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Post by Benny on Mar 30, 2019 20:20:19 GMT
Players who have made it to the verge of National League play offs with a bankrolled club, will not want to sign for a National South club who have just reduced their budget.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 21:12:32 GMT
Oh well. Let's see who Tonbridge are offloading this summer.
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Post by bermudastone on Mar 30, 2019 21:21:31 GMT
Oh well. Let's see who Tonbridge are offloading this summer. Or Margate - they have some good Conference players and a pretty decent manager !!!!
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Post by Raymondo316 on Mar 31, 2019 2:29:18 GMT
I must say I find it rather ironic how after encountering a load of Fleet fans last weekend who seemed stupidly exited about us getting relegated that their own club is financial basket case after acting all high and mighty.
They need to be worrying about how their own club is run more than us getting relegated.
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Post by Benny on Mar 31, 2019 6:36:01 GMT
Pride before a fall and all that. Anyone would think they hadn't been close to financial disaster in recent years.
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Post by 61666 on Mar 31, 2019 8:08:50 GMT
Possibly explains why Ashmore looked so miserable at our game last week. Or maybe he is always like that?
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Post by porkystone on Mar 31, 2019 8:29:39 GMT
Sad situation. Once our great rivals... Yes, being an old boy I remember well our tussles with the Borough - Great Non-League club from the era of other past greats like Altrincham, Kettering, Northwich Victoria, Scarborough and others you rarely hear of now and have been replaced by the AFC Fyldes and the Salfords. Sad, but life moves on. I hope the Borough survive and revive for nostalgia sake. Great win yesterday for Nuneaton Borough @ FCUM - fc-utd.co.uk/story.php?story_id=8330 , if you follow Borough, that's something to savour.
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Post by overthehillstone on Mar 31, 2019 10:14:31 GMT
Ebsfleet players protest at not being paid on time for March by not doing pre match warm up yesterday (re KM online ) but still won 4-2
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Post by pedant on Mar 31, 2019 12:11:55 GMT
Ebsfleet players protest at not being paid on time for March by not doing pre match warm up yesterday (re KM online ) but still won 4-2 They were only following the fitness and warm up preparation regime that Danny Kedwell has used for years (allegedly)
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Post by toonarmy on Mar 31, 2019 17:18:38 GMT
Ebsfleet players protest at not being paid on time for March by not doing pre match warm up yesterday (re KM online ) but still won 4-2 Maybe we should delay paying our players each month
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Post by Raymondo316 on Apr 2, 2019 17:22:29 GMT
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Post by jdl on Apr 2, 2019 17:27:41 GMT
That's over a million and a half quid in a year! What on earth have they spent this year??
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Post by Raymondo316 on Apr 2, 2019 17:55:15 GMT
That's over a million and a half quid in a year! What on earth have they spent this year??Its rumoured their playing budget is 2.5-3 million quid!! so they will have lost a hell of a lot more money this season.
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Post by sword65 on Apr 2, 2019 17:58:33 GMT
That's over a million and a half quid in a year! What on earth have they spent this year?? Even more important that we get a draw or win on Saturday to keep the big spending Wankers in this league so that they will have to chuck even more money at it next year. As Keegan once said " I would luv it ,luv it" if they were to go tits up.
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Post by jdl on Apr 14, 2019 23:11:04 GMT
A little bit early for an end of season summary, but Saturday's loss at home to D&R pretty much put paid to Fleet's hopes of a play-off place. They could still just do it, but it's looking unlikely.
Elsewhere, there have actually been very few meaningful changes for most of the season. The top 7 at the end of September were Salford, Orient, Harrogate, Wrexham, Solihull, Sutton and Fylde - 30 games later, the only difference is that Eastleigh have replaced Sutton. Gateshead were in the play-offs until a month ago, but their recent (understandable) drop in form (1 point out of 6 games - worse than us!) scuppered their chances.
Of course, the bottom 4 changed quite a bit, as we know to our cost - H&W, D&R, Dover and Braintree back in September, with Aldershot and us taking Dover and D&R's places (both of whom escaped following a change of managers - perhaps we should have tried that...). But, although the specific bottom 4 changed quite a bit, all the teams who went down were in the bottom 7 back in September - and the other bottom 7 team of the time, Chesterfield, also had a pretty good go at relegation.
So, all in all, no great change over 6 months - you could have pretty much predicted the final top-seven 30 games ago, and had a decent chance of picking the bottom 4 as well.
But the one thing that really does stand out this season is just how dire the bottom 4 were (not just us!). Two games from the end of the season, and there is a massive eleven point gap between 21 and 20. Dover could have lost all six of their games over the last month and still have been safe! And, although technically 50 points has once again turned out to be safety, with just one more team as crap as the bottom 4, 40 points would actuallly have been enough to survive.
The other aspect of this season that stands out, especially if you look at points, rather than just places, is the large number of teams bunched towards the bottom of the table. Between 50 and 57 points there are ten teams, and they have pretty much all been there or thereabouts all season. Fleet, Sutton, Gateshead and (briefly) Barrow had a go at making the play-offs, but the rest of the league - Bromley, Chestefield, Barnet, Halifax, Hartlepool, D&R, Boreham Wood, Dover and Maidenhead - have just been bottom of mid-table all season - taking part, but never threatening to do anything more.
I appreciate that this is a normal pattern in most leagues - a few top teams battling it out for the prizes, a few no-hopers trying to hang on as long as they can, and the rest in mid-table, just making up the numbers. But this seems more pronounced in the NL. More or less the same 7 teams competed for promotion all season, with two or three also-rans, but the rest, not only didn't participate, but didn't really even threaten mid-table. In fact, with the current mid-table at 58 points, all of the bottom 14 - more than half the league - are below mid-table.
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