RESULTS - Saturday 6 January 2024

[Dave Deacon]

VANARAMA NATIONAL LEAGUE SOUTH

SATURDAY 6 JANUARY 2024

Braintree Town    3-1           Hampton & Richmond Borough

Chippenham Town   2-3        Hemel Hempstead Town

Dover Athletic      0-2             Truro City

Slough Town        3-0         Taunton Town

St. Albans City     2-1             Farnborough

Tonbridge Angels   2-1          Weymouth

Torquay United    2-2            Eastbourne Borough

Welling United     1-3         Aveley

Weston-super-Mare   2-2      Dartford

Worthing             2-3            Chelmsford City

Yeovil Town          2-0           Bath City

[Graham Martin]

Truro City on a roll. Another good away win. I think that's 7 wins in the last 8.

Games in hand as well. Win them and they would be in the play off places. They couldn't could they???

[Ian Pethick]

On 06/01/2024 at 17:19, Graham Martin said:

Truro City on a roll. Another good away win. I think that's 7 wins in the last 8.

Games in hand as well. Win them and they would be in the play off places. They couldn't could they???

Steady on there my friend.. 😀. Bit of mid table mediocrity, and a non event last month free of relegation worries, would do City quite nicely. Accidentally getting promotion to the National League (stuffed full of ex Football League clubs and full time outfits with big followings and budgets), would be a leap into very dangerous waters.

Superb run though, coincides with a few other teams in this division going backwards (Taunton's problems are well documented, and still trying to work out how Gary Johnson at Torquay is still in the job).

Truro sit joint top of the last 6 games form table with Chelmsford City. 

[Craze]

On 08/01/2024 at 11:47, Ian Pethick said:

Steady on there my friend.. 😀. Bit of mid table mediocrity, and a non event last month free of relegation worries, would do City quite nicely. Accidentally getting promotion to the National League (stuffed full of ex Football League clubs and full time outfits with big followings and budgets), would be a leap into very dangerous waters.

Superb run though, coincides with a few other teams in this division going backwards (Taunton's problems are well documented, and still trying to work out how Gary Johnson at Torquay is still in the job).

Truro sit joint top of the last 6 games form table with Chelmsford City. 

 

A cheeky backdoor promotion and National League football in our first season back in the Duchy would do something quite special for attendances in the short term you'd think. However, I do think we'd be looking at record low points totals unless the owner really stuck his hand in his pocket. Its not going to happen, but fingers crossed we get an unlikely playoff campaign, or have a few weeks of dreaming about one after the clocks go back.

Unbelievable uptick in form - very happy supporter right now!

[GRTourist]

The way that Oxford, Ebbsfleet (who obliterated NLS last season), AFC Fylde and Kidderminster are faring in the National League this season shows the absolute gulf in quality and resource required to compete at Step One these days.

[Ian Pethick]

18 minutes ago, GRTourist said:

The way that Oxford, Ebbsfleet (who obliterated NLS last season), AFC Fylde and Kidderminster are faring in the National League this season shows the absolute gulf in quality and resource required to compete at Step One these days.

The National League is effectively Football League Div 3 now. The excellent Dorking Wanderers fly on the wall documentary series, "Bunch Of Amateurs" on YouTube shows how bloody tough it is to exist in an intensely competitive and demanding division when you aren't a full time outfit.