Not sure about the "blue card" but otherwise it is a very good idea. Its been in place in lower league organised football (level 9 at least) and seems to help.
Thanks @DevC, that’s a really helpful insight. When we are down in Cornwall for holidays we go to watch Wadebridge and Camelford, our ‘local’ teams in the South West Peninsula League. It’s always a good ‘craic’ but feels like they would struggle to go higher which I guess would be the Western League (?) requiring a great amount of travelling?
I have family very close to Falmouth, I'm not surprised they get good support, it's a very vibrant town all year round. Close to Truro as well, also, I always find this strange but they have a fair amount of students down there as part of Exeter University is based there for some reason.
Well @Forest_Blue , you may very soon regret asking the question……
Teams of Wadebridge level play in the SWPL, the same level as Amersham, and is basically for clubs from Devon and Cornwall. Until about five (?) years ago the league operated in a classic two division - premier and league one - system. But travel distances could be horrendous - Penzance to Honiton is 120 miles each way equivalent to sending Amersham to Nottingham for a league game. So they flipped it instead playing in two regionalised leagues - essentially a Cornish league and a Devon league. This solved to some extent the travel problems but does mean there are quite big gaps in playing standard within each division. This season Ivybridge in the East have won 19 of 21 games and St Austell and Liskeard have won 40 of 43 games not against each other.
Clubs winning each division promote into the Western League Premier. Geographically that league has changed rapidly in recent years moving very much South Westerly. The league stretches from the bottom of Cornwall to Bristol which means clubs can face fairly regular 300 mile round trips sometimes on a Tuesday evening. Remember the players have full time jobs. That is proving a particular problem for the Bristol Clubs both financially - often the cost of the next away trip travel cost is higher than this weeks home gate receipts - and in terms of player retention who tend to drift to Northern Bristol clubs who play in less geographically wide leagues. Good Bristol clubs are dying as a result. Last year there was a proposal to merge the SWPL and Western League and split it geographically into a Devon and Cornwall League and a Bristol league which made sense but fell apart due to league management egos. I suspect the FA will impose it in the next few years. At that point I would have thought Wadebridge and Camelford may naturally be yo-yo clubs between the premier and league one of the new Devon and Cornwall League.
Ahh, yes. But, actually we're both right, I had to check but Penryn campus on edge of Falmouth is shared by both Falmouth and Exeter. So I'm actually glad I didn't just dream that up.
First image is the National Football Youth League (U23), second is National League U19 Alliance. He's just turned 18 this weekend, probably would have played for their first team by now if not for their manager being poached by Notts County and the new boss not wanting to shake up the squad much, and the fact Wealdstone's ground is painfully ill equipped for 2020s British Winters so virtually all their home games have been postponed. I think he's worth monitoring.
I went to Bradford Park Avenue vs Ashton United in the Northern Premier League today. 500+ in attendance. Wet conditions, proper old school ground but with a modern 3g pitch used widely by the community. Ashton took the lead with a header from a corner. Jake Daniels on loan from Blackpool equalised for BPA with a screamer late on. Ashton should have had a red card in the first half after a horror challenge but the ref bottled it and gave a yellow. Bradford PA's Edy Maeico hugely impressed on the right hand side. P.S The cheeseburger and chips was great value!
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Not sure about the "blue card" but otherwise it is a very good idea. Its been in place in lower league organised football (level 9 at least) and seems to help.
Thanks @DevC, that’s a really helpful insight. When we are down in Cornwall for holidays we go to watch Wadebridge and Camelford, our ‘local’ teams in the South West Peninsula League. It’s always a good ‘craic’ but feels like they would struggle to go higher which I guess would be the Western League (?) requiring a great amount of travelling?
I have family very close to Falmouth, I'm not surprised they get good support, it's a very vibrant town all year round. Close to Truro as well, also, I always find this strange but they have a fair amount of students down there as part of Exeter University is based there for some reason.
