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Cletus

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Bit short on FA Cup shocks so far this weekend.

Perhaps tomorrow will bring a change? :)
 
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Cracking result for Darlo, got every chance of beating them up here in the replay.

I deliberately didn't mention Darlington because I knew there'd be a reaction! :lol:

Walsall 2 v Darlo 2

WHAT. A. GAME!

We should have won. Darlo, roared on by a travelling army of about 1300, took the lead on 17 minutes through Jamaican international Omar Holness and then despite Walsall missing a host of chances (including at least 2 open goals) and the Walsall keeper pulling of a worldie to keep out a second for the mighty Darlo we hung on until a goal keeping error in the 86 minute followed by a goal keeping howler in he 89 minuted seemed to have given the Sadlers an unlikely victory. Deep into the 7th minute of 6 minutes of injury time, with the rain still lashing down, Joe Wheatley tucked in Osagi Bascome's free-kick from close range to earn the Quakers a well deserved replay.

There were what the yoof refer to as "scenes" after the final whistle! Players in the crowd, the keeper was booked for diving in the crowd after the equaliser, fans on the pitch and everyone in the away end going bonkers! We are in the draw for the second round, have banked some extra cash with a replay to come and we might get on the TV.

I have to say Walsall were a very poor team. No fight, no passion, no real tactical plan, no real interest form the payers and when your manager makes a double substitution after 25 minutes & the home fans applaud the away fans for signing you're getting sacked in the morning towards the home manager you kind of know they aren't a happy ship!

Get the highlights here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/50353499
 
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Bit short on FA Cup shocks so far this weekend.

Perhaps tomorrow will bring a change? :)
National League South Maidstone United beat National League Torquay United 1-0, thus revenging the town's Oakwood Park Grammar School's 2-0 defeat to Torquay Boy's Grammar School in the semi-final of the 1987 ESFA Schools Cup.
 

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I see that Hyde United suddenly experienced a dramatic loss of both confidence and form in the BetVictor Northern Premier League when news filtered through to Ewen Fields that a certain pundit on this website ventured the opinion that non-league football was not worth reporting on this thread, causing the usual Hyde United website member to cease his postings on behalf of the club.

Thanks to all those who asked me to continue and Hyde United did face a stern task away to second-placed Lancaster City.....

BetVictor Northern Premier League

Lancaster City 2 ... Hyde United 2

Lancaster had won five and drawn two of their seven home league matches this season and played with the confidence from such home form, leading 1-0 at half time. Hyde equalised mid-way through the second half, but Lancaster went 2-1 up with seven minutes to go, but Hyde kept pressing and equalised in the 90th minute.

Only three points separate teams in 5th and 14th position at this point in time.

 

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And kingstonian 4 -0 Macclesfield.

Macclesfield fielded a team of youth and loanees as their first team all went on strike
 

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Liverpool 3-1 Manchester City.

Liverpool move eight points clear at the top of the Premier League table after a thoroughly deserved victory over Manchester City at Anfield this evening.

Our goals were scored by Fabinho, Mo Salah and Sadio Mané.
 

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forget all this over hyped premier league nonsense: The Darlo manager was on match of the day!

Although Maldon & Tiptree winning at Leyton Orient was a bigger shock.

They didn't look like an 8th tier side. Have they got backing?

And kingstonian 4 -0 Macclesfield.

Macclesfield fielded a team of youth and loanees as their first team all went on strike

Looks bad for Macc
 

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Even better was to see Pep Guardiola absolutely losing it on the touchline. Genius, but also a crazy man at time.

Even better than that was various Citeh fans losing it on 606. Robbie Savage then made a fantastic comment to one of them: “I completely agree that City are a brilliant team, but are you now looking over your shoulder at Sheffield United?”
 

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Even better than that was various Citeh fans losing it on 606. Robbie Savage then made a fantastic comment to one of them: “I completely agree that City are a brilliant team, but are you now looking over your shoulder at Sheffield United?”
Ouch. Ha ha. Good result for us today (Liverpool).

Didn't one of Cities players hand ball just before Alexander-Arnold? Don't care really.
 

