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[Four Of Clubs]

Results from yesterdays' local NL matches:

Saturday 1st March

CONFP
Aldershot Town 2-3 Lincoln City FC
Barnet 1-3 Woking
CONFS
Basingstoke Town 2-2 Maidenhead United – Magpies came back from 2 down.
Boreham Wood {SEVEN} 7-0 Tonbridge Angels
Bromley 2-2 Bath City
Dorchester Town 1-1 Staines Town
Dover Athletic 3-0 Gosport Borough
Eastleigh 3-1 Weston-Super-Mare
Ebbsfleet United 3-0 Farnborough
Hayes & Yeading Utd 0-1 Havant & Waterlooville
Sutton United 2-0 Chelmsford City
Whitehawk 0-2 Concord Rangers

SOUTHP
Banbury Utd 3-4 AFC Totton
Chippenham Town 2-1 Burnham
St Neots Town 3-0 Hungerford Town
SOUTH1C
Beaconsfield SYCOB 0-1 Chertsey Town
Chalfont St Peter 0-1 Aylesbury
Daventry Town 3-0 AFC Hayes
Marlow 3-2 Aylesbury United
Potters Bar Town 0-3 Slough Town
Royston Town 2-2 Ashford Town (Middx) - only third game w/o defeat in 27 so far this season for Ashford – unfortunately the closest side above them 8 points better off - won at SYCOB
Uxbridge 3-1 Rugby Town
SOUTH1S&W
Clevedon Town 0-2 Didcot Town – two goal lead after 15’
Guildford City 1-0 Bishops Cleeve
North Leigh 2-2 Shortwood United
Stratford Town 2-2 Fleet Town
Swindon Supermarine 4-1 Godalming Town
Thatcham Town 1-3 Cinderford Town

CCLP
Alton Town 1-2 Frimley Green
Ash United 3-1 Croydon
Epsom & Ewell 2-2 Molesey
Hanworth Villa 3-2 Windsor – Windsor led 0-2 through Jones & Day after 30’, then conceded a pen shortly before half-time and two more goals 2nd half - including a further pen. Stay in 3rd and look OK for a top four place at least, although Cove, Hanworth and Frimley are slowly drawing nearer with games in hand – they are all still a distance back. Top two not in action and Epsom & E were held by 6th place Molesey.
Horley Town 0-2 Bedfont Sports
Wembley 1-1 Cove
Westfield 1-2 Colliers Wood United
CCL1
Eversley & California 1-3 Spelthorne Sports
Knaphill 3-0 Cobham
Sheerwater 2-1 Farleigh Rovers

HELLP
Highmoor Ibis 1-1 Ascot United - not that helpful to either side – H/I stay 2nd ‘Yellamen’ remain in 4th – 1st (Ardley) & 3rd (Wantage) not playing.
Shrivenham P-P Binfield – another very late postponement
Thame United 2-2 Reading Town
HELL1W
Letcombe 1-4 Lydney Town
HELL1E
Burnham Res 3-4 Rayners Lane
Chinnor A-A AFC Hinksey abandoned on 30’ @ 1-1 by Ref ‘’Altercation with player’’ – there was a similar incident reported after last season’s fixture I believe?
Didcot Town Res 2-3 Milton United
Woodley Town 1-4 Wokingham & Emmbrook – att 110
Challenge Cup Round 3
Flackwell Heath 1-1 Highworth Town aet A win 4-3 pens
Supplementary Cup Round 2
Chalfont Wasps 3-1 Newbury

WESS1
Andover Town 2-0 New Milton Town
Fleet Spurs 4-0 Hayling United
Tadley Calleva 2-1 Ringwood Town

[Christof]

Potters Bar Town 0-3 Slough Town

Another victory (6 in a row) against a very young PBT team, on a terrible pitch (fair play to the ref for not calling the game off) in front of 141 people (mostly from Berkshire).

Anyway, some pics (not mine I hasten to add) to convey the scene.

Pitch before the game...


Dugout...


Goalmouth action...


Big Match Atmosphere...


Potters Bar fans behind the goal...

