Years ago, this was never a problem.
I have no idea how it's come to this. There again, It's hard to feel even a morsel of sympathy for the players..
When lots of fans are on minimum wages & very unsociable hours, & pay quite a high percentage of that low income in admissions to games.....
only to watch over paid prima donas in effect taking the 'peace'...
regardless. 7 games in 21 days is an unnecessary backlog...
& I can't help mention again, those 14 games Halifax had to play in 31 days at the end of last season..
absolute madness.
Yeah but you can't call what hallifax play real football .let's be honest .
Hey Darn...what about the old days...Easter Saturday, Monday and Tuesday games.....obviously the lads were fitter in them days...
Flippin' 'eckers like Jacko....
Easter Monday & Tuesday yeah...but they didn't play both days, It was one or the other.
hands up all those who used to get Chats off the 'Jeepoz' at the fair at Easter ! 3d & for that you could get a toffee apple, a bag of brandy snap, Chats, Candy floss, shoot tin sambo's, fish for a plazzy duck,
& chuck three darts at playing cards stuck on a steel sheet
oh how we laughed.
oh ! & it were only 2bob to watch Cattlin, Parkin, Nicholson, Dobson etc etc.....
They'd run Robins lot ragged.... & they all had a tweft of a woodbine at half time.
days.
http://www.statto.com/football/teams/huddersfield-town/1963-1964/results
check this out Darn...28th, 30th and 31st March...
3/1 for a Huddersfield win on Tuesday, excellent value providing you play a strong side. Keep the confidence high, plus another option open to have some success this season.
There's also a 2 week break in November, no idea why, no FA Cup or qualifiers, anyone know?
Internationals...World cup group qualifying games
Hydy....
What's a chat ! Chats are what they called the fried new potatoes that they served up at that time of year !
They were too small to be cut up into 'chips', so they halved them, chucked 'em in the deep fat fryer ..& served 'em up instead of chips...
Jacko - being a lot older than me - will know more about this than me..so if he could confirm that would be good ! I think it was because the small new 'tatties' were the 1st early crop of the season, & used as such..
everybody I knew called 'em 'Chats' anyway.
For anyone interested, I've stuck a Kidderminster v Fax match thread up...so it's open to abuse, contemplation or comedy maybe even ridicule...
Bienvenido
I had a look at that link Jacko
interesting reading..we had a sheet start to the season eh !
Rotherham
Boro &
Boro in 4 days That would have been for postponements due to the heavy snow that winter.......
wouldn't it
One things for sure. I bet there wasn't a blade of grass anywhere on that Leeds Rd field at that time of the season ....... A BLACK pitch with white lines .
nice try Darn...
Our 1970 promotion season was the last time we played 3 games in 4 days over Easter...link here --
http://www.statto.com/football/teams/huddersfield-town/1969-1970/results
The only grass on the pitch was by the corner flags and on the wings...otherwise it was 'baked earth'...can you imagine our Prem players trying to play footy on that surface nowadays...they'd have knee and elbow pads.... but maybe it would stop them throwing themselves to the floor every 2 minutes
Towards the end of the season when the drier weather came along you used to get the occasional 'dust storm' blowing around the pitch with the odd 'whirlwind' twisting it's way around the players...
them we'rt days lad...
Cheers darn
I'll ask my mum and dad
Did/do you call a slice of potato fried in batter a scallop or a callop?
Callops in our house ?
No idea which is 'right' which is 'wrong'
you !...........
AH The PROMOTION season Jacko remember it well..
very well.
Not 100% sure, But I think that out last game against Watford ..when we were crowned Champs' 7 points clear (When it was 2 points for a win) & only 16,000+ turned out .....
That wasn't that flash really was it.
Stuart Scullion for Watford...right bang in front of me in the Bradley mills end !
What a night
Ha ha ha ha .....
memory
"remember it well..
very well."
There was in fact 27,800 !
The highest gate at home that season was v United = 30,907 (I DO remember that game )
2-1 ...back of the Cowshed, green (fake) Slazenger
lowest home gate 10,200 v Bristol City.
Old fogies call em callops, Young uns scallops
Bits or scraps?
seems a lack of Tuesday night games this season??
I think that was to do with the financial situation and not wanting too many midweek away trips for fans???
That would be..'an a bag-o bits thanks'
scraps are what you had after scuwil
chips and bits...and if you were lucky, your 'bits' included a fair few lumps of fish.... 9d for fish, 3d for chips...(that's 5p in you young 'uns money)...all wrapped up in the Sunday papers...
Yep Defo bits
Loads of vinegar, then breath in the fumes, and blow ya lungs out of your chest
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posted on 22/9/13
Years ago, this was never a problem.
I have no idea how it's come to this. There again, It's hard to feel even a morsel of sympathy for the players..
When lots of fans are on minimum wages & very unsociable hours, & pay quite a high percentage of that low income in admissions to games.....
only to watch over paid prima donas in effect taking the 'peace'...
regardless. 7 games in 21 days is an unnecessary backlog...
