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Need an Essex Play-Off Fix?

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Ebbsfleet win, shame feel sorry for Chelmsford.
 
They probably wouldn't have cut it in the conference anyway, bit like us in the championship really. Orient aside, there would have been some big clubs coming to their little running track where they all still change ends at half time.
 
Ricey said:
That's a ridiculous rule!
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Not at all. I think the Play_off system should be one leg with highest team at home.
Imagine finishing 20 points above your opponents - and made to play as though you finished equal? Therefore 6 wins and 2 draws meant NOTHING.# Now that is ridiculous. Playing 8 games undefeated to end up on equal terms with a team who achieved 20 points less than you. Surely finishing above your opponent ENTITLES you to the advantage??
 
Ricey said:
It is unfair that it's being played at Ebbsfleet though, just a normal home game for them.
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Of course it isn't. They earned that privilege by finishing 14 points ahead of Chelmsford in the league.

Most non-league playoffs are structured such that the team finishing higher accrues some benefit and I don't see what's unfair about that.
 
Floval Flyer said:
An Arab investor.., why Ebbsfleet? They have no support and no footballing history? Bizarre!
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They have been the best supported team in the whole of the National League South this season (Concord were the lowest!) and higher than nearly half of the National League (Conference).

Their footballing history has been good for a non-league side. Founded after the war as Gravesend and Northfleet by merging the two clubs both with a much longer history than Southend! They've won the FA Trophy (beating Torquay), the Southern League (back in the days when it was the top non-league competition), reached the 4th round of the FA Cup.

They also pioneered "crowd funding ownership" with over 25,000 owners who each bought on-line shares and got to vote on transfers and management issues. Ex-players include Roy Hodgson, Jimmy Bullard, Barry Fry and Roy Dwight.

Footballing history does not begin and end with the Premiership, nor even League One.
 
Even if Chelmsford had finished above Ebbsfleet the Clarets still would not have been at home - no one thought to reserve their athletics stadium for a football match today so it was booked months ago for an athletics meeting.

Good to know that non-league games are backed up by non-league organisation :smile:
 
Mick said:
Of course it isn't. They earned that privilege by finishing 14 points ahead of Chelmsford in the league.

Most non-league playoffs are structured such that the team finishing higher accrues some benefit and I don't see what's unfair about that.
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Absolutely this.
If you do not reward the team who finished higher in the league table with a tangible advantage? Then why bother with a league table?
The current Football league play-Off system is not based on what teams have achieved ...but once again based on money and therefore a two-leg affair.
 
Suffolk Shrimper said:
Even if Chelmsford had finished above Ebbsfleet the Clarets still would not have been at home - no one thought to reserve their athletics stadium for a football match today so it was booked months ago for an athletics meeting.

Good to know that non-league games are backed up by non-league organisation :smile:
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Melbourne Community Stadium is primarily an athletics stadium, which is owned by the local council. The athletics this weekend is the Essex County Championships and could well have been pre-booked before the play-off date was set.

Furthermore if they'd contacted the Council and asked them to re-arrange the athletics event in case they make the playoff final and just happen to be at home, they'd have got short shrift.
 
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