Groundhopping Owl Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) Funnily enough I'm going to Dynamo Dresden vs. Darmstadt on Friday night - can't bloody wait. On 21/01/2020 at 08:29, Neon Nick said: I speak German, been to the BRD many, many times, don't even need a map to get around. Don't know anything about Greuter-Fuerth FC though, other than where it is. As for Penney, I remember him as a LB, running it out of the Wednesday backfield, into the oppositions' backfield, was always wondering when he'd get his goal, think it was 2016-17, maybe 2017-18, but he looked like the real deal. He ran it out, faster than a "hoof out", and, suddenly, he disappears, re-appearing in the BRD. I could see a Wednesday back 4 of Urhoghide, Iorfa, Boerner, and Penney. Keep us here in Owls Americas posted, you are a reputable source. Thanks again. Weirldy it's the first German ground I went to, Fürth is a city that's sort of been swallowed up by Nuremberg as they're so close to each other. As you can imagine, the two clubs don't like each other. Ground was OK - the terrace behind the goal tends to be rammed full with their hardcore lot so that's where I went, plenty of empty seats to be found down the sides then a pretty full away end the day I was there as they were playing Regensburg. EDIT: Oh and the game was absolute rubbish. The German lower leagues are great fans-wise but the stuff on the pitch doesn't half make you appreciate the Championship. Edited February 2, 2020 by Groundhopping Owl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 10 minutes ago, Groundhopping Owl said: Funnily enough I'm going to Dynamo Dresden vs. Darmstadt on Friday night - can't bloody wait. Think it was @CalmJimmers who mentioned Dresden's fascinating history Just hope I can do it justice (when the time comes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 28 minutes ago, oldishowl said: Twinned with Chesterfield I know, they must draw these things out of a hat! Can't imagine Chesterfield earning the title: "Town of Science" ... or being chosen as 'mission control' for Derbyshire's space programme Houston, we have a problem ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share Posted February 4, 2020 Connor Kirby interview on the Macclesfield OS ..... Basically cursing his luck in front of goal and having a pop at Northampton's style of play It's about time he scoored tbf https://www.mtfc.co.uk/news/2020/february/connor-northampton-made-it-difficult/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 On 02/02/2020 at 15:43, Groundhopping Owl said: Funnily enough I'm going to Dynamo Dresden vs. Darmstadt on Friday night - can't bloody wait. Good game? Looks like it Dresden 2-3 Darmstadt (att: 26,243) Dresden scoring first, trailing 3-1 at ht then pulling a goal back with more than half an hour to go Result leaves them bottom though, anxious times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 8th February Leyton Orient 1-1 Macclesfield (att: 5,708) Perhaps Macc's new coach should take some of the credit for another hard-earned away point The home side went ahead with 15mins of a tight game remaining His last throw of the dice was to bring Connor Kirby off 8mins later and replace him with ..... the scorer of their injury time equaliser Inspired or what? Also, Stevenage lost again so it was a good point indeed Previously, on t' continent ..... VfL Osnabruck 0-1 FC Nurnberg (att: 15,313) An uneventful first half kinda typified the way VfL's season has headed since late December Their last remaining hopes of keeping in touch with 3rd place - the one playoff position - probably required them to win this one Nurnberg might be one of the bigger fish in this league but they're inconsistent and have a habit of underachieving So it ought to have been winnable, right up until the hour mark when the visitors scored More disappointment for JvA then and no clean sheet = no Brownie points 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 10th February Holstein Kiel 2-1 St Pauli (att: 14,129) Matt Penney dropped to the bench for this one - might have been purely tactical Kiel (p.22) away, they're in better shape than St Pauli so perhaps Jos was playing for a draw? It looked good when his side drew level shortly after the break, but that was their first shot on target and Kiel regained the lead soon afterwards Jos made changes, hoping to retrieve the situation, but Matt wasn't one of 'em The defeat leaves them 1pt and one place above the relegation playoff spot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 2 minutes ago, Ethel The Tree said: 10th February Holstein Kiel 2-1 St Pauli (att: 14,129) Matt Penney dropped to the bench for this one - might have been purely tactical Kiel (p.22) away, they're in better shape than St Pauli so perhaps Jos was playing for a draw? It looked good when his side drew level shortly after the break, but that was their first shot on target and Kiel regained the lead soon afterwards Jos made changes, hoping to retrieve the situation, but Matt wasn't one of 'em The defeat leaves them 1pt and one place above the relegation playoff spot A poor loan for Matt Penney this, not convinced the lads good enough but I don’t know why we’ve sent him over there Would’ve been far better served going to somewhere like Macclesfield with Conor Kirby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 21 minutes ago, Royal_D said: A poor loan for Matt Penney this, not convinced the lads good enough but I don’t know why we’ve sent him over there Would’ve been far better served going to somewhere like Macclesfield with Conor Kirby a 9 month stint in hamburg or Macclesfield must have been a tough decision for the lad …..why is it a poor loan ?he's been getting plenty of game time and the experience he's gained can only be beneficial to him . