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[Loafer]

Scunthorpe relegated again

[Four Of Clubs]

NL Results :

Saturday 15th April

NAT
Aldershot Town 2-1 Scunthorpe United – Sh!ts get a welcome 3 points against already relegated ‘Scunny’ winner on 82’
– still only 2 points clear of Torquay – who overcame York 3-2

Boreham Wood 1-0 Wealdstone
Chesterfield 3-2 Eastleigh –’Spireites’ leap over Woking – beaten at ‘County’ - to 3rd and also have a big say in the relegation battle as they host Torquay this Tuesday.
- 2nd & 3rd then wait to host who comes thru the ‘Q-F’ POs (4th - 7th)
- currently line up : Woking v Bromley and Barnet v Boreham Wd - though Eastleigh and ‘Sarfend’ are realistically still in touch and could muscle their way in. Below that D&R, Solihull and Wealdstone probably have too much to do in their remaining games to catch Bromley.
- Woking would obviously prefer to get back 3rd to play a game less but are now 2 points behind Chesterfield. ‘Cards’ remaining games are Trophy Finalists and in-form Gateshead(H) , FC Halifax(H) and then a trip to Solihull.
Chesterfield’s other games are at home to relegated Maidstone, after travelling to Bromley.

Dorking Wanderers 3-2 Altrincham - ‘Wanderers’ 2 down inside 10 mins but fought back to get a welcome 3 points and probably make them safe – 6 points clear of the last relegation -place

Notts County 3-0 Woking
Oldham Athletic 1-0 Maidenhead United - ‘Magpies’ now 5 games without a win still face a nervous couple of weeks
- they only have 2 games left to keep clear of the drop, should Torquay & Aldersh!t manage to overhaul them. Their last two games don’t provide much optimism either – home v PO chasing Barnet, then a long-trip to in form Gateshead. One bright spark there is that ‘The Heed’ may have taken their foot of the gas - were thumped 3-0 at home by Bromley yesterday and may have one eye on Wembley?
- Wrexham were held 0-0 at Barnet - still top by 1 point with a game in hand over County – host seemingly doomed Yeovil on Tuesday night

NATN
Brackley Town 3-0 Darlington
Bradford (Park Avenue) 1-0 Banbury United - ‘Puritans’ probably need a point from 3 games for safety – their GD is better than Blyth who could mathematically still catch them but there are also three other sides between them and the drop zone.

NATS
Chelmsford City 5-1 Hungerford Town - ‘Crusaders’ all but gone now having lost 4 in the last 5. They have 4 games left but are 10 points behind the safety line. Looks very much like Cheshunt and Weymouth will drop to STEP03 with them and Concord.

Dover Athletic 1-5 Oxford City
Slough Town 2-0 Farnborough – ‘boro falling further away from PO contention now – ‘Rebels’ looking safe enough with a 10 point gap back to the relegation places.

SLP-C
Hednesford Town 1-0 Kings Langley - KL relegated – most likely to SL1-C : other three down are Bedford Town, Hednesford and AFC R&D.
- promotion tussle still very tight here – top three only separated by 1 point, with Tamworth re-taking top spot from Coalville who were surprisingly beaten at Stratford.
Leiston are 3rd having played a game more, beaten by the new leaders in front of over 1,200

