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Post by sword65 on Aug 18, 2020 22:45:30 GMT
How many club's fans can say that they've seen their team play in 11 different divisions? Other than us I doubt any could say that, but there maybe some club somewhere.
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Post by jdl on Aug 19, 2020 1:53:20 GMT
How many club's fans can say that they've seen their team play in 11 different divisions? Other than us I doubt any could say that, but there maybe some club somewhere. There may be someone - like Bury (who have a three division start on us - although they'd still have to go a long way down to beat us), but even if that happened, they still won't be able to claim that they saw their club drop eleven* leagues from one season** to the next! Although, no doubt, Dartford fans would claim that it wasn't the same club... (* is 11 correct? The structure of the leagues has changed so much since then that my brain fuses when I try to work it out!) (** not entirely sure of this either - I can't remember if the Invicta game I saw was actually part of a league, or just an arranged one. It seems unlikely that the new Dartford would coincidently would have been put in the same league as us?)
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Post by steveh21 on Aug 19, 2020 6:51:35 GMT
I think it was 9 leagues. NLS didn't exist then if i remember.
Div 4 to: conference, isthmian prem, isthmian south, kent league, kcl prem, kcl one, kcl two, kcl three and kcl four where Stones ended up.
Below that was the Maidstone and District Saturday league :-)
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Post by porkystone on Aug 19, 2020 7:41:05 GMT
I think it was 9 leagues. NLS didn't exist then if i remember. Div 4 to: conference, isthmian prem, isthmian south, kent league, kcl prem, kcl one, kcl two, kcl three and kcl four where Stones ended up. Below that was the Maidstone and District Saturday league :-) A goldmine of information on the KCL available via Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_County_League
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 8:20:35 GMT
I think it was 9 leagues. NLS didn't exist then if i remember. Div 4 to: conference, isthmian prem, isthmian south, kent league, kcl prem, kcl one, kcl two, kcl three and kcl four where Stones ended up. Below that was the Maidstone and District Saturday league :-) I was counting the football league (as part of our previous incarnation), and the D&J Tyres Kent Youth League (as our youth side was the only one we had at that point). As you say, National South (my 4th favourite oxymoron, after 'Greater Manchester', 'Happily married', and 'Pop music') wasn't a thing.
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Post by steveh21 on Aug 19, 2020 9:13:37 GMT
I didnt count youth league as you could not get relegated into it or promoted from it as a men's side. So just number of leagues we tumbled down after leaving the one we were in - barclays Div 4.
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Post by jdl on Aug 19, 2020 15:30:41 GMT
9 leagues/divisions is still pretty spectacular - and probably a record.
When exactly did we start playing in the KCL Div 4 - a year after we went bust?
And when did we switch back to 'United'?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 16:42:13 GMT
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Post by trolley59 on Aug 19, 2020 20:43:35 GMT
Although the Mildenhall game will live long in my memory, there was a few more special moments, but if i had to pick just one from a long list, i think for me it would have to be Tunbridge wells away, our first game in the Kent league, in those days it seemed like premier league to me
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Post by steveh21 on Aug 19, 2020 21:07:49 GMT
When we first reformed as a men's team in KCL 4 we were like the Harlem Globetrotters of local football.. regular 7, 8, 9 goals a game. I even remember our record win 12-0 at Aylesford.
.... at the end of the day we just want to be entertained and we were in spades for years.
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Post by Raymondo316 on Aug 19, 2020 21:34:47 GMT
When we first reformed as a men's team in KCL 4 we were like the Harlem Globetrotters of local football.. regular 7, 8, 9 goals a game. I even remember our record win 12-0 at Aylesford. .... at the end of the day we just want to be entertained and we were in spades for years. Craig Wilkins scored something silly like 110 goals in 2 seasons......quality player he was, just a shame that when he finally returned to the club in 2008 (I think that was it) his best days were long gone & he had been turned into a defender.
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Post by sword65 on Aug 19, 2020 23:52:47 GMT
Although the Mildenhall game will live long in my memory, there was a few more special moments, but if i had to pick just one from a long list, i think for me it would have to be Tunbridge wells away, our first game in the Kent league, in those days it seemed like premier league to me I dont think Tun Wells will forget it either as they probably made more money from that game than the rest of the season combined.
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Post by sword65 on Aug 20, 2020 7:43:39 GMT
I'll have to pick New Romney away as one of my favourite away days. It had been raining for a week and the chances of the game being on were virtually nil. The night before Chris West and myself came to an agreement that we would not travel. Saturday dawned to a cloudless blue sky and I thought f**k it I'll go anyway just in case. Around 300 Stones fans arrived to see a massively waterlogged pitch but pressure from PBB and the New Romney chairman persuaded the referee to don his wetsuit and play the game. Halfway through the game the Lydd town fc hard nuts turned up to start a war with the Romney knuckle draggers which was far more entertaining than the game. The linesman would have been better off with canoes than trying to run up the line. Anyway the beer was cheap, the sausage roll was disgusting and the crisps were 2 months out of date. Oh happy days!😁
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Post by steveh21 on Aug 20, 2020 8:31:27 GMT
Do you remember the cup game against kennington played on a school pitch? Or the day we played two semi finals in one day - and won them both!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 9:08:18 GMT
Do you remember the cup game against kennington played on a school pitch? Or the day we played two semi finals in one day - and won them both!! I remember going to a cup final on a waterlogged pitch, only to be told that the venue had changed and we were playing it at home (can't remember what cup it was, the original venue, the opposition, or the result!). And didn't the first semi final go to extra time? Made it a bit squeaky bum time about getting the players back to London Road for the second one...
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