1st Matches of 2021-22 Season: 7th August 2021

[Stringy]

That’s as blatant a red as you will ever see.

By the way I haven’t seen it.

55s. It's the clothesline so you should spot it easily.

Can't get video to load on here or post link without adding in spaces.

https ://youtu.be/ wRQcGdEeUmI

 

[Bone Idle]

Mansfield players have been experts at the art of the dying Swan for the last few seasons, although if you think they are bad just wait until you play fucking Newport.

Oi" Oi" Oi" Dont you mean wait till you play walsall? labadie plays for them now, and we are the squeakiest of clean.

 

[Robshep]

it’s very hard to impossible to tempt the Man Utd and city fans to watch a local side.

Curzon have been throwing out as many local deals over the last 4-5 seasons as they could playing at a higher level than they should, but still can only get 200 fans vs some decent ex league sides in an area of 250,000 people.

packing the pubs to watch Utd is still the big thing here.

All of us lunatics who go to watch live football games below the championship should give people who support top clubs from the comfort of a television at home or in a pub the contempt they deserve. We are all at least 100× a supporter than they will ever be.
Getting cold and wet watching crap football and going back again for the next game makes you a football supporter. Having all the latest kit and sitting in front of a 50 inch HD screen in the warm and dry makes you a viewer.
If you never go to an actual game your opinion doesnt matter.

 

[Gassy]

Oi" Oi" Oi" Dont you mean wait till you play walsall? labadie plays for them now, and we are the squeakiest of clean.

One of the benefits of getting relegated was not having to play Ainsworth’s Wycombe this season.

Most frustrating team I’ve ever seen us play

 

[Devon_Lad]

Hmm, let’s look back shall we?

“Christ I’ve just seen the highlights, whilst I agree with it being a penalty, that is never a straight red card. That is one of the worst I’ve ever seen, seriously. And I’d genuinely question anyones mindset who believes that’s a straight red card and nothing for the Mansfield player.”

So not only did I not say “it’s nothing”, I also said it’s one of the worst I’ve seen, not “the worst you’ve ever seen”.

Based on your understanding of the English language and ability to read, it’s no wonder you think it’s a WWE move. Feel free to think it’s a red, but WWE?

You talk about biased, but your judgement possibly the worst I’ve seen. I have admitted it was a penalty and it’s a yellow card. Stringy over here thinks it’s a WWE move - so what can we expect next? 8 game ban for something like that?

You got that help yet?

One thing you'll learn about the L2 section of this forum is that nobody understands the English language on here and what words actually mean.

FWIW, it shouldn't have been a red, clearly.

 

[Robshep]

One thing you'll learn about the L2 section of this forum is that nobody understands the English language on here and what words actually mean.

FWIW, it shouldn't have been a red, clearly.

Sorry, what are you trying to say. Nobody understands it.

 

[AdamStag]

Mansfield players have been experts at the art of the dying Swan for the last few seasons, although if you think they are bad just wait until you play fucking Newport.

We have the newport on saturday. they weren’t too bad last season

 

[Greenacres]

Getting cold and wet watching crap football and going back again for the next game makes you a football supporter. Having all the latest kit and sitting in front of a 50 inch HD screen in the warm and dry makes you a viewer.
If you never go to an actual game your opinion doesnt matter.

Agree totally, I once tried to explain what it meant to be a supporter (of a particular team) rather than someone who watches footy on the box, who may claim loyalty towards a particular team but never attend a live game.

I referred to the latter as a fan, ie: someone will say "I am a (insert name of Premier League team, usually one that has had a modicum of success) supporter"...no you flippin well aren't, have you been to (insert the name of a ground that you have bad memories of) on a wet Tuesday in November to watch your team get played off the park?

Don't get me started on plastics...although I concede that some may be recycled!

 

[Robshep]

Agree totally, I once tried to explain what it meant to be a supporter (of a particular team) rather than someone who watches footy on the box, who may claim loyalty towards a particular team but never attend a live game.

