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Don't want to burst your bubble BGB, but South Melbourne isn't an A-League side. They play in the Victoria Premier League, a state league in Australia. I would expect a TPL side, especially one near the top of the tree like BG, to beat them.
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« Reply #351 on: October 06, 2010, 07:12:11 AM » |
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Don't want to burst your bubble BGB, but South Melbourne isn't an A-League side. They play in the Victoria Premier League, a state league in Australia. I would expect a TPL side, especially one near the top of the tree like BG, to beat them.
I'm fully aware. I do know they they have a decent history too. It's still a good result in my book... footballing wise or not. It will certainly help the club profile around Asia and that is a big reason we are in the SC in the first place. |
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« Reply #352 on: October 06, 2010, 09:41:45 AM » |
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Don't want to burst your bubble BGB, but South Melbourne isn't an A-League side. They play in the Victoria Premier League, a state league in Australia. I would expect a TPL side, especially one near the top of the tree like BG, to beat them.
. It's still a good result in my book... footballing wise or not. It will certainly help the club profile around Asia and that is a big reason we are in the SC in the first place. I'm curious about this 'boosting the profile'. PEA said it's something they want to do, too. To what end do they want to boost their profile? To attract more sponsors or to attract fans? I find it difficult to believe that non-Thais from outside Thailand will start supporting a Thai club. |
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« Reply #353 on: October 06, 2010, 11:22:32 AM » |
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« Reply #354 on: October 06, 2010, 02:05:33 PM » |
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It's still a good result in my book... footballing wise or not. It will certainly help the club profile around Asia and that is a big reason we are in the SC in the first place.
I'm curious about this 'boosting the profile'. PEA said it's something they want to do, too. To what end do they want to boost their profile? To attract more sponsors or to attract fans? I find it difficult to believe that non-Thais from outside Thailand will start supporting a Thai club. So you don't follow the fortunes of Nagoya Grampus 8 or Al Ittihad (the Saudi version) then? I'm looking forward to the day when I go to a western country and some dodgy bloke down the pub/market offers me a knock-off Nong Bua Lamphu shirt, aren't you? |
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« Reply #355 on: October 06, 2010, 02:14:19 PM » |
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It's still a good result in my book... footballing wise or not. It will certainly help the club profile around Asia and that is a big reason we are in the SC in the first place.
I'm curious about this 'boosting the profile'. PEA said it's something they want to do, too. To what end do they want to boost their profile? To attract more sponsors or to attract fans? I find it difficult to believe that non-Thais from outside Thailand will start supporting a Thai club. So you don't follow the fortunes of Nagoya Grampus 8 or Al Ittihad (the Saudi version) then? I'm looking forward to the day when I go to a western country and some dodgy bloke down the pub/market offers me a knock-off Nong Bua Lamphu shirt, aren't you? Ha! But this is what I mean, though. Good luck to BG, they've obviously got plans and a strategy for the future, which is more than can be said for most clubs, but even if you consider a club like Urawa Reds, the Man U of Japan, hugely successful and famous in the East, but how many non-Japanese people from outside Japan actually support them? |
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« Reply #356 on: October 06, 2010, 02:36:07 PM » |
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By the way, BGB, there's a photo of you leading out the Rabbit Girls in last week's Football Siam, if you're interested in collecting pictures of yourself in local media.
Cheers Wolfy, I missed that, is it the issue still on sale? I usually send a copy to my family.
I'm curious about this 'boosting the profile'. PEA said it's something they want to do, too. To what end do they want to boost their profile? To attract more sponsors or to attract fans? I find it difficult to believe that non-Thais from outside Thailand will start supporting a Thai club.
I hear what you're saying with regards to gaining non Thai fans outside Thailand and I agree that however successful we or any other Thai team become, it's unlikely that we will pick up more than a handful of said fans. Saying that, we do have a small following of Singaporeans that attend all our SC matches. I think it's just the natural order of things to try to promote yourselves in order to attract more fans, bigger sponsors, better players. As long as you don't step on other peoples toes whilst doing it, it's not really a problem. As for the international promotion, well if it works to any degree then great, if not, well it shouldn't be a major loss on the scale we are currently working on. |
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« Reply #357 on: October 06, 2010, 03:01:29 PM » |
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BGB - It's the October 1-7 issue, with a photo of the Thai U19 squad on the front. Should still be on sale.
