The Non - League thread

[NathStPaul]

Walton and Hersham putting Basingstoke back in their box just makes a great day even better!

[AthleticoSpizz]

And they will play Newport Pagnell(won it in 2022) who drew 2-2 at Congleton and then won 3-2 on pens !!!

Wonder what idiot prices Wembley will charge for the final. Final is on the weekend of 20 May isn’t it?

isn’t it normally a ‘double header’ with the FA Trophy boys? (Allifax v Gatesheed)

[NathStPaul]

And they will play Newport Pagnell(won it in 2022) who drew 2-2 at Congleton and then won 3-2 on pens !!!

Wonder what idiot prices Wembley will charge for the final. Final is on the weekend of 20 May isn’t it?

Went when Binfield got to the final a couple of years ago. Pricing was completely reasonable.

Do you not expect to pay a premium to attend a cup final? Not going to be a tenner is it?

[tmesis]

Walton and Hersham putting Basingstoke back in their box just makes a great day even better!

Basingstoke having a player sent off after Walton's third goal (as in right after, before they kicked off again) could be a fatal blow to their season. Had they at least kept it at 3-1 they'd only be two points and 2 goals behind. Now they have to hope W&H drop points, and can overcome a 6 goal deficit.

Basingstoke can have no complaints. The home side were much better.

[Lighthouse]

Corsham 2 Ascot 2 (Ascot win 5-4 on pens). Was at this game, most entertaining game I’ve seen this season. Corsham really made an effort to get the game on. They had thought it was going to be postponed but had hired in a super sopper to dry out the pitch and it was perfectly playable if heavy underfoot and the grass was long.
Corsham dominated the early part of the game and should have been 2 up before Ascot scored and they were on top until half time. Corsham started the second half well and equalised form a corner scored by ex-Hungerford player James Rusby, they then dominated and deservedly went 2-1 up. As in the first half Ascot started applying pressure and equalised quite late on. The Ascot number 10 Matthews? looked quite lively.

Have been to a double header Vase/Trophy final, the year Thatcham played. it’s a good day out and I think I paid £25

[AthleticoSpizz]

Corsham 2 Ascot 2 (Ascot win 5-4 on pens). Was at this game, most entertaining game I’ve seen this season. Corsham really made an effort to get the game on. They had thought it was going to be postponed but had hired in a super sopper to dry out the pitch and it was perfectly playable if heavy underfoot and the grass was long.
Corsham dominated the early part of the game and should have been 2 up before Ascot scored and they were on top until half time. Corsham started the second half well and equalised form a corner scored by ex-Hungerford player James Rusby, they then dominated and deservedly went 2-1 up. As in the first half Ascot started applying pressure and equalised quite late on. The Ascot number 10 Matthews? looked quite lively.

Have been to a double header Vase/Trophy final, the year Thatcham played. it’s a good day out and I think I paid £25

thanx Lighthouse…..much appreciated, any idea of the attendance today, many away fans?

[NathStPaul]

Reports of Basingstoke supporters misbehaving and being abusive yet again at an away ground. Nice bunch.

[Lighthouse]

It was an 1800 sell out at Corsham. 150-200 from Ascot but difficult to assess as were spread around the ground.

[tmesis]

Reports of Basingstoke supporters misbehaving and being abusive yet again at an away ground. Nice bunch.

If there was anything, I didn't see it, so probably nothing major. One did lob a flare on towards the end, but most were just grumbling.

[NathStPaul]

Reports of Basingstoke supporters misbehaving and being abusive yet again at an away ground. Nice bunch.

If there was anything, I didn't see it, so probably nothing major. One did lob a flare on towards the end, but most were just grumbling.

Saw a couple of bits on Twitter from Walton and Hersham supporters, of course nothing proven at this stage.

[Jinx]

Reports of Basingstoke supporters misbehaving and being abusive yet again at an away ground. Nice bunch.

You whining about people being abusive is kind of ironic, don't you think?

The mask is slipping OMA

[Royals and Racers]

Even though the matches involving Bracknell and WSM were rained off, it could be considered a good day as The other title contenders Truro lost 3-2 at Beaconsfield.
Current table
1 WSM P 36 points 79 GD +50
2 Truro P 36 points 74 GD + 38
3 Bracknell P 34 points 72 GD + 40

[AthleticoSpizz]

It was an 1800 sell out at Corsham. 150-200 from Ascot but difficult to assess as were spread around the ground.

thanx again Lighthouse…enjoy Wembley !

