The Non - League thread

[Four Of Clubs]

.. yesterday's review of 'local' NL

Saturday 11th January 2014

FA Trophy R3

1 Cambridge United 2-2 Luton Town
2 Aldershot Town 3-0 Guiseley
3 Hungerford Town 0-1 Gosport Borough
4 Eastleigh 3-2 Dover Athletic
5 Tamworth 1-1 Chorley
6 Lincoln City 0-4 North Ferriby United
7 Grimsby Town 2-1 Maidenhead United
8 Havant & Waterlooville 1-0 Ebbsfleet United

CONFP
Kidderminster Harriers 3-0 Salisbury City
Woking 1-0 Braintree Town
CONFN
Brackley Town 3-1 Gainsborough Trinity
Colwyn Bay 1-1 Oxford City
CONFS
Basingstoke Town 0-0 Bath City
Boreham Wood 5-0 Dorchester Town
Bromley PP Eastbourne Borough
Chelmsford City 0-2 Sutton United
Concord Rangers 3-1 Hayes & Yeading Utd
Farnborough 1-2 Staines Town
Weston-Super-Mare 2-1 Tonbridge Angels

SOUTHP
Burnham 3-1 Bedford Town
Chesham United 2-1 Biggleswade Town
SOUTH1C
Beaconsfield SYCOB 2-0 Ashford Town (Middx)
Chalfont St Peter 2-2 AFC Hayes
Chertsey Town 0-2 Northwood
Egham Town PP Daventry Town
Marlow 2-2 Slough Town att 261
Uxbridge 1-3 Royston Town
- was at Oak Tree Road with youngest yesterday - didn't fancy a long drive somewhere new, so hung on until his Swimming lesson had finished - which wasn't on anyway.
So I could have gone somewhere new for both of us, albeit would have been a bit lower down the Pyramid. He willingly gave up his usual PM slob in front of godawful tele or playing on the Wii; with the understanding he could pick somewhere with decent food.
... and there aren't many better at this level than Marlow - he wasn't disappointed either. Thoroughly enjoyable local 'tussle' twixt 'Blues' and 'Rebels' - home side were the brighter and more incisive with the ball but Sluff are far cannier - having been at or above this level for a fair few years. Game could have gone either way in truth - both opening goals were classic keeping howlers - rushing out at through balls and hoicking nowt but fresh air! Marlow came from behind to lead before HT - some very clever work from 'ex-Mole' Ian Davies earned a penalty. Davies and Romeo proved a thorough nuisance to the Slough back four all PM and Bartley worked very hard just in behind them. Visitors equalised with a smart finish early 2nd half. Slough certainly seem to miss the commanding presence of the departed Bowden-Haase (hope that's right) went 'down-under' late last season.
Marlow brought on Jon Bennett (ex-Yellamen) late on and he rattled the bar from range. Yet another ex-Mole took to the pitch near the end - this time Cornell recently joined Slough - also came close to snatching a win but a draw was a fair result.


SOUTH1S&W
Bishops Cleeve PP Didcot Town
Bridgwater Town PP Godalming Town
Cirencester Town 2-2 Fleet Town
Evesham United 5-0 Thatcham Town
Guildford City 3-2 Clevedon Town
North Leigh 0-1 Taunton Town - that makes 6 defeats in a row for Nor Lye - have fallen back to 6th well off the pace now.