& I can't help mention again, those 14 games Halifax had to play in 31 days at the end of last season..
absolute madness.
posted on 22/9/13
Yeah but you can't call what hallifax play real football .let's be honest .
posted on 22/9/13
Hey Darn...what about the old days...Easter Saturday, Monday and Tuesday games.....obviously the lads were fitter in them days...
posted on 22/9/13
Flippin' 'eckers like Jacko....
Easter Monday & Tuesday yeah...but they didn't play both days, It was one or the other.
hands up all those who used to get Chats off the 'Jeepoz' at the fair at Easter ! 3d & for that you could get a toffee apple, a bag of brandy snap, Chats, Candy floss, shoot tin sambo's, fish for a plazzy duck,
& chuck three darts at playing cards stuck on a steel sheet
oh how we laughed.
posted on 22/9/13
oh ! & it were only 2bob to watch Cattlin, Parkin, Nicholson, Dobson etc etc.....
They'd run Robins lot ragged.... & they all had a tweft of a woodbine at half time.
days.
posted on 22/9/13
http://www.statto.com/football/teams/huddersfield-town/1963-1964/results
check this out Darn...28th, 30th and 31st March...
posted on 22/9/13
What's a chat?
posted on 22/9/13
3/1 for a Huddersfield win on Tuesday, excellent value providing you play a strong side. Keep the confidence high, plus another option open to have some success this season.
posted on 22/9/13
There's also a 2 week break in November, no idea why, no FA Cup or qualifiers, anyone know?
posted on 22/9/13
Internationals...World cup group qualifying games
posted on 22/9/13
The play offs.
posted on 23/9/13
Hydy....
What's a chat ! Chats are what they called the fried new potatoes that they served up at that time of year !
They were too small to be cut up into 'chips', so they halved them, chucked 'em in the deep fat fryer ..& served 'em up instead of chips...
Jacko - being a lot older than me - will know more about this than me..so if he could confirm that would be good ! I think it was because the small new 'tatties' were the 1st early crop of the season, & used as such..
everybody I knew called 'em 'Chats' anyway.
For anyone interested, I've stuck a Kidderminster v Fax match thread up...so it's open to abuse, contemplation or comedy maybe even ridicule...
Bienvenido
posted on 23/9/13
I had a look at that link Jacko
interesting reading..we had a sheet start to the season eh !
Rotherham
Boro &
Boro in 4 days That would have been for postponements due to the heavy snow that winter.......
wouldn't it
One things for sure. I bet there wasn't a blade of grass anywhere on that Leeds Rd field at that time of the season ....... A BLACK pitch with white lines .
posted on 23/9/13
nice try Darn...
Our 1970 promotion season was the last time we played 3 games in 4 days over Easter...link here --
http://www.statto.com/football/teams/huddersfield-town/1969-1970/results
The only grass on the pitch was by the corner flags and on the wings...otherwise it was 'baked earth'...can you imagine our Prem players trying to play footy on that surface nowadays...they'd have knee and elbow pads.... but maybe it would stop them throwing themselves to the floor every 2 minutes
Towards the end of the season when the drier weather came along you used to get the occasional 'dust storm' blowing around the pitch with the odd 'whirlwind' twisting it's way around the players...
them we'rt days lad...
posted on 23/9/13
Cheers darn
I'll ask my mum and dad
Did/do you call a slice of potato fried in batter a scallop or a callop?
posted on 23/9/13
Callops in our house ?
No idea which is 'right' which is 'wrong'
you !...........
posted on 23/9/13
AH The PROMOTION season Jacko remember it well..
very well.
Not 100% sure, But I think that out last game against Watford ..when we were crowned Champs' 7 points clear (When it was 2 points for a win) & only 16,000+ turned out .....
That wasn't that flash really was it.
Stuart Scullion for Watford...right bang in front of me in the Bradley mills end !
What a night
posted on 23/9/13
Ha ha ha ha .....
memory
"remember it well..
very well."
There was in fact 27,800 !
The highest gate at home that season was v United = 30,907 (I DO remember that game )
2-1 ...back of the Cowshed, green (fake) Slazenger
lowest home gate 10,200 v Bristol City.
posted on 23/9/13
Old fogies call em callops, Young uns scallops
Bits or scraps?
posted on 23/9/13
seems a lack of Tuesday night games this season??
I think that was to do with the financial situation and not wanting too many midweek away trips for fans???
posted on 23/9/13
That would be..'an a bag-o bits thanks'
scraps are what you had after scuwil
posted on 23/9/13
chips and bits...and if you were lucky, your 'bits' included a fair few lumps of fish.... 9d for fish, 3d for chips...(that's 5p in you young 'uns money)...all wrapped up in the Sunday papers...
posted on 23/9/13
Yep Defo bits
Loads of vinegar, then breath in the fumes, and blow ya lungs out of your chest
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