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Post by timberwolf on Apr 28, 2024 10:26:32 GMT
The National League will look as non-league as it has looked for a long time next season. Sutton & Forest Green back down. Tamworth + one of Boston, Brackley or Chorley from NLN. Yeovil + one of Braintree, Worthing or Maidstone from NLS. Huge opportunity for Oldham, Rochdale, Hartlepool etc to get back into the league if they can sort themselves out in the summer. A lot depends if you class sutton, fgr, boston, yeovil and maidstone as ex league clubs like the other ex league clubs like barnet who will be playing against teams that were once regulars on our fixture lists as league clubs. Since automatic promotion and relegation came about the football world has changed at the bottom of the league and the top of non league. Really the record of yeovil in the past is higher than what rochdale, halifax, pools or aldershot have ever been.
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Post by scfc73 on Apr 28, 2024 11:08:56 GMT
The National League will look as non-league as it has looked for a long time next season. Sutton & Forest Green back down. Tamworth + one of Boston, Brackley or Chorley from NLN. Yeovil + one of Braintree, Worthing or Maidstone from NLS. Huge opportunity for Oldham, Rochdale, Hartlepool etc to get back into the league if they can sort themselves out in the summer. A lot depends if you class sutton, fgr, boston, yeovil and maidstone as ex league clubs like the other ex league clubs like barnet who will be playing against teams that were once regulars on our fixture lists as league clubs. Since automatic promotion and relegation came about the football world has changed at the bottom of the league and the top of non league. Really the record of yeovil in the past is higher than what rochdale, halifax, pools or aldershot have ever been. Still class all of them as traditional non league sides irrespective of their stints in the FL, Barnet the same. Even Yeovil who reached the championship only had a 16 year stint in the FL. That to me doesn't qualify them as being seen as a traditional FL league club in the same vein as Rochdale.
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Post by timberwolf on Apr 28, 2024 11:44:43 GMT
A lot depends if you class sutton, fgr, boston, yeovil and maidstone as ex league clubs like the other ex league clubs like barnet who will be playing against teams that were once regulars on our fixture lists as league clubs. Since automatic promotion and relegation came about the football world has changed at the bottom of the league and the top of non league. Really the record of yeovil in the past is higher than what rochdale, halifax, pools or aldershot have ever been. Still class all of them as traditional non league sides irrespective of their stints in the FL, Barnet the same. Even Yeovil who reached the championship only had a 16 year stint in the FL. That to me doesn't qualify them as being seen as a traditional FL league club in the same vein as Rochdale. Thats like dismissing teams like luton, bournemouth, brentford and any others who have not been traditional top flight teams but bigging up sheff.wed and others who were in the big time for much longer and are more of a household name. Again my heart is with you in what you say but my head is not unless you hate change all that much.
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Post by scfc73 on Apr 28, 2024 12:04:48 GMT
Still class all of them as traditional non league sides irrespective of their stints in the FL, Barnet the same. Even Yeovil who reached the championship only had a 16 year stint in the FL. That to me doesn't qualify them as being seen as a traditional FL league club in the same vein as Rochdale. Thats like dismissing teams like luton, bournemouth, brentford and any others who have not been traditional top flight teams but bigging up sheff.wed and others who were in the big time for much longer and are more of a household name. Again my heart is with you in what you say but my head is not unless you hate change all that much. It's not at all timbers. For me, being classed as a 'traditional football league side' means spending a significant chunk of a clubs existence within the football league. I bet you wouldn't class Macclesfield as a traditional league club yet they spent 1 year less than Yeovil in the FL. Are you saying that Yeovil are to be classed above Rochdale purely because they reached a higher level in the league & Rochdale's 100 year tenure in the football league plus a league cup final appearance is irrelevant? Of course with promotion from the NL there's going to be continual change & I'm not against that at all but for any newcomers they'd have to get up & stay up for at least 3 decades in my view to be classed as part of the FL furniture per se.
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Post by Count de Stockport on Apr 28, 2024 12:23:13 GMT
Well they,ll have to play our old mates from victory park in the final. If i was a gambler i,d put a big wad on Boston getting back into the NL as Chorley didn,t look a patch on the side who played against us and had their keeper to thank for getting into the final. A big day for Alty today as well. The National League will look as non-league as it has looked for a long time next season. Sutton & Forest Green back down. Tamworth + one of Boston, Brackley or Chorley from NLN. Yeovil + one of Braintree, Worthing or Maidstone from NLS. Huge opportunity for Oldham, Rochdale, Hartlepool etc to get back into the league if they can sort themselves out in the summer. Assuming the traditional NL sides don’t have enough backing to just outspend the FL mainstays We’ve seen ourselves that FL pedigree counts for nothing against rich men’s toys
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Apr 28, 2024 15:46:12 GMT
Brackley 1-0 up with not long left against Chorley in the north semi final.
And Alty beating Bromley. I want Alty to come up anyway but when the choices are then or Solihull or Bromley it’s no contest.
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Post by vicar on Apr 28, 2024 15:55:06 GMT
Brackley 1-0 up with not long left against Chorley in the north semi final. And Alty beating Bromley. I want Alty to come up anyway but when the choices are then or Solihull or Bromley it’s no contest. Alty v Solihull would be the poshest final ever el first classico.
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Post by mat1scfc on Apr 28, 2024 16:13:59 GMT
1-1 now
52nd minute
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Post by stevie57 on Apr 28, 2024 16:14:03 GMT
Still class all of them as traditional non league sides irrespective of their stints in the FL, Barnet the same. Even Yeovil who reached the championship only had a 16 year stint in the FL. That to me doesn't qualify them as being seen as a traditional FL league club in the same vein as Rochdale. Thats like dismissing teams like luton, bournemouth, brentford and any others who have not been traditional top flight teams but bigging up sheff.wed and others who were in the big time for much longer and are more of a household name. Again my heart is with you in what you say but my head is not unless you hate change all that much. Not sure it’s quite fair to count Luton Town in with the likes of ‘…bournemouth, brentford and others’; the southern Hatters have had about twenty top-fight seasons which is probably more than the rest put together (remember David Pleat’s jig down the touchline ?).
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Post by mat1scfc on Apr 28, 2024 16:18:02 GMT
2-1 Bromley. Altrincham started 2nd half really poor and have struggled with set pieces. Both goals come from them
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Post by mat1scfc on Apr 28, 2024 16:21:21 GMT
3-1
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Post by hedleyverity on Apr 28, 2024 16:25:19 GMT
That Bromley support looks full on cringe with an average number of games attended *eta before *today of <5. Belting 3rd goal though
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Apr 28, 2024 16:26:29 GMT
Alty not come out for the second half. Conn Clarke done nothing all game but put the ball out of play.
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Post by philtheglass on Apr 29, 2024 13:36:48 GMT
Tom Walker & Danny Whitehead released by Fylde
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Post by Philcounty on Apr 29, 2024 18:20:16 GMT
Hartlepool still a basket case.
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