| Which team to support? 20:58 - Sep 29 with 5846 views | Deano19766 |
Given my long standing hatred of the Premiershite, and my decision a number of years ago to go nowhere near a game in it, I'm just trying to work out which lower or non league league club to adopt and start going to watch regularly home and away. I'm down in Surrey. So far the options I've come up with are -
Crawley Town
Woking
Basingstoke Town (my mate is Basingstoke mad and follows them everywhere)
Anyone else been to any clubs that may be worth considering? |  | | |  |
| Which team to support? on 15:38 - Sep 30 with 982 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Which team to support? on 14:41 - Sep 30 by Bluce_Ree |
genuinely shit! |
And I thought Oscar Wilde was dead. |  | | |
| Which team to support? on 15:38 - Sep 30 with 979 views | simmo |
| Which team to support? on 00:22 - Sep 30 by Northernr |
First time ever Bluce, we disagree.
I'll talk to you about fcking depressing and literally sht for a moment if I may....
Seeing QPR sign Danny Simpson, make out like he's the bee's knees, bring him into the club and promote him going to all of the Kiyan Prince Foundation stuff, all the down's syndrome Tiger Cubs stuff, in his own time, on the fcking YouTube channel, to show how brilliant we are as a club, having him play fantastically for us all year, consistently good, never a bad performance, because he was desperate to get back in the Premier League as a starting full back and then we get there, partly because of his contribution, and the first thing we do is bomb him out in favour of a Chilean who a) can't run and b) doesn't even play his position...
that's fcking depressing and literally sht.
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| Which team to support? on 16:03 - Sep 30 with 958 views | SonofNorfolt |
Not all Non League is shiit, like not all Killing Joke songs are shiit.
Personally, I watch a lot of football, all levels, but am no longer daft enough to watch us regularily away, so watch other games when we are.
However, bollox to us being in lower divisions, unlikely as it is, I'd rather have even a small chance in the FA Cup than compete in the fuukin Auto Windscreens 'let's have a day out at Wembley Cup'.
This Saturday I shall travel to Weston super Mare with a couple of hundred Wealdstone, then go down my local on Sunday to watch us struggle at Upton Park and save myself a oner that I would have normally spent. |  | | |
| Which team to support? on 17:08 - Sep 30 with 933 views | FredManRave |
| Which team to support? on 09:57 - Sep 30 by paulparker |
What About Hayes & Yeading ?
used to have a lot of fun & games following Hayes in the early nineties in the fa cup against Cardiff Peterborough,Fulham & Crawley, loads of QPR lads used to follow them as well
Btw top post clive Re Simpson and where the club is heading |
I used to follow Crawley when I was younger having been born and breed there. Went to the Hayes vs Crawley F.A.Cup game in 92 which was the game that sandwiched our epic 1st round victory against Northampton Town and our 3rd round defeat to Brighton watched by 18k at the Goldstone. Great days. Real football, etc etc...
Crawley now the FL most hated team it would appear. |  |
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| Which team to support? on 17:14 - Sep 30 with 930 views | paulparker |
| Which team to support? on 17:08 - Sep 30 by FredManRave |
I used to follow Crawley when I was younger having been born and breed there. Went to the Hayes vs Crawley F.A.Cup game in 92 which was the game that sandwiched our epic 1st round victory against Northampton Town and our 3rd round defeat to Brighton watched by 18k at the Goldstone. Great days. Real football, etc etc...
Crawley now the FL most hated team it would appear. |
I remember that game well Fred, being a little Herbert at the time I do recall a lot of handbags between the 2 sets of fans, and one of the crawley coaches being bricked
most of that was down to the fact most of Hayes thought that after dispatching Fulham in the 1st round ( what a night that was BTW ) Crawley would be a mere formality for a beano into Brighton for the next round |  |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
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| Which team to support? on 18:08 - Sep 30 with 898 views | qprphil |
Well as a new Q.P.R. poster, and fan, now living in Kent since 1974. I found the journey to games either by train, or car, finally take its toll on me, the final straw being the plastic pitch. I now watch my local side Ebbsfleet Utd, which I adopted when gave up travelling to Rangers games. They are in the Conf South, the same league as Basingstoke. We have played them in the league and lost 1-0, we have now drawn them again in the qualifying round of the F.A.cup.. Believe it or not, we have the same debates about managers, players etc. We also have recently got a new sugar daddy, who is throwing money at it. Our manager is Steve Brown, ex Charlton player, with Steve Gritt as his assistant. It is great to watch, no trouble, the odd swear word, plenty of room in the club to watch telly, and get a pint. However, Rangers are my side, and all my friends are giving me constant updates on there score, and it still ruins my weekend if they lose, and the Mrs. I still attend some games with my son, its in the blood. | | | |
| Which team to support? on 18:26 - Sep 30 with 890 views | Jamie |
As of sunday, Honvéd are my local team. Come on the Mighty Magyars!
