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Reply | Radcliffe 2 - Bury 3 3rd round FA cup qualifying
at 15:18 3 Oct 2024
Thanks Rob, glad you still have fond memories of him. Nice knowing people valued him being around and still think about him - fook me that Scunthorpe game were cold. Do remember them winning it in the 120th minute and Flicker punching one of theirs for celebrating.
That Jag, which was the only mid life crisis other than the holidays they went on he really got to buy himself, was hilariously s***e. He drove Mum down to the south of France to his brother's place and the clutch went in the middle of nowhere. Across the language barrier the mechanic just manages to get across "the clutch broke because you don't drive properly". He loses his rag, which only happened about once a decade or so but was usually worth watching, at the mechanic. Mum texts us tells us not to bring it up, and they stopped at mine on the journey back up. Obviously first thing I say "I hear the Jag broke cos you can't drive". He gets in a mard about it again, gets back to Whitefield and my sister pops round "I hear the Jag broke cos you can't drive". Which I'll bet he never mentioned to any of his mates on here. He didn't half make life more fun. |
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Reply | Radcliffe 2 - Bury 3 3rd round FA cup qualifying
at 14:00 3 Oct 2024
Legally you're right. Course you are. Same applies to Rangers, Chester, Macclesfield and a load of other clubs of course.
However, without getting into the technicalities of the IP that the FA granted post merger it begs a bit of "what is a football club?" - Ultimately I see many of the same people at Gigg now as before (even if very different opponents and players), and I sit in the same place to watch a team with the same name. |
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Reply | National League Cup Groups
at 13:56 3 Oct 2024
That is 100% what it is. I genuinely can't tell from the pointless marketing drivel spouted, which is a copy and paste from when PL youth teams joined the JPT (but without the flimsy non-existent argument of it benefitting future England players), whether you are supposed to be excited about seeing Stoke City Reserves playing your first team in front of 10% of your usual gate or not.
TBH I am surprised more teams haven't gone the same way as Eastleigh on it, although I will be pretty surprised on the evidence of the early gates whether it survives into a second year. |
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Reply | Radcliffe 2 - Bury 3 3rd round FA cup qualifying
at 12:48 1 Oct 2024
Cheers, appreciate that. I took Mum to Gigg for the first time since 2019 the day after the drive round Rochdale and she was really pleased the flag is still there.
If they've binned it no worries I just won't tell her, but I know she would be chuffed to know he's still remembered by his Rochdale mates too. |
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Reply | Radcliffe 2 - Bury 3 3rd round FA cup qualifying
at 11:02 1 Oct 2024
Yeah, would have been a bellend fest had we have drawn each other. Someone just questioned whether it would have been on our site, can only assume they missed our play off final in May. And I'm sure you've got your fare share too, I can recall meeting a few down the years.
Your last para is basically spot on - there is a good atmosphere and a laugh to be had between those with a sense of perspective on both sides. But on the other hand you're right about tedious crowdt**ttery on our side and at the same time coming the other way I can live without chants glorifying Steve Dale or our expulsion from the league as if you didn't nearly go bust too earlier this year.
And football is just a nicer watch without the massed lines of Police tbh.
As it happens, I drove past the Cemetery for the first time in genuinely years a couple of weeks ago, as I was taking Mum to the cinema. She asked whether you still have the trophy. I had assumed it was lost to the mists of time, but thought I was worth asking. Told her I've no idea. Still think we are at least 5 years from competing for it again. |
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Reply | Radcliffe 2 - Bury 3 3rd round FA cup qualifying
at 12:47 30 Sep 2024
To be fair mate we celebrated beating a team 3 divisions above us, like anyone would.
We've also now won as many FA Cup ties this season as we did in the entire 1990s, all of them away against higher division opposition, all except Garforth ones with extra subplots to it. It is legit for us to be happy about it.
Given half the potential opponents for the next round are professional teams, and we aren't, I'd be surprised if it went any further but we will enjoy it for what it was.
Would rather not draw Dale as I think it would draw out the obnoxious members of both fanbases (though quite a few of ours left and satisfyingly had to watch their new club vacate the FA Cup on Saturday - another reason why it was such fun), plus you would win handsomely, and wish you well with whoever you draw.
Hopefully we both get something winnable at home. |
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Reply | Blyth Spartans 0 - 3 Bury FA Cup 2nd round qualifying
at 12:08 18 Sep 2024
You know the funny thing though mate - we played Blyth 29 years ago and lost in the First Round. Had we won that I wouldn't have been that arsed, I'd barely remember it as I don't remember much about FA Cup wins over Witton Albion or Workington. Conversely, with all that is happened it felt immense to beat them on Saturday, 3-0 away win to a team 2 divisions above, it doesn't happen often. And it offset one of the very few unpleasant memories from the mid 90s.
