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Well done Chorley I will tune in to Radio Lancashire on Finals day

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There is talk about playing at St Mary's - Southampton quote Harry Rednap

Bury are promoted 8 consecutive away wins I was panicking because I was told the play off final may be on the same day as ICT's cup final Over 2,300 Bury fans made the journey to the Wirral Now this famous old club can start the climb back to at least "The Championship" With New Training facilities who knows? http://www.towerfm.co.uk/news/local/bury-fc-has-reached-an-agreement-to-lease-manchester-city-fcs-former-training-ground-in-carrington/

I don't know about NPL but in league 2 I am interested Anyway I have the champagne on ice as my boyhood team the Shakers are 5 mins off automatic promotion Southend losing - Wycombe drawing - As long as Tranmere don't score. Heart in Mouth time here

I wish I would have been taught poetry of that quality when I was at school, or anything else other than religion. Goes to show Alex had a much better education than most people I grew up with I first came across the poem after I retired it was in a book in a guest house in Campbelltown where I was on holiday. My wife who like Alex was very well educated was reading it, and like Alex told me how she was taught it at school. Unlike poles attract I am told

Sorry I am so boring RiG, but it comes with the territory when OAPs are concerned I am afraid I know I get a little intense at times for which I apologise I am a Kansa City Chiefs follower with Charles my favourite running back ; although I once took the Saints to win the Super Bowl at 40 -1 I won about £800 that day I stay up every Sunday and Monday night to watch the games. Got two tickets for Wembley when the Chiefs play the Lions as I also like Stafford should be a good day out. I am thinking of setting up a fantasy league this season for Caley Fans if I can get 10 people to join. I usually join American leagues and I do quite well having won a lot more match ups than I have lost. I usually use the handle Lochinvar or Young Lochinvar after the poem. I have decided to call myself Inverness City Slickers next league I join. This season I am going to enter a paid league which will be far more difficult than the fun leagues I usually join. The NFL fantasy leagues are not like soccer leagues there are no transfer limits. Drafting is in rounds, there are practice drafts so you can get the hang of it. They start to set them up after the training camp. The season involves 14 match ups then sudden death play - Offs Anyway as I am getting boring again anybody can see how it works on the NFL web site. I am also worried about the 49s problem is the coach has gone and there is an unknown in charge so my son tells me, My son also tells me the team as been ripped apart and will have to be rebuilt. I predict a fairly dismal season for the 49s although time will tell, moving to a new stadium as gone down like a lead balloon.

It would take a brave guy to bet against Mayweather

Every year the National Football League ( American Football) Draft from the colleges and Universities in America No 1 draft pick is by the worst team Tampa Bay Bucs The last pick is by the Super bowl winners New England Patriots This system is to try to bring equality to the league , when you consider the rookies get over 500,000$ US a year and the top players could get 40 million $ US a year this is a big deal and for lot of underprivileged players from ethnic minorities this is the route to a good future. Not to be missed for the sensation and spectacle that only the States can provide , try not to miss it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-3060814/NFL-Draft-2015-need-know-annual-American-football-event-beginning-Thursday-Chicago.html Even if your knowledge of this game is limited it is a good opportunity to see a great spectacle of the sporting agenda

Hi Ender You know probably more than most others the standard of non league football in England is very good as your team Chorley have shown us You could say that if Chorley were playing north of the border they would probably be too good for league 1 But you may know different I say again I just feel for long suffering football supporters like Montrose who nobody seems to care about. In the league formerly called the Conference there are a lot of teams, who for many years graced the higher divisions, I would be gutted if I supported a team like Grimsby or Lincoln City. All with good support and important histories. But in Scotland the league to which there is a possibility Montrose will enter is not much better than the Sunday league outfits we all played for in our teens. Of course you are right. Even the upper echelons of Scottish football are on a par with English pub teams and I wouldn't fancy ICT's chances against the Dog and Duck at Penkridge over two legs. I blame those naive, unintelligent xenophobic separatists Grow up Kingsmill

AS long as Bury FC don't join them I don't care Mind you when I see your Mrs I will spill the beans on your betrayal of her home town,. of course if she is an R L fan I will be a fellow supporter , with great memories of the great Billy Boston

I really enjoyed Ed's goal against Aberdeen, you don't often see a player score lying down Brilliant effort.

No problem with the price maybe concessions should be more as an OAP myself I don't need charity. I am perfectly capable of paying my way

Hi Ender You know probably more than most others the standard of non league football in England is very good as your team Chorley have shown us You could say that if Chorley were playing north of the border they would probably be too good for league 1 But you may know different I say again I just feel for long suffering football supporters like Montrose who nobody seems to care about. In the league formerly called the Conference there are a lot of teams, who for many years graced the higher divisions, I would be gutted if I supported a team like Grimsby or Lincoln City. All with good support and important histories. But in Scotland the league to which there is a possibility Montrose will enter is not much better than the Sunday league outfits we all played for in our teens.

Totally not the same

I think you missed my point guys I was saying I feel for the fans, no more no less

This must be the only fan forum that trolls from within. I don't really know why you are trying to set up an argument - Calling me a troll is itself a troll I presume a troll is someone who starts an argument for the sake of it. All I did is post my perception of the game if you are too minded that every thing is rosy in the ICT garden that is your perception and you are entitled to your opinion as I am to mine I have more to worry about than your self obsessed perception , I have been worrying about my wife's sister who has been in Nepal for six weeks. Anyway now I feel better to learn she has landed safely in Manchester this morning So think about it, would somebody as worried as I was be bother to do aimless trolls

My view of the match was The Good - started well made loads of chances The Bad - Missed several goals should have had 4 before half time The Ugly - Finished with poor passing , lack of composure , They made Aberdeen look like there were 14 players in red shirts and against only 10 in blue. Total shambles at the end, quite frankly didn't look fit.

