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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2010 20:49:39 GMT
Anybody else been following the fortunes of Manchester RFC in rugby's National One this season? I noticed after four or five games that they were pretty poor. Well, they've just completed the season by going down 140-0 at Blaydon. That's thirty defeats out of thirty, 119 points scored, 2,626 conceded and – to add insult to injury – two points deducted because of an irregularity. It’s a wonder they got people to play for them let alone slipping up on the odd registration or two. What went wrong? Not the bounce of the ball, surely? But – as you'd expect – when interviewed on Radio Cornwall – Redruth’s coach was heard to say “the trip to Manchester will be hard. There are no easy games in rugby”. Or was it actually the “high performance manager” as some rugby clubs now call them? Still with rugby, some revealing figures in the Janner Indy today about attendances and how several in the South West have fallen yet remain amongst the highest in the Championship:  And, in football, Portreath haven’t done too well in their first season in the Cornwall Combination: thirty-three defeats out of thirty-three; 252 goals let in to date (including seventeen against Illogan Royal British Legion during the week). |
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Post by Dave on May 2, 2010 21:35:36 GMT
The Blacksmith's Arms fear they'll be Britain's worst football team if they lose again today. They go into their last game of the season having been beaten in all 24 matches so far and conceding 337 goals - a humiliating average of 14 per match. In reply, the lads have scored a measly five times with one of those being an own-goal. The pub team's goal difference in 19 league games is minus 269 and in five cup ties they've lost by a combined scoreline of 63-0. In a season of disasters, they surpassed themselves by being thrashed 27-0 - on two occasions. Pub landlady and club secretary Julz Dixon said: "If we continue like this we're heading for the Guinness Book of Records as the worst team there's ever been. "We know we're rubbish but I can't fault the attitude of the players - they are a great bunch. "We keep getting beat but we've been playing a bit better lately. Rather than losing by 20 goals, it's now just five or 10." Lifeguard Tim Allen, 20, is the Lincoln club's unlucky goalkeeper who has been desperately trying to stop the team from drowning every week. He said: "It gets a bit sickening when you're getting beat 27-0, so I had a go outfield. "Unfortunately, our reserve keeper got injured so I was put back between the sticks. There was no escape. "We don't enjoy losing and it's hard work. In some games I have to try to save 40 or 50 shots." Blacksmith's said they will keep going next season even if they lose today at Horncastle in the WJ Harrison Lincoln League. And they'll still have a way to go before reaching the standards set by Isle of Arran side Northend Thistle who failed to win for 18 years before a victory in 2008. 27-0 The Blacksmith's Arms' heaviest defeat of the season.. it's happened twice www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/05/01/the-blacksmith-s-arms-could-be-the-world-s-worst-football-team-ever-115875-22225057/ |
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Post by kipper on May 2, 2010 22:57:52 GMT
Anybody else been following the fortunes of Manchester RFC in rugby's National One this season? I noticed after four or five games that they were pretty poor. Well, they've just completed the season by going down 140-0 at Blaydon. That's thirty defeats out of thirty, 119 points scored, 2,626 conceded and – to add insult to injury – two points deducted because of an irregularity. It’s a wonder they got people to play for them let alone slipping up on the odd registration or two. What went wrong? Not the bounce of the ball, surely? But – as you'd expect – when interviewed on Radio Cornwall – Redruth’s coach was heard to say “the trip to Manchester will be hard. There are no easy games in rugby”. Or was it actually the “high performance manager” as some rugby clubs now call them? Still with rugby, some revealing figures in the Janner Indy today about attendances and how several in the South West have fallen yet remain amongst the highest in the Championship: And, in football, Portreath haven’t done too well in their first season in the Cornwall Combination: thirty-three defeats out of thirty-three; 252 goals let in to date (including seventeen against Illogan Royal British Legion during the week). Financial Mismanagement and all the players left, but rather than fold they have being fielding a young team of if-buts-and-maybe's so that hopefully they can re-group next season, which was an honourable decision. I went to the game v London Scottish, beats a nil-nil draw on a cold afternoon. |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2010 8:16:44 GMT
Must have been a tremendous effort for Manchester to keep going to the end of the season. Also a reminder of how rugby relatively quickly changed from an amateur sport (where there were no leagues) through to one with a pyramid similar to football's. Successful transitions to professionalism in places; complete and utter mayhem elsewhere. I guess that revenue through the turnstiles is largely irrelevant (away from a dozen or so places) so it's bar takings, sponsorship and personal largesse that shapes the finances. And if the big investor....
In the wider context, you usually find the truly awful teams at a rather modest level (such as the Blacksmith’s Arms). What is unusual about Manchester’s plight is that it’s been played out at a relatively high level of the game – the third tier of club rugby in England.
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Post by aussie on May 3, 2010 14:38:57 GMT
Jackz from Brixham are proper garbage, whipping boys of the Sunday league!
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Post by merse on May 8, 2010 22:08:10 GMT
 I dunno about "a truly awful team" but Tilbury FC sound a truly awful club from what I was told by one of their players and researched for myself today.......................... Anthony's manager at A Class FC is Reece Darchville who is one of their players and the tale he told me defied believing but is certainly true. Strangely for a semi pro' club in such senior football they run their First Team as a separate entity from the rest of the club and so the Reserves, and Youth Set up are forced to go out and seek their own funding and sponsorship ~ Reece's profile can be found by Googling their website and looking for him in the "reserves" section. In fact, read the drama as it unfolds for yourself but in a nutshell it is yet another intrigue of apparent asset stripping and land grabbing from property developers of whom Frank Lampard Senior is one; and as it says on the Tilbury forum "just why already very wealthy men want to rape a town of it's football club defies belief"Reece tells me of the incredible youth set up the club has had created for it whilst putting little in, in terms of financial or practical backing; and how sad he is to be leaving such a great bunch of kids but leave he must to continue his playing career at a decent level next season. Another sad tale with a sordid edge to it.
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