[NathStPaul]

Reports of Basingstoke supporters misbehaving and being abusive yet again at an away ground. Nice bunch.

You whining about people being abusive is kind of ironic, don't you think?

The mask is slipping OMA

I don't abuse people at football matches no.

Only cnuts like you get that treatment.

[Sutekh]

Even though the matches involving Bracknell and WSM were rained off, it could be considered a good day as The other title contenders Truro lost 3-2 at Beaconsfield.
Current table
1 WSM P 36 points 79 GD +50
2 Truro P 36 points 74 GD + 38
3 Bracknell P 34 points 72 GD + 40

Bracknell’s games in hand though are away at Truro and at home to Met Police. Oddly I don’t think Bracknell have played Met Police at all this season!

[Royals and Racers]

Even though the matches involving Bracknell and WSM were rained off, it could be considered a good day as The other title contenders Truro lost 3-2 at Beaconsfield.
Current table
1 WSM P 36 points 79 GD +50
2 Truro P 36 points 74 GD + 38
3 Bracknell P 34 points 72 GD + 40

Bracknell’s games in hand though are away at Truro and at home to Met Police. Oddly I don’t think Bracknell have played Met Police at all this season!

Tues 4th April Hayes and Yeading (A)
Sat 8th April Swindon Supermarine (A)
Mon April 10th Beaconsfield (H)
Wed April 12th Truro (A)
Sat April 15th Gosport(H)
Tues April 18th Met Pol (A)
Sat April 22nd Plymouth Parkway (A)
TBA Met Police (H)- probably Thurs 20th ??

[Sutekh]

Even though the matches involving Bracknell and WSM were rained off, it could be considered a good day as The other title contenders Truro lost 3-2 at Beaconsfield.
Current table
1 WSM P 36 points 79 GD +50
2 Truro P 36 points 74 GD + 38
3 Bracknell P 34 points 72 GD + 40

Bracknell’s games in hand though are away at Truro and at home to Met Police. Oddly I don’t think Bracknell have played Met Police at all this season!

Tues 4th April Hayes and Yeading (A)
Sat 8th April Swindon Supermarine (A)
Mon April 10th Beaconsfield (H)
Wed April 12th Truro (A)
Sat April 15th Gosport(H)
Tues April 18th Met Pol (A)
Sat April 22nd Plymouth Parkway (A)
TBA Met Police (H)- probably Thurs 20th ??

I know there's playoffs to fit in but surely those games should be able to be fitted in "as and when" rather than holding whole leagues to ransom when consistent cr@p weather has decimated the fixture lists for some clubs, these are players and management with other jobs not full time dedicated professionals ffs. Bracknell are one of a number of clubs in the country that are going to have real problems (as if they didn't already) if yet another game gets called off.

[Royals and Racers]

Even though the matches involving Bracknell and WSM were rained off, it could be considered a good day as The other title contenders Truro lost 3-2 at Beaconsfield.
Current table
1 WSM P 36 points 79 GD +50
2 Truro P 36 points 74 GD + 38
3 Bracknell P 34 points 72 GD + 40

Bracknell’s games in hand though are away at Truro and at home to Met Police. Oddly I don’t think Bracknell have played Met Police at all this season!

Tues 4th April Hayes and Yeading (A)
Thur 6th April Met Police (H)
Sat 8th April Swindon Supermarine (A)
Mon April 10th Beaconsfield (H)
Wed April 12th Truro (A)
Sat April 15th Gosport(H)
Tues April 18th Met Pol (A)
Sat April 22nd Plymouth Parkway (A)

Edited to include re-arranged fixture next Thursday 7.45pm

[Loafer]

Youtube video of the FA Sunday Cup final between SE Dons and Aigburth Arms

Over 1000 people at Sixfields, Electric atmosphere and a great advert for Sunday League

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDQEPCUcfDo

ANYTHING FOR PAULA ANYTHING FOR THE DONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Four Of Clubs]

Results from yesterday

Saturday 1st April

FAT – S-F
Altrincham 1-1 FC Halifax Town - att 4,771 - 2-3p
Gateshead 3-3 Barnet - not seen att. anywhere yet (?) 4-1p – ‘Heed’ led 3-0 at one point – Bees levelled on 101 mins - to take the match to a shoot-out
– home keeper James Montgomery, saved two pens – he’s a relatively distant relation of Jim Montgomery of 1973 Cup Final fame (wiki) – I saw him (James not Jim!) play for Telford about 7 years ago.
- Final
Sunday 21st May 3 p.m.

