The Non - League thread

[Terminal Boardom]

Every effort being made to get the game on at Stag Meadow. Will update in good time.

[Four Of Clubs]

Every effort being made to get the game on at Stag Meadow. Will update in good time.

now OFF according to your own post on CCL F'Focus - 10' after this one?

... Oh and Maidenhead v Welling OFF now.

[Mr Optimist]

Went to Colwyn Bay v AFC Halifax this afternoon in BS North. It was a good match, 1-0 to the Shayman who brought a very decent away following as they look to carry on their rise up the pyramid with a third successive promotion.

Added bonus was meeting a nice gent who is a fellow Royal who used to live in the Bay and had travelled up from South Wales especially for this match! you meet RFC fans in the strangest places

[Terminal Boardom]

Every effort being made to get the game on at Stag Meadow. Will update in good time.

now OFF according to your own post on CCL F'Focus - 10' after this one?

... Oh and Maidenhead v Welling OFF now.

I forgot and I was too busy phoning round!

Windsor v Wembley now rearranged for Monday 20th February @ Stag Meadow, 7.45pm kick off.

[Four Of Clubs]

..... May try and get out for that - though temporarily a 1 car family so will need some special bargaining that eve.

Not much else on; low level cup ties @ Palmer Pk or Milton

[Terminal Boardom]

And the draw for the quarter finals (6th Round) of the FA Vase has been made:

Shortwood United or Ashington v Herne Bay or Larkhall Athletic
Staveley MW or Oadby Town v St Ives Town or Gresley
Tividale or Peterborough Northern Star v Dunston UTS or Bethnal Green United
Billingham Synthonia or Bournemouth v Whitley Bay or West Auckland Town

Ties to be played 3rd March, weather permitting.

[Elmer Park]

The last quarter final in the Berks and Bucks Senior Trophy was finally played last night after many previous attempts and Holyport defeated Wantage on penalties. The semi final draws for the two main competitions is now free of either/ors

Senior Cup

Wycombe W v Hungerford T
Chesham U v Maidenhead U

Senior Trophy

Abingdon T v Windsor
Holyport v Binfield

[Four Of Clubs]

dates for the above:-

Senior Cup

Tue 21st Feb 19:30 KO @ Adams Pk Wycombe W v Hungerford T

Tickets are only available on the night priced at £5 for Adults, £3 for senior citizens and £1 for U16's.

Tue 28th Feb Chesham U v Maidenhead U

Senior Trophy

28th Feb Abingdon T v Windsor
Holyport v Binfield - tba

... nearly went to Wantage last night (Wed) ; glad I didn't - though not sure if they had ET before the pens - probably didn't bother.
Similarly avoided a 1-0 at Tadley - ended up at Fleet Town: very poor 0-3 reverse vs Bedfont Town who, although only a place or two above the home side, looked miles better - very sharp up front.

[Elmer Park]

... nearly went to Wantage last night (Wed) ; glad I didn't - though not sure if they had ET before the pens - probably didn't bother.

You would have had a late-ish night had you gone to the game even though they did go straight to penalties after the ninety minutes. The game didn't start until 20.30 as one of the assistant referees was delayed.

[Four Of Clubs]

You would have had a late-ish night had you gone to the game even though they did go straight to penalties after the ninety minutes. The game didn't start until 20.30 as one of the assistant referees was delayed.

... indeed - expect if he was based over this way, he was held up on the M4 - heard about Westbound strife as I headed down the Swallowfield By-Pass to Fleet - going across jn 11 it looked OK but I think there had been some problems nr Theale or beyond.

I'd decided on Fleet or Tadley by then anyway - and I'd not been able to confirm the former was on. The away sides' website still had news re postponement from the previous attempt to play a week or so back, presumably hadn't been updated. I wasn't going to gamble on it being OK since I knew Fleet was definitely ON.

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... here's this w/e's NL offerings involving 'local' sides.

- with Royals v Clarets on Friday night, there's opportunity for some of you NOT glued to Chelski v Brum Scum ## at lunchtime Saturday - to 'dip your toe' in the NL swamp!

