The Non - League thread

[Royals and Racers]

left it late to post as so many are being frozen off - here's the last dregs remaining involving our 'local' NL clubs:

Saturday 17th December

IL1-SC
Basingstoke Town v Walton & Hersham
Guernsey v Hanworth Villa

CCL-PN
Ascot United v Windsor
CCL-PS
Jersey Bulls v Alton
CCL-1
British Airways v Eversley & California
NOTE @ Bedfont - really not sure about this one as it isn't 3G unlike next door at Sports? Nothing on either clubs' twitter yet

SSM-1
Rugby Borough v Holmer Green

Free entry at Ascot Utd.

[Four Of Clubs]

Free entry at Ascot Utd.

...and you have the chance to win a smartphone at Basingstoke!

https://twitter.com/ExertisUK/status/1604038926804688897?cxt=HHwWgoC94fi52MIsAAAA

[Four Of Clubs]

...and not sure how that got missed above - think it due to the phrasing on the Matches OFF vs still ON thread over on NLM but ...

FA Trophy 3rd Rnd

Eastbourne Borough v Bracknell Town is ON according to home twitter now?

[Sutekh]

left it late to post as so many are being frozen off - here's the last dregs remaining involving our 'local' NL clubs:

Saturday 17th December

FA Trophy Third Round

Yeovil Town v Dorking Wanderers - further pitch Inspection at 13:30 - clubs hoping it will thaw out more by then

IL1-SC
Basingstoke Town v Walton & Hersham
Guernsey v Hanworth Villa

CCL-PN
Ascot United v Windsor
CCL-PS
Jersey Bulls v Alton
CCL-1
British Airways v Eversley & California
NOTE @ Bedfont - really not sure about this one as it isn't 3G unlike next door at Sports? Nothing on either clubs' twitter yet

SSM-1
Rugby Borough v Holmer Green

From what I can see from the BBC website the FA Trophy games below are still on. One casualty though is Slough v Taunton on the plastic/all weather pitch

Eastbourne Borough v Bracknell Town
Folkestone Invicta v Leiston
Heybridge Swifts v Hungerford Town
Tamworth v Leamington
Yeovil Town v Dorking Wanderers

[Royals and Racers]

The FA Trophy 4th Round draw will take place on Monday 19th December at 5pm.

It'll be broadcast live on talkSPORT 2.

The draw is usually not regionalised at this stage.

The 4th Round will take place on Saturday 14th January.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Hungerford, Bracknell, (and Dorking) in the hat

[Four Of Clubs]

Hungerford, Bracknell, (and Dorking) in the hat

.... Dorking Wanderers & Hungerford both go thru on pens - 'Robins' progress 2-1 @ Eastbourne Borough, thanks to 2nd half goals from Grant & Knight.

I toddled over to Ascot 5-1 Windsor - was free entry - an Xmas special apparently so not sure of the crowd size, lots of families which was good to see.
Visitors had no answer to the the old warhorse Marcus Mealing up front , who notched a hat-trick.

Windsor in a very natty understated Union Jack outfit (black on white) - sadly yellow numbering that made it tricky to identify individual players.

Basingstoke beaten 0-1 @ H to Walton & Hersham - att well over 500.
Alton go down 0-2 at Jersey : whilst across the water a bit ... Hanworth Villa led 1-0 @ Guernsey, when a very nasty challenge from a home player, led to straight Red - a bad injury and ultimately an abandonment.

[Sutekh]

Hungerford, Bracknell, (and Dorking) in the hat

.... Dorking Wanderers & Hungerford both go thru on pens - 'Robins' progress 2-1 @ Eastbourne Borough, thanks to 2nd half goals from Grant & Knight.

I toddled over to Ascot 5-1 Windsor - was free entry - an Xmas special apparently so not sure of the crowd size, lots of families which was good to see.
Visitors had no answer to the the old warhorse Marcus Mealing up front , who notched a hat-trick.

Windsor in a very natty understated Union Jack outfit (black on white) - sadly yellow numbering that made it tricky to identify individual players.

Basingstoke beaten 0-1 @ H to Walton & Hersham - att well over 500.
Alton go down 0-2 at Jersey : whilst across the water a bit ... Hanworth Villa led 1-0 @ Guernsey, when a very nasty challenge from a home player, led to straight Red - a bad injury and ultimately an abandonment.

