Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset
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Given up trying to work out how to start a poll (unless a mod can amend this and set it up), my three options for the question were to be:
1. Watching Southend v Harrogate on iFollow
2. Watching another game
3. Something else
As for me it's Option (2) above as I'm travelling to the north of my county (Dorset) to see Sherborne v Clevedon in the Preliminary Round of the FA Cup. We watched Clevedon ease past Portland in the Extra Preliminary Round. 'Following the winner' in an FA Cup trail seems an unlikely possibility to be able to complete this season due to Covid so we've set ourselves another challenge of seeing a game at the first team homes of all 26 Level 11 and above Dorset clubs this season and Sherborne affords the opportunity to see the second match in this self-inflicted torture trail. It was to be the third match but Swanage (less than a mile down the road from home) had to call their game off last week due to one of their players testing positive after a 'friendly' v the local cousins of Corfe - which cheesed off Corfe big-time as they've then had to postpone all their games too for the next three weeks. Anyway, it's a way of exploring my new county (which might end with a 'niche' book on it all). One challenge today will be getting in the ground before they have to put up the 'ground full' signs - they reached the 300 capacity allowed at their Extra Preliminary match v Street so with the Clevedon travelling masses things could get a bit fiesty.
Would love today to learn that a flag or two have been flying from the South Stand flats with maybe a few megaphone chants drifting across Roots Hall. We shall have one eye on Sherborne and another on the mobile for events at Southend
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1. Watching Southend v Harrogate on iFollow
2. Watching another game
3. Something else
As for me it's Option (2) above as I'm travelling to the north of my county (Dorset) to see Sherborne v Clevedon in the Preliminary Round of the FA Cup. We watched Clevedon ease past Portland in the Extra Preliminary Round. 'Following the winner' in an FA Cup trail seems an unlikely possibility to be able to complete this season due to Covid so we've set ourselves another challenge of seeing a game at the first team homes of all 26 Level 11 and above Dorset clubs this season and Sherborne affords the opportunity to see the second match in this self-inflicted torture trail. It was to be the third match but Swanage (less than a mile down the road from home) had to call their game off last week due to one of their players testing positive after a 'friendly' v the local cousins of Corfe - which cheesed off Corfe big-time as they've then had to postpone all their games too for the next three weeks. Anyway, it's a way of exploring my new county (which might end with a 'niche' book on it all). One challenge today will be getting in the ground before they have to put up the 'ground full' signs - they reached the 300 capacity allowed at their Extra Preliminary match v Street so with the Clevedon travelling masses things could get a bit fiesty.
Would love today to learn that a flag or two have been flying from the South Stand flats with maybe a few megaphone chants drifting across Roots Hall. We shall have one eye on Sherborne and another on the mobile for events at Southend
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