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Tetchytyke

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Maybe there were some undercover Millwall fans there last night hell bent on ruining West Ham's big night?

Or maybe it was just troublemakers- who didn't have match tickets- causing trouble for the lulz?

Any Newcastle fans bringing that up really are clutching at straws!

I'm a Bradford City fan, crossing my fingers we'll be playing them next year ;)
 
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BBC sport website says "magpies fans will have to adapt to life in the championship". Eh, what does that mean? It is just a question of going to different grounds next season, happens all the time - no big deal.

Not quite sure what that statement is all about.
 
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Newcastle fans should be used to being relegated, it's hardly the first time it's happened. I feel sorry for the Geordies, they are brilliant fans and deserve better. The club has been very badly run in recent years.
 

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BBC sport website says "magpies fans will have to adapt to life in the championship". Eh, what does that mean? It is just a question of going to different grounds next season, happens all the time - no big deal.

Not quite sure what that statement is all about.

there is a bit of a difference between Old Trafford and the Pirelli stadium!
 

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Newcastle fans should be used to being relegated, it's hardly the first time it's happened. I feel sorry for the Geordies, they are brilliant fans and deserve better. The club has been very badly run in recent years.

A club of that size should be looking at top six at least, not relegation:cry:
 

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Newcastle fans should be used to being relegated, it's hardly the first time it's happened. I feel sorry for the Geordies, they are brilliant fans and deserve better. The club has been very badly run in recent years.

Badly run but I don't feel sorry for them. They think NUFC is the biggest club in the world despite the fact it's won nothing for decades - like supports of WHUFC, THFC and a few others, deluded the lot of them.
 

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They think NUFC is the biggest club in the world despite the fact it's won nothing for decades - like supports of WHUFC, THFC and a few others, deluded the lot of them.
I don't know where you get the idea that West Ham fans think it's 'the biggest club in the world despite the fact it's won nothing for decades'. Pretty much every West Ham fan is well aware of their place in things, and never really expects to win much at all.
Although the FA Cup this year would have been nice.
 

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The recent losses appear to have been "the straw that broke the camel's back" and that decision means viewing available candidates sooner.

These days that simply means the compensation to the club when he leaves for someone else will be larger or his pay off is increased when he gets the sack ;)

Kidderminster will stay in the North hopefully, far easier to get to than Gloucester (although if they carry on playing at Cheltenham next season it'll be a bit better).

I await the scheduling of our game at yourselves to be a Tuesday in November!

EDIT: Do you have a link to the prediction sheet? Interested to see how it does.

League allocation completed:


http://www.thefa.com/news/my-footba...s-step-1-4-2016-17-120516#4fvTBTujeQ19ih6O.99

Following today’s meeting of the Leagues Committee, The FA are now able to release the club allocations for Steps 1 to 4 of the National League System for season 2016-17.

In particular Conference North:

1. AFC Fylde or North Ferriby (awaiting play off result)
2. AFC Telford
3. Alfreton Town
4. Altrincham
5. Boston United
6. Brackley Town
7. Bradford Park Avenue
8. Chorley
9. Curzon Ashton
10. Darlington
11. Halifax Town
12. F C United of Manchester
13. Gainsborough Trinity
14. Gloucester City
15. Harrogate Town
16. Kidderminster Harriers
17. Nuneaton Town
18. Salford City
19. Stalybridge Celtic
20. Stockport County
21. Tamworth
22. Worcester City

Some long trips from Darlo but some easy ones from MK! Nuneaton/Tamworth/Brackley are almost a home games for me!
 
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In next season's 'Northern' Premier League Premier Division, I've got 12 Whitby Town games in reach of sunny Warwickshire! Including the trip Darrn Sarf to Corby..! :lol: <( :roll:
 

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In next season's 'Northern' Premier League Premier Division, I've got 12 Whitby Town games in reach of sunny Warwickshire! Including the trip Darrn Sarf to Corby..! :lol: <( :roll:

surely that has come about because of the historic reluctance of Northern League teams to accept promotion.

It then becomes a self fulfilling prophecy as the trips get longer and more expensive so northern league teams don't take the step up................ and the trips get longer and more expensive so northern league teams don't take the step up!

PS Ketteirng = South but Corby = North. Harsh.
 

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surely that has come about because of the historic reluctance of Northern League teams to accept promotion.

It then becomes a self fulfilling prophecy as the trips get longer and more expensive so northern league teams don't take the step up................ and the trips get longer and more expensive so northern league teams don't take the step up!

Nail. Head. Hit. Though hopefully Spennymoor's promotion to NPLPD might encourage one or two more.
 

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Feisty encounter at Fratton Park last night apparently in the League 2 play off first leg. Reports that Plymouth Argyle were lucky not to have at least one player sent off for an alleged headbut and another for a bad foul. Paul Cook the Pompey manager and one of the Plymouth coaching team were sent to the stands as tempers got frayed early on. A second half penalty for the home team was disputed as the foul was reportedly outside the penalty area.

