RoystonFoote'snephew Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Now behind closed doors. Disappointed as I hadn’t been to Newport. Perhaps to do with World Cup semi finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View from the Dolman Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 2 minutes ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said: Now behind closed doors. Disappointed as I hadn’t been to Newport. Perhaps to do with World Cup semi finals. Correct. "Both clubs have reviewed the fixture and have decided that, particularly in the light of the potential for England to be engaged in a World Cup semi-final on the same evening, the costs of staging the match would far outweigh any revenue derived from it and is therefore not commercially viable." https://www.newport-county.co.uk/news/2018/july/pre-season-bristol-city/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 why not just move it, I'm sure a lot of the players would rather watch the semi final? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vespa Red Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 So, we've reached the World Cup semi already have we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 6 minutes ago, Vespa Red said: So, we've reached the World Cup semi already have we? "Potential for England to be in a semi final" Try and work out the key word there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFC II Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 4 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said: "Potential for England to be in a semi final" Try and work out the key word there. Semi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lrrr Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 5 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said: "Potential for England to be in a semi final" Try and work out the key word there. Be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big C Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Why would the Welsh be interested in a World Cup semi final? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RED4LIFE Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 1 hour ago, JBFC II said: Semi? Yes I have. Thanks for noticing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe jordans teeth Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 2 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said: Now behind closed doors. Disappointed as I hadn’t been to Newport. Perhaps to do with World Cup semi finals. “Disappointed as I hadn’t been to Newport” is not a sentence I ever thought I would of read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 2 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said: Now behind closed doors. Disappointed as I hadn’t been to Newport. Perhaps to do with World Cup semi finals. I've been to Newport to change train/bus/rail replacement. You haven't missed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRFTG Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 My lad ( now fully grown) still has embedded in his memory that pre-season we played them at Cwmbran. One of his first fixtures and only a toddler he asked: "Dad, why has that man no clothes on?" If you're the City fan whose mates stitched him up by not appearing on the far terrace with a spare set of clothes I feel for you, last seen a**e disappearing over the back of the terrace stewards in pursuit. Hysterical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 3 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said: Now behind closed doors. Disappointed as I hadn’t been to Newport. Perhaps to do with World Cup semi finals. My giveafuckometer is firmly at zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtucks Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 48 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said: I've been to Newport to change train/bus/rail replacement. You haven't missed out. I went to Newport in March 1981 to watch them play Carl Zeiss Jena in the quarter finals of the European Cup Winners Cup second leg. They had drawn 2-2 in Switzerland, but lost 1-0 at home in front of a full Somerton Park crowd. A great game and one that I will always remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 12 minutes ago, Juan Kerr said: My giveafuckometer is firmly at zero. Yet you gave enough of one to open this clearly titled thread and comment. Anyway, this fixture was always a bit strange. Due to ground works was either going to be played at Newport stadium, which is approx 3 miles away from the train station or at Newport’s ground. It hadn’t been announced so I thought something was up, and then the World Cup progress happened. Even if England weren’t in it I think many like to watch the semi finals, especially as they are on tv at a reasonable time. Also the match is the next day to the WSM match, even with split squads how many first team squad players will feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelton Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 20 minutes ago, Redtucks said: I went to Newport in March 1981 to watch them play Carl Zeiss Jena in the quarter finals of the European Cup Winners Cup second leg. They had drawn 2-2 in Switzerland, but lost 1-0 at home in front of a full Somerton Park crowd. A great game and one that I will always remember. Ok I'll bite,why would an East German team be playing in Switzerland ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vespa Red Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 I live near Newport. HELP!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddoh Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 9 minutes ago, Vespa Red said: I live near Newport. HELP!!!! I will bet there are supporters living in England that live closer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 1 hour ago, JamesBCFC said: I've been to Newport to change train/bus/rail replacement. You haven't missed out. I spent two weeks working there either side of bonfire night - it was like bloody Beirut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 45 minutes ago, Redtucks said: I went to Newport in March 1981 to watch them play Carl Zeiss Jena in the quarter finals of the European Cup Winners Cup second leg. They had drawn 2-2 in Switzerland, but lost 1-0 at home in front of a full Somerton Park crowd. A great game and one that I will always remember. Was that with Tynan and Aldridge up front? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1ackbird Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Surely an oxymoron... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 4 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said: I spent two weeks working there either side of bonfire night - it was like bloody Beirut. So they dressed the place up for your visit. Don't rub it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoystonFoote'snephew Posted July 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 1 minute ago, Red Right Hand said: I spent two weeks working there either side of bonfire night - it was like bloody Beirut. When I said I hadn’t been to Newport I should have been more succinct. I meant their current ground now they’re back in the EFL. I did see us play a friendly at some little ground out near the car auctions, and I have had a drink in Newport, which I wouldn’t recommend albeit it’s probably better than Merthyr or Pontypridd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 1 minute ago, JamesBCFC said: So they dressed the place up for your visit. Don't rub it in. Honestly it was like fourteen consecutive days of enemy bombardment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 2 minutes ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said: When I said I hadn’t been to Newport I should have been more succinct. I meant their current ground now they’re back in the EFL. I did see us play a friendly at some little ground out near the car auctions, and I have had a drink in Newport, which I wouldn’t recommend albeit it’s probably better than Merthyr or Pontypridd. If ever the expression `damning with faint praise` needed an example that`s it right there! The council`s tourist board ought to use it; `Visit Newport. It`s not as bad as Merthyr or Pontypridd.` Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 2 minutes ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said: When I said I hadn’t been to Newport I should have been more succinct. I meant their current ground now they’re back in the EFL. I did see us play a friendly at some little ground out near the car auctions, and I have had a drink in Newport, which I wouldn’t recommend albeit it’s probably better than Merthyr or Pontypridd. My uni campus was in Treforest, about 2 miles from Pontypridd. Treforest outdoes Pontypridd on the whiteness scale, because if not for the uni it would probably be abandoned. Merthyr I only went to for football matches when a Bristol side were playing them, even the walk from the ground to the station was too much time spent there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 4 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said: If ever the expression `damning with faint praise` needed an example that`s it right there! The council`s tourist board ought to use it; `Visit Newport. It`s not as bad as Merthyr or Pontypridd.` See, I didn't mind Pontypridd. It was a dump, but so much better than (the limited bits of) Merthyr (that I saw). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoystonFoote'snephew Posted July 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 It’s the fact that after 17.30 you’re not allowed to carry alcohol on the train between Merthyr and Pontypridd, let alone consume it, that tells you all you need to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 This is very sad news for those on football banning order who could have previously attended this game legally. Hahahahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vespa Red Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 1 hour ago, reddoh said: I will bet there are supporters living in England that live closer. As the crow flies...Clevedon is nearer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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