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Post by sallycat on Feb 22, 2018 22:36:06 GMT
Oh yes. Oh boy were they good.
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Post by ryooon1999 on Feb 22, 2018 22:37:51 GMT
Oh yes. Oh boy were they good. Better get down there ASAP then! 😂👌 |
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Post by Andy K on Feb 22, 2018 22:38:02 GMT
Extraordinary
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Post by sallycat on Feb 22, 2018 22:40:04 GMT
Oh yes. Oh boy were they good. Better get down there ASAP then! 😂👌 Fingers crossed they still sell them then. It's been a while! |
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Post by os on Feb 22, 2018 22:41:36 GMT
It was a bastard to get to by public transport. 😦 Dead easy by car though! Not when that roundabout gets stuck up with traffic, on it for 2hrs once trying to get to Lakeside, mind you a lot safer than trying to do it by cycle I should imagine? Very sad news to see them go.. |
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Post by tonyd on Feb 22, 2018 22:44:42 GMT
Yet one more story of a club rising from the effort and aspiration of an individual and which was not rooted in its community. One hopes that those locals who did hop aboard have not become too attached. I feel sorry for them, but not too concerned about the loss of the club. There's always Aveley, 5 minutes up the road, a proper football club with a much better ground.
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Post by Del on Feb 22, 2018 22:45:07 GMT
The club was always doomed to failure as it had no natural support.No housing nearby and really just the hotel owners pet project.
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Post by ryooon1999 on Feb 22, 2018 22:48:23 GMT
Yet one more story of a club rising from the effort and aspiration of an individual and which was not rooted in its community. One hopes that those locals who did hop aboard have not become too attached. I feel sorry for them, but not too concerned about the loss of the club. There's always Aveley, 5 minutes up the road, a proper football club with a much better ground. I feel sorry for them as well but I personally think Ship Lane is a better ground than Parkside, there is a more non league feeling there but I prefer traditional non league grounds but either way they are both good non league grounds in my opinion but I favour Ship Lane a bit more... |
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Post by ryooon1999 on Feb 22, 2018 22:49:28 GMT
The club was always doomed to failure as it had no natural support.No housing nearby and really just the hotel owners pet project. Especially with the likes of Grays, Aveley and near neighbours Dartford and Ebbsfleet just around the corner! |
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Post by Andy K on Feb 22, 2018 22:50:28 GMT
Yet one more story of a club rising from the effort and aspiration of an individual and which was not rooted in its community. One hopes that those locals who did hop aboard have not become too attached. I feel sorry for them, but not too concerned about the loss of the club. There's always Aveley, 5 minutes up the road, a proper football club with a much better ground. I feel sorry for them as well but I personally think Ship Lane is a better ground than Parkside, there is a more non league feeling there but I prefer traditional non league grounds but either way they are both good non league grounds in my opinion but I favour Ship Lane a bit more... Have you been to Ship Lane? |
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Post by Rambo on Feb 22, 2018 22:52:46 GMT
I'll always remember a game there ( last game of the season 2006/7 ) when Phil Wilson Luke Naughton got sent off, and Alan Bray went in goal, with about a minute left of 'normal time' AJ got knocked out, and rather than take an age to sort things out, the ref blew up for full time !
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Post by ryooon1999 on Feb 22, 2018 22:53:23 GMT
I feel sorry for them as well but I personally think Ship Lane is a better ground than Parkside, there is a more non league feeling there but I prefer traditional non league grounds but either way they are both good non league grounds in my opinion but I favour Ship Lane a bit more... Have you been to Ship Lane? Already mentioned that I haven’t above! ..... hence why I want to visit it as it is a proper traditional non league ground... |
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Post by Andy K on Feb 22, 2018 22:56:17 GMT
Have you been to Ship Lane? Already mentioned that I haven’t above! ..... hence why I want to visit it as it is a proper traditional non league ground... You said it a roundabout way but then you talk about how beautiful the ground is which you've only seen in pictures. Utterly extraordinary! I think I'll just read memories of those who have been there or seen us play them. |
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Post by ryooon1999 on Feb 22, 2018 22:57:59 GMT
Already mentioned that I haven’t above! ..... hence why I want to visit it as it is a proper traditional non league ground... You said it a roundabout way but then you talk about how beautiful the ground is which you've only seen in pictures. Utterly extraordinary! I think I'll just read memories of those who have been there or seen us play them. You do that 👍, just saying I like the ground as it is in my top 10 grounds to visit in non league and Thurrock are a club I have a soft spot for, and for a reason I don’t know (probably due to their ground)... |
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Post by Andy K on Feb 22, 2018 22:59:41 GMT
At work before we travel abroad we have to do training for working in hostile environments. This includes what to do in a hijack situation. Needless to say I'm revising my notes....
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