The Non - League thread

[John Smith]

Literally couldn't be more buzzing for Super Sunday this weekend: Hartlepool v Barnet at 4:30pm.

Not sure whether I'll be salivating more at that or my roast dinner!

[Sutekh]

Literally couldn't be more buzzing for Super Sunday this weekend: Hartlepool v Barnet at 4:30pm.

Not sure whether I'll be salivating more at that or my roast dinner!

Think I'd rather watch that than the standard borefest of Chelsea, Arsenal, City, Leeds etc. being on the telly again.

[John Smith]

Literally couldn't be more buzzing for Super Sunday this weekend: Hartlepool v Barnet at 4:30pm.

Not sure whether I'll be salivating more at that or my roast dinner!

Think I'd rather watch that than the standard borefest of Chelsea, Arsenal, City, Leeds etc. being on the telly again.

Definitely. I know they used to do a Thursday night game on Setanta years ago in the Conference but maybe Sunday afternoon could open up a market? Doubt the Barnet fans are too happy going up there but they'll only a handful anyway

[Kulshaw72RFC]

Literally couldn't be more buzzing for Super Sunday this weekend: Hartlepool v Barnet at 4:30pm.

Not sure whether I'll be salivating more at that or my roast dinner!

Think I'd rather watch that than the standard borefest of Chelsea, Arsenal, City, Leeds etc. being on the telly again.

Definitely. I know they used to do a Thursday night game on Setanta years ago in the Conference but maybe Sunday afternoon could open up a market? Doubt the Barnet fans are too happy going up there but they'll only a handful anyway

I have said it many times before and will say it again.

I think it is frankly ridiculous that the EFL and Conference is not shown more on Sky and BT and is as prominent as the PL. Yes I get that the audiences are not as big but you only need to look at the playoff games and practically every week there is a really exciting thriller.

I LOVE watching the likes of Lincoln with big Matt Rhead, Luton and my all time favourite, ultimate non league player........

this guy

[Orion]

So with Reading not playing, doing a non.league game this weekend. Fancied Maidenhead but the game is postponed so it leaves me with a choice of Slough Vs Woking or hungerford Vs Billericay.

Probably go for the latter.

[KC Royal]

Garry Hill in at Ebbsfleet. I think their days in the Conference Prem may be numbered.

Heard their owner talking on BBC Radio Kent yesterday saying that their budget is going to be reduced by 30% but was quick to point out that it won't be one of the smallest budget and they will still be competitive. Made me think about how big their budget has been up until now...

[Rea Ding]

Tickets bought for Ox City's replay against Tranmere on Tuesday, hoping they can cause another upset!

[Four Of Clubs]

NL Preview for tomorrow

Saturday 17th November

NAT
Maidenhead United P-P Harrogate Town – international call-ups rescheduled for Sat 1st Dec
Salford City v Aldershot Town
NATN
Stockport County v Brackley Town
NATS
Bath City v Eastbourne Borough
Chelmsford City v Truro City
Chippenham Town v Wealdstone
Dulwich Hamlet v Oxford City
East Thurrock United v Hemel Hempstead Town
Gloucester City v St Albans City
Hampton & Richmond Borough v Dartford
Hungerford Town v Billericay Town - 'Crusaders' advanced in the County Cup with a 2-0 win over Beaconsfield
Slough Town v Woking - Slough overcame Chalfont St P 6-3 in the B&B Senior Cup.
Torquay United v Concord Rangers
Welling United v Weston-super-Mare

ILP
Dorking Wanderers v Brightlingsea Regent
IL1-SC
Bracknell Town v Hanwell Town
Marlow v Hayes & Yeading United 3rd host 2nd
South Park v Bedfont Sports
Uxbridge v Egham Town
Waltham Abbey v Chalfont St Peter
Ware v Ashford Town (Middx)
Westfield v Tooting & Mitcham United

... off to the wilds of the Essex seaboard tomorrow - beyond Sarfend to...
Bostik Isthmian One North Great Wakering Rovers v Heybridge Swifts

