Club name: Pontefract Collieries Football Club
Nickname: PonteRegular FA level: Level Eight (Non-League Step 4)
Regular league: BetVictor Northern Premier League - North/West Division
Telephone: 01977 600818
Twitter: @PonteCollsFC
Club Website: www.pontefractcollieries.com (not maintained)
League club webpage: NPL - Pontefract Collieries
GETTING THERE
Venue: G & R Construction Stadium
Address: Beechnut Lane, Pontefract, West Yorkshire WF8 4QE
SatNav: WF8 4QE
Directions: From the M62, follow Pontefract East at junction; it's three minutes drive
(Note: difficult to find matchday directions etc on any of the club's websites/Facebook etc)
Parking - location/distance - price = approx capacity (other options may be available):
Onsite car park - adjacent to ground - free = large space, c100+ vehicles
Onsite car park - adjacent to ground - free = large space, c100+ vehicles
Public transport - mode = access point, distance - example routes:
Train = Monkhill (10 mins walk) or Tanshelf (6 mins walk) - eg services to Leeds, Wakefield, Knottingley
Train = Monkhill (10 mins walk) or Tanshelf (6 mins walk) - eg services to Leeds, Wakefield, Knottingley
MATCHDAY & FACILITIES
Entry: adults £8, concessions £6, students £5 , under-16s £2
Programme price: n/a
Apparently, today there was an issue at the printers and hence there are no programmes available during match!
No information provided
General catering - name, location - example options/prices:
snack bar, pitchside/entrance area - incl £3.50 cheeseburger, £2.50 bacon sarnie, £1.50 hot drinks
"Hot Chocolate Index" [?/10] @ price: 7/10 @ £1.50
Licensed bar(s) - name, location - comments:
on-site clubhouse - full bar selection
Toilets - location(s) - [accessible = Y/N?] - comments (eg rating ?/10):
Inside bar [accessible = unreported]
Pitchside, north side
Licensed bar(s) - name, location - comments:
on-site clubhouse - full bar selection
Toilets - location(s) - [accessible = Y/N?] - comments (eg rating ?/10):
Inside bar [accessible = unreported]
Pitchside, north side
STANDS & TERRACES
Covered/open seating/standing = (aspect) name - approx capacity, tiering - comments
Covered seating = (N) main stand - c80+ seated (inc team/directors), 6 tiers - roofed shed
Covered viewing = (W) covered terracing - c60+ standing, 2 tiers - roofed
Open seating = (NW) entrance area - 6 seated - wooden picnic table outside snack bar
(all sides) concrete/paved hardstanding; lean-on pitchside barriers all round
PA system: yes
PA content: game announcements, no music
PA audibility - areas: limited to vicinity of stands
PA content: game announcements, no music
PA audibility - areas: limited to vicinity of stands
MATCH DETAILS
Date: Saturday 18 January 2020
Kick-off: 3:00pm
Competition: BetVictor Northern Premier League (NPL) North/West Division
Official crowd: 157
Final score [h/t] (kit colours):
Pontefract Collieries
3
[1]
(blue/white shirts, blue shorts & socks)
Dunston 0 [0]
(all red)
(blue/white shirts, blue shorts & socks)
Dunston 0 [0]
(all red)
THE QUEST STATS
Quest Venue ID = #75
Today is trip #10 at Step 4
Today's round trip: 182 miles [293 km]
Total distance so far on this Step (Step 4): 1695 miles [2728 km]
Total distance travelled on The Quest to date: 4997 miles [8042 km]
NORVENMUNKI's COMMENTS
Today's weather:
dry, clear, winter sun
NorvenMunki's Diary...
There is a very large car-park onsite here, but it suits me today to park on the road near the neighbouring housing estate and walk through the tree-lined path.
Inside, there's an open area at the entrance with a wooden picnic table next to the snack bar.
There are bicycles propped up against the perimeter billboards.
The site is in an ongoing state of building/repair. The southeast section is barriered off to spectators, but people just go there anyway.
Even though it's January, I put my shades on to counter the low winter sun to the southwest.
Quest Venue ID = #75
Today is trip #10 at Step 4
Today's round trip: 182 miles [293 km]
Total distance so far on this Step (Step 4): 1695 miles [2728 km]
Total distance travelled on The Quest to date: 4997 miles [8042 km]
NORVENMUNKI's COMMENTS
Today's weather:
dry, clear, winter sun
NorvenMunki's Diary...
There is a very large car-park onsite here, but it suits me today to park on the road near the neighbouring housing estate and walk through the tree-lined path.
Inside, there's an open area at the entrance with a wooden picnic table next to the snack bar.
There are bicycles propped up against the perimeter billboards.
The site is in an ongoing state of building/repair. The southeast section is barriered off to spectators, but people just go there anyway.
Even though it's January, I put my shades on to counter the low winter sun to the southwest.
A train trundles by. The railway line runs along the southern flank, up on a wooded banking. As well as the usual side floodlights, there are also two extra behind the western end goal.
I go for my customary hot chocolate... and miss the home side's opening goal! But the hot choc is excellent, and the bacon sarnie is great too, and freshly prepared.
The floodlights come on at the start of the second half, the main tall ones but not the shorter extras. As the sun disappears, the evening chill kicks in and the temperature seems to drop radically.
In the final seconds, deep into stoppage time, we see a clinching second Ponte goal: 2-0. Then, deeper still into the added-on time, a deflected shot creeps beyond the visiting keeper into the bottom corner. A cruel twist. Game over: 3-0.
The contest was much closer than the scoreline suggests.
On the way home, I pick up a commemorative bag of Pontefract cakes from Morrison's. It seems only fitting, a taste of Yorkshire on my journey home.
NORVENMUNKI's GALLERY
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