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by H1987
Tue May 16, 2023 8:58 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: National League North 23/24 - FA League Allocations
Replies: 46
Views: 7524

Re: National League North 23/24 - FA League Allocations

It's not emotional though, it's a consequence of the stupid system they have put into the step below ours where they gave four leagues parity despite three of the four being southern leagues. The inevitable consequence is that it further imbalances our level. It's not only unfair to clubs like ours...
by H1987
Tue May 16, 2023 8:51 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: National League North 23/24 - FA League Allocations
Replies: 46
Views: 7524

Re: National League North 23/24 - FA League Allocations

It's not emotional though, it's a consequence of the stupid system they have put into the step below ours where they gave four leagues parity despite three of the four being southern leagues. The inevitable consequence is that it further imbalances our level. It's not only unfair to clubs like ours...
by H1987
Tue May 16, 2023 8:49 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: 23/24 Festive Fixture Pairing
Replies: 4
Views: 1155

Re: 23/24 Festive Fixture Pairing

Depressingly it will almost certainly be Spennymoor. Would far prefer Shields or Blyth. Scarborough and Scunny are much further away and I can't imagine them being in the running.
by H1987
Tue May 16, 2023 8:47 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Darlington United
Replies: 18
Views: 3757

Re: Darlington United

No one is going to go and watch them and they will die. I don't know who is funding it but it strikes me that it's a bored Man United fan. Are Salford and 'FC United' not enough for them?
by H1987
Mon May 15, 2023 12:06 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: National League North 23/24 - FA League Allocations
Replies: 46
Views: 7524

Re: National League North 23/24 - FA League Allocations

It's not emotional though, it's a consequence of the stupid system they have put into the step below ours where they gave four leagues parity despite three of the four being southern leagues. The inevitable consequence is that it further imbalances our level. It's not only unfair to clubs like ourse...
by H1987
Fri May 12, 2023 8:34 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Meeting with board
Replies: 121
Views: 20229

Re: Meeting with board

Yeah kind of agree with the above. What was the point?

The stadium vagueness is particularly tedious. Presumably they now have to find time to concoct an excuse because the town didn’t vote as instructed.
by H1987
Mon May 01, 2023 11:24 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Players on radar
Replies: 53
Views: 10524

Re: Players on radar

I think it’s clear we need to have a whole squad approach. While I think Alun has clearly identified some good players we’ve frequently lost them for frankly non-consequential amounts of money and the team has badly suffered as a consequence. Beck, Charman, Hatfield all being very obvious examples w...
by H1987
Mon Apr 24, 2023 11:39 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: So Faverdale or Skerningham
Replies: 133
Views: 26449

Re: So Faverdale or Skerningham

Maybe there’s some local assets he can give away for £100 like the teesport… if a change of council endangers the plan, it seems to me that it either might not be a good plan, or it’s tied up in dodgy mates rates deals. You mean like labour did with the sale of Teesside Airport to Peel? Citation ne...
by H1987
Mon Apr 24, 2023 5:53 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Who stays and who goes
Replies: 172
Views: 22708

Re: Who stays and who goes

A mess at the back, and our entire success/style of play was fixated on one player - who AA would have known had a clause in his contract to leave. The manager, i'm afraid, has to take responsibility for both of those. We are no different to plenty of other clubs who lose key players to clubs above...
by H1987
Mon Apr 24, 2023 1:17 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Who stays and who goes
Replies: 172
Views: 22708

Re: Who stays and who goes

I think he has to stay but I think there needs to be agreement on expected progression because, frankly, I think we wouldn't have been happy to have not made the playoffs once since he has been appointed to the role if we went back in our time machines. Being competitive for the playoffs in this lea...
by H1987
Mon Apr 24, 2023 1:12 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: So Faverdale or Skerningham
Replies: 133
Views: 26449

Re: So Faverdale or Skerningham

Maybe there’s some local assets he can give away for £100 like the teesport… if a change of council endangers the plan, it seems to me that it either might not be a good plan, or it’s tied up in dodgy mates rates deals. You mean like labour did with the sale of Teesside Airport to Peel? Citation ne...
by H1987
Sun Apr 23, 2023 11:39 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: AA has to go now surely
Replies: 98
Views: 12744

Re: AA has to go now surely

Flip a coin for me. Still has my backing but I can’t say I’d be overly upset if he went either.
by H1987
Sun Apr 23, 2023 11:38 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: We Can Still Reach Play-offs Ginge.
Replies: 16
Views: 3877

Re: We Can Still Reach Play-offs Ginge.

Honestly we would only get walloped anyway…
by H1987
Sun Apr 23, 2023 11:37 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: So Faverdale or Skerningham
Replies: 133
Views: 26449

Re: So Faverdale or Skerningham

To be fair Skerningham is a very unpopular development for locals in that area and the more that comes out about the land owners Corney and his crew and local elections in May I just can’t see it happening. So that leaves Faverdale which is miles out of town and all that traffic going through West ...
by H1987
Mon Jan 16, 2023 11:49 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Scarborough Away - Mon 2nd Jan (SOLD OUT)
Replies: 133
Views: 22261

Re: Scarborough Away - Mon 2nd Jan (SOLD OUT)

By way of a comparison, a Football Banning Order in the courts will be for a minimum period of two years, up to a maximum of ten. The purpose of a ban is to prevent future disorder, and rehabilitation doesn’t come into it. 12 months seems a little on the lenient side (in my opinion). I just don't a...
by H1987
Mon Jan 16, 2023 11:47 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: So Faverdale or Skerningham
Replies: 133
Views: 26449

