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Post by medibot on Apr 24, 2006 0:34:03 GMT
Impressive. Makes a nice change from things being horribly predictable
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Post by emochris on Apr 24, 2006 22:23:37 GMT
Spennymoor 1-0 Whickham
Spenny played well on Saturday - but an incident that was not a fans doing - some kids was throwning stones on the pitch and the game had to be stoped to get rid of them and the police came and it was alright after
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Apr 24, 2006 22:34:37 GMT
Spennymoor 1-0 Whickham Spenny played well on Saturday - but an incident that was not a fans doing - some kids was throwning stones on the pitch and the game had to be stoped to get rid of them and the police came and it was alright after We had an incident last season where a couple of brats were perched on the top of a skateboard ramp, some 100 yards or more outside of the ground, which gave them a reasonable platform - and were happily belting golf balls into the terracing. I forget who we were playing that day, but some of the visiting fans seemed to think that this was something that the club could control They got rather upset. Granted, golf balls were pinging around quite alarmingly, but there was not a lot we could do about it!
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Post by emochris on Apr 24, 2006 22:38:41 GMT
Thats bad stuff- golf balls are worse i think then stones and bricks (well maybe)
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Post by roofless on Apr 26, 2006 13:45:39 GMT
Will know exactly how my season has shaped up as of 4:50 on Saturday... argh I'm all up for it already!!!
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Post by coops on Apr 26, 2006 22:42:39 GMT
Will know exactly how my season has shaped up as of 4:50 on Saturday... argh I'm all up for it already!!! If only it were that simple. Alty are appealing ( not often you'll hear that!) against their points deduction, if they win then whoever finishes below them will probably sue the Conference, Scabby are going bust, Creepy keep forgetting to pay their players, Chavney might drop into the Combined Counties League............. I very much doubt we'll know who's actuall in the Conference next season until August if we're lucky!
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Apr 26, 2006 22:57:44 GMT
Our season end is almost as farcical. Muff MIGHT yet be dragged into another unregistered player farce - no doubt will appeal against a possible 3 point deduction that might - and only might - hand the title to St Albans. Of the teams already in the playoff places, Lewes (AGAIN : cannot compete becasue their ground is officially quaint, but crap! There's a possibility that either Histon or Eastleigh (Eastleigh certainly) will be in a simiar situation, leaving Buns, Farnborough and Muff to argue over two places in the Confernece between them! Our 3 point deduction has effectively left us relying on help on the final day - the reward to be a trip to Farnborough on Monday if we squeak it. All in all, not a satisfactory end to such a bloody important season
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Post by ambersalamander on Apr 27, 2006 11:34:14 GMT
Non-league football is fast becoming a joke.
How often do we see this sort of thing happening in the Football League? This season alone, I can name about ten non-league clubs who almost dropped out of existance due to financial problems, almost got kicked out of leagues, got ridiculous amounts of points deducted (why points?! why punish the fans, who are the ones who really care how many points their team has?) because of admin errors that in turn were probably caused by the fact that they could only afford to employ one doddery old bloke to check these things, were refused promotion because they don't have millions to spend on their grounds...the list is endless.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Apr 27, 2006 17:28:31 GMT
This season things are fairly balanced in the Unibond, Runcorn look set to be dropping down a few leagues at the end but have garunteed that they can finish the season, atleast that means there will not be everyone bickering as to what they should do with the unplayed games (not a dig at Spennymoor United, directed at those in charge who kept changing plans about what to do with the points.)
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Post by ambersalamander on Apr 27, 2006 18:07:56 GMT
See? See what I mean? What's the world coming to?
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Post by roofless on Apr 28, 2006 14:43:27 GMT
Will know exactly how my season has shaped up as of 4:50 on Saturday... argh I'm all up for it already!!! If only it were that simple. It is! If we win (or draw or whatever and still finish 3rd from the bottom) then I'm happy and it's been a, well rubbish season lets be honest, but it's been a "done the job" season, with a good cup run. If we lose it's been poo whether we stay up or not!!
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Apr 29, 2006 17:25:30 GMT
We've finished on a 2-1 home win against playoff contestants North Ferriby United (the same team which we started with last season).
We opened the scoring about 62 seconds into the game from a free kick 2 thirds up the pitch, defender Indy Khela was on the back post to head it home. We doubled our lead later on when Ferriby keeper made a dodgy clearance, the ball fell to striker Dean Perrow who crossed along to goal to strike partner Gary Hay who tapped it in for 2-0, the defence was nowhere to be seen.
Ferriby pulled one bacl just before half time, we were a player down at this point as Dean Perrow was on the sidelines injured, Ferriby won a corner and we substituted Perrow for Davion Hamilton. Very poor defending led to Ferriby scoring from the corner that they won.
The second half was very balanced with both teams having a fair few chances, none of which went in. In injury time however a challenge on one of our players (Steve Pope I think but I couldn't see) caused a bit of a fight on the field in our goal mouth, particularly between their number 6 and our defender Jimmy Turner (also number 6), the referee took his cards out for the first time all game and sent off their player (but luckily for us not Turner). This took up most of injury time so by the time keeper Stuart Brock had taken our free kick the final whistle was blown.
At the end of the match this season we were asked to remain off the pitch (unlike last year's promotion celebrations) and the team came out a few minutes later for a lap of honor around the pitch.
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Post by emochris on Apr 29, 2006 18:45:41 GMT
Spennymoor 2-2 North Shields
Well all's well that end's well for the Moors - i think a draw was a fair result for the moors who didnt play that well - so did north shields as well
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Post by coops on Apr 29, 2006 21:56:09 GMT
We finished in the bottom two - gutted.
Okay so we may still stay up because of other teams misfortunes but it's not good.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Apr 29, 2006 21:57:15 GMT
I thought Tamuff were 20th at the moment unless Altrincham's appeal was successful?
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