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We're step 6 ie six steps below the football league. So 6 promotions away from League 2.Originally posted by The_Milkman View PostComment
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Will you be playing any teams near the Cheltenham area??Originally posted by alunevans View PostComment
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Hundreds turn up to AFC Liverpool trials
May 6 2008 by Mary Murtagh, Liverpool Echo
MORE than 300 footballing hopefuls turned out for trials with non-league club AFC Liverpool.
They were all trying to catch the eye of the team’s recently appointed manager Derek Goulding.
Team after team showed off their skills at Buckley Hill playing fields in Netherton, where players were competing for first and reserve team places next season.
Former Southport and Bangor City centre back Goulding was impressed with the standard of play.
He said: “The pace of the games has been quite good and everyone is up to the task.
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“It is going to be difficult to pick individuals out, but we will definitely be choosing several people from the trials and getting them involved in pre-season preparation.
“This is an exciting and unique club to be involved with.”
Jack Earle, 17, and Terry Sweeney, 18, both from Croxteth, went along to the trials.
Mr Earle said: “This is a big chance to play for a non-league side. Opportunities like this don’t come up very often.”
Mr Sweeney said: “We are here to show the talent of Croxteth. The play is of a good standard and I think we are definitely in with a chance.”
The team was set up for fans unhappy with rising Premiership ticket prices.
So far around 1,000 people have promised money for the project and backers are close to a groundshare deal with a Merseyside club.
AFC Liverpool have almost sealed a place in the Vodkat League after getting non-league approval a few weeks ago. Ex-Reds player Erik Meijer is the official patron.
Club spokesman Alun Parry said: “ People have really reacted well to the idea of AFC Liverpool which will be part of the LFC family. For many of our players this will be the closest they get to running out to You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
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Probably not cos you'd be classed as 'south' so wouldnt play anyone unless it was in the conference or in a cup game.Originally posted by The_Milkman View PostBill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body.Comment
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AFC Wimbledon have just won promotion via the playoffs to Blue Square South - 2 promotions away from regaining league status.
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I can see all 3 in the league within 10 years.Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body.Comment
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Does that mean raising ticket prices?Originally posted by The Glove View Post
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Actually no, The FA normally dictate prices for Cup games and some leagues do the same for league games but all in all, its still all good.Originally posted by Cacodemon View PostDoes that mean raising ticket prices?
Throw a tenner in to help us.
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Do you know how much has been raised yet Chris?Betfair refer and earn code: CCUPPKJHFComment
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Money wise, no I dont but we have nearly 500 members who have paid atleast £10 each if not more. Its not much in the grand scheme of things but its a start. There is tonnes of interest so hopefully the money can be made by people coming through the turnstile. £5 for adults and £2 for kids, we'd hope we would get a decent crowd to keep us ticking over and get some good sponsorship.Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body.Comment
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Cheers mate, I'll be buying a membership for my two kids later tonight.Betfair refer and earn code: CCUPPKJHFComment
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Cheers mate, the three of youse would get in for less than a tenner. Got to be happy with that, and Id like to think that whoever we play at home, we'll ****in batter as well cos our players are all gonna be from levels higher than the league we'll be in. Besides, we got a set of mancs to catch and beat.
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AFC Liverpool join the rebels with vow of football for all
Guardian Thursday May 08 2008
David Conn
First there was AFC Wimbledon, formed by fans turning away from the "franchising" of their club to Milton Keynes in 2002, then FC United of Manchester, established three years later by supporters opposed to the Glazer family's Old Trafford takeover. From next season, another grassroots offshoot of a big club will embark on a non-League football adventure: AFC Liverpool.
Begun just nine weeks ago as an idea floated on the internet by lifelong Liverpool fan Alun Parry, AFC Liverpool has formed as a supporter-owned club with 500 members and rising, recruited an experienced non-League manager, Derek Goulding, and held trials on Monday to which 300 hopeful players turned up, eager to be part of the inaugural season.
Parry, 37, a musician and Kop season ticket holder, stresses that the club is
not a protest or reaction to the more painful aspects of Tom Hicks and George Gillett's ownership of Liverpool. His key motivation is to form a club which less well-off and younger supporters can afford to watch.
"Many people have been priced out at Anfield," Parry explained. "I do not blame the club, their prices are low compared to other Premier League clubs. They are just too much for a lot of us."
Full ticket prices at Anfield this season were £34 and £32 for category B games; £34 and £36 for category A; season tickets ranged from £650 in the main stand to £600 in the Kop. The demand is there, with a long waiting list for season tickets, but Parry points to an ageing of the Liverpool crowd, as at Premier League grounds generally.
"It came home to me when my brother, John, who can't afford to go, took his son to Anfield just to show him the atmosphere outside a game - he couldn't afford to take them both in. My dad took me on to the Kop as a boy and the ground was teeming with kids. In 1985 a Kop season ticket was £45, now it's £600. Young people can't afford it."
AFC Liverpool ticket prices have been set at £5 for adults and a maximum of £2 for children, and Parry is hoping for crowds of between 1,500 and 2,000.
Goulding, formerly manager of the Blue Square North club Burscough, is enthusiastic: "The club's founding values are spot on," he said. "A lot of Liverpool people are missing out on the football experience which used to be for everyone."
Last Saturday AFC Wimbledon and FC United of Manchester won promotion via their play-offs, to Blue Square South and the UniBond Premier League respectively. AFC Liverpool will be starting next season where FCUM began in 2005, in the Vodkat North West Counties League, Division Two.
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