Promotin to Step 4

[tringarmy]

No great surprises here although Brimsdown would have to have one hell of a run to get promoted! I guess the number of applications reflect that the league is a bit more of a level playing field this season

 

 

Aylesbury

Brimsdown Rovers

Broxbourne Borough

Chalfont

Dunstable

Hanwell

Royston

Tring Athletic

 

Full list from FA website

[Rhodes]

Broxbourne Borough

Yes, Broxboure Borough's application is highlighted on the Non League Today Website:

 

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?&newsmode=FULL&nid=64401

[Wader]

Broxbourne Borough

Yes, Broxboure Borough's application is highlighted on the Non League Today Website:

 

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?&newsmode=FULL&nid=64401

 

One has to consider whether all of the applicant grounds will be suitable and ready for promotion by the March 31st deadline. I'm sure there are works being carried out in order to achieve that.

 

The following I am aware of though:

 

Brimsdown have a Grade D

Chalfont have a Grade E

Hanwell have a Grade D

 

All the others have to be graded for their necessary Grade E and I assume that is currently in action.

Anyone know how Dunstable Towns new ground is coming along?

Edited February 8, 2010 by Wader

[sjj2112]

Broxbourne Borough

Yes, Broxboure Borough's application is highlighted on the Non League Today Website:

 

http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?&newsmode=FULL&nid=64401

 

One has to consider whether all of the applicant grounds will be suitable and ready for promotion by the March 31st deadline. I'm sure there are works being carried out in order to achieve that.

 

The following I am aware of though:

 

Brimsdown have a Grade D

Chalfont have a Grade E

Hanwell have a Grade D

 

All the others have to be graded for their necessary Grade E and I assume that is currently in action.

Anyone know how Dunstable Towns new ground is coming along?

 

Chatting to somebody at Dunstable a couple of weeks ago it would appear that they are not planning to start any work on the ground development until the end of the season. They hope to have it completed during the close season, although they maybe requesting a run of away games at the start of next season to be on the safe side.

[amerste]

Talking of Dunstable, this seems to be another strange set up with the local council owning everything and taking everything apart from the gate money, as I'm lead to believe, from this new ground build. So can Dunstable survive on gates alone or is there a financial backer involved with the club?

[samuelsmiles]

Amerste, this is a photograph of George Best playing for Dunstable Town against a Man. Utd IX in the early 1970's. Yes, the majestic Georgie Best in the sunshine, sporting a lovely beard, firm thighs and a sober smile doing football stuff in Dunstable.

 

Tomorrow night we'll be at the very same ground, knee deep in empty Special Brew cans, spent jonnies and pissing rain watching Harefield get gubbed in what will, in all probability, be a game of two dire halves with a cup of watered down tea and a half cooked burger at the interval. But then again, maybe we'll see something akin to what Georgie used to do in his pomp.....a bit like we did at Harefield on Saturday.

 

Am I an old romantic, wearing the rose tinted glasses of a foolish star-struck youth, longing again for the endless sun drenched days of times past when Scalextrix was technological nirvana, the bespectacled and stupidly unhelmeted David Steele was the silver haired saviour of English cricket and Olivia Newton John was penned in to be my future wife.........or am I a tit who's had a glass too many?

 

Up the Hares and Up Yours.

 

 

[Scottie_DTFC]

Talking of Dunstable, this seems to be another strange set up with the local council owning everything and taking everything apart from the gate money, as I'm lead to believe, from this new ground build. So can Dunstable survive on gates alone or is there a financial backer involved with the club?

 

Contractors will be on site w/c 19th April with completion expected to be within 26 weeks for the whole site.

 

We hope to play a few matches away from home at the start of 10/11 and continue to use our temporary facilities until then.

 

As for the set-up, the council will be responsible for the entire site and we just turn up and play football. No more marking lines, cutting grass, etc etc. The council will re-invest any profits from the football hub back into the site.

 

Although we will have no income from the bar, something we have only had for the past 18 months anyway, we will have to survive on gate money. We are hoping for a few more deals from the package but we are currently still in negotiations with council over other streams of income.

[NeutralFan]

 

Looks like a great pic of an air shot to me!! Maybe not as sober as you suggest.....

Edited February 16, 2010 by NeutralFan

[knowitall]

 

Looks like a great pic of an air shot to me!! Maybe not as sober as you suggest.....

 

Broxbourne have no loos inside their ground.

[Rhodes]

Contractors will be on site w/c 19th April with completion expected to be within 26 weeks for the whole site.

Scottie DTFC - To be fair you did say at the start of the season that work would commence in January but as is sadly the way of the World now goalposts always move don't they

[NeutralFan]

Broxbourne have no loos inside their ground.

 

Yes they have.... up the back of the home dugouts !

[Scottie_DTFC]

Contractors will be on site w/c 19th April with completion expected to be within 26 weeks for the whole site.

Scottie DTFC - To be fair you did say at the start of the season that work would commence in January but as is sadly the way of the World now goalposts always move don't they

 

Could be even later I've heard this week. Have a meeting this week with district council and with town council, who will be running the new site, next week.

 

Pi$$ up and brewery come to mind.

[ref off ref]

Authorities and beaurocracy spoil football today, we've just been in a bloody recession for God sake but still the powers to be expect clubs to spend way beyond their budget just to gain a level above, which years ago used to be known as a simple promotion/relegation.