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« Reply #358 on: October 06, 2010, 03:20:58 PM » |
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By the way, BGB, there's a photo of you leading out the Rabbit Girls in last week's Football Siam, if you're interested in collecting pictures of yourself in local media.
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« Reply #359 on: October 06, 2010, 03:39:14 PM » |
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Don't want to burst your bubble BGB, but South Melbourne isn't an A-League side. They play in the Victoria Premier League, a state league in Australia. I would expect a TPL side, especially one near the top of the tree like BG, to beat them.
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« Reply #360 on: October 06, 2010, 03:50:43 PM » |
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By the way, BGB, there's a photo of you leading out the Rabbit Girls in last week's Football Siam, if you're interested in collecting pictures of yourself in local media.
There`s been a picture or two of me in there too, but I have never seen it. Only been told by people who have seen me there. But I have found many pictures on different websites the last year. Fans from different teams has also asked to take pictures with me. Have no idea why! Sorry Svein66, I've probably seen those shots, but don't know what you look like. BGB's look is somewhat more noticeable; I think it's the hair. There was a photo of me in there at Customs v Khon Kaen a few weeks back too. However, I take the Vinnie approach, and my head was obscured by a flag. I only know it was me because I was one the few in an away shirt, and remember my approximate location in the stand. I haven't had to pose for as many shots here as I did in Korea (I blame the lack of a local team shirt). Over there, I had a Gyeongnam FC shirt with the Korean equivalent of "Foreigner" where a player's name would go. At first, the Gyeongnam fans recognised me because they'd seen photos on the net of me wearing a Daegu FC shirt with the same thing on it from my first time there. The weird thing was I only went to a couple of Daegu games, because it was a 3 hour bus ride away. (My province had no K-league side). I was a season-ticket holder at Gyeongnam, and in the first season, was interviewed on TV a couple of times at matches (I never saw these, but others did), and was also interviewed for Four Four Two in a feature on foreign supporters. Like BGB, I sent that home to the family. |
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« Reply #361 on: October 06, 2010, 04:55:47 PM » |
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Don't want to burst your bubble BGB, but South Melbourne isn't an A-League side. They play in the Victoria Premier League, a state league in Australia. I would expect a TPL side, especially one near the top of the tree like BG, to beat them.
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« Reply #362 on: October 08, 2010, 08:34:41 PM » |
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Singapore Cup 2nd leg - Quarter Final
Bangkok Glass 3 (6) - 3 (4) South Melbourne
Next up is Etoile in the Semis.
A Singaporean team made up of entirely of French ex-pats, currently leading the S-League.
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« Reply #363 on: October 08, 2010, 10:15:54 PM » |
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Well done Glass - keep the TPL flag flying. Etoile (not an anagram of toilet by the way it means star) play in the French national team colours. They have a nice website http://www.etoilefootballclub.com/ but they are French so I automatically loathe them. Did I mention they were French? |
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« Reply #364 on: October 09, 2010, 09:21:43 AM » |
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« Reply #365 on: October 09, 2010, 07:37:38 PM » |
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« Reply #367 on: October 14, 2010, 08:12:41 AM » |
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What is it with Osot.... They are easily our bogey team... Never beat them, never even come close. Probably the most boring team in the league and we always manage to make them look like Barca. No complaints over the result... or the red cards, or penalties.. I thought the referee was decent yesterday. At least this result showed there are a couple of players that are clearly not good good enough at this level  |
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« Reply #368 on: October 15, 2010, 04:28:48 PM » |
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It appears following the terrible defeats to PEA & Osotspa that Carlos Roberto has been sacked as BG coach. It is said that the management will not consider finishing lower than 4th after the dreadful season we have had.
The website reports in a typical Thai way that he has been told to 'stop' and doesn't use the words sack or fired, but it seems clear he has been.
Supasin Leerit the team Manager will take over as coach/manager for the remainder of the season.
In my opinion, I can't say I was massively convinced with him. After the positive start under him, things quickly went back to the same way as under Surachai. The inconsistency and team rotation was baffling. Not once this season have we played what I would consider to be the strongest starting 11 available.
Saying this, I see no sense what-so-ever in sacking him now with 2 games and whatever cup games remaining. I appreciate the fact that the club want at least something from this disappointing season as so do I, but he should have been given at least until the end of the season to prove himself.
