Last season's relegated side sitting out 2023/24 season!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65719007
Hednesford
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Re: Hednesford
Terrible news hope they can recover.Cat Daisy wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 1:53 pm Last season's relegated side sitting out 2023/24 season!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65719007
Went there in October 2021. Friendly local's and fan's and the beer monsters know there is a great hotel near by for the ale. Had a really good day there. Ps There ground is to good for this league.
Re: Hednesford
From the outside, it looks like the people in charge resigning from the Southern League was just done to force the hand of the stadium owner to give them a better deal on the rent.
Otherwise I see no reason for them to resign from the Southern League before the AGM, so resigning would mean the stadium owner has a ground without a club which would mean he would be liable for paying the utility bills.
Stroke of genius really.
What saddens me though is that again it just shows how easy it can be for a club to potentially die, most non league league clubs are community clubs, they are never going to be big bucks football league clubs, something needs doing to protect these clubs in the long term, someone comes along, throws money at it, gets bored, walks away and then the club is in urgent need for money or faces going bust (Spalding, Market Harborough, Peterborough Sports, St Neots - all examples or potential examples) leaving the fans without a club.
With rising admissions across the Premier League and Football League, which many can't afford, non league football provides affordable football and brings people together more than league clubs, many of us non league fans can remember attending games with our granddads and they attending with their dads etc, you hear more of these stories about non league clubs than about Premier League clubs.
It's time to bring in a rule that supporters trusts hold a stake in clubs, maybe some rule that says football grounds can't be demolished and built on unless a new ground is built first, just rules that stop people thinking they can buy a club for a quid, strip its assets, flog the ground for houses and make a fortune.
My ideas may be rubbish but it's not my job, however I don't believe that there is nothing the Football Association can't do to protect clubs better, showing the same amount of respect to clubs at grass roots level as they do to big clubs would be a start, as for councils, you would hope every council would want a football team in their town etc, though the potential for problems arises if there are two like Oxford City and Oxford United, Peterborough Sports, Peterborough United, etc, with the two Bristol teams both being in the football league you could argue that they could play at the same ground like Inter Milan and Ac Milan.
At the end of the day all it takes is a football association and the leagues etc actually caring about football, not money, not fame, example - Prince William being the president of the FA - has he played football?, no, has he owned a football club? no, it's purely for publicity,
Lincolnshire FA have recently appointed Jonathan Van Tam as chairman, again, he has not played for a football club or owned a football club, most likely appointed because he's famous and supports Boston United.
A football association who are serious about football should really only be represented by people who have been involved in football, ex players, ex managers, ex club owners, people who have been involved in running clubs or supporters trusts etc.
We went through the Save Top Field saga, a lot of non league clubs may never face big issues but we need something there for the clubs who do. imagine going to games every weekend with your dad, from when you were 5 to 15+, you have amazing memories, maybe him and your mums wedding was in the clubhouse, maybe you then started taking your kids... a few years later the club has gone and the ground is a housing estate, it's very sad. Too many people think of it as 'just a game' but the serious amounts of money invested in the game or spent on attending games each year show it is more than that.
Prince William has never experienced hard times that relate to football, he will never truly know how important a football club is to the fans and community. he's an Aston Villa fan - I bet he has never actually paid for a ticket.
Otherwise I see no reason for them to resign from the Southern League before the AGM, so resigning would mean the stadium owner has a ground without a club which would mean he would be liable for paying the utility bills.
Stroke of genius really.
What saddens me though is that again it just shows how easy it can be for a club to potentially die, most non league league clubs are community clubs, they are never going to be big bucks football league clubs, something needs doing to protect these clubs in the long term, someone comes along, throws money at it, gets bored, walks away and then the club is in urgent need for money or faces going bust (Spalding, Market Harborough, Peterborough Sports, St Neots - all examples or potential examples) leaving the fans without a club.
With rising admissions across the Premier League and Football League, which many can't afford, non league football provides affordable football and brings people together more than league clubs, many of us non league fans can remember attending games with our granddads and they attending with their dads etc, you hear more of these stories about non league clubs than about Premier League clubs.
It's time to bring in a rule that supporters trusts hold a stake in clubs, maybe some rule that says football grounds can't be demolished and built on unless a new ground is built first, just rules that stop people thinking they can buy a club for a quid, strip its assets, flog the ground for houses and make a fortune.
My ideas may be rubbish but it's not my job, however I don't believe that there is nothing the Football Association can't do to protect clubs better, showing the same amount of respect to clubs at grass roots level as they do to big clubs would be a start, as for councils, you would hope every council would want a football team in their town etc, though the potential for problems arises if there are two like Oxford City and Oxford United, Peterborough Sports, Peterborough United, etc, with the two Bristol teams both being in the football league you could argue that they could play at the same ground like Inter Milan and Ac Milan.
At the end of the day all it takes is a football association and the leagues etc actually caring about football, not money, not fame, example - Prince William being the president of the FA - has he played football?, no, has he owned a football club? no, it's purely for publicity,
Lincolnshire FA have recently appointed Jonathan Van Tam as chairman, again, he has not played for a football club or owned a football club, most likely appointed because he's famous and supports Boston United.
A football association who are serious about football should really only be represented by people who have been involved in football, ex players, ex managers, ex club owners, people who have been involved in running clubs or supporters trusts etc.
We went through the Save Top Field saga, a lot of non league clubs may never face big issues but we need something there for the clubs who do. imagine going to games every weekend with your dad, from when you were 5 to 15+, you have amazing memories, maybe him and your mums wedding was in the clubhouse, maybe you then started taking your kids... a few years later the club has gone and the ground is a housing estate, it's very sad. Too many people think of it as 'just a game' but the serious amounts of money invested in the game or spent on attending games each year show it is more than that.
Prince William has never experienced hard times that relate to football, he will never truly know how important a football club is to the fans and community. he's an Aston Villa fan - I bet he has never actually paid for a ticket.