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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: HashtagAlty on November 28, 2022, 03:11:51 PM
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Stockport have resigned from the CSC. We're through, lets get it won.
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Stockport have resigned from the CSC. We're through, lets get it won.
🎶 And now you're gonna believe us... We're gonna win the cup! 🎶
🏆 🥇
😂😂
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Stockport have resigned from the CSC. We're through, lets get it won.
🎶 And now you're gonna believe us... We're gonna win the cup! 🎶
🏆 🥇
😂😂
PS. Going on recent performances, we'll probably need Nantwich to resign too! 😂😂
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I can only imagine playing a full time Alty team had them quaking in their boots
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Never thought of that! 😉
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According to their forum they wanted to switch it to our ground but we weren't up for it. No idea if it's true.
On another note they've just got permission for a fanzone.
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Take the bye and all that but frankly very tinpot behaviour by our near neighbours this. It seems more when we/Stockport Town weren’t prepared to host it they said no chance is it being played at Edgeley Park and pulled out.
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Can we do the same please.
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My first final was at Edgeley Park for the 1970 final when a Barry Howard inspired Hyde beat us 3-2 .
We haven't won it since 2009 ( Nantwich have , 3 times ! )
It's really for promising reserves / fringe players , is it not ?
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I smell poop!
Why couldn't they play a reserve team or give a youth team some experience?
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You should have wiped your feet on the way in, JD. :)
Stockport were always going to field a reserve team for this, even weaker than the team we would put out. The way this came out, it feels as if they may have been worried about the pitch once they realised they were going to have a televised reply against Charlton Athletic, although that is not until next week.
The match couldn't be switched to Moss Lane as Manchester United Women's Academy are playing Aston Villa on Wednesday afternoon, and Stockport Sports Village may also have already been booked - you can't just cancel bookings at two days' notice with the possible effect it might have on future bookings. All pretty tinpot by Stockport County, who I assume will be fined for this.
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All pretty tinpot by Stockport County, who I assume will be fined for this.
I'm still angry that the Cheshire FA fined us for playing a reserve side against Cammell Laird back in 1979/80. From memory, we were due to play Leyton Orient a day later in an FA Cup 3rd-round replay - the historians on this site will be able to confirm the details.
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Your'e on the right track . We hastily arranged a CSC tie v Macc to clear Jeff Johnson for the Orient replay as he was on a one match ban from his sending off in the first game and our 'reserves' won i believe ( we still got fined ) 🙂
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Your'e on the right track . We hastily arranged a CSC tie v Macc to clear Jeff Johnson for the Orient replay as he was on a one match ban from his sending off in the first game and our 'reserves' won i believe ( we still got fined ) 🙂
We played at Macclesfield on the Monday after the Orient replay, which I believe was the originally scheduled date of the game i.e. we decided not to rearrange the game to enable Jeff Johnson to serve his 1 match suspension. I have a recollection of Graham Heathcote returning from injury & playing about 30 minutes before being withdrawn, having proved his fitness, to enable him to play at Brisbane Road in the replay 48 hours later.
From memory, Phil Wilson was the only other first team player that was involved & he scored a magnificent goal with a curling right foot shot from about 25 yards to make it 1-1, which was the final score.I can't remember the replay but have a feeling that we won.
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Your'e on the right track . We hastily arranged a CSC tie v Macc to clear Jeff Johnson for the Orient replay as he was on a one match ban from his sending off in the first game and our 'reserves' won i believe ( we still got fined ) 🙂
We played at Macclesfield on the Monday after the Orient replay, which I believe was the originally scheduled date of the game i.e. we decided not to rearrange the game to enable Jeff Johnson to serve his 1 match suspension. I have a recollection of Graham Heathcote returning from injury & playing about 30 minutes before being withdrawn, having proved his fitness, to enable him to play at Brisbane Road in the replay 48 hours later.
From memory, Phil Wilson was the only other first team player that was involved & he scored a magnificent goal with a curling right foot shot from about 25 yards to make it 1-1, which was the final score.I can't remember the replay but have a feeling that we won.