To be honest none of us are arsed about the disparity between what used to be normal v what feels like an achievement now. I can honestly say I don't miss Tuesday night 0-0 draws with Shrewsbury. It is what it is, wouldn't have chosen stuff to pan out as it did, but most of us would recognise this is what starting again looks like. |
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Reply | Southgate resigns
at 09:44 17 Jul 2024
Not sure the FA can really please everyone to be honest.
Personally I don't get why they have to be English - appealing to that brought in McClaren and Hodgson, who were both disastrous. If they did, I would rather Potter than Howe. Potter can't really be blamed for Chelsea not working, it's been a complete basket case since that idiot took over in the boardroom. And he did get Brighton playing some brilliant football.
Conversely, I have always felt Howe gets a preposterously easy media ride for a guy who has had money everywhere he managed other than Burnley, which was his one failure. And took Newcastle out of the CL as quickly as he took them into it.
Klopp would be great but did make it very clear he wants a break after Liverpool - maybe the answer is let someone like Carsley shepherd us through the first few WC qualifiers to the point Klopp has cleared his head a bit. |
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Reply | tomorrow can't come quick enough
at 15:59 17 Jun 2024
Feels like a necessary evil. It was horrendous playing on a proper swamp last season though.
Ultimately any game where it rained 24 hours before was getting called off. I know last winter was ridiculously rainy but that can happen again and you can't keep seeing your games called off. It's happened the last two years (at Radcliffe and at Gigg), and at least now we could do something about it, which was largely grant funded.
It isn't a plastic pitch like they were at Oldham or Preston in the 90s, I don't think it will change the quality of the football too much. We've played on a fair few this last couple of years after all.
And we won't need grass back any time soon - all being well by the time the lifetime of the pitch expires (8 years apparently) we will be somewhere higher up the pyramid and can reassess. Til then we have a community asset we can make money off Sunday to Friday. |
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Reply | World T20 cup
at 10:57 17 Jun 2024
Got to be honest - not been that impressed with SA so far. With the bat anyway. They had by some distance the easiest group and made very hard work of several games. Be interesting to see what they do now. Can see wins being shared between us, WI and SA and you'd have to assume we all beat the USA.
We have got the weaker group for sure, the one thing nobody knows is which games will be affected by rain. If it is India, then you can safely assume the ICC will decree all future tournaments must be played inside. In India. |
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Reply | tomorrow can't come quick enough
at 10:51 17 Jun 2024
To be honest I'm all for anything that gets the morons that were kicking off at Wythenshawe the hell away from the club.
A small drop in ST sales isn't ideal for this season, but we can afford it and honestly if it means we can actually move on from the tedious distractions of some of the last 12 months it is worth it. The vast majority of Bury fans are sick of the small but noisy hooligan element, indeed we were before Steve Dale ever showed his repugnant face in the place.
3 year bans are pretty strong, but FFS these people continued to act like they did even after the 2 game BCD (which was ridiculous in light of similar issues at other clubs, but that doesn't really matter once it has happened). So either warnings don't work, or they are trying to destroy it for everyone else. The hope with it is that these people finally go away and do something else with their time.
The FTP lot really do just look pathetic now - all they do is congregate on social media and slag off everything, I mean everything, that the board does. It's so bloody boring. There's some moral high ground they think they inhabit. Don't try and unpick the logic, it doesn't exist. |
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Reply | Club Statement. Deal done
at 10:53 16 May 2024
Congrats on the takeover - a million miles easier to trust than that strange American outfit that were sniffing around.
Must have been a very stressful few months since Gauge announced he needed his money back, but you can't fault the credentials of the Ogdens nor the fact they have set out realistic goals from the start. Although next year's National League looks weaker than the 2023/24 version.
Best of luck with it. |
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Reply | tomorrow can't come quick enough
at 12:25 19 Feb 2024
Saturday was eventful, and I don't think I have had more "WTF" messages from mates about BFC since 2019 than I did when that Twitter request for space on a flight went out. Possibly the most I have winced at a BFC Tweet since Steve Dale had the club's Twitter password.
Not a lot we could do about the initial flight (apparently IOM underwrite away teams going there so everyone flies on the morning of the game), but thereafter it got pretty weird all afternoon culminating in IOM accusing us of never wanting to play the game and our manager putting out a surprisingly well argued rebuttal and enhancing his own popularity significantly.
Ultimately we are a volunteer run club these days, and everything about the experience was new. Still, we managed to get everyone there and get it played against the backdrop of this morning's announcement that we are installing a 3G pitch over the summer.
Ended up winning 2-0 yesterday morning in front of about 80% of the people who had gone to IOM in the first place and went back top of the NWCL. And the IOM referred to us as "Bury AFC" throughout, which annoyed all the right people. |
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Reply | tomorrow can't come quick enough
at 13:49 29 Jan 2024
I suspect the issue is that the cretins from Saturday can be identified but there are clearly more cretins at play - the comments on the club's FB post certainly suggest that the right to act like a knob has quite a bit of support.
And TBH given where we are with various authorities at present the club has to look like it's doing something. Although when we only open one side of the ground properly, the instruction to the players is a bit ridiculous, and will presumably get ignored.