I referred to the latter as a fan, ie: someone will say "I am a (insert name of Premier League team, usually one that has had a modicum of success) supporter"...no you flippin well aren't, have you been to (insert the name of a ground that you have bad memories of) on a wet Tuesday in November to watch your team get played off the park?

Don't get me started on plastics...although I concede that some may be recycled!

If everybody who claims to be a die hard Liverpool fan on the Wirral actually went to their games they would need a 150,000 capacity stadium just for them and we are a 5th of the population of Merseyside. If the ones who actually go to games needed a stadium then yours would be fine. Total plastic glory hunters.
There are plenty who say they cannot afford a ticket yet spend hours in the pub for every game thats televised spending about the same amount over a season on alcohol that could get them to about 8 games. Loathsome arseholes.

 

[Gassy]

If everybody who claims to be a die hard Liverpool fan on the Wirral actually went to their games they would need a 150,000 capacity stadium just for them and we are a 5th of the population of Merseyside. If the ones who actually go to games needed a stadium then yours would be fine. Total plastic glory hunters.
There are plenty who say they cannot afford a ticket yet spend hours in the pub for every game thats televised spending about the same amount over a season on alcohol that could get them to about 8 games. Loathsome arseholes.

Once had a mate who stopped supporting Man Utd to support Arsenal as he didn’t like the brand of football anymore...

Tbf I remember chatting to a couple of Mansfield fans at Wembley for the Croatia game and we were all confused about this guy telling us how he supports like 6/7 teams because he’s lived in those 6/7 places, his passion was England so has no club affiliation unless he lives there.

In one way I kinda respected it, but couldn’t really understand it tbh

 

[Soz]

Agree totally, I once tried to explain what it meant to be a supporter (of a particular team) rather than someone who watches footy on the box, who may claim loyalty towards a particular team but never attend a live game.

I referred to the latter as a fan, ie: someone will say "I am a (insert name of Premier League team, usually one that has had a modicum of success) supporter"...no you flippin well aren't, have you been to (insert the name of a ground that you have bad memories of) on a wet Tuesday in November to watch your team get played off the park?

Don't get me started on plastics...although I concede that some may be recycled!

i feel sorry for them to be honest.

what must it take for the newer man city fans to get the same buzz as us lot at a football game- if they actually go that is. i joke with my mate that we love vale because we lose all the time but actually it is true. the wins mean so much more.

and just think, none of the big 6 fans know what it's like to actually go away to a prem team in the cup etc. just sanitised crap, demanding 85 points and having a full inquest into disastrous seasons if they only manage 80...no thank you.

i remember being at school, if a united/liverpool fan ever tried to take the piss out of vale I could never quite understand it,. like mate i go every week with my family and you might have been to a league cup game to see the kids play once. they were always the ones missing out in my view.

 

[Indian Dan]

I started going when I was 14. I lived smack in the middle between Bristol (Rovers) and Swindon. Had no affiliation for either and it was the first game I attended at the CG. 2-2 draw do wasn’t beguiled by one team drubbing the other. Chose Swindon.

Thank fuck for that!

 

[Robshep]

i feel sorry for them to be honest.

what must it take for the newer man city fans to get the same buzz as us lot at a football game- if they actually go that is. i joke with my mate that we love vale because we lose all the time but actually it is true. the wins mean so much more.

and just think, none of the big 6 fans know what it's like to actually go away to a prem team in the cup etc. just sanitised crap, demanding 85 points and having a full inquest into disastrous seasons if they only manage 80...no thank you.

i remember being at school, if a united/liverpool fan ever tried to take the piss out of vale I could never quite understand it,. like mate i go every week with my family and you might have been to a league cup game to see the kids play once. they were always the ones missing out in my view.

Had a Liverpool moaning to me about not understanding what its like going so long without a league title a week after Tranmere had been relegated to the National League. They can't understand why we despise them.

 

[loz]

In a coach Jan 2015 nearing Stamford Bridge, a new Bentley convertible came past, roof down with one of the 2 occupants signalling 9-0. A full house had 3 sides of silence and 1 of constant noise, even when Chelsea were winning 2-0. I just thought then that the London premier clubs have taken live watching away from the working man. The ones who can only sit at home and watch don't know what they are missing. Cloughie, even when sober would have a smile on his face and say "This is live football". Incidentally Pools fans, if you ever talk to Lids, he will remember that game well.

