THE BASIL BRUSH BRIGADE v THE TOON *** PREMYAA LEEGUE TODAY

Posted 7 30am bells Saturday 7th April 2018

Granddad and Jamie's match tickets!

Havin just got back from Stocksbridge late last neet after watchin wor U23s gan doon 2-1 to Sheff U U23s in anothaa groundhoppin 'mission', it woz time to heed back to The Central (station) 7 hours after leavin it to gan to Lestaa!

Grandson Jamie iz makin hiz Premyaa Leegue away 'debut' today and he iz very excited to be gannin on the train!

Wor campaign to 'drink the drink' iz continuin unabaited!
 "Hay hay hay-- lets gan on 'the hoy' in April and May!"

Pub crawl pix from Lestaa to follow below!---

SHEFF UTD BLADE RUNNERS U23s v THE TOON U23s *** TOONEET!

Posted from high noon bells onwards!
(Updates throughoot the day, below!)

Detailed map/maze of how to get to Stocksbridge's groond from M1!

(Who needs a sat nav?😨)

The forst part of wor 'double heeder' takes place tooneet at Stocksbridge Park Steels groond a few miles north of Sheffield, when wor U23s play Sheff U U23s in a Premyaa Leegue qwaataa final cup tie!
(The 2nd part of wor 'double heeder' iz at Lestaa tomorrow in the Premyaa Leegue!)

The 'plan' iz to get a day retorn to Darlo and cadge a lift off 'Mal the Inglish skool teechaa' (his spellin--not mine!) who lives there and for him to drive the rest of the way!

Updated 2 20pm bells @ Darlo
1st port o call

Updated 4 35pm bells at Bracken Moor Groond Stocksbridge (from the clubhoose which owerlooks the pitch)

Amazingly and followin mee aan hand drawn map we foond it withoot gettin lost once!☺

Are we in Lestaa aalready?

"A view to die for!"

(The pint of beer-'-NOT the view of the pitch and hills beyond!)

Teamsheet

HT score 0-1

FT score 1-2!😨

Attendance: 350 (estimated) includin 7 NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers

Match report later!

Az a'm off to Lestaa tomorrow it will be Sunday at the orliest when aa de a report!

THE NUFC MAD-SAD GROUNDHOPPERS AWAY DIARY!

Posted '12:17pm bells' Thorsday 5th April 2018

"A VIEW TO DIE FOR!"

STOCKBRIDGE PARK STEELS!

Confirmation that wor final games in May have been announced have been published---at last!

The final mad-sad groundhoppers away diary now looks like this!

Friday 6th April @ 7 bells---U23s v Sheff U U23s @ Stocksbridge Park Steels near Sheffield

Saturday 7th April @ 3 bells---1st team away @ Lestaa

Munday 16th April @ 7 bells---U23s v Reading U23s @ Wycombe Wanderers

Munday 23rd April @ 8 bells---1st team away @ Evaatin

Saturday 5th May @ 3 bells---1st team away @ Wotfaad

Wednesday 9th May @ 8 bells----1st team away @ Wembley v Sporz

We travel to Stocksbridge tomorrow neet for wor U23s cup tie v Sheff Utd and then it's back yem for some kip "ZZZZzzzz!!!!" before getting up again at 6 bells to gan to Lestaa to watch the 1st team!

A full match report on both games will follow----eventually!

"OH WHY ARE WE WAITING!?" UPDATE--- THE WAIT IZ OVER!

Posted 'high noon bells' Tuesday 4th April 2018
Updated 6 16 bells Wednesday

"Wembley!---but when

for gods sake?"

"Do not ajust your set!"

The final roond of live telly games for May were due to be published yesterday---but predictably---wornt!?

We will eventually find  oot when we will play Sporz at Wembley and Wotfaad at Vicarage Road in the next few days, when they can be bothered to tell us!
Meenwhile!!!--az each hour passes the train fares and hotels gan up in price of course, az the later yoo book the more expensive it iz!

They reelly DO care aboot us---DONT THEY JUST!

The Geordie Times will of course let yoo know when we find oot!
😴😴😴😴😴"ZZZZZZzzzzzz!!!!!!"

Update
We will play Sporz @ Wembley on Wed 9th May @ 8 bells

Wotfaad stays the same
Sat 5th May @ 3 bells

"IT'S A CARVE UP!"

