Decimal Places Saturday 19th SeptemberIt’s a bumpy old track, but we rack up at Elton Leisure in pretty good time, ready for the introductory speech from the pair of enthusiastic battleground marshals, with only Monty Don missing the opening (verbal) sa...
Boots ‘n’ All Friday It’s the Sponsored Shoot Out at a very wet OSP. Coach Harris is doing his best to tally his charts on a plastic-covered clipboard, Coach Delaney goes with technology to record the Girls’ events on his phone, while Development ...
What, no rain! Rain, high winds and even more rain was on the cards for the first official game of the season for the GPSFA B Team against Bath. The rain ceased on arrival and did not restart until we were long gone, meaning that for the first time in man...
A Pavilion Short of A Full Experience The home of GPSFA looked resplendent for the visit of St Albans. With a full set of advertising boards surrounding a pitch in superb condition, the scene was set for the B Team’s first official home game of the seas...
The Scarlet Pimpernel Saturday 6.35. Rack up at GL2 to find the second of the big green gates has been weighted down and fitted with a Covid-style gazebo. Squeeze in through Gate No 1, with only the wing mirrors suffering from the appendages of Gate No 2....
The Good, the Bad, the Brilliant and the Ugly Deja Vue prevails, once again we arrive in Bath without the Longlevens two. Aitchenson and Hardcastle preferring the home comforts that isolation brings to the usual windy and rainy Lansdown fields for the Sou...
Homework Aquae Sulis. Home to the internationally acclaimed Roman Baths, a Grade 1-listed 7th Century Abbey famous for its gothic fan vaulting, the grand Pump Rooms where visitors from all corners of the globe drink spa water from the thermae springs next...
Comebacks It’s happened before. Well, almost…. 9th October 2004 We’re playing St Albans at home, having won each of our first three matches. Tom Warren converts Jon Blackwell’s cross to give us an early lead and despite dominating the opening peri...
Swindon Rains Reigns After Wales went into their lockdown earlier than us, Swindon was the venue of today’s venture – helping us out by filling in the fixture gap. The morning was in parts very wet and miserable ……oh, and the weath...
Operation Restart It’s Operation Restart 2 – or is it 3? The last restart came with 25 minutes to go at Erdington, but shortly after coming back from five-down to draw five-all, Boris decides enough is enough and he says we can’t play for a month. â...