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Post by mystokebadge on Oct 13, 2020 12:06:45 GMT
A team from south Devon in the tenth tier of English football are bottom of their division after 10 games with 0 points and a goal diff of -120 they have conceded 122 and scored 2  |
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Post by shrewspotter on Oct 13, 2020 12:15:02 GMT
Do you think Wimmer would be up for a new challenge
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Post by somersetstokie on Oct 13, 2020 12:17:41 GMT
I wouldn't think the position of their Manager is very secure.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Oct 13, 2020 12:22:33 GMT
A team from south Devon in the tenth tier of English football are bottom of their division after 10 games with 0 points and a goal diff of -120 they have conceded 122 and scored 2 I subscribe to News Now's Stoke City news stories and - thanks to their name - I've been alerted to quite a few Stoke Gabriel stories over the years!  PS - Anyone who knows South Devon will confirm that Stoke Gabriel is a lovely spot, by the way. |
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Post by lagwafis on Oct 13, 2020 13:13:05 GMT
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Post by bayernoatcake on Oct 13, 2020 14:04:18 GMT
These sides that have only scored 2 in the league!
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Post by thevoid on Oct 13, 2020 15:00:08 GMT
David Prutton likes this.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Oct 13, 2020 15:02:14 GMT
David Prutton likes this. He most likely picked them to win all 10 games. |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Oct 13, 2020 17:16:33 GMT
Just down the road from us. Didn’t know about this though even though they in same league as my local team Elburton Villa who I watch occasionally 😀 stokegabrielfc.co.uk/Don’t know why they’re nicknamed the Railwaymen. |
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Post by Trouserdog on Oct 13, 2020 17:54:48 GMT
I watched them play live last season against Ilfracombe Town.
Think they lost 4-7 that day, which sounds like it might have been a high point for them.
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Post by Northy on Oct 13, 2020 17:55:05 GMT
Just down the road from us. Didn’t know about this though even though they in same league as my local team Elburton Villa who I watch occasionally 😀 stokegabrielfc.co.uk/Don’t know why they’re nicknamed the Railwaymen. Play in red and white stripes as well  |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Oct 13, 2020 19:53:08 GMT
Just down the road from us. Didn’t know about this though even though they in same league as my local team Elburton Villa who I watch occasionally 😀 stokegabrielfc.co.uk/Don’t know why they’re nicknamed the Railwaymen. Do Elburton Villa still have a ground off Sherford Road? I used to live just round the corner from there on Elburton Road - about 30 years ago! |
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Post by marylandstoke on Oct 13, 2020 20:32:22 GMT
Do you think Wimmer would be up for a new challenge I don’t think you should put him that close to the legendary pasty mines of the South West. |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Oct 14, 2020 7:06:21 GMT
Just down the road from us. Didn’t know about this though even though they in same league as my local team Elburton Villa who I watch occasionally 😀 stokegabrielfc.co.uk/Don’t know why they’re nicknamed the Railwaymen. Do Elburton Villa still have a ground off Sherford Road? I used to live just round the corner from there on Elburton Road - about 30 years ago! Their ground is now a little further towards Plymouth on Haye Road. Think their ground on Sherford Road was compulsorily purchased few years ago to make way for the New Sherford Town development which is well underway now. |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Oct 14, 2020 7:38:03 GMT
Do Elburton Villa still have a ground off Sherford Road? I used to live just round the corner from there on Elburton Road - about 30 years ago! Their ground is now a little further towards Plymouth on Haye Road. Think their ground on Sherford Road was compulsorily purchased few years ago to make way for the New Sherford Town development which is well underway now. Cheers. I wondered if the ground would survive the Sherford development. In my 28 years in Plymouth (which ended with my retirement 16 years ago) I lived in both Plympton and Plymstock/Elberton - and of course in those days it was virtually rural all the way on the road between them. I'd notice a lot of changes if I went back now. Progress has its positives and its negatives!  |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Oct 14, 2020 8:35:09 GMT
