Brentford, Chelsea and QPR not playing at home on Sat, so why are we playing on Friday night, our jinx night.....
Could be the Boat race.
We always used to play on boat-race days.
Used to yes but can't think of one we did in the last 15 years or so, so the boat race maybe the reason
I understood it to be because of the boat race. But in the past, The premier league gave us an away fixture that weekend
Must be the boat race.
We seem to have played a lot on Fridays this season tho.
What a nonsense if it is because of the Boat Race. Is it Health & Safety worried in case a player falls over an oar? Or kicks a rollerk? :046:
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Quote from: bog on April 08, 2015, 08:54:28 AM
What a nonsense if it is because of the Boat Race. Is it Health & Safety worried in case a player falls over an oar? Or kicks a rollerk? :046:
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Nah, it'll be concerns over the number of people in the area.
I remember standing on the Riverside terracing watching a game - it may have been a reserve game, when the boat race went past, and we all went up the back to watch it, before going back to attend to the game.
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
Quote from: Cravenawin on April 08, 2015, 10:11:51 AM
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
Actually, it's a lot more than just 'Hooray Henrys'. Some of us think that rowing is an excellent sport, and as someone who rowed for 8 years, I tend to agree with that.
Quote from: Airfix on April 08, 2015, 09:23:48 AM
Quote from: bog on April 08, 2015, 08:54:28 AM
What a nonsense if it is because of the Boat Race. Is it Health & Safety worried in case a player falls over an oar? Or kicks a rollerk? :046:
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Nah, it'll be concerns over the number of people in the area.
Eggs Ackerly. Bishops Park has a big public event and a big ticketed event for The Boat Race, with bars, big screens etc.. Loads of people about, and the large area right by The Cottage is closed off completely.
Quote from: RaySmith on April 08, 2015, 09:30:12 AM
I remember standing on the Riverside terracing watching a game - it may have been a reserve game, when the boat race went past, and we all went up the back to watch it, before going back to attend to the game.
...I was at the friendly against Kilmarnock around 1968, and everyone went up the steps of the Thamesbank to watch the event and then returned to their respective favoured haunts.
A great picture from the master of monochrome, Ken Coton:-
(http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/2986/fulhamvkilmarnock1968bo.jpg)
So who is compensating the club for the reduced attendance, given that very few Wigan supporters will be there and plenty of Fulham fans can't make evening fixtures?
I also remember watching the race from the terracing of what is now the Riverside stand.
Why were we playing a friendly in April?
Knocked out of the FA Cup and the team we were due to play in the league were still in the Cup?
No doubt nowadays the tired players would be given the weekend off or taken to the sun in Spain or Portugal
Quote from: Cravenawin on April 08, 2015, 10:11:51 AM
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
and a bunch of grown up's kicking a ball and rolling around the ground and screaming when they think they have broken a nail is not, just because you don't like it does not mean that it should not happen, we hear a lot on this site about tradition, and the boat race has been going a lot longer than you have. I like to see it, does that make me a hooray Henry then?
Les, I think I was at that game also. Ken's photograph is of Ian Seymour is it not? I recall other times I was there and the oars went past.
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Quote from: Cravenawin on April 08, 2015, 10:11:51 AM
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
It's a fix, too. The top two elite universities
always get to the final !
Quote from: Cravenawin on April 08, 2015, 10:11:51 AM
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
Oh dear another rant
Quote from: Cravenawin on April 08, 2015, 10:11:51 AM
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
Should ban football. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of Charlie's down by the Thames to see 22 overpaid spotty Herbert's kick an inflated bladder about, pathetic.
hasn't there been a couple of times when there was a match between Oxford & Cambridge (Uni's) at the Cottage on the day of the boat race?
Quote from: Fulham1959 on April 08, 2015, 01:11:45 PM
Quote from: Cravenawin on April 08, 2015, 10:11:51 AM
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
It's a fix, too. The top two elite universities always get to the final !