SLP-S
Beaconsfield Town 3-3 North Leigh – ‘Nor Lye’ see victory snatched away on 88’
Bracknell Town 3-1 Gosport Borough att 317 – goals from Sanders (pen) Dean and Abisogun late on.
Chesham United 3-1 Salisbury - att 604 – confirms ‘Generals’ will be in the POs
Dorchester Town 3-2 Hendon
Hartley Wintney 1-2 Tiverton Town – att 339 HW let a H/T lead slip away
Hayes & Yeading United 2-1 Plymouth Parkway
Poole Town 1-0 Harrow Borough
Truro City 2-0 Metropolitan Police
Weston-super-Mare 1-0 Merthyr Town W-s-M left it late 84’ in front of 1,265
Winchester City 0-3 Hanwell Town
Yate Town 1-2 Swindon Supermarine late goal relegates Yate but Poole’s win, which also puts Harrow down, means SS can’t get a PO spot now barring a swing of a dozen goals.
- so Hartley, Harrow and Yate (possibly) ‘confrimed’ as down – ‘Nor Lye’ have to hope Hendon lose all (2 or 3?) remaining games and they win both of theirs (A) v Plymouth P’way and (H) v Truro ! – so very unlikely – but they’ve had a decent last third of the season.
NOTE i) something amiss here though: Hendon only listed as having 2 fixtures left ( vs W-s-M and Poole) but all tables show 3 remaining – their own site shows the game pending A vs Gosport – was abandoned on 1st April??
Not sure where North Leigh would be allocated at STEP04 for 23-24 as geographically, they are in a fairly awkward ‘mid-zone’. Very probably back to the SL1-C or their travelling expenses could be a restrictive factor to them climbing back up again?
NOTE ii) also rumours this week that up to THREE sides have asked for demotion anyway – presumably on grading or financial grounds – two of these thought to be North Leigh and Winchester (!?)
- at the top end W-s-M stay 5 points clear of ‘Robins’ who travel to Truro (Plymouth) on Monday night – their hosts are 4 points behind on the same number of games.
- Weston host struggling Hendon the following evening. Truro play again at home to Salisbury on Wednesday. Bracknell ‘finish off’ the midweek games at Met Police on Thursday.
SL1-C
Berkhamsted 5-0 Highworth Town ‘Worthians’ in the relegation POs
Biggleswade 0-2 Aylesbury United
FC Romania 2-5 Didcot Town
Thame United 4-1 Hadley
Welwyn Garden City P-P Kidlington waterlogged failed 09:00 INSP

IL1-SC
Ashford Town (Middx) 3-3 Thatcham Town
Binfield 1-0 Chipstead
Chertsey Town 0-1 Merstham
Hanworth Villa 2-1 Bedfont Sports
Marlow 1-1 Uxbridge
South Park 3-1 Northwood
Tooting & Mitcham United 0-1 Leatherhead
Walton & Hersham 3-0 Southall
Westfield 2-2 Sutton Common Rovers
Sun 14:00 Guernsey 2-3 Basingstoke Town - ‘stoke took an early lead here – Brown on 4’ but Guernsey levelled on 15’ - Hodges just put 'Dragons' back in front - thriller! Crowd just below 900.
RESULT 2-3 record scorer Ros Allen levelled for the 'Green Lions' but Hodges got his 2nd on 70' to keep the title race alive !

CCL-PN
Ascot United 3-0 Chalfont St Peter –att 207
Broadfields United 3-1 Oxhey Jets
Burnham 1-2 Reading City
Edgware & Kingsbury 2-2 Wallingford & Crowmarsh
Egham Town 3-0 Windsor - att 147
London Lions 3-0 Holyport
North Greenford United 0-6 Harefield United
Spelthorne Sports 0-1 Wokingham & Emmbrook
Virginia Water 6-3 Hilltop
Wembley 3-0 Flackwell Heath
CCL-PS
Abbey Rangers 1-3 Tadley Calleva
Alton 2-0 AFC Croydon Athletic
Balham 1-2 Badshot Lea
Banstead Athletic P-P Camberley Town
Colliers Wood United 5-0 Frimley Green
Fleet Town 0-1 Horley Town ‘Town’ in slight danger of being relegated to STEP06 - are 3rd bottom with two games left – Banstead 5 points below them have 3 games in hand
Guildford City 0-3 Knaphill
Raynes Park Vale 4-0 Jersey Bulls - att 302
Redhill 1-4 Farnham Town
CCL-1
AFC Aldermaston 0-2 Langley
Bagshot 2-0 Brook House rare win for Bagshot vs the side immediately above them – they have played 2 games more though – BH have 7 games to fit in.
British Airways 4-1 Westside
Eversley & California 0-3 Sandhurst Town
FC Deportivo Galicia 3-1 Bedfont
Hillingdon Borough P-P Berks County
Penn & Tylers Green 1-0 CB Hounslow United
Woodley United 2-1 Cove - visitors reduced to 9 men

