The Non - League thread

[Old Man Andrews]

I’m sorry OMA this is a thread for fans on Non League Football. We are all in it together, regardless of the position in the pyramid.

Bigging it over those in lower leagues is not really the done thing.

Learn or leave.

You need to learn to stop making sly digs borne out of jealousy then. I reported news from a non-leage club and you and the other one decided to try and make cheap points that aren't relevent to the situation. But you're right I shouldn't disrespect other non-league teams especially Windsor who I like to see do well.

[Four Of Clubs]

...here's the current line-up of fixtures for Boxing Day - I think most of the KO times are settled by now but a fair number have changed just in the last week - so best check before travelling.....

NAT
12:30 Maidenhead United v Aldershot Town – all ticket
NATN
Brackley Town v Leamington
NATS
13:00 St Albans City v Hemel Hempstead Town
13:00 Wealdstone v Slough Town
13:00 Welling United v Dartford
13:00 Woking v Hampton & Richmond Borough
Chelmsford City v Billericay Town
Chippenham Town v Bath City
Dulwich Hamlet v Eastbourne Borough
East Thurrock United v Concord Rangers
Hungerford Town v Oxford City
Torquay United v Truro City
Weston-super-Mare v Gloucester City

IL1-SC
13:00 Northwood v Uxbridge

SLP-C
Stratford Town v Banbury United
SLP-S
12:00 Walton Casuals v Metropolitan Police
13:00 Beaconsfield Town v Staines Town
13:00 Farnborough v Hartley Wintney
Chesham United v Kings Langley
Gosport Borough v Basingstoke Town
Swindon Supermarine v Salisbury
SL1-C
13:00 Thame United v Aylesbury United
Didcot Town v North Leigh
Kempston Rovers v Kidlington
SL1-S
12:00 Winchester City v Moneyfields
Cirencester Town v Highworth Town
Fleet Town v Thatcham Town

HELLP
12:30 Ardley United v Brackley Town Saints
13:00 Bishops Cleeve v Longlevens
13:00 Brimscombe & Thrupp v Fairford Town
13:00 Tuffley Rovers v Lydney Town
Shrivenham v Royal Wootton Bassett Town
Virginia Water v Windsor
Wantage Town v Abingdon United
HELL1E
12:30 Chalvey Sports v Burnham Arbour Park

... as mentioned no games scheduled in the Combined Counties and Wessex this season.

[Tony Le Mesmer]

NAT
12:30 Maidenhead United v Aldershot Town – all ticket
NATN

Not an all ticket match, pay on the day.

[Four Of Clubs]

NAT
12:30 Maidenhead United v Aldershot Town – all ticket
NATN

Not an all ticket match, pay on the day.

Ok ..... picked this from the Sh!ts site a couple of days back .... though presumably only applies to visiting fans:

https://www.theshots.co.uk/last-chance- ... d-tickets/

[AthleticoSpizz]

Mad-Dog Allen surely on borrowed time at Chesterfield 0-4 versus Solihull bloody Moors

[Royal Rother]

Virginia Water 2-1 Windsor

Dear oh dear. Lots of huff and puff but very little brain from Windsor, plus another faux pas from our keeper, a missed penalty and all in all a disappointing afternoon.

Hearing the inquest on BBCRB after another shambles from Reading didn’t brighten my slightly jaded post-Christmas mood.

[Four Of Clubs]

NL Results from Boxing Day:

Wednesday 26th Dec

NAT
Maidenhead United 4-3 Aldershot Town att 1853 – Magpies led 4-1 by the hour mark. Win sees them clamber out of the bottom three and now only 2 pts behind the Sh!ts with a game in hand. Another important win for fellow strugglers Dover too – 3-1 over Maidstone – they’ve now won 4 in the last 6 to put daylight back to the bottom three (Chesterfield, Maidstone & Braintree)
NATN
Brackley Town 2-2 Leamington
NATS
13:00 St Albans City 2-1 Hemel Hempstead Town
13:00 Wealdstone 0-3 Slough Town
13:00 Welling United 2-0 Dartford
13:00 Woking 3-1 Hampton & Richmond Borough – Cards stay in touch with leaders Torquay – only 2 points behind with 2 games in hand.
Chelmsford City 5-1 Billericay Town
Chippenham Town 2-2 Bath City
Dulwich Hamlet 2-1 Eastbourne Borough att 3002 – capacity crowd saw homecoming win for the Hamlet
East Thurrock United 0-2 Concord Rangers
Hungerford Town 1-1 Oxford City – both sides reduced to 10 men on 26’
Torquay United 4-2 Truro City att 3865 – Gulls stay top now 7 league wins in a row
Weston-super-Mare 0-0 Gloucester City

