Nationals - Football Matches!

[Mossy]

Good idea for a new thread Matt!

Saturday evenings then, football matches!

Think we could manage maybe 4 teams? North, South, Mid West and Rest of the World lol.

7 a side or something, winners play each other!

Discuss!!

[millzy]

thats so unfair and you know it

you
jonesy
boggy
oj
Jamie


vs who for f sake!! lee and truman come on

[Mossy]

thats so unfair and you know it

you
jonesy
boggy
oj
Jamie


vs who for f sake!! lee and truman come on

Unfair? I remember the northerners used to make a reasonable team at Bately a few years ago. Ok, we'll make it simple!

Mid West vs any challengers!

Lol

[millzy]

but the mid west have the Jones lol

[Mossy]

but the mid west have the Jones lol

He will be known as Andy 'The Cat' Jones to you!:p

[MattADH]

I will try and dig out some old pics from the Euros of the team pics. Maybe this will help...

One name for the South - Reevsey!

[mw02veg]

im in for the south :thumbsup:

[MattADH]

All Over


Football Fever in France


After their previous win in Austria in1999, The BRCA Football squad were looking for a second win at he annual football match against the Germans at the St Gaudens Stadium


The football match in St Gaudens between the English and the Germans was even better arranged in 2001 than before. The team had enlisted the help of Christine Kenningley as the kit supplier and the defending champions were adorned in Cobra and eagle designed white shirts. Numbers and names were added for the professional touch as the Germans opted to play in their traditional dull grey.
There was no end of support in the side with Mick Cragg enlisted as Coach, Tony Snee as the Referee, Paul Worsley as Time Keeper and Brain Harris as the whistle and general morale booster.
Twenty-five minutes each way was agreed an the Germans kicked off playing left to right. Unlike the well prepared English squad, the Germans had to rely on some honorary names joining their team including Teemu Leino of Finland and Reto Koenig of Switzerland. They also struggled with numbers and had to rely on some older generation of players to make their numbers up. It was no surprise then when the talents of the English saw them run into an early three goal lead by half time. Some excellent strategy and substitutions were made to ensure that everyone got a go. LRP’s Jurgen Lautenbach was playing well in goal but was unable to cope with the pressure of a strike force of Simon ‘Hat Trick’ Reeves and Ian ‘Goal Hanger’ Kenningley. The score could have been higher in the first half had the post not saved the Germans and Simon Reeves had not been eliminated early on after being severely winded from a bad challenge.
Into the second half and a number of key players were switched for fresh legs. The subs included Chris Doughty and Ben Riley and AN Other. The fresh legs had an immediate effect and Simon Reeves was back on the scorers’ sheet with a swift shot from the left hand side of the penalty box. The pressure was showing and the Germans had no alternative but to adopt controversial tactics. A number of former English players donned the German DMC sponsored shirts for the final 15 to 20 minutes. Included in this underhand nationality switch were Hannu Worsley, Dave Duggan and Craig Drescher. The BRCA Coaches at half time had substituted these three but they still wanted more action. The only way this was going to happen was to switch teams and play for the side currently trying to stem the flow of goals in the back of the Lautenbach net. As hard as they tried, the tactics were no good so some dubious measures were taken in midfield to stop the passing game that the British players were so good at. They felt that the best way was to crowd out the middle of the pitch and to do this, the Germans placed 18 players on the park. This certainly helped their ball retention but still they were unable to put a goal scoring attack together. Pat F got the closest to our goal but the defensive held strong and a few determined challenges from the back line resulted in a clean sheet for Chris Doyle, the keeper. At the end of the 50 minutes, the BRCA GB team had won by nine goals to nil and the Germans had been beaten again on a neutral ground. There were stories of some bad challenges but there were no sendings off by Tony Snee. Both teams had entered into the spirit of the game well and after a second victory in France after the initial win in Austria, the two teams will be looking for a victory come the 2002 Euros.


