So, on Saturday, our intrepid boys make their first ever trip down to Romford, presumably expecting a fairly staraightforward win against the leagues 'whipping boys'.
We leave on the wrong end of an 8-3 tonking.
OOOPS!
Apparently, RVW (thats Rom Valley Way) is a bastard of a rink to go to and get a result. Hostile fans, hostile announcers (Saturdays was thrown out of the booth for mouthing off at Payette), and poor lighting all combine to put pressure on visting teams.
Ah well, normal service was resumed last night, with an absolute belter of a game against Milton Keynes. 3-1 hardly reflects the game, as it was as close a could possibly be. Seriously, you couldn't have fitted a piece if paper between the two teams, it was that close.
The game was played pretty much at full throttle for the entire 60mins, with some outstanding plays made by both sides. Man of the Match for ourselves was Steve Fone, who put in an assured, cinfident performance, showing that Saturdays game hadn't affected him one bit.
And it was physical. lots of chipping away from both sides lead to a few tempers getting short, culminating in young Mr Bowie dropping the gloves for a little tete-a-tete with on of the MKL players (whose name I couldn't hear properly, sorry. I'll correct it when I get the match stats). Bowie just edged the scrap, but as seems to eb the norm in the EPL was 'rewarded' with just 2+2 for roughing. It was not roughing, it was a fucking fight! Deep breath.
Anyways, crowd was good, and seemed very up for it, making plenty of noise. I would guess that there were about 750-800 in the Dome, and allegedly only a handful were freebies, so thats all good.
And the ice was much improved. It probably helped that the ambient temperature inside the doem was quite a bit colder than last week (thankfully). The ice cuts are still embarassingly poor though. Too many missed patches and too many extra laps to sort them out. Would someone please show the lad how to do the ice cut correctly please! Anyone?
Other gubbins:
The Pyres pre and post match watering hole, the Station Inn, has now closed. The lovely landlady, Janet, has moved on after a dispute with the pubs owners. Which is a bit of a bugger, as it was fast becoming the best damn pub in Alty. Janet hopes to re-appera at Uluru (or whatever its called now) in the next few weeks, so a new venue might not be too far off!
And the official forum has managed to piss me off once more. It seems that frequent poster and serious Phoenix die hard 'The Rat' aka Pete Roden, has been banned after arguing wiht the site main moderator and admin, Carl. It looks like Carl didn't appreciate Petes response sin a thread as to why the league table wasn't accurate on the offcial site, and after some forum based arguing made acryptic post about Pete getting the 'next best thing to an ignore button' on him. Yes, Pete is blunt, and yes, he will butt heads with other posters, but whats the point of a forum without debate? Seems to me that Carl just didn't like being criticised, and has used his powers in an unfair manner.
(Thats why this blog exists. I can't say what i really want on the offical forum a lot of the time withour the risk of posts being deleted or being banned. Some people on there are fr too sensitive. So yay for the bog1)
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