Play-offs 2015

[Gladders]

Do away goals count in Conference playoffs?

yes of course they count otherwise it wouldn't be worth playing. If you mean does the away goals rule apply, then no.

 

[Greenacres]

Have to say that I am really looking forward to the two games between the Rovers, with a mixture of nerves, eager anticipation and a feeling that it is far too close to call. There is no doubt that both teams have improved since their previous encounters so early in the season, but at the same time are reasonably well matched. As an FGR supporter I just hope that we still have something to play for when we make the short trip to the Mem on Sunday, that the games are remembered for what happens on the pitch, I wouldn't expect the view from BR to be any different. Regardless of who finishes on top after the semi-final I hope it is another team from the West Country who take their place in Division Two next season, I suspect that I won't win many friends in Grimsby or Eastleigh with that view.

 

[GTFC1979]

I actually remember that, Peschisolido got sent off for attempted murder at Blundell Park!

Yep, one of the worst tackles I have ever seen:

For the rest of the game we just kept the ball and waited for something to open up, then when Donovan scored the celebrations were crazy!
We expected to be playing Bristol Rovers in the final as they won their first leg 3 - 1, but Northampton did them 3 - 0 at Sixfields so we beat them in the final instead.
Happy days.

 

[Sledge FGR]

That's still around 8,000 sold in 3 hours

Must have a better till than Arkwright's

 

[Gassy]

Bleedin hell I almost didn't get a ticket today, made a last minute decision to get one otherwise was going to go tomorrow. Will be interesting to see our away end procedures to get tickets as I can see home fans going in the away end tbh

 

[Greenacres]

Bleedin hell I almost didn't get a ticket today, made a last minute decision to get one otherwise was going to go tomorrow. Will be interesting to see our away end procedures to get tickets as I can see home fans going in the away end tbh

We were given nearly 900 tickets for the game at your place. These went on sale to our Season Ticket holders yesterday afternoon, then general sale after lunchtime today, the remainder will be sold on Thursday. I doubt if there are very many left.

 

[B2TF]

Come on Bristol, put these two bit Tin Potters back in their box. For the real clubs.

 

[Si Robin]

As long as FGR don't go up I'll be happy. It sounds bitter, and that's because it is.

There are two reasons I want FGR to fail, 1. It's hilarious seeing them throw sackfuls of money at it and still failing, and 2. I simply can't abide a situation where FGR are Gloucestershire's representative in the Football League.

 

[Gassy]

We were given nearly 900 tickets for the game at your place. These went on sale to our Season Ticket holders yesterday afternoon, then general sale after lunchtime today, the remainder will be sold on Thursday. I doubt if there are very many left.

Wouldn't surprise me to see a few gasheads head down to your place at lunch, get a ticket and then try their luck at watching tonight's game too. Fair play if you sell it out, didn't think you would aa you brought about 400 for the league game didn't you?

 

[Eastleigh Fan]

Real clubs?
Do you mean clubs who have gone into administration, been reborn/renamed, managed poorly and ended up in non league football?
Real clubs who have screwed small businesses who they owed money to while taken their clubs under?
Real clubs who are so poorly run that they have turned Championship, L1 & L2 clubs into a shell of the real club that they once were?
Yeh its crap that newer "younger" clubs are moving up the pyramid. Newer clubs that are well run and follow good business models and employ good people who they look after. Shame on us Newer clubs for doing it the right way.

 

[Ninety Per Cent]

Eastleigh Loyal.

 

[rudebwoyben]

Burton Albion is a 'new club' who are following a sensible business model that ought to be emulated.
Eastleigh are not.

 

[miagsygas]

Real clubs?
Do you mean clubs who have gone into administration, been reborn/renamed, managed poorly and ended up in non league football?
Real clubs who have screwed small businesses who they owed money to while taken their clubs under?
Real clubs who are so poorly run that they have turned Championship, L1 & L2 clubs into a shell of the real club that they once were?
Yeh its crap that newer "younger" clubs are moving up the pyramid. Newer clubs that are well run and follow good business models and employ good people who they look after. Shame on us Newer clubs for doing it the right way.

I've not got a dislike for Eastleigh, you were a friendly lot when we played you at your place, but claiming a good business model when you clearly spent more than your gates can sustain is sillier than people calling you "not a real club"

 

[Ninety Per Cent]

You'll always get clubs who try and spend their way out of this league - Doncaster, Rushden, Fleetwood etc - So why get wound up over it?

