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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Barmby Rover on August 24, 2024, 11:17:47 pm

Title: Woodwork
Post by: Barmby Rover on August 24, 2024, 11:17:47 pm

How many times have Rovers hit woodwork so far this season, I think it is close on 10?

Title: Re: Woodwork
Post by: Bentley Bullet on August 24, 2024, 11:27:45 pm

I asked the same question today. Not sure about 10 times, but somewhere near that I reckon.

Title: Re: Woodwork
Post by: Pancho Regan on August 25, 2024, 12:12:37 am

Several near misses today, if just one had gone in it would have eased everyone’s nerves including mine.

Title: Re: Woodwork
Post by: drfchound on August 25, 2024, 08:06:17 am

Agreed Pancho, at 1-0 we always had to be wary of a breakaway Morecambe goal or a free kick launched into our box which just needed a good connection.
A second goal would have eased those fears and we would have been able to play with more freedom.
As has been said, on another day some of those efforts which hit the woodwork go in and we win comfortably.

Title: Re: Woodwork
Post by: Silkscarf on August 25, 2024, 09:29:42 am

I wonder when ‘the woodwork’ actually made of wood was last used in a top level game in England? Or Belle Vue? Early 70s maybe.

I remember ours at school being wooden and square rather than round in cross-section. Made for some odd rebounds. I remember these being replaced with steel ones mid 70s.