National league and North and South

[Darrenbot]

Chorley bottled it,they went from 3-1 up with less than 20 mins left and in 4th place to lose 4-3 and out of the playoffs in 8th

[only2garners]

AFC Fylde promoted to the National League. Bamber Bridge are in the play-off final away at Warrington Town on Monday to come up to the National League North.

[Sparks Rover]

15 hours ago, only2garners said:

AFC Fylde promoted to the National League. 

Odious club, I wish them nothing but failure.

[Mattyblue]

They’ve missed their ‘League 2 by 2022’ vow by at least two years…

[Ewood Ace]

11 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

Odious club, I wish them nothing but failure.

The fact that they are only getting back into the National League in the year 2023 is already as massive failure for them. 

Edited April 30, 2023 by Ewood Ace

[goozburger]

3 hours ago, Sparks Rover said:

Odious club, I wish them nothing but failure.

I thought we had a decent connection with them. They could still be useful to send our "lesser" academy players out on loan to.

[speeeeeeedie]

4 hours ago, Sparks Rover said:

Odious club, I wish them nothing but failure.

Why? I don't know anything about them.

[rigger]

4 hours ago, Sparks Rover said:

Odious club, I wish them nothing but failure.

Is that the club or the owner ?

[Sparks Rover]

1 hour ago, rigger said:

Is that the club or the owner ?

The whole set up is to fleece unsuspecting parents out of £50 per month with their "academy"....plus £100 for a kit that never turns up....they are a bunch of charlatans preying on kids wanting to be footballers....All anecdotal evidence from people I've met over the years.....

[philipl]

3 hours ago, rigger said:

Is that the club or the owner ?

Both

[Sweaty Gussets]

Bury FC and Bury AFC vote to merge and bring football back to Gigg Lane - BBC Sport

Good to see Bury FC reborn. 

[Upside Down]

17 hours ago, Sweaty Gussets said:

Bury FC and Bury AFC vote to merge and bring football back to Gigg Lane - BBC Sport

Good to see Bury FC reborn. 

A fan owned club at the heart of the community.

We wouldn't want to end up like that though would we?

[wilsdenrover]

1 hour ago, Upside Down said:

A fan owned club at the heart of the community.

We wouldn't want to end up like that though would we?

They’ll be in the ninth tier next season.

I’d love to be rid of Venkys - I’m not convinced a drop of that magnitude would be ‘a price worth paying’ 

 

[Upside Down]

10 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

They’ll be in the ninth tier next season.

I’d love to be rid of Venkys - I’m not convinced a drop of that magnitude would be ‘a price worth paying’ 

 

Sometimes I wonder if it would be. 

[wilsdenrover]

1 hour ago, Upside Down said:

Sometimes I wonder if it would be. 

I do understand that thought.

I just think, if we ‘fell that far’, there’s no way we’d ever get back to where we are now (let alone the premier league).

I know people will cite Luton as an example, but as far as I’m aware, they ‘only’ dropped as far as the fifth tier. 

[Mattyblue]

We’d probably lose the ground, the training ground, the academy, most of the fanbase. Everything Jack and those that kept the club competitive before him built and grafted for.

Surely the hope would be to be as high as possible when this lot finally give it up as a bad job, so we are an attractive proposition, not playing matches against Padiham. 

[Oldgregg86]

2 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

not playing matches against Padiham

New ground for me 😂

[Rogerb]

Southend United given to early October to complete a take over otherwise will be wound up. Also facing a ten point deduction by the national League for not clearing all debts by date specified in order to play in league. Have 15 players and been under embargo for 12 months. We were playing against them not that long ago.

[Norbert Rassragr]

It's amazing how these things can quickly spiral out of control. So many known clubs can decline and die so rapidly, like Rushden and Diamonds, Bury, Scarborough and now potentially Southend. The top cabal have driven up prices, wages and so on so much with the collusion of the FA, agents, players, FIFA and UEFA that so many clubs lower down are either going bankrupt to pay players, or being sold off to any crook or incompetent fool with no supervision.

[wilsdenrover]

27 minutes ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

It's amazing how these things can quickly spiral out of control. So many known clubs can decline and die so rapidly, like Rushden and Diamonds, Bury, Scarborough and now potentially Southend. The top cabal have driven up prices, wages and so on so much with the collusion of the FA, agents, players, FIFA and UEFA that so many clubs lower down are either going bankrupt to pay players, or being sold off to any crook or incompetent fool with no supervision.

Henderson could settle Southend’s tax bill with three days ‘earnings’.

[Seedstral]

Bury FC and AFC Bury had to merge to get £4 million worth of funding from their local council. It took 3 or 4 votes to get there but there was a lot of animosity between the 2 groups. They are already out of this years FA Cup amd missing out on much needed revenue and prize money. They like Macclesfield need promotion every year to progress as 1 bad season they'll stagnate and the fans who turn up now will end up losing interest in this novelty and then the road back to the football league becomes even more distant for them

[Rogerb]

Watched Chorley v Scunthorpe yesterday. Scunthorpe were in the play off mix from league 1 in our promotion season since when things have badly unraveled. There new 'owner' from January has now put the club up for sale. Apparently had numerous names and apparently served time for fraud. They are subject to an HMRC winding up petition. The ground is owned by their former owners company who has put the ground up for sale. There is a court case pending over the tenancy of the club.

Just goes to show when things unravel it can develop a pace of its own.

 

[Norbert Rassragr]

Same thing with that Bury owner. He was involved in something like 22 companies that went bust, and left investors out of pocket.

[Rogerb]

Nathan Delfouneso joined the group of ex rovers players at Chorley.

[Rogerb]

Willem Tomlinson left Chorley for Radcliffe Borough.