Results Tues 2 October

[Horace]

SPARTAN SOUTH MIDLANDS LEAGUE

RESULTS & FIXTURES

TUESDAY 2nd OCTOBER

CHALLENGE TROPHY SECOND ROUND

 

Ampthill Town 3-1 Mursley United

Brache Sparta 5-3 Colney Heath

Broxbourne Boro V&E 3-5 Leverstock Green

Chalfont St Peter 2-0 Ruislip Manor

Hanwell Town 3-1 London Colney

Harefield United 4-1 Pitstone & Ivinghoe

Hertford Town 0-2 Kingsbury Lndn Tigers

St Margaretsbury 0-0 aet AFC Dunstable

3-1 on penalties

Stony Stratford Town 3-2 Biggleswade United

Welwyn Garden City 3-0 New Bradwell St Peter

 

[Jonno]

Another loss for Hertford??? Bloody hell, they aint the force they were last season!!!

[Horace]

They ain't the force they were last season with no Redford or Cooper playing! Cooper injured and Redford being saved for the Oldies game on Sunday!

[NeutralFan]

Any of the Bury boys want to elaborate how a Div 2 side held them to 0-0 at home through 120 minutes? Was going to pop over after training but thought it was a formality!

[HTFCew]

Dunstable are really a Div One side, but they don't have lights.

[BBFC11]

they are better than some of the sides in the prem, we should have beaten them in normal time but missed a few chances. we played really poor last night but managed to get through as we are extra time and pen specialist.

[Maldini66]

Originally Posted By: Horace

They ain't the force they were last season with no Redford or Cooper playing! Cooper injured and Redford being saved for the Oldies game on Sunday!

Oi Horace less of the oldies if you don't mind, More Mature sounds alot better
Are you coming over for a laugh

[NeutralFan]

And it will be a laugh if Redford is playing.. Horace you'd better have a word to make sure he is on my side as I can't be responsible for my actions if he mugs me off too many times...

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted By: HTFCew

Dunstable are really a Div One side, but they don't have lights

So you say!

[HTFCew]

Yes I do!

[Tubbsy8]

I do too. They played well last night. Admittedly we were dog turd last night, I suspect a sneaky eye on Saturdays game didn't help!

[AWK]

AFC Dunstable are undoubtedly a Division One side, after all they won the Division Two title last season and barring floodlights would have been promoted. I am sure the top 2-3 of Div 2 are a lot stronger than the bottom 2-3 of Div 1 and perhaps a lot more teams as well.

[Horace]

Originally Posted By: AWK

AFC Dunstable are undoubtedly a Division One side, after all they won the Division Two title last season and barring floodlights would have been promoted.

.. and because of the FA rule about not taking on a groundshare to achieve promotion..

[blues06]

leverstock are a decent side goin forward but are nearly as bad as us at defending!! They got the old london colney lads there now, flain, jowle, hawes and davey!

Could of been 10-10 last night! lol

[AWK]

Originally Posted By: Horace

.. and because of the FA rule about not taking on a groundshare to achieve promotion..

Didn't they want to share at Brache Sparta Horace?

[Horace]

Yes. At the AGM, the league management committe actually allowed a vote as to whether they could be promoted if they played there, but it was lost heavilly.

If AFC really meant it, they would have gone ahead with the groundshare with aview to promotion this season, but I don't think they have.

[AWK]

I would have thought that it would have been prudent for them to have gone ahead with the groundshare as well Horace, presuming that should they finish in the top two they would get promoted if they did, or would it have to go to a vote again?

 

I wonder why they got turned down and would any one have gone in the opposite direction or would Div 2 been left with 14 teams (or even 13 as didn't Kings Langley do the same thing?)

[HTFCew]

Problem was, the vote was for either both or neither to be allowed. The two teams had differing circumstances. With a seperate vote each it may have been a different outcome.

[AWK]

With out knowing the particular details it certainly doesn't sound a very fair way of doing it, surely both clubs should have had decisions made on them based on their own merits.

[eagles1981]

To be fair it is quite clear. You need to be at the ground a season before you are promoted and not arrange a ground just to get promotion.

 

Neither had, from what I understand, so neither were promoted!

 

If neither club has moved into the grounds they said they would if they got promotion, it shows that the league members got it right!

 

It seems obvious to me that the two clubs in question weren't serious about their intentions!

 

SLB moved to Hanwell Town the season before already with that in mind. They should do the same!