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Title: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: WhiteJC on May 26, 2015, 08:58:31 PM
now that footie has gone on holiday until August what do you do?

myself I've taken up building model aircraft (Airfix type stuff) to while away the hours
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: f321ffc on May 26, 2015, 09:05:07 PM
On the laptop on this site awaiting good news from FFC, seem to be on here far too much. 090.gif 092.gif
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Fulham Tup North on May 26, 2015, 09:13:48 PM
...Hibernation...    ;)
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: cmg on May 26, 2015, 09:16:19 PM
Quote from: Fulham Tup North on May 26, 2015, 09:13:48 PM
...Hibernation...    ;)

...Unlucky to be pipped by Rangers for that play-off final spot.   :58:
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: fulhamben on May 26, 2015, 09:16:24 PM
golf, lots of golf
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Jonaldiniho 88 on May 26, 2015, 09:18:26 PM
This off season I shall be mostly watching the cricket.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: rogerpbackinMidEastUS on May 26, 2015, 09:23:17 PM
Gardening, swimming, drinking, sleeping....oh and working a full time job.

It's really only 90 minutes or 180 minutes a week I have to find something else to do.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: fulhamben on May 26, 2015, 09:26:03 PM
Quote from: rogerpinvirginia on May 26, 2015, 09:23:17 PM
Gardening, swimming, drinking, sleeping....oh and working a full time job.

It's really only 90 minutes or 180 minutes a week I have to find something else to do.
working? is that some sort of sick joke
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: rogerpbackinMidEastUS on May 26, 2015, 09:35:24 PM
Quote from: fulhamben on May 26, 2015, 09:26:03 PM
Quote from: rogerpinvirginia on May 26, 2015, 09:23:17 PM
Gardening, swimming, drinking, sleeping....oh and working a full time job.

It's really only 90 minutes or 180 minutes a week I have to find something else to do.
working? is that some sort of sick joke


If you worked here you would know that it is
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: SouthfieldWhite on May 26, 2015, 09:39:19 PM
Football never stops for me, loads of summer tournaments, scouting, and I'm also on the Surrey Youth league committee where we have well over 11,000 children to register for the new season.
So football for me is a all year round hobbie

Oh also went to footgolf yesterday which will catch on and is a fun thing to do with a load of mates
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: LBNo11 on May 26, 2015, 09:57:39 PM
...I try to put interesting articles and historical photos on the Friends of fulham facebook page...
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Woolly Mammoth on May 26, 2015, 10:11:26 PM
Male Escorting with lonely afluent women, who need a real man for company, and are willing to pay handsomely to be pleasured.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Steven Ageroad on May 26, 2015, 10:22:31 PM
Quote from: Woolly Mammoth on May 26, 2015, 10:11:26 PM
Male Escorting with lonely afluent women, who need a real man for company, and are willing to pay handsomely to be pleasured.

Not many takers, is that why the Woolly Mammoth is extinct?!
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Jambo on May 26, 2015, 10:28:17 PM
Cricket.... And it couldn't come quick enough following the season we had!
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Oakeshott on May 26, 2015, 10:53:16 PM
This year by having my prostate out, which will certainly interfere with my angling plans.

It is not so much the operation that troubles me, as I am assured these days no one dies on the operating table. Rather, it is the subsequent 7/10 days needing to pee via a catheter which seems as though it might be somewhat painful and certainly inconvenient.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: jarv on May 26, 2015, 11:09:15 PM
Fly into London Friday, 3 weeks with old mates, drinking etc etc.  Then back to mowing grass, bike riding and trying to get fit for the autumn over 60 league. Busy autumn, my business kicks in and I coach football every day at a school, sept. to nov.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Lighthouse on May 26, 2015, 11:20:41 PM
Watch tennis and read and look out for all the good news coming Fulham's way.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: rogerpbackinMidEastUS on May 27, 2015, 12:11:03 AM
I remember when I was younger (mid 20'S) a lot of the 'carnivals' had 5-a-side tournaments,
the biggest I remember was the Hanworth Carnival at Staines Rugby club.
It went on for weeks in the evenings and weekends I seem to remember.

Do they still have that sort of thing ?
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: mikestrand on May 27, 2015, 02:28:35 AM
moaning on fof.
Title: Re: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Berserker on May 27, 2015, 07:19:32 AM
Quote from: mikestrand on May 27, 2015, 02:28:35 AM
moaning on fof.
Modding moaning on FOF ...lol
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Airfix on May 27, 2015, 11:36:16 AM
I shall be taking things easy, this season has been too fraught for me.

I plan to spend a goodly amount of time in the garden, catching the sun, drinking beer... 

What's that dear? 

Mow the lawn, weed the beds, fix the windows, sweep the patio.... and 100 other chores?

:58:

Sigh!

