Most tinpot thing I ever heard. (tinpot thread)

[ShrewdBlue]

The Tonbridge Angel with Father Ted Crilly as a bodyguard.

https://twitter.com/thepigeonstands/status/592791374010912772

 

[rudebwoyben]

This thread should be compulsory reading at all hospitals across the world. Think it would be the best therapy imaginable, and free too

And it will only get better once a couple of Barnet's open top bus parade photos crop up.

I get the feeling that we won't get one. Certainly not from Barnet Council.
Would that be generally tinpot behaviour?

 

[rudebwoyben]

The Tonbridge Angel with Father Ted Crilly as a bodyguard.

https://twitter.com/thepigeonstands/status/592791374010912772

Surely the angel has celestial powers aplenty to protect itself?

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

The Tonbridge Angel with Father Ted Crilly as a bodyguard.

https://twitter.com/thepigeonstands/status/592791374010912772

DOWN WITH THIS SORT OF THING!

 

[Andy Harrier]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/32494795

"I see them (Fleetwood) as a role model in the UK football" Hmm...

Also, what on and off field knowledge sharing could they possibly benefit from?

 

[Murphy]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/32494795

"I see them (Fleetwood) as a role model in the UK football" Hmm...

Also, what on and off field knowledge sharing could they possibly benefit from?

I was just about to post this myself. Lokomotiv Tashkent are quite clearly a 5-aside team of over 30's from Dover who all have moustaches.

 

[Harrier94]

http://www.corbytownfc.co.uk/news/2015/open-top-bus-parade-next-tuesday/

 

[GTFC1979]

Eastleigh FC:

http://tssc-eastleighfc.proboards.com/thread/2046/free-coach-travel-grimsby-town

For a Play Off Semi, very very sad.

 

[GodsGift]

I don't get it? What's tinpot about a club helping out its fans?

 

[Master D]

Nothing. They are loaded as a club so can easily afford it and it is a nightmare journey to make, making it free will get a lot more floating fans there. Good gesture.

 

[GTFC1979]

The tinpot part being that they had to offer free travel to get decent numbers.
For a playoff Semi Final.
Why do you not get it?
This is the tinpot thread is it not?

 

[GodsGift]

See MD's response.

I have plenty of criticism's of Eastleigh but this certainly isn't one of them. In an age where match-going fans are screwed left, right and centre, surely this should be welcomed?

 

[DarkSithLord]

Tinpot -

Ashton United FC
@AshtonUnitedFC
100% Official:http://www.facebook.com/AshtonUnited | We have 'the best decking in the league' & you can pee whilst watching the game!#RockinRobins #EvoStikNPL

 

[GTFC1979]

See MD's response.

I have plenty of criticism's of Eastleigh but this certainly isn't one of them. In an age where match-going fans are screwed left, right and centre, surely this should be welcomed?

I welcome it in the fact that it will make a better atmosphere for the second leg, but the need to do this gesture for such a big game anyway, surely stinks of tinpottedness?
If they thought they would sell out our away end anyway, would they still be offering the free travel?
I doubt it, hence --- Tinpot!!

 

[rudebwoyben]

Nope, you're wide of the mark here. As someone else said, it's impossible to get to Cleethorpes from Eastleigh and back by public transport on a weekday evening.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Nope, you're wide of the mark here. As someone else said, it's impossible to get to Cleethorpes from Eastleigh and back by public transport on a weekday evening.

Probably a bit of a struggle on a Saturday too.

 

[UTS]

That Tonbrudge mascot has me in tears

 

[Pliny Harris]

Tinpot -

Ashton United FC
@AshtonUnitedFC
100% Official:http://www.facebook.com/AshtonUnited | We have 'the best decking in the league' & you can pee whilst watching the game!#RockinRobins #EvoStikNPL

Not if you're 5'6 you can't.

 

[GTFC1979]

Nope, you're wide of the mark here. As someone else said, it's impossible to get to Cleethorpes from Eastleigh and back by public transport on a weekday evening.

Funny that though as we play there on a Thursday night and have sold over 500 tickets with no free coaches.
Guess they must all be walking it then........

 

[George Reilly's Hairpiece]

So Grimsby have never laid on free coaches for its fans?

*sets trap and hides behind a rock to wait*

 

[yellow]

I don't get the issue here. It's obviously clear that without it Eastleigh would have taken about 13 fans so it's a good idea to try and get more of them to turn up. You might get 50 odd if you're lucky.

 

[rudebwoyben]

Funny that though as we play there on a Thursday night and have sold over 500 tickets with no free coaches.
Guess they must all be walking it then........

I imagine that there are a lot of exiled Grimbarians in London and the South-East, who would find it pretty easy to get to a match at Eastleigh on a weeknight. I'm pretty sure there are no Eastleigh fans in North East Lincolnshire.

 

[GTFC1979]

I don't get the issue here. It's obviously clear that without it Eastleigh would have taken about 13 fans so it's a good idea to try and get more of them to turn up. You might get 50 odd if you're lucky.

I didn't say it was not a good idea, I said it was tinpot, as this is the tinpot section, it belongs in here.
Whether it is a good idea, or nice gesture etc is irrelevant, this is the tinpot section, hence, here it is!

 

[GTFC1979]

I imagine that there are a lot of exiled Grimbarians in London and the South-East, who would find it pretty easy to get to a match at Eastleigh on a weeknight. I'm pretty sure there are no Eastleigh fans in North East Lincolnshire.

Yes of course, all our fans at Eastleigh tomorrow night all live in the South East, as nobody up here has a car or is prepared to pay to go by coach, how stupid of me.

 

[rudebwoyben]

Not only are you failing to grasp my points but you're making me defend Eastleigh..

 

[Murphy]

Middlesbrough with a late entry into the Tinpot Song Contest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=60&v=dCXJza-_qtU

 

[localhero]

Just want to throw this one in here from us earlier on in the season. Written on a bedsheet before being hastily taken away by the culprit when the stewards came looking. Tragic.

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We had someone a few years ago hold up a "Parry Out" banner on what looked like piss stained bed sheets. Either they didn't fancy revealing their identity or they were just genuinely embarrassed they'd used a sheet which hadn't seen a washing machine in about 5 years as they were wearing balaclava to cover their face!

 

[Jemfy]

http://www.corbytownfc.co.uk/news/2015/open-top-bus-parade-next-tuesday/

I saw that the other day, it has serious potential to be Mansfield bus parade level of tinpot! All I need is a train ticket to Corby, a small dog, and a scarf...

 

[Harrier94]

Barnstaple manager snapped his achilles while celebrating their title win. He did it by jumping on the dressing room benches

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32510599

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Not exactly non-league but Paolo di Canio when he was at Swindon was enraged when he came to Crewe to discover the dugouts were basically blue coloured seats in our Main Stand.

Are we the only club in the Football League that doesn't have a proper dugout?