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« Reply #369 on: October 15, 2010, 04:38:02 PM » |
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But maybe in that case it is really just a stop? Carlos was working as technical director before he took over. So maybe he get his old job back, like Emser a year ago.
But yeah, I think they should have left him finish the season, and than go to get a new coach.
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« Reply #370 on: October 15, 2010, 04:44:59 PM » |
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« Reply #371 on: October 15, 2010, 04:47:44 PM » |
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Maybe, but Emser chose to step aside, Carlos didn't make the choice.
It's possible he may take up another position within the club as we do have other Brazilian influences within the club and as you say he was TD before... but I get the feeling that there was a big falling out between him and management. The article was definitely came across differently to the one when we sacked Surachai earlier in the season.
From having the article translated by Mrs. BG Man, she says the management are really not impressed with things at the moment and are very worried about losing fans.
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« Reply #372 on: October 15, 2010, 04:51:10 PM » |
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I wonder if they'll go after Zico?
It's a possibility I suppose, but I haven't heard anything yet and it seems as though Supasin will take charge for the remainder of our campaign, which BG obviously hope will stretch through to the Toyota League Cup Final, so I don't think we have anyone in mind yet. |
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« Reply #373 on: October 15, 2010, 05:47:05 PM » |
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I wonder if they'll go after Zico?
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« Reply #374 on: October 15, 2010, 05:49:29 PM » |
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« Reply #375 on: October 15, 2010, 06:30:57 PM » |
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and are very worried about losing fans.
If so, than they might not have been the right ones. True... although there are absolutely no signs of fans leaving or attendances dwindling (but there is plenty of discontent amongst the fans). I think it was said to give the club further justification in their decision. |
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« Reply #376 on: October 16, 2010, 08:09:15 AM » |
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BG are paying for all fans to go to our last away game of the season as an apology for our pathetic performance against Osotspa on Wednesday.
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« Reply #377 on: October 16, 2010, 11:40:37 AM » |
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BG are paying for all fans to go to our last away game of the season as an apology for our pathetic performance against Osotspa on Wednesday.
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« Reply #378 on: October 16, 2010, 11:59:39 AM » |
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BG are paying for all fans to go to our last away game of the season as an apology for our pathetic performance against Osotspa on Wednesday.
Can you clarify, BGB. Are they paying them to go or just laying on free transport and match tickets? Yeah, I didn't mean to sound like we've gone all Buriram.... They are just paying for transport & tickets. |
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« Reply #379 on: October 16, 2010, 02:24:45 PM » |
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I wish Pattaya would do the same - we'd have had the whole second half of the season free of charge.
BG Man- what has been the reason you think for Glass's poor-ish season in the league - too many stars & egos ? too many newcomers being too slow to gel? poor tactics? On paper the team looks awesome but it just hasn't happened has it.
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« Reply #380 on: October 16, 2010, 03:10:04 PM » |
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Obviously I'm not BG Man but I was talking to some other fans about this at the Tero game. I think BG have eleven+ good individual players but lack the solid spirit, coaching and groundwork we have at MTU. Hence the reason why BG can lift their game against other good sides but let slip in the less glamorous fixtures.
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« Reply #381 on: October 16, 2010, 03:39:56 PM » |
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I wish Pattaya would do the same - we'd have had the whole second half of the season free of charge.
BG Man- what has been the reason you think for Glass's poor-ish season in the league - too many stars & egos ? too many newcomers being too slow to gel? poor tactics? On paper the team looks awesome but it just hasn't happened has it.
