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So how come Reading FC owner was approved as a fit and proper owned by the EFL when both of Dai's previously owned clubs were failed projects? Ric Parry, what is your response to that question then?
Good video, although I'm a bit pissed off, I support Morecambe and we're really in the 💩 ath the moment, we've got an owner who's trying to get rid of us we're just as much in trouble as the other's you mentioned but we get barely any coverage!! 🤬🤬🤬
I’ve just moved to the area and I want to have a local team and I’m choosing Worcester city because they had a bright past and they are on the up now, did I make the right decision? ,also you said there’s uncertainty on the raiders ground and I don’t want to start supporting a club that’s in loads of bother, did I make the right decision
Either team is fine, City has history, and Raiders have the stadium. The uncertainty over the stadium is more about whether rugby will return in the form of the Worcester Warriors but for the Raiders they have an agreement in place for the stadium. The difference between the club is that Worcester City have a long history and is the traditional club. Worcester Raiders is just a club that focused on youth football that developed a senior team.
City have just won the league, have played a few games at six ways, last one against Raiders, 1600 turned up for that. City are probably going to go up a few leagues if they can keep the players they currently have. City beat Raiders 4 . 0 last time at 6ways.
@TheFootballFansShow I think the 6ways situation is complicated. City need a permanent solution, at least a 10k capacity ground, the original one could manage 15k until rules changed. Heyho. For a non league club they have occasionally almost been able to advance but got let down by not having the correct turnstiles for instance. City board turned down Duckworths money apparently....
Went there on Easter Monday to see the Super Silkmen win 3-1 and push for that 2nd spot gor play offs, nice food and ground, just a shame Hyde didn't turn up on and off the field 😂
Couple of facts you may want to take on board. The owners of Worcester City and Sixways wanted Worcester City to become tenants of Sixways, but it fell through when it was somehow leaked. They approached Worcester Raiders instead. Warriors owners also became joint owners of Raiders for a while. The owners also own Morecambe FC. When Warriors went bust, Raiders signed an agreement to rent Sixways for a period while new owners were found. The ongoing legal wranglings are well documented. Sixways Holdings Ltd now have no connection to the former owners Whittingham & Goldring, and the Sixways pitch is used by Raiders (average gate 200), Worcester City Women FC (average gate 150) and has been used on occasion by Worcester City (biggest gate so far 3189 for the FA Vase semi final first leg). While the old capacity of Sixways was 12000, there are presently no safety certificates for either end of the ground, and the ground is capped at 4999 (whereas the big East stand actually holds 7200). When Raiders and City met in the league back in August, the gate was 2475. Despite this, Raiders still only average 200 or so. The second local derby of the season will be this coming Tuesday, and is also being played at Sixways as Worcester City's home ground at the County FA HQ is waterlogged. Hellenic League Champions City are expecting the biggest crowd of the season, unsurprisingly. There were rumours that Raiders were planning to leave Sixways due to the rent cost, but they have agreed a new two year lease. Where promoted City will be playing next year is anyone's guess, the County FA HQ is nowhere near the standard required at Step 4.
Really enjoy going to York Road and watching Maidenhead ,but have to concede it's had its day. Only two entrances a long long walk from each other (which became a pest when games started to be segregated) and any gate over 2000 is a squeeze with long waits for drinks/chips or a trip to the loo !! It will be a huge shame if the new ground isn't built and all the fantastic work done by Alan Devonshire and the club to get them where they are evaporates away.
Munster rugby have played in Pairc Ui Chaoimh twice in the last year or so. A soccer match was played there recently too. The foreign sports rule is not strongly enforced anymore
Not that simple. County FA can't afford a bag of crisps let alone a multi million stadium, they can't even afford adequate drainage at the ground they own, hence City having to play four games at Sixways lately. Raiders can't justify the rent they pay on 200 gates, and City have refused to consider a move to Sixways as they would lose all the off-pitch revenue from food/beer on match days. It's also a horrible artificial pitch that isn't like your usual 3G/4G pitch but made of coconut crumb with longer "grass" so as not to graze rugby players knees. Half of Sixways is also without safety certs, capacity is 4999 and even with a gate the size that City drew for the FA Vase semi there (3189) it was still very big and very empty.
Coventry City used to regularly have a pre-season friendly against Worcester City. And always, without fail, lost! A loss which was repeated at the Ricoh in the FA Cup First Round of 2014, a youthful James Maddison finding himself amongst those vanquished. How times have changed.
You really skimmed over a lot of important information. Worcester has been top flight in every sport except football within the last 10 years so im confused on your takes about worcester sporting wise?
