The non-league thread 2008/9

[Readingfanman]

If Oxford got relegated / Maiders got promoted this year. It will make a heck of a good away trip next season.

[Streets]

If Oxford got relegated / Maiders got promoted this year. It will make a heck of a good away trip next season.

If Oxford got relegated it would be the LOL of the century.

[Four Of Clubs]

Am I missing the point here

...if P@xford went down and the Magpies went up wouldn't that mean they'd still be a division apart ?

Love to see Maidenhead in the CONF - not sure how their ground would cope -

- for example don't think they had very many seats last time I went 04/05 season only in that bit that backs onto the Railway embankment .

[Streets]

Maybe Oxford can lend them one of their three stands.

[Four Of Clubs]

.... Or maybe they've still got a few of those 'portable shed-like' one's in storage from their time at the Manor Ground? .....they had about eight stands in those days!

[RTFC Drummer]

http://www.pyramidpassion.co.uk/html/ma ... nited.html

[Streets]

.... Or maybe they've still got a few of those 'portable shed-like' one's in storage from their time at the Manor Ground? .....they had about eight stands in those days!

They did indeed, 7 I think it was. (3 down one side, one behind the goal - their noisy end, one down the other side, one in the corner by the away end and of course that shocking away end with fooking high fencing)

Only went there once and that was enough. That was the year we were relegated from Division 1. I remember them bastards picking on kids of 15 years old rather than grown men.

A club I am pleased to revel in their demise!

[Four Of Clubs]

Only went there once and that was enough. That was the year we were relegated from Division 1. I remember them bastards picking on kids of 15 years old rather than grown men.

I went more times than I wish to remember - very few happy memories - that git Joey 'Mummy's Boy' Beauchamp invariably used to beat us on his own or that lanky @*&% Hebbard or that giant Joe the Postie - can't remember his surname - actually scored for us once, when Martin 'Hooves of Steel' placed one of his 'delicate' free-kicks in off his Chin!

... and the referee was ALWAYS a 'Homer' - sent 'Lewie' off for hitting Briggs's Fist with his Jaw ...

Lovely dark passageway down the back of the away end too - the Old Bill generally ignored all the aggro but very occasionally would lock us in for hours then frog-march us half way round the grounds of the bleedin' Radcliffe regardless of where the Coaches were or where we were parked.

Lowest point: under Terry the Taxi - Highest: our last game there, when we were settled into the MadStad and could rip into them about the state of their ground ...

... "You've got more Sheds than my Back garden!" ...

... occasionally went as a 'neutral' saw them wallop Keegan's Geords (the first time round) - again courtesy of the 'Joey Beauchamp show' and a couple of weeks earlier/later (?) the same team got battered by the Mackems.

.. they were obviously more enjoyable.

... done the Kassam in our couple of Cup strolls recently - not keen to go again - a git to park (bit like the MadStad there) and the lovely views of the 'locals' from the Blackbird Leys lobbing things at all and sundry!

[papereyes]

I went to the Kassam for their games against Charlton, Villa and Reading twice.

On all four occassions, it kicked off.

In the Villa game, the concourse was closed for half time.

[Streets]

Been to the Kassam twice and trouble on both occasions.

Love it there though because you can make some serious noise in that stand, and "Oxford United...are shit" always comes across even louder. Love it.

Last time we were there I'd just left that little pub right by the ground and then it all kicked off. Tables, chairs and glasses everywhere. Why oh why you wear a Reading shirt on a day like that I don't know but many did.

Trouble also after the game and as said, Police ignoring much of it and in fact pushing and shoving Reading fans.

It's just lovely seeing that scummy little club nestling away in the Conference. I hope they rot there.

[Jerry St Clair]

Last time we were there I'd just left that little pub right by the ground and then it all kicked off. Tables, chairs and glasses everywhere. Why oh why you wear a Reading shirt on a day like that I don't know but many did.

I was in there too. It was normally a "home" pub, but for our visit the police decided to make it Reading fans only. Hence, some of the locals tried to take it back. Bless them.

[frimmers]

i loved non league way back when....but how things change...the mighty 'shots just a division behind ex premiership reading come the start of next season:)

[Deathy]

i loved non league way back when....but how things change...the mighty 'shots just a division behind ex premiership reading come the start of next season:)

Or possibly in the same.

[Wax Jacket]

been to the Kassam loads, never any trouble apart from when Reading play (and Swindon).

who can blame them, Reading fans are oxf*rd

[Deathy]

Oxford beaten again.

Precariously close to relegation.

[Stranded]

Oxford beaten again.

Precariously close to relegation.

In September?

[Wax Jacket]

they'll get better, and the bottom few teams in that league are really hopeless. but I can't see Oxford troubling the top 8 or so at all.

[Alan Partridge]

they'll get better, and the bottom few teams in that league are really hopeless. but I can't see Oxford troubling the top 8 or so at all.

They have a team that should be doing lots better in that league.

Torquay picked up a very good win at Cambridge, hopefully kick them on up the league now.

[Four Of Clubs]

.....it's beginning to look quite 'hairy' down the bottom there! [ooh err ] - Woking picked up their first win of the season this weekend; Stevenage have picked up after a very dodgy start as have 'The Gulls' - Lewes look to have self-destructed - got rid of almost their entire title-winning squad from last year - as well as sacking their manager after he got them promotion.

(Rumour has it the 'bean-counters' there didn't want top level non-league football! )

Northwich & Altrincham look as if they'll struggle again this season.

Just as 'exciting' is the top end of the table - I think Wrexham are finding it harder than they thought, Mansfield look to have adjusted OK and no-one but the most partisan, would have envisaged Salisbury and Crawley leading the pack. Kettering came up last season with an excellent record and evidently have carried the momentum into the higher level (bit like us two years ago - sob)

[weybridgewanderer]

welling v maidstone

goalie had just let in a howler