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 11th February Morecambe 2-0 Macclesfield (att: 1,611) Huge game this - a relegation six-pointer played with gales whipping around Morecambe Bay And at half time things couldn't be much worse for Connor Kirby & co 2-0 down with news that Stevenage were leading 1-0 away at Bradford Macc fared better 2nd half, without improving the scoreline, Connor completing the whole 90mins But now slip to second bottom - a point behind their hosts Bradford found some form at least (and three goals) to maintain the 7pt cushion that separates Macc from the drop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRightSide Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 23 hours ago, Royal_D said: A poor loan for Matt Penney this, not convinced the lads good enough but I don’t know why we’ve sent him over there Would’ve been far better served going to somewhere like Macclesfield with Conor Kirby You don’t think playing in the second tier of German football and infront of 25k odd fans is a better barometer of ability to play for SWFC than a few months clogging away at Macclesfield? Having said that, if he’s not getting game time for a club flirting with relegation to regional football in Germany...you’d think that was good evidence he’s going to struggle to make it in the Championship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 10 hours ago, McRightSide said: You don’t think playing in the second tier of German football and infront of 25k odd fans is a better barometer of ability to play for SWFC than a few months clogging away at Macclesfield? Having said that, if he’s not getting game time for a club flirting with relegation to regional football in Germany...you’d think that was good evidence he’s going to struggle to make it in the Championship Can't argue with your reasoning - on all points I'd have said this loan was a GREAT opportunity for Matt, far better than clogging away at Macclesfield But he's been unlucky - picking up an injury that's kept him out since the beginning of November, just when he was starting to make his mark too! I'm hoping he gets the chance to rediscover that early form in what's left of their season but St Pauli (and Jos) are in a tight fix right now ... and maybe picking up results is more important than giving some 22yr old loanee game time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 14th February St Pauli 0-0 Dynamo Dresden (att: 28,980) Matt Penney an unused sub ... again Dresden arrived in Hamburg bottom of the league and leave with a point Jos' side dominated (19 shots to 3 - 9 on target) but couldn't find the net That's football, in't it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 1 hour ago, 360wiseowl said: St Pauli should've won tonight v bottom of table Dresden. What's Jos doing ??? Meanwhile, Carlos' last game was away to the Primeira Liga's bottom side He comes away with a 4-0 win that leaves li'l ol' Rio Ave 5th in the league and just 2pts off Europa League qualification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 didn't mean to confuse you @360wiseowl Pure coincidence that three of our last four managers should play the bottom club in their respective leagues in the same week Seems reasonable to compare the results .... Garry Monk lost 1-0 away in the Championship Jos drew 0-0 at home in 2.Bundesliga Carlos won 4-0 away in the Primeira Liga We're all free to draw our own conclusions ...... or not, depending Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owls-Fan Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 Kirby just scored Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grez Bez Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 4 minutes ago, Owls-Fan said: Kirby just scored Superb. Think that's his first senior goal isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 15th February Macclesfield 2-3 Exeter City (att: 1,389) Connor's first goal in senior football - doubt he'll be too concerned HOW it ended up in the back of the net It's a career milestone, so good for him The timing of it breathed life into a game Macc looked like losing after going two-down inside the first 20mins Their equaliser around the hour mark gave Connor's goal added value but Exeter would spoil things by grabbing a late winner One silver lining - Stevenage also lost again, 1-0 at home to Salford, so that 7pt cushion remains intact 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 15th July 1995 Karlsruher SC 1-1 Wednesday (att: 13,000) Referred to this game earlier (p.5) The Intertoto Cup provided a trophy for the winners as well as entry to the UEFA Cup But the competition started in the closed season (for us) and we sent a team of kids & guests to the first game - lost 1-0 at FC Basel and despite sending the A Team to Germany (and winning our 'home' games - at Millmoor) we didn't progress to the next round As for this game, Slaven Bilic had given KSC an early lead and Mark Bright equalised with about 10mins left oh, and the ref was that scary-looking Italian bloke - Pierluigi Colina Any Wednesday fans making the trip would surely have picked a nice day for it - because Karlsruhe is widely known as Germany's 'sunniest' city Probably has location and climate to thank for that - situated in SW Germany, 2nd largest city in that region by population, behind Stuttgart - and nothing whatsoever to do with being 'twinned' with Nottingham No.10 Karlsruher SC KSC trace their origins back to 1894 but it was another merger in the 1950s that formed the club we see today By the time Wednesday rolled up in '95 KSC were established in the Bundesliga but would get relegated a few years later Aside from winning promotion in 2006 (followed by two more seasons in the top flight) they've remained in the 2nd tier ever since Currently second bottom in the table, but only 3pts behind St Pauli who sit 14th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel The Tree Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 16th February Karlsruher SC 1-1 VfL Osnabruck (att: 12,069) Touch of the dejavus here for JvA & co when they were reduced to 10 men for the third time in four games After 30mins on this occasion, and after another lengthy delay KSC missed the penalty which had apparently earned the red card That whole situation led to 5mins being added on before the break and that's when the home side scored Joost was subbed off after 70mins - a bold decision, to swap a CB for a striker when you're a man down But it paid off when his replacement grabbed a 93rd minute equaliser The point ended KSC's losing run and moves them above the bottom two on GD whilst leaving VfL in mid-table 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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