SLP-C
Coalville Town v Banbury Utd
SLP-S
Basingstoke Town v Merthyr Town
Beaconsfield Town v Farnborough
Dorchester Town v Chesham United
Salisbury v Hartley Wintney
Swindon Supermarine v Harrow Borough
Walton Casuals v Poole Town
Wimborne Town v Staines Town
SL1-S
AFC Dunstable v Sutton Coldfield Town
Aylesbury United v North Leigh
Bromsgrove Sporting v Aylesbury
Corby Town v Thame United
Didcot Town v Dunstable Town
Kidlington v Yaxley
SL1-S
Bristol Manor Farm v Highworth Town
Cinderford Town v Fleet Town
Mangotsfield United v Thatcham Town
Winchester City v Yate Town

CCL
AFC Hayes v Walton & Hersham
Balham v Guildford City
Camberley Town v Horley Town
Chertsey Town v Banstead Athletic
Cobham v Badshot Lea
Hanworth Villa v Raynes Park Vale
Knaphill v CB Hounslow United
Redhill v Colliers Wood United
Sutton Common Rovers v Abbey Rangers
Southall v Spelthorne Sports
CCL1
Bagshot v Dorking Wanderers Res
Bedfont & Feltham v Cove
Chessington & Hook United v AC London
Epsom & Ewell v Kensington Borough
FC Deportivo Galicia v Eversley & California
Frimley Green v Ash United
Godalming Town v Farnham Town
Sheerwater v Fleet Spurs
Tooting Bec v Sandhurst Town

HELLP
Bishops Cleeve v Fairford Town
Brackley Town Saints v Reading City
Brimscombe & Thrupp v Holmer Green
Flackwell Heath v Abingdon United - Marcus's boys welcome bottom side U's, having picked up three points at Fairford on Tuesday
Longlevens v Virginia Water
Royal Wootton Bassett Town v Ardley United - RWBT kept in touch of top spot with a midweek win at Lydney
Shrivenham v Lydney Town
Tuffley Rovers v Wantage Town
- not much action midweek but I got up to Holmer Green on Tue night to see a minor shock. Visiting Wantage were undone by an uncharacteristically resolute HG. Night started badly for the 'Freds' - they turned up with only their first team kit (Green White Hoops) -their hosts, 'The Greens' (clue in the nickname there ) play in Green White stripes. Game actually in some doubt but some feverish dashing about yielded a friendly and co-operative local Sunday side who lent their Red kit to the visitors.
Wantage missed a hatful and more, as well as having two penalties saved, then succumbed to two late breakaway goals. Leaves the Freds floundering back in 7th and somewhat remarkably with a record of 8-1-10 Holmer Green are now level on points with them but have played 7 games more.

HELL1E
AFC Aldermaston v Thame Rangers
Abingdon Town v Wallingford Town
Burnham v Milton United
Chinnor v Didcot Town Development
Woodley United v Wokingham & Emmbrook
Challenge Cup
Windsor v Moreton Rangers

WESSP
Brockenhurst v Alresford Town
Fareham Town v Andover New Street
Tadley Calleva v Hamble Club
WESS1
Andover Town v Alton
Petersfield Town v Ringwood Town
Whitchurch United v United Services Portsmouth

[AthleticoSpizz]

News today for me was that Kevin Watson is now head coach at Hungerford...that one slipped under the wire

A decent 2-2 draw for The Crusaders against the highly minted ‘Ricay today.

Good luck Kev

[Royal Rother]

Windsor 2-1 Moreton Rangers

We did enough. (Stifled yawn, and shit, did the temperature drop during the game!)

[mx]

Winchester City 0 - 1 Yate Town

This is starting to get familiar. We were all over them, particularly in the second half.

Created loads of chances, some really nice attacking moves, but the front two just couldn't put the ball in the net. Should have been 6-0 up, when a mix up at the back gifted them a goal.

Bottom of the form tables now. 2 points from 8 games.

[Orion]

Big crowd down at Slough yesterday. Nice little ground but the very definition of souless I suppose. Nice bar etc just seems very IKEA.

Woking by far the better side in a freezing cold afternoon. Enjoyed it.

