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Post by simesy on Aug 16, 2017 15:07:23 GMT
It's very late notification and was only released by the club this morning, but there will be two double-decker buses (run by Ridley's) from Leamington railway station to the ground at a cost of £2 return. Regrettably the news has been released so quickly that no timings were put up to go with it. Latest news should be updated at www.leamingtonfc.co.uk today and onwards.
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Post by gazz on Aug 16, 2017 15:53:10 GMT
Thanks for the info, mate - much appreciated.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Aug 16, 2017 17:30:56 GMT
Seconded - many thanks, simesy. I the hope that you are happy for me to do so, I am moving this to our 'Match Threads' section - and, indeed, converting it to the actual match thread for Saturday. The information should then reach a wider audience as the weekend approaches.
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Post by hermannsays on Aug 16, 2017 18:37:11 GMT
As with Spennymoor and Harrogate, it looks like they'll play a more 'standard' shape with a big #9 and wide pace in their #7 and #11. As such, we may well see the return a back 4 from the off in this one as that's what we've had to change to at HT/35 mins respectively in those other games.
JG aired his frustration with Winter's fouling after the Salford match. Having picked up 2 cautions, been involved with a 'head-to-head' against Curzon and then conceded the FK from which Salford got their opener, it wouldn't really surprise me to see Winter left out soon given how strict JG is on this aspect of play. With Walker on the bench, there's an alternative who can add the left-side balance to central midfield and take our left-foot set-pieces from which he got at least 3 pre-season assists. I know some are saying he's being left out because he's not fit enough but I'm slightly baffled by this given CMW started our first 6 games last season when he must have been 2 stones overweight!
A game we should win and I fancy us to do so by a couple of goals margin.
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Post by simesy on Aug 17, 2017 8:44:38 GMT
Full details are now on the Leamington website however for ease of clickage:
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Aug 17, 2017 9:05:25 GMT
Very helpful info. Cheers, simesy!
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Post by simesy on Aug 17, 2017 10:24:56 GMT
How many do you anticipate bringing? I know of two definites who live in Warwick/Kenilworth
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Aug 17, 2017 11:12:06 GMT
I would hazard a guess at between 300 and 400 - or, given your information, 302 and 402! Difficult to predict with great accuracy, as we are in the summer-holiday period. But, hopefully, you (and, indeed, we) shall see a decent turnout that will keep your rather excellent club-bar busy!
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Aug 17, 2017 11:19:24 GMT
Now then, while I'm on here, time for my preview-piece for COWS... A little nervous about posting this one, as we have a Heavenly 'Brake' in our midst! But, hopefully, simesy will feel that I have portrayed his club in a good, as well as accurate, light (and, if so, that he will tell his friends )! Happy reading: ***************************************************************************************************** TAKE FIVE… LeamingtonBy Hatter in Macc1. So, next up: Leamington away. A rather more southerly jaunt, then!Certainly compared with our trips so far - up to Spennymoor and up (a bit) to Salford - yes. Indeed, Leamington, who have returned to the National League North, via the Evo-Stik League South play-offs, after a two-year absence, now find themselves to be the second-southernmost club among us, after Brackley. (Last time around, mind, they were only the fourth - although, of course, Gloucester and Oxford City have since moved sideways to ply their National League trade below the Watford Gap.) 2. As we’re on the road, we’ll be wanting to test ‘the Brakes’, eh?!Oh, very droll. But as good a cue as any for picking up on our hosts’ unusual nickname, which originates from the Lockheed/Borg and Beck brake manufacturing company works team that began playing in local leagues from 1933 - before being re-named Lockheed Leamington in 1947, and, in 1973, AP Leamington, after Lockheed became the Automotive Products Group. By that time, the ‘Brakes’ had… erm, accelerated up through the Birmingham and wider Midlands league network to take their place in the Southern League. And from 1979, they became founder members of, and remained for three seasons in, the Alliance Premier League - the National League, in today’s money. The club has been known simply as Leamington since 1985, and spent the period from 1988 to 2000 in hibernation, albeit technically in existence, after its original Windmill Ground - situated on Tachbrook Road, adjacent to the AP factory (which itself is now a business park) - was sold for housing. The current New Windmill Ground - situated along a country lane in Whitnash, three miles from Leamington Spa - was constructed on land bought by supporters during the club’s dozen years of footballing inactivity. 