Now that's a proper historian 👏 So we did'nt get a fine then ! Super sub Phil Wilson did'nt score many but they were usually decent efforts that i can recall.
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I believe Phil Wilson, he of the pancho villa moustache, was the first footballer to get tango'd wasn't he?
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He certainly was , i was going to mention as much myself, touche Sanghall 🤣👊
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Phil Wilson is a member of the Moss Lane Memories Facebook group and regularly contributes
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Fair play and well done Phil , absolutely nothing untoward intended in my previous message , on the contrary he looked a better version of the great Charles Bronson ! Pretty envious tbh. On reflection i slipped up so apologies to all especially Phil of course.
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Your'e on the right track . We hastily arranged a CSC tie v Macc to clear Jeff Johnson for the Orient replay as he was on a one match ban from his sending off in the first game and our 'reserves' won i believe ( we still got fined ) 🙂
We played at Macclesfield on the Monday after the Orient replay, which I believe was the originally scheduled date of the game i.e. we decided not to rearrange the game to enable Jeff Johnson to serve his 1 match suspension. I have a recollection of Graham Heathcote returning from injury & playing about 30 minutes before being withdrawn, having proved his fitness, to enable him to play at Brisbane Road in the replay 48 hours later.
From memory, Phil Wilson was the only other first team player that was involved & he scored a magnificent goal with a curling right foot shot from about 25 yards to make it 1-1, which was the final score.I can't remember the replay but have a feeling that we won.
Those were the days, when our reserves could get a result against Macc Town!
Speaking of which, is there any word of who we might get in the next round/when the draw is?
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Your'e on the right track . We hastily arranged a CSC tie v Macc to clear Jeff Johnson for the Orient replay as he was on a one match ban from his sending off in the first game and our 'reserves' won i believe ( we still got fined ) 🙂
We played at Macclesfield on the Monday after the Orient replay, which I believe was the originally scheduled date of the game i.e. we decided not to rearrange the game to enable Jeff Johnson to serve his 1 match suspension. I have a recollection of Graham Heathcote returning from injury & playing about 30 minutes before being withdrawn, having proved his fitness, to enable him to play at Brisbane Road in the replay 48 hours later.
From memory, Phil Wilson was the only other first team player that was involved & he scored a magnificent goal with a curling right foot shot from about 25 yards to make it 1-1, which was the final score.I can't remember the replay but have a feeling that we won.
If you want to read the full story behind that Cheshire Senior Cup tie against Macc back in January 1980, may I refer you to Part 28 in my When We Were Kings series of articles for the Robins Review which covered that momentous 1979/80 season:
http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/pikesley27&28.htm (http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/pikesley27&28.htm)
For the record, the Robins’ ‘experimental’ line-up was as follows: (1) Billy Phillips (2) Ivan Crossley (3) Mickey Brooke (4) Steve Birtles (5) Graham Tobin (6) Dave Kelly (7) Graham Heathcote (8) Phil Wilson (9) Brian LeBoutillier (10) Stan Pearson (11) Craig Johnson and (12) Steve Thompson.
Graham Heathcote had been recovering from a hamstring strain and, so, this encounter with Macc proved to be an ideal opportunity to give him a run out and test his match fitness ahead of the Orient replay. It also marked Graham Tobin’s welcome return to first team action since incurring a broken hand injury in the 3-1 APL victory at Barrow back on 10th November 1979.
Incidentally, we won the replay at Moss Lane 1-0 by means of a Barry Whitbread goal.
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Speaking of which, is there any word of who we might get in the next round/when the draw is?
https://fulltime.thefa.com/competition.html?selectedSeason=59322608&selectedFixtureGroupAgeGroup=0&selectedDivision=0&selectedCompetition=72275471&ftsCompetitionPageContent.selectedFeatureCode=1_831164793 (https://fulltime.thefa.com/competition.html?selectedSeason=59322608&selectedFixtureGroupAgeGroup=0&selectedDivision=0&selectedCompetition=72275471&ftsCompetitionPageContent.selectedFeatureCode=1_831164793)
N.B. I wouldn't trust that Cheshire FA website, as I believe that they have problems updating or amending it!