Their ground is now a little further towards Plymouth on Haye Road. Think their ground on Sherford Road was compulsorily purchased few years ago to make way for the New Sherford Town development which is well underway now. Cheers. I wondered if the ground would survive the Sherford development. In my 28 years in Plymouth (which ended with my retirement 16 years ago) I lived in both Plympton and Plymstock/Elberton - and of course in those days it was virtually rural all the way on the road between them. I'd notice a lot of changes if I went back now. Progress has its positives and its negatives! We lived in Plympton 1977-2003 when I left the RN. We now live in Brixton (via Leek and Buckfastleigh). Sherford will have 5.5k new houses and a town centre when its finished stretching from Deep Lane A38 junction to Haye Road in Elburton and south from A38 to Sherford Village. As a parish Brixton has managed to get a 1k wide rural buffer (strategic countryside in planning terms) to prevent encroachment on to the northern end of the our village. I would imagine in 50 years time it will all be developed though. sherford.org/life-at-sherford/take-a-look/collection-92/ |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Oct 14, 2020 10:02:26 GMT
Cheers. I wondered if the ground would survive the Sherford development. In my 28 years in Plymouth (which ended with my retirement 16 years ago) I lived in both Plympton and Plymstock/Elberton - and of course in those days it was virtually rural all the way on the road between them. I'd notice a lot of changes if I went back now. Progress has its positives and its negatives! We lived in Plympton 1977-2003 when I left the RN. We now live in Brixton (via Leek and Buckfastleigh). Sherford will have 5.5k new houses and a town centre when its finished stretching from Deep Lane A38 junction to Haye Road in Elburton and south from A38 to Sherford Village. As a parish Brixton has managed to get a 1k wide rural buffer (strategic countryside in planning terms) to prevent encroachment on to the northern end of the our village. I would imagine in 50 years time it will all be developed though. sherford.org/life-at-sherford/take-a-look/collection-92/Do you remember when there were early plans for a new airport on the high strip of the land to the east of where Sherford Town is now being built? That would have made Sherford the noisiest new town in the country I should think! As a matter of interest is Sherford going to be part of PLymouth or the South Hams when it is finished? |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Oct 14, 2020 12:53:12 GMT
We lived in Plympton 1977-2003 when I left the RN. We now live in Brixton (via Leek and Buckfastleigh). Sherford will have 5.5k new houses and a town centre when its finished stretching from Deep Lane A38 junction to Haye Road in Elburton and south from A38 to Sherford Village. As a parish Brixton has managed to get a 1k wide rural buffer (strategic countryside in planning terms) to prevent encroachment on to the northern end of the our village. I would imagine in 50 years time it will all be developed though. sherford.org/life-at-sherford/take-a-look/collection-92/Do you remember when there were early plans for a new airport on the high strip of the land to the east of where Sherford Town is now being built? That would have made Sherford the noisiest new town in the country I should think! As a matter of interest is Sherford going to be part of PLymouth or the South Hams when it is finished? The airport land you refer to is to be a bus Park and Ride serving the new town to Plymouth. The first phase which is to the west is now Plymouth, the remainder, and vast majority is will be South Hams. Currently the houses in the South Hams section are all within Brixton Parish and the western end is under Plymouth City Council as Elburton and Dunstone, but at some point, as the town grows, Sherford will have its own unitary town council.split between Plymouth City and South Hams. All very complicated to ensure both councils get a slice of the community charge benefit no doubt. |
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Oct 14, 2020 13:22:12 GMT
Do you remember when there were early plans for a new airport on the high strip of the land to the east of where Sherford Town is now being built? That would have made Sherford the noisiest new town in the country I should think! As a matter of interest is Sherford going to be part of PLymouth or the South Hams when it is finished? The airport land you refer to is to be a bus Park and Ride serving the new town to Plymouth. The first phase which is to the west is now Plymouth, the remainder, and vast majority is will be South Hams. Currently the houses in the South Hams section are all within Brixton Parish and the western end is under Plymouth City Council as Elburton and Dunstone, but at some point, as the town grows, Sherford will have its own unitary town council.split between Plymouth City and South Hams. All very complicated to ensure both councils get a slice of the community charge benefit no doubt. Cheers for that! |
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Post by somersetstokie on Oct 14, 2020 22:13:20 GMT
Just out of interest, does anyone know why Stoke Gabriel is named that. And is there a Stoke Lucifer. In biblical tradition the two are counterparts and Gabriel cast Lucifer out of heaven, who then took the earth to be his domain. I think. The Archangel Michael was in there somewhere as well. Coincidentally. (Stoke Michael?)
