Shame to hear about the pitch, was always a cracking surface when Colin James was looking after it 20 years ago. Quick google and I’ve just discovered he’s been Orient’s groundsman for the last decade or so
Shame to hear about the pitch, was always a cracking surface when Colin James was looking after it 20 years ago. Quick google and I’ve just discovered he’s been Orient’s groundsman for the last decade or so
Played Vets football with Colin a few years back now, top bloke. Was going to take over at the Valley when Paddy Powell called it a day, but relegation and the owner shenanigans put paid to that unfortunately. Would've been a great groundsman for us.
The 'Cherry Red Records Combined counties football league Premier South' chaos continues with the play offs postponed. Jersey Bulls appealed against their violation and now Redhill may have transgressed !
Whyteleafe are watching with interest as well as two teams definitely in the play-offs, Cobham and Fleet Town.
For clarity this is the reason for Jersey Bull's deduction, and i don't really see how they can argue this. It's a clear administrative error and they basically banned their own player for the wrong games.
"A member of the squad, who shall remain nameless, had received a total of ten yellow cards which, by the league rules, should have required him to serve a two-game suspension.
However, at the time, one of those yellow cards had been issued in an Isuzu FA Vase cup match, which should not have counted towards the league’s tally.
This error was not picked up on at the time, and the aforementioned player was sat out for two matches, 8 March at home against Horley Town, 11 March away at Abbey Rangers, which was abandoned so did not count, and 15 March at home again against Camberley Town.
Thinking he had now served his ban, the player was returned to the squad for the home clash against Fleet Town on 22 March, where he played and then picked up his tenth league yellow card.
Despite the club thinking the player had already served his suspension, it is from then that he should have missed the next two matches, which were the 29 March against Tooting & Mitcham United and the first Redhill clash away on 5 April.
The player in question was played in the Tooting fixture, which is where the offence was committed.
Administrative staff at Jersey Bulls FC realised an error had been made and reported it to the League and Jersey FA immediately. Despite efforts to set out the significant mitigating circumstances that the decision was based on the lack of clarity on the number of yellow cards, the Combined Counties League confirmed the 3-point deduction on Friday, 18 April at 8:46pm. Jersey Bulls have been given seven days to appeal the decision, which is now ongoing."
It's all getting nasty with counter arguments against Redhill and one of their players but this is the world of semi-pro football where not only the players are part time but the admin staff as well.
AFC Whyteleafe, the phoenix from the ashes club could yet do the league and Vase double having reached the final.
It's all getting nasty with counter arguments against Redhill and one of their players but this is the world of semi-pro football where not only the players are part time but the admin staff as well.
AFC Whyteleafe, the phoenix from the ashes club could yet do the league and Vase double having reached the final.
It's all getting nasty with counter arguments against Redhill and one of their players but this is the world of semi-pro football where not only the players are part time but the admin staff as well.
AFC Whyteleafe, the phoenix from the ashes club could yet do the league and Vase double having reached the final.
What have Redhill done wrong?
As I understand it, and this is a second hand report of a conversation from this morning so might not be 100% right - Jersey Bulls are claiming that, on October 8th 2024, Redhill received a yellow card that the referee failed to report, and thus it was not entered into the online portal. A portal that all clubs are told they must use. The player should have served a ban later in the season based on accumulation of yellow cards. Quite how they have come up with this information is not clear - I am guessing that they've gone through every match report and compared it to the portal in an effort to find a reason to have Redhill docked points.
Redhill will argue that this is an FA failure, and will hoist the FA on their own petard because that's a system the clubs are instructed to use and adhere to, above and beyond their own admin. Although it does sound like the Redhill admin failed to correctly track the card too.
If the league were to uphold this complaint, and give Whyteleafe the title, it would look so stupid I just can't believe they will do it. Especially as Redhill will then be in their rights to go through every other club's admin until they find an issue that they could say influenced the outcome of the league.
Meanwhile, the play-offs have been suspended until further notice, and there's a chance they won't take place at all.
The Guardian did a good piece on Truro City in their daily Football Daily. I rather liked the El Pastyco reference.
Barry
Glendenning
SOUTHBOUND
AND UP
The Premier
League, Major League Baseball, The Human League, The National
Football League, The League of Gentlemen, the Indian Premier League
or your pick of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The
Sea. Everyone has their own favourite league, despite what various
excitable pundits and commentators would have you believe, but the
thorny issue of deciding which is the best is entirely a matter of
opinion and personal taste. While the National League South –
comprising half the sixth tier of English football’s pyramid – is
unlikely to feature on too many shortlists, few can be more
competitive. Going into the 46th and final round of games this
season, no fewer than a quarter of its 24 teams can still be
crowned champions on Saturday afternoon.