[Royal Rother]

Good grief, looks like the average age is even higher than at a Windsor game!

[Christof]

Good grief, looks like the average age is even higher than at a Windsor game!

Indeed - I'm a member of the Youth Firm!
They're not called the Dads' Army for nothing...

[Royalist]

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football ... h-football

Plastic pitches set to get the nod. Although it is the express so don't be surprised if its as shite as their weather scare stories they always have!!

[floyd__streete]

Demolition work on Maidenhead's old stand (ie. lean on it and it will fall over) commenced yesterday. A temporary structure will be erected ( ) in the meantime and the new build will be completed in time for the new season.

I hear the MMS have sponsored a seat in the new stand. Those publicity-seeking blood-thirsty yobs

[Terminal Boardom]

Windsor's B&BST Final to be played at a proper non-league ground. It's at Chesham Utd's spanking little ground.

[Royalist]

At least it won't be like W&E's last final where MK Dons stewards made the noisey lot sit. After all they were blocking the view of the 19000 odd seats ( or however big that soulless bowl is!)

Chesham has a cracking burger van from what i remember and a pretty view from one end!

[Four Of Clubs]

Chesham has a cracking burger van from what i remember and a pretty view from one end!

... Amy Lane is definitely one of our better 'local' grounds - and the food there is indeed very good. Also a great view of the pitch from the fairly spacious bar, which is built up above one side terrace. Parking can be a bit of git if there's large attendance though: - from memory last went three or four years ago, for a late summer PSF, when Sluff were in town - doubt if it will be too much of an issue - might well pencil this one in!

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...here's tomorrow's NL programme - and the weather seems to be improving significantly - even my lad's team should finally get a game on at RG College - typical then that he's unavailable (Woodley Festival) - may take him somewhere nice for a match in the PM as compensation - but would need to be pretty local! (Not actually sure he's been to York Rd yet?)

Saturday 8th March

FA Vase ¼ Finals
1 St Andrews v Newcastle Benfield
2 Eastbourne United v Ampthill Town
3 Sholing v Wisbech Town
4 Dunston UTS v West Auckland Town

CONFP
Barnet v Gateshead FC
Tamworth v Aldershot Town
Woking v Southport
CONFN
Oxford City v Leamington
CONFS
Chelmsford City v Bromley
Concord Rangers v Eastleigh
Dorchester Town v Boreham Wood
Dover Athletic v Basingstoke Town - 'stoke won 3-0 at Farnborough on Thursday eve
Eastbourne Borough v Havant & Waterlooville
Ebbsfleet United v Hayes &Yeading Utd
Farnborough v Sutton United
Maidenhead United v Bath City - big win for the Magpies midweek - 4-2 at Tonbridge - all four goals for Danny Green
Staines Town v Gosport Borough
Tonbridge Angels v Bishops Stortford
Weston-Super-Mare v Whitehawk

SOUTHP
Burnham v Poole Town
Chesham United v Corby Town
Hungerford Town v Frome Town
SOUTH1C
AFC Hayes v Potters Bar Town
Ashford Town (Middx) v Leighton Town
Aylesbury v Beaconsfield SYCOB
Aylesbury United v Egham Town
Barton Rovers v Chalfont St Peter
Chertsey Town v Uxbridge
Kettering Town v Marlow
North Greenford United v Daventry Town
Slough Town v St Ives Town - Rebels suffered a suprise 1-3 reverse at home on Tue to the 'Sarnies' - though Egham do have a pretty decent away record - SYCOB went down by the same score at Royston and Marlow's game at NGU was postponed.
SOUTH1S&W
Didcot Town v Tiverton Town
Fleet Town v Taunton Town
Godalming Town v Clevedon Town
Paulton Rovers v Guildford City
Shortwood United v Thatcham Town
Wimborne Town v North Leigh