I have been advised that we will actually play Alsager Town or Vauxhall Motors (not sure of the venue).
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Speaking of which, is there any word of who we might get in the next round/when the draw is?
https://fulltime.thefa.com/competition.html?selectedSeason=59322608&selectedFixtureGroupAgeGroup=0&selectedDivision=0&selectedCompetition=72275471&ftsCompetitionPageContent.selectedFeatureCode=1_831164793 (https://fulltime.thefa.com/competition.html?selectedSeason=59322608&selectedFixtureGroupAgeGroup=0&selectedDivision=0&selectedCompetition=72275471&ftsCompetitionPageContent.selectedFeatureCode=1_831164793)
N.B. I wouldn't trust that Cheshire FA website, as I believe that they have problems updating or amending it!
I have been advised that we will actually play Alsager Town or Vauxhall Motors (not sure of the venue).
If we DO trust the site 🤣 it looks to me like Stalybridge Celtic or Cammell Laird.
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Maybe we are going to be told that we are going to play Alsager Town in every round and find out we play someone completely different.
Also, I notice all the other ties are being played much later so there would have been plenty of time to rearrange it if Stockport really wanted to find a convenient date.
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Speaking of which, is there any word of who we might get in the next round/when the draw is?
https://fulltime.thefa.com/competition.html?selectedSeason=59322608&selectedFixtureGroupAgeGroup=0&selectedDivision=0&selectedCompetition=72275471&ftsCompetitionPageContent.selectedFeatureCode=1_831164793 (https://fulltime.thefa.com/competition.html?selectedSeason=59322608&selectedFixtureGroupAgeGroup=0&selectedDivision=0&selectedCompetition=72275471&ftsCompetitionPageContent.selectedFeatureCode=1_831164793)
N.B. I wouldn't trust that Cheshire FA website, as I believe that they have problems updating or amending it!
I have been advised that we will actually play Alsager Town or Vauxhall Motors (not sure of the venue).
I think they have problems organising a senior football tournament, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they have problems organising a drinking session in a brewery ("now did anyone bring a bottle opener?"). "She wore a scarlet ribbon in the merry merry month, and when I asked her why she wore that ribbon, she said it's for the Alty and we're going somewhere or other". Can we please sing this if we ever make the final? ;D
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It’s a fresh draw each round, so we’ll be waiting a while to find out who we play next.
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In the past I've seen posts on here to the effect that Alty have to play in the CSC otherwise they aren't allowed to play in the FA Cup.
What's different about Stockport?
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I think exceptions are made for FL clubs aren't they?
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If the Cheshire FA website is to be believed, and there is always a certain element of doubt about this, we are at home to Vauxhall Motors in the quarter finals on Jan 31st. I expect the date is just the default date for the round rather than anything confirmed.
https://fulltime.thefa.com/competition.html?selectedSeason=59322608&selectedFixtureGroupAgeGroup=0&selectedDivision=0&selectedCompetition=72275471&ftsCompetitionPageContent.selectedFeatureCode=1_831164793#tab-2 (https://fulltime.thefa.com/competition.html?selectedSeason=59322608&selectedFixtureGroupAgeGroup=0&selectedDivision=0&selectedCompetition=72275471&ftsCompetitionPageContent.selectedFeatureCode=1_831164793#tab-2)
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Plenty of time to have another draw (again) before then.
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Macc, Nantwich, Congleton, Us, Vauxhall, Stalybridge or Cammell Laird, Runcorn or Winsford and Crewe or Witton.
Would quite like Congleton or Crewe (A) for a ground tick
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Speaking of Congleton, can anyone confirm if a young Kevin Ellison played for us there in a friendly? I think it would have been about the right time. Astonishing to think he's still playing now (for Liverpool, last I heard).
Crewe would appear to be our biggest threat, I remember their young players properly taking us to task in a friendly four or five years ago. However the newly formed Macclesfield club are not to be underestimated, and II'm sure they'll be taking it seriously, certainly if they play us.
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Speaking of Congleton, can anyone confirm if a young Kevin Ellison played for us there in a friendly? I think it would have been about the right time.
