The tinpot thread

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Who's Wrexham's main rival Chester City?

 

[Son of Cod]

Who's Wrexham's main rival Chester City?

Chester are third now behind Barcelona and Clarkson's Farm on Prime.

 

[Luke Imp]

Not tinpot but and honest and mildly amusing post-match interview.

 

[spireite]

Not tinpot but and honest and mildly amusing post-match interview.

Oh I do miss the national league at times. The lack of professionalism about the whole thing is top entertainment

 

[BRFC_Gas]

Barnet tried to force some kind of rivalry with us when we dipped our toes in the conference. Think they had some kind of complex that we were selling out away grounds most weeks!
Weird bunch of supporters.

 

[EnglishRed]

Who's Wrexham's main rival Chester City?

Yeah it was Chester City. Then they went bust so it's technically Chester FC but we will never play them again, hopefully.

We have local rivalries with Shrewsbury, Tranmere and Crewe and Welsh rivalries with Newport County, Cardiff and Swansea. Games with Port Vale used to have some needle too. But none of those are Derbies.

 

[Pilot_Phonic]

Yeah it was Chester City. Then they went bust so it's technically Chester FC but we will never play them again, hopefully.

We have local rivalries with Shrewsbury, Tranmere and Crewe and Welsh rivalries with Newport County, Cardiff and Swansea. Games with Port Vale used to have some needle too. But none of those are Derbies.

Shrewsbury is a derby to us. Regarding the south, you don't exactly hear Newcastle v Southampton as an English derby, so why tf do we say its a welsh derby when we played Newport? Thats just a piss take.

 

[valefan16]

Yeah it was Chester City. Then they went bust so it's technically Chester FC but we will never play them again, hopefully.

We have local rivalries with Shrewsbury, Tranmere and Crewe and Welsh rivalries with Newport County, Cardiff and Swansea. Games with Port Vale used to have some needle too. But none of those are Derbies.

2003 at your place was bad, recall being at that one and was chaos outside the ground after, totally unnecessary.

Then we had a spell where Shrewsbury was a big game with needle after you went out the league after we beat them late on in a spicy tie at their new ground.

Nowadays you just have the likes of Burton trying to force a rivalry that doesn't exist at all our end.

 

[Dan Phillips]

Oh I do miss the national league at times. The lack of professionalism about the whole thing is top entertainment

I thought it was a fantastic interview personally. Wish more managers had the bottle to come out and speak their mind like that. Supporters get away with far too much on social media and in stadiums, 90% of which they wouldn't have the bottle to repeat to the manager face to face. They should be held accountable for their actions and the keyboard warriors put back in their box.

 

[EnglishRed]

2003 at your place was bad, recall being at that one and was chaos outside the ground after, totally unnecessary.

Then we had a spell where Shrewsbury was a big game with needle after you went out the league after we beat them late on in a spicy tie at their new ground.

Nowadays you just have the likes of Burton trying to force a rivalry that doesn't exist at all our end.

Was that the one where there were bricks flying all over the place?

 

[valefan16]

Was that the one where there were bricks flying all over the place?

Garden Gnomes if I recall correctly!

 

[EnglishRed]

Garden Gnomes if I recall correctly!

You could take someone's eye out with one of them!

 

[valefan16]

You could take someone's eye out with one of them!

Wasn't one of either clubs finest days i would say. Thankfully those days seem well in the past.

 

[Ainsty]

Good luck to Wimbledon in sorting out their pitch. Who would have thought that little Harrogate could sneak in?

 

[joethegill]

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Good luck to Wimbledon in sorting out their pitch. Who would have thought that little Harrogate could sneak in?

Shocker that the Peterborough fan picked London Road to be fair.

 

[Bartonyellow]

Shocker that the Peterborough fan picked London Road to be fair.

I do like the a47. It’s a fast dual carriageway/ enabling me to drive through Peterborough quickly without stopping.
Place looks like the Germans are still pulling out.

 

[GTFCfish]

Only one of those 10 I’ve been to is Forest’s and that is pretty good to be fair.
Although losing in the last minute to a Carlton Palmer wonder goal that he will never score again in his life was a bit of a sickener.

 

[1862]

Only one of those 10 I’ve been to is Forest’s and that is pretty good to be fair.
Although losing in the last minute to a Carlton Palmer wonder goal that he will never score again in his life was a bit of a sickener.

If it helps, I've only been to Forest once and we lost on pens after a Wes Morgan screamer in extra time.

 

[THE LAST WALTZ]

We got relegated at Forest.

 

[Si Robin]

My brother was arrested at Forest, so I missed the second half of our 3-0 battering because I had to drive to the Police Station and wait for him to sober up before being released at 10:00!!