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Even better than that was various Citeh fans losing it on 606. Robbie Savage then made a fantastic comment to one of them: “I completely agree that City are a brilliant team, but are you now looking over your shoulder at Sheffield United?”
I heard that too. I was driving along after watching the game at a friends house chuckling away...
 

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Maldon don't look to be "bankrolled" like some non-league teams, but their record this season is Liverpool-esque.

In the league Played 8. Won 8. Goals 25-4.
https://www.betvictoristhmian.co.uk/match-info/tables?table_id=d-51836
Plus 12 wins in 13 cup games.

they didn't look step 8. I have seen step 8 at Northern Premier League one (now East and West) level and the northern sections are held to be better than the southern sections ( See FA Vase wins). That wasn't them. I will do some digging.

Well done to them mind - it s a good story but it is a better story if they actually are a team of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers
 
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The manager has played quite a bit of league football. They don't appear to have any "names" in the squad.

I think I heard they are linked to Colchester and have some of their youngsters there. That might be the reason for their success.
 

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they didn't look step 8. I have seen step 8 at Northern Premier League one (now East and West) level and the northern sections are held to be better than the southern sections ( See FA Vase wins). That wasn't them. I will do some digging.

Well done to them mind - it s a good story but it is a better story if they actually are a team of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers

FA Vase is step 9 and below; step 8 is FA Trophy
 

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sorry got the wrong cup. I should know as the draw for the trophy is today and we are in it! The Vase has, until recently, been dominated by North East clubs ;)

It was how I knew.....we won the trophy and the final was a joint ticket with the vase which Morpeth won
 

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I've just seen the draw for the 3rd QR of the FA Trophy and, as usual, it is heavily biased against northern clubs.

The northern section has 18 ties involving the 22 NLN clubs. The southern section has 22 ties involving the 22 NLS clubs. So NLS teams have a better chance (22/43 = 51.2%) of drawing a lower league club than NLN sides (14/35 = 40.0%). This pro-Southern bias happens in all the FA competitions.
 

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I've just seen the draw for the 3rd QR of the FA Trophy and, as usual, it is heavily biased against northern clubs.

The northern section has 18 ties involving the 22 NLN clubs. The southern section has 22 ties involving the 22 NLS clubs. So NLS teams have a better chance (22/43 = 51.2%) of drawing a lower league club than NLN sides (14/35 = 40.0%). This pro-Southern bias happens in all the FA competitions.

Plus there are a load of teams in NLN that would prefer to be in NLS. The nominal north south boundary used to be around Birmingham. Now we have Boston, Kings Lynn, Brackley, Kidderminster, Hereford, Gloucester and Leamington all forced into NLN
 

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And it will get worse and worse now two of the four feeder leagues to NLN/NLS are in the south and a third is in the south midlands. They should never have formed NLN and NLS and just left the NPL, SPL and IPL alone as the three feeder leagues to the NL.
 

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And it will get worse and worse now two of the four feeder leagues to NLN/NLS are in the south and a third is in the south midlands. They should never have formed NLN and NLS and just left the NPL, SPL and IPL alone as the three feeder leagues to the NL.

doing that would then have left the issue of the three feeder leagues only having one promotion space each unless there were playoffs across the three feeder leagues are two up from each and a scary six down from the national league

but whatever system is in place, there’s inevitably “league creep” dependent on the geographic locations of the teams that come down from the national league.
 

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doing that would then have left the issue of the three feeder leagues only having one promotion space each unless there were playoffs across the three feeder leagues are two up from each and a scary six down from the national league

but whatever system is in place, there’s inevitably “league creep” dependent on the geographic locations of the teams that come down from the national league.

it doesn't help that for a long period Northern League/NPL teams didn't take promotion
 

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For those of you who recall the circus surrounding the ex-owner of Billericay Glenn Tamplin.

He has re-appeared, having now bought Romford FC, replaced the manager and named himself as the replacement.

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Oh, and Tamplin has said he's signed 15 players today in an attempt to go from bottom of the table today to reach the play offs!
 
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