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  05-Sep-10 P PTS GD
1 AFC Wimbledon 7 16 7
2 Crawley 7 14 5
3 Mansfield 7 13 5
4 Grimsby 7 13 1
5 Tamworth 7 12 2
6 Luton 7 11 2
7 Fleetwood 7 11 2
8 Southport 6 11 2
9 Darlington 7 10 2
10 Rushden & Diamonds 7 10 0
11 Cambridge United 7 9 5
12 York 7 9 3
13 Forest Green 7 9 1
14 Wrexham 7 9 -1
15 Newport  7 8 2
16 Eastbourne Boro 7 8 1
17 Histon 7 8 -3
18 Kidderminster 7 8 -4
19 Kettering 7 7 -1
20 Barrow 7 7 -2
21 Hayes & Yeading 7 7 -8
22 Bath 7 6 -3
23 Gateshead 6 5 -7
24 Altrincham 7 1 -11

 

 

 

 

NEWS ARCHIVE JAN 07 to JUNE 07

30 June Southport Carnival. TIY are running a shoot in target football game see here with the person who scores the most "goals" on the day winning a Southport FC Season Ticket and prizes for anyone who scores a hit. TIY and Club souvenirs will also be on sale. Memberships can also be taken out or renewed. A great day is planned with Trust In Yellow working to promote the Club and The Trust at a major event in the town.

Well it would have been a great day if it hadn't been for the weather! What a disappointment. Those that had a go at the shoot out including Carl Baker and his son all seemed to enjoy it but the attendance was dreadful because of the rain. Everything got wet and having been on site from 8.45 until 2.15 when we abandoned ship, thankfully the carnival organisers relented and let people pack up early, we were soaked through to the skin.

28 Jun Oh Dear, it looks like we are going to get very wet at the Carnival on Saturday.

25 Jun Neil Prince signs from Stalybridge. Neil previously made 1 sub appearance in the 1-0 defeat at Kettering in the 2002/03 season which qualifies him for entry into the one sub wonder club. He did however make a full appearance in the previous match, a 2-0 Lancs cup defeat at Accrington which doesn't count as a "first class" game.

24 Jun Southport Central record added to site, thanks to Football Club History Database.

I've been trying to update various bits of BSCN data today and it really is sad to see how poor a lot of the websites in this league are. The obvious exception is Iain Benson's superb Stalybridge site which has just about everything you could possibly need but most of the others are quite frankly, poor. I can never understand why people/clubs bother having a site if they can't be bothered updating it even with basic details.

23 Jun Despite all the uncertainty about who will actually start in BSCN on 11 August I have still received a great number of entries in the Prediction League and I know there are more pending from people waiting to see what happens, thanks to everyone for having a go.

22 Jun We are now members of Blue Square Conference North after another name change.

Chris Lane signs for Altrincham. Peter Thomson signs for Barrow (chuckle)

21 Jun TIY Meeting at The Grandstand Club 7.30pm start.

20 Jun Scarborough go into Liquidation and are no more. With Boston still under threat, Lancaster relegating themselves and others in trouble it makes you appreciate your own club just that bit more doesn't it. Something has to be done to get this situation sorted out though it is no advert for NL football when this keeps happening.

16 Jun Now looks like Boston are about to go into liquidation which will mean a reprieve for Worksop, should be decided tomorrow. This will of course mean another change to the Prediction League and all my spreadsheets, thank you very much! You really do have to feel for the Boston fans. I know how I felt when we were a few hours from going out of existence in the late seventies and it isn't nice.

15 Jun Still plenty of optimism in the Predictions League with Southport's placing ranging from 1st to 19th and fans from lots of clubs having a go which is good to see.

14 Jun Still trying to update all the prices for next season. Harrogate are charging £12 to stand. Kettering are £11 with £1 extra for Premier games against Boston, Hinckley, Nuneaton and Tamworth!!!

