Most tinpot thing I ever heard. (tinpot thread)

[The_Boss]

Arguing over who has the highest ground above sea level.

 

[Pliny Harris]

I took my girlfriend to Chester away last year with the promise of a stay over and the zoo for Valentines Day. We lost in injury time and if pissed it down all day the next day

Hilariously disappointing night! I think Bolton's a real burgeoning talent for us but his hero to zero act in injury time was phenomenal. One of the younger fans on the coach shouted "SEASON OVER!" for ages and had a go at a few of our pensioners because he never saw them chanting, got back to Leeds on a pacer train at half one.

 

[Etty Abrics]

What's more tinpot than Met Police?













A pitch invasion after winning at Met Police...

 

[Harrier94]

Seems Heybridge Swifts may need to update their account security
https://twitter.com/HeybridgeSwifts/status/565635879059083264

 

[Kim Mitten]

Seems Heybridge Swifts may need to update their account security
https://twitter.com/HeybridgeSwifts/status/565635879059083264

2 days ago was the first post, either they haven't noticed, don't care, or ISIS have changed their password and Darren the IT bloke can't work out why he can't get back in.
Anyhow, I've started following them.

 

[Pliny Harris]

What's more tinpot than Met Police?

Vauxhall Motors and Cammell Laird?

West Cheshire has problems with setting up non-league sides affiliated to towns rather than local works.

I am being mean as both had a great set of fans when we went, even though both followings were very small indeed for the levels they were at. It was sad to see them both undergo big voluntary demotions last season for long-term security as neither have much of a chance of coming back up.

 

[Railway Blue]

Heartbreaking, particularly for Vauxhall Motors, as I believe they got little or no support from the motor company. Shame on the people of Ellesmere Port (pop over 50,000) for never getting behind them. Knocked Queen's Park Rangers out of cup as well about 10 years ago.

 

[silkyman]

They did, then lost 2-0 to Macc in the next round on TV.

I think the BBC were hoping for QPR to win the replay when they picked the game!

I do wonder if they would have been able to survive had they won this narrow encounter, mind.....

http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/vauxh...esfield-town-7-0-vauxhall-motors-1080101.html

 

[HertsWolf]

Yep, but that's not all. I don't think the words 'valentine' and 'football' should be in the same sentence.

Why? Most clubs do a tasteful line in Valentine's Day edible lingerie. OK, so I'm misusing the word 'tasteful' a little bit.

 

[silkyman]

Tasty, perhaps?

 

[HertsWolf]

In our last year down here, Hereford offered Kidderminster fans free curry to come and support Hereford the night we won 2-1 to all but clinch the title.

Back in the days when Hereford could afford to buy three curries.

 

[HertsWolf]

Tasty, perhaps?

Fishy

 

[Murphy]

Northampton having a John Joe O'Toole day at Mansfield on Saturday where fans are asked to don wigs and a hairband. You won't beat that for tinpotness.

 

[Aberstone]

How could I forget this...

 

[Pliny Harris]

WYP need to raid the basements of west Halifax for some of these.

https://twitter.com/lincspolice/status/565791663906652160/photo/1

 

[shoddycollins]

Curious about the phrase 'the ones you love'

I honestly didn't know they practiced polygamy in Braintree.

 

[Murphy]

Curious about the phrase 'the ones you love'

I honestly didn't know they practiced polygamy in Braintree.

What's a VIP Ticket at Braintree? Do they give you a couple of tickets to Nandos instead of the game?

 

[rudebwoyben]

How could I forget this...

There's also the "More flags than fans" flag and the "We have a woman's flag as well" flag!

 

[shoddycollins]

There's also the "More flags than fans" flag and the "We have a woman's flag as well" flag!

Say it in hushed tones on this forum but according to fans on our forum there was a game in the seventies where Rotherham brought one fan to Brunton Park.

 

[Gladders]

Bristol Rovers getting relegated on a wage bill of £3.5million!!! (obviously not playing budget but must be close to £3m on player wages!!!

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Rickie...istol-Rovers/story-26014443-detail/story.html

How can a club get relegated from league 2 paying such amounts? Surely a budget such as that could get you promoted out of lge 1, what is there losses going to be this season especially if they don't get promoted.

 

[rudebwoyben]

They might as well have been relegated on the budget we had of £1.1m and saved themselves £2.4m..
It's not a very flattering adjective I'd use to describe Rovers' "achievement" but it's not tinpot.

 

[Sempre Rossoblu]

Say it in hushed tones on this forum but according to fans on our forum there was a game in the seventies where Rotherham brought one fan to Brunton Park.

It's always been an ambition of mine to be the only Aldershot fan at a first team game... Sad to say I've come close a few times this season...

 

[The_Boss]

This?

http://www.onefootballforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/county-cups.571/#post-31826

 

[AnthraxDaveHUFC]

WYP need to raid the basements of west Halifax for some of these.

https://twitter.com/lincspolice/status/565791663906652160/photo/1

That. Is Superb!!!!

 

[shoddycollins]

We've won the Cumberland cup 6 times in the last 13 years, although we don't take it seriously and I don't think we ever field senior players unless they're returning from injury or are a way out on the fringes of the squad although a number of our current senior squad played in it during their academy years and Paddy Madden scored in the final a few years back. We won one final a couple of years back 8-1 despite fielding no players over the age of 18. There's just such little competition, quite telling really that the second most successful team in the cup's history are Gretna.

EDIT: Posted into wrong thread, this was supposed to go into the county cups thread... deleted post... then reinstated it since people have replied to it.

 

[rudebwoyben]

Is there a Westmoreland Cup that Barrow and Workington enter?

 

[rudebwoyben]

We've entered a youth team for the Herts Senior Cup for the past few seasons and have usually lost in the first round. This season, we lost to St Margaretsbury of the South Midlands League. I'm not sure whether we're entering the HSC next season due to the fact that it will be our third season at the Hive, which has never been in Hertfordshire.

 

[Luke Imp]

WYP need to raid the basements of west Halifax for some of these.

https://twitter.com/lincspolice/status/565791663906652160/photo/1

Nothing tinpot about that!

Hopefully that'll sort out the one area of the pitch in the goalmouth that doesn't hold up as well as the other areas.

 

[shoddycollins]

Is there a Westmoreland Cup that Barrow and Workington enter?

Workington are Cumberland and Barrow are Lancashire... I presume there is a Westmoreland Cup although the biggest team in Westmoreland would be Kendal.

 

[UTS]

Two involving Accrington Stanley (surprise, surprise)

1) We (Bury) played them away about 2 weeks ago and they had to borrow our tonnoy announcer! The players entered the field to "come on you mighty shakers" at an away match! He also mispronounced the Accy players names a few times much to the anger of the 900 or so Accrington fans.

2) They tried selling tickets for the "match that never was" against Man U, tinpot in the extreme.