I haven’t wittered on about The Mighty Seagulls for a while, and with good reason.
Truth be told, whilst still hopeful for this season, we are in a position where our season can go either way. We’re 12th and a few points off the pace, but with a number of games in hand, we should be right up there. We’re not doing fantastically, but we aint doing half bad.
The reason we are a few games behind is because we’ve really shone is in the cup competitions.
We went far in the FA Cup until losing to Barrow, we took Witton (a team who are running away with the title in the division above) to penalties in the League cup, and we’ve done well in the FA Trophy, beating Frickley and Sheffield along the way.
Tomorrow, in that trophy, we face the club with the stupidest crest ever - Burton Albion.
Burton Albion are one of the favourites in the trophy: they are a very good side with a great young manager (Nigel Clough, ex Liverpool player who is the son of Brian Clough - he
The bizarre spectacle of BNP leader Nick Griffin flanked by an entourage of party activists arrived in a tiny court room in North Wales yesterday.The far-right leader claimed he was providing “moral support” for Llysfaen community councillor Patrick Pattison, amid attempts to slap an injunction on him at Colwyn Bay County Court.Conwy council wants an order banning Mr Pattison from “behaving in a threatening, abusive or insulting way towards officers and members”. It follows allegations of “unacceptable” behaviour by the 55-year-old former Independent councillor, who caused outrage when he defected to the BNP earlier this year.Mr Griffin, national chairman of the British National Party, squeezed into the tiny courtroom with four other party members.Clearly taken aback by their presence, deputy district judge Peter Anderson asked why they were there, and was told by Cllr Pattison: “People are trying to blacken my character and these people have come to offer moral support.
flangracneig pgoramian Yesterday, all the talking stopped. Colwyn Bay Staff vs. Colwyn Bay Fans in the “Match of the Season”. The club was the obvious benefitter: raising £750 before a ball has even been kicked. It brought fans, players and the community together in such a big way.
That being said, we wanted to win.
We arrived at half 10, and we went pretty much straight into the away team’s dressing room. We had the home kits, and got changed for a pre match warm up and team talk. Me and Jay said to each other we’d try and play 90 minutes. Alas, that wasn’t to be for me as I started on the subs bench.
The original plan was to hold back and defend for the first 10 minutes, and then beat them later. That was the plan, but in the end we just went straight out and attacked. After 21 minutes, Jay scored a hell of a goal, which means that Han wins the golden goal contest. A few minutes later we scored a second, and then came my time to shine - I had been itc
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Well, it didn’t go quite as planned last night. Yes, I did train, and no I’m not injured. Unfortunately I didn’t have a chance to break in the new boots. The pitch was too hard. Hopefully it won’t rain much between now and Saturday, as it could be odd playing in my boots for the first time. Okay, some of you won’t understand the above statement, but boots need to be broken in!
Right, I’m beginning to get excited for Saturday’s game. We’ve managed to make back page news on the first of the local papers out this week: The Colwyn Bay Pioneer.
Yes! Backpage! Of all the major sporting stories in the North Wales area we are one of them. I don’t think much of the positioning, sorry but who cares about Mochdre vs. Connah’s Quay cricket match?
Nevertheless, something I have been a part of has been newsworthy, and it beats my two prev
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After training last Wednesday, I decided - I need boots. The trainers which I have aren’t up for the serious kicking for 90 minutes. Couple that with the shit weather we are having at the moment means that the ground on Wednesday could be as wet and slippery that night in a hotel with me, the Ladies Brazilian Beach Volleyball Team, and gallon of baby oil. But I digress. I need boots.
My first port of call was online. It’s cheap, easy and I could order them anytime. A quick search of a few sites my brother gave me lead me to one site, that has football boots for £20. Brilliant. They arrived last Friday. Excitedly, I opened it up and stared in horror with what lay before me.
You see, there’s an annoying trend at the moment regarding football boots. You can get every shade under the sun, except black. My shorts and socks for the day (unless I hear otherwise) are black. I
flangracneig pgoramian I haven’t looked at my blog for the past 3 days, it actually feels weird coming back to it. Oh well, here’s what I’ve been doing.
