National League Play offs Thread 2016. Who will win?

[The Jovial Forester]

That is a shocker from Parkin, first I've seen of it too. Maybe a retrospective ban coming.

 

[GTFCfish]

Cracking vid here, the guys are not Grimsby fans but go in the Grimsby end and end up celebrating like they were fully fledged GFTC fans!

 

[Tivvyultras]

congrats to Grimbsby back in league 2 after too long

 

[chipmunx]

Cracking vid here, the guys are not Grimsby fans but go in the Grimsby end and end up celebrating like they were fully fledged GFTC fans!

Yeah - he did similar the day before with Ebbsfleet v Maidstone in the Conf South play offs

 

[Solihull Mooron]

There are some good videos on that channel.

 

[pontoonlew]

They did actually start showing the Parkin incident on the big screen, only to quickly stop it. I'm not surprised having seen it, horrible fat bastard.

 

[B2TF]

Maybe, maybe not.
And a time away from the top non-league may give you guys time to learn a lot of contrition and perhaps get rid of that massive chip on both your shoulders.
Your unhinged posts get crazier by the day - real football fans go to watch FGR as they do all other teams throughout the land from Premiership football down to pub sides.
FC Halifax is a small city side with fewer fans than most others in Conference.
I look forward to our trips to Yorkshire now that we don't have to play a relegated Halifax.

Even your own forum admits most of you wankers only support The Whores as a second club. Only Tin Potters do that. REAL fans have the one club and stick with it. We will be back, and sooner rather than later. See you next year.

 

[GTFCfish]

Yeah - he did similar the day before with Ebbsfleet v Maidstone in the Conf South play offs

4.20 on the video the guy in black t shirt and shorts holding his drink in the air is the same guy i saw after the game pulling his pants down at an FGR supporters coach, absolutely shit faced he was!

 

[pontoonlew]

4.20 on the video the guy in black t shirt and shorts holding his drink in the air is the same guy i saw after the game pulling his pants down at an FGR supporters coach, absolutely shit faced he was!

Haha I know the guy well and I'm not surprised.

He put his head in a closing tube door on the way to the ground.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

What a twat, coaches with pensioners and kids on them having to look at his flabby arse.

 

[pontoonlew]

And yet still his arse is probably less offensive & certainly less full of shit than your fan base.

 

[FGR Stroud]

The Greatest Living Shayman & The Funniest Fucker on the Forum (official).
says:
Even your own forum admits most of you wankers only support The Whores as a second club. Only Tin Potters do that. REAL fans have the one club and stick with it. We will be back, and sooner rather than later. See you next year.

A real FRG supporter replies:
Bye Bye loser, the next time we meet will be too soon.

 

[Chris FGR]

Bye Bye loser, the next time we meet will be too soon.

Don't worry, they wont be back for a long time. They're no where near as big as some of the clubs in that league, mid table at best.

 

[Greenacres]

I couldn't be bothered to come on here last night. By the time I had made it back home and had something to eat, the last thing on my mind was football. Yesterday was my first visit to the new Wembley and, other than the result, it was a pretty good day out. The view down Wembley Way towards the stadium is one that every football fan wants to experience, but few get to see whilst following their team. The fact that we were largely surrounded by Police officers and Grimsby fans wasn't particularly relevant as I was there to see my team and it is a view I will never forget. Before the game we went to the Bobby Moore statue to pay homage to one of the greatest Englishmen, at least in a sporting context,

As to the game, it was always likely to be a fairly close affair, Grimsby possibly better in attack and Rovers in defence, but fine margins nonetheless. A dodgy five minutes before half time were ultimately Rovers undoing, had the gap been just one goal at half-time then the outcome might have been different, but sadly it wasn't. A stunning finish from Marsh-Brown gave us hope, but ultimately we were to rue a couple of missed chances and Grimsby earned a return to the Football League as we were denied a shot at the big time. I thought that the atmosphere was excellent, both inside and outside the ground, can't imagine what it might be like with a full stadium rather than a quarter of that number.

Well done Grimsby, good luck next season, hopefully we will be up to join you before too long. Next season you get Pompey and Blackpool, whilst we get Maidstone and Solihull, gutted...yeah, maybe a little bit, but non-league football isn't that bad after all!

 

[The Jovial Forester]

And yet still his arse is probably less offensive & certainly less full of shit than your fan base.

Poor pass you've come to to even try and defend it.

 

[veggieeater]

Poor pass you've come to to even try and defend it.

Same guy I think who defended throwing bottles at the Braintree goalie, that was OK cos they were light . Never mind- will be Portsmouth and Blackpools problem next season. Sad though, most GTFC fans are a huge credit to their team.

 

[PaulHaddock]

Can't embed for some reason but 7:20 on this video brings it all home- the greatest moment I've known since following football. Goosebumps etc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=bfpVAeBwvDc

 

[B2TF]

Can't understand why there's no long shots against the massed ranks of Whores fans. Oh wait, it's because it would be EMBARRASSING: http://www.xtratimewest.co.uk/photo/gallery-forest-green-rovers-1-grimsby-town-3-action

 

[Trapdoor]

such a long way to grimsby....

i'm happy that a club with a decent following is back in the league though.

