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Correction: you’ve shone a light on your own idiocy.
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Think they mentioned on Humberside it’s equalled our longest unbeaten start to a season which was back in the 1930’s!
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Starbuck needs a deserved mention too, thought he was excellent filling in at centre back.
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Agree about Dawson. Equaled Becks Iron career flick ons, hold ups and goals in 25 minutes.
Plus a lovely knock down for the 2nd, so has now eclipsed the number of Beck’s goal contributions in less than an hour.
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Was a bit surprised by Dawson starting but he’s been excellent so far…and what a finish!
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Should be fully committed with a basic formation of 442.
Why? We’re unbeaten in the league and have played pretty much a 4-3-3 every game.
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One thing that this game highlighted is that it is abundantly clear that Beck should be nowhere near a football pitch. Can’t run, can’t beat 18 year olds in the air, outmuscled by 18 year olds, just generally can’t keep up with play!
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He was brilliant and kept us in the game, especially the first half. Deserved chants of “Rory Rory Watson” at multiple points throughout the game. Clearly distraught at the end, being consoled by FGR players which I thought was a nice touch on their part. If he didn’t fumble that at the end it probably would have been the best goalkeeping performance I’ve seen since his heroics at home vs Carlisle in 2020.
I definitely had a grumble when we brought him back but he’s looked the part so far and long may it continue.
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Scandalous that Starbuck and Horton are still suspended.
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Here’s a working link to their rulebook.
https://www.ncefl.org.uk/league/rules/downloads/NCEL_League_Rules_2025-26.pdf
Nothing in there about having to have a certain reason for applying rule 8.38. Just walk off the pitch if you’re losing.
“In the event of a match being abandoned due to the conduct of one Club or its members or supporters, the Board has the power to order that either: (a) the original match stands as a completed match, (b) the match is replayed (and the terms upon which the match is replayed), or (c) the match is not replayed, and to award either one or three points to the Club not at fault. The Board cannot levy a financial penalty due to the conduct of a Club.”
Suggests they would have been well within their “rules” to award us a 2-1 win as a “completed match”.
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Really struggling to get my head around the goals being wiped. Surely it sets the precedent that if you’re losing towards the end of a game you just walk off the pitch and refuse to play. You’ll still get zero points but will be as if you never conceded.
Or a final game showdown between two teams vying for promotion/playoff spot/safety…one team needs to beat the other by 2 goals and are 5-0 up…nah just walk off the pitch.
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Replaying the Eastleigh game – correct decision.
Getting 3 points for Wealdstone – correct decision.
BUT
Wiping off the goals scored/conceded is a mad decision! We’ve effectively been punished whilst Wealdstone have benefited. If it were UEFA we would have received a 3-0 victory similar to Romania vs Kosovo when the Kosovo players walked off the pitch and refused to play. Obviously the NL seems things differently.
At the end of the season if we’re about to get relegated or drop out of the playoffs on goal difference you just walk off the pitch and refuse to play…job done. Absolutely bonkers!
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