Well @Forest_Blue , you may very soon regret asking the question……
Teams of Wadebridge level play in the SWPL, the same level as Amersham, and is basically for clubs from Devon and Cornwall. Until about five (?) years ago the league operated in a classic two division - premier and league one - system. But travel distances could be horrendous - Penzance to Honiton is 120 miles each way equivalent to sending Amersham to Nottingham for a league game. So they flipped it instead playing in two regionalised leagues - essentially a Cornish league and a Devon league. This solved to some extent the travel problems but does mean there are quite big gaps in playing standard within each division. This season Ivybridge in the East have won 19 of 21 games and St Austell and Liskeard have won 40 of 43 games not against each other.
Clubs winning each division promote into the Western League Premier. Geographically that league has changed rapidly in recent years moving very much South Westerly. The league stretches from the bottom of Cornwall to Bristol which means clubs can face fairly regular 300 mile round trips sometimes on a Tuesday evening. Remember the players have full time jobs. That is proving a particular problem for the Bristol Clubs both financially - often the cost of the next away trip travel cost is higher than this weeks home gate receipts - and in terms of player retention who tend to drift to Northern Bristol clubs who play in less geographically wide leagues. Good Bristol clubs are dying as a result. Last year there was a proposal to merge the SWPL and Western League and split it geographically into a Devon and Cornwall League and a Bristol league which made sense but fell apart due to league management egos. I suspect the FA will impose it in the next few years. At that point I would have thought Wadebridge and Camelford may naturally be yo-yo clubs between the premier and league one of the new Devon and Cornwall League.
Do you regret asking now?
You mean Falmouth University?
Ahh, yes. But, actually we're both right, I had to check but Penryn campus on edge of Falmouth is shared by both Falmouth and Exeter. So I'm actually glad I didn't just dream that up.
I didn't know that. Makes sense though.
No, not at all. That is very helpful @DevC and we will see what develops. Let’s hope to see Devonian and Cornish players playing for England soon.
Cornish born players have played more games for Eire than they have the England men’s team.
70 yard goal as Hertford Town beat Kempston Rovers 3-1 yesterday.
https://twitter.com/HertfordTownFC/status/1756626106885583291?t=kEUOLdhUzzJBK0vEfARUcg&s=19
Ben Herd, player manager at Hertford, now 38. Played against us a number of times for Shrewsbury and Aldershot.
Mr and Mrs Herd really should know better than calling their newborn son “Ben”
Better than naming him "Cattle"
He'd have had a lonely life if they'd named him Goat
Calling him Nott would have made 'Children should be seen....." baffling to him.
A similar distance goal at Stranraer yesterday.
'Magnificent' - Stranraer player scores from 60 yards - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/68270037
You were saying...
Truth is stranger than fiction! They only got through to the knockouts because Ghana conceded twice in injury time, too!
Ivory Coast's AFCON victory was extraordinary and surely unprecedented given they sacked the manager after they weren'r eliminated in the group stage.
First image is the National Football Youth League (U23), second is National League U19 Alliance. He's just turned 18 this weekend, probably would have played for their first team by now if not for their manager being poached by Notts County and the new boss not wanting to shake up the squad much, and the fact Wealdstone's ground is painfully ill equipped for 2020s British Winters so virtually all their home games have been postponed. I think he's worth monitoring.
Mansfield are beating Harrogate 9-2!
They only won 9-2. Pathetic.
Love that Harrogate scored their 2 so quickly together. Thinking the big comeback was on.
Maidstone have sold out their 4,800 allocation at Coventry in the FA Cup on Monday week. Impressive.
Very impressive. Especially given its midweek and basically a repeat of their fourth round tie.
@oilysailor will be singing Nick Hornby's praises
Cheltenham with a huge win over Port Vale at the bottom. The relegation battle may be more alive than I’d predicted.
I went to Bradford Park Avenue vs Ashton United in the Northern Premier League today. 500+ in attendance. Wet conditions, proper old school ground but with a modern 3g pitch used widely by the community. Ashton took the lead with a header from a corner. Jake Daniels on loan from Blackpool equalised for BPA with a screamer late on. Ashton should have had a red card in the first half after a horror challenge but the ref bottled it and gave a yellow. Bradford PA's Edy Maeico hugely impressed on the right hand side. P.S The cheeseburger and chips was great value!
Here's the goal...https://twitter.com/BPAFCOfficial/status/1758917642168025490