## then again this is on ESPN anyway - thanks to ITV for splashing out big bucks on their great FA Cup extravaganza .

Plenty of re-arranged FA Vase 5th Round ties scheduled for Sat 18th - but precious little of 'local' interest - Staveley MW (nr Chesterfield) are the first club through to the Quarter Finals - won their tie last night 2-0 vs Oadby (Leics).
I might go a bit further myself and aim for the tie Herne Bay v Larkhall - away side are located just north of Bath so not too far away - I consider Western League to be local enough - I've done most of the two divisions - though not quite sure when I'll get as far as Bridport, Barnstaple or Ilfracombe!_____________________________________________________________________________

Saturday 18th Feb

CONFS
Boreham Wood v Eastbourne Borough
Chelmsford v Havant and W
Dover v Truro City
Hampton & Richmond v Eastleigh
Salisbury v Bromley
Staines Town v Farnborough - good chance for boro to pull away from the relegation scrap - the 'Massive' are currently 3rd bottom above Thurrock and the soggy 'Beavers' ( ) (Hampton & R.) who suffered a bad result in midweek to exit the FA Trophy
Sutton Utd v Basingstoke Town
Thurrock v Maidenhead Utd Magpies won't want to slip up vs the bottom side after their recent 'recovery' of 4 wins from 7 league games.
Tonbridge Angels v Weston-S-Mare
Woking v Dartford - 1st host 2nd

ISTH1S
Merstham v Godalming Town

SOUTHP
Chesham United v Hemel Hempstead Town
Swindon Supermarine v Oxford City
Weymouth v Banbury United
SOUTH1C
Aylesbury v Northwood
Bedfont Town v Rugby Town
Biggleswade Town v Beaconsfield SYCOB
Chalfont St. Peter v Woodford United
Fleet Town v Barton Rovers
Leighton Town v Chertsey Town
Marlow v North Greenford United
Slough Town v AFC Hayes
St. Neots Town v Burnham
Uxbridge v Daventry Town
SOUTH1S&W
Abingdon United v Bideford - the U's host the League leaders - who were involved in one of the very rare number of games actually played last w/e.
Clevedon Town v North Leigh
Didcot Town v Mangotsfield United
Thatcham Town v Halesowen Town
.. no game for Hungerford this w/e

CCLP
Ash United v Molesey
Badshot Lea v Guildford City @ Godalming FC
Banstead Athletic v Camberley Town
Chessington & Hook United v Windsor - would expect a comfortable away win here - C&H are 2nd bottom - pitch can be a bit of a swamp though - nice functional clubhouse from memory - overflow parking down the side of the ground - Chalky Lane which is very near 'World of Adventures' and being Half-Term the A243 at that point can get busy - hope Royalist aren't in for a scary ride!
Cove v Dorking
Croydon v Colliers Wood United
Egham Town v South Park
Horley Town v Epsom & Ewell
Raynes Park Vale v Farnham Town
Sandhurst Town v Hanworth Villa
Wembley v Mole Valley SCR
CCL1
Bookham v Bedfont Sports
CB Hounslow United v Spelthorne Sports
Cobham v Knaphill
Farleigh Rovers v Guernsey (1.00 p.m.)
Hartley Wintney v Westfield
South Kilburn v Eversley @ Ashford Town
Staines Lammas v Frimley Green
Warlingham v Feltham
Worcester Park v Sheerwater

HELLP
Abingdon Town v Highworth Town
Ascot United v Thame United
Cheltenham Saracens v Witney Town
Holyport v Binfield
Kidlington v Fairford Town
Oxford City Nomads v Reading Town - tough one for RTFC
Shortwood United v Ardley United
Shrivenham v Henley Town
Slimbridge v Flackwell Heath
Wantage Town v Bracknell Town
HELL1E
Chalfont Wasps v Penn & Tylers Green
Chinnor v Finchampstead
Lambourn Sports v Highmoor Ibis
Milton United v Newbury

WESSP
Winchester City v Downton
WESS1
Andover New Street v AFC Portchester
Pewsey Vale v Cowes Sports
Tadley Calleva v Verwood Town
Warminster Town v Fleet Spurs
Whitchurch United v Stockbridge


... for Mr A.: Falmouth are away in the Cornish Senior Cup @ Saltash who've already beaten them twice in the league this season - Falmouth having W7-0 last week vs bottom club - Royal Marines - are tidily place in 3rd with 2 games in hand of the leaders Launceston. However they are level on points with Bodmin who have a further 4 games in hand on them.

[Terminal Boardom]

Nowt to worry about tomorrow. Only Chessington Zoo is open and World of Adventures does not reopen until March. But there is the danger of Seaworld or whatever its called being relocated to Chessy's ground. Nice clubhouse, plenty of parking but the main supporter entrance has a frontier feel about it! 2 weekends without football are doing my nut! Plus, Windsor have recently signed Leeyon Phelan from Hanworth Villa. What I have heard is that he is a big unit who holds the ball up well. Could be an interesting run in.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Woking v Dartford sounds worth a visit....

