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Post by robin1864 on Apr 27, 2019 14:59:10 GMT
Agree but a fair few clubs are in the same situation. The football authorities really need to do there jobs properly to stop these crooks from buying football clubs. What makes it worse is that they were about the best supported team in the WPL when playing there. Great shame and a massive loss to the league. Seems things started to deteriorate the moment they moved to Nantporth. Licensing seems to be ridiculous in the WPL, and prevented decent sized, well-supported clubs like Caernarfon and Rhyl from playing top-flight football for superficial reasons. Complete own-goal by the FAW, and kicking Bangor out of the WPL will be the death of them. Back on topic though, we could have finished 2nd place if we didn't fuck up against Halifax
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Post by 1gwaunview on Apr 28, 2019 10:37:09 GMT
What makes it worse is that they were about the best supported team in the WPL when playing there. Great shame and a massive loss to the league. Seems things started to deteriorate the moment they moved to Nantporth. Licensing seems to be ridiculous in the WPL, and prevented decent sized, well-supported clubs like Caernarfon and Rhyl from playing top-flight football for superficial reasons. Complete own-goal by the FAW, and kicking Bangor out of the WPL will be the death of them. Back on topic though, we could have finished 2nd place if we didn't fuck up against Halifax Agreed, Halifax was a bummer.
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Post by erasedcitizen on Apr 28, 2019 16:58:43 GMT
A one-off HOME tie on Thursday evening v Eastleigh. Assuming we win, we probably face SALFORD on Sunday - which is actually a decent tie, as they also have lost 3 in their last five games ;-) Oh, the hope ... The hope is usually what kills you but I'm feeling confident that we'll win the first match. We've beaten Eastleigh twice this season already, both times with relative ease. I think we're capable of beating a Matt Green-less Salford as well, it's Fylde that concern me the most. Brad Walker coming back will be a huge boost, and I'd also take a look at Mike Fondop-Talom. He offers something different and confuses defenders. Knows how to find the back of the net too.
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Post by robin1864 on Apr 29, 2019 15:00:42 GMT
A one-off HOME tie on Thursday evening v Eastleigh. Assuming we win, we probably face SALFORD on Sunday - which is actually a decent tie, as they also have lost 3 in their last five games ;-) Oh, the hope ... I'd also take a look at Mike Fondop-Talom. He offers something different and confuses defenders. He confused supporters too once he stopped scoring.
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Post by rncfc on May 1, 2019 10:45:57 GMT
People are mocking it because it's shit. And it will always be shit because nobody in these little villages gives a toss about the Intertoto Cup 75th qualifying round, away to Ludvigknickerwetterz Graz Rangers Athletic, playing the tie at the ground of someone else, in front of so few people that only the upper upper upper tier of block Z is even open. The population alone of some of these places means that progression is simply impossible. There are undoubtedly some clubs in the Welsh League who could improve, and if they had any ambition they would try and move into the English system. Bangor, Aberystwyth, Rhyl perhaps? Wales is too small to support a high quality football league on its own.[/quote Wow I have no response to such a small minded post other than to wish you luck on your return to school on Monday. Who are these villages? This is your own country your mocking now on your knees and go and suck off prince charles I'm not mocking the country, I'm mocking it's shit football league and the archaic, nationalistic, bordering on racist way in which the FAW chose to implement its launch back in the 1990's.
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Post by welshiron on May 1, 2019 13:07:04 GMT
If a league hadn't been implemented our national team may not be here now.
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Post by garynysmon on May 1, 2019 13:12:05 GMT
I'm not mocking the country, I'm mocking it's shit football league and the archaic, nationalistic, bordering on racist way in which the FAW chose to implement its launch back in the 1990's. You'll have to elaborate on that one.
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Post by welshiron on May 1, 2019 13:25:43 GMT
Not my comment.
Please edit
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Post by 1gwaunview on May 1, 2019 15:24:01 GMT
If a league hadn't been implemented our national team may not be here now. Alun Evans may well have been an idiot in many ways, but in this case he was right. There'd be no Welsh representatives in the European competitions, as we wouldn't have had a National league to select from. The Welsh teams in the English pyramid could not qualify to represent Wales (from Wales) after a certain date in the 90's (they stopped entering the Welsh Cup), and as mentioned by welshiron the Wales National team might not now exist if a Welsh National league had not been set up.
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Post by rncfc on May 2, 2019 9:34:27 GMT
I stand by my comments. Whatever the reasons, there was no excuse for sending Newport and others to play home games in England for refusing to join. This is an argument that would go on forever; the 1990s have forever tainted any well-wishing I am prepared to give the WPL; and it is possible to hold that view whilst still supporting the national team, contrary to popular belief.
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Post by rncfc on May 2, 2019 9:36:12 GMT
Not my comment. Please edit Nah, you're alright. Your message at the top of this page wasn't my comment either, but I think any readers are clever enough to work out that it's a bug with the quoting tool.
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Post by BA Baracus on May 2, 2019 10:08:19 GMT
I stand by my comments. Whatever the reasons, there was no excuse for sending Newport and others to play home games in England for refusing to join. This is an argument that would go on forever; the 1990s have forever tainted any well-wishing I am prepared to give the WPL; and it is possible to hold that view whilst still supporting the national team, contrary to popular belief. No point in holding grudges this long!! Times change, people change. FAW's a different beast these days. Back then it was "my way or the highway from Alun Evans". Looking at the bigger picture, the standard of the WPL is much much higher than it was 25 years ago, there's more money in it and it gets more media coverage... fair enough if Newport think they're too big to join it as, traditionally, they're a professional outfit and a bigger set-up... but the direction of travel the WPL has gone in has now made it feasible for Colwyn Bay to make the step back into Wales and that can only be a good thing for the Welsh pyramid. The long-term aim, whether idealistic, fantasy or not, has got to be to gradually improve the league so that maybe in another 10, 15, 25 years it's realistic enough for the likes of Merfyr to seriously consider it as an alternative. If that happens, who knows?, maybe a few years later Wrexham and Newport could then follow. It probably won't happen in our lifetimes.