3. Right, them’s the Brakes (arf). What’s with the Windmills?Glad you asked. The original Windmill Ground stood where a windmill had once been, as well as by the Windmill pub which is still there today - and can be seen en route, if you take one of the the match-day double-deckers to Whitnash on Saturday. The ground was first used by a forerunner club, Leamington Town, which folded for financial reasons in 1937, and was sold off to Coventry City for ‘A’ team matches - although came back into more local use when the Lockheed team purchased it after World War Two. By contrast, the New Windmill, as well as being named in tribute to its predecessor, happens to be overlooked by the Chesterton Windmill that was last used in 1910. Be aware, though, that since the Hatters last played there - when, by coincidence, Chris Churchman netted a breeze-assisted 25-yard swirler! - the ground has become one of a number in the NLN carrying a sponsor’s title… in Leamington’s case, from 2015, the Phillips 66 Community Stadium. 4. County and Leamington have trod very different paths until recently. Surely, no-one has played for both clubs?You would have thought so - but, in fact, there is such a player! Step forward, Simon Travis, ‘The Man Who’ (see what I did there) played for the Hatters on an occasional basis during our early adventures in today’s equivalent of the Championship between 1997 and 1999. The right-sighted midfielder, who turned out a handful of times for Leamington a decade later, is perhaps best remembered for scoring a Boxing Day brace at Edgeley Park in the course of a three-goal hammering of Port Vale, with over 10,000 in attendance. Heady days… sigh. 5. You’re getting maudlin. Time for a beer?Well, the New Windmill’s the place to be. The club sells a bespoke, and very tasty, bottled real ale, ‘Brakes Fluid’, brewed specifically to commemorate Leamington’s FA Cup run, as a ninth-level Midland Alliance outfit, to the First Round proper in 2005. Hopefully, we shall have a couple of bottles in our ‘clutches’, and clinking to celebrate some first away-points for County, come 5pm!
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Post by simesy on Aug 17, 2017 14:04:15 GMT
Pretty bloody accurate to be fair. No sure if we have any Brakes Fluid at present. The last time I asked for some the delivery was delayed/in question. Looking forward to your visit. I feel it necessary to tell you that the stewards will not allow a drum if they stick to the rules they were using when Southport visited last week.
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Post by simesy on Aug 17, 2017 14:07:46 GMT
The two I know who already live down here are ST holders Mr Griffith and his son who sit about half-a-dozen rows in front of where the drummer is in your one stand.
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Post by ceefer on Aug 17, 2017 14:11:20 GMT
Strange no drum... any reason why Simesy?
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Post by simesy on Aug 17, 2017 14:35:22 GMT
The rule for 'no drum' (personally I can't stand the bloody things anyway) is down to continuous complaints from a witch who owns a neighbouring farmhouse and, like many women, moans at the earliest opportunity - tannoy, crowd noise, drums etc. When we first tested our tannoy for noise levels she said she couldn't hear it but she'd "Have to turn her pool filter off 'to make sure'" You won't need a drum because you can sing instead. I realise there's been little to sing about in the last 7 years (apart from your father's scarf), but hey ho! About a decade or so ago you faced Manchester City in the Championship... now it's Leamington in the Conference North. Sorry to rub it in...
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Post by ceefer on Aug 17, 2017 15:04:36 GMT
The rule for 'no drum' (personally I can't stand the bloody things anyway) is down to continuous complaints from a witch who owns a neighbouring farmhouse and, like many women, moans at the earliest opportunity - tannoy, crowd noise, drums etc. When we first tested our tannoy for noise levels she said she couldn't hear it but she'd "Have to turn her pool filter off 'to make sure'" You won't need a drum because you can sing instead. I realise there's been little to sing about in the last 7 years (apart from your father's scarf), but hey ho! About a decade or so ago you faced Manchester City in the Championship... now it's Leamington in the Conference North. Sorry to rub it in... No worries mate I'll bring my trumpet... It was good to see one of your directors manning the turnstile last year ... a character and was very welcoming. We plan to be outta here asap...so could be our last matches this season...errr I hope.....
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Post by ceefer on Aug 17, 2017 15:16:35 GMT
Simesy who do we need to watch out for Saturday? ...I think Stefan Moore is playing?
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