Salford win against Eastleigh
- Thread starter Peterdev
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Just to also mention, Brackley Town out of the Conference North playoffs, lost to Spennymoor on penalties.
Woking through to the Conference South playoff final though. Not sure if our loanees played.
Woking through to the Conference South playoff final though. Not sure if our loanees played.
So Fylde v Salford at Wembley, 15k attendance?
Andy Stroud
Level: Dave Langan
(136 Apps, 3 Gls)
I really hope not. It will be another class-of-92 w@nkfest
sadly the playoff final will be exactly so
wonder if Salford Eastleigh playoff result proves prophetic for Eastleigh's former owner SD (& his bag man) ? in that their train set comes off the rails over the 2 leg l1 semi finals?
12 years since Chris Zebroski missed that penalty for us. Reassuring it’s not just us that he misses pens for.
Marked Ox
Level: Mickey Lewis
(351 Apps, 7 Gls)
Whilst I'm not keen on Fylde as they are a hobby/protest* club, I hope they beat Salford for this very reason. Sadly, I can't see past Salford.
*They are a protest club as the owner bought them and spent loads as he failed with his bid for Oyston's Blackpool.
werthersoriginal
Level: James Constable
(280 Apps, 106 Gls)
Why were you pleased about that? Because it involved a bloke who played for us briefly ages ago? I don’t get it. I can understand disliking Salford or any team with a high profile backer but not really Eastleigh
If Salford do indeed get promoted, you feel they've got the potential to actually grow into a fairly sizeable club - picking up disillusioned and/or priced out Man U fans who are lured by the local club steered along by their heroes.
(FC United of Manchester still get crowds of around ~2,000 but they've just been relegated back to the regional leagues, so you have to assume a bunch of them will jump ship...….)
(FC United of Manchester still get crowds of around ~2,000 but they've just been relegated back to the regional leagues, so you have to assume a bunch of them will jump ship...….)
That’s incredibly optimistic!
Fylde won the FA Vase ten years ago (as Kirkham and Wesham) and Salford used to struggle to get 100 fans a game. Amazing what a bit of investment does!
it will be a sad day for league football in England should they attain promotion,.... albeit (currently) unofficial, (Salford not officially manure b team), they conceivably could, quite quickly, with class of 92 involvement, mutate into a prem club b-team!
it would be the first rung of the ladder to Shaun Harvey's B- teams in the EFL ...at the expense of long term lower league clubs IMO
Thomas/Brock/Jones
Level: Steve Basham
(189 Apps, 51 Gls)
Really don't want Salford to do it, can just imagine the smugness if they go up
sadly yes I can ...from every clueless 'only the premier league matters' pundit on every football channel too!
Can just imagine them doing something ridiculous like getting Welbeck in on a free transfer, if they're promoted to League Two.
They'll do something like that.
When they were in the Northern Premier League Division One North (i.e. Tier 8), they signed Danny Webber, one of their old youth teammates from Man U, fresh out of League Two. Unsurprisingly for someone with a couple of hundred Championship games to his name, after dropping down four whole tiers, he was quite effective at their level!
Marked Ox
Level: Mickey Lewis
(351 Apps, 7 Gls)
Some of them have already jumped ship.
mooro
Level: Dave Roberts
(176 Apps, 8 Gls)
Well they have already got Max Crocombe on board!!
Actually, of the four clubs in the playoff semis I think Salford are the one I'd prefer the most to go up (partly for the above reason) but also that there may be at least some substance and sustainability to their presence once they go up - I dont think they will go the way of other train sets of the past if the owner gets bored/goes broke (as I suspect AFC Fylde might do)
Also think the the MU B-team fear is probably overrated - not least because MU seem to be offering their worst players new contracts (Phil Jones anyone?).
Plus, how can anybody resist the prospect of Gary Neville up aginst Sol Campbell in a relegation battle next season?
Overall, as much as I dislike Cardiff and Swansea for their lame attempts in the top flight I would not have minded seeing Wrexham return, and from a personal perspective it would have been nice to get another Birmingham team in the league, but overall will take Salford