The English Team:
Chris Doyle
David Duggan
Craig Drescher
Hannu Worsley
Paul Bradby
David Snee
Neil Cragg
Paul Kenningley
Adam Skelding
Ben Riley
Chris Doughty
Simon Reeves
Ian Kenningley


Some of the German Team:
Jurgen Lautenbach
Teemu Leino (Fin)
Marcus Lubke
Moritz Gaul
Reto Koenig (Ch)
Patrick Feschtschenko
Benni Groschel
Lena Schlepple
David Duggan (GB)
Craig Drescher (GB)
Hannu Worsley (GB)

[Kopite]

mid west will walk it.

i smell a wager......:thumbsup:

[Mossy]

mid west will walk it.

i smell a wager......:thumbsup:

I agree Stan, all bets welcome.

[Kash]

Unfair? I remember the northerners used to make a reasonable team at Bately a few years ago. Ok, we'll make it simple!

Mid West vs any challengers!

Lol
Yep that we did :woot:

[spenner]

So what we going for 7 or 11 a-side ????

The south so far:

Lee Martin
Tony Truman
John Spencer
Grant Williams
Matt Benfield ??
Si Reeves ??
Paul Timberlake
Gareth Edwards
Tristram Neal
Nathan Ralls
Ellis Stafford
Andy Carter

Anyone else from down south up for the National Footy ???

[niggs98]

depending on state of knee im there either in defeanse or mid field for the south :thumbsup:

[telboy]

Why not make it 'Team RC' sides?

HB v's Associated etc.

[MattADH]

Ellis has unbelievable footballing skills as he is only too willing to demonstrate - he will have the opposition in stitches with laughter...

Maybe some of the southerns will get some practice in on Sunday at Eden Park!

Andy Carter could be another top south-east signing as his boy is on Southend's books. Not sure about Andy though but must have heard it all from the sidelines....

[niggs98]

never mind getting him on pitch we need rafa. b. stafford as south team manager :woot:

[footey]

ill play for north east im not a bad keeper

[Gaz_Stanton]

mid west will walk it.

i smell a wager......:thumbsup:

Too right!

I've played a few league games since the knee rebuild so I'm back in! :thumbsup:

[Reevsey]

Matt, that wright up brought back some memories! if only i was as good at RC as i used to be at Footy....... problem was Rob always used to show me up at footy!!! No ones likes their little brother beating them!!

Good news is i am back playing again and will be up for this!! all be it i will only be at 4 of the nats...

Si

[ben]

ill play for north east im not a bad keeper


Dont tell us you will be changing your gloves every ten minutes lol:woot:

[rcracer]

and your in the under 10's ben :p

[footey]

lil ben i use to play semi pro so cant be that bad but give it up a while ago as found somthing better to do on a weekend:thumbsup:

[ben]

Come on the north east must have a good chance

craggy
bradders
tom cockerill
ME haha
ben riley???
vermin
Shane in goal

7 oh dear im not doing very well lol

[Chris Doughty]

I'm not sure Craggy would be that interested in a match since Italia 2005

as much as I would love to play, I wont take part in any 'match'

[James]

I'll play, mideast though so i may have to pimp myself out as i think we'd be a bit low on numbers :lol:

[ryan]

So what we going for 7 or 11 a-side ????

The south so far:

Lee Martin
Tony Truman
John Spencer
Grant Williams
Matt Benfield ??
Si Reeves ??
Paul Timberlake
Gareth Edwards
Tristram Neal
Nathan Ralls
Ellis Stafford
Andy Carter

Anyone else from down south up for the National Footy ???

Tristram!! Haha he has two left feet! :lol:

[ben]

I'm not sure Craggy would be that interested in a match since Italia 2005

Yeh good point chris. I was thinkin that as i typed lol.