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Post by welshiron on May 2, 2019 11:13:10 GMT
Funnily enough I only asked at what stage Wrexham would consider it.
Merthyr have gone bankrupt at least twice and cant afford to play competitively where they are on a regular basis.
They should join at the earliest opportunity
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Post by eppingblue on May 2, 2019 16:08:15 GMT
Come on Wrexham. 3 more wins and we can put this notion to bed once and for all.
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Post by fiveattheback on May 2, 2019 19:02:31 GMT
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Post by fiveattheback on May 2, 2019 20:32:48 GMT
1-0 Eastleigh with not long left
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Post by fiveattheback on May 2, 2019 20:42:57 GMT
All over. 1-0 Eastleigh
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Post by eppingblue on May 2, 2019 20:45:22 GMT
Gutted for them. The disallowed goal was an outrageous decision.
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Post by alarch on May 2, 2019 20:57:22 GMT
Good shout for a pen as well - if wasn't a pen then it was a definite dive, so why wasn't the player booked? Unlucky Wrexham. Hopefully Wrexham will appoint a manager with a progressive style at some point, because I haven't seen anything distinctive in their style of play when I've seen them this season. Playing progressive football, at whatever level, is the tried and tested way of punching above your weight (Swansea, Bournemouth, Exeter, Norwich off the top of my head). Can't the Wrexham board see this?
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Post by welshiron on May 2, 2019 21:04:00 GMT
Both teams looked like they were trying not to lose.
It looked like it had penalties written all over it until that Messi like strike. One hell of a goal.
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Post by alarch on May 2, 2019 21:17:30 GMT
Great strike, but no one on the edge of the box in anticipation of that sort of opportunity. C'est la vie.
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Post by manulike on May 2, 2019 21:20:14 GMT
;-((
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Post by robin1864 on May 2, 2019 21:40:47 GMT
Fuck it; we might as well submit our application for the 2019/20 WPL season ASAP, we're god-awful.
But there again, I've been saying we're fucking shite since January.
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Post by 1gwaunview on May 3, 2019 9:55:39 GMT
Siomedig iawn, but not surprising. We need a proven goal scorer for next season (easier said than done at this level), and really the team is not as good as the one that got to the Newport County final at Wembley. They tried hard enough and probably deserved to go through overall after a poor first half, although there's sparse quality to this current selection. A poor ref and bad luck played a part too, but in the end simply not good enough!! No idea if/when we'll get back to EFL, it's another sad end to a season in the wilderness.
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Post by massivefloodlights on May 14, 2019 11:39:08 GMT
The league table doesn’t lie. Just 1 point behind Salford and 3 ahead of Fylde. Whilst we naturally put our own club in a goldfish bowl and pick out the faults, clubs around us weren’t a million miles away despite their huge unsustainable budgets. Frustrating but progress.
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Post by robin1864 on May 14, 2019 16:52:47 GMT
The league table doesn’t lie. Just 1 point behind Salford and 3 ahead of Fylde. Whilst we naturally put our own club in a goldfish bowl and pick out the faults, clubs around us weren’t a million miles away despite their huge unsustainable budgets. Frustrating but progress. Getting to the play-offs was sheer luck, when you look at how we play compared to Salford or Fylde, there was no chance we'd beat them in a big game. We lacked any creativity going forward, trying to win games playing route-one football to a front three no taller than 5'6ft, then stuck 10 men behind the ball to grind out a 1-0 win.
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Post by massivefloodlights on May 21, 2019 12:56:18 GMT
The league table doesn’t lie. Just 1 point behind Salford and 3 ahead of Fylde. Whilst we naturally put our own club in a goldfish bowl and pick out the faults, clubs around us weren’t a million miles away despite their huge unsustainable budgets. Frustrating but progress. Getting to the play-offs was sheer luck, when you look at how we play compared to Salford or Fylde, there was no chance we'd beat them in a big game. We lacked any creativity going forward, trying to win games playing route-one football to a front three no taller than 5'6ft, then stuck 10 men behind the ball to grind out a 1-0 win. Sheer luck to get into the play offs?? Seriously? We were 17 points clear of 8th place.. That’s not “sheer luck”
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Post by robin1864 on May 21, 2019 12:58:52 GMT
Getting to the play-offs was sheer luck, when you look at how we play compared to Salford or Fylde, there was no chance we'd beat them in a big game. We lacked any creativity going forward, trying to win games playing route-one football to a front three no taller than 5'6ft, then stuck 10 men behind the ball to grind out a 1-0 win. Sheer luck to get into the play offs?? Seriously? We were 17 points clear of 8th place.. That’s not “sheer luck” Give over. After Ricketts left us high and dry, we were hanging on for dear life and that was reflected in our performances.
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Post by CrackityJones on May 21, 2019 13:13:26 GMT
How can a team 'hang on for dear life' for 2/3 of a season?
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Post by robin1864 on May 21, 2019 13:41:14 GMT
How can a team 'hang on for dear life' for 2/3 of a season? We were a poor attacking side and if we conceded first we'd be in huge trouble. We dropped a lot of crucial points near the end, which no doubt affected morale, and there was just a general sense of "let's get this over with" created both in the stands and on the pitch.
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