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Bonanza Blogs - March 2010 [15 Mar @ 11:45pm]
some excellent Blog accounts of the recent CML Bonanza Ground Hop at Low Farm. Check out the following links: http://www.rambler77.net/2010/03/cml-hop.html http://the66pow.blogspot.com/2010/03/central-midlands-league-football.html http://reynardshuntinggrounds.blogspot.com/2010/03/game-48-easington-united-v-hutton.html plus there are plenty of worthwhile comments to be found on the Tony Kempster Non-League site.
Match Report @ FC 05 20-02-10 (from All Roads Lead Nowhere blog) [21 Feb @ 12:38pm]
Rambler 77's account of the game (or not!) at Bilsthorpe can be found at http://www.rambler77.net/2010/02/numbers-game.html
Programme Review 04-12-09 (The Football Traveller) [21 Feb @ 12:36pm]
Vol 23, Issue 16 Central Midlands League Review by Chris Bedford Two of the five Premier Division newcomers were at home on the opening day, Saturday 15th August. Titled 'The Eastender Magazine', EASINGTON UNITED's full-colour 32-page programme was quite superb. Containing just a handful of adverts, there was plenty to read penned by a number of different contributors. I enjoyed reading about how the ground, affectionately known as 'The Farm', had been transformed during the past 20 years from when opposition sides complained about sheep droppings on the pitch. Visitors Bulwell Town got good coverage as well. The club appear to have been issuing programmes since 1995, and maybe even before then. Easington have been selected as one of the host clubs for next March's seventh annual Central Midlands League Bonanza.
Review 18-10-2009 (Tony Kempster's Site) [29 Oct @ 9:45pm]
From Tony Kempster Forum - Ground Hopping & Programmes - Where Did You Go? Sat 17th October CMFL League Cup 2nd Round Easington United AFC 1 Yorkshire Main 5 att 50 Neat Programme Unusual badge..as it is shaped in the letter E, but very nice. Nice Tea Bar Little stand if shelter was needed Benches around the outside barrier of the pitch in places. A lovely friendly addition to the CMFL Easington United are and I feel the Bonanza fans will enjoy this set up, as they are the morning kick off against Hutton Cranswick united on 6th March 201o. This League Cup tie gave me the chance to head up to the other side of Hull..20 odd miles infact to have a look at the place. A tiny village that has a nice set of committee, players and fans. Easington took the Lead but only held on to it for a matter of seconds as the Main went straight up the other end and made things level..Just befoe half time, the visitors went in front 2-1. Whilst in the 2nd half Easington threw players forward, Yorkshire Main played on the counter attack and the home side were caught out when a shot goalbound struck the defenders leaning arm to push it out and correctly so, he was sent off and so Yorkshire Main scored from the penalty. Though Easington tried to cut the arrears, it left big gaps at the back and the visitors took advantage of their one man extra and tired legs of the home side. Those driving to watch the AFC Hull match on Friday 5th March 2010, may be interested to know that I have been able to arrange with a local village pub in Easington(which will be open till2am), Bed and Breakfast for the night, so if interested please pm me..please note this will only be available to those who are driving and NOT on the coach http://www.nlpl.co.uk/forum/gforum.cgi?post=201114;search_string=easington;guest=14709657#201114
Review 12-09-2009 (Tony Kempster's Site) [14 Sep @ 10:00pm]
From: Tony's Non-League Forum: Ground Hopping & Programmes: "Where Did You Go?": Saturday 12th September... Easington United 6 Kinsley Boys 2 Central Midlands League Cup Admission/Programme: £2 Picked Dave up in Donny nice and early, nice steady trundle into Hull, and then, it all turned to shite! As Ian S pointed out, some boat type thing was going on and they decided to close a small section of Sir Clive Sinclair Way, which meant a detour via Hull City Centre. We tried to be clever, failed, and then joined the procession of vehicles (mainly buses), and wasted the best part of an hour moving around half a mile. Eventually landed at Easington just before two, to be told that Kinsley were still stuck in Hull, despite numerous calls to them in the week to tell them to avoid the said route and take a detour. Managed a couple of pints and got back to the ground just before three, the same time as the Kinsley coach! Kicked off at 3.15pm, Easington raced into a two goal lead, but by half time it was all square and Kinsley looked like they would go on to claim the victory. It wasn't to be though, four second half goals for Easington and three red cards (two for Kinsley) saw the lower division hosts run out deserved winners. Nice little set up, apparently you can see Denmark on a clear day!! Pitch superb, programme excellent, locals friendly and helpful, and semed well organised as a quite a large contingent from Kinsley made the trip. Pubs good. A recommended trip, shame about the bloody boats! Posted 15-09-2009 http://www.nlpl.co.uk/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=193969;page=2;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;guest=
