Match Day National League Fixtures - 25/01/2020 (and Tuesday 28/01 fixtures)

[B2TF]

I'd like to thank Stockport for ripping us a new arsehole on Boxing Day and giving us the jolt we needed, but most of all for not being bothered about Devante Rodney and allowing him to come back to where he belongs.

 

[Shotsfan1993]

We've released Koue Niate and rumour has it he's headed your way, so there's your other centre back.

He's big and strong and a lovely chap but you can rely on him to balls something up in most games.

Looked good tonight - not sure if that was down to him or Eastleigh being toothless (Rendell spent most of the game playing in midfield, which was extremely odd).

We were the more likely to score, and did at least force their keeper into a couple of saves, but a bore 0-0 was a fair result really.

11 points to safety now then we can write this season off

 

[karlready]

All the shit from Aldershot. And Eastleigh. And the ref was poor, too.
Entertainment? Waste of time and money.
Really pissed off, in case you didn’t notice....

 

[Wooderson]

Relieved but surprised we didn’t end the night outside the playoffs. Seems pretty much anyone can beat anyone in this division - with the exception of Barrow!

 

[simonfromsurrey]

Dogshit from us last night at Ebbsfleet. We've never won there and never will

Their first win since November which tells you how awful we were

 

[doveranddover]

not a good start to a run of away games
Stockport, Barrow [& at home next Tues], Eastleigh & Solihull to play away in Feb
Thankfully we are 10pts from the bottom 4, still only 3 pts from 7th somehow

effiong has 1 goal in 2 months, rigg 1 goal all season
still need to sign 2 strikers....

 

[AJS]

not a good start to a run of away games
Stockport, Barrow [& at home next Tues], Eastleigh & Solihull to play away in Feb
Thankfully we are 10pts from the bottom 4, still only 3 pts from 7th somehow

effiong has 1 goal in 2 months, rigg 1 goal all season
still need to sign 2 strikers....

Thought you played well last night. One of the rare teams to actually come at us and make it a good game to watch. Better finishing at 0-0 and 1-1 and it could have been a different game.

As soon as Allen came on though, it was one way traffic. Your defence couldn’t deal with him. He was a man on a mission last night. Presumably with Dover being his former club.

 

[Redbank]

We should have been home and dry by half time, could see a lot for our third goal to be wiped off, comical own goals though , but Effiong is shite and has been all season

 

[B2TF]

Gotta ask if the Stockport gaffer knows what he's doing when he plays Rodders on the wing: https://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/match-info/match-centre/1-4853407

 

[Optipez]

Why can't people see that increasing it to 3 up to make it "easier" to get promoted makes it easier to get relegated too? There are already way to many Great and Historic Football League clubs down here and way to many Mickey Mouse non league outfits that have been permitted to BUY a place in the Football League.

It's a competitive league not a cartel for clubs with a fan base.
I'd like to see Div 2 North and south, National League subsumed into it. More derbies, less ridiculous travel,less expenditure for clubs and fans.

 

[B2TF]

It's a competitive league not a cartel for clubs with a fan base.
I'd like to see Div 2 North and south, National League subsumed into it. More derbies, less ridiculous travel,less expenditure for clubs and fans.

Clubs should be self sustaining, not a hobby for some rich bastard to indulge his vanity. No club should EVER be allowed to buy its way into the greatest league in the world.

I agree with the L2 North and South proposal, its something I've been advocating for at least 3 years- It's good to know somebody was listening.

 

[Optipez]

Clubs should be self sustaining, not a hobby for some rich bastard to indulge his vanity. No club should EVER be allowed to buy its way into the greatest league in the world.

I agree with the L2 North and South proposal, its something I've been advocating for at least 3 years- It's good to know somebody was listening.

Hardly any clubs in the top 100 from Liverpool down are self sustaining. If a wealthy owner wishes to indulge his passion at Salford, Leicester or here at Notts, (no way are we breaking even) I've no real problem with it.
What I do have a problem with is when the money pumped in is through loans rather than gifts leaving the club up the swanny when the owner either can't or won't fund it any longer.
The alternative is supporters at Fylde, Histon or Forest Green would never have their moments in the sun, we would never have graced the top division, Leicester would never have won the Premiership.

 

[B2TF]

Hardly any clubs in the top 100 from Liverpool down are self sustaining. If a wealthy owner wishes to indulge his passion at Salford, Leicester or here at Notts, (no way are we breaking even) I've no real problem with it.
What I do have a problem with is when the money pumped in is through loans rather than gifts leaving the club up the swanny when the owner either can't or won't fund it any longer.
The alternative is supporters at Fylde, Histon or Forest Green would never have their moments in the sun, we would never have graced the top division, Leicester would never have won the Premiership.

"Graced" is not a word I would choose to use in this scenario. Fylde, Histon and Forest Green etc supporters haven't earned their "moments in the sun". 90% of their "fans" only showed up after the money went in.

It's not usually paying off loans that is the problem when a benefactor quits, it's the fact that the club is left high and dry with a wage bill several leagues higher than can be sustained on the club's supporter base. In the meantime they've pushed clubs that try to run themselves properly closer to the edge as they try to compete.

Max Griggs left Rushden debt free, in League 1, from which they dropped like a stone into oblivion, within 4 years. As for those in the top 100 you refer to, if there is nobody chucking money in, which I suspect is the case at the majority of clubs, and they are still in business, they ARE self sustaining, although no doubt struggling to pay the inflated wages demanded in a market distorted by clubs with an unlimited supply of Arab and Russian oil money. I'm not aware that it is the norm for a Football League club to have a "benefactor", certainly not to extent that was the case at, say, Gateshead whose owner admitted the club would need average gates of 3000 every week to generate the income he was putting in, at a time when they were getting 600.

I've no quarrel with clubs that progress on the back of their fan base, like Chorley, who we first encountered in Unibond First Division North in 2009, when they were getting home gates of 200. They tapped into their latent local support and were soon getting gates of 1000+ which enabled them to rise up 3 full divisions. The town DESERVES the success that their support has enabled, nobody BOUGHT it for them, unlike the examples you have quoted.