[Four Of Clubs]

...and here's yesterday's results - plenty of goals about for some :-

Saturday 18th Feb

CONFS
Boreham Wood 1-1 Eastbourne Borough
Chelmsford 3-1 Havant and W
Dover 3-1 Truro City
Hampton & Richmond 0-4 Eastleigh
Salisbury 0-2 Bromley
Staines Town 1-2 Farnborough
Sutton Utd 1-0 Basingstoke
Thurrock 1-1 Maidenhead Utd
Tonbridge Angels 3-0 Weston-S-Mare
Woking 1-0 Dartford att 2528

ISTH1S
Merstham 1-0 Godalming Town

SOUTHP
Chesham United 2-1 Hemel Hempstead Town
Swindon Supermarine 2-4 Oxford City
Weymouth 2-1 Banbury United
SOUTH1C
Aylesbury 1-0 Northwood
Bedfont Town 3-1 Rugby Town
Biggleswade Town 4-0 Beaconsfield SYCOB
Chalfont St. Peter 1-1 Woodford United
Fleet Town 1-0 Barton Rovers
Leighton Town 3-1 Chertsey Town
Marlow 2-4 North Greenford United
Slough Town 1-1 AFC Hayes - Slough score 89’ Hayes on 90 +5 pen
St. Neots Town 3-3 Burnham
Uxbridge 5-2 Daventry Town
SOUTH1S&W
Abingdon United 0-0 Bideford
Clevedon Town 0-3 North Leigh
Didcot Town 1-0 Mangotsfield United
Thatcham Town 0-0 Halesowen Town

CCLP
Ash United 1-0 Molesey
Badshot Lea 1-6 Guildford City
Banstead Athletic 3-4 Camberley Town
Chessington & Hook United 2-1 Windsor – sounds as if Windsor had problems on a poor surface - now 11 pts adrift of City: - next couple of weeks could be vital - Windsor have three games at home vs 2 mid-table sides (Wembley Mon 20th Croydon Sat 25th) and Sandhurst (see below) whilst Guildford only have 1 game in this period next Friday evening H v Ash - though may also have a re-arranged game vs Cove - whose defence is leakier than Sandhurst's
Cove 3-2 Dorking
Croydon 0-1 Colliers Wood United
Egham Town 3-2 South Park
Horley Town 3-1 Epsom & Ewell
Raynes Park Vale 1-0 Farnham Town
Sandhurst Town 1-8 {EIGHT} Hanworth Villa – can’t get at FansFocus this AM to account for this but ‘Fizzers’ have been prone to some real batterings this season -
Advanced 'Anorak' factoid - 'Fizzers' haven't had a draw yet in 28 league matches: W12 L 16.
Wembley 2-1 Mole Valley SCR
CCL1
Bookham 0-3 Bedfont Sports
CB Hounslow United 0-4 Spelthorne Sports
Cobham 0-4 Knaphill
Farleigh Rovers 1-5 Guernsey
Hartley Wintney 5-1 Westfield
South Kilburn A-A Eversley Match abandoned at half-time - pitch deemed unplayable
Staines Lammas 2-1 Frimley Green
Warlingham 2-0 Feltham
Worcester Park 7-5 Sheerwater

HELLP
Abingdon Town 4-2 Highworth Town
Ardley Utd 5-3 Wokingham & Emmbrook - leaders pulling away; now 8 pts clear whilst OCN are 11 ahead of 3rd place Shortwood who were in Vase action .
Ascot United 1-1 Thame United
Cheltenham Saracens 3-0 Witney Town
Holyport 1-2 Binfield
Kidlington 0-3 Fairford Town
Oxford City Nomads 1-1 Reading Town - very respectable result
Shrivenham 2-2 Henley Town
Slimbridge 1-0 Flackwell Heath
Wantage Town 4-0 Bracknell Town - Robins hadn't played in nearly a month - still 4 points adrift of Witney but now only one game worse off - bottom three are now well adrift of Henley in 4th bottom
HELL1E
Chalfont Wasps 3-0 Penn & Tylers Green
Chinnor 2-1 Finchampstead
Lambourn Sports 0-3 Highmoor Ibis - H/I still out in front and with a healthy lead: Newbury have 4 games in hand but are dropping points - the two clash at Palmer Park next Saturday (25th)
Milton United 2-2 Newbury

WESSP
Winchester City 2-0 Downton
WESS1
Andover New Street 2-4 AFC Portchester
Pewsey Vale 0-2 Cowes Sports
Tadley Calleva 2-1 Verwood Town - bottom beat top – 2nd win in a week for Tadley and they ‘leap’ to 17th place and away side lose top spot to Team Solent.
Warminster Town 2-2 Fleet Spurs
Whitchurch United 0-0 Stockbridge