Review 01-08-2009 (Tony Kempster's Site) [3 Aug @ 10:00pm]
From: Tony's Non-League Forum: Ground Hopping & Programmes: "Where Did You Go?": Saturday 1st August... Easington United 1 Hamilton Panthers 2, no admission, programme (v.good) £2.00. Att: 50-60 ish. Not too much of a fan of PSFs, especially those where Sheffield aren't involved, but sadly I couldn't get to a competitive game within reasonable distance where I hadn't been before. So, with Easington being the only one of the "new" CMFL teams this season that I hadn't been to - plus them being up against opposition from a league I hadn't seen a match in - this one won hands down. For those of you who are planning on this for the coming season, be warned, it is a fair distance past Hull! Plus mobile speed cameras prey on unsuspecting drivers on the A1033, with the speed limit seemingly changing every couple of hundred yards, so be aware. The ground has been done up apparently, with a new tea hut and surrounding rails recently installed, and had its official opening the other week against some Hull City veterans. It is pretty rural as well, the nickname of "the farm" is not far off the mark, with agricultural machinery roaring up every few minutes. It was pi$$ing it down all the way up, but the moment I turned right at the T-junction to go into Easington, it stopped and the sky cleared. According to the old chap who I bumped into as I got out the car, it hadn't rained a drop all day, and wasn't likely to - even though it was bucketing it down half a mile up t'road. Don't get that at all, but he was right, and I didn't get any rain until I got half a mile outside Easington One thing though is with the rain staying away, the balmy weather gave the millions of insects a field day, and I'm still scratching. Thankfully the game was a very competitive one, with neither side holding back, and Hamilton looking the better of the two. The visitors (York League Champions) went ahead after beating the offside trap, and walking the ball round the keeper, with Easington drawing level on half time through a dodgy challenge on the keeper. Hamilton went back in front a minute into the second half, and even had the luxury of missing a penalty late on, they were that in control. Overall a decent enough game, and has tempted me into getting a few York League games in the coming season. http://www.nlpl.co.uk/forum/gforum.cgi?post=186346;search_string=easington;guest=13478102#186346 Posted 04-08-2009
Review 10-01-2009 (Tony Kempster's Site) [3 Aug @ 10:00pm]
From: Tony's Non-League Forum: Ground Hopping & Programmes: "Where Did You Go?": Saturday 10th January... Humber Premier League Premier Division Easington United 2 Pocklington Town 0 Admission none, prog £1 (fantastic effort, loads to read, all in colour and a credit to the club) Attendance 25 Tea (in a mug) 40p Most of the country was a frozen waste so we decided to head north and east towards the oncoming warmer weather. Knowing we had the back up of a 3G pitch in Hull for Branholme we kept going east after a hopeful report from Easington. With the temperature hovering between -1 and a balmy zero all the way over we were convincing oursleves this had no chane of being on given the ground had been iron hard at home for at least 7 days. When we arrived the home team were "warming" up and the ref had been persuaded to give it a go. In truth most of the ground was remarkably soft underfoot even if coated in a white frost as it had apparently been the first such frost of the week, unlike back home in Arctic Wales. With the visitors coming from Pocklington, which is just abourt as far as you can go on this league our hopes rose of the game going ahead (for it was one of only a very small number across the whole region). Only one small patch along one touch line remained frozen but the players got on with and had no complaints (apart from how cold it was - and it was with a biting wind blowing in, surprisingly from the south. The game started at a good pace and this continued through to the last quarter, when easington sat back and comfortably coped with anything Pock could muster. In only our second Humber Premier League game we were again impressed with teh standard and would certainly go to more grounds in the future. The ground was quite basic but in a pleasant spot. It was roped off down each side, had hard standing on one