It's a tough one... It's hard to say for sure. We have definitely got the players except a decent goalscorer. I liken us to Arsenal as we (nearly) always play good football, but we often over elaborate unnecessarily and we struggle away from home against teams we should beat. We don't cope too well when teams get stuck in. Having said that, I do think there are too many egos (I wont name names, but there is one big name in particular who is really starting to irritate me). I also think we got rid of players that were decent eg. Tanat, Panuwat & Nantawat and we haven't replaced them with players that are as good. Of all the 15+ signings we made before the beginning of the season and at the half way point, I can only say that Moussa Sylla, Byrne and Takisawa have been a success so far (although Sutee was impressive until his injury). Both coaches so far have put Claudio Ranieri to shame when it comes to rotation which hasn't helped. All three 'keepers have been rotated to death, I have no idea who is our 'No.1', although I know who should be. Anyway, like I say, it's hard to pin point it exactly. Training seems great. We always hammer teams in friendlies (we won 17 games in a row pre-season) but we can't produce when it matters. |
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« Reply #382 on: October 17, 2010, 10:18:51 PM » |
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« Reply #383 on: October 18, 2010, 03:35:19 PM » |
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17 pre season friendlies? ? maybe theyre knackered? Actually, I think it was 25 (some were competitive, Super & Queens cup), but that is not an excuse cos as far as I'm aware, most teams played an equally stupid amount of pre-season games. --- More news on the manager situation. Carlos has gone back to Technical Director but will going back to Saudi Arabia soon. He accepted the decision to sack him and the meeting was over in 2 minutes. I am aware of who our 1st choice manager is, and it's a very big name. The club say they are confident they can land him. I, however, whilst I would very very much like this person at the club, a) don't know if we could pull it off (not without a lot of money at the very least), and b) don't think it would necessarily be a good choice. |
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I am aware of who our 1st choice manager is, and it's a very big name. The club say they are confident they can land him.
I, however, whilst I would very very much like this person at the club, a) don't know if we could pull it off (not without a lot of money at the very least), and b) don't think it would necessarily be a good choice.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/9104392.stmBGB, I can't say I share your concerns. I think Wayne would be a great choice, probably got a few good games left in him still and could easily handle a dual player/coaching role in the TPL...  |
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17 pre season friendlies? ? maybe theyre knackered? Actually, I think it was 25 (some were competitive, Super & Queens cup), but that is not an excuse cos as far as I'm aware, most teams played an equally stupid amount of pre-season games. --- More news on the manager situation. Carlos has gone back to Technical Director but will going back to Saudi Arabia soon. He accepted the decision to sack him and the meeting was over in 2 minutes. I am aware of who our 1st choice manager is, and it's a very big name. The club say they are confident they can land him. I, however, whilst I would very very much like this person at the club, a) don't know if we could pull it off (not without a lot of money at the very least), and b) don't think it would necessarily be a good choice. What's he going to be doing in SA? He got another mangers job lined up? |
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Correct nationality What's he going to be doing in SA? He got another mangers job lined up?
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« Reply #387 on: October 23, 2010, 09:32:45 AM » |
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I watched your interview today. It was kind of hard to follow as they dubbed Thai over you speaking English. I can understand enough Thai though to realize who your favorite rabbit girls are. At least I think that's what they were asking you. Btw what's the word around the Leo about tomorrow? Is it going to be another full house just like the Chonburi and PEA games? |
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BG Man interview on ''Sport on 5' Channel 5 today @ 12:30
I watched your interview today. It was kind of hard to follow as they dubbed Thai over you speaking English. I can understand enough Thai though to realize who your favorite rabbit girls are. At least I think that's what they were asking you. Btw what's the word around the Leo about tomorrow? Is it going to be another full house just like the Chonburi and PEA games? Yeah, I got ignored for an hour or so from the missus for the Rabbit girl thing... Actually, they only used about 5% of what they actually filmed, I was there nearly 2 hours doing that... They asked some good probing questions, but they didn't show them, just the standard stuff. Anyway, 2mrw is expected to be a sell out and TP are expected to fill their allocation too. |
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If there were licensed betting shops in Thailand, I'd almost certainly gone in and placed 500 baht on BG v Thai Port ending 0-0. A lot of the important games tend to end up in a stalemate. Considering the scoreline it was quite a good game with plenty of controversial action.
It was nice to see Peter Lang actually start a game. Sadly he was carried of with an injury shortly before half-time with what looked like a "clash a knees" with an opposition player. I hope it's not too serious and he'll be back playing soon.
As for Michael Byrne, he was subbed early in the 2nd half so perhaps his future is in doubt. Will he be there next season? His body language didn't look positive as he was taken off.
For the second time in a month, the BG home end was infiltrated by opposition supporters. However this time the opposition fans had the decency to wear their own shirts rather than put on the ones purchased for them by their club owner.