FAV – S-F
Congleton Town 2-2 Newport Pagnell Town - att 1,436 - 2-3p
Corsham Town v Ascot United - att 1,736 – 4-5p
- Final
Sunday 21st May 12 p.m.

League
NAT
Dagenham & Redbridge 0-2 Dorking Wanderers three wins in a row now for Wanderers – opens up an 8 point gap to the drop zone and sees them above the Sh!ts on GD – have three relegation rivals up in their next three fixtures, I believe.
- Maidstone beaten 0-4 at home by Boreham Wd are confirmed as relegated.
- Yeovil, Torquay and ‘Scunny’, fill the other three places – so unless the ‘Glovers’ or ‘Gulls’ can overhaul Gateshead or York, there’s going to be some geographical tweaks required. Yeovil go to Gateshead on Tue night.
- At the top Wrexham hit the 100 point mark with a 5-1 mauling of Oldham (att 9,910) – Mullin hat-trick - to go three points clear of Notts County - with game in hand … and now better a GD.

Maidenhead United 0-0 Chesterfield
NATN
AFC Fylde 3-0 Brackley Town – ‘Saints’ beaten at leaders
Banbury United 0-0 Blyth Spartans
NATS
Hemel Hempstead Town 1-1 Slough Town
Oxford City 4-0 Tonbridge Angels

SLP-C
Kings Langley 2-3 Stourbridge
- Hednesford and AFC Rushden & Diamonds relegated from this division with Bedford Town most likely to go down with them
- KL still 4th bottom and in danger of dropping: are 3 points adrift of safety with 5 games left.
- top spot to join the NAT-N, looks like a three-way fight between Coalville, Tamworth & Leiston.

SLP-S
Beaconsfield Town 3-2 Truro City
Chesham United 5-1 Yate Town
Merthyr Town 3-1 Hanwell Town
- Gosport v Hendon abandoned as no replacement official available, when a linesman/assistant was unable to continue?

SL1-C
Berkhamsted 0-0 Kidlington - Berko were crowned as Champions of this division, in spite of being held 0-0 by ‘Kiddy’ - their draw in front of 534
Didcot Town 1-0 Cirencester Town - att 262
- went to this –pitch was fine and lights unused - so no issues as in recent weeks
- was an insipid, somewhat stale encounter with neither side giving up much space – and very few chances at either end - became a midfield grapple and Ciren. are a big strong outfit with faint ambitions of grabbing a PO place themselves.
- hosts won it with almost the last kick/header on 93’ to hang on to 3rd spot – with 4 games to play.
- Biggleswade in 2nd are above on GD and Walthamstow, who were held by basement club Barton Rovers are in 4th 5 points behind – have both played 2 games less than Diddy. One more win should see the ‘Railwaymen’ secure a PO berth.

Waltham Abbey 1-3 Thame United

IL1-SC
Bedfont Sports 0-1 Leatherhead
South Park 2-1 Uxbridge
Sutton Common Rovers Merstham
Thatcham Town 2-1 Chertsey Town att 167 – goals from Josh Edwards and Simeon Weekes
Walton & Hersham 5-1 Basingstoke Town 1,651 – covered above – just the one goal for W&H’s Eddie Simon this week
– ‘stoke’s next game Good Friday PM H v Southall
– W&H trek over to Guernsey on Easter Sat. for a lunchtime game
‘Green Donkeys/Lions’ have picked up on form recently and pulled clear of the danger zone.
- Looks as if two from Ashford (Mx) Sutton Common Rvrs, Merstham or Bedfont Sports could be dropping down with Tooting & M. That might cause an imbalance in the CCL – though I s’pose Merstham could go Southern Counties (Kent) as could SCR?
- Coming up from the SC (though more likely to the IL1-SE) could be Erith & Belvedere but there’s a lot of (unsubstantiated and quite unpleasant) ‘chatterings’ about the ‘Deres’ one-time 20 point lead, evaporating to the point that Phoenix Sports may yet get past them. Rumours abound that E&B are imploding, due to a major disagreement/discontent within the playing squad, possibly about them being released to play for (as featured on here of late) the SE Dons on Sundays.

