Pointless waste of time and resources. I'm supposing now that I don't need to bother about it until round 4 then?
Setanta Shield my 'arris.

What a daft draw system - not one home tie until at least the fourth round, even if we do manage to win twice in Cumbria on a weeknight and then beat our next opponents.

The Setanta TV deal has played merry hell with the fixture list for us early on. Not only that, but league officials won't tell the clubs how much money is actually involved. Which seems an odd way of doing business

Draw for the Cheshire Senior Cup made on Monday Night (taken from theWoodley Sports Forum)

Warrington Town v Runcorn Linnets
Hyde United v Nantwich Town
Vauxhall Motors v Alsager Town
Stalybridge Celtic v Woodley Sports
Witton Albion v Altrincham

Ties to be played in the week commencing 24th September

Farsley? Bleedin' [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/6915627.stmsell-outs[/url more like

I bet that'll upset some locals. Pudsey ain't it.

Apart from anything else, I'd have thought that a fair chunk of their potential fanbase is in Bradford.

"cash in on the city's profile" in relation to football are they sure...

Good pre season win for Southport last night, beat Tranmere at home 1-0 Rodney Jack is currently on trial and IMO has to be snapped up, a youngster to watch coming through Mark Houghton apprently really impressive again last night.

Bring on the blue square north

Rodney Jack!? Is he in his 40s?

35 he is now, got good experience and is still able to do i job in the lower leagues. Could be a good signing for 'port that

Rodney Jack would be incredible at Blue Square North level, I'm still haunted by his 35 yarder for Crewe at the Reebok



Went to see an under strength RMI side draw 1-1 at Cammell Laird last night, with one of our two Euro aways coming up at Colwyn Bay on Saturday.

And with age on his side too, at 35 he still has plenty to offer and at this level i think he will shine, plus he is a good experienced striker for houghton to be playing alongside.

Not the worst result in the world then last night, and depending how under strength you were

Sell-outs, quite.

I'd be tempted to form FC Celtic of Farsley if that happened!

Anyway, what I wrote on the Celtic forum:

London Hotspur?
Liverpool Toffees?
Birmingham Villa?
South East London Athletic?
South Leeds Hawks RLFC?


You get the picture.

I think the fact that Farsley is not a nationally well known town or city is a good thing on the club's part because it immediately makes people curious as to who the club are.

I think most people who are proper football fans in Leeds and Bradford (a city of 300,000 on the club's doorstep, lets alianate them!) know very well who Farsley Celtic are and where they're from, likewise with non-league fans nationally.

Farsley Celtic has a proud history going back nigh on a century - a great little club who have successfully worked their way up the pyramid. A Leeds name makes it sounds a little... franchisey!

Keep the Farsley name!!

Do Leeds United count as a non-league club at present?

They're more a not-in-any-league club.

used to be a season ticket holder at EMLEY until they sold out to wakefield council, havent been to watch them since the 2002/2003 season. if i watch anyone now its the new club in emley AFC EMLEY currently in the northern counties league and still playing at the welfare ground

Haven't they (they being Wakefield & Emley) just become Wakefield FC anyway since AFC Emley were formed? You can't blame the previous owners of the club from trying to expand the support base etc but it's always good to hear of clubs rising from the ashes when things don't work out for those who are left behind.

And while it's the non-league thread, I won £20 in the 'goal time' competition at Colwyn Bay FC yesterday

I'll be off to Farsley v Stafford this afternoon, I hope its a good 'un!

Despite what is stated by the BBC, RMI got a credible [url=http://www.thefootballnetwork.net/main/s195/st119375.htm2-2 draw[/url with last season's play-off finalists Hinckley at Hilton Park this afternoon.

Poor start for the City. Didn't make the most of our chances and gifted them two. The sending off turned it.

Runcorn kicked off their NWC2 campaign with a 2-2 draw away at Atherton Collieries, who finished 7th last time around. We played very well but unfortunately were down to 10 men for the last 15mins and Atherton snatched the draw in the 94th minute with a penalty

In tonight's big televised match, Torquay take on Grays Athletic.

IIRC, Setanta are going down the "Rugby League Raw" type route with the Conference coverage, which could be a bit more interesting than the spectacle on the field.

I must be bloody mad, but I'm off to Barrow in half an hour to hopefully see RMI chalk up their first win of the season, come on Leyth!

I could've told you that long ago, matey.



FCUM's first Unibond match takes place on Saturday, away to Lancaster City. Could be interesting.

Burton away tonight and afer a home defeat on the opening day, 3 points would already be very useful. Cracking away record last year. Match that this time around and we might have a chance