Re: So Faverdale or Skerningham

I honestly don’t think it’s a great location for the football club, but Christ NIMBY campaigners drive me nuts. Said NIMBY in chief quoted as saying the site is being proposed for ‘no good reason’. It strikes me that over 1,500 homes in a country with a severe shortage of housing is a rather good re...
by H1987
Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:24 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Scarborough Away - Mon 2nd Jan (SOLD OUT)
Replies: 133
Views: 22261

Re: Scarborough Away - Mon 2nd Jan (SOLD OUT)

Coming back to the earlier point of normalised Homophobia and misogyny in football, I'm not sure if anyone has the Man United game on, but some pretty audible chanting of 'Chelsea rent boy' there... let's see if any action is taken.
by H1987
Wed Jan 04, 2023 1:29 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Scarborough Away - Mon 2nd Jan (SOLD OUT)
Replies: 133
Views: 22261

Re: Scarborough Away - Mon 2nd Jan (SOLD OUT)

I don’t think that would’ve done anything to prevent this. Idiots are idiots. What’s important is not excusing their behavior. Their age is, of course, irrelevant, but it’s merely an observation of how terms like ‘snowflake’ are thrown around by those who should often know better and are just being ...
by H1987
Wed Jan 04, 2023 1:27 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Tipping point in this league?
Replies: 6
Views: 1436

Re: Tipping point in this league?

There’s some bonkers finances at this level (and to an extent the level above). Some of this is all a weird imbalance because you have former football league clubs like ourselves who fell on hard times down here and a collection of overfunded micro-clubs with very few real fans. I don’t begrudge the...
by H1987
Tue Jan 03, 2023 8:23 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Scarborough Away - Mon 2nd Jan (SOLD OUT)
Replies: 133
Views: 22261

Re: Scarborough Away - Mon 2nd Jan (SOLD OUT)

There were a handful of sexist comments made early on but these seemed to stop after the first delay. If the official had continued the second half on the same line she probably wouldn’t have had any more comments made. The fact she swapped lines left her open to the same thing happening with the h...
by H1987
Mon Jan 02, 2023 11:26 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Scarborough Away - Mon 2nd Jan (SOLD OUT)
Replies: 133
Views: 22261

Re: Scarborough Away - Mon 2nd Jan (SOLD OUT)

Obviously the problem is misogynists, it's just that the idiots will misbehave more if they think they can get away with it, and a few more police officers dotted around would help. Some of the recent crowds have been around 3000, this number of people is way more than normal and warrants more poli...
by H1987
Mon Jan 02, 2023 11:13 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: New ground - an idea
Replies: 10
Views: 2166

Re: New ground - an idea

With our away form this season compared to our home form, how about we just sack off building a new ground, save the cash, and just play everyone away from home twice each season and become full time nomads? We'd be unstoppable. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk Fine for the points, but somew...
by H1987
Wed Dec 21, 2022 2:25 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: 2,300 tickets sold for Boxing day as of 18th Dec (Now 2,700 pre-sold - ONLY 3 STANDING TICKETS LEFT FOR DARLO FANS)
Replies: 108
Views: 19793

Re: 2,300 tickets sold for Boxing day as of 18th Dec (Now 2,400 pre-sold)

"THE if your less than 6ft the view is s*** more so for the 500 away fans ." Fold up steps or milk crates then!! Not with the grass bank. It's worse for the home fans. You're stuffed if you're under 6ft and not in the Tin-Shed or seated stand. That said, the last time we had much larger home attend...
by H1987
Wed Nov 23, 2022 11:00 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Kit vote
Replies: 25
Views: 4382

Re: Kit vote

Really like A. I don't understand the perpetual moaning about the kit 'being the same'. It's clearly not the same, it is a different hooped kit. Other teams in hoops don't whine about this, so I don't understand why some of our fans do. I don't understand the thinking behind why some random white ki...
by H1987
Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:09 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: ITV
Replies: 20
Views: 3261

Re: ITV

Really good article all very positive. My only concern about Skerningham is it’s very unpopular locally and in next Mays election if there’s a change of council to Labour I can see the whole scheme being scrapped. We need to vote Tory for the good of the football club. My fears exactly about Labour...
by H1987
Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:56 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: York city
Replies: 40
Views: 6196

Re: York city

What a mess. I can't imagine any manager in work wanting to chance their luck with that job, and I include AA in that. Like Jonathan Greening, he's doing well with a secure job and stable board. Why would either of them risk it for that? I can't see why Mike Williamson would either. I would be fearf...
by H1987
Sat Nov 05, 2022 6:50 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Kidderminster V Darlington
Replies: 45
Views: 7663

Re: Kidderminster V Darlington

Best result so far. I just hope no one comes after Beck.
by H1987
Mon Oct 31, 2022 3:00 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: So Faverdale or Skerningham
Replies: 133
Views: 26449

Re: So Faverdale or Skerningham

I'm absolutely sure it would be used and there would be *some* demand, but again, expectations should be tempered. Solid bookings every night of the week for 5 hours isn't realistic at all. In reality, i'd expect the 7-8 and 8-9 to be popular several nights of the week. 5-6 people are at work, 6 a l...
by H1987
Fri Oct 28, 2022 12:13 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: So Faverdale or Skerningham
Replies: 133
Views: 26449

Re: So Faverdale or Skerningham

Just to add a couple of further points from the recent fans' forum with DJ - and these are only my interpretations of what DJ was saying. He mentioned that the 4G pitch could / should be the first part of a new stadium development to be built - hopefully providing a revenue stream for the club up-f...
by H1987
Thu Oct 27, 2022 12:25 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Buxton v Darlo
Replies: 88
Views: 10743

Re: Buxton v Darlo

Can we maybe not panic? We've had an outstanding start to the season, and this is a minor wobble. A win on Saturday and everyone is happy again.