There are fixture changes planned for february - namely a kind of compromise 'winter break'. This means that on the weekend of 8th/9th there are only 4 Premiership matches. The same is true for the weekend of 15th/16th. I do not want to reduce the number of rounds in the WPL in order to accomodate this - because in January we only have 2 rounds anyway (because of the FA Cup). So for both of these weekends I will be offering a 'full round' of the full ten fixtures. This means dipping into other leagues for the other 6. This could be Championship fixtures, or even lower - or could involve the other European Leagues as well. So that I do not have to make blind choices it would be great to have feedback on which teams/leagues posters are most interested in outside of the Premiership - otherwise we could end up with games like Taunton v Salisbury - Ajax v Waalwijk or Gladbach v Köln which are of interest only to myself
For reasons too complicated to go into, I always look out for the results for Forest Green Rovers, Division 2, and Halifax, Conference.
Cheers Frenchie - actually Halifax are at Boreham Wood on one of those weekends, which also has a local interest for some.
Swansea, Cardiff, Exeter, Wealdstone, absolutely nothing Scottish. What about Luton? OK I will accept my ban from the forum for 24 hours.....
Cologne, at the start of the season you said that you were going to give us Porlock Reserves v Nether Stowey. I hope that I haven't been following those two teams all season for nothing. Porlock Reserves v Nether Stowey 1-2 Nether Stowey look a good bet for promotion, whilst Porlock Reserves are second to bottom.
I'm seriously thinking about this NZ It should be said that the Porlock first team are semi professionals in that they get a free pint in the Ship Inn after games - or at least they did when I lived there all those years ago. They actually won the league once but couldn't go up because they didn't have a separate changing room for the ref - thus not having the infrastructure for the county league. How life can be different in the lower leagues !
Can we have Stoke Port Vale, crewe & Macclesfield please ? ( guess who lives in south cheshire). Oh, and hearts & forfar. guess who used to go on holiday in Scotland ?
Bodbo, where do you live in Cheshire ? I studied at, what was then, Crewe + Alsager College of Higher Ed. between 1976 and 1978. Later became part of Manchester Metropolitan University I believe.
I live in congleton. Are any of you members of the NW group ,oganised by Pete goddard - great to have a group who know each other at/before away games in the NW. I travel down to home games (long distance season ticket - cheap! when added to age allowance ) by train.. That explains why I rail (hah hah ha) against the fixture changes to Monday nights, Sunday evenings. I use to play hockey for Alsager. If we had a big game (Cheshire cup) we would hire the billiard table of a hockey pitch at the college. What a joy to play on it ! usually we played on a adjacent school pitch -which was a challenge. One of our older players was a lovely man called John Cope, who was (I think) head of sport at the college. The college has closed now - sold for new houses I think. A separate part on the outskirts of crewe still operates I think. It was all 'friendly' matches in those days, apart from the cup. Leagues (and all weather pitches) wrecked the game for me. There were so few allweather pitches that wr had to travle miles from the clubhouse, or play at 1200 or 1800. All the social side went. Then the competitiveness meant that if the other side went a goal up, they would do everything to stop you scoring - sometimes it was quite unpleasant. I suppose the league system has improved the standard.
