The Non - League thread

[Lighthouse]

Hungerford 1 Dulwich 1. A result which means Hungerford are relegated to the Southern Premier League. Hungerford had a player sent off early in the first half but took the lead half way through the second half. They then battered Dulwich but missed some glorious chances before conceding a late equaliser after which there was a goalmouth fracas leading to another man sent off from each side and then a further Dulwich got his marching orders for dissent leaving the game as a 9 a side. A valiant effort by the crusaders in front of over 700 fans including a decent following from Dulwich.

[Royals and Racers]

Bracknell v Chesham Play-off semi on Wednesday April 26th

Tickets on sale now https://www.bracknelltownfc.com/match-day-tickets/
Got mine

[Winston Biscuit]

Wrexham 35 mins from promotion

[AthleticoSpizz]

The BBC. will be happy, unbelievable hype never seen before for any team winning the Conf.

[NathStPaul]

Basingstoke buying their way to the title. It will all come crashing down next season.

[From Despair To Where?]

The BBC. will be happy, unbelievable hype never seen before for any team winning the Conf.

6 separate Wrexham articles on the first page of football on the BBC website..

I say 6, 4 of them are about Ryan Reynolds.

[AthleticoSpizz]

The BBC. will be happy, unbelievable hype never seen before for any team winning the Conf.

6 separate Wrexham articles on the first page of football on the BBC website..

I say 6, 4 of them are about Ryan Reynolds.

National news as well….let’s see if they get so animated if Rochdale bounce back next season

[Sutekh]

The BBC. will be happy, unbelievable hype never seen before for any team winning the Conf.

6 separate Wrexham articles on the first page of football on the BBC website..

I say 6, 4 of them are about Ryan Reynolds.

But then the BBC have sod all proper football so when they have an opportunity to cover some plus get to suck up on a Hollywood angle and attract all the fans of those “celebs” in as well it’s really not a surprise. If there weren’t any “celebs” there it’d get no more than the standard throw away comment.

[AthleticoSpizz]

The BBC. will be happy, unbelievable hype never seen before for any team winning the Conf.

6 separate Wrexham articles on the first page of football on the BBC website..

I say 6, 4 of them are about Ryan Reynolds.

But then the BBC have sod all proper football so when they have an opportunity to cover some plus get to suck up on a Hollywood angle and attract all the fans of those “celebs” in as well it’s really not a surprise. If there weren’t any “celebs” there it’d get no more than the standard throw away comment.

never rocked-up when we had Cilla

[From Despair To Where?]

I prefer the "Foreign owners throwing money at football and ruining the game" angle

[Royal Rother]

If Thatcham score we’re on the pitch.

Oh and stick your tik tok up your arse!!

Oh my, what a match, what an occasion. Just brilliant scenes after the game!!!

Basingstoke were not great but got the job done. When Walton were 2:1 up the atmosphere died…. And then as so many fans were watching the live stream of thatcham game went that goal went in it was utter bedlam!!

Oh my days!! 1600 in attendance but with academy kids in with parents best part of 2000 in there today.

Best part is the league chairman and presentation committee were at thatcham with trophy and medals. They were racing back down the A339 to get to Basingstoke where everyone stayed behind to see the presentation.

Up the bloody ‘Stoke… what a day!!

Great stuff.

(Thoughts are with Nath.)

[paultheroyal]

Just a brilliant occasion. To go toe to toe, knowing it slipped away, to then be in pole position, then not to be, then Walton make a pigs ear of the last five minutes, scenes at the end and how news filtered through will live long in memory.

Club with no money, no ground, community club, to go up in spectacular fashion is just brilliant! Commiserations to those are hurting this morning

[tmesis]

Bracknell v Chesham Play-off semi on Wednesday April 26th

Tickets on sale now https://www.bracknelltownfc.com/match-day-tickets/
Got mine

While I'd love to see Bracknell go up, you have to wonder how much of a drain on resources trying to put out a decent team at that level would be, while still playing in Sandhurst.

And obviously, still disappointingly quiet regarding moving back to the town.

[Four Of Clubs]

NL Results :

Saturday 22nd April

NAT
Eastleigh 0-0 Solihull Moors
Maidenhead United 1-1 Barnet att 2,145 – ‘Bees' led on 78’ ‘Magpies’ grabbed one back on 81’
Maidstone United 2-5 Notts County
Wealdstone 2-2 Dorking Wanderers
Woking 2-1 Gateshead – att 3,519
Wrexham 3-1 Boreham Wood
York City 2-2 Aldershot Town –att 5,779 Sh!ts manage to confirm safety, thanks to a 91’ goal from Tyler Frost
NATN
Banbury United 0-1 Spennymoor Town
Buxton 3-1 Brackley Town
NATS
Farnborough 3-0 Dover Athletic
Hungerford Town 1-1 Dulwich Hamlet -att 719 - high drama and ultimately the disappointment of relegation after 7 seasons at STEP02.
-as covered above : ‘Crusaders’ reduced to 10 men on 15’ (McGrory) they then led on 67’ – but ‘Hamlet’ levelled with 2’ left - whereupon two more dismissals - one apiece for each side (Curtis Angell & Gianni Crichlow) - took place following a brawl - another visiting player (Porter) saw red at the end of a frenetic 10’ of added time.