Can honestly say I fear that as long as Arry and Uncle Tone are at the club, my interest in keeping up with Rangers will either away.  | | | |
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| Which team to support? on 18:36 - Sep 30 with 882 views | TheBlob |
| Which team to support? on 18:08 - Sep 30 by qprphil |
Well as a new Q.P.R. poster, and fan, now living in Kent since 1974. I found the journey to games either by train, or car, finally take its toll on me, the final straw being the plastic pitch. I now watch my local side Ebbsfleet Utd, which I adopted when gave up travelling to Rangers games. They are in the Conf South, the same league as Basingstoke. We have played them in the league and lost 1-0, we have now drawn them again in the qualifying round of the F.A.cup.. Believe it or not, we have the same debates about managers, players etc. We also have recently got a new sugar daddy, who is throwing money at it. Our manager is Steve Brown, ex Charlton player, with Steve Gritt as his assistant. It is great to watch, no trouble, the odd swear word, plenty of room in the club to watch telly, and get a pint. However, Rangers are my side, and all my friends are giving me constant updates on there score, and it still ruins my weekend if they lose, and the Mrs. I still attend some games with my son, its in the blood. |
Nice ground Stonebridge Road,parking was a bit of a bugger. |  |
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| Which team to support? on 18:49 - Sep 30 with 871 views | qprphil |
| Which team to support? on 18:36 - Sep 30 by TheBlob |
Nice ground Stonebridge Road,parking was a bit of a bugger. |
Parking now no problem, 1000s of spaces in Ebbsfleet International station.Stonebridge Road, is now the P.H.B. stadium, as from this season. We all still, and will call it Stonebridge Road though. We have quite a strong team now, and hope to get promoted. Charlie Sheringham, is our leading goal scorer (Teddys lad) Attendance normally around the 800- 1000 mark. | | | |
| Which team to support? on 19:19 - Sep 30 with 853 views | TheBlob |
| Which team to support? on 18:49 - Sep 30 by qprphil |
Parking now no problem, 1000s of spaces in Ebbsfleet International station.Stonebridge Road, is now the P.H.B. stadium, as from this season. We all still, and will call it Stonebridge Road though. We have quite a strong team now, and hope to get promoted. Charlie Sheringham, is our leading goal scorer (Teddys lad) Attendance normally around the 800- 1000 mark. |
How times change.Went to Gravesend & Northfleet loads of times as a Kent football supporter(Cray wanderers)from the 1960's......always a good atmos down there.There was a game I saw which involved Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest,new floodlights and rumours of brown envelopes and service staion rendezvous(I think Stan Bowles played).Anyway good luck,hope you get promoted,the ground alone deserves that. | |
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| Which team to support? on 19:44 - Sep 30 with 837 views | qprphil |
| Which team to support? on 19:19 - Sep 30 by TheBlob |
How times change.Went to Gravesend & Northfleet loads of times as a Kent football supporter(Cray wanderers)from the 1960's......always a good atmos down there.There was a game I saw which involved Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest,new floodlights and rumours of brown envelopes and service staion rendezvous(I think Stan Bowles played).Anyway good luck,hope you get promoted,the ground alone deserves that. |
Thanks for that. My work moved to Ashford in Kent, that's why I am here now. Although now, many years retired. Born Acton, lived Wembley. | | | |
| Which team to support? on 20:17 - Sep 30 with 821 views | Monahoop |
| Which team to support? on 17:08 - Sep 30 by FredManRave |
I used to follow Crawley when I was younger having been born and breed there. Went to the Hayes vs Crawley F.A.Cup game in 92 which was the game that sandwiched our epic 1st round victory against Northampton Town and our 3rd round defeat to Brighton watched by 18k at the Goldstone. Great days. Real football, etc etc...