CCLP
Alton Town 3-1 Windsor – Windsor evidently had some 'minor issues' (see above) with the ref .... and the supposed issuing of a ‘Pink Card’ ?
They have just lost Ben Harris - gone off to ‘The Beavers’ – scored in injury time yesterday v Carshalton in a 4-0 win. Still, at least they ought to recover some form at Cove this Tue night (surface permitting) - home side have a league record of 0-1-7 F6 A 22 in front of their own 'crowd' this season. Nice bar there too - providing its not hosting a Bikers meeting, as it was last time I went - 'hairy' definitely the word!
Badshot Lea 1-2 Cove
Camberley Town 3-0 Croydon - home side now on a run of 12 wins in 13 and have soared up to contention in 3rd place behind E&E - who themselves bt in-form Farnham - and current leaders South Park who were rained off.
Colliers Wood United 2-0 Westfield
Epsom & Ewell 3-2 Farnham Town
Frimley Green PP Bedfont Sports
Hanworth Villa PP Raynes Park Vale
Horley Town 1-1 Hartley Wintney
Mole Valley SCR PP South Park
Molesey 1-1 Chessington & Hook United
Wembley 2-0 Ash United
CCL1
AFC Croydon Athletic 2-0 Sheerwater
Banstead Athletic PP Worcester Park
Bedfont & Feltham PP Farleigh Rovers
Dorking 1-3 Eversley & California (@ Eversley & C.) – Dorking have issues with their Meadowbank ground:
“ The League agreed that for the remainder of this season that Dorking could play their remaining home matches at any reasonable senior ground.”
– the league are however, evidently somewhat flustered by this, as they posted up yesterday’s result (played at Eversley) the wrong way round!
NB E&C still having issues with a local resident (if I’ve read the Forum correctly, rumoured to be Will Carling?) objecting to their new floodlights – therefore yesterday’s match kicked off at 14:00.

Epsom Athletic PP Cobham
Sandhurst Town PP South Kilburn
Staines Lammas 2-2 Knaphill

HELLP
Abingdon Town PP Binfield
Abingdon United 2-5 Newbury
Ascot United 1-1 Brimscombe & Thrupp
Flackwell Heath 0-0 Bracknell Town
Highmoor Ibis 3-0 Holyport
Kidlington 0-0 Ardley United
Oxford City Nomads PP Cheltenham Saracens
Reading Town PP Highworth Town
Shrivenham 1-2 Wootton Bassett Town
Thame United 0-3 Wantage Town
HELL1E
Didcot Town Res 3-1 Rayners Lane
Finchampstead 3-6 AFC Hinksey
Henley Town PP Woodley Town
Maidenhead United Res PP Chinnor
Milton United 5-1 Headington Amateurs

WESSP
Alresford Town 5-1 Newport (IOW)
Whitchurch United 3-0 Downton
Winchester City 3-0 Horndean
WESS1
Andover Town 3-0 Fleet Spurs
Pewsey Vale 2-5 Petersfield Town
Ringwood Town 3-1 Andover New Street
Tadley Calleva PP East Cowes Victoria

B&B Intermediate Cup R4,
Wokingham & Emmbrook 1-2 Reading YMCA
AFC Aldermaston PP Amersham Town

[Terminal Boardom]

Feel better now?

I have had a bit of a bad week. Much better now

[Royalist]

http://www.brentwoodgazette.co.uk/Grass ... story.html

Decent read this about 3G pitches. Could be a ticking time bomb for some clubs then?

[Terminal Boardom]

Did you scroll down and read the comment?

[Royalist]

No. It wasn't there when i posted! But a simple bit of maths shows in this day and age it'll still be pretty hard for a lot of clubs to get 1k a week from it. That said i 've heard Maidstone hire it out 40 hours a week which is just fantastic!

Is there any lists of clubs with 3G pitches now? Would be interesting to see how/if they are making money from it.

[soggy biscuit]

Hyde win their first match in 9 months!

WeLOLLOLing

[Four Of Clubs]

Windsor back to winning ways in the CCL Premier last night (Tue) - much as I'd expected, at Cove, who are bewilderingly inept at home.

I popped down to Squirrels Lane, to watch a game of quite a few chances on a boggy surface, in horrible drizzly conditions. Away side ran out 4-2 winners. Michael Buck and Callum Eagles, both recently of RTFC, I think, were in the home back-line who performed as porously as ever.

Elsewhere - few games survived but leaders South Park won 3-0 at MVSCR - don't think they'd played in nearly a month - certainly not in the league.