 

[rudebwoyben]

Doncaster?

 

[Eastleigh Fan]

Why is it that all you dinosaurs think its only gate money that keeps a club on a solid footing?
Gate money for any club is less than 15% of what a club turns over, so how you can continually bleat about that is beyond me.
Not one of you has a clue how EFC is run, so its only hearsay, naivety & pure jealousy on your part, that makes you comment along those lines.
Facts are, we bring in massive revenue from sponsors of which we have many of them begging to be part of what is going on at the football club. We hire out around 400 car parking spaces 7 days a week for airport and local businesses, we hire our 3G football pitch 7 days a week. Our clubhouse is hired our for business conferences, parties etc at least 3 days/night per week, which in turn bring in decent bar/food takings. Many many other good revenue streams going on at the club, because our owner, is extremely inventive & very dynamic. A far cry from the sneaky snidy businessmen that own most other clubs at this level and the level above & who owners are constantly bankrupting their clubs then hiding in the shadows whilst the small businesses have to fight for their owed money. That will never happen at Eastleigh, so get over your historical "real club" ego's, and take a look at what is really going on at our club versus yours. Because you will be left behind by these "newer clubs" who are finding different ways of operating and are doing so within a well planned spending budget, despite what you may all "think or pretend to know".

 

[George Reilly's Hairpiece]

I don't have any issue with clubs looking to put external money in to push them up the leagues, or investing to increase revenues through alternative sources, as long as they can be sustained. That means either generating revenue to cover costs and at least breaking even over time, or investors underwriting the investment to ensure sustainability. If that's what Eastleigh are doing then good luck to them.

Just one question though, why did they make a loss of £360k for the last season (per accounts to May 2014) if all these additional revenue streams are generating the required income to cover their playing activity?

 

[Optogas]

 

[The_Boss]

Yep, one of the worst tackles I have ever seen:

For the rest of the game we just kept the ball and waited for something to open up, then when Donovan scored the celebrations were crazy!
We expected to be playing Bristol Rovers in the final as they won their first leg 3 - 1, but Northampton did them 3 - 0 at Sixfields so we beat them in the final instead.
Happy days.

I must congratulate all the Grimsby fans that have put up with that commentator for all these years!

 

[Eastleigh Fan]

The "loss" that EFC made last season, included the complete rebuilding of the ground at a time when no games were played (end of season all through pre-season). That is a one-time spend and the money spent, has allowed us to house our ever growing fan base. Remember that we were averaging around 650 last season, but have at the very least added a thousand to that this season, with 2 games over 4000 fans and a few in the 2000's and 3000s, giving us an average just below 2000 i believe. These new fans needed to be housed and needed to be given the facilities that would make them come back time and time again. So spending on bringing the stadium up to the level it is at now, was part of last seasons "loss" & was money well spent you could say & money spent with a long term vision for the club. Again, not all our "money" is being spent on expensive players trying to get into the FL....we are building an infrastructure to take us forward for the next 10-20 years. Its not a boom & bust way of thinking. I expect you all said the same to Burton, Crawley, Wimbledon etc when they were on the way up. Look at where they are now and where your "real club" is....Eastleigh are heading that way too and although i know little about those clubs financial muscle, id take a pretty good guess that none of them had anywhere near the kind of finance our owner has, nor do their owners have the drive and ambition that ours has. Truth is, if he really wanted to go mad with money, he could bring in 18 x L1 players and pay them L1 money, but he is doing it the right way & within a budget that club can afford (even though he personally could afford to just go wild on it if he chose to).

 

[George Reilly's Hairpiece]

I will look forward to seeing your accounts for next year show the healthy profit that this Capital Expenditure will bring (although it can't have been Capital Expenditure as that wouldn't have hit your P&L).

Like I said earlier, don't have an issue with the Eastleigh's of the world trying to further themselves, and if you make it through the lottery of the play-offs, then we'll cross paths again next year.

 

[miagsygas]

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

 

[Dan_Macclad]

Eastleigh are minted, if this rich owner wasn't there then they would still be in the lower divisions.

We all have a bar and hospitality suites, doesn't make enough money to over spend though.

