No match yesterday means I am really struggling for content on the TerrasBlog at the moment. But I thought I would take the opportunity to post so at least you all still know I am out there and breathing!

It is frustrating to watch chums over at Arseblog and Barcablog brimming with match analysis and transfer gossip.

In a way not having tons of stuff to blog about has been a bonus. There is so much wedding planning going on at the moment that I would think football could be an obstruction getting in the way of discussing boquet colours! ha ha it's not that bad but the mid winter break Terras are getting is a nice opportunity to take some time away from the Blue Square Premier and I have spent the weekend following the Premiership. 

Thankfully Arsenal banged in a late winner against the despicable Bolton Wanderers and Manchester United currently lead Chelsea. 

Having spent some time away from watching the top division in England (due to my well documented issues with greed and the erosion of club identities) I have to say it has been refreshing to get some minutes in watching the best players in the world. 

You might be expecting me to have a giggle at the expense of our near neighbours Dorchester Town. Only a few weeks ago they were rumoured to have been taking over our club in a merger. Now their entire squad is available for transfer and a 50% pay reduction is in the offer for those that remain. 

I am now struggling to think of a south coast senior football club that isn't in some kind of trouble over money or ground ownership. 

From Brighton, through Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth to Weymouth it seems the readies are at a premium in this credit crunch. 

I have no idea what the answer is but with Weymouth not playing again this weekend I have the opportunity to catch up on a mountain of ironing. BlogCast to come on Tuesday of this week... 

Sunday mornings don't get much better than this. An hour and a half battling the wind, but thankfully dodging the showers on my bike and getting home in time to see the last 9k's of Nicole Cooke winning the womens olympic road race.

Well done Nicole, I only wish my sprint finish was half as good. And I wish my bike was as nice as your carbon Boardman bike...

It's making it a nice sporting weekend after Terras opened their Blue Square Premier campaign with a comprehensive three one victory over Grays Athletic. 

The Essex based side are being touted as one of the pre-season favourites and it barely took them 5 minutes to get off the mark. 

Fortunately we were back level quickly with skipper Anton Robinson levelling and scoring for the second consecutive opening day. 

Stephen Reed, a summer capture from Cambridge put Terras in front just before the break (never a bad time to score!!!). 

The three points were secured when "Nanny" McPhee bagged a third. 

JHMBE will be delighted with this win and it sets us up nicely for a couple of tricky upcoming games. 

Elsewhere in the BSP, Stevenage were heavily beaten 5-0 at Wrexham with our old friend Jefferson Louis on the scoresheet. 

Smiles all round today!

And so the waiting is less than two hours away from being over and season 2008/09 is imminent for Weymouth FC and the other members of the Blue Square Premier League.

With "Money" Mike becoming the last part of the John Hollins jigsaw (apart from a possible keeper to cover for the struggling Danny Knowles) we now have the players in place to try and ensure we preserve our status just outside the English professional football league. 

I can honestly say that when the postman arrived with my new home shirt this morning (and free scarf - a nice touch WFC) it hit me just how much of an investment both financially and emotionally following a football club is. I am approaching my third decade of Terras support and I am still as excited and anticipation filled on the eve of every season. 

Financial challenges still plague our club, as they have throughout my support, but you know what I wouldn't trade supporting Weymouth for Manchester United for all the money in the world. I have used the blog extensively to portray my anger at the greed and self interest of the Premier League and will continue my campaign against cash fuelled football as opposed to the game of the man on the street this season. 

Money is tighter generally and it will result in the bubble bursting and the man on the street getting his football back. I am sure of it. 

Of course your Arsenal's and Chelsea's will always be richer than Weymouth, but supporting the Terras makes you richer in other ways and the final whistle at Nottingham Forest will remain the greatest moment of my footballing life. Truly memorable. 

So what of the current Weymouth vintage then? Its far to early to say but we have a very difficult start to the season with Oxford and Stevenage coming up quickly on the rails of Grays Athletic today. 

My prediction for today ? 1-1 

But those of you who remember my predictions of old on TerrasBlog will be going to the match certain now that there will be a result one way or the other!!!

Whomever you support, enjoy the season and may your dreams come true.*

*These good luck wishes do not apply to supporters of Yeovil Town FC. 

Morning Terras fans!!! It is that time of year when thoughts turn to the start of the season and the quest for three points.

But this being football in our part of Dorset, things are never quite that easy. Rumours have been circulating after an article in this weeks Western Gazette over the future of a club that could be going to the wall for the sake of just £1000. 