Further up the Pyramid: in Conference South - Basingstoke went down 1-3 at the Camrose to Whitehawk and Farnboro were beaten 0-1 at home by Ebbsfleet.

In the Southern Premier: Burnham W1-0 v Hitchin - there were no other 'local' fixtures that survived the weather - though Beaconsfield SYCOB did bt North Greenford 3-2 on Monday night.

[Royal Rother]

I do like my tea in a china cup so be it boggy or foggy, Cove still gets a thumbs up from me.

Must say I rather enjoyed the game last night.

[Big Foot]

Windsor back to winning ways in the CCL Premier last night (Tue) - much as I'd expected, at Cove, who are bewilderingly inept at home.

I popped down to Squirrels Lane, to watch a game of quite a few chances on a boggy surface, in horrible drizzly conditions. Away side ran out 4-2 winners. Michael Buck and Callum Eagles, both recently of RTFC, I think, were in the home back-line who performed as porously as ever.

Elsewhere - few games survived but leaders South Park won 3-0 at MVSCR - don't think they'd played in nearly a month - certainly not in the league.

Further up the Pyramid: in Conference South - Basingstoke went down 1-3 at the Camrose to Whitehawk and Farnboro were beaten 0-1 at home by Ebbsfleet.

In the Southern Premier: Burnham W1-0 v Hitchin - there were no other 'local' fixtures that survived the weather - though Beaconsfield SYCOB did bt North Greenford 3-2 on Monday night.

I know Bucky but didn't realise he's left RTFC - will text him now to rib him

[Royalist]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25758243

Essex club buy new stand off E-bay

[Royal Rother]

From the Windsor Observer....

"Michael Broadley this week described it as garish and disgusting, and stressed his concern that it will bring the club and town into disrepute. “I was shocked and saddened by the new kit, which shows the players looking like circus clowns in bowler hats,” the ex-Windsor & Eton chairman told the Observer.

“Defacing the Union Jack in this manner, particularly by a club where the Duke of Edinburgh was patron for many years, is disgusting and brings the club and town into disrepute. “For Kevin Stott to claim the kit is breaking the mould and will help market Windsor across the country is a joke. Even worse I believe that a car will be offered for sale painted in the garish Union Jack design.”

Great stuff!

[Terminal Boardom]

I hear that he was about 100 times less popular than Keith Scott. Is this true?

[Royal Rother]

Before my time, but his name never passes the lips of the old gits on the Chicken Run which probably says a lot!

[Royalist]

It's been a while since the song about him has had an airing...

I mostly agree with him though! It's not gone down well with people i know who have a passing interest!

But why are the paper looking for his views? I don't get it. Local papers surely want to keep clubs a bit sweet especially when there is two local papers clubs can deal with? Or is it part of the whole any publicity is good publicity viewpoint?!

[Terminal Boardom]

It's been a while since the song about him has had an airing...

I mostly agree with him though! It's not gone down well with people i know who have a passing interest!

But why are the paper looking for his views? I don't get it. Local papers surely want to keep clubs a bit sweet especially when there is two local papers clubs can deal with? Or is it part of the whole any publicity is good publicity viewpoint?!

This, entirely. Publicity is one thing and I think that this has been well and truly achieved. I don't particularly like the home shirts but how much of that is down to tyhe lighting? They may look much better in daylight or even under floodlights. But why someone who for years would announce himself as "I am Chairman of the Hellenic League" would want to get involved is beyond me. What was that song? I might see if it can be aired tomorrow - weather permitting.

[Royalist]

http://www.windsorobserver.co.uk/sport/ ... criticism/

Oh Kevin. Dignified silence would of done!

Anyway moving on from the latest bit of nonsense from Stag Meadow

Another conference south player charged with match fixing. Now that is what i call bringing things into disrepute

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25781813

[Royal Rother]

Still not getting it are you?

[AthleticoSpizz]

Cant you and he do most of this by pm?

No really...I am a little smidgeon bit interested in W&E


But, almost everytime I come to this thread..to check out the rest of the local NL


All i get is you two

C'mon boys...please......save me a few clicks on my mouse

[Royalist]

Come up with stuff for people to talk about then?