Also drinking during the game at Gigg goes all the way back to July 2023. Most people have lived without it before - I'd suggest the club suspend it for now and bring it back for the last couple of games. |
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Reply | tomorrow can't come quick enough
at 13:15 29 Jan 2024
How do? Had a feeling this would have piqued some interest over here so thought I'd put a perspective from our side of Heywood.
Reality is we have a small, but consistent and persistent group of cretins (which will be no surprise to you) who have discovered you can spend the afternoon getting leathered relatively cheaply at NWCL level football.
Probably the second best thing about vacating the Football League (after not having to care about what the EFL itself does or says - I hope you're enjoying that one too) was getting rid of pathetic testosterone, tribal BS that so often infects live football - most of us now are enjoying the surprise luxury of having our ground back, and meeting the decent folk you find at non league clubs we'd never met before. It's largely just nice being at games. Sadly we have still got a spare bank of turds that seem to believe football is the justification for being as obnoxious as humanly possible.
Blows my mind anyone is self-indulgent enough to run on the pitch when we are in the middle of appealing a two game stadium ban (which is hugely disproportionate when you think nothing like that will happen to WBA, or Port Vale, or Sheff Weds in the last fortnight alone but surely going to get upheld now), but there we are. Further blows my mind that some people are piling on the club for doing the only thing left open to it and banning the sale of beers during the game. |
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Reply | Lets all laugh at dale
at 10:29 27 Apr 2023
No apology necessary, I assume relegation from the League is a pretty horrendous reality to face - although less so than it used to be now the gap between L2 and the NL is basically non existent. I wouldn't know, we took a rather more direct route out of the Football League of course.
Which, as a side bar, POs me significantly itself. We achieved a decent amount in 120 years in the league or whatever it was - 3 divisional titles, many promotions including back to back ones in the 90s, 1000 goals in all 4 divisions and there is only one thing we are being remembered for now which, aside of anything else, required us being singled out in a way the EFL have contorted themselves not to do to anyone else. Derby.
I'm sorry for your cousin's experience (I'm assuming they are a Bury fan) but honestly it has got toxic AF around the very existence of AFC, which continues to baffle me tbh. A good mate of mine described AFC as "watching football that looks a bit like Bury but surrounded by all the people you liked sharing Gigg with, without the obnoxious p***heads". Couldn't agree more. I desperately want the merger to go through as it is the only way it won't feel like Steve Dale has in any way won, but the hideous between the groups isn't going away if we go back to Gigg.
Quite honestly fixture list day is going to be hard for you lot next season, and there are a thousand little rhythms of your footballing life which will uncomfortably change - you aren't in two cups anymore, the FA Cup is going to start 3 weeks earlier, you will have some depressing sounding opponents who bring nobody to Spotland. But honestly you get used to it all quickly - I assure you anything is better than the 2019/20 season of a big blank nothing we went through. And tbh there looks like a decent attitude towards life in the NL on here. |
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Reply | Lets all laugh at dale
at 15:02 26 Apr 2023
Hi Kel
Your post was pointed out to me, and after reading it I decided to go back and look at my contribution to the thread on the Bury board, which is I assume what you mean. To my personal disappointment you are right - I was, to put it bluntly, being a bellend.
I can only apologise, whether to you or any of your other Rochdale brethren who have come to the same understandable conclusion.
I was greatly saddened at the need to walk away from this Forum (which was once a fantastic place to chat football, music and other bits of life in a great spirit with fans from lots of clubs) when I did in 2019, as it regrettably became impossible to be a Bury fan on here anymore.
I am sure Dale fans have had the same experience on Bury forums, and I genuinely regret posting the embittered nonsense I have that has clearly annoyed some of those of you on here who were, as you allude to, very supportive at what was a very difficult time.
If it is any consolation at this rough time for Rochdale, at least your fanbase(s) aren't about to vote a second time to not let the only viable footballing option use your own ground. |
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Reply | Cardiff v Chelsea
at 13:53 1 Apr 2019
Whilst Colin is right about the decisions in their game yesterday, both of which were terrible, it is worth noticing:
1. If Cardiff had made any attempt to score a 2nd at any stage they may have killed the game off earlier (as opposed to doing what every Warnock team does when they go 1-0 up) and
2. Wasn't the officials that left Ruben Loftus-Cheek on his own in the area in the 91st minute. |
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Reply | Gordon Taylor
at 14:17 28 Mar 2019
Trade union leaders invariably are, and he has the luxury of a pretty cash rich membership.
However, I still strongly suspect footballers are better looked after when they need it than ever before and he has to take some of the credit for that. |
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Reply | Gordon Taylor
at 11:16 28 Mar 2019
Got to agree, he's been an excellent union leader.
His job isn't to make football fair, nor to make people like him, it's to look after the interests of professional footballers. Even at L1 / L2 level the life of a footballer is clearly better, more permanent and well-rewarded than it was when he took over at the PFA. |
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