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I'd be delighted with East Anglia, especially if it comes down to my way with Histon/Cambridge United/Cambridge City/St Neots Town/Kettering/Stevenage plus many other smaller teams.

Scarborough only have a small non-league side now and if you've been to Bridlington like i have about 6000 times then you'll know it's a hovel. Best stick to Whitby i think? As long as we don't have to go to Hornsea or Skeggy or Whitley Bay we'll be fine otherwise i might borrow some of those Sars masks off the Japanese!

Another good tour would be East Anglia. Start at Cromer, down to Norwich then across to Great Yarmouth or Lowestoft Town then down to Ipswich.

Start at Fraserborough, lovely little town right in the top right hand corner with a very nice lighthouse museum, then go down through Peterhead, Aberdeen and so on down and down the right hand side of the country, then round the corner to the south until we hit Torquay in time for August.

Why not make a proper seaside tour. Start with Raith Rovers. Down to Berwick. Next Sunderland on to Whitby penultimate Scarboro. finish at Bridlington Town.

A tour of Yorkshire would be great playing Donny, Dirty Leeds, Tykes and Whitby Town to finish for a nice day beside the sea!

It's about time the Commercial department sough to break into the lucrative North American market, surely? Start with a game against New York Red Bulls, the the Revolution up in Boston, before swanning off to Chicago to play the Fire, before playing the MLS AllStar game in front of a capacity 19,000 crowd at PPL Park in Philadelphia

In an ideal world, they go on a tour of the Innsbruck region of Austria for a couple of days, that would be nice! As said though, it wouldn't be worth it for the amount spent compared to how much they make from it..

I would have said a tour was out of the question economically. I'd imagine its very expensive to put a whole squad up somewhere for a week including travel and we'd earn little revenue from the matches due to low attendance.

I'd be much happier with a bigger playing budget and continuing with the usual format of local games and a few larger teams at Plainmoor. Our team has been together for a long time now so it probably needs to bond less than if we'd cobbled together a load of strangers over the summer!

yellow wrote: I think this confusion arises from a time when the Pop were singing “It’s just like watching Brazil” as the Gulls were taking the Greeks apart on but one of many such occasions in our illustrious past.

Made me smile before heading off to work!

forevertufc wrote:I am led to believe that Brazil's first ever game was played against Exeter, just a suggestion................

I think this confusion arises from a time when the Pop were singing “It’s just like watching Brazil” as the Gulls were taking the Greeks apart on but one of many such occasions in our illustrious past.

I am led to believe that Brazil's first ever game was played against Exeter, just a suggestion................

At this rate it won't be long before someone comes along suggesting that Exeter have played Brazil

Would that be the team we now know as Beyer Leverkusen. wow we drew 1-1.
I hadn't known that. Being only a youngster and obviously too young to apreciate what we did away let alone what happened pre season I didn't realise we had played such a big team and to get a result like that is awesome.

Prior to the start of the 1967/68 season we played four pre-season games in what was then called West Germany and came home undefeated: Dorsten (5-1), Lippstadt (2-0), Leverkusen Bayer (1-1), and Bonner Sports Club (1-1). It was the season we were top of the old Division 3 (League 1 now) for much of the time only to fall away at the end and finish 4th.

If it's going to be a tour of Scotland we need to get on with it. A couple of years down the line & all that business with getting your passport stamped & the hold up while the relevant border checks are completed by Jock Security will put many people off going.

For smaller clubs the expense of travelling & putting up a whole squad over a couple of weeks or more can be prohibitive.


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