Down to 6 :(

[Spencer Mulcahy]

Craggy is from the North West anyway. The North west might struggle as I dont think there will be many of us there but we may be able to give it a go I am up for it anyway. I am a bit of a fat lad now might have to be a mid field feeder and not run as much.:thumbsup:

[Gemma]

Ladies I shall not be there, so dont worry Southerners lol :lol:

[mw02veg]

yeah little rob reaves used to be the shizal ma nizal at football. lol niggs i agree we need the big rafa as head coach :lol:

[ben]

Craggy is from the North West anyway. :thumbsup:

u sure spencer http://www.onetenthoffroad.co.uk/indoors2008/2wd/mtg2/f8r0.htm

:)

[telboy]

I'd have a go but I'm crap at footy. Use to be the fastest runner at school but was always the last one to be picked when it came to football.:lol:
So I could be on the NE subs bench. James could be addopted as a NE if there are no more Mid Easts to join in.:thumbsup:

[Spencer Mulcahy]

u sure spencer http://www.onetenthoffroad.co.uk/indoors2008/2wd/mtg2/f8r0.htm

:)

Never sure about anything.

[Teddy truman]

Mid south Take down!:thumbsup:

Truman
Martin
Bloomers
Williams


all about the youth squad there baby!

[Lee Martin]

i think the south have adopted bradders too

[ben]

aww wot how come?

[Mossy]

We're sorted :

Jones -GK
Me
Stan
OJ
Bog
Robbo
Dodd
Sleigh (fleeting appearance perhaps?)

Plus a few other subs lol

Si

Truman - you can bring your babes lol

[Kopite]

We're sorted :

Jones -GK
Me
Stan
OJ
Bog
Robbo
Dodd
Sleigh (fleeting appearance perhaps?)

Plus a few other subs lol

Si

Truman - you can bring your babes lol


Total Domination :drool::drool:

[Mossy]

You know it and i know it Stan, the rest will find out....

[Kopite]

the amount of talent running through the team scares me

Mid West Galacticos

[Teddy truman]

if it mid west vs challengers

Truman
martin
bloomers
bradders
williams
mcgee
cockerill
riley

:lol:

[Wraggy]

think im still Ref then :thumbsup:.
nobody wants me:cry: lol
i dont know 6'2 Centre half !!!

[Mossy]

You can play for us Wragg and mark Truman.....

[Wraggy]

You can play for us Wragg and mark Truman.....
ha ha sorted.. prepare to be trumanated !!:lol:

[Mossy]

Only thing going against the Mid West is our distinct lack of fitness lol

[Nick Goodall]

I remember that match with Si scoring for fun - what a legend! Kenningly was another good'un too, he could definitely play!

Lee's pretty handy though, seeing him play last night he was awesome - a frickin' goal Machine!

[James]

I'm available for pimping out, the mid-east dont seem to have a team, i guess my other adopted home would be NE ? Come on someone must want me im not too bad at the old footy :thumbsup:

[Mossy]

Think we might have to turn this into 11 a side lol

[Teddy truman]

we got james! and bring it wragg lol i got te mamba to slap you b**ch up lol:thumbsup:

[Wraggy]

bring it wragg lol i got te mamba to slap you b**ch up lol:thumbsup:
i still have the Vid of you running away !!!!! :woot::woot:

[Teddy truman]

lol:thumbsup:

[Kopite]

i vote Wraggy to 'rough up' Pidge in the first few minutes of the game

[Kopite]

everyone who has them, has to wear the shirt of their footy team.

Plus, has anyone got any bibs we can use? we don't want any excuses as to why the mid west won by so much!!

[footey]

im hoping the north east makes a team :thumbsup:

[looneylen]

pick footey for your goalkeeper you wont find a better one

[Swiss]

Mid south Take down!:thumbsup:

Truman
Martin
Bloomers
Williams


all about the youth squad there baby!

Tony

What about us oldies... From the South, we want to get our boots dirty too;

Spenner
Stafford
Lee
Spicer
Edwards
Timberlake
Benfield etc.....