side and a well used tea bar. The club was very friendly and produced one of teh best programmes I have seen so far this season. I am a great fan of any programme at this level but Easington, who have been regular isuers for many years, excelled themselves. No time for a pint on this occasion as time was against us but instead we went for a walk down the coast on Spurn Head. Mr. Dakin had never been to this unique English landscape feature so as we were so close it was silly not to go the extra few miles. It was cold and windy but worth the trip. A good day was had all round. Home by 8 and even Tom stayed awake all the way back. Must be the bracing sea air. http://www.nlpl.co.uk/forum/gforum.cgi?post=145792;search_string=easington;guest=13478102#145792 Posted 04-08-2009
Review 03-11-2007 (Travellers' Tales) [3 Aug @ 10:00pm]
From Football Grounds in Focus: Travellers' Tales... TT No.104: Andrew Gallon - Sat November 3rd 2007; Easington Utd v LSS Lucarly's; Humber Premier League Premier Division; Res: 0-2; Att: 38 (h/c); Adm: Free; Prog: £1 (28pp); FGIF Match Rating: *** The Holderness area of lowland East Yorkshire has a haunting beauty. This appeal has something to do with remoteness, solitude and tranquility but much of its magic stems from a lush, fertile landscape, vast, moody skies and the sharp, glittering quality of light borne only of a proximity to the sea. The isolated village of Easington is the last settlement of note on the long, winding road from Hull to Spurn Head, a four-mile sliver of sand and stones jutting out into the majestic Humber estuary like a beckoning finger. Unique is an oft-misused adjective but there are few places in these islands with the appearance and atmosphere of Spurn which, in places, is less than 50 yards wide. On this day, silhouetted black against the silvery water and backlit by a dying and yet dazzling autumn sun, it can seldom have looked more beguiling. A 19th century lighthouse near the southern tip provides a welcome element of height in flat surroundings and helps provide safe navigation for the 25,000 ships which pass this way every 12 months. Holderness has the fastest eroding coastline in Europe, with its soft boulder clay surrendering 2.1 metres of territory each year. Some 22 communities have slipped silently beneath the waves - and Spurn itself is under serious threat. Currents should wash the promontory imperceptibly westward but man has - mistakenly - arrested this process for 140 years. Now Spurn is in the wrong place and at risk from dramatic erosion by the unforgiving sea. Conservationists plan to work with, rather than against, nature in a frantic attempt to make good the damage. Only time will tell if the battle can be won. Easington, a couple of miles inland from the glories of Spurn, is a place at peace; a spot where doors can be left unlocked and children allowed the freedom to roam. There is a timelessness of the sort depicted in the paintings of Constable and Gainsborough; the air of an England long vanished and largely forgotten. Quaint red-brick cottages slumber in the bright sunlight, the squat tower of All Saints Church hunkers down out of a stiffish breeze and golden windfall leaves rustle around the thatched grandeur of the 14th Century Tithe Barn. It's hard to avoid the sensation that here the day will last for ever. But storm clouds glower above the village's football club. General manager Richard Lusmore, in the splendid programme he has edited with unwavering dedication since 1996, tells of players leaving rather than fighting for places in the first team, of unpaid subscriptions and fines, of poor attendance at training and, worse still, of an alleged incident of theft involving a squad member after last week's match. All this in United's diamond jubilee year and during a season which began with an unbeaten run of 10 games - a sequence kicked off with victory over Hornsea Town in the wonderfully titled Holderness Cup Winners' Cup. The last month has been a disaster. Five matches, including today's, have produced just one win and four defeats. In his programme notes, a disconsolate Lusmore offered this gloomy synopsis: "It would suggest that we are wasting our time, money and effort in trying to take this club forward." It's a shame because Easington, founder members of the Humber Premier League and an FA Charter Standard club, provide a welcome as warm as you'll get anywhere and, clearly, have a lot going for them. They run three open-age teams and are in the process of developing facilities which, at this level, are impressive already. A second pitch (the 'pitch across the ditch', as the programme describes it whimsically) is now open for business and use by the Casuals side. The Low Farm ground is reached down a succession of narrow lanes off the