Bracknell again two fairly decent National League South sides beaten away from home in successive rounds. Will they fear anyone in the last 16 (it is the last 16 at round 4 isn’t it?), a derby game with Maidenhead or Slough might be fun! Or maybe a home game with Wrexham, if it’s a national draw, be nice to have Parky back so close to Reading.

[Four Of Clubs]

...just for completion of games previewed above

Much as I'd thought the BA v E&C CCL-1 game was postponed - I'm assuming the relatively low profile of both on Social Media caused the delay in announcing this.
Anyone that did turn up could at least have had the possible option of nipping next door for a friendly game hastily arranged - presumably between Bedfont Sports and Hampton & Richmond - unless it was the lodgers Deportivo involved? Not sure that took place in the end anyway


SSM-1 Rugby Borough {EIGHT} 8-1 Holmer Green - so their mini-revival comes to a shuddering halt

[Royals and Racers]

Hungerford, Bracknell, (and Dorking) in the hat

.... Dorking Wanderers & Hungerford both go thru on pens - 'Robins' progress 2-1 @ Eastbourne Borough, thanks to 2nd half goals from Grant & Knight.

I toddled over to Ascot 5-1 Windsor - was free entry - an Xmas special apparently so not sure of the crowd size, lots of families which was good to see.
Visitors had no answer to the the old warhorse Marcus Mealing up front , who notched a hat-trick.

Windsor in a very natty understated Union Jack outfit (black on white) - sadly yellow numbering that made it tricky to identify individual players.

Basingstoke beaten 0-1 @ H to Walton & Hersham - att well over 500.
Alton go down 0-2 at Jersey : whilst across the water a bit ... Hanworth Villa led 1-0 @ Guernsey, when a very nasty challenge from a home player, led to straight Red - a bad injury and ultimately an abandonment.

Bracknell again two fairly decent National League South sides beaten away from home in successive rounds. Will they fear anyone in the last 16 (it is the last 16 at round 4 isn’t it?), a derby game with Maidenhead or Slough might be fun! Or maybe a home game with Wrexham, if it’s a national draw, be nice to have Parky back so close to Reading.

4th round is last 32

[Royals and Racers]

The fourth round proper will take place on Saturday 14 January 2023, with winning clubs at that stage collected £5250 from the competition's prize fund and losing clubs collecting £1500.

The draw

1 Gateshead or Gloucester City v Oldham Athletic or Peterborough Sports
2 Dorking Wanderers v AFC Fylde or Kidderminster Harriers
3 Notts County or Chorley v Maidstone United or Worthing
4 Bracknell Town v Bath City or Bromley
5 Swindon Supermarine or Harrow Borough v Guiseley or FC Halifax Town
6 Dagenham & Redbridge or Uxbridge v Hemel Hempstead Town or Maidenhead United
7 Altrincham or Curzon Ashton v Wrexham or Scunthorpe United
8 Solihull Moors or AFC Telford United v Barnet or Plymouth Parkway
9 Torquay United or Chippenham Town v Slough Town or Taunton Town
10 Southend United or Boreham Wood v Spennymoor Town or Darlington
11 Aldershot Town or Welling United v Leiston
12 Banbury United or Bognor Regis Town v Chesterfield or Coalville Town
13 Woking or Eastleigh v Farnborough or Braintree Town
14 Hungerford Town v Tamworth
15 York City or Blyth Spartans v Chelmsford City or Wealdstone
16 Farsley Celtic or Chester v Marske United or Marine

[Sutekh]

Revised FA Trophy draw below after last night’s games, 3 games left to be played tonight.

1 Gateshead v Oldham Athletic
2 Dorking Wanderers v Kidderminster Harriers
3 Notts County v Maidstone United
4 Bracknell Town v Bath City
5 Swindon Supermarine or Harrow Borough v FC Halifax Town
6 Dagenham & Redbridge v Maidenhead United
7 Altrincham v Wrexham or Scunthorpe United
8 Solihull Moors v Barnet
9 Torquay United v Taunton Town
10 Southend United v Darlington
11 Aldershot Town v Leiston
12 Banbury United v Coalville Town
13 Eastleigh v Braintree Town
14 Hungerford Town v Tamworth
15 York City v Chelmsford City or Wealdstone
16 Farsley Celtic v Marske United

Games scheduled to be played on 14 January 2023

[Royals and Racers]

Binfield v Basingstoke tonight postponed- waterlogged pitch.