Crawley now the FL most hated team it would appear. |
You and I would have been rivals Fred. I was born and raised in Horsham, lived round the corner from their old but quaint Queen Street stadium and back in the day, Crawley were Horsham's [ the Hornets ] biggest rivals. Was odd that both clubs played in different leagues, Horsham in the Isthmian League and Crawley in the Southern League. The only time the two teams met would have been in cup games or floodlight competition games [remember those]. Some big crowds would watch some of these derbies, nearly 4,000 turned up at Horsham to watch an FA Cup 4th Qual Rnd game back in the early 90's.
How each clubs fortunes have changed recently. Crawley moving from Town Mead to a new stadium and the Football League and Horsham being made homeless, playing their football over the hedge at Sussex County League neighbours Horsham YMCA and languishing in the murky depths of Ryman League 2 South, penniless. How I curse Horsham's misfortune and Crawley's, dare I say good fortune. UP THE HORNETS! |  |
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| Which team to support? on 20:39 - Sep 30 with 801 views | strikerace |
How about Fulham? (Just kidding). | | | |
| Which team to support? on 20:45 - Sep 30 with 796 views | FredManRave |
| Which team to support? on 20:17 - Sep 30 by Monahoop |
You and I would have been rivals Fred. I was born and raised in Horsham, lived round the corner from their old but quaint Queen Street stadium and back in the day, Crawley were Horsham's [ the Hornets ] biggest rivals. Was odd that both clubs played in different leagues, Horsham in the Isthmian League and Crawley in the Southern League. The only time the two teams met would have been in cup games or floodlight competition games [remember those]. Some big crowds would watch some of these derbies, nearly 4,000 turned up at Horsham to watch an FA Cup 4th Qual Rnd game back in the early 90's.
How each clubs fortunes have changed recently. Crawley moving from Town Mead to a new stadium and the Football League and Horsham being made homeless, playing their football over the hedge at Sussex County League neighbours Horsham YMCA and languishing in the murky depths of Ryman League 2 South, penniless. How I curse Horsham's misfortune and Crawley's, dare I say good fortune. UP THE HORNETS! |
Was at that Horsham F.A.Cup game, pleased to get out of there with a 0-0 and fortunately we did the business back at Town Mead in the replay when I'm guessing there must have been near 4.000 there as well, a gate only ever surpassed by our record 4.200 in the self same cup run, 1st round pwopa 4-2 win over Northampton that got us on MOTD.
To an extent I can understand why Crawley are disliked, because they bought their success but then they're still only in League 1, holding their own under John Gregory attracting about 2k fans at home games. Hardly reaping untold glories and they've had their share of problems with admin, mad owners etc etc.
As for Horsham, they didn't really register. Brighton were our local rivals. 
Shame to hear whta's happened to Horsham though, I had no idea. LONG LIVE THE HORNETS! | |
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| Which team to support? on 20:50 - Sep 30 with 787 views | Deano19766 |
| Which team to support? on 18:08 - Sep 30 by qprphil |
Well as a new Q.P.R. poster, and fan, now living in Kent since 1974. I found the journey to games either by train, or car, finally take its toll on me, the final straw being the plastic pitch. I now watch my local side Ebbsfleet Utd, which I adopted when gave up travelling to Rangers games. They are in the Conf South, the same league as Basingstoke. We have played them in the league and lost 1-0, we have now drawn them again in the qualifying round of the F.A.cup.. Believe it or not, we have the same debates about managers, players etc. We also have recently got a new sugar daddy, who is throwing money at it. Our manager is Steve Brown, ex Charlton player, with Steve Gritt as his assistant. It is great to watch, no trouble, the odd swear word, plenty of room in the club to watch telly, and get a pint. However, Rangers are my side, and all my friends are giving me constant updates on there score, and it still ruins my weekend if they lose, and the Mrs. I still attend some games with my son, its in the blood. |
Shall hopefully be at Ebbsfleet with my Basingstoke mad pal in a couple of weeks  [Post edited 30 Sep 2014 20:51]
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| Which team to support? on 21:00 - Sep 30 with 775 views | Monahoop |
| Which team to support? on 20:45 - Sep 30 by FredManRave |
Was at that Horsham F.A.Cup game, pleased to get out of there with a 0-0 and fortunately we did the business back at Town Mead in the replay when I'm guessing there must have been near 4.000 there as well, a gate only ever surpassed by our record 4.200 in the self same cup run, 1st round pwopa 4-2 win over Northampton that got us on MOTD.