Westfield 2-3 Marlow - ‘Blues’ stay 3rd

CCL-PN
Broadfields United 1-2 Egham Town
Edgware & Kingsbury 4-1 Chalfont St. Peter
London Lions 0-2 Wokingham & Emmbrook – much needed win for ‘Sumas’
Spelthorne Sports 2-3 Windsor – stop the recent run of poor defeats (5 in a row & 10 since their last win I think) and just hauls them back above Oxhey off the bottom
– were helped by Chalfont’s heavy defeat above too - though not W&E’s win – 19th and 20th could go down to CCL-1.
Windsor are at Rivermoor on Tuesday - if it’s 'resurfaced' by then – Oxhey host Wallingford and Chalfont are at home to London Lions

CCL-PS
Badshot Lea 2-0 Tadley Calleva
Balham 2-1 Alton
Frimley Green 0-4 Sheerwater - confirms FG will finish last this season – currently Fleet Town, Guildford or Sheerwater, are amongst about half a doz. clubs that may be dropping with them to CCL1 … but I suspect the intention is that relegation will be based upon a STEP05 wide PPG rating.

Jersey Bulls 1-2 Raynes Park Vale - ‘Bulls’ beaten by league leaders as their uncharacteristic poor run of home form continues.
Knaphill 2-2 Farnham Town
Redhill 3-4 Guildford City
CCL-1
CB Hounslow United 3-1 Bagshot - win for CBH sees the two clubs swap places at the bottom.
Langley 4-2 Molesey – - Langley draw level with Berks County - both sides 1 point behind leaders Depor - who’ve played a game more. County are ‘borrowing’ Ascot’s ground on Tue night for the visit of 6th placed Bedfont - to help with fixture congestion
– maybe don’t trust the surface at Stubbs La (Binfield) to endure after this recent excess of wet-stuff?
- that night sees Langley down at Eversley and Sandhurst (currently 8th) host bottom club Bagshot.
- ‘Fizzers’ will harbour faint hopes of charging into the mix. They will need to come from a long way back though, with the number of games they have left
– puts 'landlords/co-hosts' Bracknell's fixture pile-up into some perspective .... but Sandhurst still have 14 games to play -that's according to NLM (7 home : 7 away) but - as touched on above - even the FA.com league site itself has lost track and only shows 10 left.
The CCL’s own site shows a table with them in 6th place with 13 games left but only lists 9 Fixtures for April – though the Table on their own weekly Bulletin lines up with NLM!

Penn & Tylers Green 2-0 Woodley United
Spartans Youth 0-4 Rayners Lane

HELL- P
Roman Glass St George 1-3 Royal Wootton Bassett Town Bassett up to 6th but only have 3 games left – visit Shrivenham on Tuesday night
HELL-1
Kidlington Res 0-1 Long Crendon
- result of some note in this section: Cirencester Town ‘Dev’ (I mentioned them last week and a couple of pages back) won their first (and penultimate) fixture of the season, 2-0 at Moreton Rangers - to avoid the dreaded ‘no wins’ tag.

SSM-P
Potton United 0-1 Risborough Rangers
St Panteleimon 3-2 Aylesbury Vale Dynamos
SSM-1
London Tigers 3-1 Eaton Socon ‘Tigers’ off the bottom with this win
Thame United Reserves 3-3 Letchworth Garden City Eagles
Wellingborough Whitworth 2-3 Holmer Green - HG needed this with London Tigers registering 3 points – means ‘Thame Ressies’ drop to last place – not sure on relegation rules in place from STEP06 – much of it is influenced by facilities rather than performance – but if ‘demoted’ they could drop into the SSM Div 2 (a rarity that a league has a ‘direct’ STEP07 feeder) or perhaps switch back across into the ‘non-feeder’ Hellenic Div 2s.
… they could also join the Oxfordshire Senior Leagues - their parent club are in that County FA. Originally part of the club itself, had their roots in that league in a former guise (as Oakley United) - before being fully absorbed into Thame at the ASM Stadium set-up in the mid-2010s....
Tue evening sees HG go to Thame Res and Tigers 'host' their own landlords (Amersham) at Spratley's

WESSEX all games off bar 2 in the Premier – included the rarity of leaders AFC Portchester dropping more points, in a 1-1 draw with Baffins in front of 510. They have 3 games left and a healthy lead though Horndean back in 3rd have 5 games in hand.