Fittingly for a
division which, as its name suggests, is contested by teams from
the meridional area of England and Wales, the most southern-based
team are top of the table. Located in Cornwall, Truro City are in pole position but
the Tinners are level on points with their bitter rivals and the
league’s next most southerly side, Torquay United, and only lead by
a goal difference of +2. Truro welcome relegation-threatened St
Albans, knowing victory will not be enough to win them the title if
the Gulls go to Hemel Hempstead and win by three goals more.
Interestingly, in three league and FA Trophy “El Pastyco” derbies
this season, the former big boys from Devon have had Truro’s
measure, but still look like they might miss out on promotion to
the National League.
“Like the main
characters in Withnail and I, they are going to win it by mistake,”
declared Football Daily’s in-no-way-bitter Torquay
United-supporting standup comedian and broadcasting chum, Charlie
Baker. “I wish them well next season in the National League as they
travel 450 miles each way to play Gateshead, Carlisle and
Hartlepool on a Tuesday or Wednesday night in the middle of winter.
My beloved Gulls are a revolutionised team and club, who this time
last year were 24 hours away from being dissolved. To quote Harry
Diamond, Rory McIlroy’s caddie: ‘We’d have taken this on Monday.’”
But back to Saturday.
Should Truro and
Torquay fail to win, there are four different cabs gunning their
engines on the rank ready to overtake them. Eastbourne Borough and
Worthing are both a point behind the top two, but their inferior
goal difference means both need to win to have any chance of the
title. Behind them and three points behind the leaders, both
Boreham Wood and Dorking Wanderers have significantly better goal
differences and are therefore still in with a shout if everyone
above fails to win. Working on the naive assumption that the
National League’s budget stretches to the rental of a helicopter to
deliver the southern division’s trophy to whichever ground it is
needed at 5pm on Saturday, Football Daily wasted some time trying
to figure out where best the chopper in question might spend the
day waiting to take off. Several drawing pins, bits of red string
and a large map later, we reckon somewhere bang in the middle of
the Hemel Hempstead, Eastbourne Borough and Truro City triangle
would maximise fuel efficiency, with the one-time Roman garrison
town of Ilchester in Somerset more than fitting the bill on what
promises to be a big day in the south.
Looking like a home playoff semifinal for Dartford on Wednesday. Hard to see both the other teams slipping up, and with Dartford's recent record in the playoffs, I'm not feeling optimistic.
Elsewhere, after a slight wobble, Barnet need a point tomorrow to clinch promotion back to the EFL.
Brilliant end to the Isthmian Premier. Horsham pip Billericay by ONE goal.
Nice to see Hendon bow out with a 5-1 win.
Dulwich need a proper sort out. One place above relegation is shameful given their resources. Another 3,000 crowd there today.
Good win for Hendon! No idea what's gone so wrong at Bognor
Dulwich shouldn't be in a relegation scrap , should be playoffs minimum if not middle of the NLS, seems since the Gavin Rose era where they had a really strong squad they kept together for years the wheels have just fallen off.
I have zero confidence of Dartford winning the semi on Wednesday, but where would the final on the bank holiday Monday be held?
Sadly I'm with you on that. Dartford have followed Charlton in turning the season on it head since Christmas, but in the last month they seem to have disintegrated badly. Losses against Lewes and Carshalton make me doubt they have the mentality to win the next two games.
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Jersey Bulls appealed against their violation and now Redhill may have transgressed !
Whyteleafe are watching with interest as well as two teams definitely in the play-offs, Cobham and Fleet Town.
"A member of the squad, who shall remain nameless, had received a total of ten yellow cards which, by the league rules, should have required him to serve a two-game suspension.
However, at the time, one of those yellow cards had been issued in an Isuzu FA Vase cup match, which should not have counted towards the league’s tally.
This error was not picked up on at the time, and the aforementioned player was sat out for two matches, 8 March at home against Horley Town, 11 March away at Abbey Rangers, which was abandoned so did not count, and 15 March at home again against Camberley Town.
Thinking he had now served his ban, the player was returned to the squad for the home clash against Fleet Town on 22 March, where he played and then picked up his tenth league yellow card.
Despite the club thinking the player had already served his suspension, it is from then that he should have missed the next two matches, which were the 29 March against Tooting & Mitcham United and the first Redhill clash away on 5 April.
The player in question was played in the Tooting fixture, which is where the offence was committed.
