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Northwich v Wovers: 20th March 2021

Barmitzvah Boy

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Sadly / gladly (please delete as appropriate) I will not be able to watch this game on Saturday due to a prior engagement. That will be £10 saved and I will have the pleasure of ‘Blue’ Kate’s company in a well known car park close to Pennington Flash. If you get there for 3:15pm you should get a cracking photograph.

Apart from being top of the Championship Northwich play in a sickly colour combination of yellow and green, or limes and lemons as their owner and kitchen skivvy Delia Smith likes to refer to. These colours mean much more to me and our fellow MB member Rovers95 🥸

My alma mater was Wellfield Special School in Leyland, a school specialising in hard knocks and dumb teachers. If kids think it is hard today were they ever beaten with rulers or hung upside down from the school railings whist being pelted with rubbish? Our school tie was a fine shade of lime and lemons but only for a couple of weeks of the first term. After a few good dollops of semolina and jam, sponge and brown custard, being set on fire with a Bunsen Burner by Rovers95, and being used to tie a snotty kid to the railings it soon being a fine colour of septic tank sludge brown (‘Sludge Brown’ a new colour by Crown - they do a scratch and sniff version as well....beautiful and atmospheric).

THE OLD SCHOOL TIE
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School was a fun place and geography field trips were the best with us often using it as an excuse to have a couple of bottles of home brew on the back seat and then fight over Julie M******on for a snog. I wonder why 😌😊😜🥰

JULIE M
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I recall with affection times like the school disco and the class photograph day. At the disco the girls wanted Donny Osmond and we wanted Slade. If I had been a bit more mature I would have ‘connected’ with the fairer sex by expressing my love for ‘Puppy Love’ and learning all the words but instead I opted for ‘Cum on Feel the Noize’.

THE ALTERNATIVE NAUGHTY BOYS SCHOOL PHOTO
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THE WELLFIELD SCHOOL PRANCE
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SLADE oi oi oi oi
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I do recall going all the way to Northwich to watch Rovers then realised I should have been at Norwich in Norfolk rather than Northwich in Cheshire. Don’t worry, I will not get them mixed up again 🤪

Norwich have a couple of famous fans. Firstly of course there is the culinary goddess Delia Smith. Delia is far from being a frump albeit she has had few challenges recently with her chain of sit-in chippies having to close due to Covid. She has however diversified and has recently started to model ‘battery powered objects’ for Ann Summers; here is an image of the cheeky mare practising pre match and on the pitch as well....tut tut.

DELIA AT WORK
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Another famous fan of course is Stephen Fry. I did not think his image would be of interest so here instead is one of his housekeeper picking up crumbs off the floor.
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I believe that Mowbray will have a trick up his sleeve for this game and may pull off a surprise result. I hear on the Ewood grapevine that he is thinking of smuggling on a 12th player hoping no one will notice. Mind you if he played a team of 15 it probably would not make any difference. I am going for a 2-0 shock win for Rovers with Armstrong scoring all three of our goals.

I told our Kate about the Wellfield experience and how we used to make use of the bike sheds after school. She is really interested in the retro experience and readily offered for me to cover her breasts in chocolate blancmange as long as I wear my Doc Martin’s whilst we are entwined. She was very very naughty and turned up in yellow dress and green smalls. I was not impressed and told her to apply the blancmange herself. Luckily she apologised and also had time to predict a 2-2 draw.

‘BLUE’ KATE in yellow 😩
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Enjoy the game....thankfully the season will soon be over.

Finally did you ever hear the story about Charlie Polanski and the Fokker-Wolfs 🤣🤣🤣. Please forward this clip to Ursula Von Trappe at the European Commission.
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Alan

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I want to forecast a Rovers win but for once in my life I have to be sensible and forecast a 2 - 0 win for Norwich.
 

CLW-BRFC

Senior Member
If it is against Northwich I will be really optimistic and go for a 0-0. If we end up at Norwich, it will be 3-1 to the team in horrible yellow.
 

Drog

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I watched Norwich despatch Nottm Forest last night and there football is no difference to the Rovers play EXCEPT the tempo is much faster. As I've said many times our 2/3 touch football needs to be more 1/2 touch and off the front foot for the passing play to work best. Maybe the Ewood pitch is partly to blame (I noticed that although not waterlogged last night and with a better covering of grass that there was still a tendency for it to be bobbly) and I'd imagine there will be a better playing surface at Norwich.
btw imo the same issues have been in evidence at Man City earlier in the season and also at Liverpool of late.
 
I don't buy blaming the pitch. The playing surfaces, Liverpool and Leeds were great footballing sides in the 1970's and boggy playing pitches didn't stop them. The Baseball Ground's pitch was a cabbage patch wasn't it when Derby won the League? Our pitch isn't perfect but it's nowhere near as bad as most pitches those great teams managed to win the League on. Oh, and none of our current lot are fit to tie the boot laces of those League winners in the 1970's.
 

Drog

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It was a different professional game back then slks. Much tougher for a start and where physical strength was more important than 1st touch and pace which are now the first requisites of professional players. Today's pros are built like whippets. Certainly 'maestros in the middle' like tugay would have been far less effective than more robust and less skilful players. In mid winter balls used to trap themselves! As an example I have to say that I never saw textbook headers headed down toward the line ever bounce over the bar like they can now. Knock it down the line past a defender and he'd no chance of turning. Worst thing of all ..... I'd have had to play rugby now!:worried:
 

Wilpshire Blue

Senior Member
The pitch could have a slight bearing on things but let's remember, we've been equally as crap away from home, so I'm guessing the pitch isn't too much of a factor.
 

Drog

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Pitch only helps if we raise the tempo of our play. A good pitch will allow 1 and 2 touch passing but only if a team is tuned in to that.
 

steve w

Senior Member
Maybe we notice our ricks and not our oppositions?
Both Douglas and Kaminski's serious errors were down to bobbles on Weds although once he had retrieved the situation TK should have cleared to the stands - but maybe it bobbled again?
 

Husky

Senior Member
gladly (please delete as appropriate) I will not be able to watch this game on Saturday due to a prior engagement. That will be £10 saved and I will have the pleasure of ‘Blue’ Kate’s company in a well known car park close to Pennington Flash. If you get there for 3:15pm you should get a cracking photograph.




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Lucky you, AND lucky me as I will also be joining you. Now the warmer weather is here particularly I have much better things to do on Saturday afternoons. I´m off for beer, lunch and live music again.
I have already given up on the season and only watched the last 2 games as they were on Friday and Wednesday evenings.

I´m actually more bothered that I´ll be missing the India v England T20 decider (especially as England seem to lose when I don´t watch).

In case I don´t get on here tomorrow I´ll make my prediction now. Though often Rovers pull out a win when I don´t watch I can´t see us doing much unless we get some early dramatic refereeing decision go for us, so I´ll go for 3-1 to The Champions (i.e. - not us, lol).
 
Agree with the above, 3-1 likely, but there's no pressure on us and Nahrich are free and clear of this league already.
I'm in a similar position to Rovers in the Predictions League, so I'll just give it a right go for today: 2-2.
 

Old Darwen Blue

Prediction Champion 2021, 2022 & 2023
I’m afraid my days of being the optimist have passed so 2-0 to Norwich. Come on Rovers prove me wrong.

COYB
 

OnlyOneTugay

Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
Shock result of the day

Norwich 1

The Famous Blue and White Halves 2

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