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Baboon - sorry mate. Hope you weren't at Hillsborough yesterday. Sounds proper shit.

There's quite a gap between League 1 and the Champ, imo, so you ought to have a good chance of coming straight back up next year.
 
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Baboon - sorry mate. Hope you weren't at Hillsborough yesterday. Sounds proper shit.

There's quite a gap between League 1 and the Champ, imo, so you ought to have a good chance of coming straight back up next year.
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Thanks dude, appreciate it. No, not at Hillsborough - I've always been a fan from distance (from the age of 7 though!). I was at a pub showing both Wednesday and Chelsea-Liverpool. To be honest I thought it was all over at 1-2, so was just concentrating on the Chelsea game, to avoid unnecessary stress!

Hmm, dunno - the top of League 1 looks quite strong at the moment. Guess at least Norwich and Leeds should be outta there by next season...Anyways, been there before recently!

The trouble at Hillsboorugh sounds more worrying - both per se and possible points deduction-wise for next season. :eek:
 
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yes a shame to see and gutted for Wednesday. my Hull mate is piping up about parachute payments for them, they want Lord Windass of Hull back quick sharpish i think!

very sorry about Luton toward Pat, obviously a minority of saddoes made the news this morning trying to get at the travelling fans, but falling at the first hurdle never fun.

the Blue Square regional finals are interesting, Bath and Woking from the south are two good names (good food at Woking and an excellent large stand the away fans can get top vocals in thanks to echo and its height the last time i went which was admittedly years ago), but in the north Fleetwood have had an awesome season and probably deserve reward, playing Alfreton. the prospect of a tiny e mids town like Alfreton (not that Fleetwood is a massive place) having a Conf National club enthuses me :)

Hucks asked why do some non-league fans appear to have an antipathy toward Forest Green, in the Alty case it's certainly as a result of the behaviour of their club secretary a few years back when Alty were at the start of that three-year run of reprieves from relegation from the Conference National (all legitimate reprieves, though very sad that other clubs suffered, but it is what it is; the latter two seasons Boston had serious murky financial issues and the authorities demoted them, and then very sadly the final season of this troika of felicity from the Alty pov, Halifax went into liquidation and so bye-bye Halifax); Alty were set to have an 18 point deduction which got overturned when the authorities relented, this was the source of the deduction

James Robinson is devastated that Altrincham have been deducted 18 points after it was discovered that he was ineligible to play for them.
Robinson did not have international clearance when he signed for Altrincham in November after a spell in Iceland.

James, who is now playing in Australia, asked his dad Paul to speak on his behalf and he told Five Live: "He's devastated, it's upset him no end.

"He had a great relationship there and doesn't feel they are to blame."

Robinson joined Altrincham from Accrington in November following his stint abroad but he only made two reserve appearances for the Conference leaders.

However, it was only when Robinson left Altrincham to join Australian side Richmond Eagles in February that the problem was discovered.

Paul Robinson added: "He (James) reckons that administrative staff at Accrington should have sorted his international clearance out."

Director of operations for the Conference League, John Moules, insists they had no other choice but to deduct the points in which James appeared.

Moules said: "James Robinson had never appeared on any Conference team sheet or registration sheet other than that of Altrincham. We have to follow the rules set by the FA and follow them religiously.

"The board had to apply the rule. It is not our rule. It is the FA's rule and we had to follow it to the letter."
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loads of fans of other Conf clubs at the time (in particular i recall Aldershot and York) were up in arms on Alty's behalf and other clubs were doing bucket collections and circulating petitions etc but FGR's secretary ticked off a lot of other Conf clubs by writing to every other secretary and lobbying for Alty to get sent down. i think a (it's all relative don't forget) Alty's tinpot part-time set up contrasted w the professional Accrington earnt the sympathy of most of the rest of the Conf (which is largely a full-time set up these days of course).

funnily enough i was once threatened w a night in the local jail (or 'gaol' i'd like to think in the West Country) by two constables at FGR years ago for the wicked crime of being among about 200 Alty fans who happened to all en-masse be shouting abuse at our own manager for something or other. they beckoned me over (i don't know, my voice must have carried) and read me the riot act before i was contrite enough to slink back. randomly, at the end of the game they found me, shook my hands and apologised, and said they had over-reacted at the time (!)
 
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scottdisco

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just got a very angry txt off a mate about that, it was one of his trebles tonight (suffice to say one of the others was Spurs - if Jenks is reading this, can i publicly say apart from being glad the best football team of the pack gets it, i lurve Spuds' 'controversial' slow-bore mournful chant*), and suffice to say making up four goals is something that probably deserves raised eyebrows...

* i also love that Spanish-style song Palace have where they don't actually use any lyrics until the end and then give it loads
 
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(suffice to say one of the others was Spurs - if Jenks is reading this, can i publicly say apart from being glad the best football team of the pack gets it, i lurve Spuds' 'controversial' slow-bore mournful chant*)
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Seems a very popular result for the boys from white hart lane - probably partly based on buggering up Man City's relentless money march. My older son won a cup final yesterday evening, scoring with his head (a first) and then Spurs strolled into Champs League (qualifiers) - i need to remember days like these cos i have a feeling tomorrow i'm not going to be quite so chipper!
 
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jenks said:
Seems a very popular result for the boys from white hart lane - probably partly based on buggering up Man City's relentless money march. My older son won a cup final yesterday evening, scoring with his head (a first) and then Spurs strolled into Champs League (qualifiers) - i need to remember days like these cos i have a feeling tomorrow i'm not going to be quite so chipper!
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Hats off to Jenks Junior! Is this the same son who scored a hat trick up -thread? Can I be his agent?
 
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Very same lad - he's good, better than me by a long way - but there's loads out there who are even better.
I let him stay up and listen to the match on the radio while I went down the pub.

I'll pass on the congratulations - he went to school wearing his winner's medal
 
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scottdisco said:
very sorry about Luton toward Pat, obviously a minority of saddoes made the news this morning trying to get at the travelling fans, but falling at the first hurdle never fun.
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yeah fuck it. only just come to terms with mondays events

i'm a spurs fan now anyway
 
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