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Conference Play Offs the view of Mac - themaclad - 01-05-2017
Tranmere
Should not really be at this level about five years ago came to Deepdale as top of League 1 they did a lot of bragging before the game, that stopped as they plunged down the leagues. Good manager in Mellon, got promotion at this level once before.
Forest Green Rovers
Artificial club with frig all support, should be disbanded straight away.
Dagenham
Astonishing that they ever managed to get to the league in the first place, not wildly subscibed with support but obviously well run as a club. Decent manager with John Still, plenty of experience have some experience within the squad in Benson and Gutteridge.
Aldershot
Only went there once lost 4-0 season we finished next to bottom of the then league 4, Claridge played for them. Terry Gray was substituted at half time and was never ever seen again. Waddock good manager, picks up young cast offs from other clubs and gives them a chance.
Winners
To close to call, think Trannie should do it, as long as it is not Veggie Burger Rovers.
RE: Conference Play Offs the view of Mac - Lord Snooty - 01-05-2017
Tranmere should get this easily enough, but as we know, it doesn't always work out how it should in the play offs.
RE: Conference Play Offs the view of Mac - Devongone - 01-05-2017
Interesting idea that Mickey Mellon is a good manager. It never struck me before. Tramcar are the biggest club.
Is John Still the managing-most manager in England? They have a very good midfielder I'd like at Chesterfield called Corey Whitely if the Daggers don't make it up ....
Aldershot have a good loanee called Benyu, but they were never very exciting as a league club.
Forest Green, artificial is harsh. They've been around 128 years, disbanding them because their current success is built on solar and wind power seems a bit tough. Nailsworth is too small for the EFL but their owner was planning a new stadium at Stonehouse. They've got Christian Doidge, Keanu Marsh-Brown? That right?Cheltenham need a local derby. Traditionally Forest Green fall at the final hurdle but I reckon it is time the Forest of Dene was known for something other than incest, wild boar and Dennis Potter. I'm going Green (but not politically). Went to a good gay wedding in Nailsworth too.
RE: Conference Play Offs the view of Mac - themaclad - 01-05-2017
Not harsh at all Devon, they paid agent fees of over £140,000 trying to buy the league, which in my view is not the non league way. AFC Wimbledon and Burton have not been bankrolled just very well run clubs who have worked their way through leagues as it should be.
The disbanding bit was tongue in cheek
RE: Conference Play Offs the view of Mac - Devongone - 01-05-2017
A lotta lotta (to quote Cilla Black) league clubs would envy having £140,000 to fritter on agents and some like Accrington don't attract much better crowds than Forest Green.
What is the non-league way, acquiescing to the EFL by remaining third rate to its second rate? I think 128 years is serving your time at least as much as some disaffected abandoned Wombles clubbing together a few years ago and installing a telephone hacker at centre forward to get them through the lower leagues and now killing greyhound racing in the London area to get another stadium.
I thought everyone's tongue was in their cheek on here. One hesitates to think where else it might be.
In truth football fans should accept Milton Keynes needs a league team and London and its burbs already had/has loads. Wimbledon wasn't re-born out of jellied eels and romantic cockney characters. The EFL would be better off with a York City or a Halifax than a Nailsworth or Bromley or a Borehamwood or a Wimbledon. And a Hartlepool or Newport would beat a Nailsworth or Dagenham or Crawley any day for me. Burton can't sustain Championship football any more than Fleetwood could, but they might be there together. And what is so different about the way Fleetwood and Forest Green came through the leagues?
RE: Conference Play Offs the view of Mac - themaclad - 03-05-2017
Like the quote about tongue in cheek!!!!
I'm a traditionalist I like the old ways of doing it.
Aldershot 0 Tranmere 3
RE: Conference Play Offs the view of Mac - Amelia Chaffinch - 03-05-2017
I'm rooting for Halifax.
RE: Conference Play Offs the view of Mac - themaclad - 03-05-2017
1 up at the moment
RE: Conference Play Offs the view of Mac - Amelia Chaffinch - 03-05-2017
Yeah, I get updates on the 365 app. It's away, too.
RE: Conference Play Offs the view of Mac - themaclad - 03-05-2017
I use the in play section as well only for looking at scores mind you nothing else