-Day-opponents-confirmed
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Confirmed as our Boxing Day opponents on the Official site ;D
Looks like the Stocksbridge secretary will have to start thumbing through the yellow pages looking for a coach company :D
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Great news, perhaps they'll bring their "famous" choir on the day, all 3 of them, maybe the little pricks who wanted to brick our bus on the away game can also come along, would be nice to meet them ;)
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Terrific. I can throw away my list of excuses I was preparing to avoid going for a brisk fresh air walk. Now all I need is a win on the day to make it a perfic day.
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I can see the headlines now - Stocksbridge in "Sorry but we're far to busy on Boxing Day to play a game of football scandal"
Stocksbridges secretary commented...
"The only balls we want to be playing with on Boxing day is everyones favourite green veg - sprouts"
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Apparently it's a bizarre decision ???
http://stocksbridgepsfc.com/news/details.php?news_id=810 (http://stocksbridgepsfc.com/news/details.php?news_id=810)
But they've soon found a coach by the look of things! ;D
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Indeed how bizarre Unibond club asked to play fixture on a regular league day when everyone at SPS must have been aware of the situation at Kings Lynn.
Who wants to bet a full strength first team arrive , seriously they must be kidding if they think we'll fall for that old "all the buses are busy that day and can't be bothered to make money " chestnut ::) ;D
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;D
Suddenly Christmas doesn't look so bad, I'll be able to escape the inlaws for a few hours!
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The boxing day fixture lives!!! praise the league 4 having some common sense and allowing the game to be moved!! I can now look 4ward to boxing day again after everything thats gone on at Kings lynn this week..... ;D ;D ;D
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The club should offer all Kings Lynn season ticket holders free entry to the game ...... :)
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Why?
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The club should offer all Kings Lynn season ticket holders free entry to the game ...... :)
I totally agree.
There is a fan base who have lost their club, certainly for the rest of this season some of whom might be happy to continue to follow us for the rest of this season, increasing our gates. The loss in revenue from those season ticket holder who might make the trip anyway will surely be minimal, and the upside "could" be considerable.
I won't make the game due to being closer to the other Boston on boxing day but being a sports fan I think we are going to a basket ball game that day.
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The club should offer all Kings Lynn season ticket holders free entry to the game ...... :)
I totally agree.
There is a fan base who have lost their club, certainly for the rest of this season some of whom might be happy to continue to follow us for the rest of this season, increasing our gates. The loss in revenue from those season ticket holder who might make the trip anyway will surely be minimal, and the upside "could" be considerable.
I won't make the game due to being closer to the other Boston on boxing day but being a sports fan I think we are going to a basket ball game that day.
I agree too, think this is an excellent idea. the loss in revenue les refers to could be made up by the increase in takings at the social club / catering anyway..
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I agree... get it sorted Craig/JB!
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I think there could be some possible confusion here. Some posters on the KL forum are thinking the free offer is for the match against BPA tomorrow.
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I don,t thinkyou are right there Odds - I,m probably coming but will be paying me tenner to get in - just to see some live footie
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Thought I'd drag up this rather old thread and include a snippet from the Lincs Echo report....
"United keeper Tom Evans saved Ward's quickly-taken 25-yard free-kick, then Pearson hacked Jamie Vardy's effort off the line, while James Cullingworth did the same to deny Darren Thornton."
Wonder what happened to Darren Thornton?
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My good friend Darren now plays for Curzon Ashton :xmashat
Were you at the game with the estranged chicken ??? :)
TEP
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Think the chicken had flown the nest by then.