Is anyone else missing their matchday routine?

Usually on a Saturday I eat a hearty full English breakfast, take a stroll to the shops to pick up the papers, watch the Morning Line on Channel 4 +1, read the papers, place a bet on a game, log on to devachat for any team news, watch Football Focus, make up my flask of coffee, don my scarf and at 2 o'clock make my way to the game. Then I buy a programme, have a pint in the Blues Bar....all pretty standard stuff.

Repetitive maybe, but I'm missing it. Aaaaaahhhhh.

Not long mate. 30th August first home game according to the bloke from Evo-Stik League in the Leader today.

Mine is watch Saturday Kitchen in bed. Bacon sarnie watching football focus. Park somewhere by the Royal Mail and get in for about half two.

This year it will change as there is real ale in the Club, so will probably have to walk to the ground with my 2 lads, who have got their own season tickets for the first time.

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Up at about 10am, bacon butty and the rest of Soccer AM, then the X11 from the garden centre in Hawarden/Gladstone down to the Deeside Stadium at around 1-ish.

Get the team-sheets in, test the mic, put the Ipod speaker dock next to the mic, read the teams out, announce the goals (mostly for the opposition last season! ), make any other announcements, have a half-time bit of tea and biscuits, watch the game, announce the result, play a song off the Ipod relating to how the game went (It's Tricky by Run DMC was the choice after a defeat to Rhyl), pop in the Celstryn over the car park for GSS and the final scores, then maybe a swift one in the Halfway, then bus home. Then town from 8pm ish...

That was kept quiet! I think a few more people will be walking to the ground this season!

wake up at lunchtime usually with a stinking hangover lie in bed feeling sorry for myself for a bit, get the call off my dad that he will be picking me up in 15 minutes, jump out of bed grab a shower get dressed complete with nike chester shirt and scarf. get out of the house to find my dad already annoyed with me because he's been waiting 10 minutes my sister follows me out in a worse state than me. get to the ground about 1.45/2.00pm, meet the usuals in the bar, force the first pint of stella down me then enjoy the next 2 and make my way into the ground just in time for kick off. the game will fly by and be a bit of a blur as the stella tops me up from the night before, chicken tikka pie at half time, then it's back into the blues bar for a couple more stellas and a chat then off home.

i haven't done this routine for over a year now and i no longer go out on a friday so i think my routine will be a little bit different, plus i will have my first ever season ticket and will be going with differemt people. either way i can't wait.

No it wont!

Cant wait to be pearched next to you like a parrot with FIVE bellowing out from Cleggy!

well maybe a little bit different, i'll be substituting stella for blues bitter for one.

i'm definitley putting in a request to cleggy for the mega mix to be played, i can't think of a better way to get the crowd going

I want C'est La Vie. And again in Babylon with you guys after every game.

That is all.

x

Friday night feva please!

Friday night feva at the Deva was class.

We can't forget S Club 7 in Brannies after the Swindon game.

Will just have to be me, you and a few of the others as GAROLDBLUE is with his "other friends"

Yes, great news. As you say though - a walk down there may be the best option now. Unless I go on my bike and NFBF can tow me home

I hope thats true,iam away on the 7th and 14th

Your ok mate. Away myself til the 8th, miss a few of the friendlies. NPL1 doesn't kick of til 21st August, we've been given a free week (we are the 23rd team). The FA Cup Prelim rounds are on the 28th (which we are not in), so our first game, already decided to be at home so the NPL say, is on Bank Holiday Monday, 30th August (again, all according to the Leader).

No Chester Races, hopefully be a real bumper crowd.

Haha i certainly will Andrew,as i shall be trying out the "New" section of the cycleway from MT for the first game,of course i shall be unlikely to try the "Real Ale" i shall be going for the "Real" Whisky!"
Mines a double,not much lemonade,and no ice 3mm,thank you!

...my birthday on the 29th,a good win will be a great birthday present,and of course i know all my friends in the Blues bar will be wanting to buy me a drink for my birthday,so it's a double whisky,not much lemonade and no ice please!

If we're at home on the 30th I think I'll walk to the ground as it sounds like we're getting tanked up

i'm up for some of that.

...i'm thinking to myself,3mm and myself and Garold not working today,that's why the country is in the state it's in! (That reminds me,i must write to David Cameron and tell him what a marvellous job he's doing!)

well i'm in work so i am contributing to taxes, i'm just not doing any work, the pub lunch i had today has killed off any desire i had left to work.

Don't forget to write to his new number two "Smithers" as well

i didn't want to come anyway

Superb stuff

We were going to get you a cake, but the fire brigade wouldn't allow that many candles in the one place!

Go and watch my Under 9 team play their fixture that morning, then go home if they played away and get changed, or if their fixture was at home, get changed there and walk into town. Once in town, meet my mate and occasionally one more mate in the pub, have a few pints while watching the lunchtime game on sky before walking to the ground just before 2ish.

Walk to the ground, in recent times it's been watch us lose then back off to the pub after the game to drown our sorrows with the evening kick off on ESPN.

I definately miss the routine, especially the away game routine

So to sum up the key points; our first game is at home on Bank Holiday weekend with real ale (hopefully WC) in the bar. I feel a weekender coming on...

He hasn't had candles on his cake for years

....ah,but i'm still playing football !
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Any chance you can confirm whether that is definate or if there is potential for change?

have plans on the 30th. Potentially can be changed but its bound to be a right ball ache.

s**t ive just realised im going to leeds that weekend, s**t s**t and s**t.

Same here. Urgh.

ha ha V fest's the week before, phew. My routines simple normally, get up 2pm with a bad head, get dressed, watch us lose, have a Maccies. Simples!

Get up and ready, go to a few pubs and then to the ground and miss ko usually. It's been while, Eastbourne infact, so an all dayer is on the cards with saxon warrior leading the conga in H block.

I'll probably get one going in Colwyn Bay as well.

I look forward to it, seems a fair few are going so a nice early start is called for. Though all those 'dole heads' who went to London surely couldn't afford another day out.....