CCLP
BadshotLea v Westfield
BedfontSports v Frimley Green
Camberley Town v Horley Town
Cove v Raynes Park Vale
Croydon v Alton Town
Epsom &Ewell v Colliers Wood United
Farnham Town v Chessington& Hook United
Mole Valley SCR v Hartley Wintney
Molesey v Hanworth Villa
South Park v Ash United
Windsor v Wembley
RPM Records Division One Challenge Cup – 2nd Round
Farleigh Rovers v Sandhurst Town
CCL1
Bedfont&Feltham v Staines Lammas
Dorking v Worcester Park
Epsom Athletic v Cobham
Knaphill v Eversley& California
Sheerwater v South Kilburn
Spelthorne Sports v CB Hounslow United

HELLP
Abingdon United v Wantage Town
Ardley United v Brimscombe & Thrupp
Binfield v Cheltenham Saracens
Bracknell Town v Abingdon Town - Ab Towns first league game since Boxing day - heaven only knows where they'll be playing their home matches - though Hinksey are scheduled to play at Culham Rd down in Div One - will have a 'scout about' and try and find out the latest......

Highmoor Ibis v Shrivenham - saw Shane S-K's boys win a 7 goal thriller up at Thame on Tuesday - feisty as ever - though their reputation precedes them in many cases. The lino on the far side certainly had a gripe with them - got involved twice in lengthy consultations with the ref which resulted in two more Red cards for H/I - on the pitch they do some great things and its no wonder they find themselves in 2nd place - much to the displeasure of a lot of fans on the Chat Room .- playing staff seemed a bit thin on the ground with suspensions and absences (no Mr Spence) so much so that Shane himself came out of 'retirement' to play a full 90' and big bad Marcus R was named on the bench. Ferrugia played as stand-in keeper.
Highworth Town v Ascot United
Holyport v Wootton Bassett Town
Newbury v Kidlington
Reading Town v Flackwell Heath
HELL1W
Fairford Town v Letcombe
HELL1E
AFC Hinksey v Maidenhead United Res
UPDATE see above comments re Ab Town - this match is OFF - Culham Rd still flooded.
Chalfont Wasps v Headington Amateurs
Milton United v Chinnor
Rayners Lane v Finchampstead
Wokingham & Emmbrook v Woodley Town

WESSP
Newport (IOW) v Whitchurch United
Winchester City v Verwood Town
WESS1
Fleet Spurs v Cowes Sports
Petersfield Town v Tadley Calleva
Pewsey Vale v Team Solent
United Services Portsmouth v Andover Town

[Four Of Clubs]

Results from yesterday's NL:-

FA Vase ¼ Finals
1 St Andrews 1-0 Newcastle Benfield
2 Eastbourne United 2-1 Ampthill Town
3 Sholing 1-0 Wisbech Town - got here - crowd just over 400 but ground seemed very cramped - not sure they'll cope too well if the semi-final provokes even greater interst and there's a significant away following.
4 Dunston UTS 0-1 West Auckland Town
... so the semi-finalist include only one Northern team - and two STEP06 clubs (Eastbourne and St Andrews - nr Leicester). First time since '07 we may have a southern club at Wembley in the Vase. Think W.Auclkand would be most people's favourites but Sholing will be hard to beat even over two legs.

CONFP
Barnet 0-1 Gateshead FC
Tamworth 1-0 Aldershot Town
Woking 2-0 Southport
CONFN
Oxford City 2-2 Leamington
CONFS
Chelmsford City 3-1 Bromley
Concord Rangers 3-2 Eastleigh
Dorchester Town 1-4 Boreham Wood
Dover Athletic 1-1 Basingstoke Town - home side equalise very late
Eastbourne Borough 0-1 Havant & Waterlooville
Ebbsfleet United 1-0 Hayes &Yeading Utd
Farnborough 1-2 Sutton United
Maidenhead United 0-1 Bath City
Staines Town 0-3 Gosport Borough
Tonbridge Angels 1-1 Bishops Stortford
Weston-Super-Mare 2-1 Whitehawk

