Pre-match warm up.

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Pre-match warm up.

by cambgull » 05 Aug 2013, 17:22

My Dad always used to say it was good luck to touch the match ball. Turns out it was a load of rubbish designed to make me feel better if I got smacked in the face but I'm sure it would have worked!

Re: Pre-match warm up.

by ferrarilover » 05 Aug 2013, 14:48

tomogull wrote: Thanks Matt. Maybe I should try getting to games 10 minutes earlier and paying attention as you suggest. However, the bladder holds out well from five-to-three until five-to-five. The worry would be getting to the ground ten minutes earlier might mean a loo call at 4.45, thus missing goals scored or conceded as would have happened on Saturday ..... and several Saturdays last season !!
Spare a thought for poor Trojan (and those around him). His bladder often doesn't hold out at all.

Matt.

Re: Pre-match warm up.

by Richinns » 05 Aug 2013, 14:27

tomogull wrote: Thanks Matt. Maybe I should try getting to games 10 minutes earlier and paying attention as you suggest. However, the bladder holds out well from five-to-three until five-to-five. The worry would be getting to the ground ten minutes earlier might mean a loo call at 4.45, thus missing goals scored or conceded as would have happened on Saturday ..... and several Saturdays last season !!
It would have been a blessing last season tomo!

Re: Pre-match warm up.

by tomogull » 05 Aug 2013, 14:23

ferrarilover wrote: Provided you were paying attention, it was pretty good entertainment. Some cracking finishes and some proper comical attempts too. Matt.
Thanks Matt. Maybe I should try getting to games 10 minutes earlier and paying attention as you suggest. However, the bladder holds out well from five-to-three until five-to-five. The worry would be getting to the ground ten minutes earlier might mean a loo call at 4.45, thus missing goals scored or conceded as would have happened on Saturday ..... and several Saturdays last season !!

Re: Pre-match warm up.

by AustrianAndyGull » 05 Aug 2013, 10:34

DevonYellow wrote:Maybe they could do the shooting practice with one of them foam footballs or a 99p "shoot" plastic one.
:lol:

Now that would be classic half time entertainment! Getting the subs to have a small game using a 99p plastic ball (we call them penny swervers up here in Yorkshire) would be superb! Kind of like a football version of crazy golf if that makes sense. :)

Re: Pre-match warm up.

by ggggg » 05 Aug 2013, 10:29

I`d put a disclaimer up on every entrance to the ground leaving the responsibility with the patron for entering the ground in the first place!
Oh wait a minute there`s already one of those in existance!

Re: Pre-match warm up.

by PlainmoorRoar » 05 Aug 2013, 10:24

brucie wrote:Plainmoorroar - you are actually the one talking garbage (as usual). This isn't the 1950's - if you cannot see the safety implications, then you must be even thicker than you appear.
No one in Torbay speaks more garbage than you Brucie, quite an achievement really!

Keep on with the shooting practice, I'd like to see your bovril end up on the floor

Pre-match warm up.

by Richinns » 05 Aug 2013, 10:07

...or put Rice in goal for the practice. Regardless of how wayward the shot is - nothing goes past Ricey!!

Pre-match warm up.

by Richinns » 05 Aug 2013, 10:00

Swap ends and lets do our shooting practice infront of the away end!

Pre-match warm up.

by diamondgirl » 05 Aug 2013, 09:56

It happened during half time at the pre season Royal Marines game.

Kenny was out with Connor Thompson. Connor was in the Family Stand goal, and Kenny was crossing balls over for him. KV hit one a bit too hard and it sailed right over CT and smacked a young girl (Aged about 2/3 I would guess) She did cry, bless her, but KV & CT went to make sure she was ok. A short while later KV took a pair of GK gloves over to her and, I suppose, her Dad. Her Dad looked well pleased, but I think the little'un would have prefered an ice cream.

It does happen, and you must be aware that there are a lot of balls (@***!!@) flying around at football matches. Having said that, I think it would be better to move away from the steps. As someone else said, with a couple of cups of hot tea in your hands you dont stand much chance of getting out of the way, when a stray ball flies at you at 50 mph. Might be amusing though. :clap: Sorry.

Re: Pre-match warm up.

by diamondgirl » 05 Aug 2013, 09:43

Nick wrote:Also had a ball in the face at Plainmoor before..Thankfully I didn't bleed.
If you had of done, would it have been yellow. :scarf:

Pre-match warm up.

by Plymouth Gull » 05 Aug 2013, 08:30

Also had a ball in the face at Plainmoor before..Thankfully I didn't bleed.

Re: Pre-match warm up.

by hector » 05 Aug 2013, 08:16

happytorq wrote:I actually did touch the ball at Plainmoor once - was the game vs Northampton in our League 2 promotion season - Matt Hockley did a typically Hockleyesque challenge the ricochet into the Family Stand and hit me square in the hooter. My glasses flew off over that little wall onto the touchline, and I start bleeding profusely from the schnozz. Had to go to the medical station place under where the fuzz keep a watchful eye, and of course I missed a goal. (By Lee Canoville)

Anyway, the point is this; you probably shouldn't be too surprised to see a few errant footballs heading your way at any football stadium, never mind a League 2 stadium. And it's usually pretty funny, too. (sorry)
Not quite unlike your normal footballing prowess by all accounts! ;-)

Re: Pre-match warm up.

by happytorq » 04 Aug 2013, 23:47

Gulliball wrote:I once threw the ball back to Neville Southall. My dad caught it in the crowd and I was next to him in the Family Stand aged about ten. I asked him if I could throw it back and he gave it to me. My throw was one bounce, straight into his arms. Reading this thread now I feel bad, I probably ruined the moment for him.
For your dad, or for Neville Southall?
:)

Re: Pre-match warm up.

by Gulliball » 04 Aug 2013, 23:09

I once threw the ball back to Neville Southall. My dad caught it in the crowd and I was next to him in the Family Stand aged about ten. I asked him if I could throw it back and he gave it to me. My throw was one bounce, straight into his arms. Reading this thread now I feel bad, I probably ruined the moment for him.

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