HELL- P
Longlevens AFC 2-2 Royal Wootton Bassett Town

HELL-1
Kidlington Res 2-1 Hartpury University
Shortwood United 1-2 Long Crendon
Stonehouse Town 2-3 Milton United - United pinch 2nd spot in their penultimate game - travel to Hartpury Uni tomorrow evening (Mon) knowing a point will see them finish in 2nd ahead of the Stundents. Both sides in the POs with FC Stratford and Clanfield '85.
Champions are Pershore Town.

SSM-P
Aylesbury Vale Dynamos 5-0 London Colney
Colney Heath 2-11 {ELEVEN !!} Risborough Rangers
- champions Leighton beaten at home by St Panteleimon – crowd was 774
SSM-1
Langford 1-2 Amersham Town
London Tigers 1-4 Northampton Sileby Rangers
Northampton O.N.Chenecks 6-1 Holmer Green
Real Bedford FC {SEVEN} 7-1 Thame United Reserves

WESS-P
Alresford Town 0-3 Portland United
WESS-1
Andover New Street 4-1 Newport (IoW) att 240- ANS are Champions
Ash United 2-2 Whitchurch United
Downton {TWELVE} 12-0 Fleet Spurs att 329 – was Downton’s last match of 22-23 but Petersfield’s point at Fawley meant they fell just short of the POs - despite attaining the huge GD swing they needed too. Petersfield did have 2 more games for the point they need to finish 5th

Fawley AFC 1-1 Petersfield Town
Romsey Town 1-3 Andover Town

[Royals and Racers]

Free entry tonight at Sandhurst v FC Deportivo Galicia.
4th v 3rd

[Sutekh]

Wonder what time Truro v Bracknell will be called off.

[NathStPaul]

It is 100% on.

[paultheroyal]

Basingstoke and Walton have certainly setup a thrilling finale for this Saturday. Level on points - Walton ahead on goal difference, theirs to lose, but cant see it.

Ideally Basingstoke will want Northwood to drop into that last play off spot what with Hanworth Villa turning over Basingstoke recently which was the result which slipped them to 2nd place really.

Bumper crowd expected at Winklebury this week with Aldershot the visitors for Hampshire Senior Cup and then the last league game on Saturday.

[NathStPaul]

Go on the Walton!

[paultheroyal]

Brett Pitman earning his outrageous money at Portchester with a last minute winner to keep up their promotion charge. I was speaking to Portchester staff on Saturday and chairman is adamant that they will be / target is Conference South Football in 5 years. Ground will need a lot of work and its a considerable slope.

Talking of slopes, Horndean could win the Wessex League. Never thought i see the day. On my refereeing journey they were one of my regular clubs but always languishing around the bottom. Dont know whether they would look to seek promotion Their ground is something else and a slope which even beats Fleet Town's.

[tmesis]

Brett Pitman earning his outrageous money at Portchester with a last minute winner to keep up their promotion charge. I was speaking to Portchester staff on Saturday and chairman is adamant that they will be / target is Conference South Football in 5 years. Ground will need a lot of work and its a considerable slope.

Talking of slopes, Horndean could win the Wessex League. Never thought i see the day. On my refereeing journey they were one of my regular clubs but always languishing around the bottom. Dont know whether they would look to seek promotion Their ground is something else and a slope which even beats Fleet Town's.

I wish there were more grounds with slopes. Loakes Park was great. I went to Hallam last season, and they definitely used their knowledge of how to play "kicking down t'hill" to full advantage.

[Sutekh]

Brett Pitman earning his outrageous money at Portchester with a last minute winner to keep up their promotion charge. I was speaking to Portchester staff on Saturday and chairman is adamant that they will be / target is Conference South Football in 5 years. Ground will need a lot of work and its a considerable slope.

