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We have recently been made aware by the Football Association and the Southern League, that due to the dimensions of our current changing rooms we can no longer hold anymore home fixtures at Platinum Hyundai Park. 

We were aware that our changing rooms needed to be made bigger in order to meet the standard of league criteria, however, we thought that we would have more time to rectify this and so this news came as a shock to us all. 

In order to compete at step 4 certain requirements must be met, and although we have made enormous strides off the pitch to comply with the rules and requirements of the Southern League. The home and away changing rooms need improvement, they need to go from 16 square metres to 18 square meters, and the officials changing room needs to go from 4 square meters to 6 square meters. Although this may sound straight forward, it’s not quite that simple, especially financially.

The future of the club has weighed very heavy on our shoulders this past week. But in saying that, there has been lots of positive meetings with everybody involved pulling together to ensure we continue our Southern League status. So, as a short term solution we will be supplying the officials with a portacabin, which falls in line with the leagues criteria and is due to arrive hopefully by the middle/end of September. One of our supporters, Jim Pickernell, has kindly offered his services to make adjustments to our current changing rooms, by knocking through the officials changing room in order to achieve the league criteria of 18 square meters for both the home and the away teams. A massive thank you to Jim, again it shows the importance of supporters and volunteers in non-league football. We’d like to personally thank both the FA and the Southern League for their co-operation and support in dealing with this matter. 

So, you will all be thinking, what do we do for now and where will we play our next four home fixtures?

Having heard the seriousness of the matter above, Melksham Town Football Club have come to Westbury United’s aid and have offered the club a lifeline to remain in the Southern League. We are extremely grateful to the Melksham board and especially to our friend, Darren Perrin (chairman), who has gone above and beyond in the last 10 days to ensure Westbury United Football Club can continue its step 4 status. Darren reached out when he heard the news and acted very swiftly to offer us a helping hand, by very kindly offering us the Oakfield Stadium facility to play our next three league matches, and more if we needed.

We can’t thank Darren, the board and Melksham as a community enough for their generosity and support. We will forever be grateful to them for their kindness and approach in helping us through this difficult time. 

The FA Trophy game on September 9th against Bemerton Heath Harlequins, will now also take place at the Oakfield Stadium, home of Melksham Town. This fixture could have taken place at Platinum Hyundai Park, but with the changing rooms under construction that week. Darren has kindly offered us the facilities of the Oakfield Stadium. 

Our plans that were submitted to the league with regards to the building work on the existing changing rooms are still in place, and we hope to get this work started on before the start of next season. 

Lastly, we’d like to say a massive thank you to our sponsors and supporters for their continued support, help and understanding in this matter. #StrongerTogether 

Games now scheduled to be played at the Oakfield Stadium:

Melksham Town FC - 28/08/23

Malvern Town FC - 02/09/23

Bemerton Heath (FA trophy) - 09/09/23

Wimborne Town FC - 28/09/23

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3 hours ago, redsince82 said:

Screenshot_20230827_142037_Instagram.thumb.jpg.6785eeddf64bddcd8cebd345ed1b9bce.jpgshould be a good turn out on BH Monday to see a few legends of City and Rovers vs a select 11 of past Cadbury Heath players. It'll be worth watching if just to give Holloway a bit of stick in the away dugout 

Just a heads up, cash only. Not quite with the modern world to have card machines ?

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1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said:

Thinking of heading to BMF for the game today against Yate - anyone have any idea what parkings like?

As of right now (just gone in) theres a few spaces on the road that ends at Sea Mills Station which is only a 5 minute walk to the ground 

Probably 15-20 spaces in the car park at the moment from a passing glance

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Watching BMF against Yate today, can’t shake the feeling that Yate are in trouble. I expect Manor Farm to be one of the weaker sides at that level, but they bullied Yate early doors - great finish by Grubb. Yate got back into it with a pen that looked debatable but created the square root of nothing.

What was more disturbing was the fact that Yate seemed to have no gameplan and frequently didn’t do the basics - every corner was long as they didn’t account for the slope, nobody seemed to want to be an option, the pace was slow and within a two minute period the team tried to let Lewis (on the left) and Tooze (on the right) beat three men alone with no support. They feel like a very badly coached side at the moment, and the fact Sainsbury was MoM tells its own story. 
 