[Four Of Clubs]

HI Everybody ... of the Anorak persuasion and of course any other occasional 'droppers in' to this (fairly peaceful) somewhat esoteric 'oasis' within GF

- Season's Greetings an' all to all

- Santa's been chez Foccers : socks/pants/chocolate oranges/diaries etc duly unwrapped by the offspring from their stockings - expect since they are all now in their 20's that tradition may tail off/dwindle in scope somewhat - sure it used to take up the best part of two hours - which could put a strain on the mostly 'Delia-driven' schedule for Christmas AM food prep ....
... I have an all too brief 'window' to post some witless Yule-tide drivel - so here goes:

A preview of featured-NL clubs holiday fixtures for Mon/Tue: - a bit scant comparative to previous years - especially below the top four steps.
-could possibly be due to planned longer-term caution among the fixture schedulers - allowing for the potential impact of colder weather. From my ever-fading/vague memory, there have been a couple of near 'wipe-outs' at this time of year - I do recall last Dec was exceedingly wet.
(though it does seems pretty mild currently - expect we'll get the arctic blizzards the Mail/Express crave thru Feb/Mar - messing up the end of the season)
- also maybe the impact of the WC2022 higher up the Pyramid scheduling more midweek games thru Sep/Nov.
- the last re-structuring dropped a few lesser cup competitions - means we may not have the congestion we've had in former years which traditionally led to a glut of fixtures around now?

Monday 26th –Tuesday 27th December

Monday {Boxing Day}

NAT
Aldershot Town v Woking
Dorking Wanderers v Eastleigh
Wealdstone v Maidenhead United
NATN
12:00 Brackley Town v Banbury United
NATS
Hungerford Town v Farnborough
13:00 Oxford City v Slough Town

SLP-C
13:00 Hitchin v Kings Langley
SLP-S
12:30 Chesham United v Hayes & Yeading United
Hartley Wintney v Gosport Borough
Winchester City v Salisbury
SL1-C
Highworth Town v Cirencester Town
Kidlington v Didcot Town
Thame United v Aylesbury United

IL1-SC
Bedfont Sports v Ashford Town (Middx)
Hanworth Villa v Chertsey Town
South Park v Merstham
Southall v Northwood
12:30 Thatcham Town v Uxbridge
Tooting & Mitcham United v Guernsey
Walton & Hersham v Leatherhead
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Tuesday 27th {Xmas B/H}
NOTE Some of these KO times may still be subject to change - especially down at STEP06 (CCL/WESS)
- RFC's game at 17:15 rather restricts 'multiples' which has been a feature of past years

SLP-S
19:45 Bracknell Town v Beaconsfield Town

IL1-SC
12:00 Westfield v Chipstead

CCL-1 (19:45 unless stated)
12:30 Rayners Lane v London Samurai Rovers
Molesey v Cove
Sandhurst Town v Hillingdon Borough
Spartans Youth v Westside
Woodley United v Penn & Tylers Green

HELL-P (14:00 unless stated)
Royal Wootton Bassett Town v Corsham Town
Shrivenham v Wantage Town
HELL-1
Abingdon United v Clanfield 85
Kidlington Res v Newent Town
15:00 Long Crendon v Stonehouse Town

SSM (currently all 15:00)
Amersham Town v London Tigers
Holmer Green v Thame United Reserves

WESS-1 (15:00 unless stated)
14:00 Petersfield Town v Folland Sports
Andover Town v Andover New Street
Fleet Spurs v Ash United

[bcubed]

Great job as always FOC
And nice little insight into family life!!

Shame I'm missing the local derby. Brackley v Banbury

Going to sister's for Boxing Day instead...

[Four Of Clubs]

Ta bc .... yes the apparent FoCcers family idyll, generally goes downhill from that point on these days ... nuff said

.... no NL Xmas fare for me - had Brackley on my list too for today
- domestic crisis of the vehicular kind, means we have only 1 car for three drivers with different requirements.
In that I was the cause of such limitations, I'm obviously waiving my needs - better half takes precedence as the M-I-L is v. seriously ill so she wants to be able to pop back and forth as necessary.

Hope to get out over the NY w/e - BH, where there is a far wider choice anyway.....

.... and today's an ideal day to sofa it, concoct some exotic variation of Turkey leftovers involving Sarnies or some imaginative home-version of a kebab with the darker bits if there's any left .....and binge the Amazon Prem games.

