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paulisi · Tennis legend

non league football

indiana · Tennis legend

East Kilbride into Scottish League Two, after beating Bonnyrigg 3-1 on aggregate. Bonnyrigg down into the Lowland League.

paulisi · Tennis legend

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.

paulisi · Tennis legend

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. ..

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
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.

Shhh · Challenger level

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

paulisi · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
paulisi wrote:
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.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Congratulations to Oldham, who return to the football league after coming from behind in extra time

indiana · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
indiana wrote:
paulisi wrote:
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.

paulisi · Tennis legend

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.

paulisi · Tennis legend

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.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Farsley also fold.
They elected to drop down to NCEL, but have withdrawn.
No ground, no money

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
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

paulisi · Tennis legend

Farsley is a strange one.
David Stockdale came and bought the club.
They elected to drop down a couple of divisions, so they could groundshare locally and then they suddenly withdraw.
Something sounds a bit odd.

paulisi · Tennis legend

I attended a fans forum at Southport on Friday night and the club was within days of being liquidated.
The owners were declared bankrupt, no money in the clubs coffers and 250k of debts - HMRC were about to wind them up.

A couple of property developers have stepped in and cleared the debts and within 3 months have re done the pitch, upgraded the catering facilities and built a new training ground with floodlights, a gym and changing rooms close to the ground.
New management team are very positive and after having five owners in 6 years, the future looks a lot brighter.