Bite the Bullet - Rams Promo!

[Cookie]

Congratulatons Ramsgate FC on your promotion. (Goodness me that was hard to say but it IS deserved I think).

[Gate Watcher]

Who cares? I hope their manager doesn't come here!

[wellzie74]

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Well hate to say it but well deserved to The Ramsgate, will make for a few good Derbys & will give us an added incentive to perform with our rivals playing along-side in the league.

 

Could be worse............Could have been Dover!!

 

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[JeremyJacobs]

Very interesting point raised by our friend above. I remember as a schoolboy, Les Riggs being interviewed on local TV just after accepting the Margate managers job following Gerry Bakers sacking (should have never have got the job in the first place). He said he was looking forward to the challenge. He earlier had turned down an offer to manage Colchester - alledgedly.

 

I wonder whether the current Ramsgate manger would consider a move to Margate?

[Rob_Butler]

And what would he gain? (serious question)

[Cookie]

Another promotion! Seriously though, no,not Ward.

[dave bull]

The chance to progress to a league higher than the ryman prem , which Ramsgate will never be able to do . Not with their present ground .

[margateshot]

If you want a laugh at Dover go to the match highlights on their site for the freak match winner. I don't know what he said but there was a straight red for dissent for a Dover player. Also good interview by Jim Ward after. Clive Walker obviously in the George Borg mould defending foul language by the players.

[Rob_Butler]

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dave bull said:
The chance to progress to a league higher than the ryman prem , which Ramsgate will never be able to do . Not with their present ground .

With new flood lights being erected, perimeter fencing and a chance that both ends will be covered in the close season I think the ground will be fit to hold Conference football.

[Gate Watcher]

New main stand with proper seats needed, and a permanent seperate entrance & turnstiles for away fans. Not sure that a garden fence would be good enough as a perimeter fence either.

[Boney Crisp]

The concrete walk end will not be allowed in the conference. They will close each stand behind the goals as they are clearly unsafe. When i was last there i was standing in one place and the concrete moved. Changing your floodlights does not get you conference grading and if our old ground was not good enough to stage conference football then yours is not. Putting a roof on each end wont help as we had a roof on each end and ours was not conference grading. You only have one entrance leading to the ground. For you to get a ground worthy of Conference football then you will have to move. With your current ground you will not be allowed any higher then the Ryman premier. Oh yeah the last i checked the council turned down your planning application to erect new floodlights.

[MargateFan]

Can't knock the Rams for ambition, we have it, but do not hold the monopoly on it.

But they will find it harder in the prem, plus their ground is awful, and needs much more than a few cosmetic slap-ons to make it anything less than that.

They have done well so far, but the real tests are to come.

But let's face it, if we had achieved what they have for the last two seasons, we would be luxuriating in our bragging rights too.

So well done and good luck to them.

[Rob_Butler]

They did not turn down that application Alex they turned something else down. The later does not matter now as we have received a £35,000 grant and the thing that was turned down is irrelevant.

Your ground I beleived was good enough for Conference just not Football League, maybe i was wrong. When i say conference i mean Step2 (south).

If we are in a promotion situation next January i am sure more work will be done

[Boney Crisp]

i do believe to play coference south football you have to have a grade c stadium which the old hartsdown was. Sorry about the floodlight remark but when i looked about a month or so ago the council said no to the floodlights as they would too bright and interfere with the neighbours.

[Rob_Butler]

That was not the case floodlights NEVER got turned down. No need to apologise, its a forum.

[Chris1]

With new flood lights being erected, perimeter fencing and a chance that both ends will be covered in the close season I think the ground will be fit to hold Conference football.

A year ago they were DEFINITELY moving and the ground was going to be a residential development. That was from someone closely associated with Rams. What has happened to change that?

[jkmaskell]

I was at the Council meetings about the floodlights. Basically the floodlights themselves were seem to be acceptable. It was the mobile phone mast on top of them that the Council didnt like. The application was refused but the Council did say that if the mast was removed from the application it could be accepted.

[Boney Crisp]

here is proof FF that TDC turned down the erection of floodlights. If that is changed then fair enough but this is the only planning application i found on it.

 

http://www.ukplanning.com/ukp/doc/Decisi...amp;pageCount=1

[Rob_Butler]

Exactly James

[Boney Crisp]

lol. Just backing up my point thats all. Lets get back to talking about Margate and leave all the Ramsgate talk to the Ramsgate forum.