 

[Mariner2015]

Forest Green fans getting all upset over seeing someone's bottom. I am more upset by you thinking it's okay to employ a murdurer and whitnessing Parkin trying to end someone's career. Money can't buy you class can it? Good luck to every team playing Forest Green next season and before I go 'we are football league I say we are football league' UTM

 

[CTFCfan99]

Have the Grimsby fans moved onto hating Parkin now instead of Wright or is the hate still strong with the latter?

 

[pontoonlew]

Have the Grimsby fans moved onto hating Parkin now instead of Wright or is the hate still strong with the latter?

Coming out of Wembley I heard 'this means I get to abuse that knobhead Danny Wright now'.

I don't think it's a Grimsby thing, I think it's a human thing to dislike absolute bellends.

 

[Chris FGR]

Forest Green fans getting all upset over seeing someone's bottom. I am more upset by you thinking it's okay to employ a murdurer and whitnessing Parkin trying to end someone's career. Money can't buy you class can it? Good luck to every team playing Forest Green next season and before I go 'we are football league I say we are football league' UTM

Bye then.

 

[FGRJC]

Good luck grimsby, well done.

 

[GTFCfish]

Can't embed for some reason but 7:20 on this video brings it all home- the greatest moment I've known since following football. Goosebumps etc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=bfpVAeBwvDc

That should be re-titled 'B2TF, Southern Shayman and Pliny go to Wembley.

(Obviously Pliny the guy in the back supporting FGR)!

 

[B2TF]

Wouldn't be seen dead at Sunday's Tin Pot jamboree.

 

[veggieeater]

Can't understand why there's no long shots against the massed ranks of Whores fans. Oh wait, it's because it would be EMBARRASSING: http://www.xtratimewest.co.uk/photo/gallery-forest-green-rovers-1-grimsby-town-3-action

A good friend of a friend was a photographer at the game and oddly some photographers were only allowed in their home teams end- if you look all the pics bar one or two at the end of the match were taken from behind the FGR goal.

Dont let that get get in the way of your funny postings though.

 

[rudebwoyben]

- funny
+ tedious

 

[Jabba the gut]

I agree with all that the present FGR home in Nailsworth is an isolated spot but when we move near the Stroud/Stonehouse conurbation FGR will have a bigger catchment area than many lower league clubs. Attendances will rise.

If I had a pound for every time I heard a fan of a small and/or unsuccessful club delude themselves with claims of potentially mahoosive catchment areas based on tendentious criteria (including many wistful "woulda, coulda, shoulda been a contender" supporters of our ourselves and the Greens) as though attending lower league football is akin to sending your child to school, I could fund damaging and egregious financial doping to match your own (although I wouldn't as a matter of principle).

Moreover this alleged catchment area just happens to be in the Westcountry - an area with a powerful rugby culture and a nebulous football one, where it is very difficult to grow support that is anything other than the sort of glory-hunting with a tendency to vanish into thin air at the first sign of trouble, as again ourselves and the Greens know to our cost.

Vince Dale has become over the years even more of a dedicated fan of FGR than when he became chairman. There is no chance of him throwing in the towel.

And if I also had a pound for every time I heard fans of clubs with a private owner with an agenda utter that kind of equally self-deluding claptrap (see James Brent and his widely ridiculed "wobbling lip" whenever his beloved Argyle pension plan loses) I could ramp up said financial doping to levels that would match the eye-watering sums of dirty/blood money Arrobervitch and the human-rights abusing Al-Nahyans have used to horribly skew the football landscape.

Every club and every owner that follows their example - and every fan who salivates at the prospect of joining them - simply props up a pernicious system that has killed the dream for the majority by colluding in the post Sky/Premier League revolution of greed and self-interest which has spawned a procession of de facto financial glass ceilings in its wake. Moreover, this kind of meretricious financial doping threatens the unique and precious depth of the professional and semi-professional pyramid in the UK by fuelling a potentially catastrophic playing-budget arms race.

The bolstering of that destructive model & its contribution to the growth of a dystopian fan culture which, blinded by vacuous glitz and glamour, has lost sight of the huge social value of football, is the reason many view the Ecotricity Marketing FC farce as an abomination. It's exactly the same reason why the vast majority of German fans - where they still value a fan culture and ethos that is worth a s**t - revile the similar abomination of Red Bull Marketing FC, a.k.a. RB Leipzig.

Maybe some fans don't really appreciate what's at stake if clubs continue to be used as Trojan horses in this way and really are jealous. More fool them. By contrast, I am perfectly prepared to swear on the lives of my entire family that I would rather be in Conference South under fan-ownership than reach the ECFC fans' promised land of the Championship under a repellent model like that of Forest Green's with an owner like Dale Vince, who - like the Class of '92 property-developing hypocrites - somehow gets away scot-free with the same kind of nonsense Vincent Tan was universally condemned for. I say that as someone who enjoyed my visits to the old and new ground in our Conference exile and who had a lot of time for the old club and its fans.

There's more to a football club than League position - I wish so many English football fans seemingly hadn't lost sight of that fact.

 

[Clem Fandango]