Newcastle -Home fixture : Sun May 08, 2022 9:07 pm  

Well our last home game for some considerable time is looming. (As the season has unfolded this string of away games has seemed more and more a terrible idea.
Looks like a very small crowd and I’m a little concerned the Gold Lounge competition they have announced hasn’t really landed. For me Friday night is a difficult one to drag the family or friends across London for so I’ve not entered and I wonder if it’s a little too complicated for the average LB fan what with the commenting and the following and the tagging but I may be doing everyone a disservice. Any way I hope that does get some entrants or it would be a bad look.
I’d like to think this was a game we could win and definitely need to but I just don’t know. I assume we haven’t recruited so we are where we were a few weeks back and that was not a particularly good place. The pluses are that NT have loads of injuries or a squad that isn’t quite gelling yet and it’s a long old drive down to London. Let’s hope it’s a decent game and we show a bit of attacking endeavour. BTW does anyone know why it’s being played Friday night as it will obviously effect attendance and make the trip more difficult for NT?
Win lose or draw after this game I think a state of play announcement is required from the powers that be at LB.

Re: Newcastle -Home fixture : Sun May 08, 2022 9:47 pm  

BigTime wrote:

.....BTW does anyone know why it’s being played Friday night as it will obviously effect attendance and make the trip more difficult for NT?.....

Being streamed live on Our League, Big Time.

Re: Newcastle -Home fixture : Sun May 08, 2022 10:09 pm  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

Being streamed live on Our League, Big Time.

Crikey the game against your boys must have been a ratings winner. Who would have thought it! Bang your £4.95 down it will be a winner.
BTW Bongser I see your boys have got to WHL. Well done. If you are driving down and you want a steer on best options just let us know. Spoilers -it’s Enfield Town Station( in central Enfield) or Theobalds Grove station (near Waltham Cross) both a couple of miles off J25 of the M25 both with nearby parking, free parking if you know the area, pub, cafes and shops all nearby and best of all 3 stops to WHL direct in the opposite direction to all the people coming in from central London terminus. All the best.

Re: Newcastle -Home fixture : Sun May 08, 2022 10:13 pm  

We can't make Friday night, so we won't be in crowd

Re: Newcastle -Home fixture : Sun May 08, 2022 10:56 pm  

crashmon wrote:

We can't make Friday night, so we won't be in crowd

Crowd is probably overstating it Crash!
Friday night is a bit tricky generally. Won’t be taking my son with me and with Broncos fans spread all over London and the Home Counties braving Friday rush hour traffic is a nonstarter for many.

Re: Newcastle -Home fixture : Mon May 09, 2022 1:42 am  

471 showing as sold as of today

Re: Newcastle -Home fixture : Tue May 10, 2022 12:43 pm  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

Being streamed live on Our League, Big Time.

Errm. Bongser can't now find where he heard (dreamt) that so buy ground tickets rather than fiver passes to a possibly blank screen.

Thanks for your good wishes, Big Time, but Bongser will be chained to his desk that day. His name is likely to be merely fulfilling a roster quota though as his attention will be very much elsewhere! Will senior management ever learn?

Re: Newcastle -Home fixture : Tue May 10, 2022 1:19 pm  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

Errm. Bongser can't now find where he heard (dreamt) that so buy ground tickets rather than fiver passes to a possibly blank screen.

In reality Bongser there may be little difference!

Re: Newcastle -Home fixture : Tue May 10, 2022 7:23 pm  

Crowd looking pretty bad sadly. On the plus side someone entered and won the Hospitality prize meaning we can reject claims that we literally can’t give away tickets.

Re: Newcastle -Home fixture : Tue May 10, 2022 9:57 pm  

Marketing south of The Thames does still go on, sadly some of it is somewhat over-ambitious regarding its catchment area:

Late last month, Bongser missed a call from an unknown 020 prefix. As is his wont, he googled 020 8681 8834 and found that the call was from a curry house in South Croydon. The delivery options included Deliveroo.

As some of you may have gathered, Bongser lives in Bent (dialect for Atherton - just outside Leigh). Were he to be tempted by one of The Amera Rani’s many dangled dishes, he would be surprised to find the temperature (ignoring spices) more than at best tepid after some poor git had pedalled up most of the length of the A6 to get it here.

Still the establishment has just got free advertising to a London audience. Seems that there is more than one way to skin a cat.

Bongser will not speculate on what then happens to said flayed feline.