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I used to love the boat race. If it coincided with a game or was on the same day, always made a point of watching them pass. Always used to watch on the tv. Like the Grand National it has become less of an event for me. Purely I think because I used to watch with all the family. Now I don't get quite the joy on my own watching it. But can never understand this class reverse snobbery that comes in to it for some. It is an event, enjoy it.
Quote from: WhiteJC on April 08, 2015, 01:29:24 PM
hasn't there been a couple of times when there was a match between Oxford & Cambridge (Uni's) at the Cottage on the day of the boat race?
I think they still do this.
On the plus side, it can only be an advantage to us, as Wigan would have probably brought 1,000+ for such a big game on a Saturday, whereas I fully expect them to have only 2-300 on Friday night.
Quote from: RaySmith on April 08, 2015, 09:30:12 AM
I remember standing on the Riverside terracing watching a game - it may have been a reserve game, when the boat race went past, and we all went up the back to watch it, before going back to attend to the game.
It was a friendly against Kilmarnock. We won 3-1 and we had a chap called Don Kerrigan playing but I can't remember anything else about the match.
Quote from: The Equalizer on April 08, 2015, 11:33:24 AM
Quote from: Cravenawin on April 08, 2015, 10:11:51 AM
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
Actually, it's a lot more than just 'Hooray Henrys'. Some of us think that rowing is an excellent sport, and as someone who rowed for 8 years, I tend to agree with that.
Quote from: Cravenawin on April 08, 2015, 10:11:51 AM
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
Not at all, it's always been a great event and up to the 1950's street traders sold miniature oars in dark and light blue to the inhabitants of Putney and Fulham and we kids pestered our parents for them despite not having the faintest idea where Oxford and Cambridge were.
Tremendous physical effort by both crews every year,so don't be such a misery.
Why not move the Boat Race to a Friday night that would add a bit of danger to the whole affair. Street vendors selling torches and candles!
Quote from: Neil D on April 08, 2015, 12:12:43 PM
So who is compensating the club for the reduced attendance, given that very few Wigan supporters will be there and plenty of Fulham fans can't make evening fixtures?
I also remember watching the race from the terracing of what is now the Riverside stand.
Quote from: Chesh on April 08, 2015, 01:46:33 PM
On the plus side, it can only be an advantage to us, as Wigan would have probably brought 1,000+ for such a big game on a Saturday, whereas I fully expect them to have only 2-300 on Friday night.
I believe that Wigan have offered their fans free coach travel for the game. Suspect that they will be there in numbers.
Quote from: win-dup on April 08, 2015, 03:56:28 PM
Quote from: The Equalizer on April 08, 2015, 11:33:24 AM
Quote from: Cravenawin on April 08, 2015, 10:11:51 AM
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
Actually, it's a lot more than just 'Hooray Henrys'. Some of us think that rowing is an excellent sport, and as someone who rowed for 8 years, I tend to agree with that.
Quote from: Cravenawin on April 08, 2015, 10:11:51 AM
Should ban the Boat Race. Most stupid sporting event ever invented. Thousands of hooray Henrys lining the Thames to see 18 Ruperts in a couple of boats, pathetic.
Not at all, it's always been a great event and up to the 1950's street traders sold miniature oars in dark and light blue to the inhabitants of Putney and Fulham and we kids pestered our parents for them despite not having the faintest idea where Oxford and Cambridge were.
Tremendous physical effort by both crews every year,so don't be such a misery.
I agree. I'm not into rowing at all and am far from being a hooray henry but I have taken up the £10 entry (inc. a drink and match day food - and decent toilets that those on the banks of the river could only dream of) to watch it with my family from the riverside terrace at the Cottage and had a great day. As well as seeing the race start, the rest of it on monitors and a jazz band in the stadium there was a good buzz around the pubs.
Also, girl from my village, who admittedly is a hooray Henrietta but a fit one, was the cox a few years ago. If the cox is the person that shouts instead of rows that is?
