syston_fox

Does Michael Golding exist if not in action today??

Boom 86 - happy days! Someone suggested going to play the back 9 the next day but that doesn't count either in my mind. 18 holes continuous or nothing.

Nice one! I remember when I did it for the first time. I wasn't the one keeping score and so had no idea that it was on and then finished on 96 which was 5 shots off my best. Person who I was playing with had known it was on for a few holes and didn't dare say anything Think it's still my best round as so often can only fit 9 holes in which is heart breaking when you're on for a good score. Hit 43 on the front 9 not long ago and bad light stopped play.... devastated!

Have a look on Facebook and search for the group "Leicester Football Memorabilia Buy and Sell" - post some pictures on there and might be able to find a buyer!

Three hours to go....

Sick of bloody Northamptonshire teams coming up to Leicester and playing in the wrong level tournaments. Level 4/5 one today and 11 of the 12 teams all local. 1 from Northamptonshire.... Guess which one won with only one goal conceded all day. Their players even acknowledged they played at the highest level. 🤣🤣🤣 Organisers didn't twig until later on and could tell they were disappointed. I think it really needs to be a case of you have to show the registration cards of the squad on arrival as my lads ground out some really gutsy performances all day to make the final only to then hardly make it into the opposition half. It's just cheating at the end of the day and feeding a coach's ego one again.

How did you get on mate? We didn't turn up at all. Finished 4th in the group, won our play off and then found ourselves stuck against the level 2 side that dropped into the Europa league

That's the Thurmaston one isn't it? I know there's quite a few higher level teams in there and one team that's full of academy players so already written off any chance of winning that. I think they were struggling to fill it so have then opened it up to all which is a bit annoying as we entered it on the expectations that it was for our levels. The gap between level 1 and us at 4 is massive though. I just hope that there is enough level 1 and 2 teams to make sure that they all come in top 2 of every group and can go off to do their higher level knock outs and leave the rest of us to our own.

Dodgy team in our tournament at the weekend. They entered the lower level (3-5) tournament rather than the higher (level 1 and 2). They battered everyone in their group and we ended up with them in the knockouts. Spoke to their coaches before the game and asked what level they play at. They didn't have a level because they had handpicked the best players from two Saturday league teams and didn't know how they would do so went into the lower one. Absolute joke. They would have won the higher level one let alone ours. They knew what they were doing and it just meant we were playing for second place.

We do: Coaches player Parents player Players player Most improved Golden boot We're gonna ditch golden boot and have "goal contributions" or something like that next season so assists get rewarded as much as goals. I'm actually glad we're doing golden boot this year though as our top scorer has 56 goals so deserves some recognition as 37 goals more than anyone else including some absolutely stunning goals to claw us back into games when we've been dead and buried. We've tweaked the parents player award in the end and then one player will take two awards, and then three others will take the rest.

End of season awards: Main awards are managers player, parents player and players player.... We're an under 9 team and same player has won both parents and players vote. We were going to give him managers player but feels wrong that one person is taking all three at this age especially as there is a good mix of talent in our squad. Politics looming!

Can't wait for the 10 year anniversary 3/1 game in 2037

That's what I was expecting. Like the team that played at Anstey in the charity game last year!

Are you the Tigers or Panthers? We've drawn the Tigers in the group stage of that tournament. (I'm with Queniborough)

Potentially! Which side are you with? It's our first season and so started at level 5 and coasted through that. Got promoted to 4A and think we finished with something like 5 wins, 5 defeats and 2 draws. We try to play level 3 teams in friendlies and always been competitive, winning more than we've lost. I think the only difference between level 3 and 4 is the consistency really of doing it every week. What are people's thoughts on game time during tournaments? So hard to get a balance right when you have such mixed abilities! We try to make it fair in the group stages but then once knockout starts, it's really hard to change something when a game is on a knife edge. A squad of 10 in a 6-a-side tournament was an absolute killer.