13 Jun Terry Smith signs permanently. I know of at least two Southport fans who will be pleased with that signature.

9 Jun Conference AGM sees Altrincham reprieved again with Boston placed in BSN which becomes our longest trip of the season at 179 miles. There seems to be some doubts (in Boston) as to whether or not Boston will even take their place in BSN. They sound like a club with big problems. It's not even a new ground for me having made the trip there back in the first non league season. I seem to recall the journey going on and on for some reason. Fixtures are due out by the end of June but no definite date set.

Those who have already entered the PREDICTION LEAGUE may want to change their entry.

I wish the new season would come along soon. Spending Saturday's painting your garage is not what Saturday's are for!

6 Jun Some great pledges being received, thank you. They include £1 for every headed goal, £1 for every pen scored, £50 if the floodlights fail (I'm sure that could be sorted out) £50 for every goal our goal keeper scores and £1 for every goal scored. Please keep them coming.

4 Jun Season Ticket sales start today. Julia will be there at 10am on the dot to make sure of ours! She managed to get numbers 1 and 2, needless to say she is number 1!

I'm sure things will start to get interesting this week as Dav is back from his hols and players on contracts to 31 May are freed up. I'm sure Carl will be on his way soon as well and hopefully we will get a good price for him. Where will he end up?

Back to work today. Not been in since the "Champions" League Final so can't wait to listen to whose fault it was for the thousands of Liverpool fans travelling without tickets, storming the barriers, making and selling forged tickets, fighting each other for tickets etc etc. I am sure it will be the Police, UEFA or Chelsea fans to blame again!

3 Jun Trust In Yellow are inviting Pledges to be made on events for the 2007/08 season. You can pledge on whatever you like, examples so far received are £100 for every goal Chris Holland scores, £1 for every goal home and away in League games, £100 if we win BSN. They can be as original or simple as you like, all you have to do is honour the Pledge. You can send the form to me on line from here or via trustinyellow.com Pledge forms will also be available at all our pre-season friendlies. The amount can be anything from 10p to £10,000 the choice is yours.

Thanks to everyone who has already had a go at the Prediction League. Great to see so much optimism around.

2 Jun SFCSTATS PREDICTION LEAGUE launched. A free to enter competition in which you predict the finishing positions of all the teams in The Blue Square North. For example if you think Southport will finish 1st and they do you will score 22 points. If you think we will finish 1st and we finish 22nd you will score just 1 point, if we finish 3rd, you score 20 points and so on for each team in the league. A Trophy will be awarded to the winner. The closing date is 3pm on 18 August. It may be worth waiting until the final composition of the league is known but you can always adjust your positions if there are any structural changes. Don't forget to fill in all 22 places.

It was 29 years ago today................

1 Jun Connall Murtagh has now signed for Wrexham after Southport agree to "tear up his contract" according to the Wrexham website.

 

30 May Steve Burr installed as manager of Stalybridge. That 20/1 looks a bit of a tempter as well now!

29 May Slightly different statement from Rhyl today, it may not be a done deal after all.

         2007/08 Odds from Blue Square

Tamworth

5/1

Hucknall Town

18/1

Altrincham

6/1

Hyde United

20/1

Southport

6/1

Stalybridge Celtic

20/1

Kettering Town

15/2

Alfreton Town

25/1

Harrogate Town

10/1

Solihull Moors

28/1

Hinckley United

12/1

Barrow

40/1

AFC Telford

14/1

Burscough

40/1

Workington

14/1

Gainsborough Trinity

50/1

Nuneaton Borough

14/1

Vauxhall Motors

50/1

Blyth Spartans

16/1

Leigh RMI

66/1

Worcester City

16/1

Redditch United

66/1

Tempted by the 14/1 on Telford. 6/1 for us, maybe worth seeing what happens in the next couple of weeks.