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.....Couple of late updates on the seasonal prog above for Tuesday:

CCL-1 Woodley's fixture at Rivermoor (Scours) is now showing as a 15:00 start

SLP-S ..... and issues at the SB Stadium (?) appear to have seen Bracknell's fixture reversed - showing as same time KO (needs confirming as the SL site is hardly a bastion of precision) but now at Beaconsfield?

[Sutekh]

Ta bc .... yes the apparent FoCcers family idyll, generally goes downhill from that point on these days ... nuff said

.... no NL Xmas fare for me - had Brackley on my list too for today
- domestic crisis of the vehicular kind, means we have only 1 car for three drivers with different requirements.
In that I was the cause of such limitations, I'm obviously waiving my needs - better half takes precedence as the M-I-L is v. seriously ill so she wants to be able to pop back and forth as necessary.

Hope to get out over the NY w/e - BH, where there is a far wider choice anyway.....

.... and today's an ideal day to sofa it, concoct some exotic variation of Turkey leftovers involving Sarnies or some imaginative home-version of a kebab with the darker bits if there's any left .....and binge the Amazon Prem games.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.....Couple of late updates on the seasonal prog above for Tuesday:

CCL-1 Woodley's fixture at Rivermoor (Scours) is now showing as a 15:00 start

SLP-S ..... and issues at the SB Stadium (?) appear to have seen Bracknell's fixture reversed - showing as same time KO (needs confirming as the SL site is hardly a bastion of precision) but now at Beaconsfield?

To confirm the change, Bracknell’s website is showing the game is at Beaconsfield’s Holloways Park. 7.45pm Tuesday 27 December (same time as Reading’s game).

[Four Of Clubs]

Round-up of yesterday's Boxing Day programme

Monday 26th Dec {Boxing Day}

NAT
Aldershot Town 1-2 Woking att 4,621 - 'Cards' stay 4th as top 5 all win
Dorking Wanderers 1-1 Eastleigh att 2,132 - Ryan Seager with a late leveller for DW
Wealdstone 3-2 Maidenhead United att 1,452 - ’Magpies’ 2 down in half an hour, were level by H/T but shipped another early 2nd half – Emile Acquah with two for the visitors.
- leaders Notts Co bt Oldham 4-1 in front of just under 9.8k
- 2nd placed Wrexham topped 10k thru the gates as they ran out 5-0 winners over Solihull
- in third place the 'Spireites' edged 1-2 past Scunny @ Glanford Pk

NATN
Brackley Town 1-1 Banbury United att 1,206
NATS
Hungerford Town 1-1 Farnborough att 537 – ‘Crusaders’ a bit adrift at the bottom now especially with three clubs in the four that were immediately above them, all winning
Oxford City 1-3 Slough Town priceless 3 points for struggling ‘Rebels’ – their first win since the end of Sept - to stun high flying City – goals from Kayani and two for Alfonso Tenconi , who now returns to the States to continue his studies after a month with the club. The sides meet again on NYD (Sun) at Arbour Pk.

SLP-C
Hitchin 2-4 Kings Langley real boost for KL who are fighting to beat the drop at PO chasing Hitchin.
- Hosts have a (somewhat tenuous) claim to have been founded in 1865 – and as such have that date on their badge but in fact the original Hitchin Football Club liquidated in 1911 – the current incarnation formed in 1928.
SLP-S
Chesham United 0-3 Hayes & Yeading United ‘Generals’ first home league defeat of the season – leave them in 3rd – H&Y up to 6th
Hartley Wintney 3-1 Gosport Borough vital win with some around HW getting points too – Borough’s goal from ex-royal Abdulai Bell-Baggie. ‘The Row’ due at SB Stadium on Monday 2nd
Swindon Supermarine 2-1 North Leigh
Winchester City 0-1 Salisbury att 424
SL1-C
Highworth Town 0-4 Cirencester Town att 382
Kidlington 1-2 Didcot Town att 234 - ’Diddy’ stay 4th as all three above them win
Thame United 1-1 Aylesbury United

IL1-SC
Bedfont Sports 2-2 Ashford Town (Middx)
Hanworth Villa 0-4 Chertsey Town
Southall 1-2 Northwood
Thatcham Town 2-0 Uxbridge goals from Ramarni Medford-Smith and a Martin pen in stoppage time – 'Kingfishers' at Basingstoke on Monday 2nd
Tooting & Mitcham United 1-0 Guernsey
Walton & Hersham 0-2 Leatherhead att 561 – big crowd witnessed a surprise defeat for 2nd placed W&H to lowly ‘Tanners’
- Marlow in 3rd have trip round to Whyteleafe to face Sutton Common Rovers on Wed evening.