Not only is that a ridiculous amount of money to lose a football club for, it just shows how mad the upper echelons (loving that word!) of the game are if the fat cats can watch a club potentially die for such minimal debts.

For once this isn't Weymouth FC involved, but our near neighbours from over the hill Dorchester Town. And despite an intense local rivalry between their club and ours, I would not want to see them cease to exist at all, let alone for such a trivial debt in todays society. 

If the story is completely true and has no journalistic embellishment then it is very sad and I wish them well in their quest to get it sorted out. Eddie Mitchell, their owner, is not everyones cup of tea and the similarities between us and them are not just geographic with him also being a property developer. But taking all cynicism out I hope they get this fixed and that they safely take their place (albeit undeserved!!) in Conference South. 

And you know what? That's the difference between us and other clubs fans. We have stared down the barrel more than once and survived (and remain surviving), so I would like to think that all Weymouth fans have that ability to see the bigger picture and wish that clubs stay in business even if it is their local rivals. 

Compare that to those scummers we are playing today and the contrast couldn't be greater. 

There is one who lives in my neck of the woods now. And on the day our club died he was on a local football forum laughing his arse off at how "little Whymuff" were dead in the water. When I tried to respond by asking about the many decades of history our club had, including many great battles with his own team and why he wouldn't miss that rivalrly, he said he didn't care and that the day we ceased to exist as a club would be the best day of his life...

So JHMBE or whoever at the club may be reading this, today is no friendly for me. I don't like being laughed at, certainly not by Yeovil fans. It was hard enough having to work their all those years ago when we were cheated out of the Trophy by a blind official not seeing a blatant handball. This match means something and will always mean something to me. I hope our players and officials and supporters feel the same. 

I may be in London today watching Arsenal - Juventus (scouting for JHMBE!!) but thanks to the legend that is Sporran I will be in possession of the score come the end of the match. I wait with baited breath.

COME ON YOU TERRAS!!!

 After the sparkling entertainment of Friday nights draw with Brizzle, I am left to stare back into the void that is the footballing off season. down to the pre-Olympic bare bones of sport.

My favourite event of the summer, the Tour de France ended yesterday so I am glum. The Twenty20 cricket finished over the weekend. Golf isn't a proper sport and in terms of pre-season friendlies, did anyone see that one sided Arsenal match tonight?

Team CSC Control the 2006 Tour of Britain in Westminster 

Roll on the Bejing festival of sport, the start of the football season and the Rugby League world cup. Oh yes, this autumn is going to be awesome!

Why am I rambling on about sport in general I hear you ask? Well because it is fairly quiet in Weymouth FC land (yet again). 

So much so that I am thumbing through some of my cd's and playing them. Does anyone remember "The Pink Hedghog Incident" ? It was a mid 90's collection of tracks on Portlands Hedgehog records label. It is quite good. Although the best of Guns'N'Roses is on at the moment. Taking me way back to  my school days!

Please god let something interesting happen in the next few day... (The best of A-ha is on now)

So only 364 days until my next birthday and rather than a doormat of cards and gift vouchers (although there were plenty) I had bills and a renewal notice.

Because, dear readers, as well as Weymouth FC I have a mistress. Another club, another team. Closer to my Peterborough base whom I also watch, and I suppose if you are going to be a two club supporter and one of your clubs is the off field circus that is the Terras, then your other team should be Arsenal.

Well run and stable of management and purveyors of the finest football in all of the galaxy. Its the ying and yang principle!

But, and I will whisper it quietly, the Premiership and the hype and money surrounding it has been leaving me cold for a while now. So when the Arsenal Silver Membership renewal form landed on my birthday doormat promising me a ticket for every home match, I wasn't as instant in my desire to send them money as I have been every other season.

And maybe Weymouth FC has something to do with that. I watched the Terras 10 times more than I watched the Gunners last season. And in 10 matches, probably didn't spend much more than the one at Emirates. But it isn't all about money. I have a stash of shares from the Wessex Stadium and in years gone by would join players in the bar for a pint after games. You feel closer to the action and the team at Non-League.

I know Ashley Cole gets the blame for a lot of things that have happened in this world, but his greed and desire to get away from Arsenal for Roman's millions was a real tipping point in my relationship with the Premier League. Let them drown in their money was my feeling, a sensation that has yet to abait.

So will I renew? Who knows, probably because if I don't I know there is going to be a match I desperately want to go to and wont be able to get tickets for if not...