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Non League Football

I moved to Wrexham from Chester in January - relationship stuff, caving in to the fairer sex etc.

Anyone who quips that Wrexham under "McReynolds" ownership are the Man City of the NL isn't far wrong. They're bossing just about every match, and if it weren't for Stockport, they'd be as good as promoted already. Wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to see them sharing League One with Everton in 2023/24 if they win the playoffs. Unbelievable but they could be going to Wembley twice in one season. We ain't done that since 2009.

Something else I should add. I actually felt more disappointed when they threw away a 1-0 HT lead against Woking to miss a great chance to close in on Stockport and lost 2-1 with a late goal, than I did when Liverpool inevitably done us a few days later.

And I won't hear anything about the NL being less entertaining than the PL. That Woking game was pure blood and guts, proper footy won and lost fair and square. Also it's unpredictable and isn't just a story of 18 teams parking the bus against two juiced-up marketing tools while Tyler and Carra have a tommy tank whenever the RS get a throw-in. Also, if there's a goal, there's a goal, no half-cheering while stockley park draw their lines with Clattenburg's crayons.
 
TGW89 said:
I moved to Wrexham from Chester in January - relationship stuff, caving in to the fairer sex etc.

Anyone who quips that Wrexham under "McReynolds" ownership are the Man City of the NL isn't far wrong. They're bossing just about every match, and if it weren't for Stockport, they'd be as good as promoted already. Wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to see them sharing League One with Everton in 2023/24 if they win the playoffs. Unbelievable but they could be going to Wembley twice in one season. We ain't done that since 2009.

Something else I should add. I actually felt more disappointed when they threw away a 1-0 HT lead against Woking to miss a great chance to close in on Stockport and lost 2-1 with a late goal, than I did when Liverpool inevitably done us a few days later.

And I won't hear anything about the NL being less entertaining than the PL. That Woking game was pure blood and guts, proper footy won and lost fair and square. Also it's unpredictable and isn't just a story of 18 teams parking the bus against two juiced-up marketing tools while Tyler and Carra have a tommy tank whenever the RS get a throw-in. Also, if there's a goal, there's a goal, no half-cheering while stockley park draw their lines with Clattenburg's crayons.
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Non-League football is fantastic.

We (Marine) played Wrexham in the cup earlier in the season and there was more passion and atmosphere than half the Everton games I’ve been to in recent years.

Wrexham have Mullin and Tozer on £5k a week, I’m led to believe, which is insanity for non-league.
 
barneygumble said:
Non-League football is fantastic.

We (Marine) played Wrexham in the cup earlier in the season and there was more passion and atmosphere than half the Everton games I’ve been to in recent years.

Wrexham have Mullin and Tozer on £5k a week, I’m led to believe, which is insanity for non-league.
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I think he, along with Carroll, was touted as one of Newcastle's brightest young talents around the time they were both youths. The usual "next John Terry" bollox and all that. Apparently he was on the bench the day Yak sealed 5th place in 2008 - they should have brought him on for the usual "only PL career goal against Everton before being shipped out".
 

TGW89 said:
I think he, along with Carroll, was touted as one of Newcastle's brightest young talents around the time they were both youths. The usual "next John Terry" bollox and all that. Apparently he was on the bench the day Yak sealed 5th place in 2008 - they should have brought him on for the usual "only PL career goal against Everton before being shipped out".
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Correct. If I’m not mistaken, we were also linked and they paid £1m from Swindon for them, which is still their record deal.

He was a right mouthy one as well. Someone isn’t right when you’re giving non-league fans from 3 divisions below :lol:

Didn’t know he actually made the bench, but he’s easily a league one player, so had to drop for good reason.
 

COYBL25 said:
If they get promoted, the size of the ground could cause real problems for them ????
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They can’t segregate, which will cause massive problems, I feel.

In the division above you have the likes of FC United who will have a big crowd, Macclesfield too, if they don’t go up.

Think they need a minimum of 2,000 capacity to go up, but I could be mistaken.
 
barneygumble said:
No, anything but.

Game is in 48 hours and they still haven’t put tickets on sale. Christ knows what uproar will happen if season ticket holders don’t get in, ahead of some neutrals.

Only holds 1,600.
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No tickets, all pay on the day - https://www.runcornlinnetsfc.co.uk/LFzZC
I was looking this morning, might go if the weather is ok , I don’t want to get caught in rain and then go straight on to a concert that night !.
 
barneygumble said:
Marine beat Workington 3-2 in extra time with a goal two minutes over added time in normal play to make it 2-2.

Marine travel to Runcorn on Saturday for the final, to see who goes up.
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Mad end to the season. Workington missing out on automatic promotion by 1 point, then conceding a last minute equaliser in the playoffs and eventually going out. Painful.

Regarding the final - come on Marine!
 

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