28 May From the Rhyl site:

MIDFIELDER Conall Murtagh has left Rhyl to join Conference North club Southport, it was revealed today.
Murtagh, 21, was made an offer that was "too good to refuse" by Sandgrounders boss Peter Davenport, the former Bangor City manager.
Northern Ireland under-21 international Murtagh had an outstanding first season at Belle Vue, but found the lure of financial stability while a student hard to resist.
“Conall’s a student at Manchester University and Southport’s offer of a full-time contract is the main reason behind his departure,” said Rhyl boss John Hulse.
“I’d like to thank him for everything he did at Rhyl, he was a good signing.
"He thanked us, the players, the board and supporters for making his time so enjoyable at Rhyl. He also told me he thought there would be less travelling and better pitches in the Conference North, but I disagree on both counts.
"He might change his mind when he has to travel to Blyth Spartans on a bleak midweek winter night."
Murtagh started his career with Ballymena United and Crusaders before being spotted by Hearts. He made his Scottish League debut while on loan at Raith Rovers in January 2005. Following his release from Tynecastle, he spent pre-season with Sligo Rovers and then played in the reserves at Altrincham after arriving in Manchester as a student.
The Irishman joined Connah's Quay for 2005/6 but left at the end of the campaign and signed for Rhyl .
Murtagh made 23 full league appearances for the Lilywhites, scoring just one goal, but as the season wore on he really came into his own and emerged as a big favourite among the fans.

26 May Carl Baker called up for National Game X1, a well deserved honour.

25 May Friendlies update, still to be confirmed:

17 July Away Chorley 19 July Away Prescot 21 July Home Rochdale 24 July Away Fleetwood 25 July Home v Tranmere 28 July Home v Macclesfield 2 Aug Home v Morecambe.

23 May Best of luck to AC Milan, please don't mess it up this time! You can get 10/1 on Liverpoo to win on pens on Skybet, that is buying money with their record. Can't help but laugh at the poor unfortunate Liverpoo fans whose plane got cancelled and couldn't make the game. Such a shame! Working in the wonderful City as I do it was quite impressive to see the amount of red on the streets and it wasn't all blood, my singing of AC Milan, AC Milan didn't seem to go down too well though for some reason.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to AC Milan. You have made me a very happy man tonight!!!!!!!!! I almost wish I was going in to work tomorrow now. I took the day off just in case they won again! Thanks to everyone for the text messages, anyone would think I had something against Liverpoo. Me? Never!! Of course they were robbed according to the darlings on Radio 5, it's all the refs fault!

22 May The article below is on the superb Altrincham news site, whoever does that site is my hero. It has everything you need to know about NL football. Great work!

Guy Heffernan insists he won’t return to Barrow as long as Phil Wilson is manager. The out-of-contract defender says he was offered a non-contract deal by the Bluebirds chief last week. However, following a season of being overlooked by Wilson and with other clubs interested, Heffernan will look to kick-start his career elsewhere. 'He’s phoned me up and offered me a new deal, but I don’t think I’ll take it', said the Barrow-born-and-based 23-year-old. 'He said he has to downsize the squad for next season and he wants me to be part of the sixteen. But he never guaranteed me first-team football. I’ve been offered first-team football at other places and on a lot better money as well'. He added: 'I’d like to come back and play for the club, but not under Phil, I don’t think I’ll play under him again. I just don’t like him to be honest and I don’t think he’s good for the club'... A regular at right back under ex-boss Lee Turnbull, Heffernan, despite being fit almost the entire season, made just two league appearances, both as a sub... Frustrated at the way things had worked out, Heffernan didn’t turn up for the last two games of the season, choosing instead to play and captain Barrow Cricket Club’s second team. The player says he was fined two weeks wages by the club as a result. 'I spoke to Phil about three times all last season', says Heffernan. 'His man-management skills are awful. We had an argument the season before and I think he just bore a grudge from that. He doesn’t talk to me, I’m just like an outsider to him. Me, Steve Ridley and Steve Flitcroft I’d say are the outsiders because we’re not his boys - we were not people he’s brought in'. By the end of last season Heffernan, who joined the Bluebirds in early 2004, was the only Barrow-based player in the Barrow first-team squad. 'People will say it’s sour grapes because I never got picked,', he said. 'It’s not a case of that. Last season I wasn’t a player, I was basically a supporter more than anything. I want the club to do well and will still look for their results... I know I’m good enough to play in the team... The board had this bright idea that Phil Wilson would come in with this brilliant record he’s had in the past and that it would rub off on Barrow... People can say we’re now training together, but what has it actually done? We’ve gone further down the league than when under Lee Turnbull'" reports the NW Evening Mail

20 May Morecambe v Exeter Conf Play Off Final at Wembley sees Morecambe progress to the Football League with a 2-1 win after being 1-0 down. Morecambe were promoted (as Runners Up behind Marine) to The Conference in 1994/95. Congratulations to The Shrimps. A gate of 40,043 is a Conf Play Off final high.