IL1-SC
13:00 Northwood 1-1 Uxbridge

SLP-C
Stratford Town 2-1 Banbury United
SLP-S
12:00 Walton Casuals 2-2 Metropolitan Police
13:00 Beaconsfield Town 3-2 Staines Town
13:00 Farnborough 1-1 Hartley Wintney – 89’ equalizer for the visitors
Chesham United 3-0 Kings Langley – 'Generals' still 2nd bottom but some momentum is building (4 wins in 6) and they are reeling in the teams above them – worryingly these include Basingstoke and Farnborough who sit only 3 and 4 pts above respectively.

Gosport Borough 3-2 Basingstoke Town
Swindon Supermarine 2-2 Salisbury
SL1-C
13:00 Thame United 2-1 Aylesbury United
Didcot Town 2-2 North Leigh
Kempston Rovers 3-2 Kidlington
SL1-S
12:00 Winchester City 0-3 Moneyfields
Cirencester Town 3-2 Highworth Town
Fleet Town 1-2 Thatcham Town

HELLP
12:30 Ardley United 3-4 Brackley Town Saints - leaders stretch lead to 4 points and have 2 games in hand on Ascot
13:00 Bishops Cleeve 2-1 Longlevens
13:00 Brimscombe & Thrupp 1-2 Fairford Town - shock defeat for 3rd placed B&T
13:00 Tuffley Rovers P-P Lydney Town
Shrivenham 2-0 Royal Wootton Bassett Town
Virginia Water 2-1 Windsor – att 222 bumper crowd for lodgers v landlords
Wantage Town {SEVEN} 7-1 Abingdon United – att 111 - Freds back up to 4th and have plenty of games in hand on 2nd & 3rd
HELL1E
12:30 Chalvey Sports 3-3 Burnham att 163

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- we managed to achieve two new Southern League Premier - Central 'ticks', up in the damp and misty Midlands -

Match i) 12:00 KO Barwell 2-3 Coalville Town : decent enough ground albeit a bit low-slung and featureless - on-line programme - Sports Bar type establishment at the entrance to the ground.

...then trundled cross-country from Leicestershire across the top of Brum on some tiny back roads, eventually joining the A5 and down nr Walsall just in time for -

Match ii) 15:00 KO Rushall Olympic 1-1 Tamworth - far more meaty affair, in a far more impressive layout - suspect they've probably had a richer history - bigger crowd too, close to 500 but fitted comfortably into the stadium.

...still got a few more dotted around the 2nd City to visit but nice to knock off two of them in one day.

Back home by about 19:30 - M'ways behaving this w/e which was encouraging.

[tmesis]

West to the Eastbourne derby on Boxing Day, with Eastbourne's 2nd and 3rd clubs battling it out in front of an amazing step 5 crowd of 856.

Town, the home team, beat United 5-0. United are having a terrible season, only winning their first game of the season last week, so there probably won't be another derby next season.

That was at 11 am, so I went to Burgess Hill v Worthing afterwards, and only 539 were at that one. I was pleased to see Burgess Hill win as Worthing seem to have attracted a few mouthy fans with a sense of entitlement since they started drawing good crowds.

[Hoop Blah]

West to the Eastbourne derby on Boxing Day, with Eastbourne's 2nd and 3rd clubs battling it out in front of an amazing step 5 crowd of 856.

That's a hell of a crowd for that level!

Are the teams full of local lads and so it's a proper derby game with lots of local interest, or is it just a freak of it being early on Boxing Day and lots of ground hoppers getting their anoraks on for it?