SOUTHP
Burnham 2-0 Poole Town
Chesham United 2-1 Corby Town
Hungerford Town 0-0 Frome Town
SOUTH1C
AFC Hayes 1-1 Potters Bar Town
Ashford Town (Middx) 3-1 Leighton Town - some life down the bottom of the Southern One Central - think Ashford (Mx) are unbeaten in 3 now after a wretched season to date and are no longer cast adrift - now in touching distance of Chertsey and NGU - however they host leaders Rugby on Tue night.
Aylesbury 3-3 Beaconsfield SYCOB
Aylesbury United 0-0 Egham Town
Barton Rovers 2-1 Chalfont St Peter
Chertsey Town 0-5 Uxbridge
Kettering Town 1-1 Marlow
North Greenford United 0-1 Daventry Town
Slough Town 1-0 St Ives Town
SOUTH1S&W
Didcot Town 0-1 Tiverton Town
Fleet Town 0-1 Taunton Town
Godalming Town 0-2 Clevedon Town
Paulton Rovers 4-0 Guildford City
Shortwood United 3-0 Thatcham Town
Wimborne Town 2-1 North Leigh
...grim set of results from our clubs in the S&W - all six lose and only Nor Lye get on the score sheet.

CCLP
Badshot Lea 0-1 Westfield
Bedfont Sports 4-0 Frimley Green
Camberley Town 2-0 Horley Town
Cove 3-2 Raynes Park Vale
Croydon 0-2 Alton Town
Epsom & Ewell 4-0 Colliers Wood United
Farnham Town P-P Chessington& Hook United
Mole Valley SCR 1-4 Hartley Wintney
Molesey 1-1 Hanworth Villa
South Park 1-0 Ash United
Windsor 1-1 Wembley
RPM Records Division One Challenge Cup – 2nd Round
Farleigh Rovers 2-1 Sandhurst Town
CCL1
Bedfont&Feltham 2-2 Staines Lammas
Dorking 2-2 Worcester Park
Epsom Athletic 4-1 Cobham
Knaphill 5-2 Eversley & California
Sheerwater 1-0 South Kilburn
Spelthorne Sports 7-1 CB Hounslow United

HELLP
Abingdon United 0-3 Wantage Town
Ardley United 3-0 Brimscombe & Thrupp
Binfield {EIGHT} 8-1 Cheltenham Saracens - hat-trick on debut for Brad Brown - visit to Scours up next for the 'Moles' on Tuesday
Bracknell Town 2-0 Abingdon Town
Highmoor Ibis 2-1 Shrivenham
Highworth Town 0-2 Ascot United
Holyport 0-0 Wootton Bassett Town
Newbury 0-1 Kidlington
Reading Town 1-3 Flackwell Heath
HELL1W
Fairford Town 1-1 Letcombe
HELL1E
Chalfont Wasps 3-1 Headington Amateurs
Milton United 0-0 Chinnor
Rayners Lane 0-2 Finchampstead
Wokingham & Emmbrook 3-1 Woodley Town att 125 - biggest of the day in the Hellenic
WESSP
Newport (IOW) 1-1 Whitchurch United
Winchester City 1-0 Verwood Town
WESS1
Fleet Spurs 0-4 Cowes Sports
Petersfield Town 0-0 Tadley Calleva
Pewsey Vale 1-3 Team Solent
United Services Portsmouth 1-2 Andover Town

[Four Of Clubs]

FA Vase Semi-Final draw

Sholing v Eastbourne Utd

West Auckland v St Andrews

... so we deffo have a southern team at Wembley!

1st Legs on 29th March ; 2nd Legs 5th April.

[Royal Rother]

Windsor v Cove at Stag Meadow 7.45 KO on Tuesday in the Premier Cup 4th Round.

[Four Of Clubs]

here's today's offerings from 'local' NL:

Saturday 15th March

CONFP
Aldershot v Nuneaton Town
(Monday: Live BTSport Luton v Woking)

CONFS
Bath City v Dorchester Town
Eastbourne Borough v Chelmsford City
Eastleigh v Bishops Stortford
Farnborough v Bromley
Gosport Borough v Boreham Wood
Havant & Waterlooville v Staines Town
Hayes & Yeading Utd v Concord Rangers
Maidenhead United v Dover Athletic – two home defeats midweek for 'Magpies' puts them right back in the relegation fight after their good win last Sat. Sadly both reverses v 0-1 Boreham Wd & 1-2 v Gosport, were due to late 'sickeners' - the one in the Wood game timed around 94’.
Sutton United v Basingstoke Town – 'stoke also went down in midweek 1-2 at home to Eastbourne Borough
Tonbridge Angels v Weston-Super-Mare
Whitehawk v Ebbsfleet United