The last pre-season friendly we played against Congleton that I can find was a 1-1 draw on 1st August 1998 i.e. prior to Ellison signing for Alty.
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Yes, it must have been about 1999 he signed, I saw him at the Crabble that season I think (1999-2000) (as related n the short-lived Moss Lane Mouth - the days before wide-spread (anti-?)social media (although there was the mailing list)!. Perhaps it was at Connah's Quay United I saw him in a friendly. Didn't he come from a Welsh club too?
We should have stayed up that season but Brendan Burke and Stuart Coburn got injured as I recall, and the rest is history - though whether staying up would have made any difference to what happened next (re. debt etc.) I don't know.
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https://www.vauxhallmotorsfc.co.uk/motors-face-altrincham-in-csc/
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https://www.vauxhallmotorsfc.co.uk/motors-face-altrincham-in-csc/
Blimey! Love it when life serves up a result. I will be Liverpool for work that day, there's bonus Alty game. Fabtastic.
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some random observations thrown up by this thread.
the fixture at vauxhall reminds me how much i miss the regular local away games the lower divisions served up (heresy to admit i know)
i remember kevin ellison's first alty game pre-season at flixton on a very hot day and him immediately taking his boots off when substituted due to blisters.
and finding myself standing standing next to a very smartly suited brendan burke at the bar of the finnegan's wake pub (previously and latterly the brunswick) in manchester, and lacking the courage to say, "hey, you're brendan burke and you play for alty".
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Speaking of which, what was that Irish pub called at what used to be the Pig And Porcupine? Possibly Kelly's bar (the first Irish pub in Alty?)? I got thrown out once for "talking to the tv...)
The switch to Hooton suggests to me that if we are "lucky" enough to be drawn against the newly formed Macclesfield club in a later stage of the competition, it may well be switched too.
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Suits me. Don't care where we beat them.
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PS. Vauxhall Motors is less than six miles away! 😉
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some random observations thrown up by this thread.
the fixture at vauxhall reminds me how much i miss the regular local away games the lower divisions served up (heresy to admit i know)
i remember kevin ellison's first alty game pre-season at flixton on a very hot day and him immediately taking his boots off when substituted due to blisters.
and finding myself standing standing next to a very smartly suited brendan burke at the bar of the finnegan's wake pub (previously and latterly the brunswick) in manchester, and lacking the courage to say, "hey, you're brendan burke and you play for alty".
Agreed. Think it was 91-92 when Alty, Witton, Vics, Runcorn, Macc & Stalybridge were all in the Conference or in more recent times we had Stockport, Curzon, FCUM, Salford in the North. You could only really consider Oldham as ‘local’ this season & maybe Fax & Wrexham at a push. Does impact the travelling support & younger lads getting the bug when the average away day is a tine consuming & expensive trek down to London.
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Speaking of which, what was that Irish pub called at what used to be the Pig And Porcupine? Possibly Kelly's bar (the first Irish pub in Alty?)? I got thrown out once for "talking to the tv...)
The switch to Hooton suggests to me that if we are "lucky" enough to be drawn against the newly formed Macclesfield club in a later stage of the competition, it may well be switched too.
Kelly’s bar yes. And yes if we & Macc are drawn together definitely play it on their 3G plastic pitch to save on wear & tear on our pitch. A plastic pitch for a plastic club-suits them.
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some random observations thrown up by this thread.
the fixture at vauxhall reminds me how much i miss the regular local away games the lower divisions served up (heresy to admit i know)
i remember kevin ellison's first alty game pre-season at flixton on a very hot day and him immediately taking his boots off when substituted due to blisters.
and finding myself standing standing next to a very smartly suited brendan burke at the bar of the finnegan's wake pub (previously and latterly the brunswick) in manchester, and lacking the courage to say, "hey, you're brendan burke and you play for alty".
Brendan once worked at the old Natwest Bank in Blackley village , always had a chat with him , lovely guy and decent player too though had his best spell at Mossley .
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Speaking of which, what was that Irish pub called at what used to be the Pig And Porcupine? Possibly Kelly's bar (the first Irish pub in Alty?)? I got thrown out once for "talking to the tv...)