[tmesis]

West to the Eastbourne derby on Boxing Day, with Eastbourne's 2nd and 3rd clubs battling it out in front of an amazing step 5 crowd of 856.

That's a hell of a crowd for that level!

Are the teams full of local lads and so it's a proper derby game with lots of local interest, or is it just a freak of it being early on Boxing Day and lots of ground hoppers getting their anoraks on for it?

No idea about the players, but it would require quite a hefty groundhopper contingent to get the crowd anywhere near that, so I'd say it's one for the locals. With Brighton not playing until 5:15, maybe some Brighton fans from the town went along (they were certainly a few there).

The ground itself isn't stunning, covered at one end and about a third of one side, but it's right in the town centre, with the imposing victorian town hall creating an interesting backdrop, so it's a nicer place to go than it would be if it was out on the edge of town somewhere. Town average well over 200 for their games, despite not being in promotion contention.

[Four Of Clubs]

The ground itself isn't stunning, covered at one end and about a third of one side, but it's right in the town centre, with the imposing victorian town hall creating an interesting backdrop, so it's a nicer place to go than it would be if it was out on the edge of town somewhere. Town average well over 200 for their games, despite not being in promotion contention.

...agreed - went along during Windsor's Vase run last year and the surrounding buildings are enchanting - I'm sure one of those gert big ornate one's is/was a Council Offices - with what appears to be an internal door frame that opens out on to a sheer drop - probably the Rent Rebate Office!

Famous home 'posse' 'Pier Pressure' include an 'ultra' section too that make a lot of noise - Beachy Head?

...by contrast the town's Premier club (Borough) are stuck out at a fairly soulless low slung effort way up the other side of Langney - which was of course their original name I think or at least the club that played on the site were called that (Langney Sports) before changing their name in 2001.

United Association are the 3rd club along with two others; Langney Wanderers & Little Common , that currently groundshare @ United and Borough; - their ground is nearer the sea-front next to the big funfair.

Can't remember much about Burgess Hill from my visit there roughly 10 years back maybe - they subsequently went on an astonishing unbeaten run, in 14-15, up the Ryman Div 1 S, as was, to reach STEP03 - beat the Sh!ts at the (w)Rec in a Trophy Tie too - that I took my youngest to - good 'rite of passage' for him. .
Think they went through almost to April that season, having lost only two matches; one each in the Trophy/FA Cup & BOTH of those to Conference side, Dartford ?

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here's tomorrow's NL fixtures :

Sat 29th Dec

NAT
Maidenhead United v Braintree Town
Sutton United v Aldershot Town
NATN
Brackley Town v Nuneaton Borough
NATS
Chelmsford City v Hemel Hempstead Town
Chippenham Town v Hampton & Richmond Borough
Dulwich Hamlet v Slough Town
East Thurrock United v Dartford
Hungerford Town v Truro City
St Albans City v Billericay Town
Torquay United v Gloucester City
Wealdstone v Oxford City
Welling United v Concord Rangers
Weston-super-Mare v Bath City
Woking v Eastbourne Borough

ILP
Dorking Wanderers v Leatherhead
IL1-SC
Bedfont Sports v Ashford Town (Middx)
Egham Town v FC Romania
Hanwell Town v Hayes & Yeading United
Marlow v Northwood
Uxbridge v Chalfont St Peter

SLP-C
Halesowen Town v Banbury United
SLP-S
Beaconsfield Town v Basingstoke Town
Chesham United v Metropolitan Police
Farnborough v Staines Town
Gosport Borough v Hartley Wintney
SL1-C
Aylesbury v Coleshill Town
Bedford Town v Kidlington
Didcot Town v Welwyn Garden City
Dunstable Town v North Leigh
Kempston Rovers v Aylesbury United
Thame United v Sutton Coldfield Town
SL1-S
AFC Totton v Highworth Town
Fleet Town v Street
Winchester City v Mangotsfield United
Yate Town v Thatcham Town

