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Excellent, today was not a great match IMO, but it didnt matter, NLS status secured for another season.

well done to the players and management team who took on a very difficult challenge but came through 

words cannot express my praise so Ill just now wait for the season ticket application form and look forward to my 36 year supporting WUFC

When things come together in football I often think about that A Team line, "I love it when a plan comes together". Rod's management has been a perfect example, of lots of plans coming together for lots of different matches. And add all those successful individual game plans together, and you get our Great Escape.

I had a quick chat with Rod a few weeks ago, to thank him for his transformation of us, and he wasn't having a bit of it, as he took the point of view we hadn't done anything until we were mathematically safe. I liked that attitude, and bet he has given that to the players too to keep them on their toes. So that is why it is so nice to see his post match interview today, where he knows we are safe, so he can enjoy us, instead of still having to worry about us.

It has been a mad season. In our September away game at Tonbridge I chatted with one of our inner coaching circle, who told me our two strikers arent good enough. That was a real eye opener, and made me impressed with Danny (it wasnt him that said it) as he had the pressure of keeping the fans hopes high, when he knew the players werent the right standard. Then we had the obstacle for Rod of any time we got effective attacking players - Kain Adom, Tristan, Sonny, other higher teams snapped them up from us. But it has been a real team performance, goals spread around the team.

To stay up is an achievement, scroll down to the bottom of this page on this link and it shows the average NLS attendances. www.nonleaguematters.co.uk/divisions/3/
On the whole, the highest attendances are for the higher placed clubs, lower attendances are for lower placed clubs, though there is a bit of a cause and effect, as obviously more want to watch successful teams than unsuccessful teams.

But there are exceptions, interesting to see Torquay with good crowds still have financial problems, Eastbourne with high attendances yet doing badly and Aveley doing well despite low attendances.
Weve an average attendance of 700 ish, which is not bad when you consider our low league position for most of the season. If we are successful we will get 1000 fans, picking up floating fans, we are sleeping giants. It shows some financial challenges we deal with, as at present only 5 clubs have lower attendances than us, so pleasing we are competitive and successfully challenging obstacles from most teams having more ticket money coming in than us. Dartford and Havant bigger crowds, but relegated.

A thoroughly well deserved Hooray for us, on and off the pitch, that's the bottom line!

Two ells in Welling wrote:

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I'm really going to miss Jimmie during the summer.......!!

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 Perhaps he could enthrall us with insight into cricket or the olympics. But of course that would need to be in the off topic forum. 

Jimmie wrote:

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A thoroughly well deserved Hooray for us, on and off the pitch, that's the bottom line!

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Riverstown wrote:

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Unbelievably Rod Stringer, Kevin Watson and players have performed a miracle and we are now safe from relegation. Its been a hard watch for a few weeks but huge credit to the defence for keeping those recent clean sheets. Losing Sonny Fish has dulled our cutting edge going forward but others stepped up to chip in with goals. We can now relax and go to Slough who now cant make the playoffs and play with freedom. The last two and half months have been very enjoyable knowing that the team know how to win or at least hold out for a draw. Thank you Rod,Kevin all the staff and players for keeping Welling Utd in the NLS. Looking forward to see how the squad develops over the summer.

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 Well said  

Dingled Angler wrote:

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I noticed that Sonny Fish was at the club after the match yesterday, presumably either to meet up with his mates, or, hopefully, to discuss terms of a possible loan deal for next season. (Could be both of those things, of course!). Any news about this on the grapevine?

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 One of the group I was with spoke to Sonny whilst up in the stand second half. Sonny was injured in training with Gateshead and now misses the rest of the season. He's under contract with Crawley, so will be there pre-season fighting for a first team place. He did say he liked his time at PVR.

-- Edited by 50p head on Monday 15th of April 2024 01:47:40 PM

Just saw the highlights, the elbow on Paps is naughty. The Weymouth player, although looking at the ball, knew a challenge was coming and lifted his elbow and threw it backwards. He knew what he was doing. Blatant red. Hope Paps recovers as he had a lump on his cheek and was groggy.

-- Edited by 50p head on Tuesday 16th of April 2024 11:51:33 AM