[Four Of Clubs]

NL results:

Saturday 17th November

NAT
Salford City 4-0 Aldershot Town
NATN
Stockport County 1-1 Brackley Town – Hatters level on 95’
NATS
Bath City 1-0 Eastbourne Borough
Chelmsford City 0-2 Truro City
Chippenham Town 3-1 Wealdstone
Dulwich Hamlet 0-1 Oxford City - as mentioned (I think) City host Tranmere on Tue night in their FAC R1 replay
East Thurrock United 1-2 Hemel Hempstead Town
Gloucester City 0-0 St Albans City
Hampton & Richmond Borough 0-1 Dartford
Hungerford Town 2-2 Billericay Town – morning’s leaders salvage a point in the 97’ – tough on Crusaders who are desperate for points. Stay in 20th with ETFC and W-S-M both losing.
Slough Town 0-1 Woking att 1465 – Rebels battle Sutton again in their FA Cup 1R replay on Tue to decide who gets to host Gillingham or Hartlepool Utd on Sunday 2nd Dec
- Goal in the first half enough as Cards re-take top spot following ‘ricay’s surprise stumble at Bulpit Lane

Torquay United 4-1 Concord Rangers
Welling United 2-1 Weston-super-Mare

ILP
Dorking Wanderers 2-1 Brightlingsea Regent – Wanderers go above Tonbridge into top spot – Angles lost at Harlow
IL1-SC
Bracknell Town 2-2 Hanwell Town – Robins goals from Grant and Bowerman not enough to keep them in top spot – visitors level late on
– Marlow overtake them with a vital win over HandY – Allen Bossman getting the winner on 88’ a minute after his brother Kelvin had replaced Marcus Mealing.
Marlow 2-1 Hayes & Yeading United
South Park 0-1 Bedfont Sports
Uxbridge 3-1 Egham Town
Waltham Abbey 2-2 Chalfont St Peter
Ware 2-2 Ashford Town (Middx)
Westfield 2-1 Tooting & Mitcham United

SLP-C
Coalville Town 1-1 Banbury Utd – Puritans level on 90’
SLP-S
Basingstoke Town 0-3 Merthyr Town
Beaconsfield Town 2-6 Farnborough – bit of a shock result here as ‘boro had been on a terrible run. Were some very odd goings on with the Beaconsfield keeper - they tried three different one's during the game p'raps they should have tried three at the same time!

Dorchester Town 0-5 Chesham United – equally stunning result here for the struggling 'Generals'
Kings Langley 2-1 Weymouth – and another head-scratcher here as lowly KL up set the Terras who had the chance to go top
Salisbury 4-2 Hartley Wintney
Swindon Supermarine 1-2 Harrow Borough
Walton Casuals 0-4 Poole Town
Wimborne Town 1-0 Staines Town
SL1-C
AFC Dunstable 2-0 Sutton Coldfield Town
Aylesbury United 1-4 North Leigh
Bromsgrove Sporting 5-0 Aylesbury
Corby Town 1-3 Thame United
Didcot Town 2-1 Dunstable Town
Kidlington 6-1 Yaxley – only Kiddy’s 2nd league win and a huge one at that – Nor lye keep their distance with a big away win of their own and close in on Yaxley & Aylesbury
SL1-S
Bristol Manor Farm 1-2 Highworth Town
Cinderford Town 1-2 Fleet Town – 2nd win for Fleet but they stay bottom by 2 pts.
Mangotsfield United 1-2 Thatcham Town
Winchester City 0-1 Yate Town – City succumb to leaders but the other three ‘local’ sides complete a sweep of 2-1 away wins.

CCLP
AFC Hayes 2-0 Walton & Hersham bottom beats 2nd bottom
Balham 0-1 Guildford City
Camberley Town 0-0 Horley Town
Chertsey Town 3-3 Banstead Athletic
Cobham 5-0 Badshot Lea following a good run of form, new boys climb into top half after a fairly dodgy start to their campaign
Hanworth Villa 2-0 Raynes Park Vale
Knaphill 1-0 CB Hounslow United
Redhill 2-0 Colliers Wood United
Southall 1-1 Spelthorne Sports
Sutton Common Rovers 3-1 Abbey Rangers
CCL1
Bagshot 1-0 Dorking Wanderers Res
Bedfont & Feltham 4-1 Cove
Epsom & Ewell 1-1 Kensington Borough
FC Deportivo Galicia 3-3 Eversley & California
Frimley Green 3-0 Ash United
Godalming Town 1-1 Farnham Town
Sheerwater 4-2 Fleet Spurs
Sandhurst Town 0-2 Tooting Bec – venues reversed for some reason – some issue with the pitch a their ‘lodgings’ RPV

HELLP
Bishops Cleeve 0-3 Fairford Town - surprising defeat for the chasers and in form Bps at home to Fairford – though they too have been on a decent run; now up to 11th from close to bottom spot a few weeks back.