I mention other topics/clubs, rather than just a dry BUT excellent fixtures/result lists which whilst great is only a few posts a week!

[Four Of Clubs]

.. nothing 'dry' about this weeks list - not many surviving 'locally' ... left it very late to get the most up to date declarations of Postponements as full as poss.

- ... and I won't try and bore anyone with any 'twiddly bits' then - either ....

Saturday 18th January 2014

FA Vase R4

1 Newcastle Benfield v Congleton Town
2 Spennymoor Town v Causeway United
3 Ashington v Wisbech Town
4 AFC Rushden & Diamonds v St Andrews
5 Morpeth Town v Westfields
6 Dunston UTS v Coleshill Town
7 Whickham v West Auckland Town
8 Larkhall Athletic v Blackfield & Langley
9 Ampthill Town v Norwich United
10 Hallen v Alresford Town
11 Sholing PP Hullbridge Sports
12 Hadleigh United bye : Moneyfields and Bitton expelled
13 Hanworth Villa PP Eastbourne United
14 Hanwell Town PP Ashford United
15 Brightlingsea Regent v Bodmin Town
16 East Preston PP Brantham Athletic

CONFP
Aldershot Town PP Kidderminster Harriers
Welling United v Woking
CONFN
Oxford City PP Altrincham
CONFS
Bath City v Bromley
Dorchester Town v Dover Athletic
Eastbourne Borough v Basingstoke Town
Eastleigh v Gosport Borough
Ebbsfleet United v Bishops Stortford
Havant & Waterlooville PP Staines Town
Hayes & Yeading Utd PP Farnborough
Maidenhead United PP Boreham Wood
Sutton United PP Weston-Super-Mare
Tonbridge Angels PP Concord Rangers
Whitehawk v Chelmsford City

SOUTHP
AFC Totton v Chesham United
Bedford Town v Hungerford Town
Cambridge City v Burnham
SOUTH1C
AFC Hayes PP Egham Town
Ashford Town (Middx) v Chertsey Town
North Greenford United PP Marlow
Northwood PP Uxbridge
Royston Town PP Beaconsfield SYCOB
Slough Town v Chalfont St Peter
SOUTH1S&W
Didcot Town v Stratford Town
Fleet Town PP Guildford City
Godalming Town v North Leigh (@ Spectrum - Guildford FC)
Thatcham Town v Bishops Cleeve

CCLP
Alton Town PP Camberley Town
Ash United PP Chessington & Hook United
Bedfont Sports PP Molesey
Cove PP Wembley
Croydon PP Hartley Wintney
Farnham Town v Frimley Green
Raynes Park Vale v Mole Valley SCR
South Park v Colliers Wood United
Westfield PP Epsom & Ewell
Windsor v Badshot Lea
CCL1
Cobham v Spelthorne Sports
Dorking PP Knaphill (no venue available)
Epsom Athletic v AFC Croydon Athletic
14:00 Eversley & California PP Bedfont & Feltham
Sandhurst Town PP CB Hounslow United
14:00 Sheerwater PP Farleigh Rovers
14:00 South Kilburn v Banstead Athletic
14:00 Worcester Park PP Staines Lammas

HELLP
Abingdon United v Thame United
Ardley United v Wantage Town
Ascot United PP Shrivenham
Binfield PP Kidlington
Highmoor Ibis v Bracknell Town
Holyport PP Brimscombe & Thrupp
Newbury v Cheltenham Saracens
Wootton Bassett Town PP Flackwell Heath
HELL1E
Burnham Res PP Didcot Town Res
14:15 Finchampstead PP Chinnor
Milton United v AFC Hinksey
Penn & Tylers Green PP Woodley Town
HELL1W
Tuffley Rovers PP Letcombe
WESSP
Brockenhurst PP Whitchurch United
WESS1
Andover New Street PP Hayling United
Laverstock & Ford PP Fleet Spurs