19 May What a shocker of a Cup Final, I actually fell asleep in the first half!

Mileage Chart for 2007/08 added to site. Interesting to note that Alty travel the least miles with just 1675 (one way). Blyth have the highest total with 3863 and Workington have 3819 which is just 2 miles fewer than we had in Conference National. If Workington had gone through the play offs to Conference national they would have racked up some miles, 768 to and from Weymouth, you would struggle to do that as a part time club. Our total of 2110 is the 10th highest in the League although some of the mileages on this chart are a bit different to those I have used in the past. 135 to Alfreton? I have it as 97 and my total is 2008.

18 May Interesting AGM last night, very upbeat and positive, lots of praise for the way TIY have progressed in the first 12 months.

Spoke to Dav about friendlies. They are all subject to confirmation and amendment but as it stands they are:

17 Jul Away Chorley, 19 July Away Prescot, 21 July Home Rochdale, 23 or 24 July Away Fleetwood 25 July Home v Tranmere, 28 July tba 4 Aug possibly a game. Macclesfield are other possible opponents.

16 May Gate prices are frozen at £11 Ground and £12.50 Stand.

Season Ticket details:

Main Stand adults £210.00 and Concessions £142.80
Ground Adults £184.00 and Concessions £126.00
Secondary school pupils 11 - 16 just £50.00
Students with a Student Union card will be admitted at the applicable Concessionary rate.

Season tickets will be on sale from Monday 4th June until Friday 29th June at the following times:-
Monday 10.00am – 8.00pm
Tuesday 10.00am – 4.00pm
Wednesday 10.00am – 8.00pm
Thursday 10.00am – 4.00pm
Friday 10.00am – 4.00pm

14 May Farsley Celtic are promoted to Blue Square National so the final make up of Blue Square North is now known. The three highlighted will be new grounds for me although, having just seen some pictures of the new Nuneaton ground I would suggest that if we are playing them anytime before January 08 we will be playing at their old ground!
Alfreton
Altrincham
Barrow
Blyth Spartans
Burscough
Gainsborough Trinity
Harrogate
Hinckley Utd
Hucknall Town
Hyde Utd
Kettering
Leigh RMI
Nuneaton
Redditch Utd
Solihull Moors
Stalybridge
Tamworth
Telford
Vauxhall Motors
Worcester
Workington

13 May Just when it looks like Wigan are on the way back to where they belong, they manage to survive!

Official site states that Matt Hocking has also signed up for next season.

12 May Just been updating all my spreadsheets and printing them out and doing a full audit. I hadn't realised that the 4-0 win at G&N was our best away win in our Conference career.

10 May TIY Meeting at Grandstand Club 7.30 start.

9 May Looks like Boston could be in a mess and may not be able to take their place in BSQ Premier which would mean a reprieve for Altrincham. I guess Boston would be allocated to BSQ North. Alty or Boston, I know which one I would prefer to visit. Boston is a long journey!

8 May Great news from the Official Site:

HOLLAND AT HAIG AVENUE NEXT SEASON

Chris Holland signed a new contract at Haig Avenue today. The former Preston North End, Birmingham and Newcastle midfield star has been named the Port's new club captain by manager Peter Davenport. Holland joined the Sandgrounders in the final third of the season from Boston United and quickly emerged as a leader on the pitch in his midfield general role. A delighted Peter Davenport said "Chris made a big impression in the run in and he is a massive signing for us. Chris has plenty of experience and it shows our supporters we intend to have quality players in our full time squad next season. I have several irons in the fire at present and we will be announcing more news shortly. Today we have re-signed both Chris and Michael Powell."

