Early Xmas present for home fans

[wh]

City have brought forward the home game versus Boston United to Saturday 15 December from 21 April 08. ;D

More here
www.worcestercityfc.co.uk

[DazaB]

[Tim Munslow]

But it isn't a Christmas present for Chris Smith, who (if today's WN report is correct) would have missed the Worcs Senior Cup game on Tuesday 18th instead, but will now miss this one presumably.

[DazaB]

Exactly.

[B*ue dragonstander]

I wonder if teh WSC match isnt as important? Perhaps we migth treat this as a competition that we want to win this season? I was very disappointed by the half hearted selections played under AP (its not as if we are playing 60+ games a season is it?) and now that we are out of FAC and FAT perhapos we should use this as an opportunity for success. It breeds it after all and a trophy is a trophy when all said and done and we havent had one of those for too long.

I remember Nobby entering averything and winning a few .. it became a habit.

[Deleted]

I agree BDS, I've been present when City have won their last two Cups, and both times the teams, the management and the supporters were ecstatic. I can't see why you shouldn't treat the WSC seriously, we do have a good chance of either winning or playing Harriers (or in the olden days Harriers or Bromsgrove or Halesowen). Winning is a good habit to get into, and these kinds of games can do wonders for team spirit and to work on cohesion. I hope the new manager will treat the WSC with a little more respect.
P.S. I was disappointed with the half-hearted selections of AP in other Cup matches too, Welling springs to mind. I still think his negative attitude led to, what could have been a great spectacle against Huddersfield, into a boring defensive 1-0 defeat.

[B*ue dragonstander]

Not only Welling but also Crawley in the FAT the previous season he made a coupl eof weird changes.

[wh]

The welling team selection smacked of petulance.

[Tony is not to despondent now.]

I would have thought that going for the WSC would be a good thing for the teams morale. Lets hope this manager has a bit more of a need to win something than AP.

[mazeythe2nd]

and its a bit embarassing not being able to win our own cup (with our name in it i mean)

[B*ue dragonstander]

A final v Kiddy would be a nice little earner too.

[Deleted]

The Worcester City Cup? its not called that

[Tony is not to despondent now.]

Quite correct Brooky. It is called the Worcestershire Senior Cup.

[Deleted]

Do Dudley play in this still? Or are they now in the West Midlands, or worse Warwickshire. If so do we want Dudley back?

[B*ue dragonstander]

In ecclesiastical terms Dudley remains part of the Diocese of Worcester.

Administratively it is part of the "West Midlands". It is the second largest town (behind Reading) in the UK.

Do we want it back? Nah!

[LeedsWCFC]

blue0dragonstander said:

Do we want it back? Nah!

What! Of course we do.
It's time all patriots formed an expeditionary force to reclaim all the Worcestershire territories which have been stolen from us. Give us back Northfield, Yardley etc. and even the bits of Frankley that have been annexed by hostile forces. Popular uprisings can surely be fomented in Stourbridge and Dudley as loyalists affirm their allegiance to our great county. It should then be no trouble to get back our distand lands like Edvin Loach and Shipston-on-Stour.

[Bstander]

leedswcfc said:

blue0dragonstander said:

Do we want it back? Nah!

What! Of course we do.
It's time all patriots formed an expeditionary force to reclaim all the Worcestershire territories which have been stolen from us. Give us back Northfield, Yardley etc. and even the bits of Frankley that have been annexed by hostile forces. Popular uprisings can surely be fomented in Stourbridge and Dudley as loyalists affirm their allegiance to our great county. It should then be no trouble to get back our distand lands like Edvin Loach and Shipston-on-Stour.

Says he who lives in Leeds.........bloody foreigners!!!!!

[LeedsWCFC]

tony said:

leedswcfc said:

What! Of course we do.
It's time all patriots formed an expeditionary force to reclaim all the Worcestershire territories which have been stolen from us. Give us back Northfield, Yardley etc. and even the bits of Frankley that have been annexed by hostile forces. Popular uprisings can surely be fomented in Stourbridge and Dudley as loyalists affirm their allegiance to our great county. It should then be no trouble to get back our distand lands like Edvin Loach and Shipston-on-Stour.

