Live Match Discussion 2025/26

[Paddingtonwolf]

I am still going to be bitter until the grave. It's all good.

 

[Alan]

Vomiting makes a noise, I will concede

I was pretty stoked when Obafemi Martins signed in Seattle, all off the back of that Fabianski fumble.

 

[Jack Regan]

Coventry 3-1 up against Boro. Hadji Wright hat-trick completed just after Boro had got back into it.

Wolves favourite Matt Targett giving away the penalty 17 seconds after the Boro goal.

 

[Alan]

Ayyy go on Haji

(Might mean Malanda isn’t having a great game tho; can’t have nice things)

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I am still going to be bitter until the grave. It's all good.

And that's fine, but I know you can read a map, and you know what optics are



I would argue that Bristol can barely make the case for having two clubs so having a third very close by would not be that sustainable in the long run

 

[Jack Regan]

Bath will always be a rugby town so would be kinda pointless anyway.

I was there last year on a Saturday when England were playing and every pub/bar was rammed with it on the telly. Had to go back to my accommodation and wait for it to finish before I could get a drink anywhere.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Bath City record gate is 18,000 odd so the fans did come out SOMETIMES.

Obviously now the gates are properly rubbish and have been for many years but nostalgic me thinks they could have sustained solid fourth division gates without too much worry had they got in.

It very much is a rugby CITY. Best Rugby club in England for my vote (although I am sure Leicester Tigers fans would argue the toss on that one).

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Walsall's is 25k Just sayin'.

We can agree that the re-election system was absolute nonsense and Bath were probably unfortunate that a proper league system didn't get implemented until they were a few years past their peak. As were Enfield.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Yes - I think that is fair. Re-election was a total travesty of a system. But it is pushing toward 50 years ago now. Christ I feel old.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Not quite 40 yet!

Lincoln were the first team to go down via league position and Scarborough replaced them in 1987. It had just been nearly 10 years before that since Southport went via a vote.

It's overdue that the National League is made a proper 5th division in all honesty. Pretty much everyone in that league is fully pro and that's been the case for a long time. Then keep the tier below that regionalised.