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Article on page 65 mentions about the march and our plight aswell as other clubs. Looks like blackpool are really in the crap to only 8 players and none can play in goal !! :(
 
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SonOfSnoz

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Article on page 65 mentions about the march and our plight aswell as other clubs. :(
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Wow, they're on the ball....bearing in mind the paper owns the local Coventry Telegraph, has Hoff on the board & only 5 days late with the article ;)
 
Houchens Head

Houchens Head

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Is there an on-line version? Wouldn't wipe my arse on the Mirror, let alone buy it.
 
Samo

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Sub said:
Article on page 65 mentions about the march and our plight aswell as other clubs. Looks like blackpool are really in the crap to only 8 players and none can play in goal !! :(
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Drop back goalie? :)
 
ajsccfc

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Blackpool had to cancel their pre-season tour when they realised they didn't have enough players to bother. The chairman (who I'd argue is hated more than our lot) claims he's not worried though, as it allows the new manager the chance to build his own team rather than inherit a load of guff he doesn't want. I wonder if he knows the season's about to start?
 
ajsccfc

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We went 'rush keeper' and 'world cup singles/doubles'.

The heads and volleys rules seemed to differ from street to street, you could tell an exotic outsider when they'd never heard of a one-handed catch rule.
 
Greggs

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ajsccfc said:
We went 'rush keeper' and 'world cup singles/doubles'.

The heads and volleys rules seemed to differ from street to street, you could tell an exotic outsider when they'd never heard of a one-handed catch rule.
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Or the kid who couldn't cross for shit...........and the selfish lad that tees up his own volleys. Just wrong. Get in goal! hahaha
 
Terry Gibson's perm

Terry Gibson's perm

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Maybe then could swap us a striker for an Adam Barton as they have four strikers
 
ajsccfc

ajsccfc

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Setting yourself up for volleys was a no-no in our rulebook. We allowed one touch above the waist before a shot on goal, but the pass had to come from someone else. As soon as the keeper was one goal away from winning, everyone would shy away from crosses and just flick it up for other people to volley from distance, the cowards.

I played heads and volleys the other week, one game that will never lose the appeal.
 
shmmeee

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One touch above the waist? Amateurs!

Did anyone else play the rule where you had to score a certain amount of headers at each stage. 1 in the first 5, 2 in the second 5, etc.? By the end every goal had to be a header, no volleys allowed. Stopped the cowardly shooting from distance.

I think Cupsies Vs Wembley is a North Cov South Cov thing, everyone I know who grew up in North Coventry says Cupsies, people I grew up with Wembley.
 
ajsccfc

ajsccfc

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Hey now! Without the one touch above the waist rule, James Rodriguez would never have scored that wonder goal. (I think it's a safe assumption he played my rules down in Colombia, the legendary tales of Stoke Heath heads and vols did travel continents after all)
 
Greggs

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shmmeee said:
One touch above the waist? Amateurs!

Did anyone else play the rule where you had to score a certain amount of headers at each stage. 1 in the first 5, 2 in the second 5, etc.? By the end every goal had to be a header, no volleys allowed. Stopped the cowardly shooting from distance.

I think Cupsies Vs Wembley is a North Cov South Cov thing, everyone I know who grew up in North Coventry says Cupsies, people I grew up with Wembley.
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Canley, we used to bust into Warwick Uni to play our games!!! It was Wembley!
 
The Penguin

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Okay, I grew up in whitebread Aussie suburbia, where if you didn't play Australian Rules you were branded some sort of softcock, so I need to ask....

What the bloody hell is heads and volleys???? :confused:
 
ajsccfc

ajsccfc

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The Penguin said:
What the bloody hell is heads and volleys???? :confused:
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Hope you're sat down, there's a lot of contrasting information coming your way...


Basically one player is goalkeeper, 2 or more play against him and can only score via heads/volleys. The rules vary wildly, but we'd play first to five goals wins - goalkeeper gets a 'goal' for every clean catch or a shot going wide, wins instantly with a one-handed catch. If outfield win, goalkeeper stays in goal (no more than three games in a row to play fair). If the goalkeeper wins, the person who conceded the losing goal to him swaps places and goes in goal.

Play until it gets dark or whoever owns the ball has to go home, repeat ALL SUMMER HOLIDAY LONG!
 
The Penguin

The Penguin

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ajsccfc said:
Hope you're sat down, there's a lot of contrasting information coming your way...


Basically one player is goalkeeper, 2 or more play against him and can only score via heads/volleys. The rules vary wildly, but we'd play first to five goals wins - goalkeeper gets a 'goal' for every clean catch or a shot going wide, wins instantly with a one-handed catch. If outfield win, goalkeeper stays in goal (no more than three games in a row to play fair). If the goalkeeper wins, the person who conceded the losing goal to him swaps places and goes in goal.

Play until it gets dark or whoever owns the ball has to go home, repeat ALL SUMMER HOLIDAY LONG!
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Simple but effective. I'm taking this one to my students tomorrow, maybe that way my school's senior football team won't be abjectly terrible!
 
CJ_covblaze

CJ_covblaze

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It appears all the Premier League money has paid for is fund the build of a relatively cheap new stand. They didn't spend loads on players. Where's the other 100m gone?
 
ohitsaidwalker king power

ohitsaidwalker king power

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ajsccfc said:
Hope you're sat down, there's a lot of contrasting information coming your way...


Basically one player is goalkeeper, 2 or more play against him and can only score via heads/volleys. The rules vary wildly, but we'd play first to five goals wins - goalkeeper gets a 'goal' for every clean catch or a shot going wide, wins instantly with a one-handed catch. If outfield win, goalkeeper stays in goal (no more than three games in a row to play fair). If the goalkeeper wins, the person who conceded the losing goal to him swaps places and goes in goal.

Play until it gets dark or whoever owns the ball has to go home, repeat ALL SUMMER HOLIDAY LONG!
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Its amazing isn't it how the PS3 era has eroded fundamentals of the playing field.. I was playing footy with my son and a couple of his mates last weekend....I mentioned "heading and volleying" as a game to play- all of them stopped and looked at me like I was some kind of alien.....thanks for re-installing my sanity...diminished through trauma of the looks offered my way.
 
The Penguin

The Penguin

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ohitsaidwalker king power said:
Its amazing isn't it how the PS3 era has eroded fundamentals of the playing field.. I was playing footy with my son and a couple of his mates last weekend....I mentioned "heading and volleying" as a game to play- all of them stopped and looked at me like I was some kind of alien.....thanks for re-installing my sanity...diminished through trauma of the looks offered my way.
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In my defense, the PS3 isn't to blame, growing up in an anti-football part of Australia is :)
 
covcity4life

covcity4life

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it can be rush keeper too, but we used run keeper more when i was a kid.

also it was always wembley, heads and vols or wall-e

i found anyone who says different is a tramp from a shit part of coventry.
 
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