Monday 26 April 2010

Highlights and presentation

Unfortunately i could not get to Armthorpe on Saturday we had a family get together so missed out on the presentation the one game every Town supporter would have wanted to see i was devastated but thankfully we have this filmed and kindly donated to "A view from the bus shelter" by Trevor Emmett.Well done Trevor and thanks for sharing it with us.



2nd half and presentation

Tuesday 20 April 2010

CHAMPIONS

Well its official Bridlington Town football club are Champions of the Northern Counties East League and with four games still to play. We knew a win against Hall Road would be enough to win the league due to our superior goal difference and after a hard fought one nil win against a Hall Road team that fielded about 7 ex Bridlington players including former favourites Martin Thacker, Craig Suddaby and Paul Palmer these lads were well up for it and wanted to spoil the party for the Town faithful it was a scrappy game and we won the game from an Ash Allanson penalty. through the match news was going around the ground Armthorpe are losing 1-0 then 2-0 that was the last i heard of it but on the final whistle our your supporters who call themselves the Seaside Mafia ran on the pitch the players were also celebrating the results had gone our way and we knew Armthorpe could not catch us and we were crowned Champions only disappointing thing for me was no trophy to be presented to the team in front of our supporters. a great day to finally win it and on a number of occasions this season i really felt we had blown it. Well done to Gary Allanson and the boys you have really done us proud. (text from my mate the Boro fan)
Humberside airport has been closed after a massive cloud of dust drifted into UK airspace? The cleaner of the Brid Town trophy cabinet has now been arrested!

Lol who's laughing now hey not my mate (pic from free press website)


Wednesday 14 April 2010

Great News for a Seasiders fan


Have to say this is an unexpected post on the blog but last night i get a text its my mate Phil " Armthorpe have lost 1 nil to Lincoln think if we win Saturday we are Champions" This was great news and mathematically we would not be Champions Armthorpe are on 79 points from 36 games and can achieve 85 if they win their last two games one of them being against us. But we (Brid Town) are currently on 82 points from 33 games if we win on Saturday against Hall Road Rangers who are full of ex Town players we would be on 85 points the maximum that Armthorpe can get but our goal difference is 24 goals better than Armthorpe this is like an extra point.




P
W
D
L
F
A
PTS
+/-

1 Brid Town
33 26 4 3 114 31 82 83

2 Armthorpe
36 24 7 5 101 42 79 59

3
Rainworth MW
34 22 5 7 86 45 71 41


As Armthorpe would need to beat Thackley something like 15-0 and then beat us 10-0 for it to swing back in there favour and we would have to lose all of our remaining games, crikey i am confusing myself now, anyway things really looking good now in fact i can hear the Fat Lady tuning up her voice i we had better dig that ice bucket out and that classic tune from Queen yes you know the one.



Saturday 3 April 2010

Town v Long Eaton

Not the best of games today although we got a very early goal from Craig Hogg (yes i missed it getting served for my Chips and Curry) we never really looked like winning this game and we suffered injuries to key players like inspirational midfielder Ash Allanson and Ash Dexter in the first half and later on Craig Hogg came off with an injury. it was a dull game and the ref had a nightmare the home fans were very frustrated with the below par performance our players were not ticking like the Brid Town we all know hopefully a one off. Long Eaton equalised in the second half with a superb free kick that they rightly deserved and they did have chances to win the game if not from the excellent defending from Carl Giblin and Tom Lee. A couple of other things i should mention rumour went around the ground that once again Footballing traveller Danny Buttle had decided to move his Caravan to Harrogate although no official statement yet, Danny has always been a popular player with the Town supporters but yet again i feel like he has let us down by moving so late in the season surely the lad could have seen the season out with us. and the last thing is well done to Pickering Town on beating Armthorpe 2-0 yes this is the correct result this is really good news for us we now need 4 wins from 6 games to be crowned Champions on the Koolsport premier division.

Final score
Town 1 (Hogg)
Long Eaton 1 (nice free kick)

Referee 6/10 i think he lost the plot today let some very bad tackles go and then gave away some very strange free kicks (crazy)

Thursday 1 April 2010

Capello coming to Queensgate ?

This morning my phone was pretty hot 3 text messages and two missed calls (phone is on silent through the night i like my sleep) All three texts were about the story in the back of our paper on the Brid Town page. have i seen the Free press Fabio Capello is coming to Queensgate straight away i was kind of suspicious and went down stairs to get my paper sure enough there it was Exclusive : Capello to watch Brid Town stars, and the Headline Absolutely Fabio-lous and for about 30 seconds i actually believed Fabio would be coming to visit Queensgate and then i clicked oh dear April the 1st yes its Fools day and like my mates i also fell for it. last week we fell for the Armthorpe getting beat rumour and this week Fabio coming to Queensgate oh dear whatever next.

here is the article kindly borrowed from the Free press website :


THERE will be a surprise VIP casting an eye on title-chasing Bridlington Town on Saturday.
With just two-and-a-half months until the World Cup begins, the Free Press can reveal England manager Fabio Capello is planning to visit to Queensgate.

The Italian will be running the rule over some of the Seasiders' squad during their match against Long Eaton United, after reading glowing reports about the runaway league leaders.

Town manager Gary Allanson said: "I know it is April 1 but there is still time for players to impress the England manager.

"Mr Capello is no fool, and if players are in form, I'm sure he will consider them, whether they play in the Premiership or the Northern Counties East League.

"I just hope it doesn't affect the lads, knowing the England manager is watching them from the Bus Shelter."

To celebrate Mr Capello's planned visit, the Queensgate food kiosk will be selling pizza and pasta instead of pie and chips, and the Seasiders are considering swapping their all red kit for a strip in green, white and red, the colours of the Italian flag.

FA spokeswoman Ola Prilfo would not confirm the England manager would definitely be at Queensgate but told the Free Press: "Mr Capello said he wanted to see a team where all of the players were English, not like in the Premier League.

"He didn't say where he was going but he has packed his bucket and spade."

Bridlington chairman Peter Smurthwaite was equally tight-lipped. "I can't say too much, but Mr Capello will have to pay his £6 at the turnstile like everyone else.

"And there's a nice botle of Italian red as one of the raffle prizes if he buys a ticket."