MICHAEL POWELL WITH PORT NEXT SEASON

Michael Powell has pledged his future to the Port today. The versatile ex PASE Caterforce youth team graduate who came to Haig Avenue after being released by Preston at sixteen years of age has re-signed for next season. Peter Davenport said "Michael has tremendous ability, he can play at right back, centre half or in midfield. I believe Michael will develop further as a player next season.

Oxford v Exeter goes to penalties with Exeter winning. What a great game it sounded on the radio. Those commentators were superb, what passion they showed for their team! One rule I would change though is that the Play Offs should never go to pens. The team finishing highest in the table should go through.

7 May My personal review of the 2006/07 season is now complete and can be found HERE

6 May Photo Gallery Updated. Some photos have been removed to free up some space and organise the gallery in a more user friendly way. The photos still need labelling which will be done in the next few days.

5 May Southport Supporters v Southport Players & Staff at Haig Ave Kick Off 11am. Admission £4 Adults £2 Children with a £1 reduction for TIY Members. A very lucky 11-5 win for the Players & Staff! Excellent day sees TIY raise in the region of £800 from the event. Thank you to everyone for your support, Dave Pennington for doing the gate and everyone at the club for their co-operation in getting the game on. Particular thanks to the players for taking the time out to play, it was much appreciated by all the lads who played against you.

We are hoping to stage a cricket match next! Watch this site, Port Chat and the official club site for more details.

TIY have a photo cd available from the game. It contains 189 jpeg images from the day and is available for £2 to TIY members £3 to others. Will be made to order so please contact me via e-mail or telephone to order a copy.
I will have them available at the TIY meeting on Thursday or arrangements can be made to pick them up or drop them off at other times.

We will be playing Kettering and Workington next season as both fail in the play offs. Telford are also promoted. I think the Blue Square North will be quite strong next season. I was hoping to get Kettering out of the way. The final BS North place will go to either Farsley or Hinckley who contest the play off final. Farsley in Blue Square National?!

4 May A strong team is promised for tomorrow's game against TIY

Fan Profiles Updated. All that I have received are now in the Fan Zone

Starting from 4 May 07 a number of the pages are being updated, revamped and hopefully improved. Some links may temporarily not work and some things may disappear but it will be worth it! NEWS & VIEWS will provide updates. If I do take anything off that somebody needs please feel free to get in touch with me.

3 May TIY have copies of the Gravesend & Northfleet v Southport game available on DVD for just £5 with all the proceeds going to TIY funds. Please contact me if you would like a copy.

1 May The TIY auction saw myself and Jose Mourinho win the managers job with a bid of £75. Jose now has other pressing arrangements for Saturday. If anyone wants to outbid us and take on the role I am happy to open it up for offers. I am sure we can raise more than £75 and all the money will go to TIY. Contact me by e-mail or phone 077900-41514.
It will be a challenging job, a number of the players have advised me that they are looking to "take care" of one of the team and suggested to me that I will need to have a good physio. An early substitution will probably be needed (as well as an ambulance) so you will be kept on your toes all day!

From The Official Site:-

SANDGROUNDERS MAINTAIN AMBITION

PORT LOOKING TO ACHIEVE BOUNCEBACKABILITY

Southport Football Club announced on Tuesday that they will be retaining full time playing status next season. This is a highly ambitious decision at Haig Avenue and shows the clubs determination to be highly competitive as they kick off next season. Manager Peter Davenport finished the season with an impressive run of performances and the former Manchester United and Nottingham Forest star has now been given the go ahead to build his full time squad for the Blue Square North next season. Davenport’s last Conference home match saw a record home league attendance at Haig Avenue in 33 years and with that amount of enthusiasm in the town the hope is there will be a winning habit at Haig Avenue next season.

