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Worst kit clash ever! The ref actually started Truro City’s home game with Dorking Wanderers despite both teams wearing identical kit. Must admit I’m surprised Truro City didn’t have some of last season’s kit hanging around especially as they had three choices then.
 

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Paula_G said:
Worst kit clash ever! The ref actually started Truro City’s home game with Dorking Wanderers despite both teams wearing identical kit. Must admit I’m surprised Truro City didn’t have some of last season’s kit hanging around especially as they had three choices then.
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This is a classic example of what happens when clubs have stupid third kits. Dorking's home kit is Arsenal style red & white, as worn in the recent friendly against Hamlet. Their second kit is the blue & black stripes, as worn by the mascot in the photograph, which would have been fine here. Why do they even have the black & orange kit? Truro have worn all white at home for many years, so I guess that’s where the confusion may have occurred, but their home colours ought to be made clear in the league handbook, with which club officials ought to familiarise themselves.

We've had a few clashes at Champion Hill over the years, with visiting clubs turning up in mostly blue change kits, when there would have been no clash with their normal colours. I recall Windsor & Eton (usual colours all red with green trim) turning up in all navy with red trim around 20 years ago. Slate grey away kits for clubs who normally play in white or yellow is another stupid one that's happened more than once.
 
Sammy Moore departs yet another manager's position. That's Leatherhead, Concord Rangers, Hemel Hempstead, Potters Bar Town, Faversham Town, Hythe Town in a 7 years managerial career. The club has blocked replies to their message:

 
Or with the National Planning Policy Framework being reworked, the developers are hoping to be able to cram a few more flats in / for it to be easier (i.e. cheaper) to get through planning as shortly. We shall see.

I suspect a lot of planning applications will be placed on hold until the new NPPF is clear. Labour have made it clear they want it to be easier to build.
 
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Or with the National Planning Policy Framework being reworked, the developers are hoping to be able to cram a few more flats in / for it to be easier (i.e. cheaper) to get through planning as shortly. We shall see.

I suspect a lot of planning applications will be placed on hold until the new NPPF is clear. Labour have made it clear they want it to be easier to build.
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More crucially, Bexley Council owns the land and there's a clause in the lease forbidding residential development.
 
Anyone with access to The Athletic will find an interesting article on old Isthmian rivals Walton & Hersham.

An American has joined the consortium and set up Walton & Hersham America to run a free to play academy set up. (It's usually very expensive. I can't remember what it cost my nieces but it was crazy sums, they live in Seattle.) 1,300 kids already signed on and one earmarked to join the British club when old enough.
 
Woking have confirmed admission for the National League Cup will be just £8 and three quarters of the ground will be closed. I don't know any Aldershot fans planning on attending their matches.

In return for this shambles, the Conference clubs get a guaranteed average payment of about 60k. Another triumph for those who run the Conference.
 
Seems all a bit pointless to me for National clubs to enter.

Yeah the 60k helps but I'd wager a lot of NL sides reckon if for one game before getting knocked out it's worth it. With Eastleigh saying if an NL team is in a promotion hunt there's no benefit to multiple extra games using their starters in which case will we see NL reserves trotted out instead?

Woking not anticipating a regular attendance so maybe it's worth it for them for the one game? Others more in the loop will know much more than me.
 
It's a league system to start off. It's a minimum of four matches for Conference sides. More if they qualify from their group.
 
This is a complete shambles. From what I gather a lot of the PL clubs involved don't even want to take part either.
 
This is a story that interests me. We don't have the "sin bin" at our level, only at Step 5 and below. It's a 10 minute time penalty, but it ends at the final whistle regardless of whether the full 10 minutes has been served. Much like sudden death kicks from the penalty mark: if one team is a man short and all their eligible players have taken one, the cycle begins again without the other team's eleventh player taking a kick.

www.kentonline.co.uk

‘Their fans were going mad – it was hilarious’

James Rogers scored a crucial penalty in Lydd Town’s FA Vase win at Newhaven - despite being sin-binned at the time.
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Fisher had to replay a cup match at AFC Stoneham a couple of seasons back. The referee refused to allow a sin binned player to take a kick. Stoneham appealed. It went to penalties in the replay, the same player was on the pitch but didn't take one.

To be honest referees rarely use the sun bin, even at step five. I suspect with both benches having stopwatches all over the place, referees think it's a massive row waiting to happen. Most of the sin bins I have seen occurred inside the last ten minutes...
 
Roger D said:
Fisher had to replay a cup match at AFC Stoneham a couple of seasons back. The referee refused to allow a sin binned player to take a kick. Stoneham appealed. It went to penalties in the replay, the same player was on the pitch but didn't take one.

To be honest referees rarely use the sun bin, even at step five. I suspect with both benches having stopwatches all over the place, referees think it's a massive row waiting to happen. Most of the sin bins I have seen occurred inside the last ten minutes...
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That's the game that brought the rule to my attention in the first place, now you mention it. I don't really see the point of the sin bin for a specific offence. Just show the yellow card, then another for a repeat offence.
 
It’s used for dissent isn’t it? Part of the “stop the riffraff swearing at the authority figure” pearl-clutching campaign. Certainly there was a player at Peckham the last few years who was regularly binned for swearing. (And for the refs (un)conscious bias).
 
Yes it is restricted to dissent.

It was really aimed at aiding refs lower down, the hope was people would get fed up of playing with ten players and keep.their teammates in check. No idea of the impact lower down but it seems a bit of a waste of space in step five / six. I have have watched a lot at that level in recent years and probably only seen five or so bins in as many seasons. I remember one lad last season spent the entire match gobbing off, the referee binned him with about five to go to make sure there could be no arguments about when the 10 mins was up.

If it's to be retained it should be 10 mins and you only come back on during a stoppage in play.
 
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