SOUTHP
Banbury United v Hungerford Town
Cambridge City v Chesham United – 2nd visit 4th
Redditch United v Burnham
SOUTH1C
Beaconsfield SYCOB v Kettering Town
Chalfont St Peter v Northwood
Daventry Town v Slough Town - 'Rebels' in 4th travel to 3rd place PO rivals
Egham Town v North Greenford United
Leighton Town v Chertsey Town
Marlow v Rugby Town - 'Blues' who had a poor result at strugglers Leighton in MW host league leaders who themselves have only taken 3 pts from the last 4 games including sharing points with bottom club Ashford Town (Mx) on Tuesday.
SOUTH1S&W
Evesham United v Fleet Town
Guildford City v Shortwood United
Mangotsfield United v Godalming Town
13:00 Merthyr Town v Didcot Town – earlier KO due to some ‘Oval-Ballery’ going on later nearby?
North Leigh v Yate Town
Thatcham Town v Cirencester Town

CCLP
Alton Town v Raynes Park Vale
Ash United v Mole Valley SCR
Camberley Town v Bedfont Sports – Camberley in 2nd host much improved Sports, who’ve battled their way out of the bottom 3 with four straight wins in the league and indeed have only lost 1 in the last 9 – since I saw them beaten at home by Windsor in late November.
Chessington & Hook United v Windsor – Windsor back in 4th now with some big gaps developing to the teams above them – E&E in 3rd - did their customary job on leaders South Park – winning 2-0 at Whitehall Lane and are now 5 points above Windsor with a game in hand.
Colliers Wood United v Badshot Lea
Croydon v Cove
Frimley Green v Molesey
Hanworth Villa v Farnham Town
Horley Town v Epsom & Ewell
Wembley v South Park
Westfield v Hartley Wintney
CCL1
CB Hounslow United v Cobham
Dorking v Farleigh Rovers Postponed - presumably no available venue?
Eversley & California v Bedfont & Feltham
Sandhurst Town v Banstead Athletic
South Kilburn v Knaphill
Staines Lammas v AFC Croydon Athletic
Worcester Park v Epsom Athletic

HELLP
Brimscombe & Thrupp v Binfield
Cheltenham Saracens v Ascot United
Flackwell Heath v Ardley United
Highmoor Ibis v Thame United
Oxford City Nomads v Abingdon United
Reading Town v Highworth Town – RTFC reportedly short of defenders – particularly at CB where Michael Buck has declared he will no longer be available due to work commitments – intriguing to see if he still turns out for Cove where (I think) he was dual-registered?
The other regular CBs are both out injured; Dennis suffered a broken nose in the defeat by Flackwell last week and Hancock has been missing for a while.
- I saw them lose a fairly entertaining game on Tuesday night @ Scours 2-3 v Binfield. Their back four played OK but twice went missing at corners allowing big Callum Whitty to strike. RTFC kept ‘Moles' new striker Brad Brown quiet enough and Josh Warren looked lively up front for Town – scoring twice - but they eventually lost to a thunderous wallop of a free-kick by hat-trick hero Whitty!
'Moles’ own defence were pretty porous on the night too – they look very vulnerable in both FB areas.
UPDATE : Match @ SCOURS Postponed - Electrical Fault!
Shrivenham v Wantage Town
Challenge Cup Round 3
Easington Sports v Rayners Lane
Supplementary Cup Round 3
Chalfont Wasps v Kidlington
Wootton Bassett Town v Penn & Tylers Green
HELL1W
Lydney Town v Letcombe
HELL1E
AFC Hinksey v Milton United – can’t confirm if this is on – the estimate was that Culham Rd would be unavailable for quite some time yet – suppose it would be easy enough to switch across the A34 to the ’Heights’ providing Milton’s Ressies aren’t in action? The league are usually a bit sniffy about short-term work-arounds - though its not as if they weren’t aware of Ab Town’s and Hinksey’s plight.
Chinnor v Wokingham & Emmbrook
Didcot Town Reserves v Burnham Reserves
Henley Town v Headington Amateurs
Woodley Town v Maidenhead United Reserves

