Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by blue nige » Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:17 pm

blue blue boy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 3:33 pm Fair enough opinions are like bum holes we've all got one but for me it was the same both from Canavan and Gordon's goals, hardly exactly pumped up but if you see if different that's fine. Opinion, no agenda
There's 9 player's involved in the celebrations it was nothing like you insinuated just stirring up trouble that's not an opinion!

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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by Wintergreen » Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:40 pm

pjdaly wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 10:18 am Wintergreen . . . re the picture on page one of this thread, which you posted just before kick-off yesterday, with the accompanying caption "anything could happen in the next half-hour" . . .

Well, yes, it did . . .

Trouble is, it seems we forgot that anything could happen in the LAST half-hour too . . .

And it definitely did . . .

Obvious lesson? Any WASP worthy of the badge needs to sting for 90 minutes, not 30.
Dear PJ
Well that certainly wasn’t F.A.B. yesterday was it? Like me I know you like to be philosophical re AFC and treat triumph and adversity both the same but Christ on a penny farthing I didn’t expect to be smashed for three by the Titan terror fish in the second half. I’m afraid the last rendition of Captain Smugwash was just too much for me to bear and I retreated to my Hall of Fame eschewing the RC post mortem. In that silent and darkening place I looked out of the window and wondered if a jump from such a height would be enough to end my cod-induced turmoil. But over there by said window my focus came upon the framed heroes of yesteryear; Brian Arrowsmith, Mick Hartland, Paul Jones, Kenny Lowe, Jason Walker and my life-sized cardboard Jimmy Capstick display feature. In this moody fugue I thought what would the greats have done in this situation? Then I knew – they wouldn’t chuck themselves through the window but would be straining at the bit to fight the good fight and put things to rights the following Saturday. As must we even though we be croaky-voiced veterans who dared to dream. Battlestations indeed.
Yours aye WG
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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by bluessupporter » Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:45 pm

Wintergreen wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:40 pm
pjdaly wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 10:18 am Wintergreen . . . re the picture on page one of this thread, which you posted just before kick-off yesterday, with the accompanying caption "anything could happen in the next half-hour" . . .

Well, yes, it did . . .

Trouble is, it seems we forgot that anything could happen in the LAST half-hour too . . .

And it definitely did . . .

Obvious lesson? Any WASP worthy of the badge needs to sting for 90 minutes, not 30.
Dear PJ
Well that certainly wasn’t F.A.B. yesterday was it? Like me I know you like to be philosophical re AFC and treat triumph and adversity both the same but Christ on a penny farthing I didn’t expect to be smashed for three by the Titan terror fish in the second half. I’m afraid the last rendition of Captain Smugwash was just too much for me to bear and I retreated to my Hall of Fame eschewing the RC post mortem. In that silent and darkening place I looked out of the window and wondered if a jump from such a height would be enough to end my cod-induced turmoil. But over there by said window my focus came upon the framed heroes of yesteryear; Brian Arrowsmith, Mick Hartland, Paul Jones, Kenny Lowe, Jason Walker and my life-sized cardboard Jimmy Capstick display feature. In this moody fugue I thought what would the greats have done in this situation? Then I knew – they wouldn’t chuck themselves through the window but would be straining at the bit to fight the good fight and put things to rights the following Saturday. As must we even though we be croaky-voiced veterans who dared to dream. Battlestations indeed.
Yours aye WG
WG - can you please paragraph your posts to make them easier to read? Many thanks.

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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by Wintergreen » Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:46 pm

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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by bluessupporter » Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:48 pm

Wintergreen wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:46 pm N
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Thank you! ;)

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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by Wintergreen » Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:50 pm

bluessupporter wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:48 pm
Wintergreen wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:46 pm N
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Thank you! ;)
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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by bluessupporter » Sun Feb 22, 2026 6:07 pm

Wintergreen wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:50 pm
bluessupporter wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:48 pm

Thank you! ;)
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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by Barrow afc 2018 » Sun Feb 22, 2026 6:22 pm

Wintergreen wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:40 pm
pjdaly wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 10:18 am Wintergreen . . . re the picture on page one of this thread, which you posted just before kick-off yesterday, with the accompanying caption "anything could happen in the next half-hour" . . .

Well, yes, it did . . .

Trouble is, it seems we forgot that anything could happen in the LAST half-hour too . . .

And it definitely did . . .

