The Football.....

[Accy cyclist]

Jeez...

For the sake of a couple of hours i'd rather wait it out than take a microwave meal in with me. Having to stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down to let people past on the seat rows at half time, whilst trying to awkwardly eat would drive me mad! I'd rather just bugger off to the queues to buy one of Walsall's award winning (probably) Balti Pies...

Walsall are doing very well! They surely must be promotion bound, but will they go up as champions?

 

[HMS_Dave]

Walsall are doing very well! They surely must be promotion bound, but will they go up as champions?

I was discussing this with a Friend a few weeks ago. We are always wary of a good Walsall run. But he was saying how he thinks even we can't throw it away from here. I just laughed. I said we bloody could you know!

Truth be told, we're in a strong position, we did lose Nathan Lowe who was scoring for fun, but Stoke called him back. We have a solid team around us and a good coach and finally an owner with a realistic plan for growth. I would be pretty disappointed if we don't go up, especially as champions of League Two given this start, which i think is the best for a League Two team ever? Im sure i read that...

 

[Accy cyclist]

Truth be told, we're in a strong position, we did lose Nathan Lowe who was scoring for fun, but Stoke called him back.

Loan players are good as they tend to come from higher division teams, but it's bad when they impress at a lower level and get recalled to their 'parent club'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4gxerx1py8o As the article's title suggests, it was a season long loan deal, but only if he didn't do as well as he's done so far.

 

[HMS_Dave]

Loan players are good as they tend to come from higher division teams, but it's bad when they impress at a lower level and get recalled to their 'parent club'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4gxerx1py8o

Its a sad reality really with teams and lower budgets. Walsall have a pretty good youth system with facilities and have had a good number of players come through it and get to Premier League, such as Scott Dann, Matty Fryatt, Rico Henry etc and even Troy Deeney to a large degree but you just can't hold on to em. They're too good for our lower leagues so even having a player on your books doesn't mean you'll retain them that much more than loanees. It's tough when you're not having your books cooked by oil billionaires...

 

[PaulSB]

I haven't been to an away match for must be 6 or 7 years, when I used to take my own food, or just not bother as I can go the whole day on very little. I think most grounds do bag checks now, so it's harder to sneak your own food in, making you buy the stuff they sell in the ground. When Accy played Liverpool at Anfield the other week you were only allowed to take an A5 size bag into the ground, which they searched according to their website. Years ago at Accy Stanley I'd take a whole home made pre microwaved meal (beef casserole type stuff) wrapped in tinfoil, so it was just the right temperature come half time when I'd eat it, a flask of coffee or if I wasn't driving or cycling there I'd pour a few pints of beer into a plastic bottle which the stewards didn't mind as it wasn't a glass container. Nowadays they check your bag for food and alcohol and coffee/tea flasks aren't allowed now as they're classed as 'possible projectiles'.

It's the 1985 Sporting Events Act that prevents fans taking alcohol into grounds. It isn't the clubs forcing fans to buy the club alcohol. I agree that's a definite spin off of the Act.

I think bag size varies from ground to ground. This is common practice at a wide range of events. At Ewood a reasonable size bag is OK.

Again at Ewood fans are allowed to bring coffee/tea, flasks, sandwiches, packed lunch etc. in to the ground. I think you'll find this is common practice in the Championship and lower leagues. I don't know about PL clubs, a quick Google search shows LFC don't allow flasks.

 

[The Crofted Crest]

For @Chislenko:

View: https://youtu.be/vEoQVc1xuSk?si=XIk3CwzQE0OO7q_I

 

[Accy cyclist]

An obvious 'mile' offside! I reckon the linesman will be demoted after that. 🤔

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/czrl25k748vo

 

[PaulSB]

Four players offside. How on earth was that goal allowed? Manager, players and fans have every right to be aggrieved.

 

[gbb]

Its a sad reality really with teams and lower budgets. Walsall have a pretty good youth system with facilities and have had a good number of players come through it and get to Premier League, such as Scott Dann, Matty Fryatt, Rico Henry etc and even Troy Deeney to a large degree but you just can't hold on to em. They're too good for our lower leagues so even having a player on your books doesn't mean you'll retain them that much more than loanees. It's tough when you're not having your books cooked by oil billionaires...

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But the flip side us surely that player will generate funds to allow the club to invest in other perhaps more league appropriate players.
I note Forest have signed Readings Tyler Bindon who shows great potential but left him there for the rest of the season. Seems like a good outcome for all, doesn't leave Reading in the lurch so's to speak

 

[HMS_Dave]

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But the flip side us surely that player will generate funds to allow the club to invest in other perhaps more league appropriate players.
I note Forest have signed Readings Tyler Bindon who shows great potential but left him there for the rest of the season. Seems like a good outcome for all, doesn't leave Reading in the lurch so's to speak

Indeed and to be fair Walsall and a number of other clubs have signed some successful non-league players too which has the same effect on these clubs as bigger teams signing players from the likes of Walsall.

In our case, the old Chairman invested in our youth set up to generate funds in the long term by selling players developed through it and made no secret about it.

 

[Chislenko]

Continuing the Walsall theme this has to be one of the coolest tops ever

https://images.app.goo.gl/PXExzXJeDvyKNZbz6

 

[HMS_Dave]

Continuing the Walsall theme this has to be one of the coolest tops ever

https://images.app.goo.gl/PXExzXJeDvyKNZbz6

That coolness is swiftly swept away when they changed the name of the stadium to the "poundland stadium" as part of the sponsorship. For me and the fans it will always affectionately be known as "The Bescot".

 

[Chislenko]

That coolness is swiftly swept away when they changed the name of the stadium to the "poundland stadium" as part of the sponsorship. For me and the fans it will always affectionately be known as "The Bescot".

I have only been to the Bescot once, went to Fellows Park a few times when I was more into football and would go anywhere and everywhere to watch a game.

 

[PaulSB]

Rovers v Wolves today. The first FA Cup meeting between the clubs since the infamous 1960 Cup final. How times have changed. It's a 12.30 KO. If this goes to extra time and penalties the match could take 2¾ hours. I thought one argument for abandoning replays was to protect the players? The poor tired loves.

Locally the view is while we want to win, given a choice, three points away to WBA on Wednesday would be more valuable. Especially after yesterday's league results.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Even sticking 11 minutes on the length of the match couldn't stop the biggest shock result of the FA Cup for years!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c0lze19935nt