Posted '2:45pm bells' Easter Munday April 2nd 2018

"WE'VE BEEN SACKED AGAIN!"

"WE'VE WON THE PAY DAY LOTTERY!"

"VILLA! VILLA! HERE WE COME!" 

(THAT'S THEIR NEW 'VILLA'S IN BARBADOS, BY THE WAY!)

Havin 'guided' WBA to one win in 18 games with a 5.6% win record the 'dysastrous duo' of Pardew and Carver have finally been shown the door after 9 straight defeats, which see's the west midlands club on the brink of relegation!

NUFC played them away in the new year when we drew 1-1!
Tony Pulis had been given 'the bullet' when they were ootside the bottom 3, just before we played them!

Rumour had it that Pardew and Carver would take ower on the followin' Munday and we warned their fan at the nearby train station after the match, that this would be a disastrous appointment after they both 'guided' us to relegation in 2015-2016!
We were 100% reet!

After their 9th defeat in a row v Bornley on Saturday, (a WBA club record!) fans caalled for Pardew's heed and Carver (the best manager in the world!) told them to "Shut their gobs!" ("Charming!")

They both will of course get a massive severence pay day for failure, but yoo can rest assured that they will torn up somewhere else and "Hoy a spanner in the works!"

THE TOON 1 'UDDERSFIELD 0 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2017-2018

Posted '10:05am bells' Easter Sunday AND April Fools Day 2018

THE TOON ATTACK THE GALLOWGATE GOAL (1st half)

"GOOD' SATURDAY!"

Anothaa porfect day to gan with the one from 3 weeks ago when EVERY result went wor way!

But aa had mee doubts the day before on Good Friday, when aa watched the Gatesheed v Dagenham game in the National Leegue!
The Heed goalie, who I hadnt a clue wot hiz name woz, torned oot to be the nephew of an ex SMBs goalie caalled montgomery and with the same name!   Not anly that, but there were 73 Dagenham fans present!
(montgomery and 73!---get it?----a bad omen perhaps?) (See Heedbangers match report!)

It certainly looked that way on Saturday dinnaatime when Palace took the lead v Liverpool, somethin' we DIDNT want of course!

However, The Liverbirds came back and won 2-1 to keep Palace below us in the table withoot us kickin' a baall!

Wor game woz totally one sided with Shelvey and Gayle gannin close in the forst half!
Galyle in particular missed 2 great 'sitters'!
'uddersfield on the othaa hand didnt have one shot on goal!

ACTION AT THE LEAZES END (2nd half)

We had chances again in the 2nd period and Slimani finally made hiz debut in the 75th minute.
5mins later in the 80th minute we finally made the vital breakthrough, when Kenedy unselfleshlee side footed the baall to Perez in front of goal at The Leazes End and he prodded the baall home!
The relief of the crowd woz evident az the roof woz nearly blown off the stadium, in a game that woz played in very cold, very wet and windy conditions! (The coldest I can ever remember at Easter time!)

"I'M NOT SAYIN' IT WOZ FREEEEEZIN'!---BUT!"🐧

After a couple of scares near the end we managed to hold on for the 3 invaluable points!
The result proppeled us up to a 'nose bleed' height of 12th in the table, 7 points above the relegation zone and with the best goal difference in the bottom half of the table!

The othaa results then came through!
We wanted Brightin to lose ---and they did!
We wanted Swanzee to lose ----and they did!
We wanted WBA to lose ---and they did!
We wanted Sooothampton to lose---and they did!
We wanted Evaatin to lose ---and they did!
And finalleeee! ----We wanted Wotfaad to draw with Bournemoooth ---and they did! (2 points dropped each!) The 'montgomery jinx' thankfully HADN'T materialised!)
A VERY 'GOOD' SATURDAY INDEED!

HAPPY TOON FANS PASS THE BOBBY ROBSON STATUE

ON THE WAY OOT!

Toon team: Dubravka, Yedlin, Lascelles, Dummett, Shelvey, Diame (Hayden 79), Ritchie (Atsu 67), Kenedy, Perez, Gayle (Slimani 75)

Attendance: 52,261
(3,100 'uddersfield fans ⬅Yorkshire prenoonciation!)

"LET ENJOY AND GAN ON 'THE HOY'!"

Updated Easter Munday

We wanted 'The Arse' to beat 'The P*ss Potts of Stoke yesterday----and they did!--- makin' it a porfect Easter weekend!😊

THE TOON v 'UDDERSFIELD *** THIS AFTERNOOON!