Obvious lesson? Any WASP worthy of the badge needs to sting for 90 minutes, not 30.
Dear PJ
Well that certainly wasn’t F.A.B. yesterday was it? Like me I know you like to be philosophical re AFC and treat triumph and adversity both the same but Christ on a penny farthing I didn’t expect to be smashed for three by the Titan terror fish in the second half. I’m afraid the last rendition of Captain Smugwash was just too much for me to bear and I retreated to my Hall of Fame eschewing the RC post mortem. In that silent and darkening place I looked out of the window and wondered if a jump from such a height would be enough to end my cod-induced turmoil. But over there by said window my focus came upon the framed heroes of yesteryear; Brian Arrowsmith, Mick Hartland, Paul Jones, Kenny Lowe, Jason Walker and my life-sized cardboard Jimmy Capstick display feature. In this moody fugue I thought what would the greats have done in this situation? Then I knew – they wouldn’t chuck themselves through the window but would be straining at the bit to fight the good fight and put things to rights the following Saturday. As must we even though we be croaky-voiced veterans who dared to dream. Battlestations indeed.
Yours aye WG
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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by Matty » Sun Feb 22, 2026 7:34 pm

Barrow afc 2018 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 6:22 pm
Wintergreen wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:40 pm

Dear PJ
Well that certainly wasn’t F.A.B. yesterday was it? Like me I know you like to be philosophical re AFC and treat triumph and adversity both the same but Christ on a penny farthing I didn’t expect to be smashed for three by the Titan terror fish in the second half. I’m afraid the last rendition of Captain Smugwash was just too much for me to bear and I retreated to my Hall of Fame eschewing the RC post mortem. In that silent and darkening place I looked out of the window and wondered if a jump from such a height would be enough to end my cod-induced turmoil. But over there by said window my focus came upon the framed heroes of yesteryear; Brian Arrowsmith, Mick Hartland, Paul Jones, Kenny Lowe, Jason Walker and my life-sized cardboard Jimmy Capstick display feature. In this moody fugue I thought what would the greats have done in this situation? Then I knew – they wouldn’t chuck themselves through the window but would be straining at the bit to fight the good fight and put things to rights the following Saturday. As must we even though we be croaky-voiced veterans who dared to dream. Battlestations indeed.
Yours aye WG
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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by russell_anderson » Mon Feb 23, 2026 1:55 am

blue nige wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:17 pm
blue blue boy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 3:33 pm Fair enough opinions are like bum holes we've all got one but for me it was the same both from Canavan and Gordon's goals, hardly exactly pumped up but if you see if different that's fine. Opinion, no agenda
There's 9 player's involved in the celebrations it was nothing like you insinuated just stirring up trouble that's not an opinion!
Agreed. I couldn't understand the original point as what I saw was almost the whole team surrounding Canavan and celebrating after he scored.

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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by pjdaly » Mon Feb 23, 2026 2:16 pm

Wintergreen wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 5:40 pm
pjdaly wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 10:18 am Wintergreen . . . re the picture on page one of this thread, which you posted just before kick-off yesterday, with the accompanying caption "anything could happen in the next half-hour" . . .

Well, yes, it did . . .

Trouble is, it seems we forgot that anything could happen in the LAST half-hour too . . .

And it definitely did . . .

Obvious lesson? Any WASP worthy of the badge needs to sting for 90 minutes, not 30.
Dear PJ
Well that certainly wasn’t F.A.B. yesterday was it? Like me I know you like to be philosophical re AFC and treat triumph and adversity both the same but Christ on a penny farthing I didn’t expect to be smashed for three by the Titan terror fish in the second half. I’m afraid the last rendition of Captain Smugwash was just too much for me to bear and I retreated to my Hall of Fame eschewing the RC post mortem. In that silent and darkening place I looked out of the window and wondered if a jump from such a height would be enough to end my cod-induced turmoil. But over there by said window my focus came upon the framed heroes of yesteryear; Brian Arrowsmith, Mick Hartland, Paul Jones, Kenny Lowe, Jason Walker and my life-sized cardboard Jimmy Capstick display feature. In this moody fugue I thought what would the greats have done in this situation? Then I knew – they wouldn’t chuck themselves through the window but would be straining at the bit to fight the good fight and put things to rights the following Saturday. As must we even though we be croaky-voiced veterans who dared to dream. Battlestations indeed.
Yours aye WG

Very good, Wintergreen! I'd apply one of those laughing emoji-thingies if I knew how to. Perhaps Aqua Marina could come to our rescue? That would be two players for the price of one but the first one probably now thinks he's on a better bet at Harrogate and the other one might think there's no point in trying as this could be the last of the summer wine. I wouldn't make Aqua Marina captain though as she never had much to say, (but she did have a knack of ending up on the winning side).

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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by Hendoblue » Mon Feb 23, 2026 5:46 pm

Another good thread ruined

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Re: Fleetwood Town v Barrow match thread

Post by Cokey » Mon Feb 23, 2026 10:11 pm

Hendoblue wrote: ↑Mon Feb 23, 2026 5:46 pm Another good thread ruined
It’s just a bit of light-hearted fun, which you can easily choose to ignore.

It’s not as if they’ve started up a thread offering a bonus to underachieving players. ;)

Alas, I could easily choose to ignore that too, but REALLY?! :sentoff:

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