Of that top 10, I've been to Forest, Villa and QPR. I liked all 3, but I'm not sure I'd put Loftus Road as the best football ground in the country - especially when you can't see a quarter of the pitch from the second tier of the away end.

 

[valefan16]

Strange list that, Peterborough is an awful ground, pay big money to sit in a horrific away end down that side.

QPR I recall being atmospheric but as said you can't see half the pitch if in the bottom tier.

Fulham just felt very upper class London, not really that football feel to it especially with the "Neutral" end.

Not been AFC Wimbledon as we've not played their new ground, hope to go this season but could potentially have a lot riding on it being April so depends on allocation I guess.

For some reason I always enjoy Wycombe (not that we ever win there) and recall being extremely impressed by Hull when we went there.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Enjoying a trip to Wycombe can only be due to the result or view of the nearby woodlands.

It's certainly not due to the location of the stadium, off the top of my head I can't think of worse.

I've been a fair few times and the one that stands out hugely over the rest is due to Alan Judge and that fancy dress away end.

 

[valefan16]

Enjoying a trip to Wycombe can only be due to the result or view of the nearby woodlands.

It's certainly not due to the location of the stadium, off the top of my head I can't think of worse.

I've been a fair few times and the one that stands out hugely over the rest is due to Alan Judge and that fancy dress away end.

We did win automatic promotion there and Wasps laid on a massive marquee etc for us which may have helped the last time I went!

Colchester is probably the worst, not facility wise but location it literally is the middle of nowhere of an A-Road.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Yup Colchester and Wycombe are my top worse located, an A road with nowt and at the end of a light industrial park/street with nowt. Both awful.

Thankfully a very good mate is a Wycombe fan so know where to park, where to drink etc beforehand.

 

[DippyDon]

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Good luck to Wimbledon in sorting out their pitch. Who would have thought that little Harrogate could sneak in?

Loftus Road is an awful away end.
Leeds was £42 a ticket and that really soured it for me.
London Road had church benches on the back row last time I went.
AFC is 3/4 temporary and a farce for all involved for our fixtures.
Villa Park is fantastic but I was in the middle of the Holte End as they won their first game of the season in December so that's probably swung it.
Similar with Newcastle, in the middle of the Gallogate End when I went for their cup game v Oxford. Cheap tickets and a cracking city though.
Fulham... location is good but the turnstiles aren't equipped for you if you aren't size 4.
Charlton I always enjoy so I'll give him that one.
Forest is fine for the city again, the stadium is historic but other than that, there's better around.
Harrogate I really enjoyed but it was so end of season non-event that we went in to it like a pre season friendly. I can't say the ground is up there though.

 

[Kauto Star]

Yeah it was Chester City. Then they went bust so it's technically Chester FC but we will never play them again, hopefully.

We have local rivalries with Shrewsbury, Tranmere and Crewe and Welsh rivalries with Newport County, Cardiff and Swansea. Games with Port Vale used to have some needle too. But none of those are Derbies.

I never thought in a million years that our local derby would ever be Harrogate instead of Huddersfield or Leeds, but it has been now for past 4 seasons or so.

So you never know, you may one day end up playing Chester again

 

[valefan16]

I never thought in a million years that our local derby would ever be Harrogate instead of Huddersfield or Leeds, but it has been now for past 4 seasons or so.

So you never know, you may one day end up playing Chester again

Things change quickly, we have Burton Albion trying to make a rivalry with us! (seems to be more the club and press than their fans) Despite many Vale fans having a bit of a soft spot for them.

Stoke have done their usual messy start then booted the manager but always seem to dig themselves out of it just, maybe circling the plug hole enough times will see them drop through to L1 and we can get the Potteries Derby back, games with Crewe are 1/10th of the intensity of that, Walsall have tried to re-ignite an old rivalry since DC but that's massively one way with them singing songs and posting about us and us not really being bothered about them. Just not the same!

 

[Cloudy]

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Good luck to Wimbledon in sorting out their pitch. Who would have thought that little Harrogate could sneak in?

Adrian Durham - utter bellend!!

 

[gary]

Good choice Adrian Durham. In saying that I can't believe you haven't put the MK soulless bowl in there !!!!!

 

[Optipez]

Good choice Adrian Durham. In saying that I can't believe you haven't put the MK soulless bowl in there !!!!!

It's only soulless because it's empty. Put 25,000 Newcastle fans and 5,000 West Ham fans in to fill it and it's a cracking ground.
I like your ground but if it's three times the size with the same sized crowd it too would appear soulless.
I've been in Meadow Lane full and with just over 2000 against Barnet for a league game and it's gone from brilliant to terrible.