CCLP
Abbey Rangers v CB Hounslow United
Banstead Athletic v Hanworth Villa
Camberley Town v Badshot Lea
Chertsey Town v Knaphill
Cobham v Raynes Park Vale
Horley Town v Guildford City
Redhill v Sutton Common Rovers
Southall v AFC Hayes
Spelthorne Sports v Walton & Hersham
CCL1
Ash United v Farnham Town
Epsom & Ewell v Eversley & California
Fleet Spurs v Godalming Town
Kensington Borough v Dorking Wanderers Res
Sandhurst Town v Cove
Tooting Bec v Sheerwater

HELLP
Abingdon United v Shrivenham
Ascot United v Longlevens
Flackwell Heath v Royal Wootton Bassett Town
Reading City v Bishops Cleeve
Wantage Town v Lydney Town
Windsor v Tuffley Rovers
HELL1E
Burnham v Abingdon Town
Chalvey Sports v Wokingham & Emmbrook
Chinnor v Wallingford Town
Holyport v Penn & Tylers Green
Milton United v Woodley United

WESSP
AFC Portchester v Alresford Town
Bemerton Heath Harlequins v Andover New Street
Shaftesbury v Tadley Calleva
WESS1
Petersfield Town v United Services Portsmouth

[AthleticoSpizz]

As is the tradition this time each year, THANKS FOC for keeping the football real for us with your scorelines and snippets.....top hopping!!

[LUX]

Yep, always a good read, factual and unpretentious.

Some others on here these past few pages need to take a look at themselves.

[Linden Jones]

Mad-Dog Allen surely on borrowed time at Chesterfield 0-4 versus Solihull bloody Moors

Sacked on Thursday

[AthleticoSpizz]

I’m no Reading4eva


Obviously

[Dick Habbin's hairdo]

As is the tradition this time each year, THANKS FOC for keeping the football real for us with your scorelines and snippets.....top hopping!!

Indeed, FOC, reading this regularly is one of the joys of being a Nobber. Thank you.

[KC Royal]

West to the Eastbourne derby on Boxing Day, with Eastbourne's 2nd and 3rd clubs battling it out in front of an amazing step 5 crowd of 856.

That's a hell of a crowd for that level!

Are the teams full of local lads and so it's a proper derby game with lots of local interest, or is it just a freak of it being early on Boxing Day and lots of ground hoppers getting their anoraks on for it?

No idea about the players, but it would require quite a hefty groundhopper contingent to get the crowd anywhere near that, so I'd say it's one for the locals. With Brighton not playing until 5:15, maybe some Brighton fans from the town went along (they were certainly a few there).

The ground itself isn't stunning, covered at one end and about a third of one side, but it's right in the town centre, with the imposing victorian town hall creating an interesting backdrop, so it's a nicer place to go than it would be if it was out on the edge of town somewhere. Town average well over 200 for their games, despite not being in promotion contention.

From what I've been told the reason why the crowd was so big was simply because it was a derby, though that was a record attendance. There's obviously big interest in derbies down there as remember being told about the Eastbourne-Lewes derby a decade ago attracting a crowd of 3000 Having checked that was in National Lge South, for some reason thought it was in National Lge.

I've always found it hard to believe that Eastbourne has 3 non league clubs.

[KC Royal]

As is the tradition this time each year, THANKS FOC for keeping the football real for us with your scorelines and snippets.....top hopping!!

Indeed, FOC, reading this regularly is one of the joys of being a Nobber. Thank you.

+1 to both of these comments.

[Royal Rother]

Definite end of leg.

[Royal Rother]

West to the Eastbourne derby on Boxing Day, with Eastbourne's 2nd and 3rd clubs battling it out in front of an amazing step 5 crowd of 856.

Town, the home team, beat United 5-0. United are having a terrible season, only winning their first game of the season last week, so there probably won't be another derby next season.

That was at 11 am, so I went to Burgess Hill v Worthing afterwards, and only 539 were at that one. I was pleased to see Burgess Hill win as Worthing seem to have attracted a few mouthy fans with a sense of entitlement since they started drawing good crowds.

Were the Ultras in good voice?

And did you notice any Windsor FC stickers from our FA Vase Triumph there last year?