Says he who lives in Leeds.........bloody foreigners!!!!!

I am secretly involved in a Worcestershire government-in exile in between carrying out my missionary work to try to civilise the northern hordes.

[Deleted]

Agreed Leeds. The annexed territories should be re-instated into the greater Worcestershire Reich.

[andy]

There were plans during WWII for Worcester to become the captial of the Government-in-Exile, had London fallen to foreign occupancy.

[ctod1959]

........with a Scot residing at No 10 couldn't those plans be reactivated?

[Deleted]

I think the idea was to stop the SS storm-troopers in their tracks by demoralizing them with shouts of "You'm crap you am!" as they entered the city. It would have turned the tide of the war.

[andy]

'Hitler - the best right winger in Europe? Stalin - my granny's more of a left winger than him.'

Is that the kinda thing you mean?

[wakefield]

andy said:

There were plans during WWII for Worcester to become the captial of the Government-in-Exile, had London fallen to foreign occupancy.

Nope.

It was Cheltenham.

[andy]

Wakey - I have read that it was Worcester, mainly due to the local presence of the BBC facility.

I fear you may have heard the deliberately misleading propaganda.?

[colinlayland]

Your all a load of nutters,we do not make false statements in the Welsh County of St Johns.

[andy]

This is on Wikipedia, Wakey. It appears the War Cabinet to Worcester and the Parliament to Stratford.

"The government also undertook measures to save itself. Under "Plan Yellow"[6][7], some 23,000 civil servants and their paperwork were dispatched to available hotels in the better coastal resorts and spa towns. Other hotels were requisitioned and emptied for a possible last ditch "Black Move"[6][7] should London be destroyed or threatened by invasion. Under this plan the nucleus of government would relocate to the West Midlands - the War Cabinet would move to Hindlip House near Worcester and Parliament to Stratford-upon-Avon.[8]"

[andy]

Or try this - which indicates that both Worcester and Cheltenham have figured in different plans ...

"In September 1940 it was decided that the cabinet would remain in Whitehall until it was bombed out or communications broke down. The "high control" could still move to the suburbs as needed, though the priority on works at these citadels was reduced in 1939, as it was then intended to evacuate straight to the West Country, should any move be necessary. The central staffs, and their sixteen thousand "black" civil servants, would only move out of London, to Worcester, in the event of actual German invasion. The central staffs would move to a zone around Worcester and Stratford upon Avon. The Prime Minister and key staff would go to Spetchley Park, five kilometres east of Worcester. The War Cabinet would move to Hindlip Hall, five kilometres north of the same city. The Air Ministry would move to "Longfellow", located in the vicinity of Worcester itself. The War Office established their communications centre at Droitwich, eight kilometres north-east of Worcester, where it was known as "Chaucer". The Admiralty were to be at "Duke", based at Malvern, thirteen kilometres south-west of Worcester.

By 1941 it was provided that London would pass control to "Central", near Dunstable, and later Cheltenham, in the event of conditions in London making this necessary.

His Majesty King George VI and the Royal Family would move to Madresfield Court, three kilometres east of Great Malvern, the home of Earl Beauchamp. "

[Deleted]

I wonder where the Air Ministry "Longfellow" was? I think it could have been the shed on my Uncle Ern's allotment off Northwick Road. I can see the top RAF brass squeezed in there huddled around his calor stove.

[B*ue dragonstander]

ealing said:

I think the idea was to stop the SS storm-troopers in their tracks by demoralizing them with shouts of "You'm crap you am!" as they entered the city. It would have turned the tide of the war.

That was the Hitler's great fear of invading Britain as expressed in a little known follow up volume to Mein Kampf entitled "A short history of the public conveniences of lower Silesia and the Border Counties" which remained unfinished after a hostile reception in the Brookside toilets after his spherical challenge was noticed by one of the patriots who inhabit that famous mound and who are able to pick out something offensive in failing light at at least 90 yards distance..