[Sutekh]

Round-up of yesterday's Boxing Day programme

Monday 26th Dec {Boxing Day}

NAT
Aldershot Town 1-2 Woking att 4,621 - 'Cards' stay 4th as top 5 all win
Dorking Wanderers 1-1 Eastleigh att 2,132 - Ryan Seager with a late leveller for DW
Wealdstone 3-2 Maidenhead United att 1,452 - ’Magpies’ 2 down in half an hour, were level by H/T but shipped another early 2nd half – Emile Acquah with two for the visitors.
- leaders Notts Co bt Oldham 4-1 in front of just under 9.8k
- 2nd placed Wrexham topped 10k thru the gates as they ran out 5-0 winners over Solihull
- in third place the 'Spireites' edged 1-2 past Scunny @ Glanford Pk

NATN
Brackley Town 1-1 Banbury United att 1,206
NATS
Hungerford Town 1-1 Farnborough att 537 – ‘Crusaders’ a bit adrift at the bottom now especially with three clubs in the four that were immediately above them, all winning
Oxford City 1-3 Slough Town priceless 3 points for struggling ‘Rebels’ – their first win since the end of Sept - to stun high flying City – goals from Kayani and two for Alfonso Tenconi , who now returns to the States to continue his studies after a month with the club. The sides meet again on NYD (Sun) at Arbour Pk.

SLP-C
Hitchin 2-4 Kings Langley real boost for KL who are fighting to beat the drop at PO chasing Hitchin.
- Hosts have a (somewhat tenuous) claim to have been founded in 1865 – and as such have that date on their badge but in fact the original Hitchin Football Club liquidated in 1911 – the current incarnation formed in 1928.
SLP-S
Chesham United 0-3 Hayes & Yeading United ‘Generals’ first home league defeat of the season – leave them in 3rd – H&Y up to 6th
Hartley Wintney 3-1 Gosport Borough vital win with some around HW getting points too – Borough’s goal from ex-royal Abdulai Bell-Baggie. ‘The Row’ due at SB Stadium on Monday 2nd
Swindon Supermarine 2-1 North Leigh
Winchester City 0-1 Salisbury att 424
SL1-C
Highworth Town 0-4 Cirencester Town att 382
Kidlington 1-2 Didcot Town att 234 - ’Diddy’ stay 4th as all three above them win
Thame United 1-1 Aylesbury United

IL1-SC
Bedfont Sports 2-2 Ashford Town (Middx)
Hanworth Villa 0-4 Chertsey Town
Southall 1-2 Northwood
Thatcham Town 2-0 Uxbridge goals from Ramarni Medford-Smith and a Martin pen in stoppage time – 'Kingfishers' at Basingstoke on Monday 2nd
Tooting & Mitcham United 1-0 Guernsey
Walton & Hersham 0-2 Leatherhead att 561 – big crowd witnessed a surprise defeat for 2nd placed W&H to lowly ‘Tanners’
- Marlow in 3rd have trip round to Whyteleafe to face Sutton Common Rovers on Wed evening.

I thought Ramarni Medford-Smith was at Bracknell, has he moved on already or is it a loan or one of those dual registration jobbies?

[Four Of Clubs]

I thought Ramarni Medford-Smith was at Bracknell, has he moved on already or is it a loan or one of those dual registration jobbies?

...sorry no idea - my iPad doesn't cope well with club sites and won't go anywhere nr Twitter, so can't find any kind of news about a move/sub-loan for him.
I did try and check the home clubs' tweets on another device but was no mention on there anyway.

I do know he played in Thatcham's recent win at Tooting & M so yesterday was his 2nd match for them.

....and tonight's game for Bracknell at Beaconsfield Town was not relocated due to ground issues at SB, as the 'Fizzers' are hosting bottom club Hillingdon Boro in a CCL-1 game there this evening.

-I hadn't picked up on the clash earlier and would have assumed 'Robins' might take 'preference' - but maybe the STEP03 fixture was easier to re-arrange/switch - with Holloways Pk being 3G ?