WESSP
Whitchurch United v Hamworthy United
WESS1
Amesbury Town v Fleet Spurs
Andover New Street v Andover Town
Tadley Calleva v Laverstock & Ford

[Royal Rother]

Chessie 2-3 Windsor

Poor game, terrible pitch, but a 90th minute screamer from Aaron Minhas was worth the admission!

As was the comical refereeing. He kept ignoring his Lino who made several correct decisions and was overruled. Really bizarre. At one point the Lino gave a goal kick for Chessie after Windsor had headed wide, and, after about his 4th overrule head butted the corner flag in amused frustration, then ran back up the line smiling and shaking his head.

[Four Of Clubs]

...round-up of yesterdays' NL matches:

Saturday 15th March

CONFP
Aldershot 2-2 Nuneaton Town
CONFS
Bath City 1-0 Dorchester Town
Eastbourne Borough 4-2 Chelmsford City
Eastleigh 4-2 Bishops Stortford - with ‘Brommers’ suffering a 2nd consecutive setback – ‘Spitfires’ now top the pile
Farnborough 2-1 Bromley
Gosport Borough 2-1 Boreham Wood
Havant & Waterlooville 0-2 Staines Town
Hayes &YeadingUtd 1-0 Concord Rangers
Maidenhead United 1-2 Dover – another home defeat (three in five days) and of course yet another late goal conceded! ‘Magpies’ seem to be in serious bother now – on a cluster of four clubs with 29 points but have played the most – indeed next weeks’ Trophy Finalists Gosport Borough have 4 in hand and have picked up 10 pts from a possible 12.
Sutton United 4-0 Basingstoke Town
Tonbridge Angels 1-0 Weston-Super-Mare
Whitehawk 1-1 Ebbsfleet United

SOUTHP
Banbury United 0-7 {SEVEN} Hungerford Town
Cambridge City 1-2 Chesham United
Redditch United 2-1 Burnham
SOUTH1C
Beaconsfield SYCOB 0-2 Kettering Town
Chalfont St Peter 0-1 Northwood
Daventry Town 2-2 Slough Town – home side levelled on 93’
Egham Town 1-0 North Greenford United
Leighton Town 0-0 Chertsey Town
Marlow 2-6 Rugby Town - ‘Blues’ defence a matter of some concern – leaked 10 in the last two
SOUTH1S&W
Evesham United 2-1 Fleet Town - Fleet host Guildford on Monday night - a win for the home side would see them swap positions at the foot of the table.
Guildford City 0-0Shortwood United
Mangotsfield United 1-1 Godalming Town
Merthyr Town 5-1 Didcot Town
North Leigh 3-0 Yate Town
Thatcham Town 0-1 Cirencester Town

CCLP
Alton Town 1-2 Raynes Park Vale
Ash United 1-1 Mole Valley SCR
Camberley Town 3-0 Bedfont Sports
Chessington& Hook United 2-3 Windsor
Colliers Wood United 5-0 Badshot Lea
Croydon 2-6 Cove
Frimley Green 1-2 Molesey
Hanworth Villa 4-0 Farnham Town
Horley Town 1-3 Epsom& Ewell
Wembley 2-4 South Park - league leaders S.Park rack up 100 goals in the league
Westfield 2-4 Hartley Wintney - 'The Row' are Windsor's next opponents on Tue eve 19:30 KO - 5th placed Westfield host 3rd placed E&E the same evening - top two not in action on Tue, though S.Park go to Hanworth Villa on Thursday evening
CCL1
CB Hounslow United 4-0 Cobham
Eversley&California 1-0 Bedfont& Feltham
Sandhurst Town 1-4 Banstead Athletic
South Kilburn 1-1Knaphill
Staines Lammas 2-2 AFC Croydon Athletic
Worcester Park 2-2 Epsom Athletic

