Kiddy have parted company with their manager. They finished third in the league(should have won it) and then lost in the playoffs. What is the world coming to....
The playoffs to get into NLN and NLS have been completed Worksop, AFC Totton, AFC Telford and Dover progress
-- Edited by paulisi on Wednesday 7th of May 2025 07:28:03 PM
Kiddy have parted company with their manager. They finished third in the league(should have won it) and then lost in the playoffs. What is the world coming to....
The playoffs to get into NLN and NLS have been completed AFC Totton, AFC Telford and Dover progress
Phil Brown, the former Hull City and various others manager, and long time assistant to Big Sam Aliardyce, was tne Kiddy manager. I read that he was Manager of the Month for March after they won 7 games in a row. Lost top place in the last game of the regular season then lost in the play-offs.
There is a huge controversy over the National League play off final.
Capacity at Wembley is restricted due to works at Wembley Station, so I understand capacity is below 40K.
Southend and Oldham have two huge supporters bases.
Southend have sold 20,000 tickets in 48 hours and reckon they can sell 35000.
Oldham have had gates of 8/9K this season, so should easily sell out their capacity.
Discussions are ongoing about increasing capacity.
It looks like they have released more tickets, but only for official coach travel.
Still not enough as over 40,000 tickets sold - which will be a record and likely to be more than Wimbledon v Walsall. ..
It looks like they have released more tickets, but only for official coach travel. Still not enough as over 40,000 tickets sold - which will be a record and likely to be more than Wimbledon v Walsall. ..
Though I do see that the Wimbledon vs Walsall official attendance was 50,947.
I am guessing they won't get enough increased capacity / more tickets to beat that.
The exact same tube closures were in place when Taylor swift played there and they happily sold Wembley to its capacity. It does seem very unfair to these sets of supporters and they also seem to be very unflexible about it. As a fan, to miss out possibly one of your lifelong supporting highlights seems so harsh
It looks like they have released more tickets, but only for official coach travel. Still not enough as over 40,000 tickets sold - which will be a record and likely to be more than Wimbledon v Walsall. ..
Though I do see that the Wimbledon vs Walsall official attendance was 50,947.
I am guessing they won't get enough increased capacity / more tickets to beat that.
Might get beat - Southend have sold close to 30000 tickets. They got more tickets based on coach travel only.
It looks like they have released more tickets, but only for official coach travel. Still not enough as over 40,000 tickets sold - which will be a record and likely to be more than Wimbledon v Walsall. ..
Though I do see that the Wimbledon vs Walsall official attendance was 50,947.
I am guessing they won't get enough increased capacity / more tickets to beat that.
Might get beat - Southend have sold close to 30000 tickets. They got more tickets based on coach travel only.
Oldham have just broken the 20k ticket sales.
Seems that it was beaten. The capacity was supposedly increased to 50,000 but the attendance is showing as 52,115. No doubt would have been more if there had been no limitations / mucking about.
Yes indeed.
Still a couple of huge fan bases left in the National League.
Southend and Carlisle spring to mind plus the likes of York, S****horpe and Hartlepool.
Having just got promoted to NPL premier, Widnes have folded...
Their plans for the new ground have been rejected by Halton Council and the owners are not prepared to fund losses going forward as they have little revenues, hiring the rugby ground.
Farsley also fold. They elected to drop down to NCEL, but have withdrawn. No ground, no money
Farsley Celtic gone under? That is a shame. I went to see them years ago as a lad in the FA Cup - they had the match moved to Elland Road as they expected big crowds. They played Tranmere and lost, the crowd was around 10000. I am going to say 1974 or 5, when I was around 9 and my Dad took me to exotic matches at Leeds, Anfield, York City as well, haha