Talking of slopes, Horndean could win the Wessex League. Never thought i see the day. On my refereeing journey they were one of my regular clubs but always languishing around the bottom. Dont know whether they would look to seek promotion Their ground is something else and a slope which even beats Fleet Town's.

I wish there were more grounds with slopes. Loakes Park was great. I went to Hallam last season, and they definitely used their knowledge of how to play "kicking down t'hill" to full advantage.

Yeovil’s old ground used have a slope too

[Royals and Racers]

Automatic promotion for Bracknell has all but gone with their 1-0 loss at Truro tonight. They also finished with 10 men.

[Four Of Clubs]

It is 100% on.

Result - Truro 1-0 Bracknell - Brett 80'

...Knight sent off for 'Robins' in added time.

W-s-M will probably claim title tomorrow H v Hendon - even a draw likely to be enough, looking at GD.

[Royals and Racers]

Free entry tonight at Sandhurst v FC Deportivo Galicia.
4th v 3rd

Sandhurst 4-0 winners. They now go again tomorrow !!! home to Bedfont.

[Four Of Clubs]

Free entry tonight at Sandhurst v FC Deportivo Galicia.
4th v 3rd

Sandhurst 4-0 winners. They now go again tomorrow !!! home to Bedfont.

...and again the following night H vs Molesey

... then Thursday @ Scours v Woodley

[Sutekh]

It is 100% on.

Result - Truro 1-0 Bracknell - Brett 80'

...Knight sent off for 'Robins' in added time.

W-s-M will probably claim title tomorrow H v Hendon - even a draw likely to be enough, looking at GD.

Hope Bracknell can avoid Truro in the play off final. Played them 4 times in their history and have lost the lot scoring 1 and conceding 11 in the process.

[NathStPaul]

Bad night for Bracknell. Need to refocus their minds now and concentrate on the playoffs. Think they can do it but it will be obscenely tough.

[Sutekh]

Bad night for Bracknell. Need to refocus their minds now and concentrate on the playoffs. Think they can do it but it will be obscenely tough.

Believe that result is actually just Bracknell’s fourth away defeat in 2 years so might well be better for them to try and finish 4th rather than 3rd!

The 4 away defeats? Truro City, Salisbury, Chesham and Hayes & Yeading.

[Royals and Racers]

" Football in Berkshire " website has done a summary of what could happen tonight

Slough Town could secure safety, without playing (VNLS)
Hungerford Town could be relegated (VNLS)
Bracknell Town could miss out on the Southern League Premier Division South title without playing (SLPDS)
Binfield could miss out on the playoffs (ILSCD1)
Reading City could move into the playoff place or they could officially miss out on the playoff (CCLPDN)
Tadley Calleva could secure a top half of the table finish (CCLPDS)
Holyport could secure safety (CCLPDN)
Wokingham & Emmbrook could secure safety (CCLPDN)
Sandhurst Town could move up as high as second in the table but they could also drop out of the playoff positions (CCLD1)
Langley could move up as high as second in the table but they could also drop out of the playoff positions (CCLD1)

[Royals and Racers]

Free entry tonight at Sandhurst v FC Deportivo Galicia.
4th v 3rd

Sandhurst 4-0 winners. They now go again tomorrow !!! home to Bedfont.

Don`t go to Sandhurst tonight !!! the match V Bedfont is being played at Ascot Utd and is free entry.

[tmesis]

Bad night for Bracknell. Need to refocus their minds now and concentrate on the playoffs. Think they can do it but it will be obscenely tough.

Believe that result is actually just Bracknell’s fourth away defeat in 2 years so might well be better for them to try and finish 4th rather than 3rd!

...especially if I opt to go to the final.

I have seen Bracknell play at home 11 times. Just one win in those eleven, and only twice have they let in fewer than three goals.

Away though, eight games, and six wins. That one defeat was 0-8 though.