lapal_fan Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 11 hours ago, mikeyp102 said: My local team halesowen town are signing Lee hughes. Gutted hate that scum bag I was about to go on a stag to to berlin from east mids airport and one of my group knows him and his family well. We bumped into him and his mates going on a stag do. The guy from our group was talking to him for about 15 minutes and whilst I agree with you based on his history - he didn't half seem a nice chap.. I left feeling confused. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 0:1 away win for my lot tonight - super significant because this is our first year as big time charlies and we've just achieved mathematical safety. Icing on the cake is that we're looking good for a play off game for a **** european spot! 6 points clear of the nearest team below with 6 games to play. Crazy times for a fan owned club. Been ours for five years, in those five years we've had three promotions and now a chance of a shot at europe. By a country mile we pay less wages than any other club in the league. woop 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 (edited) 56 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: 0:1 away win for my lot tonight - super significant because this is our first year as big time charlies and we've just achieved mathematical safety. Icing on the cake is that we're looking good for a play off game for a **** european spot! 6 points clear of the nearest team below with 6 games to play. Crazy times for a fan owned club. Been ours for five years, in those five years we've had three promotions and now a chance of a shot at europe. By a country mile we pay less wages than any other club in the league. woop Edit - just gone backwards through the thread and get it now Edited March 9, 2018 by bannedfromHandV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 (edited) what better way to celebrate promotion than to cook a whole pig on a beach... Edited March 29, 2018 by chrisp65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 New ground tick for me today - Leamington FC They beat FCUM 1-0. Game was appalling but still a good day out after a few beers! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 picture from yesterday's Dartford vs Hampton (not my pic, I was nowhere near there!) anyway, 94th minute winner followed by a mud fight apparently 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Pretty weird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 On 3/9/2018 at 22:26, chrisp65 said: 0:1 away win for my lot tonight - super significant because this is our first year as big time charlies and we've just achieved mathematical safety. Icing on the cake is that we're looking good for a play off game for a **** european spot! 6 points clear of the nearest team below with 6 games to play. Crazy times for a fan owned club. Been ours for five years, in those five years we've had three promotions and now a chance of a shot at europe. By a country mile we pay less wages than any other club in the league. woop 1:1 home draw this afternoon (live on the telly so obviously it had to be our scrappiest crappiest performance of 2018) gave us the single point we needed from our last four games and confirms we will be in the play offs for a european spot. That's three league games left that are now effectively dead rubbers, until we get to the play offs, so hopefully we'll fulfill the fixtures by playing a few of the squad guys - I can see our away game in Prestatyn on Tuesday night being an unusual team sheet! I genuinely can't see us getting through to europe, but we are now just two play off games away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 As our game is pretty much meaningless bar any injuries/suspensions i am off to watch Telford again today. Final home game of the season and if they win they are safe so would stay in the conf north next year. They are a few places above the drop and do have a game in hand but they play 3rd from bottom Gainsborough today so it is all in their own hands as 3 points would make it impossible for them to be caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 (edited) Well Telford are safe but they went about things the hard way. Terrible game of football on a sub-standard for sunday league pitch that resembled a half ploughed field. 60 minutes into the game Telford were 2-0 down and in the shit as most of the teams below were winning. The fans were on the players backs, Shouting & singing for the manager to be sacked. 14 minutes later they were winning 3-2, it was party time and that is how it stayed until the end. Gainsborough officially relegated as a result of chucking away a 2 goal lead and teams above them also picking up points Edited April 21, 2018 by LakotaDakota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zatman Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Salford paying players 5k a week to get promoted to Football League then dickhead Gary Neville goes on twitter having fights with fans of League 2 clubs saying its good business. Has become a bitter man since his coaching failings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 17 hours ago, Zatman said: Salford paying players 5k a week to get promoted to Football League then dickhead Gary Neville goes on twitter having fights with fans of League 2 clubs saying its good business. Has become a bitter man since his coaching failings Not content with wrecking 'league' football, money moves in to non-league. We tried to sign a player a couple of weeks ago from a team in the same league as us. Basically, he wanted £3,000 a month to join a part time non-league football team. It's not like he would have been our stand out star player, he'd have been a good sensible solid signing. If he'd been on 3k, then a couple of the guys already on the books could legitimately have asked for their money to be trebled and all of a sudden a team with crowds just over 1,000 has a wage bill of 25k a month. Jog on, lad. We'll pick him up cheap, once the club he signs for goes bubble. Which actually isn't that far off our signing policy, academy kids and fire sale stock. Finished 7th last year on that modus. It's that tricky second album for us, second year in the Prem. We'll see if they've worked us out, or if we're the real deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 On 20/07/2018 at 23:04, Zatman said: Salford paying players 5k a week to get promoted to Football League then dickhead Gary Neville goes on twitter having fights with fans of League 2 clubs saying its good business. Has become a bitter man since his coaching failings Got to hope that Salford FC or whatever they’re called don’t make it into the league. It’s madness that a player from Aberdeen would join a Conference side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Tim Cahill took charge of training at the Town this evening which was an interesting thing to see. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 On 01/08/2018 at 00:36, chrisp65 said: Tim Cahill took charge of training at the Town this evening which was an interesting thing to see. How did that come about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 52 minutes ago, AVFC_Hitz said: How did that come about? Our manager is on the sort of periphery of the Wales Coaching staff. For some reason lots of players going for their coaching badges are opting to go through the FA Wales system. I think its just a lower profile, whilst still being just up the motorway from that London. So we’re getting a few players turning up and ‘running’ their early coaching sessions with our players as guinea pigs. No pressure on the ‘celebrity’ and a bit of entertainment for our guys. Usually, it’s players from the Bristol Rovers, Plymouth or Brentford end of things, but once in a while its someone you’ve heard of! It’s why I got so excited about the prospect of Henry as manager. He’s done similar (but wouldn’t put a Barry top on!). But our Manager was one of his ‘lecturers’, so it was a sure fire pre season friendly and the loan of a couple of the academy kids as far as I was concerned. As it happens, we’ve got a loanee from Newport and a friendly with Swansea, hey ho. But I’m still hopeful Bruce will crash and burn and then the international link up will defo be back on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhyscartwright_avfc Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 4 hours ago, chrisp65 said: For some reason lots of players going for their coaching badges are opting to go through the FA Wales system. I'm pretty sure it is because it is one of the cheapest places to do it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 7 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Our manager is on the sort of periphery of the Wales Coaching staff. For some reason lots of players going for their coaching badges are opting to go through the FA Wales system. I think its just a lower profile, whilst still being just up the motorway from that London. So we’re getting a few players turning up and ‘running’ their early coaching sessions with our players as guinea pigs. No pressure on the ‘celebrity’ and a bit of entertainment for our guys. Usually, it’s players from the Bristol Rovers, Plymouth or Brentford end of things, but once in a while its someone you’ve heard of! It’s why I got so excited about the prospect of Henry as manager. He’s done similar (but wouldn’t put a Barry top on!). But our Manager was one of his ‘lecturers’, so it was a sure fire pre season friendly and the loan of a couple of the academy kids as far as I was concerned. As it happens, we’ve got a loanee from Newport and a friendly with Swansea, hey ho. But I’m still hopeful Bruce will crash and burn and then the international link up will defo be back on. Far too drunk to reply in depth to that but cheers. I liked it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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