Brackley Town Saints 4-1 Reading City – att 110 - big win for leaders over City
Brimscombe & Thrupp 3-0 Holmer Green – B&T stay 2nd
Flackwell Heath 0-0 Abingdon United - battling point for ‘Us’ but they remain in last place on GD from Longlevens
Longlevens 1-2 Virginia Water
Royal Wootton Bassett Town 2-1 Ardley United
Shrivenham 3-3 Lydney Town
Tuffley Rovers 0-0 Wantage Town
HELL1E
AFC Aldermaston 1-2 Thame Rangers - leaders beaten – Rangers up to 3rd
Abingdon Town 3-3 Wallingford Town - comforting to see Abbots manage to fulfill another fixture after recent squad issues
Burnham {EIGHT} 8-0 Milton United – Blues storm to top spot
Chinnor 2-3 Didcot Town Development
Woodley United 3-2 Wokingham & Emmbrook
Challenge Cup
Windsor 2-1 Moreton Rangers
Reading Senior Cup
Westwood Utd 2-5 Holyport (aet)

WESSP
Brockenhurst 2-0 Alresford Town
Fareham Town 2-2 Andover New Street
Tadley Calleva 2-1 Hamble Club
WESS1
Andover Town 0-2 Alton
Petersfield Town 2-0 Ringwood Town
Whitchurch United 3-3 United Services Portsmouth

…did another long trek east to the wilds out beyond Sarfend, for an Essex dust-up in the Bostik Isthmian One North
Great Wakering 3-2 Heybridge Swifts – Swifts managed by former Wet Sham hard-lad Julian Dicks – he prowled the touch line menacingly, as his charges floundered to their first defeat with him as boss – he took over a couple of months back and they have been 7 games unbeaten since.
- Pretty dismal journey there and back – M25 k£uc&ed and the A127 had some serious gridlock around Basildon – so much so we nearly diverted off for their game in the same division vs Needham. We were a bit late for the start - arr around the 20' mark with the game at 1-1
- Return journey crawled back towards the M25 on the A13 - which is just a long stop-start road through Southend and it’s many suburbs until it reaches Benfleet and a giant Tesco’s, when it finally turns into a 'propah' A-road again.
- Unfathomable number of takeaways along this stretch, of all varieties and a significant proportion of the locals do look as if they use them to excess – I’ve never seen so many people who appear to be wider than their height!!

[Kulshaw72RFC]

Any news on AC London? I asked a couple of Uni mates who know players that play for that (One of whom is one of the best players I have ever played with but got kicked out of gillingham on brink of first team for carrying a knife in his shinpad.....) they have ridiculous severe disciplinary issues, not eve normal but fighting, intimidation, fan violence etc etc

[John Smith]

Any news on AC London? I asked a couple of Uni mates who know players that play for that (One of whom is one of the best players I have ever played with but got kicked out of gillingham on brink of first team for carrying a knife in his shinpad.....) they have ridiculous severe disciplinary issues, not eve normal but fighting, intimidation, fan violence etc etc

Who, Gillingham?

[Tony Le Mesmer]

I went to Bristol Manor Farm 1 - 2 Highworth Town on Saturday.

Its the closet a train line comes to a football ground. The Bristol TM - Sevenbeach line runs almost down the touchline. there is only enough room for one to stand in front of the railway fence. So there was me, poised with camera in hand, at 3:12 waiting to get the 'money shot' with a Sevenbeach service that never arrived. Bus replacement service weekend, wasnt it.

[Sutekh]

Slough v Sutton is live on BBC Berks tonight. No doubt there’ll also be a reasonable amount of Reading talk as well.

Be great if Slough can make it through esp. if Hartlepool won the other game so as to maximise Slough’s endeavours to draw Reading in round 3.

[John Smith]

Slough v Sutton is live on BBC Berks tonight. No doubt there’ll also be a reasonable amount of Reading talk as well.

Be great if Slough can make it through esp. if Hartlepool won the other game so as to maximise Slough’s endeavours to draw Reading in round 3.

Slough wouldn't beat Hartlepool, they're class

[Royal Rother]

And 5 places below tonight’s opponents.

[Kulshaw72RFC]