Post by AFF on Aug 6, 2012 7:32:43 GMT
Just as in my memory, school summer holidays lasted about 4 months and the sun shone every day, this and the previous message board on the official web-site were, if not at cacophony level, fairly vocal in the couple of weeks before the start of the new season in the past.
In the pre-season friendlies, t'lads put two goals past Division 3 promotion favourites Barnet; drew 0-0 with former FA Cup winners Luton; the new striker hit a first-half hat-trick against the Legends of Non league football, Enfield; and we held John Terry's Chelsea with their two squillion pound strike force, to just two goals. We are about to play Stevenage for the title of "Pride of Hertfordshire" on Wednesday. (Where were you in '92?) And where's the excitement?
The balls are out of the velvet bag for the cup matches. Silverware.
The new shirts are designed, ordered and hanging in the changing room, presumably. What is the design, anyway? (Not black and white stripes, I guess.)
We have a new commercial team, a new Executive with special responsibility for the Bar, a new PA guy who wont be overawed by the number of listeners hanging onto his every word at Clarence Park as he also has the drive-time slot at Verulam Radio with its audience counted in the hundreds of thousands, presumably. The club shop appears to be under new management and the sale of alcohol in the ground has not, in the event, resulted in drunken rampages.
After last season's consolidation by the Dynamic Duo (or Three Musketeers if that Chairman chap is included), a new broom has swept through Fortress Clarence Park.
And doesn't the new season mark the start of the Supporters' Trust's year? Is there to be a recruitment drive for membership? Assistance? What are their plans. I wonder? When is the AGM?
And barely a comment on here. Does apathy rule, once again?
Perhaps it's the Olympics. Ainslie holding two flares aloft after winning gold in the Finn class set my mind racing as I have always been a fan of the atmosphere that flares appear to create at Lazio. And did the men's team really lose to South Korea on penalties? Penalties. South Korea. Eh?
Perhaps the City Faithful are all out cycling or rowing having been inspired.
In the pre-season friendlies, t'lads put two goals past Division 3 promotion favourites Barnet; drew 0-0 with former FA Cup winners Luton; the new striker hit a first-half hat-trick against the Legends of Non league football, Enfield; and we held John Terry's Chelsea with their two squillion pound strike force, to just two goals. We are about to play Stevenage for the title of "Pride of Hertfordshire" on Wednesday. (Where were you in '92?) And where's the excitement?
The balls are out of the velvet bag for the cup matches. Silverware.
The new shirts are designed, ordered and hanging in the changing room, presumably. What is the design, anyway? (Not black and white stripes, I guess.)
We have a new commercial team, a new Executive with special responsibility for the Bar, a new PA guy who wont be overawed by the number of listeners hanging onto his every word at Clarence Park as he also has the drive-time slot at Verulam Radio with its audience counted in the hundreds of thousands, presumably. The club shop appears to be under new management and the sale of alcohol in the ground has not, in the event, resulted in drunken rampages.
After last season's consolidation by the Dynamic Duo (or Three Musketeers if that Chairman chap is included), a new broom has swept through Fortress Clarence Park.
And doesn't the new season mark the start of the Supporters' Trust's year? Is there to be a recruitment drive for membership? Assistance? What are their plans. I wonder? When is the AGM?
And barely a comment on here. Does apathy rule, once again?
Perhaps it's the Olympics. Ainslie holding two flares aloft after winning gold in the Finn class set my mind racing as I have always been a fan of the atmosphere that flares appear to create at Lazio. And did the men's team really lose to South Korea on penalties? Penalties. South Korea. Eh?
Perhaps the City Faithful are all out cycling or rowing having been inspired.
