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20 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

I'd have loved to have played for the Wagon against the Redoubt or the Swan with Two Necks or the Black Rock. We'd smash them 😉

You wouldn't have lived in a match between  the Tippings  Ams and  the Bold pubs in Poolsock and they were  only 400yards apart. And that's before you  actually had to travel and went to the likes of Latchford Albion or , God Forbid ,  Kirkby Rangers . Been back from those games with boots still on and showers avoided.....

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32 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

I'd have loved to have played for the Wagon against the Redoubt or the Swan with Two Necks or the Black Rock. We'd smash them 😉

You wouldn't have lived in a match between  the Tippings  Ams and  the Bold pubs in Poolsock  in the Ken Gee Cup and they were  only 400yards apart.

And that's before you  actually had to travel League wise  away to the likes of Latchford Albion or , God Forbid ,  Kirkby Rangers . Been back from those games with boots still on and showers avoided..... 

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On 14/11/2020 at 16:55, ATLANTISMAN said:

WINTER BRRRR remember playing in the freezing cold on Clapham Common one Sunday morning in January 1981 and diving into the corner to score a try and landing in a pile of dog pooh 😞 I had to poor a bucket of hold water all over myself to try and get all the dog s--t off and to make it worse the hot water in the showers was broken afterwards.

Soft dog poo in January ? 

Carlsberg don't do Soldiers, but if they did, they would probably be Brits.

http://www.pitchero....hornemarauders/

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On 14/11/2020 at 17:48, del capo said:

As a  Community club secretary in the winter season you had to be a better weatherman than the forecasters on BBC

Starting on thursday evening, weather watching till sat night and then dragging yourself from family for  field inspections at 7 am on  sat/sunday mornings . arguing if you had to with Local Authority ' Parkies  ' as to field fitness and trying to persuade a local ref that the mass of mud in the middle was playable or  more often than not that that corner of the field that was always frozen would be playable by midday.......and then  when all that failed ,telling your lads that when they turned up the game had to be called off . Trying to phone most before they came down and of course trying to stop your travelling opponents  even if they had still got stuck with a coach bill. Even giving your lads a deflating lift back home.

Never sure why the Pennine League remained traditional winter beyond that streak of Yorkshire grit/stubborn  but for me taking all the above pressures of the shoulders of the average Community club secretary certainly helped them in being able simply to put teams on the park for a fairly more certain fixture.

 Would the club secretary from then that is still around  now or  those of today take on all the above today ?

 Not a chance .  And without those administrators a move back would kill  TGG.................

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We'll only get 2 or 3 weeks that's not playable these days.

Carlsberg don't do Soldiers, but if they did, they would probably be Brits.

http://www.pitchero....hornemarauders/

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2 hours ago, Marauder said:

We'll only get 2 or 3 weeks that's not playable these days.

That's climate change for you Marauder. 

Still  though a lottery  for the  backroom staff and especially the girls in the kitchen - chucked out defrosted pies and catering levels of mushy peas for 100+ more than once - soul destroying for a Wiganer........

And our pitches it has to be said would thank us for not killing them when they can't grow back.

That said what is left of the schools game ( our future ) still turn out over the winter  by following the academic year. 

So who knows what is best?  Open minds time maybe.....

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I suppose the loss of 1 or 2 weeks pies and peas will probably be a little less than the loss of beer sales in the summer as the fans run off home to do what ever they do in summer evenings as for the grass, well  our pitch has been bang on for years during the winter and the only games to be called off was the other year when it rain a lot at the back end of the season, mind, this shouldn't be a problem now as we've decided to commit to the summer ourselves based on organisation not the snow or rain - Yes open minds time, we've had Doncaster RLFC going back into our local primary schools this week which will result in a tournament on our ground in late January, we will then be hoping to pick up kids to join our Mini Marauders.

Carlsberg don't do Soldiers, but if they did, they would probably be Brits.

http://www.pitchero....hornemarauders/

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On 16/11/2020 at 16:12, ATLANTISMAN said:

I remember it was ###### smelly and fresh (No time to freeze over:) LOL

Oh the wonders of playing sport in a public place:(

 

 

We fenced our little bit of Britain off on the local miners welfare ground to stop the likes happening,

Carlsberg don't do Soldiers, but if they did, they would probably be Brits.

http://www.pitchero....hornemarauders/

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