FA Vase First Qualifying Round

[Rhodes]

An FA Vase result from earlier on today as follows with an anorak from another's Forum in attendance:

 

Brimsdown Rovers 6 Buckingham Athletic 0

Attendance 69

 

Brimsdown Rovers 6 Buckingham Athletic 0

FA Vase 1st Qualifying Round

Admission

[Horace]

I attended this game too Rhodes. Funniest thing was seeing about two dozen hoppers rushing off at the end of the game to get to Erith & Belvedere for the second part of their double header!

[ref off ref]

7 quid for the St Margaretsbury game yesterday against first division opposition,

[Horace]

It was

[NeutralFan]

I queried the St Mags price and was told it was FA regulated? Can't remember who by though, usually

[ref off ref]

FA Regulated, wonder what FA stands for, mind you they have there free passes and complimentary cups of tea and special seating area so they can regulate it at a

[NeutralFan]

I suppose costs are going up and the prices haven't really changed for a few years. Think I'm going to start going to away games early in a trackie as a player!!

[ref off ref]

Get there at 9 and make out your the new groundsman

[Horace]

Originally Posted By: NeutralFan

I suppose costs are going up and the prices haven't really changed for a few years. Think I'm going to start going to away games early in a trackie as a player!!

There was no FA regulation to charge

[ref off ref]

Erm, Buckingham and Crawley are from a league lower, must have been profite.....daylight robbery to put it bluntly

[Football Man]

Originally Posted By: Horace

I attended this game too Rhodes. Funniest thing was seeing about two dozen hoppers rushing off at the end of the game to get to Erith & Belvedere for the second part of their double header!

There were 11 of us in total, and we all got there in plenty of time.

[ref off ref]

Must've been a good game if all you could do was count the crowd then

[Football Man]

Who said anything about counting the crowd? I just said I knew how many of us were going from one game to the other and that I saw all who made the journey in the ground before the second game kicked off.

[ref off ref]

No you didn't, stop telling porkies you head counter

[Rhodes]

Ref off Ref - To be fair Football Man does know what he is talking about however where groundhoppers 'collect' grounds he 'collects' matches so as to boast how many he has been to each season, fair play to him as I believe it was well over 400 last season. The Brimsdown Rovers v Buckingham game would have finished at 2.50 and the Erith & Belvedere v Sidley United game started at 4.00 which is easily doable by car, obviously by public transport it wouldn't be.

[ref off ref]

Top man...just a bit of friendly banter tho

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted By: ref off ref

Top man...just a bit of friendly banter tho

Ref off Ref - Football Man won't see it that way I'm afraid, he takes himself far too seriously and I've never seen him crack a smile, you could be a marked man from now on.

[Rhodes]

Another anorak was at the Brimsdown v Buckingham game yesterday, I expect Brimsdown will miss the healthy revenue from the groundshare when Enfield Town eventually leave Goldsdown Road and the Social Club will miss the lucrative bar takings:

 

The clubhouse does at least have a bit of character. The only problem with the rest of the ground is the ugly metal fence that encloses it. The floodlights also look different from other ones as they are a bit shorter than average.

 

Some people may be interested to learn that the covered terrace on the north side has been there since 1983, when Rovers were promoted to the top division of the LSL. The steelwork is the same, but 4 steps of concrete terracing were added to the flat concrete base when Enfield Town moved in.

 

I hope Enfield Town will leave the 'Arena Seating' stand behind when they move, as I believe the QEII stadium already has a seated stand, and that they will take just the covered terrace (the one behind the west goal) with them.

[onekeown]

Think you will find that all the terracing belongs to Brimsdown and not ETFC. That's what Brimo's chairman told me.

[PeterPan1]

i believe that was the deal of enfield gettin the share to start with enfield look after the ground and build it up and leave it as it is when they move on because if they take the 2 'bigger' stands then they will be headin back to div 1 in ground grading wont they?!?!