Administrative staff at Jersey Bulls FC realised an error had been made and reported it to the League and Jersey FA immediately. Despite efforts to set out the significant mitigating circumstances that the decision was based on the lack of clarity on the number of yellow cards, the Combined Counties League confirmed the 3-point deduction on Friday, 18 April at 8:46pm. Jersey Bulls have been given seven days to appeal the decision, which is now ongoing."
It's all getting nasty with counter arguments against Redhill and one of their players but this is the world of semi-pro football where not only the players are part time but the admin staff as well.
AFC Whyteleafe, the phoenix from the ashes club could yet do the league and Vase double having reached the final.
Redhill will argue that this is an FA failure, and will hoist the FA on their own petard because that's a system the clubs are instructed to use and adhere to, above and beyond their own admin. Although it does sound like the Redhill admin failed to correctly track the card too.
If the league were to uphold this complaint, and give Whyteleafe the title, it would look so stupid I just can't believe they will do it. Especially as Redhill will then be in their rights to go through every other club's admin until they find an issue that they could say influenced the outcome of the league.
Meanwhile, the play-offs have been suspended until further notice, and there's a chance they won't take place at all.
It's a colossal mess!
Barry Glendenning
SOUTHBOUND AND UP
The Premier League, Major League Baseball, The Human League, The National Football League, The League of Gentlemen, the Indian Premier League or your pick of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. Everyone has their own favourite league, despite what various excitable pundits and commentators would have you believe, but the thorny issue of deciding which is the best is entirely a matter of opinion and personal taste. While the National League South – comprising half the sixth tier of English football’s pyramid – is unlikely to feature on too many shortlists, few can be more competitive. Going into the 46th and final round of games this season, no fewer than a quarter of its 24 teams can still be crowned champions on Saturday afternoon.
Fittingly for a division which, as its name suggests, is contested by teams from the meridional area of England and Wales, the most southern-based team are top of the table. Located in Cornwall, Truro City are in pole position but the Tinners are level on points with their bitter rivals and the league’s next most southerly side, Torquay United, and only lead by a goal difference of +2. Truro welcome relegation-threatened St Albans, knowing victory will not be enough to win them the title if the Gulls go to Hemel Hempstead and win by three goals more. Interestingly, in three league and FA Trophy “El Pastyco” derbies this season, the former big boys from Devon have had Truro’s measure, but still look like they might miss out on promotion to the National League.
“Like the main characters in Withnail and I, they are going to win it by mistake,” declared Football Daily’s in-no-way-bitter Torquay United-supporting standup comedian and broadcasting chum, Charlie Baker. “I wish them well next season in the National League as they travel 450 miles each way to play Gateshead, Carlisle and Hartlepool on a Tuesday or Wednesday night in the middle of winter. My beloved Gulls are a revolutionised team and club, who this time last year were 24 hours away from being dissolved. To quote Harry Diamond, Rory McIlroy’s caddie: ‘We’d have taken this on Monday.’” But back to Saturday.
Should Truro and Torquay fail to win, there are four different cabs gunning their engines on the rank ready to overtake them. Eastbourne Borough and Worthing are both a point behind the top two, but their inferior goal difference means both need to win to have any chance of the title. Behind them and three points behind the leaders, both Boreham Wood and Dorking Wanderers have significantly better goal differences and are therefore still in with a shout if everyone above fails to win. Working on the naive assumption that the National League’s budget stretches to the rental of a helicopter to deliver the southern division’s trophy to whichever ground it is needed at 5pm on Saturday, Football Daily wasted some time trying to figure out where best the chopper in question might spend the day waiting to take off. Several drawing pins, bits of red string and a large map later, we reckon somewhere bang in the middle of the Hemel Hempstead, Eastbourne Borough and Truro City triangle would maximise fuel efficiency, with the one-time Roman garrison town of Ilchester in Somerset more than fitting the bill on what promises to be a big day in the south.
all to play for in the Isthmian Premier - Billericay have pretty much sold out their ground for final game. Dartford blew it at Cray Wanderers
Elsewhere, after a slight wobble, Barnet need a point tomorrow to clinch promotion back to the EFL.
And Truro now aren't as cut and dried as before, as Torquay score 5.
Nice to see Hendon bow out with a 5-1 win.
Dulwich need a proper sort out. One place above relegation is shameful given their resources. Another 3,000 crowd there today.
Good win for Hendon! No idea what's gone so wrong at Bognor
Dulwich shouldn't be in a relegation scrap , should be playoffs minimum if not middle of the NLS, seems since the Gavin Rose era where they had a really strong squad they kept together for years the wheels have just fallen off.