HELLP
Brimscombe&Thrupp 2-3 Binfield 'Moles' form picking up a bit - go to leaders Ardley on Tuesday
Cheltenham Saracens 1-5 Ascot United - 'Yellamen' capitalise on sides around them faltering a bit this PM - still in 4th but closing the gap to a couple of points and have 7 of their remaining 9 games at home.
Flackwell Heath 3-1 Ardley United
Highmoor Ibis 0-1 Thame United - not the result H/I needed with Ardley slipping up above them - saw the reverse fixture of this a week or so back and there were plenty of afters - 2 REDS for H/I - will have a nose about to check nothing untoward went on at Palmer Pk
Oxford City Nomads 0-0 Abingdon United
Shrivenham 1-1 Wantage Town - 'Freds unable to to benefit from leaders slip up either, dropping points to strugglers Shrivvy - though I think this is the third meeting here between the two sides in a month or so.
Challenge Cup Round 3
Easington Sports 2-3 Rayners Lane
Supplementary Cup Round 3
Chalfont Wasps 2-1 Kidlington
Wootton Bassett Town 3-1 Penn &Tylers Green
HELL1W
Lydney Town 5-0 Letcombe
HELL1E
AFC Hinksey 0-1 Milton United – Milton leapfrog Hinksey to take top spot – Culham Rd had evidently dried out sufficiently – had some kind of promotion on admission (first 50 in free or summat?) they were hoping for a big crowd to boost the bar takings for Ab Town – not seen it announced anywhere yet though.
Chinnor 1-1 Wokingham &Emmbrook
Didcot Town Reserves 3-0 Burnham Reserves
Henley Town 1-2 Headington Amateurs
Woodley Town 2-1 Maidenhead United Reserves – Woodley’s first win since mid SEPTEMBER and ends a run of 11 straight defeats in which they conceded 56 goals.

WESSP
Whitchurch United 2-2 Hamworthy United
WESS1
Amesbury Town 4-1 Fleet Spurs
Andover New Street 0-2 Andover Town
Tadley Calleva 1-0 Laverstock& Ford

[Four Of Clubs]

..fairly busy midweek so far locally in NL.

First up congrats to Woking who got a great win at runaway Conference Premier leaders Luton, 1-0 on Monday night. They inflicted on the Hatters a first home defeat of 13/14 in front of a crowd close to 7k.

On the same night :
CONF South: Farnborough got a point in a 1-1 at Boreham Wd
Southern One S&W: Fleet Town lost their basement battle to Guildford City 2-3

Last night (Tue)
CONF Prem
Sh!ts 0-0 Kidderminster
CONF North
Oxford City 2-1 Histon
CONF South
Basingstoke 0-0 Tonbridge Angels - lucky escape I nearly went to the Camrose
- top two Bromley and Eastleigh both won, latter doing 'Magpies' a favour hammering Whitehawk 4-1. 3rd place Sutton by Trophy Finalists Gosport 2-0.

SOUTHERN Prem
- Hungerford's home game with Chipp'num was abandoned on 26' - player injury (visitors Rob Dean).
- Burnham went down 2-1 at strugglers Totton but have probably got enough points on the board now to survive, with Bedford and Bashley virtually 'gone'; Totton in the last official relegation spot are 16 points behind Burnham with 9 games left. This league is also playing 'one short' I think?
South One Central - most action involved the bottom of the table
- North Greenford and Chertsey Town both lost but Ashford Town (Mx) continue their late revival with another win this time 2-1 vs play off hopefuls Daventry
- Aylesbury Utd bt Chalfont 2-1
South One S&W - better outcomes for our local sides with home wins for Diddy 1-0 Wimborne and Godalming 3-1 v Yate - Nor Lye came back from Cinderford with a 4-0 win.