Chairman Charlie Clapham and Vice Chairman Sam Shrouder have given the go ahead to be full time for a second season and the intention is to return to the Blue Square Premier as quickly as possible. Supporters in the town will be impressed by the clubs decision to start the season as possibly the only Blue Square North club operating as a full time club. Kettering Town are currently full time and are now in the play offs aiming to achieve Blue Square Premier status. Chairman Charlie Clapham stated “  Following what has been a very difficult transitional season from Part Time to Full Time to reverse this after one season could be seen as a negative policy, the manager believes that to remain Full Time gives the club the best chance of regaining our National status at the earliest opportunity, the club will operate on an affordable budget which the manager is fully supportive of. We believe our supporters will see our course of action as being very positive laying down our marker that we must get back in the National division as a priority”

 

29 Apr Blue Square North 07/08 will comprise of the following teams based on the assumption that Witton will be promoted from the Unibond, it could be Telford, Marine or Matlock. Also assuming Kettering will move up, this could also be Farsley, Hinckley or Workington:-
Alfreton
Altrincham
Barrow
Blyth Spartans
Burscough
Farsley Celtic
Gainsborough Trinity
Harrogate
Hinckley Utd
Hucknall Town
Hyde Utd
Leigh RMI
Nuneaton
Redditch Utd
Solihull Moors
Southport
Stalybridge
Tamworth
Vauxhall Motors
Witton Albion
Worcester
Workington

Weymouth look set to go into Administration tomorrow and start next season with a 10 point deduction, what a ridiculous situation this is becoming and something that needs investigating immediately.

Our combined home and away average attendance is 1592, our best ever in NL football, helped of course by the gates at Oxford and York. The home average of 1200 is 44 down on last season.

28 Apr Away Exeter City. EXETER 2 SOUTHPORT 1 ATT 6670 Our highest ever NL league gate and the 23rd best ever in the history of The Conference.. A super first half showing was followed by a backs to the wall second as Exeter launched wave after wave of attacks. You could tell how tense the Exeter players and fans were in the first half but they certainly came out all guns blazing for the second period. An excellent turn out of 109 Southport fans made their voices head in the first half in particular. It was a brilliant atmosphere in the second once Exeter scored, certainly the loudest I have heard at a Southport game for a long time. Excellent journey down and back by car. The coach was also full which considering the position we were in is a great show of support from the Southport faithful. It's times like this that the club need our support and to all those who have stuck with it, well done. I know there is at least one person who has seen all the first class games and another who has missed just one, there may be others. I've just missed the two games, at Dagenham when no lift was available, and at Gravesend when illness struck. I will be doing my season summary in the next few days. The Exeter fans are full of praise for our following yesterday and we seem to have gained an appreciation society. When you think about it, we had 109 there out of an average home gate of 1200. Exeter had 180 at Haig Ave out of an average gate of 3627.9.08% of our average home gate in a meaningless gam against 4.96 % of their average home gate, not bad going that!

Burscough gain promotion and Leigh survive, at least the travel next season will be a lot less. I'm sure the fans that those two teams will bring to Haig Ave will help our average attendance next season!!! It will be interesting to see which end some of our "fans" go in when we meet Burscough.

27 Apr Tickets look to be selling well in Exeter. The official site states only a handful remain and the forum users estimates range from 3800 to 7000. I have advised them that we will probably have around the 100 mark in attendance.

26 Apr TIY 1ST BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION & GRAND AUCTION at The Grandstand Club. Over £1400 raised. Many thanks to everyone for their support.

25 Apr I think someone needs to get a message to Exeter, they seem to think we are bringing 2-300 on Saturday. The coach is full but only the one. There will be a few of us in cars and a few exiles but with the match situation as it is now, no more than 120 I guess. They reckon on having sold over 6000 tickets already.

24 Apr Our fate could finally be decided tonight when Halifax take on Crawley and Grays play Kidderminster. Our fate is indeed sealed as both Halifax and Grays win to send us down. I know it's been on the cards for a long time but the 4 game winning run gave us a bit of hope but all to no avail and its Blue Square North next season.

ONLY 1 coach will now run to Exeter so if you haven't booked and paid I'm afraid you will be unable to travel with TIY. Apologies to anyone who has booked but we can only allow the first 49 who paid to go.

NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE LEAGUE TABLE @ 24 April 2007
      Home           Away             SFC
  Team P W D L F A   W D L F A GD PTS H A
1 P-Dag & Red 45 15 4 3 48 19   12 7 4 43 28 44 92 1-4 0-0
2 PO-Oxford 45 11 9 3 33 16   11 6 5 33 16 34 81 0-1 2-2
3 Morecambe 45 10 7 5 28 20   12 5 6 35 26 17 78 1-2 0-0
4 York City 45 9 6 7 28 22   13 5 5 36 23 19 77 0-1 2-2
5 Exeter 45 13 7 2 37 18   8 5 10 28 29 18 75 0-1 1-2
6 Burton Albion 45 13 3 6 27 19   9 6 8 24 26 6 75 3-1 1-0
7 Gravesend 45 12 6 5 33 25   9 5 8 29 29 8 74 2-2 4-0
8 Stevenage 44 12 4 7 46 30   8 5 8 29 34 11 69 1-2 1-3
9 Aldershot 45 11 7 5 40 31   7 3 12 24 31 2 64 1-0 2-2
10 Weymouth 45 12 6 5 35 26   6 3 13 21 46 -16 63 0-1 0-2
11 Kidderminster 45 7 5 11 19 26   10 6 6 24 24 -7 62 0-1 0-2
12 Rushden & D 45 10 5 8 34 24   6 6 10 22 29 3 59 1-2 3-2
13 Northwich 44 9 1 12 26 33   9 2 11 23 33 -17 57 1-2 1-3
14 Forest Green 45 10 5 8 34 33   2 13 7 24 31 -6 54 1-2 2-1
15 Woking 45 7 8 7 31 24   7 4 12 22 35 -6 54 0-0 1-1
16 Crawley Town 45 10 5 7 27 20   7 6 10 25 32 0 52 3-1 1-2
17 Grays Ath 45 8 9 6 29 21   5 4 13 27 33 2 52 3-1 0-4
18 Halifax 45 11 8 3 38 21   3 2 18 15 40 -8 52 1-1 1-1
19 Cambridge 45 7 4 11 33 33   7 6 10 23 33 -10 52 1-2 2-2
20 Stafford 45 7 4 11 25 32   7 6 10 24 38 -21 52 5-1 0-1
21 Altrincham 45 9 3 10 28 32   4 8 11 25 35 -14 50 2-1 1-2
22 R-Tamworth 45 8 6 9 24 27   5 3 14 19 33 -17 48 1-0 1-1
23 R-Southport 45 7 4 12 29 30   4 10 8 27 35 -9 47 ** **
24 R-St Albans 45 4 5 13 27 49   5 5 13 29 40 -33 37 1-1 2-2
  TOTALS   232 131 176 759 631   176 131 233 631 759 0      

22 Apr Having broken our home NL attendance record yesterday it looks highly likely that we will beat our away record, set earlier this season at Oxford, at next Saturday's match at "The Real St James's Park" Seems a strange carry on here. The game is all ticket for Home fans and they are stopping selling them on Friday night at the request of the Police. We will turn up on the day and be able to walk in? Now if I was an Exeter fan and couldn't get in wouldn't I just go in the away end? I hope there will be plenty of stewards and police on hand! I understand no seating is being made available for away fans.

21 Apr Home v York City. Trust In Yellow are sponsoring the matchday programme. What a BIG game this has become, surely we must be near the 2000 mark, depends on the turnout from York and the weather I guess.

SOUTHPORT 0 YORK CITY 1 ATTENDANCE 3206-Highest ever home NL league attendance. Seasons home average attendance is exactly 1200. 752 Standing York fans with a good number in the stand as well but still a great turn out by the Southport people. No complaints about the pen or the sending off and after that we rarely threatened. Virtually impossible to get out of it now I would think, particularly as Exeter need a win to confirm their Play Off spot next week. Could all be over on Tuesday evening if Halifax win and Grays get a draw. To think that we are going in to the last week of the season still not down is a great turnaround considering we thought we would be relegated at the end of March at one point. The damage was done in the first half of the season though and it has been an uphill struggle since then to peg it back. Droylsden are promoted to Conference National. Burscough, Witton and Telford fight it out for promotion to Conference North.