Does all his mean the badge of my boyhood team is in Jepody Bury Football club Background Today Bury are a modest club, struggling to survive in the Manchester metropolitan area against competition from big city clubs but once they were among the aristocrats of Lancashire football. Formed in 1885 at a public meeting in the White Horse Hotel in the centre of the town, the club rose to local prominence very quickly. Passed over when the Football League was formed, Bury became founder members of the Lancashire League in 1889. Before a Lancashire Senior Cup match against Everton, the club chairman JT Ingham announced, "We'll give 'em a shakin'. In fact, we are the Shakers." This has remained the club's nickname to this day. They started out wearing chocolate and light blue shirts but in 1888, plain white shirts were adopted. A team photograph taken in 1889 reveals that a crest was worn, apparently a version of the town's coat of arms. In 1894 Bury successfully applied for a place in the expanded Football League Second Division. After winning all 15 of their home games, they won a test match against Liverpool, who had finished bottom of Division One, to secure promotion in their first season in the League. In 1900 the Shakers won the FA Cup, beating Southern League Southampton 4-0 at Crystal Palace. In 1903, they won the cup again, beating Derby County by 6-0, still a record score for a final. In 1912, Bury were relegated and spent the next 12 years in Division Two. Immediately after the First World War, the club was unable to get hold of their traditional white shirts so turned out in red and white hoops for a couple of seasons. Promoted in 1924, they remained for five seasons in Division One, finishing in in fourth place in 1926, before dropping back into the Second Division and they have never returned to the top flight since. For the next twenty-six years, the Shakers stayed in Division Two, generally in or below mid-table. The town crest appeared again between 1952 and 1955 against a shield. In 1957 Bury were relegated to Division Three (North) where they played for a single season. The crest reappeared the following season, now without a shield, and was used for the next ten years. When the regional divisions were scrapped in 1958, the club were placed in the new national Division Three. In 1961, Bury were promoted as champions and remained in the Second division for the next six years. With more clubs now promoted and relegated each season, Bury went up and down with bewildering frequency. Relegated to Division Three in 1967, they were back after only one season only to suffer relegation again immediately and in 1971 they dropped into the Fourth Division. Between 1967 and 1973 Bury's shirts did not carry a crest and then, for the 1973-74 season a rather curious badge was adopted, consisting of a single star underneath the legend, "Bury FC." This was replaced the following season with the distinctive "V" design that proved both popular and recognisable, surviving until 1982. 1974 brought promotion back to the Third but six years later they were back in the basement. The V crest was dropped and "BFC" was embroidered onto the shirts in cursive script between 1982 and 1986 when the old town crest was revived. The pattern of promotion and relegation continued with Bury moving between the lowest two division until successive promotions in 1996 and 1997 took them up to Nationwide Division One (the old Second Division). In 1999 Bury slipped back down to the third tier on goal difference and by 2002 they had dropped into the lowest division where they faced a constant struggle to survive, selling on promising players at the expense of building long-term success. To mark their 125th anniversary in 2009-10, Bury adopted a home kit based on their original strip from 1885 alongside a change strip based on that from 1892-93. The specially designed crest combined the traditional coat of arms with the iconic V design from the Seventies. The two gold stars represent Bury's FA Cup wins from 1900 and 1903. The old crest was reinstated the following season with "Bury FC" embroidered underneath and in 2011, the two gold stars appeared again.

I seem to remember Wigan Athletic in the Northern Premier league The future is bright is it not once you get into the higher leagues. Stockport County in your way though, at the next level

No axe to grind here at all But when a well known quiet little club is threatened with relegation to obscurity you have to feel for their long suffering fans True the pyramid system is supposed to be for the good of football in Scotland. One of the teams likely to beat them does not really want league status. The other comes from a City which has enough league teams already I could see the outcry if one of Scotland's most famous clubs Queens Park had come bottom of League 2 Surely there is room in League 2 for Montrose and any other team good enough to compete at that level of football It's not as though throwing Montrose on the scrap heap is really necessary ***** Sorry I have just realised there is a thread covering this aspect lower down. Must apologise ******

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/32422311

To be a fly on the wall of Hampden H Q would have been fun. My guess when comments and pressure from the outside world including FIFA started to pour in. The powers that be got mighty nervy. It is one thing to support your champions and biggest team it is another to be pressurised by the outside world. There are signs that the pressures on authority we see in the T V drama " Blacklist" probably had nothing compared to what happened behind the scenes at Hampden. A few years ago a senior rugby player referred to the officials of the English rugby union controlling body as a bunch of old farts. Beginning to ring true of the people at the top of Scottish football

http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/celtic/318148-celtic-boss-ronny-deila-hopes-josh-meekings-can-play-in-scottish-cup-final/

I agree with the above in its entirety I noticed in this mornings Times a statement from a FIFA official which may have helped The whole statement is not in the link because you have to take out a subscription http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/scotland/article4419858.ece I mentioned earlier posts the ramifications of hearings like this but I am quite surprised that FIFA picked up on it so quickly, I wonder if it helped behind the scenes Below is another link I did not read in hard copy http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/other-football/fifa-referees-chief-criticises-sfa-decision-over-josh-meekings-204293n.123977581 I also read in the Times the following comment, so why did Celtic get involved? http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/celtic/318148-celtic-boss-ronny-deila-hopes-josh-meekings-can-play-in-scottish-cup-final/