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Pedro wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:28 pm I have listened to Chris Bitch regularly on Radio Carlisle he reminds me of a car salesman fast loosing the sale of a LADA.
He needs to talk to Rob Kelly to give him tips on sounding proffesional,rough round the edges is being polite.

mall wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:50 pm

Moribund wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:48 pm

Carlisle fans are generally bitter about having to share a division with little tinpot Barrow, so this sort of drivel is to be expected from them.

They also described Harrogate as 'tinpot'.

bluedevil wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:28 pm And, I was born in Westmorland....what does that make me????

holkerboy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:00 pm

behind the goals wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:35 pm Next weeks away game at Leyton Orient could be moved because of Prince Phillips funeral which is at 3pm next Saturday its on several forums.

The EFL have announced that all games will be moved as a mark of respect. They are going to talk to the clubs about the new arrangements.

Jonty wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:13 pm Listened to the away commentary today and stuck with it. Phillips is always ok towards Barrow and always speaks positively of his time commentating for us.

bluedevil wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:28 pm

andyg wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:20 pm Honestly, listening to radio Cumbria down here in Manchester they are a joke in the sense they come across as so pro Carlisle. I switched it off a couple of times in the build up to the game because of their bias. Then came their managers view of the game. Think he's a scouser so all he does is moan and is so condescending towards "little Barrow" - "they are all six footers so they lump it up to Quigs" etc etc. On the point of our "narrow" pitch from the Carlisle forum I was reliably told by someone at the ground last summer that Holker St in the same dimensions as Anfield. Whether it is or not it definitely conforms to FA standards. Lastly, the word Cumbria! Carlisle, if I remember rightly, was in Cumberland. We Barrovian "colonists" settled in Lancashire. Get your facts right on the Carlisle forum please. Rant over on to Exeter who play in West Wales I believe!

And ........................breathe??
To be honest the pitch did look quite narrow on iplayer, but I suppose that is to do with the camera angle.
Beech is from Fleetwood near Blackpool.
Thought the commentators on both sides were actually pretty good, both praising and knocking each others teams pretty evenly.
And, I was born in Westmorland....what does that make me????

andyg wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:53 pmI presume most young Barrovians consider themselves to be Cumbrian I guess & that is quite understandable. But I always like the fact that our coat of arms bears the red rose of Lancashire.

xerxes wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:02 pm

Jonty wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:13 pm Listened to the away commentary today and stuck with it. Phillips is always ok towards Barrow and always speaks positively of his time commentating for us.

With the score at 0-1 I thought I'd switch to the away commentary for a few minutes, just out of interest. During those few minutes we scored twice, so being a bit superstitious about things like that I decided to stay with it for the rest of the game. I agree they were fine in their attitude towards Barrow, the only thing they got a bit aerated about was the Eardley incident, which was understandable. Phillips was heaping loads of praise on Quigley, saying he wished he was in Carlisle's team.

Moribund wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:19 pm No way the ref could send Eardley off after he just let Tanner off with a much worse challenge about two minutes earlier.