Best home league attendance for 33 years,15 April 1974 when 9504 attended for the visit of Oldham. The nearest we have come since then was a 2834 v Crewe in 77/78 and a 2750 v Swansea in the same season.
  REMAINING MATCHES
    SOUTHPORT   TAMWORTH   GRAYS   HALIFAX   ALTRINCHAM
24-Apr         H KIDDERMINSTER H CRAWLEY    
28-Apr A EXETER A CAMBRIDGE A MORECAMBE H STEVENAGE H ALDERSHOT

Talked about as the biggest game at Haig Ave since the FA Trophy Semi 9 years ago? It promises to be a tense affair. I just hope the pressure doesn't get to everyone on and off the pitch. York will bring a few and with all the free tickets and media attention it should be well attended. Could make the Top 20 home attendance chart. I hope everyone gets behind the team, puts aside all the gripes of early season and shows the support we need. Even if we go a goal down as we did against Burton the support will be crucial.
  TOP 20 HOME LEAGUE ATTENDANCES
No Season Date Opponents Res Score Att Scorers
1 02/03 30-Nov-02 CHESTER CITY L 1-3 2447 Jones(S)
2 93/94 24-Aug-93 HALIFAX TOWN D 2-2 2423 Haw Comstive
3 00/01 06-Jan-01 RUSHDEN & DIAMONDS L 1-3 2255 Lane
4 92/93 24-Apr-93 FRICKLEY ATHLETIC W 2-1 2230 Haw2
5 94/95 07-Jan-95 MACCLESFIELD TOWN L 2-3 2207 Haw Thomas
6 99/00 03-Jan-00 MORECAMBE D 1-1 2202 Arnold(pen)   
7 00/01 26-Dec-00 MORECAMBE L 1-2 2117 Arnold
8 92/93 26-Dec-92 MARINE D 0-0 2078  
9 99/00 15-Apr-00 KIDDERMINSTER HARRIERS L 0-1 2033  
10 97/98 25-Aug-97 HALIFAX TOWN D 0-0 1889  
11 05/06 26-Dec-05 MORECAMBE L 0-3 1807  
12 06/07 26-Dec-06 MORECAMBE L 1-2 1804 Baker
13 93/94 18-Dec-93 KIDDERMINSTER HARRIERS D 1-1 1739 Gamble(pen)
14 01/02 26-Dec-01 MORECAMBE D 1-1 1732 Elam
15 92/93 10-Apr-93 BARROW W 3-0 1723 Dove, Haw, Baines
16 05/06 29-Apr-06 ALDERSHOT L 0-1 1709  
17 98/99 29-Aug-98 RUSHDEN & DIAMONDS L 0-1 1653  
18 05/06 16-Aug-05 YORK CITY L 1-4 1646 Daly
19 97/98 01-Jan-98 MORECAMBE D 1-1 1640 Whittaker  
20 00/01 11-Nov-00 DOVER ATHLETIC W 2-1 1635 Arnold(2)

20 Apr I will be in the Club Shop from 4.30 to 6.30 to take any coach bookings and payments.

17 Apr Big games tonight, Burton v Halifax 1-0 and Stafford v Northwich 2-0.
NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE LEAGUE TABLE @ 17 April 2007
      Home           Away             SFC
  Team P W D L F A   W D L F A GD PTS H A
1 P-Dag & Red 44 15 4 3 48 19   12 6 4 42 27 44 91 1-4 0-0
2 Oxford 44 10 9 3 31 16   11 6 5 33 16 32 78 0-1 2-2
3 Morecambe 44 10 7 5 28 20   11 5 6 34 26 16 75 1-2 0-0
4 Exeter 44 13 7 2 37 18   8 4 10 28 29 18 74 0-1  
5 York City 44 9 6 7 28 22   12 5 5 35 23 18 74   2-2
6 Burton Albion 44 13 3 6 27 19   8 6 8 21 26 3 72 3-1 1-0
7 Stevenage 43 12 3 7 46 30   8 5 8 29 34 11 68