The switch to Hooton suggests to me that if we are "lucky" enough to be drawn against the newly formed Macclesfield club in a later stage of the competition, it may well be switched too.
Kelly’s bar yes. And yes if we & Macc are drawn together definitely play it on their 3G plastic pitch to save on wear & tear on our pitch. A plastic pitch for a plastic club-suits them.
After its life as a pub it had a very short life as an overpriced fish and chips restaurant. The building has since been empty for a number of years.
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when it first opened (1976ish) when the whole development was built wasn't it called the axe and cleaver after the old pub that stood on the corner of lower george st and kingsway? and the fish and chip restaurant was bentley's i think.
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when it first opened (1976ish) when the whole development was built wasn't it called the axe and cleaver after the old pub that stood on the corner of lower george st and kingsway? and the fish and chip restaurant was bentley's i think.
Correct on both counts.
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Bentleys
I gave it two chances to serve me some decent chips, about 3 months apart. Failed on both occasions, so never went in again. Unfortunately persistence with this tactic now means I have to go to Huddersfield every time I want take-away chips ;D
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Papas Cleethorpes. IYKYK.
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George's in Blacon is very good, although The Far East in Saughall do deliveries for orders over a Tenner 😉😂😂
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Papas Cleethorpes. IYKYK.
. I've given up trying, and failing, to guess what IYKYK means.
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Papas Cleethorpes. IYKYK.
. I've given up trying, and failing, to guess what IYKYK means.
Yeah… but IYKYK 👍🏻
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Papas Cleethorpes. IYKYK.
. I've given up trying, and failing, to guess what IYKYK means.
Yeah… but IYKYK 👍🏻
IYTYKMYDK
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some random observations thrown up by this thread.
the fixture at vauxhall reminds me how much i miss the regular local away games the lower divisions served up (heresy to admit i know)
i remember kevin ellison's first alty game pre-season at flixton on a very hot day and him immediately taking his boots off when substituted due to blisters.
and finding myself standing standing next to a very smartly suited brendan burke at the bar of the finnegan's wake pub (previously and latterly the brunswick) in manchester, and lacking the courage to say, "hey, you're brendan burke and you play for alty".
Brendan once worked at the old Natwest Bank in Blackley village , always had a chat with him , lovely guy and decent player too though had his best spell at Mossley .
I seem to remember Mossley making a cash bid to sign Coburn from Leigh, but Stuart point blank refused to go, eventually joining Altyon a free.
Did Brendan play when Mossley beat us in the FA Cup around this time?
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some random observations thrown up by this thread.
the fixture at vauxhall reminds me how much i miss the regular local away games the lower divisions served up (heresy to admit i know)
i remember kevin ellison's first alty game pre-season at flixton on a very hot day and him immediately taking his boots off when substituted due to blisters.
and finding myself standing standing next to a very smartly suited brendan burke at the bar of the finnegan's wake pub (previously and latterly the brunswick) in manchester, and lacking the courage to say, "hey, you're brendan burke and you play for alty".
I'd love 3 or 4 more local games - I'd love Chester, Stalybridge, Southport, Chorley to jump up
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some random observations thrown up by this thread.
the fixture at vauxhall reminds me how much i miss the regular local away games the lower divisions served up (heresy to admit i know)
i remember kevin ellison's first alty game pre-season at flixton on a very hot day and him immediately taking his boots off when substituted due to blisters.
and finding myself standing standing next to a very smartly suited brendan burke at the bar of the finnegan's wake pub (previously and latterly the brunswick) in manchester, and lacking the courage to say, "hey, you're brendan burke and you play for alty".
I'd love 3 or 4 more local games - I'd love Chester, Stalybridge, Southport, Chorley to jump up
Staly may be a bridge too far.
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Papas Cleethorpes. IYKYK.
. I've given up trying, and failing, to guess what IYKYK means.
If you know, you know :)
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Papas Cleethorpes. IYKYK.
. I've given up trying, and failing, to guess what IYKYK means.
If you know, you know :)
I see. Thank you. I can't envisage using that myself, but it's good to know stuff.