Paul

[Gaz_Stanton]

We're sorted :

Jones -GK
Me
Stan
OJ
Bog
Robbo
Dodd
Sleigh (fleeting appearance perhaps?)

Plus a few other subs lol

Si

Truman - you can bring your babes lol

+1 :thumbsup:

Gotta be 11 a side on one of the pitches by the track. Get them to leave the posts if there's a Saturday game there.

I've got a full 11 a side footy kit here if we need it. Might bring the shirts along if there's room.

[Slimboyfat]

Only thing going against the Mid West is our distinct lack of fitness lol

This is very true I haven't physically ran since december when we played keepy uppy at the winter series = Bad times :(

[Mossy]

+1 :thumbsup:

I've got a full 11 a side footy kit here if we need it. Might bring the shirts along if there's room.

Do it Stant's, we can show them who the true (unfit) professionals are lol.

You were included in my initial thorts for team selection, but not sure how well that Darren Anderton style Knee of yours is functioning?

[CraigM2610]

Hey lil Ben, im defo up for it :thumbsup:;)
The NE better get a team lol

Infact, Ben u could be the manager :lol::thumbsup:

[Mrs oOple]

Team North-East

Craig
Ben
James


Good team so far, haha.

[Teddy truman]

ok 11 a-side it is lol course you can play paul!:thumbsup:

[Jamie B4]

Mossy

Have we spoke about contract terms yet might be a midwest but if the north east pay enough might do a Michael Owen (ie live in wales and play for england- though not in the euro's

[Lee Martin]

Bring it ya'll!!!!!

[Teddy truman]

GET HER DONE!

[Mossy]

Jamie, u race out of Mid West therefore contract terms are non applicable, u play for us, not the bit joined onto England lol

[Jamie B4]

The way I race not sure the midwest are too bothered but hopefully play footie little better. Looking forward to it should be a good laugh!

[Kopite]

at least you're a typical Man United supported though Jamie, living nowhere near Manchester :thumbdown:

[Mossy]

at least you're a typical Man United supported though Jamie, living nowhere near Manchester :thumbdown:

Lol. Tell it how it is Stan.

[Kopite]

suppose it's closer than Taiwan though

[Mossy]

We need to settle on a first 11.

[Kopite]

Torres and Shearer up front for the mid westies :thumbsup:

[Bathy]

I'm happy to stand in one place drinking a beer, put me down as a goalpost!

[Mossy]

Torres and Shearer up front for the mid westies :thumbsup:

Glad you know our nicknames!

[Jamie B4]

Where do Ronaldo and Rooney fit in - then Scholes, Anderson etc, maybe need to organise some tactics, ie Jonesy in goal to stop them, Mossy up front to score them and stan to be the other goal post or corner flag

[Teddy truman]

mid south and Rest of the wrold =

Truman
Martin
Williams
cockrall
halliwell
Bradders
karn
Spenner
Stafford
Lee
Spicer
Riley
Timberlake

11 + 2subs
:p

[Gaz_Stanton]

Do it Stant's, we can show them who the true (unfit) professionals are lol.

You were included in my initial thorts for team selection, but not sure how well that Darren Anderton style Knee of yours is functioning?

Anderton!! :lol: It is working at the moment. Started playing league footy again for the first time in 3yrs recently... until i got another busted finger that is. :lol:
Text me to remind me about the shirts tomorrow, not sure if the keeper's one will go around The Jones though.

Bring it on!!!

[Kopite]

just had a thought...

...can somebody bring a footy this weekend??? :thumbsup:

[Slimboyfat]

Moss has one doesn't he? If not Bog has one if someone can tell him to bring it.

[Kopite]

some kid booted one into our back garden last night, so i'll tax that too :thumbsup:

[PaulRotheram]

Gay rain.

[Kopite]

is there an area at the Talywain site that will allow us to rekindle the national footy matches plan?

[millzy]

Yeah lots of area bring ya balls stan

[Lee]

Stan got a pie in the balls on saturday night