It takes away what it should actually be, mates playing together maybe earning a couple of quid, David and Goliath, the crack, no it would seem nowadays you have to spend a bloody fortune relying on an average gate of 20 to get anywhere, but sat behind their desks talking absolute b****ks sits the people who actually years ago played for pitance on a bogged out pitch just because they enjoyed the game....so why take away the enjoyment and glory days of the people today.

Let's be honest, you fart on a pitch today and you get booked, years ago you could Bruce Lee an opponenet and it was deemed acceptable, so back to what most clubs face today, your success is irrelevant, spend a fortune way above your means, the your rise may be considered, if it is and the books dont balance we will deduct you a season and a half worth of points......oh and the FA still want to promote grass roots football.

The game as we all know it is gradually being taken away from us...ground grading for promotion and relegation should never be an issue, otherewise what is the point of gaining more points than your rivals.....welcome to the 21st century.

[ref off ref]

To elaborate a little more, we have all mocked Rhodes and Tokynton coz they ground share, Sport Benfica because they can't play a home game from September to god knows when as there is a cloud in the sky, at this rate Leagues will consist of 6 teams playing each other 6 times just to constitute as season, dont we all mock the Scottish Premier League?

A ground is a ground, a pitch is a pitch, players want a variety of competition, the chance to play at a stadium fit to grace a Cup Final to them is no different to one that represents a plough field in the middle of nowhere, puddles replacing the grass, slide tackles starting from 30 yards out, it's football, and you adapte, at the end of the season the team with the most points gets the recognition it deserves.

Take Division 2, 16 teams but only 1 with lights as a retired millionaire didnt know how to control his money correctly, they come 13th out of 16 but because of the others around them, running a footie club on a strict budget, not being so fortunate, whatever the scenario, 13th out of 16 though for the fortunate one guarentees promotion, so for the 12 sides above, all the training, all the sweat, all the dreams, gone just because the game we all love and call the nation's number one had been spoilt by beaurocracy.

Sony Stratford, once a Prem club, but because you have to order a taxi from the changing rooms to the pitch, same as Holmer Green, Crawley Green who have to ground share as do Sport Benfica, Tokyngton Manofr, New Bradwell, who had to spend a 100k on new changing facilities fr what, so that the powers to be can finish their half a shandy at 2.55pm and without getting wet see the game kick off on time.... what b*****ks.

You mock, you turn a blind eye, whatever, the game as we know it is slowly being taken away from Joe Public, okay it may not affect your club right now, but it's only a matter of time, unless winning a League that consisted of 5 further teams is deemed as glory.

Whether you walk a mile to the pitch, play spot the grass, or ave to share your half time cuppa with 2 sheep and a cow, the more teams the more competition, the more fun, and at times the more misery, but it's our game, the ordinary bloke on the street.

Without goes our dreams, and the dreams of those who at this stage, are still dreaming.

[ref off ref]

LOL, and 10/10 for no spelling mistakes.....hope those who read these threads didnt get an A-Level in English at school, anyway whetere the spelling is correct or incorrect, it's the point, the point we all go on here and mock, wind up, knock people who are not as fortunate as say ourselves, but unfortunately right under our very noses the game we love, the game our peers built is slowly being taken away from us because YOUR club Chairman wont put his life on the line and risk everything on a budget way beyond your club just to guarentee a certain level of football for you.....and why should he, or her, 100x50, 4 posts, a crossbar, bit of grass, hey we have a football match.

How many kids of today play with the four coats and a pitch as far as you could run syndrome.....they are the next generation, either they are on our side or sat behind a desk with little clue, believe it or not OUR game lies in OUR hands, without us THEY dont have a League, I know I'm right, you know I'm right.....BUT FROM HERE?

[samuelsmiles]

Blimey ref off ref, you've packed a whole lot of contradictions into that paragraph.

 

Welcome to the 21st Century? What, by going back to the days when you could do a "Bruce Lee" and not get booked.

 

You also seem to have disregarded the paying public by saying it used to be a group of lads getting together for a bit of a crack and a kickabout on a "bogged out" pitch. I can see that on a Sunday morning on the playing fields nearby. Loads of unfit geezers with hangovers, charging about kicking lumps out of each other smokin' tabs and leaving their empty Red Bull cans lying about all over the park.

 

The absolute least a club at this level should produce is a decent playing surface which gives the players half a chance to play football. I'm tired of turning up at grounds to see a pitch that has been prepared by the local farmer with a team of horses and his plough. (Royston, Welwyn, Haringey) I also don't want to be ankle deep in mud around the pitch, so to disregard ground grading is just plain dumb.

 

With your attitude you'll never ever progress. It's not about "spending a fortune".....Harefield, Biggs United, Langford, Hanwell Town are struggling to get support like all clubs but somehow manage to produce a welcoming environment that makes you actually look forward to going there.

 

You said, "oh and the FA still want to promote grass roots football".........How would you suggest the game should be promoted....re-introduce the "Bruce Lee" tackle maybe?....let teams with "bogged out" pitches and floodlighting pylon transformer boxes with their covers missing (Dunstable) rise effortlessly up the leagues regardless of the poor sod who's paid a fiver to watch.

 

Quite frankly, you can shove that attitude up ya jacksy.

 

By the way, aren't those orange balls they use these days poor. Thems old sheeps bladders never moved about in the air as much did they.