Re: General Chat : Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:36 pm  

Hatfield Town Wire wrote:

My grandad years ago used to live at Meadow Lane. In the summer holidays we used to come Warrington for holidays, and can always remember walking round Longbarn Park Pits, as a young lad it seemed a big lake, since going back a few years ago, I was shocked how tiny it was . But twenty odd years ago it was always busy with fishermen, is it still used for fishing??

I'm assuming you are talking about Brick Pitts? If so, Lymm Anglers currently own it (or at least it was the last time I checked).

It had gone really down hill but its recently ben transformed. all the trees cut make and is now really open plan. I'm not too cure of the stock levels but I've seen silvers being pulled out at a decent weight. The water has also been cleaned and freshly oxygenized by the EA so it looks as though the club is investing in it.

Re: General Chat : Tue Dec 17, 2019 4:56 pm  

Widnes Al wrote:

We’ve signed Matty Smith! How about that for a Christmas box!!

Phew.

When I read your post I thought that Wire had signed him, not Widnes.

Re: General Chat : Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:17 pm  

I've no issues having Matty Smith.
As good as or better than most of the 7's outside a marquee.
He only needs a dominant pack...and we've seen that enough times.

Re: General Chat : Tue Dec 17, 2019 6:41 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I've no issues having Matty Smith.
As good as or better than most of the 7's outside a marquee.
He only needs a dominant pack...and we've seen that enough times.

RD are you happy with our pack at the moment - will it dominate?

Re: General Chat : Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:39 pm  

Seeing as this is a general chat thread........

I haven't lived in Warrington for a number of years, and apart from going to the match I only make a once a year "pilgrimage" to wander round the shops and reminisce just before Xmas. I was there today - what on earth has happened to it? Bridge St & Market Gate used to be really bustling but it's like a wasteland now. Golden Square is ok but it's like I barely recognise the place any more. I know they say the past is a foreign country but I really did feel like a stranger in my home town.

Re: General Chat : Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:23 pm  

Damienc wrote:

Hi all been a viewer of this forum for a while but finally managed to get round to registering.

I am Warrington fan, and will be posting as when I can or have something to say/comment on

Hoping we have a better season in the next season than the last, although the Challenge Cup was a nice thing to have in what I consider a disaster of a season.

Welcome aboard, and I agree our SL campaign was dreadful, and never got going from June onwards.

Re: General Chat : Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:02 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

I've no issues having Matty Smith.
As good as or better than most of the 7's outside a marquee.
He only needs a dominant pack...and we've seen that enough times.

Come on, duckie. You're better than that.
That's hogwash, and you know it.

I've held my hands up, and admitted I was wrong over Smith, last season.
I banged the drum on here to get him, after Brown's injury. When he eventually came, he stunk the house out, dominant pack or not. He looked more like a Bake-off winner, than a GF one.

Now he's dropped down a level, he may see some form, again

Re: General Chat : Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:17 pm  

Mr Snoodle wrote:

Seeing as this is a general chat thread........

I haven't lived in Warrington for a number of years, and apart from going to the match I only make a once a year "pilgrimage" to wander round the shops and reminisce just before Xmas. I was there today - what on earth has happened to it? Bridge St & Market Gate used to be really bustling but it's like a wasteland now. Golden Square is ok but it's like I barely recognise the place any more. I know they say the past is a foreign country but I really did feel like a stranger in my home town.

Sadly, Mr Snoodle, it's the same, virtually everywhere
Internet/Amazon has killed the high street
Cheap, disposable/throwaway clothing has destroyed many a household name.
Brewery greed (and rank "beer") has killed pubs
The town centre of a day time, is filled with "joy riding" pensioners coming to town on free buses (not a dig at them, no shame in that for them, but why buy a new fleet of buses, when a massive amount of people don't ACTUALLY hand over any real money to pay for them).
Local government seem obsessed with selling off land to ANY property developer, but the long standing Warrington residents see little of this money, bar the afore mentioned new buses. Oh, and the new Time Square

Re: General Chat : Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:41 pm  

lefty goldblatt wrote:

Local government seem obsessed with selling off land to ANY property developer, but the long standing Warrington residents see little of this money, bar the afore mentioned new buses. Oh, and the new Time Square

Same happening, on an industrial scale, in London. The local authorities budgets have been squeezed by central government for so long there is massive pressure on them to 'maximise revenues' by selling off their assets and land. You even see ads in the paper for jobs in the council with a job description literally to do that.

They are selling off social housing and 'relocating' people out of communities that they have lived in for all their lives, in order to sell the land to property developers who are creating expensive new builds (they described it as affordable housing but they are advertising the flats for £450k and upwards). They are also selling off some of the local shopping centres to new developers who put the rent up so long standing small businesses can't afford to stay there, instead it's just Starbucks and other chains.

A lot of the people and small businesses who are being forced out are Afro-Caribbean. The ones coming in are wealthy professionals (mostly white). They are paying high prices because they want access to a Tube station in Zone 2.

The council is dismissive of community protests, saying "some people are just against progress", or they say "people have to be reasonable and accept that if you're in social housing you can't expect to live in highly sought after areas, we will do our best to relocate people outside"....despite the fact some of these people have been here all their lives.

They measure successful 'regeneration' through performance metrics like how much inward investment they've attracted (the new chains and property investment), the value of properties in the local area, and also the fall in crime which tends to accompany forcing out social tenants. Also they get a decrease in the proportion of residents who are unemployed and so non-council tax payers, and decrease in the ones reliant on council provided services so its easier for them to close down libraries, health and social care support.

They don't care about people or community and forcing out people and shops that have been in the local area for decades.

And this is, as Neil Kinnock would say... a Labour council, a LABOUR COUNCIL....

Re: General Chat : Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:56 am  

Lefty...I don't care how rated a halfback is...if his pack ain't doing it, then he ain't.
Patton achieved more at Warrington in 1/2+ season than Langer Blake John's Davis (and others) put together.

71...do I think this pack is good enough?...no question, we'll smash 2020, and we could do it unbeaten.
The issue is exactly like last season being dependant on staying free off injuries and suspensions ....the front row depth is shallow. Get a quality prop and we stock up with reserve arsenal and ride out the periods where last season the wheels fell off.