Oxford City 1-1 Havant & Waterlooville
Weymouth 2-0 Slough Town

SLP-C
Kings Langley 1-2 AFC Rushden & Diamonds
SLP-S
Gosport Borough 3-2 Beaconsfield Town
Hanwell Town 3-2 Hartley Wintney
Harrow Borough 3-1 Yate Town
Hendon 0-4 Poole Town
Merthyr Town 1-3 Hayes & Yeading United
Metropolitan Police 1-3 Dorchester Town
North Leigh 1-2 Truro City -
Plymouth Parkway 1-3 Bracknell Town –goals from Platt 3’, Knight 65’ & Sanders in stoppage time
Salisbury 1-1 Weston-super-Mare
Swindon Supermarine 5-3 Chesham United
Tiverton Town 2-4 Winchester City
SL1-C
Aylesbury United 2-1 Ware
Barton Rovers 1-2 Thame United
Didcot Town 3-2 Waltham Abbey –att 635 ‘Diddy’ host Walthamstow in the POs on Wed evening
Highworth Town 2-2 Biggleswade
Kidlington 0-4 Hertford Town

IL1-SC
Basingstoke Town 3-1 South Park
Bedfont Sports 6-0 Guernsey - Sports relegated in spite of this thumping win, due to Merstham grabbing a point from two down, at home to Westfield. They now facing a PO against a STEP05 runner-up – along with SCR

Chipstead 0-2 Hanworth Villa
Leatherhead 2-2 Binfield
Merstham 2-2 Westfield
Northwood 3-1 Marlow
Southall 4-1 Chertsey Town
Sutton Common Rovers 1-0 Ashford Town (Middx)
Thatcham Town 2-2 Walton & Hersham - att 500 hosts’ goals from Rohart Brown and Ashley Howell on 90’ ensured W&H fell behind Basingstoke on the last day
Uxbridge 0-4 Tooting & Mitcham United
- promotion POs also midweek (Wed)
Marlow v Hanworth Villa
W&H v Northwood

CCL-PN
Burnham 2-4 Ascot United –att 221 - ‘Yellamen’ get above the 100 point mark & finish on 99 goals
Chalfont St Peter 1-0 Spelthorne Sports
Egham Town 6-1 Oxhey Jets -att 210 - ‘Sarnies’ finish 2nd and may be promoted on PPG or go into a PO with a STEP04 2nd bottom side
Harefield United 2-3 Broadfields United
Hilltop 0-5 London Lions
North Greenford United 3-0 Holyport
Reading City 2-4 Wembley – att 212 City’s season ending with a bit of a whimper – 4 defeats in 7 leaves them 3rd and miss out on promotion via the POs / PPG – crowds are up significantly though
Windsor 1-0 Edgware & Kingsbury –att 153 - crucial win for Windsor – 92’ penalty (Costa) – lifts them 3 clear of ‘Jets’ and 2 points behind Chalfont who also won.
- Last games on Tue evening : Harefield v Chalfont StP, Windsor v (their lodgers) VW - 'Jets' are at Hilltop but are 8 goals worse off than Windsor.
- One of CH St P or Windsor, may need to see if their PPG is good enough, compared to other STEP05 sides finishing one from bottom, for them to avoid relegation.

Wokingham & Emmbrook 2-2 Virginia Water -att 235
CCL-PS
AFC Croydon Athletic 2-2 Abbey Rangers
Badshot Lea 3-1 Fleet Town – att 196 – BL finish runner-up - could be good on PPG for a direct promotion to STEP04 – finished 15 points above 3rd placed ‘Bulls’
Camberley Town 0-0 Cobham
Farnham Town 1-1 Colliers Wood United – att 442
Frimley Green 0-4 Guildford City FG relegated – have been for some time only gained 12 points this season
Horley Town 1-1 Balham
Jersey Bulls 6-0 Redhill – att 742
Knaphill 1-0 Alton
Sheerwater 2-0 Banstead Athletic ‘Sheers’ ensure their own safety
– Banstead down unless they can overhaul Fleet Town who completed their fixtures with defeat at ‘Baggy Lea’ above– Athletic have 3 games left (RPV, Camberley and CWU) to overhaul Town who are 5 points above them

Tadley Calleva 0-2 Raynes Park Vale - RPV champions
CCL-1
Bedfont 3-0 Hillingdon Borough
Berks County 3-0 AFC Aldermaston
Brook House 2-4 Spartans Youth
CB Hounslow United 1-0 Woodley United
Cove 1-3 British Airways
Langley 1-1 Eversley & California
London Samurai Rovers 6-1 FC Deportivo Galicia - att 150
Molesey 2-1 Bagshot
Sandhurst Town 1-1 Rayners Lane – still not clear yet quite how many actual fixtures ‘Fizzers’ have remaining – BC who re-took top-spot by 1 point definitely have 2 (H v Langley 29/04 & A v Hillingdon 01/05).
- On FA FullTime – ‘Town’ have 2 matches scheduled – tomorrow (Mon 24/04) @ Brook Ho then on Sat away v Spartans (@ Northwood)
– as before the Official site has them currently top with three remaining but doesn’t list any? No clues on forthcoming games on Sandhurst's Twitter yet - nor in this w/e’s programme – I’m not sure they necessarily know themselves for certain - especially if the CC League Committee are still to adjudicate on previous games called off?