Edit. This wine is going down well!
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Oct 15, 2020 7:35:18 GMT
Just out of interest, does anyone know why Stoke Gabriel is named that. And is there a Stoke Lucifer. In biblical tradition the two are counterparts and Gabriel cast Lucifer out of heaven, who then took the earth to be his domain. I think. The Archangel Michael was in there somewhere as well. Coincidentally. (Stoke Michael?) Edit. This wine is going down well! "Stoke" is a surprisingly common place name all over England and especially in in Devon. I was surprised when I moved to Plymouth over 40 years ago, to find that my boss lived in an area of Plymouth called Stoke! A quick google suggests that the word Stoke as a place name means village or hamlet. Another Google produced a list of the number of Stokes in each county. Devon has 6 or 7 as I recall. The Gabriel in Stoke Gabriel has a church connection and the village church is the Church of St Mary and St Gabriel. Fab place to live other than the crap football team!  |
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Post by broadwayroundabout on Oct 15, 2020 8:14:31 GMT
According to the Devonish Drivel Newsletter they’ve be linked with Nathan Jones (spotted looking a brand new static caravan) but their fans are dead against it “we just want stability and don’t like the diamond formation, it just doesn’t work, look what happened at our big cousins ground in the midlands, we don’t want that to happen to us”
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Post by somersetstokie on Oct 15, 2020 8:38:04 GMT
Lakeland Potter:"Stoke" is a surprisingly common place name all over England and especially in in Devon. I was surprised when I moved to Plymouth over 40 years ago, to find that my boss lived in an area of Plymouth called Stoke! A quick google suggests that the word Stoke as a place name means village or hamlet. Another Google produced a list of the number of Stokes in each county. Devon has 6 or 7 as I recall. The Gabriel in Stoke Gabriel has a church connection and the village church is the Church of St Mary and St Gabriel.
Thanks Lakeland. "Stoke is a surprisingly common place name all over England." Reading between the lines you could interpret this as meaning that everyone wants to be like us. Reflected glory and so on.
I must get some more of that wine!
For todays history lesson I would like to reference yet another "Stoke". The Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487 may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was the last major engagement between contenders for the throne whose claims derived from descent from the houses of Lancaster and York respectively. The final encounter took place at East Stoke near Newark in Nottinghamshire. The Battle of Stoke Field was the decisive engagement in an attempt by leading Yorkists to unseat the new King, Henry VII, in favour of the pretender Lambert Simnel. Though it is often portrayed as almost a footnote to the major battles between York and Lancaster, it may have been slightly larger than Bosworth, with much heavier casualties, possibly because of the terrain which forced the two sides into close, attritional combat.
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Post by mystokebadge on Oct 17, 2020 16:58:44 GMT
After a few days working on their defensive formation and duties , the new formation of 11 at the back payed dividends today they only conceded a mere 17 goals plus the added bonus of scoring a whopping 1 goal themselves
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on Oct 17, 2020 17:12:56 GMT
After a few days working on their defensive formation and duties , the new formation of 11 at the back payed dividends today they only conceded a mere 17 goals plus the added bonus of scoring a whopping 1 goal themselves Should always look at helping out fellow Stokies all over....Send em The Wimmer!  |
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