 

[Southern Shayman]

The "loss" that EFC made last season, included the complete rebuilding of the ground at a time when no games were played (end of season all through pre-season). That is a one-time spend and the money spent, has allowed us to house our ever growing fan base. Remember that we were averaging around 650 last season, but have at the very least added a thousand to that this season, with 2 games over 4000 fans and a few in the 2000's and 3000s, giving us an average just below 2000 i believe. These new fans needed to be housed and needed to be given the facilities that would make them come back time and time again. So spending on bringing the stadium up to the level it is at now, was part of last seasons "loss" & was money well spent you could say & money spent with a long term vision for the club. Again, not all our "money" is being spent on expensive players trying to get into the FL....we are building an infrastructure to take us forward for the next 10-20 years. Its not a boom & bust way of thinking. I expect you all said the same to Burton, Crawley, Wimbledon etc when they were on the way up. Look at where they are now and where your "real club" is....Eastleigh are heading that way too and although i know little about those clubs financial muscle, id take a pretty good guess that none of them had anywhere near the kind of finance our owner has, nor do their owners have the drive and ambition that ours has. Truth is, if he really wanted to go mad with money, he could bring in 18 x L1 players and pay them L1 money, but he is doing it the right way & within a budget that club can afford (even though he personally could afford to just go wild on it if he chose to).

So the fact you let them in for free and Southampton happened to be away had no relevance to it

You can bleat on about parking spaces all you want. If you'd just spent your income then fair enough - but it's quite clear your owner's lobbed money at it.. Because of course the sponsorship has nothing to do with his companies does it?

We didn't say the same to Burton or Wimbledon because they're completely different models and it was earned - your inability to understand that fact sums this all up.

Either way, we'll all see where those legions of fans disappear to when it all goes tits up and the owner gets bored.

Anyhow enjoy the ride

 

[Eastleigh Fan]

You mean like how you all protested about being relegated to non league football last season Miag?.....get used to it buddy, you'll be here for a long time yet...

 

[Eastleigh Fan]

All very boring Shayman.

 

[miagsygas]

You mean like how you all protested about being relegated to non league football last season Miag?.....get used to it buddy, you'll be here for a long time yet...

Chill out mate, I'm only joking. If you get promoted, you'll be getting more stick than you do from other conference teams about being tinpot, so I feel you'll be the one who needs to get used to it, don't react and hope your team beats them. As for us being here for longer, hope not but even so, i'm enjoying the ride... Even when we get beat by crappy tinpot clubs like you

 

[Dan_Macclad]

Imagine how much piss taking there will be if Eastleigh go up and be playing Portsmouth.

 

[Eastleigh Fan]

Yeh, because Portsmouth have been a very well run "real club" haven't they...
I'm sure they will laugh at us, but its a far bigger laugh on them with them being in L2 just a few years after flying high in the premiershite and winning the FA cup with International stars in their team. That was what you can call spending beyond your means...but of course, they are a "real club" aren't they?...We have only actually come up from one level anyway and are hoping to move up to the next level (2 up) where as Pompey, and quite a few clubs in this league have fallen far further than 2 levels..so it should be more of a shock how far they have fallen, rather than how far we might get to.
Its all good, it just gets boring when constantly told you will go bust blah blah blah, by fans of clubs who have supposedly been a "real club" but have gone bust and are now playing non league football and will be for a few years to come...

 

[miagsygas]

Yeh, because Portsmouth have been a very well run "real club" haven't they...
I'm sure they will laugh at us, but its a far bigger laugh on them with them being in L2 just a few years after flying high in the premiershite and winning the FA cup with International stars in their team. That was what you can call spending beyond your means...but of course, they are a "real club" aren't they?...We have only actually come up from one level anyway and are hoping to move up to the next level (2 up) where as Pompey, and quite a few clubs in this league have fallen far further than 2 levels..so it should be more of a shock how far they have fallen, rather than how far we might get to.
Its all good, it just gets boring when constantly told you will go bust blah blah blah, by fans of clubs who have supposedly been a "real club" but have gone bust and are now playing non league football and will be for a few years to come...

But Pompey would have been called tinpot in the Prem i'm sure.

And Leeds and Southampton fans probably called us tinpot when we came up against them.

Don't care what other clubs think of you, just celebrate more if/when you beat them.