... in the Vase, winners for the last three season's, 'Northern Giants' Whitley Bay, bowed out to their own divisional leaders West Auckland - a relief to many since some of their fans have often come across, when contributing to southern-based chat rooms, as graceless nerks: - though doubtless there's a large dose of sour grapes there. My own experience of overhearing a couple of their 'typical fans' at a Tie a few season's back would tend to back this up however.
Similarly another 'self-perceived' NL 'big fish', Gresley were thumped 4-0 at St Ives - again much relief all round, probably based upon the small-minded behaviour from a few of their 'fans' in their last round win at Three Bridges - though apparently the ECML clubs aren't that enamoured of their constant 'billy-big balls' posing, having been demoted down to that league recently.
The quarter final line up (Ties due 3rd March) is now:

Shortwood (Hellenic) v Herne Bay (Kent) - might be moved to Sunday the 4th if FGR at home [EDIT which they are vs Cambridge Utd] - though this option was not in effect yesterday.
Staveley MW v St Ives
Peterborough North Star v Dunston UTS
Billingham Synthonia or Bournemouth (Wessex) v West Auckland

... I watched Herne Bay overcome Larkhall from the Western league 1-0 in a fairly dour slog yesterday - home side had only just lost their first league match of the season - and though reduced to 10 men very early on, kept a limp-looking 'Larks' at bay and won the tie with a free-kick about 3 mins from time.

[Terminal Boardom]

No complaints following Windsor's game at Chessington & Hook. C&H were very good value for their win. I felt throughout the second half that we would do well to escape with a point. That said, once we equalised we had chances to take the lead but were wasteful. The pitch was not to blame either. Same for both sides and C&H adapted far better than we did. It certainly looked to me as if we had not played together for a year let alone 3 weeks.

[Barry the bird boggler]

St Ives? That's St Ives in Cambridgeshite and not St Ives in Cornwall I presume.

[Four Of Clubs]

St Ives? That's St Ives in Cambridgeshite and not St Ives in Cornwall I presume.

Yup sure 'tiz - currently sat in 5th place in the United Counties League (primarily covers Northamptonshire but includes bits of Beds, Bucks, Cambs, Leics as well as Lincs and even Naaarfolk)

- Kings Lynn (1st place) are recuperating at this level after their recent traumas higher up the pyramid - reached STEP02 having risen through the Northern League but suffered financially in the CONF-North and were 'demoted' then folded in 2009 and reformed back in STEP05.

Also still in the Vase - Peterborough North Star are from this league - should I wish to keep my interest going for the next round, this is the obvious venue - done Shortwood and Bournemouth (should they win their replay) - though I might treat some offspring to a trip back to Nailsworth if the Shortwood tie gets bumped to the Sunday PM.

[Royalist]

Hearing of a brawl between AFC Hayes players and Slough fans! Not one for violence but a small minority of Slough fans get very brave at times!

[Christof]

Hearing of a brawl between AFC Hayes players and Slough fans! Not one for violence but a small minority of Slough fans get very brave at times!

Slough Town forum being moderated at the moment due to 'incidents after the game'. Bad blood between the clubs after an ill-tempered game earlier in the season, with the Hayes keeper not making himself any friends with some exceptional amateur dramatics apparently. Still, St Neots only drew so still looking good for a showdown in Cambridgeshire on 10th March. I predict a Lloyd Owusu last minute winner and amazing scenes etc...

[Terminal Boardom]

Hearing of a brawl between AFC Hayes players and Slough fans! Not one for violence but a small minority of Slough fans get very brave at times!

Slough Town forum being moderated at the moment due to 'incidents after the game'. Bad blood between the clubs after an ill-tempered game earlier in the season, with the Hayes keeper not making himself any friends with some exceptional amateur dramatics apparently. Still, St Neots only drew so still looking good for a showdown in Cambridgeshire on 10th March. I predict a Lloyd Owusu last minute winner and amazing scenes etc...

And this from the local rag

http://www.windsorexpress.co.uk/Sport/Football/Slough-Town-FC/Ugly-scenes-as-Rebels-are-denied-late-on-18022012.htm

Sounds like a curious set of events and, the last I checked, the Rebels' Forum was still being moderated.

[Four Of Clubs]

... poor result at Stag Meadow last night in the CCLP: Windsor 1-2 Wembley -that leaves them 11 points behind Guildford with only 1 game in hand now.

Goals galore at Palmer Pk where Highmoor IBIS win 6-3 vs Frilsham & Yatt. in the Reading Senior Cup.

Considered going to either of these but in the end domestic shennanigans - late Tea - Dad's taxi duties - and the fact I couldn't be @rsed.

Games tonight (Tue) locally at Scours Lane (RTFC v Holyport), Larges Lane (Wokkers v Abingdon T) and slightly further afield (from here ) at Camberley, Sandhurst, Chertsey, Didcot and the B&B Semi @ Adams Pk (WW v Hungerford KO 19:30)