 

[Soz]

Had a Liverpool moaning to me about not understanding what its like going so long without a league title a week after Tranmere had been relegated to the National League. They can't understand why we despise them.

my favourite is the lad at work who in fairness does follow utd home and away (including europe) and i think his dad was from salford or somewhere, but he once said "i was there in the dark days". the dark days were when they lost 4-0 to mk dons in 2014.

meanwhile I've seen 3 relegations, 3 FL relegation scraps, 2 administrations and 1 owner threatening to liquidate the club in my lifetime. i don't even count losing to chasetown or any of the other non-league clubs we've lost to as 'dark days' they're just funny stories now

but it all makes the highs even better.

 

[Robshep]

my favourite is the lad at work who in fairness does follow utd home and away (including europe) and i think his dad was from salford or somewhere, but he once said "i was there in the dark days". the dark days were when they lost 4-0 to mk dons in 2014.

meanwhile I've seen 3 relegations, 3 FL relegation scraps, 2 administrations and 1 owner threatening to liquidate the club in my lifetime. i don't even count losing to chasetown or any of the other non-league clubs we've lost to as 'dark days' they're just funny stories now

but it all makes the highs even better.

Exactly that. How can enjoy the good times without knowing how the opposite feels.
The reason that almost every Tranmere Rovers supporter spent at least 3 days drunk after getting promoted back into the EFL in 2018 was because we had nothing much to celebrate for the previous 27 years. The so called big 6 clubs, with the notable exception of Spurs, win a trophy on average every 3 years. Complaining about not winning a trophy is pathetic.

 

[Robshep]

The other club in the pyramid from the Wirral, Cammell Laird FC, get about 75 average gates and they are far better supporters than the vast majority of Liverpool happyclappers because they follow a team at tier 10 level.

 

[Chris FGR]

The other club in the pyramid from the Wirral, Cammell Laird FC, get about 75 average gates and they are far better supporters than the vast majority of Liverpool happyclappers because they follow a team at tier 10 level.

Probably better known for building ships tbf.

Aren’t Vauxhall Motors FC based around there too? Used to be pretty decent.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Supporting a lower league team doesn't make you a better football fan than someone who supports a team in the top divisions - those middle class rich kids that go to Fylde home games aren't better than those at Blackpool or Blackburn etc.

The only ones that are terrible are the ones that get all pissy on social media because their team didn't manage to sign an £80m centre back, or they're calling for the board to resign because they've lost three games in a row.

 

[chipmunx]

The other club in the pyramid from the Wirral, Cammell Laird FC, get about 75 average gates and they are far better supporters than the vast majority of Liverpool happyclappers because they follow a team at tier 10 level.

went to Cammel Lairds ground once back in Barrow's NPL days (back when there was no National league North or South and the NPL champs went up to the National League) to watch them play a league match against either Colwyn Bay or Rhyl - who had refused to join the League of Wales and had to play their games in England because the Welsh FA were pissed at them (or something like that).
The ground was a bit spartan and the only thing i remember about the match was that the groundsman's Tractor was parked behind one of the goals and the people in the clubhouse after were very friendly... don't even know if we won or lost - but that's probably because I won the bottle of whisky in the half time draw - and we polished it off on the coach home.

 

[Robshep]

Probably better known for building ships tbf.

Aren’t Vauxhall Motors FC based around there too? Used to be pretty decent.

Been completely seperate from the shipyard for decades. Social club team.
Vauxhall Motors is close but based in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

 

[Robshep]

Supporting a lower league team doesn't make you a better football fan than someone who supports a team in the top divisions - those middle class rich kids that go to Fylde home games aren't better than those at Blackpool or Blackburn etc.

The only ones that are terrible are the ones that get all pissy on social media because their team didn't manage to sign an £80m centre back, or they're calling for the board to resign because they've lost three games in a row.

AFC Fylde aren't a real football club.