To an extent I can understand why Crawley are disliked, because they bought their success but then they're still only in League 1, holding their own under John Gregory attracting about 2k fans at home games. Hardly reaping untold glories and they've had their share of problems with admin, mad owners etc etc.
As for Horsham, they didn't really register. Brighton were our local rivals.
Shame to hear whta's happened to Horsham though, I had no idea. LONG LIVE THE HORNETS! |
I've seen only a couple of Horsham games since moving from England. They are striving to get a new ground outside the town, but the local council and local populace are being far from helpful I gather. John Maggs was I recall a hero figure at Crawley when he managed there. He was popular at Horsham too when he went to them, getting them to the 2nd Round of the FA Cup in 2006, taking Swansea City to a replay. | |
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| Which team to support? on 21:03 - Sep 30 with 772 views | Deano19766 |
Be interesting to see if a thread on non-league football would run to 3 pages on a Manure or Chelscum forum. Highly unlikely I would say as most probably consider the Championship as non-league. Says it all really about what the Premiershite actually is | | | |
| Which team to support? on 21:30 - Sep 30 with 754 views | slranger40 |
| Which team to support? on 21:03 - Sep 30 by Deano19766 |
Be interesting to see if a thread on non-league football would run to 3 pages on a Manure or Chelscum forum. Highly unlikely I would say as most probably consider the Championship as non-league. Says it all really about what the Premiershite actually is |
I agree with the op, elite football is utter, utter bs. Shame really. | | | |
| Which team to support? on 00:25 - Oct 1 with 696 views | Trance_Trousers |
Phil.
Have you ventured down to the Gallagher yet(Maidstone) ?. All being well we should be seeing one another next season. |  |
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| Which team to support? on 01:13 - Oct 1 with 688 views | SonofNorfolt |
| Which team to support? on 00:25 - Oct 1 by Trance_Trousers |
Phil.
Have you ventured down to the Gallagher yet(Maidstone) ?. All being well we should be seeing one another next season. |
It may have to be via the play offs Sharpy as I think that Margate will win the league, they have the readies. | | | |
| Which team to support? on 01:24 - Oct 1 with 687 views | Trance_Trousers |
It`s getting interesting Mate. This whole NL set up is weird with the seven day approach thing, just lost a couple of players through it, although bench warmers. Two new faces added including an ex Charlton u21 captain. Could be losing Alex flisher to Gillingham some time soon, which is a big loss. Don`t worry though Mel you and the (Other) Stones are invited to the mash up next season. | |
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| Which team to support? on 02:09 - Oct 1 with 679 views | SonofNorfolt |
Dunno if that will happen from either side yet mate?
The Conference South is a significant footballing standard jump, and the Stones are currently bottom.
Admittedly they lost Pett and Okimo to Stevenage, both now playing League Two, or the Fourth Division as we prefer, but I still thought they'd be OK.
Some of the Bromley players are on about £800 a week, as perhaps are many others. What deal has DJ Campbell got at Maidenhead? Although Wealdstone me compete, having just got in Enoch Showumni, 9ft 6", whom I recall scored against us for Luton. | | | |
| Which team to support? on 05:36 - Oct 1 with 656 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Which team to support? on 02:09 - Oct 1 by SonofNorfolt |
Dunno if that will happen from either side yet mate?
The Conference South is a significant footballing standard jump, and the Stones are currently bottom.
Admittedly they lost Pett and Okimo to Stevenage, both now playing League Two, or the Fourth Division as we prefer, but I still thought they'd be OK.
Some of the Bromley players are on about £800 a week, as perhaps are many others. What deal has DJ Campbell got at Maidenhead? Although Wealdstone me compete, having just got in Enoch Showumni, 9ft 6", whom I recall scored against us for Luton. |
Are you sure it's not HMP Maidstone for match fixing? | | | |
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