The score was 2 -2 with the second leg at Home Park on Sunday.

I did not see the game but heard it on local radio, I would be interested to hear any comments on the rather "controversial" moments from anyone who watched the game.
 

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Looking forward to a couple of trips to Wembley over the next 2 weekends to see if we can repeat our 1998 double winning Wembley season.

To be honest, it's only the first game that matters as we try to get back our league status after 6 seasons in the non-league wilderness. It's going to be a tough game though and the nerves are kicking in already so what I'll be like on Sunday, I don't really know.

UTM.
 

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Reports that Plymouth Argyle were lucky not to have at least one player sent off for an alleged headbut and another for a bad foul.

I've seen some of the highlights. Yes, they both should have been off. And the anger was because the guy who did the headbutt then went on to score both of Argyle's goals.
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Badly run but I don't feel sorry for them. They think NUFC is the biggest club in the world despite the fact it's won nothing for decades

Show me a fan who doesn't think their club is the most important club in the world. I do, and I support Bradford City for crying out loud.

"Newcastle fans think they're bigger than they are" is a hairy old cliche that's wheeled out every year, usually whenever the club has lurched into yet another failure. I've lived here, on and off, for 15 years, but see the club from a foreigner's eyes. The truth is, they don't think they deserve to be winning everything every year. They accept that the club is only as good as their last result. They accept they've gone down because they deserved to go down.

What they get angry about is that the club should be better managed than this. It's a one-club city, the ground is one of the biggest club grounds in the country, and there's a billionaire owner. Clubs with a standing like that should not be getting relegated. They should be better than this.
 

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I've seen some of the highlights. Yes, they both should have been off. And the anger was because the guy who did the headbutt then went on to score both of Argyle's goals.
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Show me a fan who doesn't think their club is the most important club in the world. I do, and I support Bradford City for crying out loud.

"Newcastle fans think they're bigger than they are" is a hairy old cliche that's wheeled out every year, usually whenever the club has lurched into yet another failure. I've lived here, on and off, for 15 years, but see the club from a foreigner's eyes. The truth is, they don't think they deserve to be winning everything every year. They accept that the club is only as good as their last result. They accept they've gone down because they deserved to go down.

What they get angry about is that the club should be better managed than this. It's a one-club city, the ground is one of the biggest club grounds in the country, and there's a billionaire owner. Clubs with a standing like that should not be getting relegated. They should be better than this.

To paraphrase Month Python:

Relegation from the premier league! Ooh oooh oh oh. My idea of heaven is to be allowed to be relegated from the premier league... just for a few hours. They must think the sun shines out o' your rse, sonny.

Don't know they are born those mags. If you come from a part of the north east that DOESN'T support the geordies sympathy is limited! The saddest thing for the rest of us is that Mike Ashley has robbed them of the comedic genius that was their deluded hope that they might actually win something in colour. They are crushed as fans and it now feels like mocking the afflicted to laugh at them.
 
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I've seen some of the highlights. Yes, they both should have been off. And the anger was because the guy who did the headbutt then went on to score both of Argyle's goals.

The goals were scored before the incident. Also I don't think retrospective punishment is possible neither as the referee was looking right at the incident and gave a verbal caution for it!
The two players have history, a match report I've read suggests the Pompey player made a meal of it.
 

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Played well last night but had a bit of luck with Brighton losing 4 players and having 2 suspended. We may just regret not killing the tie off on the night but if you'd offered me a 2-0 lead to take to Brighton pre match I'd have been delighted. We go again on Monday night, which will be a Tuesday morning 2:45am kick off for me... this tie is absolutely not over.
 

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I see that despite rumours that John Terry had played his last game for Chelsea, he has been offered a new one-year contract.

clever move from Chelsea, as if he declines their offer, it's JT that has turned them down, & not CFC, that are trying to move him on...guess we will see how much the club means to him, or whether his bank balance, means more....

No mention of Flores departing Watford?
 

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The matter of retention of league status is one that East Stirlingshire will have to face, as the first leg of the Scottish League 2 play-off match away against Edinburgh City FC of the Lowland League ended all square at 1-1, with the return home leg at Ochilview Park to be played this coming Saturday, 14th May, with a 1500 kick-off.

For far too long, the regularly underperforming teams in the lowest senior Scottish football league were protected against any possibility of demotion.

Scottish League 2...Play-off Final (2nd leg)

East Stirlingshire 0...Edinburgh City 1

Edinburgh City win the play-off final 2-1 on aggregate and gain admission to Scottish League 2. East Stirlingshire will be playing in next season in the Lowland League, after a 61 year tenure of the Scottish League.
 
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