 

[Robshep]

went to Cammel Lairds ground once back in Barrow's NPL days (back when there was no National league North or South and the NPL champs went up to the National League) to watch them play a league match against either Colwyn Bay or Rhyl - who had refused to join the League of Wales and had to play their games in England because the Welsh FA were pissed at them (or something like that).
The ground was a bit spartan and the only thing i remember about the match was that the groundsman's Tractor was parked behind one of the goals and the people in the clubhouse after were very friendly... don't even know if we won or lost - but that's probably because I won the bottle of whisky in the half time draw - and we polished it off on the coach home.

Ground is a bit better now but still spartan. A bottle of whisky always helps you forget.

 

[GEORGE]

I started going when I was 14. I lived smack in the middle between Bristol (Rovers) and Swindon. Had no affiliation for either and it was the first game I attended at the CG. 2-2 draw do wasn’t beguiled by one team drubbing the other. Chose Swindon.

Thank fuck for that!

Don't worry yourself -- We've all made wrong choices in our lives. But you have made a total fuck up supporting those charlatans.

 

[Indian Dan]

Really? League Cup winners plus 2 x Semi Finals, ANglo-Italian Cup winners, PL - albeit 1 season. Continued presence in the FL. 6 Wembley visits with 3 victories.

Hoddle, Ardiles, di Canio. Sure, there have been shit times but never continued mediocrity.

We did miss out in the Watney Cup, though!

 

[Sestonpoolie]

In a coach Jan 2015 nearing Stamford Bridge, a new Bentley convertible came past, roof down with one of the 2 occupants signalling 9-0. A full house had 3 sides of silence and 1 of constant noise, even when Chelsea were winning 2-0. I just thought then that the London premier clubs have taken live watching away from the working man. The ones who can only sit at home and watch don't know what they are missing. Cloughie, even when sober would have a smile on his face and say "This is live football". Incidentally Pools fans, if you ever talk to Lids, he will remember that game well.

Chelsea only have one chant (if you can call it that) & even that has to be promoted music belted out around the ground.

 

[Gassy]

I started going when I was 14. I lived smack in the middle between Bristol (Rovers) and Swindon. Had no affiliation for either and it was the first game I attended at the CG. 2-2 draw do wasn’t beguiled by one team drubbing the other. Chose Swindon.

Thank fuck for that!

Amen to that!

 

[Gassy]

Really? League Cup winners plus 2 x Semi Finals, ANglo-Italian Cup winners, PL - albeit 1 season. Continued presence in the FL. 6 Wembley visits with 3 victories.

Hoddle, Ardiles, di Canio. Sure, there have been shit times but never continued mediocrity.

We did miss out in the Watney Cup, though!

Tbf it must never be boring being a Swindon fan. We’ve had our fair share of ups and downs, but with your success, relegations and bi-annual going bust - you must have gone grey by your 20s

 

[Agombar stool]

Really? League Cup winners plus 2 x Semi Finals, ANglo-Italian Cup winners, PL - albeit 1 season. Continued presence in the FL. 6 Wembley visits with 3 victories.

Hoddle, Ardiles, di Canio. Sure, there have been shit times but never continued mediocrity.

We did miss out in the Watney Cup, though!

And at least you support the best professional team in the town.

 

[dedwardp]

Supporting a lower league team doesn't make you a better football fan than someone who supports a team in the top divisions - those middle class rich kids that go to Fylde home games aren't better than those at Blackpool or Blackburn etc.

The only ones that are terrible are the ones that get all pissy on social media because their team didn't manage to sign an £80m centre back, or they're calling for the board to resign because they've lost three games in a row.

Even more so if they're local. If someone who lives on the Wirral chooses to support Liverpool that seems fair enough to me, even if we all might think they're generally missing out on the live element. Liverpool fans in Colchester on the other hand...

In a coach Jan 2015 nearing Stamford Bridge, a new Bentley convertible came past, roof down with one of the 2 occupants signalling 9-0. A full house had 3 sides of silence and 1 of constant noise, even when Chelsea were winning 2-0.

In all fairness, I can't imagine Valley Parade would be bouncing if you were 2-0 up at home to Nantwich Town in the FA Cup First Round.