Posted '1:00pm bells' Good Friday 30th March 2018
Updated Saturday '11:05am bells'

Az I speak it iz 'chuckin it doon' ootside (rain!) and its freeezin' caad az well! 🐧

After a 3 week break we are in action against
'uddersfield⬅ (Yorkshire prenoonciation!) @ SJP

It will be the forst time they have been here for a top flight game for 47 years! (1971) and since then they have been on a roller coaster ride havin 'visited' aall 4 leegues since then!

Will Salami feature for us?
He played 27minutes for Algeria in midweek and of course haz still to kick a baall for us sice hiz loan move in January!

Matt Ritchie iz a doubt after pullin oot of Scotland's squad on Tuesday but iz expected to play!

Yet again this iz a 'must win game' az the season draws to a close with games runnin oot!

Match report will follow tomorrow---sometime!

'HEEDBANGERS' IN ACTION!

With ne game yesterday we decided to heed for 'The Heed' where Gatesheed took on Dagenham and Redbridge in the National Leegue!
For a match report on that game see next post doon !

THE HEEDBANGERS 0 THE DAGGERS 0 *** NATIONAL LEEGUE

Posted '11:00am bells' Saturday 31st March 2018

The penalty save by the nephew of someone?

(See photo of team line ups!)

On a bitterly caad Good Friday (global warmin'---your havin' a laff!) aa heeded for The Nags Heed on Gatesheed High Street for the forst of many 'liquid lubrications' with 'Tex' and Les who iz a Heed season ticket holder!

After lubricatin' wor tonsils several times, we heed for The Heed's groond which iz aboot a mile waalk from the toon centre!

A smaall queue at the tornstiles greeted us az the Heed faithful entered the main stand!
Before the kick off there woz a minutes silence for those who had lost their lives in the armed forces!

The armed forces leave the pitch to loud applause!

73 Daggers diehards are in the far stand who made the lang trip from "Eest Landan"! (East London)

To be honest it woz a c*ap game with both sides missin' chance after chance, preferin' to fire the baall ower the bar, rather than into the net!
The highlight of the game came at The Byker Waall End  (The Byker Waall iz in the distance across the Tyne!) when Dagenham were awarded a clear penalty!
The Gatesheed keeper, (who's name aa didnt naa) dived to hiz left and saved brilliantly to the loudest cheers of the match!
Aa woz told by 'Tex', the keepers name, but aa thought he woz windin' me up! (See team line up photo below!)

Anyway! It woz back to 'The Nags' after the game for the evenin' session before (finally!) heedin' yem! (The anly GOOD thing aboot this Friday woz the booze up!)

Attendance: 770 (73 Dagenham and Redbridge fans!)

"We woz there!" (At a price!)

JOYOUS NEWS FOR NUFC MAD-SAD GR☺UNDH😊PPERS!

Posted 6:40pm bells Thorsday 29th March 2018
@ Trowell sorvices truck park

Wycombe's groond!

Stocksbridge's groond!

It haz been conformed that wor U23 cup tie v Sheff Utd WILL be played at Stocksbridge Park Steels FCs groond a week tomorrow, which iz a few miles north of Sheffield!
Aalso it haz been conformed that wor U23s away game v Reading will be played at Wycombe Wanderers groond, on April 16th, which meeenz that we will visit TWO new groonds within the space of TEN days!

Joyous news indeed!!!!😀

POSSIBLE NEW GROOND?

Posted 3:00pm bells Tuesday 27th March 2018
Updated Thorsday

Tooneet Sheff U U23s play Derby U23s in the U23s Premyaa Leegue Cup and the winners play NUFC U23s in the next roond!
Sheff U play their resorve games at Stocksbridge which iz a few miles north of Sheffield!

The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers await the result with baited breath!

Updated at midneet bells Woodall sorvices truck park

It IZ Sheff United away   they beat Derby 2-1
But will the game due to be played between 6th and 9th of April be played at Stocksbridge?

Updated Thorsday

The above game will be played on Friday April 6th @ '2:00pm bells'
It will eethaa be played @ Sheff Utds Bramall Lane groond or @ Stockbridge Park Steels groond!---A decision iz imminent!

Of course we hope its @ Stockbridge az we have been to Bramall Lane many times before!

We await the venue with baited breath (again!)😲