Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue
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Hahahahhahahaha watch @Earlsdon_Skyblue1 put all of the blame on his beloved Sladey as soon as he has a bad game!!
North based Sky Blues fans? (1 Viewer)
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Hahahahhahahaha watch @Earlsdon_Skyblue1 put all of the blame on his beloved Sladey as soon as he has a bad game!!
Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue
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There's a good chance I'll be moving to Chester or Manchester by the end of the year, will keep an eye out for anyone based around that neck of the woods as I will still want to come back for the games
oucho
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Thr south as it is part of the southwest/west country which is deffo part of the south
Astute
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So where was Scunny when it was in North Humberside?
Those who count Lincolnshire in the Midlands do so because it is one of the Shires. Manchester used to be part of Lancashire so used to be in the Midlands? Lancashire goes up to Cumbria.
Do you want to try and tell people that live on the coast that they live in the Midlands?
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westcountry_skyblue
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Will you change your username to Chester or Manchester-Loyal blue that's what we all want to know?
bradwellskyblues
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we have 6 in the peak district ccfc supporters club all based in the hope valley went to 35 games last season
SkyBlueRuffian
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Sounds good where do you all meet??
SkyBlueRuffian
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Manchester Piccadilly station could be a good meeting point, as you can pretty much get anywhere from that place??
bradwellskyblues
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we just meet up for games really and travel together lunch in the casino pre match
oucho
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Being a shire has nothing to do with it. You can be on the coast and in the midlands. Girlfriend is from Lincoln and agrees the whole county is midlands includong the northern bits thay have had their local govt mucked around fot years.
Am from south Cheshire originally and that's north .... But ten mins down the road you cross into Staffordshire at the outskirts of Stoke and that is very defintely midlands.
Grendel
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I had a job as an area manager and looked after the North West at one point which included Manchester and on another occasion the East Midlands - which included Lincoln
Astute
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Ah yes Stoke. That place nowhere near the sea.
Astute
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oucho
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No.
North: the historical i.e. pre 1974 counties of Cheshire, Lancashire, Westmorland, Yorkshire, Northumberland and Cumvlberland.
Midlands: the pre 1974 counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Rutland, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire.
Clearly within the north there is north west and north east, and in the midlands there is the east midlands and west midlands, but there is a clear divide
Astute
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So the Met office tells you exactly where the Midlands is. It names the boundaries and what is included in the middle of them. And it is a government body. The government decides the boundaries and names.
So show something official to back your claims.
Grendel
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Ranjit Bhurpa
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I'm about 15 minutes drive from Stoke and it's a different world there. Never eaten an oatcake and proud of it.
jimmyhillsfanclub
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You can get pretty much anywhere from a major railway station you say?
Sbarcher
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Co. Durham disappeared from the face of the earth!
Ranjit Bhurpa
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I'm guessing you followed the well trodden path of sharpening your commercial awareness with the Dealers (District Manager?) for a few years before bigger and better things at head office? Just can't picture you in a Rover 600 or whatever chasing the figures whilst grabbing a pork pie and lukewarm tea for your lunch.
Astute
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What a surprise.
I came up with an accurate guide. Grendel comes up with what is called the rough guide.
The Midlands is an actual area. When you drive through Lincolnshire you will see on some signposts the way to the Midlands. Why do they bother if you are already there?
I came up with an accurate guide. Grendel comes up with what is called the rough guide.
The Midlands is an actual area. When you drive through Lincolnshire you will see on some signposts the way to the Midlands. Why do they bother if you are already there?
Grendel
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Thought you had me on ignore.
Out of interest do you know when boundaries were first constructed and where the term Mercia comes from?
oucho
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The Mt Office are not the government; they're a government agency which is independly run. So no, I do not consider their definitions worthwhile. The fact is, there is the East Midlands consisting of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, and Lincolnshire and the West Midlands consisting of Staffordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire.
In the North it is the same: North West is the old counties of Cheshire, Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland, which corresponds to today's north-west of Cumbria, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, the rump lancashire, various unitary authorities in Cheshire, and the East/West Cheshire split. Meanwhile the north east is the old Northumberland and County Durham. Yorkshire is not North East as such but nor is it Midlands or North West. It is 100% north though.
My mistake!!!
Whreabouts are you?
Grendel
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Made me laugh but it was always a Daimler or an XKR and a very expensive expensed lunch in my day I would have you know.
Astute
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Why are you being so difficult?
There is a district called THE MIDLANDS. Nothing to do with Lincolnshire or any other district with the word MIDLANDS in it. How many times have you seen signs saying THE MIDLANDS? I have shown you an official map showing you where it is. I habe shown you the words describing what area it covers. Just face it. You are wrong this time.
Or do you travel to Skeggy following signs for the Midlands?
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Ranjit Bhurpa
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For my sins I'm in Crewe. No man's land really as I reckon the North doesn't start till you cross the Thelwall Fireduck.
Ranjit Bhurpa
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Lol. Meanwhile us plebs on the Commercial side were tramping round in a 1.6 or 2.0 barge, latterly a 1.9 oil burner whilst dreaming of something exotic like Steak Canadian and chips for lunch.
Grendel
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Is there a district called THE NORTH then?
Skyblueweeman
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Fuck me...arguing about boundaries now.
Coming up tomorrow on SBT, the gang discuss whether left really is left or is it just a bit 'not right'...
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Coming up tomorrow on SBT, the gang discuss whether left really is left or is it just a bit 'not right'...
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oucho
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Yes there is a place called the Midlands and Lincs is part of it. And yes that includes Skegmess. I told my Lincolite girlfriend about your comments on this and she did a facepalm in frustration.
Don't ask me to accept your view when you reported this week that you have in the past been to away grounds 'for the first time' only to get inside and realise you've been before! Old age???
oucho
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Astute probably thinks Hartlepool isn't in the north became it is on the coast, or something....i can't even mock this effectively as i find his view so baffling. I hadn't realised it was possible now for all logic to be surgically removed from someone's brain, but apparently it is...
SkyBlueRuffian
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Yes that's right, you can.
Astute
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You know you are wrong when Grendel agrees with you.
So what is so difficult to understand? The Midlands is the bit in the middle. The original Midlands. They then named other parts. The bit you keep going on about....Lincolnshire.....was put into East Midlands. That isn't THE MIDLANDS. It is miles away. The Midlands is exactly where I showed you the map and an explanation of the exact boundaries.
Grendel
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The Met Office thing you pulled out has no relevance at all.
When you say "original" Midlands what do you actually mean? When I asked you about Mercia and its origins why haven't you answered?
The boundaries are vertical lines which is why Lincoln is in the midlands area and has been since Saxon days.