comatose village square. A sharp left turn takes you into a small aggregate car park behind the near goal. Alongside the left touchline, beyond a tiny electricity sub-station, is a flat-roofed portable building housing toilets, dressing rooms and a hospitality area. The latter has an interesting collection of newspaper cuttings and photographs on the walls. In front are a collection of benches and plastic seats, some of which were carted round behind the near goal for use by rug-clad spectators looking, for all the world, like residents of an old people's home on an outing. Another portable building, smaller and with a pitched roof, dispenses refreshments and, on my visit, last-minute massage to the home players. Further down the touchline are two slender dugouts fashioned from metal sheeting. The slightly undulating - but carefully tended - pitch is surrounded by a rope barrier on each side. There is neither cover nor floodlights. Best place to stand is on the right-hand touchline. From here, the church tower and red-tiled rooftops are visible above the trees and shrubs which fringe the ground on three sides. Only the towers and fences of the incongruous North Sea gas terminal on the north edge of Easington scar the scene. Low Farm shelters behind thickets at the near end, with the pitch of the White Horse Cricket Club extending beyond the right-hand touchline. Sadly, cricket hasn't been played here for a couple of years. There aren't the players - or even a league to play in. United, as befits their present misfortunes, were out of luck in this game. They did not, according to their fans, play at all well against Cleethorpes-based opposition at the other end of the Premier Division table. Jake Lamming put Lincolnshire Soccer School, whose circuitous journey to Low Farm would have been considerably shorter had they come by boat, ahead in the 33rd minute. He got the last touch at the back post to an inswinging corner which led to a real melee of flailing limbs. Team-mate Louis Volley was then inches wide with an angled shot when through on keeper Kevin Appleyard. Four minutes before the break, Easington's Mike Nicholson saw a 20-yard strike rebound to safety off a post in what proved to be the fixture's turning point. Volley outwitted Appleyard to tap in LSS's second in the 53rd minute before co-striker Murray Sangster, stretching to reach a penetrating cross, sliced a great chance wide. With seven minutes left, Jamie Cousins had a go from outside the box and the ball struck defender Tommy Watson, the driving force behind the LSS club, on the head before looping on to the top of the crossbar with keeper Leigh Graves beaten. That, along with two decent penalty appeals for handball turned down, summed up the day for the Eastenders, the nickname for both club and folk born in this part of the world. On the final whistle, the Easington lads had to take down the nets before heading to the showers. That's the sort of reality check the overpaid, pampered professionals of the Barclays Premier League could do with every so often. There was no discussion of England and Chelsea defender John Terry's "obscene" £130,000-a-week salary (one of the sports stories of the week) at Low Farm. It's simply irrelevant. The programme, described as a "labour of love" by stalwart Lusmore, brings in £1,000 each season in advertising revenue alone. And that makes a big difference to clubs such as Easington. They're worlds apart from the likes of Terry and Chelsea. And, frankly, that's the way I like it. http://www.footballgroundsinfocus.com/TT78104.htm Posted 04-08-2009
Ground Guide 22-07-2005 (Pyramid Passion) [4 Aug @ 8:41pm]
A brief review of Low Farm (as it was back then!) on David Bauckham's original site, complete with photographs kindly submitted by Andy Medcalf. Easington United AFC Low Farm, Easington, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire Telephone: 01964 650133 (Programme editor) Nickname: Eastenders Humber Premier League Note: I am grateful to programme editor Richard Lusmore for contacting me with regards inclusion of Easington United on the site, and to Andy Medcalf for contributing the photographs. As you can see, the facilities are fairly basic, albeit good for this level of the pyramid. Certainly, on the evidence of the excellent matchday programme and club website, this is a very well run club and well worth a visit. One to keep an eye on perhaps. Incidentally an ‘East Ender’ is known as a person living in the area of land skirted by the River Humber on the one side, the sea on the other and land-wise, bounded by, roughly, Dimlington, Holmpton and Welwick, and in the middle is Easington. DB http://www.pyramidpassion.co.uk/html/easington_united.html Posted 04-08-2009
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