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Former Billericay owner Glenn Tamplin takes over Romford FC

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person is not allowed to be a director, owner or Officer of a club.
A full list of the Disqualifying Conditions is included in The FA’s Regulations. The Disqualifying Conditions
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The game has agreed that where a person has broken the law and that the offence is such that it would
not be appropriate for that person to be an Officer of a club then the Test prevents that person from
being an Officer of a club. Examples of Disqualifying Conditions under the law are:
 Disqualified from being director of a UK company
 Convictions for dishonesty, corruption perverting the course of justice or a serious breach of the
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football club
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The Met Police should never have taken Shaqille Hippolyte-Patrick off. He sounds like an adversary of Sherlock Homes.
 
An attendance of 626 is hardly the kind of thing The Muriel One had in mind for a home tie cup final! That's only 40 more than we had at Tooting last night.

I see Billy Bricknell has made it 4-3 to Riiiiiccay.
 
editor said:
An attendance of 626 is hardly the kind of thing The Muriel One had in mind for a home tie cup final! That's only 40 more than we had at Tooting last night.

I see Billy Bricknell has made it 4-3 to Riiiiiccay.
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Not really, we include non-attending season ticket holders.
 
Dulwich Mishi said:
Not really, we include non-attending season ticket holders.
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It looked pretty close to that number to me. How many non attending season tickets were there then?

Either way, Billericay's crowd fell far, far short of the kind of huge numbers Tamplin was bragging about at the beginning of the season and the fact that they can't play in their own stadium is down to his own cock up too.
 
I didn't ask, but the crowd looked well over a hundred less than the announced figure to me, based on fans in the ground.
 
editor said:
Either way, Billericay's crowd fell far, far short of the kind of huge numbers Tamplin was bragging about at the beginning of the season and the fact that they can't play in their own stadium is down to his own cock up too.
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We played at New Lodge on Monday against Staines. We haven't actually had a home Saturday game there since February 24th against Wealdstone (attendance was 1,823) so it'll be interesting to see what kind of crowd we get this week.
 
goandroam said:
We played at New Lodge on Monday against Staines. We haven't actually had a home Saturday game there since February 24th against Wealdstone (attendance was 1,823) so it'll be interesting to see what kind of crowd we get this week.
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What do you blame the unplayable pitch on?
 
crawliano said:
Do you mean "Who"?
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Well, who/what, then. Was the sacking of the groundsman to blame? Or Tamplin messing with the drainage? Or both or something else?

Given that this must be really hurting his income stream, I was curious as to how it came about.
 
editor said:
What do you blame the unplayable pitch on?
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I'd say the majority of the blame has to go primarily to Tamplin, this is a pitch that has been notoriously pretty bad over the years so had to be the top priority to sort out over the summer. You can't say it's "the best pitch in the league by far" at the start of the season but then it falls apart completely when the weather starts to turn.

I don't know exactly what has gone on with the groundsman but seeing the state of the pitch over the past few months I'm not sure exactly what they could've done, it's not like it's improved particularly since he was let go and other people were brought in. There's been talk of an artificial pitch being installed after the season's over (this was something mentioned in a meeting last season but the majority of people wanted to play on grass), but whether that will happen or not remains to be seen. Either way it's clearly something that will need to be addressed in the summer.

Like I said though, I don't know exactly the ins and outs of what's happened in regards to the drainage installed/the circumstances behind letting go of the groundsman so it's hard to comment definitively on them.
 
editor said:
Your comment only has any relevance if you know - for a fact - that Billericay don't count their season ticket holders.
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I'm not posting it for 'relevance'...I'm just mentioning it as how it is. I personally prefer to see attendances published with 'people in the ground' as my rule of thumb for a headcount.
As for being relevant to Billericay, I don't really care what they get through the gate or not...I'm too busy worrying about my own Club.
 
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