I have had a gorgeous bank holiday weekend off, and been pretty busy. It hasn’t been the best of weather in North Wales, but it’s been okay. Still, I have done a lot (with the exception of 1 day), and there’s been people around to do stuff with.
Saturday was spent avoided Llandudno during the day. They have a Victorian Extravaganza bank holiday weekend that shuts off the main street in the town, so the traffic is terrible around there. Instead, we headed to Conwy, to the Marina, to oggle the obscene amount of wealth that is on display in the quay.
We stopped by for a pint and a sandwich in the local pub, which used to do amazing sandwiches, but they weren’t great on Saturday. Mine was a duck in hoy sin sauce one, but it wasn’t very nice. You can see by the look on my face.
It just lef
flangracneig pgoramian Apologies for a short entry today, but I got in at midnight and haven’t written it yet.
Colwyn Bay lost 3-2 in the playoffs to Cammell Laird last night. Cammell Laird were the better side, but I feel we could’ve scraped a draw, and then take it to penalties. A 92nd minute winner decided it. Needless to say, I was gutted, but every single person with an alligence to CBFC should be proud of their team and themselves. It was a great game to watch, and the 2nd half of the season has been, quite frankly brilliant. Whilst we are as a group of fans gutted that we spend another season in the Unibond League 1, it is such an exciting time for us, as we can build on our success. Our Chairman left last night too, so we’re in a prime position for somebody with a bit of cash and business acumen to come along, plonk down £200,000 and build on the success we already have.
All in all, I’m not too gutted, more so when a mate texted me a joke:
“Jose
flangracneig pgoramian Saturday was a truly fabulous day.
I awoke early with excitement for the big day, as detailed a few posts ago, Zandr was already winging his way to North Wales, and happy as larry. Bless him, he was from deepest darkest Yorkshire, and was taken aback by the leafy surroundings of the North Wales coast. It was on the way to Llandudno when he came out with this classic (imagine this in a thick “Yorkshire News” esque accent) :
“I was on the way here, and I saw all this blue bits on me satnav. I was wondering what it was. I drove towards it, looked right, and saw it was the sea.”
Bless.
We just talked all day, it was fabulous. Talked about people (Guy McGechan, you’re a dirty man!), what we were upto, and what to do today.
We headed along Llandudno Pier, went in the arcades, and took a photo, which I decided now that I’ve seen it I need taller friends.
Following a spot of lunch at my favourite pub, we headed off to the game: Colw
flangracneig pgoramian Hi everybody! As today is a glorious Good Friday, I really don’t want to spend hours cooked up inside when I can be outside, enjoying myself. I’ve got lots planned, but more on that later. In order to keep you, my one hundred million viewers, happy.
First off for all you Wii fans in the UK, some advice needed. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is a shade over £20 on Amazon. At the moment, all I play is Wii Play and Wii Sports, and of the two, Wii Sports mainly. It is rather addictive, and my mate Bush keeps telling me that although he’s got a mountain of games, Wii Sports is the one he plays the most. A lot of people have said that this Zelda is one of the greatest games ever, and I have enjoyed past outings with Link. But I’m not sure whether I want to spent £20 on it just yet so that it sits on my shelf. What do you think, Wii owners?
Staying on the Nintendo theme, I found an ace little game called Super Mario War. Essentially, i
flangracneig pgoramian Football Post Time!
Right, for the 3 of you that are left, it has been a fairly exciting week in terms of football, especially for The Mighty Seagulls. Our manager - Peter Davenport - left us to join Southport. This was actually big news on a slow day, being at 4th biggest story on the BBC site, and even a bit on Sky Sports News.
How terribly exciting! Even though there was no mention of The Mighty Seagulls on Sky Sports News, it’s like we don’t exist. Boo them!
However, after a turbulent week, the club seems relaxed and more focussed. We’ll do just fine methinks, Dav had some nice things to say about us, and we have loyal fans who produce quality videos such as this (credit to JuniorMan and his team for that video). Come on the Bay, who are playing Goole. Yes, I have trouble spelling it because it’s close to Google. I’m such a geek.
Finally, it’s another week of Lawro’s Predictions! As previously stated, he was Double W
