18 Jan 2026 12:38:44
Had plenty of time to reflect on my long journey home to North Yorkshie last night.
What a fantastic atmosphere. It cracked at times. I genuinely felt sorry for you guys on here who would love to be there.
It was a great effort too.

A hard watch at times and frustrating we couldn't make a bit more from our half chances. Oh for Elanga in a game like that.
Overall very satisfied. If that atmosphere and that performance doesn't spur us all on, then I'm not sure what will.

1.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 14:31:58
Elanga is a big miss for us.

2.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 15:28:36
Great post Gazzi! ??????North Yorkshire! Great effort mate. Makes my journey look pretty average and piddling. Whereabouts in North Yorkshire if you don’t mind me asking. We have friends in Knaresborough…….

3.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 16:12:05
Elanga an also ran, for the toon gazz. I'd have him back.

4.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 16:19:08
Be careful bsred he's staking you out ??.

5.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 16:57:00
Oops gazz ?? only joking stokey.

6.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 18:25:38
Hey Bowie beware my friend. My wife is organising a stay later this year in the North East, either Lindisfarne or Nevilles Tower in Bamborough Castle. Be afraid …. Very afraid …?????
Seriously.

like North Yorkshire the North East is a beau bit of country. We stayed in a rooms above a Gatehouse overlooking Alnwick Castle a few years back just up the road from a pub called “The Dirty Bottles”?

7.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 19:00:07
The history of lindisfarne will blow you away stokey, remember to get the tides right btw. Funnily enough last time I was there, took my father in law. Loves our history. Walked into a cafe and some laddie shouting YOU REDS YOU REDS having seen my forest jacket ?? bless him. I remember thinking, a new saint on a pilgrimage.

8.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 19:04:22
Visit holy island a lot. But again stokey be well aware of tide times bud. well I say bud don't take to your trump issues. But promised eds to make an effort.

9.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 19:23:36
Bambourough castle for me is better than alnwick castle stokey. Apart from the gardens. You really will be blown away with history from our areas. ?.

10.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 19:55:50
Remember hadrian didn't just put a wall up there for horrible Scottish football. We were the last in defence.

11.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 19:56:37
Thanks Bowie. I have been to Lindisfarne twice before (once when I was at Uni 50 years ago, Venerable Bede and all that) and when we stayed at Alnwick a few years back. Both times the trips were curtailed by the aforementioned tides.
I love the history mate, especially the thought of that isolated beacon of learning in a barbaric world of darkness, destroyed eventually by vicious Viking raids.


I will endeavour seriously to constrain my anti Trump remarks on here out of respect for you and your good wife. It’s just fear for the future for my kids and grandkids and it’s nothing personal towards you and yours. I apologise for any offence I’ve caused ….

12.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 20:14:58
Bless ya stokey. appreciated ?.

13.) 18 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 21:28:37
Bowie you should tell stokey the story of how you met your wife, he'd be fascinated i know i was.

14.) 19 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 00:04:45
?? long one dtp.

15.) 19 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 17:44:35
Thanks Bowie. I was impressed by the gardens at Alnwick castle. I remember a very good guided tour around the Poison Garden done by an Ulsterman called Paddy who told some grim anecdotes in a very spooky voice ( think Vincent Price with an Irish accent). Brilliant!
Oddly I remember also a very short but odd conversation with a Scottish gardener who stopped work to ask “ Would you prefer to be English or Scottish? ”
I said ( taken by surprise) English, definitely “
He grunted and said nothing, just stomped off and went back to work with his mates in a flower bed.


I can only assume my reply ( honest though it was) had lost him a bet! ….
I believe the Percy family still own Alnwick Castle?
Have you ever been to Flodden Field Bowie?