CCLP
Alton 0-1 Badshot Lea
Ash 2-0 Chess 'n Hook
Farnham 0-2 MVSCR
Frimley G 2-1 Bedfont Sp
Hanworth V 3-0 RPV
Molesey 5-0 Croydon

... and the game I diverted to on grounds of cost ...... and the fact it finished earlier to give more drinkiningining time:

Hartley Wintney 3-1 Windsor
- game with 3 pens for the home side - they missed the first one - actually a very good save - scored from the next one - Windsor equalised following a long-throw - their first of the match - but from then on overplayed this route to goal and never seriously threatened from this source again.
HW led again soon after - ball knocked out from a corner saw the CB strike the ball with a purposeful outside of the foot slice - the Windsor keeper completely misread the swerving flight and fumbled it through his own legs as he moved across to the far the post.
HW were brighter on the ball and won nearly every 2nd phase. Even going down to 10 men for a clumsy, rather than malicious, challenge in midfield, didn't unduly affect them - so well organised were they around their 4-4-1 shape. They continued to have better ball retention. Windsor simply ran out of ideas and squandered possession in the final third - though the home keeper did make a few sprawling saves late on: for the most part his defence kept the visitors at long range.
Third penalty and game settler was an odd one - on the break, ball played neatly in behind the Windsor defence - the HW no 9 - who'd had their measure for a lot of the night - raced clear and just got to the ball as the keeper dashed out to clear. Ball shot straight up in the air but the last touch from the keeper was judged to have been on the player not the ball - difficult to tell at that speed/angle - but ref only issued yellow probably for dangerous play, as opposed to red for preventing a goalscoring opportunity.

HELLENIC Prem
- four games last night - wins for leaders Ardley (1-0 over Binfield) and Wantage who nip into 2nd ahead of HIghmoor following a 4-3 thriller at Brimscomb.
Holyport go down 2-3 at home to Nomads and HIghworth bt form side Kidlington 3-2

[Royal Rother]

The defensive coaching at Windsor this season has been very poor in my opinion.

I wouldn't say any of the defenders look like poor players, but that's 19 penalties we've given away, and our keeper has been exposed countless times in one on ones. It's probably an average of 5 per game including those where he has to sprint off his line to nick the ball off the striker's toes. Despite the odd howler, he has been, by some distance, our POTS. At one stage he had saved 11 out of 13 pens, now it's 12 from 19 I believe.

I think we probably play too high a line, and don't cover adequately when the full backs push up and overlap, whatever, something needs to change in time for next season.

[Four Of Clubs]

I think we probably play too high a line, and don't cover adequately when the full backs push up and overlap, whatever, something needs to change in time for next season.

tbf Hartley W were set up to expose any weakness at FB - I've seen them a couple of times this season - home and away - and they are lightning down both flanks - not necessarily with conventional wingers. Last night the Windsor back four/seven/eight never got to grips with the movement of the HW 9 & 10. Indeed the tall fellah (Hollamby） playing up top on the left - recently brought in from Thatcham - was pulling the visiting back line all over the place leaving huge gaps for the wide players over on the right to run into.
His partner starting up front (Sam Argent) was also too sharp on the ball for the two CBs who stood off him - possibly with one eye on Stephens the other chap running through from midfield - he might have been the one that got the Red.

[Royalist]

http://www.windsorobserver.co.uk/sport/ ... cup-derby/

Some Windsor FC players are having a fantastic year in cups!

Notice one of the Slough players has got an injury that will stop him working for a while and seeing as he is self employed its going to cost him. Are players/clubs not insured for this sort of thing?? Some risk a lot of them are taking every week if not.

[Christof]

Notice one of the Slough players has got an injury that will stop him working for a while and seeing as he is self employed its going to cost him. Are players/clubs not insured for this sort of thing?? Some risk a lot of them are taking every week if not.

Yep - Adam Foulser (club captain) has done his anterior cruciate ligament and will be out for approx. 9 months, but more importantly for him he can't work for 3-6 weeks. The clubs do insure players, but the value of the policy is not high and won't cover loss of earnings. His own personal policy is designed for long-term absence, not something like this.

STFC are arranging some fund-raising activities to help him out, with a quiz night being arranged for next month. Why not put a Windsor team in?! Could even be a Maidenhead one...