Aldershot Town

[alfie]

...shame another small club heads back down when premiership players can be paid enough in a week to keep a club going for a year (or more). It is time the top earner players were docked a 'grass roots' tax to aid academies and help crisis clubs, they wouldn't even notice the money going out.

I can remember a game where they had some deck-chairs as seats in the stands! The only trouble with an away day there was the local army squaddies who 'supported' the 'Shots' and they were obviously pretty tasty if any disagreements came about..!

I don't know who you work for Mr LB but would you want to be docked a 'grass roots' tax to support another company in your line of work further down the food chain, probably not many of us would.

...alfie, let's call it an altruistic investment into the trade which has more than handsomely paid your wages. Many premier league players are paid obscene amounts of money and they wouldn't notice the spare change that they would not give out of charity but would not notice if taken to be put back into the game...

fair enough my friend, it is true some players earn obscene amounts of money for kicking a ball around, but i don't blame players for this, i do and have always blamed the clubs that are willing to pay them.

[BarryP]

...shame another small club heads back down when premiership players can be paid enough in a week to keep a club going for a year (or more). It is time the top earner players were docked a 'grass roots' tax to aid academies and help crisis clubs, they wouldn't even notice the money going out.

I can remember a game where they had some deck-chairs as seats in the stands! The only trouble with an away day there was the local army squaddies who 'supported' the 'Shots' and they were obviously pretty tasty if any disagreements came about..!

I don't know who you work for Mr LB but would you want to be docked a 'grass roots' tax to support another company in your line of work further down the food chain, probably not many of us would.

...alfie, let's call it an altruistic investment into the trade which has more than handsomely paid your wages. Many premier league players are paid obscene amounts of money and they wouldn't notice the spare change that they would not give out of charity but would not notice if taken to be put back into the game...

fair enough my friend, it is true some players earn obscene amounts of money for kicking a ball around, but i don't blame players for this, i do and have always blamed the clubs that are willing to pay them.

I think the phrase union fees covers this topic pretty nicely.

[Rupert]

Very sad, worked with a Shots season ticket holder, he'll be gutted. Used to love going to the Rec, first time was that freezing night penalty loss. The second time was when we beat them 3-0, it was Michael Cole's first game.The crowd was about 4500 and it seemed half of them were Fulham. I have the video of the game and used to love watching the Fulham fans go mental when Gary Barnett scores the third. The next time was the evening game when Clive Walker got the winner, I remember walking up that little winding path through the garden/wood behind the away end to celebrate in that pub. It's a proper old football ground and I seriously would take it over a Reebok any day of the week.

Was that the one where Ronnie Mauge (I think) was sent off for a professional foul when we were 1-0  down and getting thumped, and we all thought it well worth the card to not go 2 down. Then we turned it around, and when Flasher smacked in the winner I leapt into the air, only then recalling I was standing on the edge of a concrete block with a four or five foot drop in front of it, and as well as going up, I had also gone forwards. They say God smiles on madmen and drunkards, needless to say I landed safely, you can make up your own minds which category I belonged to. Shut up, SP.