Pretty much directionless, tactically not there and lacking effort. Those things tend to lead to a managerial change sooner rather than later.

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22 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

Watching BMF against Yate today, can’t shake the feeling that Yate are in trouble. I expect Manor Farm to be one of the weaker sides at that level, but they bullied Yate early doors - great finish by Grubb. Yate got back into it with a pen that looked debatable but created the square root of nothing.

What was more disturbing was the fact that Yate seemed to have no gameplan and frequently didn’t do the basics - every corner was long as they didn’t account for the slope, nobody seemed to want to be an option, the pace was slow and within a two minute period the team tried to let Lewis (on the left) and Tooze (on the right) beat three men alone with no support. They feel like a very badly coached side at the moment, and the fact Sainsbury was MoM tells its own story. 
 

Pretty much directionless, tactically not there and lacking effort. Those things tend to lead to a managerial change sooner rather than later.

Not sure what went on but Toozey calling people that were having a pop at him out on twitter 

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17 minutes ago, Gillies Downs Leeds said:

Not sure what went on but Toozey calling people that were having a pop at him out on twitter 

I know the guy he’s having a set to with. Big Yate fan. Tooze started on the bench today but did nowt when he came on, bit of moaning at the ref aside. No excuse to abuse him if it was that but he looks, as most of the side do, to be below par currently 

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On 28/08/2023 at 21:55, Silvio Dante said:

Watching BMF against Yate today, can’t shake the feeling that Yate are in trouble. I expect Manor Farm to be one of the weaker sides at that level, but they bullied Yate early doors - great finish by Grubb. Yate got back into it with a pen that looked debatable but created the square root of nothing.

What was more disturbing was the fact that Yate seemed to have no gameplan and frequently didn’t do the basics - every corner was long as they didn’t account for the slope, nobody seemed to want to be an option, the pace was slow and within a two minute period the team tried to let Lewis (on the left) and Tooze (on the right) beat three men alone with no support. They feel like a very badly coached side at the moment, and the fact Sainsbury was MoM tells its own story. 
 

Pretty much directionless, tactically not there and lacking effort. Those things tend to lead to a managerial change sooner rather than later.

Was a much weaker performance by BMF than previous ones, they really missed Bament who picked up a hamstring injury against Cribbs and Adams who was sent off against Cribbs after winning the ball. Yate penalty was a poor decision, but even worse was second half when Nielsen went past Yates number 5, first had his shirt pulled outside the area, then was tripped by him as he got inside the area.

Over the last 2 games BMF have had 2 non penalties given against them and 2 clear ones not given for them. (But the ref for the Cribbs game was so bad I could start typing about all his poor decisions now and not finish by Saturday)

Really not sure what to expect from them this season, 21-22 overachieved and reached a playoff final but then 22-23 underachieved to a similar degree with virtually the same squad and had to play a relegation playoff. I'd say a boring* mid-tablish season.

 

*boring in the sense of not troubling either end of the table, I'm sure most games will be fairly exciting as I've already seen 5 penalties (two missed), 3 red cards and 13 goals in 5 games and the one game I missed had 5 goals and another (missed) penalty.

 

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Can't believe my home town club Taunton are flying. Another win today v Dartford. 14 points from 7 games. 

Bath, Taunton, Torquay, Yeovil, Chippenham and Weston all in the top half of National League South. Absolute scenes.

I was at Boco v Portishead today. Good support for both sides. 

Portishead are looking very good this season, excellent performance today. 

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Spent Friday evening watching Western League football on the Portway. Shirehampton hosted Hengrove at Manor Farm's ground and were neck and neck for much of the game. However, after equalising twice. the home side then hit three in short order to go 5-2 up. Just as the game was reaching the end, Shire were awarded a corner. When they looked at the bottom corner it was washing with water - the tide had risen up over the levels and was flooding the pitch! WIth minutes left the ref had no option but to abandon the match.

They don't call it The Creek for nothing!

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5 hours ago, Zip Nolan said:

And theyve built the playing surface up, Years ago when I was playing, you had to put a harness on in that bottom corner or you'd end up in the water!

Didn’t BMF use to play the other side of the Portway, below Shirehampton? 

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