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DAZN?
Chipped fire stick?

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CR10 anyone?

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SUFC season preview by Stones Goals.
Best preview I’ve seen. Good work.

SUFC Renaissance

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National League calculator – input your match predictions to generate a week by week table… or just input the Irons fixtures

I did our fixtures and ended up on 58 points – which was fourteenth place last season.

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Group D:
Leeds United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Sunderland, Boston United, Halifax Town, Gateshead, Scunthorpe United.

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Non League Insider say:

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A more realistic assessment by the Fylde Guy?:

16th: Scunthorpe United
A week ago I had Scunthorpe a couple of places higher, but on reflection I think I may have been slightly overrating their squad.
Looking at the Iron’s squad there are plenty of players that are very capable of holding their own at National League level. The likes of Mark Beck and Danny Whitehall are proven goalscorers at this level previously and elsewhere they have a good amount of experience of the National League calling on players like Joe Rowley, Callum Roberts, Will Evans and Andrew Boyce. Mixed with promising youngsters like loanee Dubem Eze and Oli Ewing signed permanently from Leicester City there’s definitely potential there, but they’re also a way off being able to compete towards the top just yet. It will be interesting to see if Declan Howe can manage the step up after scoring almost 40 goals for Gainsborough Trinity at step three last season. Billy Chadwick returning once again on loan from York City is also a huge boost.
In managing their way through a tricky play-off campaign manager Andy Butler has shown that he’s capable of preparing his players well both physically and tactically for important games and I do see them being able to pick up more than enough wins to comfortably survive. Unfortunately though I think there are still limitations to their squad which will probably mean they aren’t challenging the top ten or play-off spot, but in their first season back the primary objective for the club is to ensure their survival in the National League as quickly and as stress free as possible. They’re certainly a club with big potential to get back into the EFL over the coming years, but it’s not going to be any time in the near future.

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4-4-2 say:

8th SCUNTHORPE – “They had to go through the play-offs, but the Iron are back in the National League – albeit without goalkeeper Ross Fitzsimons, whose club-record 26 clean sheets earned him a move to League One Northampton.
Branden Horton brings National League pedigree, while there’s a chance for Declan Howe, who hit 67 goals in Gainsborough Trinity’s last two campaigns.
8th placed”

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Gk Campbell

Rb Rose
Cb Evans
Cb Boyce
Lb Denton

Rm CR10
Cm Ewing
Cm Beestin
Lm Eze

Cf Whitehall
Cf Howe

Gut: Lambs 2-1 Iron
Heart: Lambs 1-2 Iron
Head: Lambs 1-1 Iron

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Let’s hope we’re going out to score rather than to stop them scoring?

Gk Campbell

Rb Rose
Cb Evans
Cb Boyce
Lb Denton

Rm CR10
Cm Ewing
Cm Beestin
Lm Eze

Cf Whitehall
Cf Howe

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One to keep an eye on?:

Real Bedford FC

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Tamworth’s pre-season friendlies:

LICHFIELD CITY 0-1 TAMWORTH
QUORN 1-1 TAMWORTH
WORKSOP TOWN 0-3 TAMWORTH
BANBURY UTD 0-1 TAMWORTH
TAMWORTH 0-2 BARROW
TAMWORTH 3-2 STOKE U21
TAMWORTH 5-0 FLEETWOOD TOWN U21
TAMWORTH 3-0 ASTON VILLA U21
LEAMINGTON 2-1 TAMWORTH

[Capitals, apologies – copy & paste-ish]

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Awaywego wrote:

Ain’t bet in years on footy, are they paying places Rene and if so how many.

I’ll stick place odds up tomorrow.
Apparently there has been a lot of bets on Boston to secure a place – third highest bet selection / placement in the NL.

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The opening day results of last season’s promoted newbies to the NL:

Oldham 3-0 Braintree (17)
(18) Yeovil 0-1 Hartlepool
(19) Boston 0-3 Rochdale
(10) Tamworth 1-1 Sutton

Finishing positions are in brackets.

A point will be a great result on Saturday.

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Awaywego wrote:

FourFourTwo have us down to finish 8th in the league, I’ll be disappointed if we just miss out on the playoffs if they’re correct.
But will do all the same.