I watched the game from the top section of R2. At the start of the game there was hardly anybody in there but after 10 mins groups of Thai Port supporters started appearing next to me. The security had decided to let them in as their end was full. Strangely, I spent the game stood in no mans land between the BG and Thai Port supporters. There was no threat of trouble during the game but it looked like it might kick off at the end. The Thai Port manager for some reason decided to come over to the home end and celebrate mockingly after his side had finally clinched 4th spot. The BG faithful weren't impressed. I left pretty sharpish to get a taxi so I don't know if any incidents occurred.
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« Reply #391 on: October 24, 2010, 09:43:08 PM » |
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I left pretty sharpish to get a taxi so I don't know if any incidents occurred.
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« Reply #392 on: October 24, 2010, 10:11:56 PM » |
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If there were licensed betting shops in Thailand, I'd almost certainly gone in and placed 500 baht on BG v Thai Port ending 0-0. A lot of the important games tend to end up in a stalemate. Considering the scoreline it was quite a good game with plenty of controversial action.
It was nice to see Peter Lang actually start a game. Sadly he was carried of with an injury shortly before half-time with what looked like a "clash a knees" with an opposition player. I hope it's not too serious and he'll be back playing soon.
As for Michael Byrne, he was subbed early in the 2nd half so perhaps his future is in doubt. Will he be there next season? His body language didn't look positive as he was taken off.
For the second time in a month, the BG home end was infiltrated by opposition supporters. However this time the opposition fans had the decency to wear their own shirts rather than put on the ones purchased for them by their club owner.
I watched the game from the top section of R2. At the start of the game there was hardly anybody in there but after 10 mins groups of Thai Port supporters started appearing next to me. The security had decided to let them in as their end was full. Strangely, I spent the game stood in no mans land between the BG and Thai Port supporters. There was no threat of trouble during the game but it looked like it might kick off at the end. The Thai Port manager for some reason decided to come over to the home end and celebrate mockingly after his side had finally clinched 4th spot. The BG faithful weren't impressed. I left pretty sharpish to get a taxi so I don't know if any incidents occurred.
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« Reply #393 on: October 24, 2010, 10:21:22 PM » |
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« Reply #394 on: October 24, 2010, 10:30:59 PM » |
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This was not (directly) to do with the TP fans. BG let the BG fans onto the pitch because we couldn't go outside. They tried to divert the attention to the pitch to stop BG fans from trying to go after the TP fans and causing bigger problems. |
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« Reply #395 on: October 24, 2010, 10:34:31 PM » |
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I'm just thinking Andy, surely when at home you have a few hard nuts who will be happy to stop the away fans looting your club shop, etc.?
That's why I wasn't too nervous about TP coming to the Thunderdome. Even allowing for women and children, there's a lot more of us than there is of them.
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« Reply #396 on: October 24, 2010, 11:02:52 PM » |
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I'm just thinking Andy, surely when at home you have a few hard nuts who will be happy to stop the away fans looting your club shop, etc.?
That's why I wasn't too nervous about TP coming to the Thunderdome. Even allowing for women and children, there's a lot more of us than there is of them.
I wasn't nervous about them coming either, I honestly thought it'd be a celebratory game, but when hundreds of fans block your only entrance out of the main stand (a problem we need to address), there isn't much you can do besides rush them and we didn't want to lower ourselves (although some did want to, and we had a hard job keeping them back which I was personally involved in that in a big way). The decision was taken to let them do what they had to do and try to rise above it, which is not always easy when you know they are doing in the cars & motorbikes in the parking area. It was only that I was drinking that I didn't bring my motorbike today. |
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« Reply #397 on: October 24, 2010, 11:10:14 PM » |
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It was only that I was drinking that I didn't bring my motorbike today.
It must be a hassle to piss with you BG man costume on. Btw what did you think of the actual game today? We've been distracted with other things. |
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« Reply #398 on: October 24, 2010, 11:18:49 PM » |
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It was only that I was drinking that I didn't bring my motorbike today.
It must be a hassle to piss with you BG man costume on. Btw what did you think of the actual game today? We've been distracted with other things. Trust me, it is The game... well it was fairly entertaining, but we never looked like we were going to win to be honest. TP deserved a point at least, they probably should have won. |
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« Reply #399 on: October 25, 2010, 12:00:39 AM » |
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 Only 5 mins before kick off, I'm virtually alone on the top deck.  10 mins later the Klong Toey Army arrive in the BG home end. |
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