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Post by figo on Oct 21, 2014 17:04:32 GMT 1
I once played in a game in Barnsley abandoned due to high winds Our keeper took a dead ball kick into the wind and we ended up fetching it from half a mile behind him!!
Hope we play tonight, but hope the weather doesn't make it a lottery either!
FIGO
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Post by galpharm2400 on Oct 21, 2014 17:11:03 GMT 1
makes it a lottery for both sides..who copes best.. sick of hearing 'experts' talk about the conditions that affect highly paid players..get on with it, adapt and overcome..
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Post by lochnessterrier on Oct 21, 2014 17:29:50 GMT 1
What's the weather like just now? Wild as feck up here!
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Post by galpharm2400 on Oct 21, 2014 17:33:10 GMT 1
calmed down a lot and im only a couple of miles or so from the ground..
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Post by terrier13 on Oct 21, 2014 17:37:05 GMT 1
Keep the ball on the floor and keep the tempo up. There shouldn't be a reason why it affects us too much aside from goal kicks.
Shoot on sight!!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 17:45:17 GMT 1
i once got blown off on a building site, due to the wind
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Post by elindalo on Oct 21, 2014 17:54:11 GMT 1
About 50 years ago I played (in goal) on a steep hillside in Elland (against Elland United, I think). There was a terrible gale and freezing rain. They were the better side and were 2 up at half time, after playing uphill. Things got so wild in the second half that two or three of our side just buggered off and went for shelter and it seemed like me against Elland United. We lost 16-0.
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Post by SaudiTerrier on Oct 21, 2014 18:09:30 GMT 1
Smithies to score from a goal kick. Mother nature gets the assist.
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Post by Stewpot on Oct 21, 2014 19:57:33 GMT 1
The worst conditions I recall was a home game v Millwall back in the 60`s. Rain blowing sideways from the off, we lost 0-2, and I still remember the goalscorers - Derek Possee and Keith Weller.
They even let the Millwall supporters take shelter in the main terrace, too hypothermic to cause any bother.
Be guarded about writing off the Southern Softies !
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Post by mykindatown on Oct 21, 2014 20:27:43 GMT 1
I used to play up at Scape - there were summer up if the weather conditions didn't impact at least 50% of the goals
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Post by Tinpot on Oct 21, 2014 22:01:44 GMT 1
i once got blown off on a building site, due to the wind I once blew off whilst I was being blown off. That was also due to wind.
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Post by hypotenuse on Oct 21, 2014 22:11:16 GMT 1
Can remember two games in the 70s each of which we lost 1-0 Exeter home in a snowstorm and an incredible game at Port Vale on New Years Day in a ferocious blizzard. Only 3 games finished that day in the whole country and Alan Starling in Town's goal couldn't see anything and didn't realise immediately that Vale had scored.
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Post by walkdenterrier on Oct 21, 2014 22:55:45 GMT 1
Can remember two games in the 70s each of which we lost 1-0 Exeter home in a snowstorm and an incredible game at Port Vale on New Years Day in a ferocious blizzard. Only 3 games finished that day in the whole country and Alan Starling in Town's goal couldn't see anything and didn't realise immediately that Vale had scored. I was at Port Vale that day and didn't know Port Vale had scored. I seem to remember that the Town Fans were at the opposite end of the ground, on an open terrace, being turned into brass monkeys.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Oct 21, 2014 23:13:45 GMT 1
i once got blown off on a building site, due to the wind A Freudian slip or are you into hairy-arsed builders? Please dont say you were pipe-laying
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Post by Torquayterrier on Oct 22, 2014 17:27:48 GMT 1
There must be others on here that were at the away game at Sixfields ten or so seasons back when the wind got so bad it brought an advertising hoarding off the front of the away end roof (narrowly missed first couple of rows of Town fans)then started blowing over the ones round the edges of the pitch. Match abandoned at half time. IIRC we were losing 1-0 but went on to win the rematch!
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Post by ram on Oct 23, 2014 10:47:42 GMT 1
Wind blew the Denis Law Floodlight pylons down..£50 grand down the drain
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