:dft004:


Quote from: WhiteJC on May 26, 2015, 08:58:31 PM
....I've taken up building model aircraft (Airfix type stuff)

I approve!
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Tonywa on May 27, 2015, 12:31:50 PM
Cricket which is my favourite sport anyway, so I rather regard the football as filling in between cricket seasons rather than the other way round ;-)
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: snarks on May 27, 2015, 12:41:58 PM
Getting fitt(er) increase my running (providing the dodgy hamstring calms down a bit) and sea swimming.

As an aside, did you know the sea in May is colder than it is in November!!

Oh and play some golf.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Airfix on May 27, 2015, 12:47:59 PM
Quote from: snarks on May 27, 2015, 12:41:58 PM
As an aside, did you know the sea in May is colder than it is in November!!

Yes, because water heats and cools much more slowly than land does, so it retains winter chill and summer warmth for longer.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Logicalman on May 27, 2015, 01:05:45 PM
It's a big issue in our house cos we both watch or listen to the Fulham match, as well as watch some half dozen Prem matches and the odd Championship match when broadcast, every week!!

This Summer we move house, so a couple of the weeks will be taken up with other things, but come mid July, and thenrext 5 or 6 weeks will be a struggle.

Please, nobody suggest watching anything like MLS as a substitute, I'd rather take up walking around hitting a little ball with a stick!!
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: nose on May 27, 2015, 01:26:41 PM
Quote from: Woolly Mammoth on May 26, 2015, 10:11:26 PM
Male Escorting with lonely afluent women, who need a real man for company, and are willing to pay handsomely to be pleasured.

i do that but I dress in a kinky way so they pay extra
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: nose on May 27, 2015, 01:27:01 PM
I stare
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Neil D on May 27, 2015, 01:31:40 PM
Quote from: WhiteJC on May 26, 2015, 08:58:31 PM
now that footie has gone on holiday until August what do you do?

myself I've taken up building model aircraft (Airfix type stuff) to while away the hours
I hated biplanes - especially the Fairey Swordfish.  The struts never seemed to support the top wing and they always fell off.  My favourite was the English Electric Lightning - lovely to behold and easy to paint (all silver).  After that, just about anything from WW2.  Currently, I paint scale model soldiers (mostly Andrea and Pegasus 200mm busts).
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: rogerpbackinMidEastUS on May 27, 2015, 02:07:07 PM
Quote from: nose on May 27, 2015, 01:26:41 PM
Quote from: Woolly Mammoth on May 26, 2015, 10:11:26 PM
Male Escorting with lonely afluent women, who need a real man for company, and are willing to pay handsomely to be pleasured.

i do that but I dress in a kinky way so they pay extra


You mean you put your left sock on first
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: King_Crud on May 27, 2015, 06:27:18 PM
Quote from: Tonywa on May 27, 2015, 12:31:50 PM
Cricket which is my favourite sport anyway, so I rather regard the football as filling in between cricket seasons rather than the other way round ;-)

Agreed. I'm currently recovering from a back injury so I'm in the frustrating position of organising my team's games every weekend but not able to play
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: ron on May 27, 2015, 11:35:56 PM
Quote from: Jambo on May 26, 2015, 10:28:17 PM
Cricket.... And it couldn't come quick enough following the season we had!


Cricket, absolutely.

I like Stephen Fry's quote; "Cricket is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy...."

...perhaps our cross-pond cousins might say the same about Baseball?
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Woolly Mammoth on May 28, 2015, 12:24:21 AM
Quote from: King_Crud on May 27, 2015, 06:27:18 PM
Quote from: Tonywa on May 27, 2015, 12:31:50 PM
Cricket which is my favourite sport anyway, so I rather regard the football as filling in between cricket seasons rather than the other way round ;-)

Agreed. I'm currently recovering from a back injury so I'm in the frustrating position of organising my team's games every weekend but not able to play



Back injuries generally happen when you spend far too much time bending down looking through Keyholes.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: Woolly Mammoth on May 28, 2015, 09:29:52 PM
Quote from: ron on May 27, 2015, 11:35:56 PM
Quote from: Jambo on May 26, 2015, 10:28:17 PM
Cricket.... And it couldn't come quick enough following the season we had!

Cricket, absolutely.

I like Stephen Fry's quote; "Cricket is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy...."

...perhaps our cross-pond cousins might say the same about Baseball?


There is no comparison between the great and wonderful game of Cricket.            ( Willow against Leather ).

And something that's is another form if rounders, but less skilfull.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: hovewhite on May 29, 2015, 12:09:12 PM
Summer ,on my yatch and taking in some cricket along with beer ,good food.
Title: Re: how do you fill you time in the 'closed season'?
Post by: fulhamben on May 29, 2015, 12:24:32 PM
just had a cheeky 9 holes, now waiting for cricket to start