Matches the bookies thoughts:

York City 7/4
Carlisle 11/4

Forest Green 8/1
Rochdale 12/1
Southend 14/1

Hartlepool 33/1
Scunthorpe 40/1

Gateshead 50/1
Sutton United 50/1
Altrincham 50/1
Halifax 50/1
Tamworth 50/1

Morecambe 66/1
Solihull Moors 66/1
Woking 66/1
Yeovil 66/1

Boston Utd 80/1
Eastleigh 80/1

Aldershot 100/1
Braintree Town 100/1

Wealdstone 200/1

Brackley Town 250/1
Boreham Wood 250/1
Truro City 250/1

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Tour de Poland started today.
The 82nd edition.
Only 8 stages.
A mere 1,075km.
This is the 28th event of this year’s UCI World Tour.

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Tamworth 11/10
Draw 24/10
Scunthorpe 22/10

[Sun 3rd Aug]

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Rene Artois wrote:

Lost at home 0-3 against Tamworth a couple of weeks ago.

Worksop 0-3 Tamworth
Worksop 1-1 Scunthorpe

Hopefully, we’re ready for the off next week?

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Rene Artois wrote:

Underwhelming might be an over exaggeration?

We’ll get a shock when we come up against the NL teams if this is the standard / level of prep!

Sat, Jul 12th – Cleethorpes (A) – 2pm
Tue, Jul 15th – Crowle (A) – 7pm
Sat, Jul 19th – Gainsborough (A) – TBC
Sat, Aug 2nd – Worksop Town (A) – 3pm

So, where are we now?

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Awaywego wrote:

We where only told yesterday that we had the fanbase.

Championship 2010-11 ave Att: 5,548
NLN 2024-25 ave Att: 4,117
We have a limited fan base.

We had a bigger average attendance than all but 3 clubs in the NL last season.

We did

We had the income from said attendance.

Directors subsidising to the tune of £65k a month?

We have a squad that is now deemed big enough to compete in another cup that we didn’t have to enter.

A ‘competition’ to give game time to the ‘B’ players who aren’t featuring weekly in NL games.

Those games will be better than drop of the hat behind closed doors friendlies for the ‘stiffs’

We have a wage cap that allowed us to keep Whitehall and Roberts.

the same that allows the majority of ‘supporters’ to flail our keepers and as the season progresses, a few more players, in public stocks.

The two keepers are experiencing all the fun of the fair – but only as Aunt Sally!

Can’t really remember ever having ‘our’ club.

True – but there appears to be issues with allowing the Trust to purchase shares.

In house ‘fighting’ (directors), FC1M, Trust etc

It looks as if we will never become a community owned self sufficient entity?

We are in the NL and no one should expect world beaters

Yet people berate the ‘budgetary’ players that we have on the books.

I will give is forgiveness when the team go out and put in and give 100% but end up not getting a result

Blood, sweat & tears and everyone is ‘happy’ – you can’t give more than your best.

We can forever carry that boulder up the mountain it’s what most football clubs do.

And yet we were possibly hours away from being a non-entity.
We can’t allow that to happen again

On surviving relegation you’ve set the bar to low, that will affect the attendance and the income, mid table would be ok but let’s push on.

I’m only saying that it’s job done if we escape relegation to the NLN – hopefully we have a solid mid table consolidating season. Something to build on for the following season.

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Mat Lock is the incoming Right Back from Brusheya Doormouse AFC.

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unity iron wrote:

Terrace are reportedly taking 7.5% from every shirt sale out of the club’s pocket and have recently threatened to sue the Iron Trust.

Fanbase, who the club announced today are now taking over 5% of all ticket sales.

And with debt spiralling out of control again…

Is it?
How do you know?

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Young Rams v Iron

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U21s? U18s?

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Sky Sports Report

Non League Paper Report

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Unfortunately Deportiva Ceuta Fútbol Club were promoted to the Segunda (equivalent Championship) at the end of last season. We will be playing in Primera RFEF 1 (equivalent L1) again this year.

However, if we end up in the same league in 26/27, then this’ll make for an interesting journey to an away game… lol.
620km from Alicante to Algeciras. (London – Edinburgh 650km)

A Spanish league game on the African continent.

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First 10 games in 2024-25 of the newly promoted teams:

Tamworth 14pts
Yeovil 13pts
Boston 9pts
Braintree 7pts

I’m thinking 9pts for us.
Hopefully I’m very wrong and we tally double that figure.

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Looking at the fixtures, it’s a difficult opening 10 games.
I have a points figure in mind but don’t want to appear to be too negative.

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All hail the king:

Stage 21 Winner:

What a stage!
What a TdF!

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