Sleightly Deceptive wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:16 am
Feel sorry for Taunton Dart - but, if I may, I’ve benefited! Couldn’t make this one but should be okay for the rearranged fixture.
Yep, on a selfish note, the gods are smiling on this poor dry-January enforced soul! Worthing is wet cos four weeks is clearly enough (too much)!
It will be interesting to see when this fixture can be fitted in. Taunton have only played 19 league matches. There are 21 fixtures listed on their website, which makes a total of 40 league games - so they still have 6 more to fit in before the end of April....
For those compassionate ones of you worried about my wasted trip this weekend - I went to see Chatham v Beckenham with Gilesy and The Duke. Entertaining game on plastic and blown away by the changes at Chatham since my last visit 8 years ago
Coming up on halfway through February and Taunton’s scheduled fixture for today - hosting Hungerford - is postponed due to Hungerford’s FAT game. Being bottom of the table, it’d be interesting to know how much Hungerford want to progress in the trophy - it could be financially good for them, but at what cost?
So this means that Taunton will have to wait until 14th Feb to start the second half of their season. Going to be a fair few Tuesday / Thursday / Saturday fixtures for them!
They have one of the smallest budgets in the league, along with Hungerford, and have just had two players leave who have gone to New Zealand. The lack of beer in the Taunton club house is a major topic of conversation amongst the Taunton supporters who frequent my pub. The general feeling is that they should move their clubhouse to the other side of the ground so that it can be open when the football ground isn't as it is in a residential area and could therefore generate a lot of additional income. The trouble for Taunton is that they have a small team running the club and are stretched. Two promotions in quick time mean that they are now playing at the highest level they ever have and the club has not been able to grow off the pitch as it has on it. Five of six years ago they did away with their in-house catering and started to reduce services in the clubhouse as well as opening times - now this policy has come back to bite them in the bum
The Dry January Police won’t be at Worthing mate. 
