exciting end to the conference

[DAV007]

Chester go down on goal difference after a 88th minute winner by Hereford.

Let's hope Hereford's can use today's great escape to survive as a club.

[bdc]

Hope the play off final is Gateshead v Halifax, would be good away day if Halifax got promoted

[winstanley asfc]

Halifax would be the best team to go up being the nearest out the four to Accy. Luton are talking about making the Premiership! BBC Sport - Luton Town: Premier League the aim for the Conference club

[cashman]

Originally Posted by winstanley asfc

Halifax would be the best team to go up being the nearest out the four to Accy. Luton are talking about making the Premiership! BBC Sport - Luton Town: Premier League the aim for the Conference club

Thing is its the dream fer em, To return were they once was,They were losing cup finalists in 59,i think it was, n in the top flight back then. our dream of a return to the league was impossible, but we did it.

[shadsworthcloud]

Originally Posted by DAV007

Chester go down on goal difference after a 88th minute winner by Hereford.

Let's hope Hereford's can use today's great escape to survive as a club.

Not just the 88th minute winner for Hereford but also an 88th minute equaliser for Salisbury at Chester.
I'm pleased for Hereford but you have to spare a thought for Chester. For every winner there's a loser.
But as a club that was bust 4years ago and has had 3 successive promotions they were due " a kick in the guts". What don't kill you makes you stronger!

[smudgie]

Massive surprise Chester went down for me.

They where spending BIG in the conference North last season, so not quite sure what has happened??? Heard some big rumblings about huge debts etc...... will be a sad situation if that was the case, especially considering how hard they have worked to get there.

[winstanley asfc]

Originally Posted by cashman

Thing is its the dream fer em, To return were they once was,They were losing cup finalists in 59,i think it was, n in the top flight back then. our dream of a return to the league was impossible, but we did it.

Yeah i know they've had their moments in cup finals Cashy including the 1988 League Cup one. But appearing in the odd major cup final doesn't make you a top flight team. Granted they were in the old Division One for many years,the Futcher twins,John Aston are players who spring to mind,but their ground then was a bit of an embarrassment remember that tiny side(not much better than our cow shed)!
The top flight is a different ball game now to when it tolerated clubs like Luton,Wimbledon,Notts County and Carlisle Utd. If Luton want to return there they'll have to spend many millions on a new ground and get some dodgy foreign investor in who'll probably want to make em play in orange with black spots and call themselves Luton Leopards or summat similarly stupid!

[accybeme]

there are some big clubs in the conference and Chester with 3500 gates are relegated, boy does that show what a great performance by the reds by staying in the football league year on year, may it long continue

[maccawozzagod]

out of Chester and Hereford I'd much rather Hereford had gone down. I've not got any time for their fans and how on earth that club has found itself in such dire straits is beyond belief. Chester had to restart due to idiocy from that fella who once fantasised about us becoming Lancashire United and also the Vaughan criminals

[cashman]

Originally Posted by winstanley asfc

Yeah i know they've had their moments in cup finals Cashy including the 1988 League Cup one. But appearing in the odd major cup final doesn't make you a top flight team. Granted they were in the old Division One for many years,the Futcher twins,John Aston are players who spring to mind,but their ground then was a bit of an embarrassment remember that tiny side(not much better than our cow shed)!
The top flight is a different ball game now to when it tolerated clubs like Luton,Wimbledon,Notts County and Carlisle Utd. If Luton want to return there they'll have to spend many millions on a new ground and get some dodgy foreign investor in who'll probably want to make em play in orange with black spots and call themselves Luton Leopards or summat similarly stupid!

Well aware they were never in my lifetime a top flight team,But as yeh say they were in it fer years, So therefore the owd fans dream, as we did after 62.

[smudgie]

Reading the Chester forum is quite staggering.

The abuse they are sending towards their players is unbelievable.

[cashman]

Just been reading deva chat seems none of the 60 or so posters picked Craig Linfield to be retained.

[smudgie]

I went to see Nuneaton V Chester earlier in the season and Craig had a shocker that day.

[shadsworthcloud]

Worth considering that chester have lived within their means, staying part time, paid all their bills whereas Hereford and Aldershot have not. They have stopped paying wages, defaulted on their taxes and faced winding up orders and administration.
Significant that in the dying moments it was the part timers of chester who faded while Hereford were getting the win to stay up

So well done to Hereford and all that, but it does leave a bit of a bitter taste.