My take is that Worcester Rugby was nothing without Cecil Duckworth. In the same way, Newcastle would be nothing without the Saudis. Worcester were never, and do feel free to correct me. They were never a top flight rugby team, and there's no history of being a top rugby team before Cecil Duckworth turned up. I'm no rugby fan, but I'm surrounded by Bath, Bristol, and Gloucester fans who have the take that the warriors were inflated beyond their level. I didn't mention cricket, which should have been mentioned as Worcestershire has always excelled at that sport.
Correct. Worcester RFC were a lower league team that Cecil Duckworth invested in, there was never any history of success. There was always this sense of nouveau riche about the place, no pedigree or tradition. Always felt very artificial. Great facilities but no identity.
Rather than Worcester City FC build another stadium, surely it would be simpler and possibly beneficial to all parties to share the ground with the Raiders?
Manchester City never paid for the 3G pitch, the only time they paid was for the sponsorship. All the money raised was by the football club and its been worth it as we have over 30 junior teams on it which pays for itself. The club is on a good financial footing since the pitch went in.
A few facts to correct in your video . 1 they have not officially gone into administration they have a certain time before that officially kicks in. Poetical buyers etc . 2 they haven’t been deducted 10 points . They have a interim manger . Not splitting hairs but u need the actual story not the half one in the papers .
The arrogant fans thought they were too big for the little National League South and they would walk it. Cant even make it through one season playing the "Sunday League lot"
Massive baggies fan, but im nervous, we've been stung before: Sid lucas relegation 86 John silk: relegation 91 Trevor summers : tried hard but failed Tony Hale : ditto Paul Thompson promted us then left Jeremy Peace: wondeful then sold us! Lai : crippled us
Gouchan Lai was nothing more than an absolute FRAUD!!! He purchased us for 200million, BUT during his absolute awful tenure he's thieved, loaned to his offshore accounts much more, hence selling us for 60million...Lai ' pronounced LIE ' was nothing more than a penniless charlatan with NO care for our historical club, and having not a pot to piss in... Literally.!. Good riddance to gouchan LIE... Just hope mr.patel truly invests in our club and his opening sentences have credibility and credence.!. BoingBoingBaggies:-)
seems like standard of refereeing in this country over the last few seasons are at and all time low, particularly the lower down the pyramid you go. i wouldn’t want to see blue cards. instead they should rethink how to train these officials and bring them up to standard
Its interesting how all the big sports that have some sort of Sin Bin or temporary removal of players from the field all seem to have a high amount of out-field players, Aussie Rules - 15 players Rugby Union - 15 players Rugby League- 13 players Gaelic Football - 15 players Hurling - 15 players Where as sports that have fewer dont Association Football - 11 players Gridiron Football -- 11 players Basketball - 5 players Ice Hockey - 11 players (this does exist in hockey in the form of power plays but for nowhere near ten mins just 2 or 5 and its a fast paced small play area sport) 15 going to 14 doesn't affect the game nearly as much as 11 to 10. This means players wasting time to get back to full strength isn't as much of an issue in the former sports as it is the latter. GAA sports like Gaelic football are more similar to association football than Rugby U/L in terms of rules, structure and flow. Apart from the use of hands and extra goal parts the main difference is player count, so that's clearly the deciding factor as to whether temporary sending offs work or not in a sport. Funny how that sound logic has made sense for a hundred or so years but now they think they suddenly have a new idea. FIFA are morons.
Could blue cards be VAR checked? Could they be upgraded to a red during the 10 minute suspension like they sometimes do in Rugby? Would there be time added on for stoppages and time wasting? I wish these were joke questions but I’m genuinely curious 😂
Sadly no, I don't think a majority of Northern Irish unionists just want to get on with their lives. Nor do a majority of nationalists. A significant minority on each side do, and a large majority of the middle class on both sides do. But as a whole both sides would accept worse life outcomes for themselves to avoid the other side getting more than them. Both sides are genuinely scared of the other and would cut off their nose to spite the other side's face. For example, one of the major reasons the Assembly was suspended 2017-20 and couldn't get back up was because Sinn Fein demanded an Irish Language Act while the leader of the DUP said about it "If you feed a crocodile they're going to keep coming back and looking for more." I'm afraid Northern Ireland is a long, long way from buying a Coke and living in perfect harmony. Over the past 20 years I've watched both sides - but especially the unionists - become more and more entrenched.
My 100th football ground visited, 2001 FA Vase against Bracknell Twon(2-0). Ground was a typical athletics stadium, not great for watchnig football, but the food in the sports centre cafe was brilliant!
