Monthly Archives: May 2024

Dormie

31 Friday May 2024

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Saturday 30th March 2024 ko 18:30

South West Peninsula League – Premier East

IVYBRIDGE TOWN 6 (Rush 40 90+1 Pritchard 64 75 80 Mabin 78)

DARTMOUTH 0

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Entry £6

Programme £1

Teamsheet 50p

It felt like the end of an era as the groundhopping circus reached Ivybridge. It was the final game of this year’s Easter Hop but also the end of 3 hopping weekends in March. We’d visited Blackpool, Perth, and Exeter with a mere weekend off between each. I and others were exhausted so thank heaven Easter is later in 2025!

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Alcantara & Last

29 Wednesday May 2024

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Saturday 30th March 2024 ko 15:00

South West Peninsula League Premier East

ELBURTON VILLA 1 (Alcantara 56p)

Alcantara sent off 90+10 (violent conduct)

BOVEY TRACEY 2 (Haynes 12 29)

Thomas sent off (DOGSO) 56

Last sent off 90+10 (violent conduct)

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Entry £6

Programme £2

From Liskeard the cavalcade headed more or less due east, and over the Tamar to Plymouth and its environs. Elburton sits on the south-eastern edge of the conurbation, subsumed into Plymstock but the football club maintains the village’s identity.

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The Final Day

24 Friday May 2024

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Saturday 30th March 2024 ko 11:30

South West Peninsula League Premier West

LISKEARD ATHLETIC 2 (Kane 23 M Gilbert 50)

DOBWALLS 0

Att 508

Entry £6

Programme £1

It wasn’t just the final day of the Peninsula League Hop. It was also the final day of 6 weeks’ worth of organised groundhopping events that had started at FC St Helens in the North West Counties League, meandered round the northern reaches of the East of Scotland League two weeks later, and the start of the end of it saw us dipping into Cornwall!

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Disco In Kernow

21 Tuesday May 2024

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Friday 29th March 2024 ko 19:00

South West Peninsula League Premier West

HOLSWORTHY 0

BUDE TOWN 0

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Programme £1

If there was one of the Good Friday Peninsula Hop games in danger of postponement it was definitely Holsworthy. We’d all seen their tweets worrying about a section of the pitch, advising on a 4pm inspection and asking if anyone had a heater they could borrow, but sometimes as a groundhopper you have a decision to make.

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The Outskirts

15 Wednesday May 2024

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Friday 29th March 2024 ko 15:00

South West Peninsula League Premier East

TORRIDGESIDE 0

OAKHAMPTON ARGYLE 3 (Rowe 8 12 Mortimore 22)

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Programme £2.50

The cavalcade moved to the outskirts of Torrington, and the programme enthusiasts greeted the car park attendents as old retainers. They’d been here earlier, before the Torrington game to make absolutely, doubly certain they got a programme. They needn’t have worried, the club had more than enough to spare, even for the hoppers who’d decided to go off-piste to Ilfracombe but had been forced to turn tail when they discovered the game was off due to waterlogging.

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Devonian

12 Sunday May 2024

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Thursday 28th March 2024 ko 19:30

South-West Peninsula League- Premier East

HONITON TOWN P

SIDMOUTH TOWN P

postponed due to a waterlogged pitch

Friday 29th March 2024 ko 11:30

South-West Peninsula League- Premier East

TORRINGTON 1 (Davey 18)

Harper-Penman penalty saved 52

CREDITON UNITED 0

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Entry £6

Programme £2

It was good to be attending the Easter Hop without being too closely involved. We at GroundhopUK were pleased to have the Peninsula League’s Phil Hiscox along for last July for the United Counties League Hop, mainly for the company. I’m fairly sure we can’t teach him much about running one of these events, he’s been doing it longer than we have!

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