Westside 0-0 Penn & Tylers Green

HELL- P
Wantage Town 3-3 Hereford Pegasus - ‘Freds’ finish the season a below par 10th, with RWBT in 5th and Shrivvy down in 14th – Bradford Town and Chipping Sodbury probably relegated …
- in Div One Milton lost 1-2 on Thu evening, at runners-up Hartpury Uni. to finish 3rd behind Champions Pershore Town
- Ab. U finished a respectable 6th (though may yet be caught by Calne who play on Mon evening) with Clanfield '85 in 4th and Long Crendon mid-table

SSM-P
Biggleswade United 1-2 Aylesbury Vale Dynamos
Risborough Rangers 4-1 Tring Athletic -att 167 R.Rgrs eventually finish 3rd – paid for a below average start to the season: possibly a hangover from the disappointment of 21/22 when they were pipped to the title at the last by New Salamis and I think had grading issues preventing promotion anyway?
- Leighton Town are champions – back to STEP04 after 7 seasons and also seeing a healthy increase in attendances for some bigger games, towards the end of the campaign but overall their average is down very slightly? .

SSM-1
Amersham Town 1-1 Northampton O.N.Chenecks
Moulton 3-0 London Tigers
Thame United Reserves 0-1 Buckingham Athletic
- Amersham have had their best season for some time, finishing a very decent 4th – especially considering the influx of some fairly strong clubs transferring in from other leagues this term.
- Holmer Gn wobbled badly but picked up enough in the last couple of months, to lift themselves clear of trouble.
- Amersham’s lodgers ‘Tigers’ finished 2nd bottom with Thame Ressies last.

WESS-P
Laverstock & Ford 3-0 Alresford Town
- high drama at the top here: Horndean finally edged past season-long leaders, AFC Portchester, during the week with their 11th & 12th straight win.
- They then promptly lost 1-2 at home to Bemerton Heath Harlequins yesterday - who themselves move to 3rd – crowd of 531.
- Horndean’s GD is vastly superior : on Tuesday AFC go to Bemerton - whilst Hordean host Portland – probably needing a win to ensure the title goes to Five Heads Park?
- has been noted that there were some astonishing crowds in this division with BHH, Moneyfields (up 60%) and Fareham amongst clubs attracting relatively huge increases, compared to the previous season and Portch (up 80%) of course drawing in four figures – close to 1500 for their recent defeat at home to Horndean.

WESS-1
Andover New Street 5-0 East Cowes Victoria
Andover Town 1-2 Fawley AFC
Hamworthy Recreation 3-0 Petersfield Town
New Milton Town 2-0 Ash United

…and finally (this week anyway ) in the Western Premier League - surprise Champions are Mousehole (sited beyond Penzance - play at the delightfully tagged 'Trungle Parc' ) – that’ll shake up a few travel budgets in SL1-South for next season – a mere 3 ½ hours west of Bristol – on a good M5 day!!!
Saltash Utd may join them at STEP04 based on PPGs or via the POs – assuming grading allows?

[Sutekh]

NL Results :

Saturday 22nd April


…and finally (this week anyway ) in the Western Premier League - surprise Champions are Mousehole (sited beyond Penzance - play at the delightfully tagged 'Trungle Parc' ) – that’ll shake up a few travel budgets in SL1-South for next season – a mere 3 ½ hours west of Bristol – on a good M5 day!!!
Saltash Utd may join them at STEP04 based on PPGs or via the POs – assuming grading allows?

Would say Mousehole’s travel budget will be a little greater than all the other clubs and if they’re able to do it then all the others should be too. For the record Mousehole actually play in the village of Paul which is just north of Mousehole itself, think the ground is somewhere behind the church in the village. Longest trip might be to Evesham if they lose in the play offs.

[Royal Rother]

There’s a little rumour I’ve heard that Windsor face a points deduction for fielding an ineligible player.

No idea if there is any substance to that.

[Zammo]

Not getting much love on here, but Didcot Town won 3-2 on Saturday in front of a crowd of 633 and secured third place in the Southern Central League - Div One . Cracking game and top atmosphere. Play-off semi at home to Walthamstow this Wednesday.

[paultheroyal]

Not getting much love on here, but Didcot Town won 3-2 on Saturday in front of a crowd of 633 and secured third place in the Southern Central League - Div One . Cracking game and top atmosphere. Play-off semi at home to Walthamstow this Wednesday.

Great stuff, great crowd, hope they go onto the finals and get promoted.

[Royals and Racers]

Sandhurst away at Brook House tonight is Postponed- now on Thursday 27th at Chalfont St Peter.

[Loafer]

Is there a website with a full list of all playoffs?