I can't promise to do this every week but I'll try to keep Babble up to date with the National League with I hope others chipping in and chirpring up from time to time too.
National League Results Aug 9th
Altrincham 3-2 Aldershot Town
Boreham Wood 0-2 Rochdale
Boston Utd v Morecambe Match Postponed
Brackley Town 1-0 Eastleigh.
Braintree Town 3-0 FC Halifax.
Gateshead 0-3 Southend United
Solihull Moors 2-2 Forest Green Rovers.
Tamworth 1-2 Scunthorpe United.
Wealdstone 2-0 Truro City
Woking 0-2 Carlisle United
Yeovil Town 0-0 Hartlepool United
York City 2-2 Sutton Utd
Despite Brackley Town winning their first game at this level after six unsuccessful attempts to reach it, Mark Hughes managing in non-league and grabbing a good win at Woking, and Hartlepool's Chairman Raj Sin gh having written to all fellow National League clubs asking them to refuse boardroom access to broadcaster and former club President Jeff Stelling, the most telling and sad news has to be the postponed match due to the "crisis" at Morecambe. Boston played a National League Cup game instead.
Former EFL clubs scrambling to regain that status this season look to be setting the tone for the season. Southend cruised to a 0-3 victory after the long journey up to Gateshead, bringing on Andrew Dallas their new loan signing when the scoring was complete. Neil Ardley's high hopes for his Woking outfit were rather crushed by an impressive Carlisle side. Rochdale flattened Luke Garrard's hopes at Boreham Wood with two Emmanuel Dieseruvwe goals announcing his move from Hartlepool, and Scunthorpe celebrated having fought their way back to this level with Danny Whitehall scoring and starring at Tamworth. Twenty Three efforts on goal and nineteen corners saw Robbie Savage's Forest Green still only draw away at Solihull, but goals from substitutes Christain Doidge and Nick Houghton may be signs of even further game domination to come, whilst York City could not capitalise on an early strike form last season's 33-goal star Ollie Pearce slumping to a 2-2 at home due to a late Sutton Utd goal from Brandon Njoku. Yeovil and Hartlepool played out a goalless draw in a game in which there were as many yellow cards over all as shots on target from either side. Halifax, under new management, crashed at self-proclaimed pub team Braintree, under new management too, and Altrincham with Kahrel Reddin being appropriately red-hot proved too strong for Aldershot. Newly promoted Truro who are going to face some long trips (on cold Tuesday nights especially) only managed three shots at Wealdstone and went down 2-0, whilst Brackley deserved their opening win at home to Eastleigh in a game they dominated 1-0.
NationaL League North results Aug 9th
AFC Fylde 3 - 2 Oxford City
Bedford Town 2 - 2 Alfreton Town
Buxton 2 - 1 Radcliffe
Chester 3 - 2 Peterborough Sports
Curzon Ashton 1 - 1 Leamington
Darlington 2 - 3 Chorley
Kidderminster Harriers 1 - 0 Scarborough Athletic
King's Lynn Town 1 - 1 AFC Telford United
Macclesfield 3 - 1 Worksop Town
Merthyr Town 2 - 0 Southport
South Shields 1 - 0 Marine
Spennymoor Town 2 - 0 Hereford
Successful substitutions always earn praise for the manager concerned so when Jon Ustabasi came on just before half time to pull back Fylde's deficit to Oxford City to just 2-1 that change had already succeeded. When immediately in the second half he equalised hope was growing and former Plymouth favourite Danny Mayor obliged with a a curling winner. At Chester a first half substitution also changed the course of the game, coming on at 1-1 against Peterborough Sports it took Dylan Mottley-Henry just five minutes to score, but a minute later his creaky defence conceded again. Nine minutes into the second half he scored what proved to be the winner - just shows what a few games for Chesterfield can do for a player. Makes the cynical wonder why the subs didn't start. Two goals from the travelled Tyrone Marsh might have been enough to give Bedford the points in their new campaign but goals from man of the match Siya Ligendsa and Fewster ensured Alfreton Town shared the points.
Luke Brennan and Connor Kirby scored to give Buxton a 2-1 win over Radcliffe at Silverlands. A debut goal from Miro Pais ensured Leamington a 1-1 draw at Curzon Ashton and Chorley overcame a late arrival at Darlington to win 2-3, despite going down to ten men when Lalkovic was red-carded. But geographically Merthyr were the stars celebrating surprise northern roots with a deserved home win 2-0 against Southport in front of a crowd of over 1,800. Despite a late flurry from Scarborough, title favourites Kidderminster Harriers found a 12th minute goal from Reece Devine was sufficient for a 1-0 home win.
Macclesfield showed that losing Robbie Savage doesn't mean they've lost their fight. Despite going behind to Worksop following a finger-tip goalkeeping save to keep out a Jordan Burrow sizzler which was tapped in by Starcenko, the Silkmen kept a home crowd of over 3,000 happy running out 3-1 winners. Glen Taylor was as usual on the mark for Spennymoor as they eased past Hereford 2-0. Michael Gyasi demonstrated brute strength and some crazy dribbling as well as the ability to score, but the new era in King's Lynn still only opened with a 1-1 draw against AFC Telford. Weathering a Marine storm South Shields were able to gain a 1-0 win when Dan Ward applied the finish to a blistering counter-attck.
[u]National League South Results Aug 9th[u]
Chelmsford City 1 - 0 Horsham
Chippenham Town 2 - 2 Dorking Wanderers
Dagenham & Redbridge 0 - 2 Ebbsfleet United
Dover Athletic 2 - 3 AFC Totton
Farnborough 1 - 1 Eastbourne Borough
Hampton & Richmond Borough 0 - 0 Salisbury
Hemel Hempstead Town 1 - 1 Maidstone United
Hornchurch 3 - 2 Weston-super-Mare
Maidenhead United 1 - 2 Chesham United
Tonbridge Angels 0 - 0 Slough Town
Torquay United 3 - 1 Enfield Town
Worthing 1 - 1 Bath City
Though draws were very much the order of the day throughout the division Chelmsford, with only two survivors from last season's squad after a summer of change managed to avoid that fate, thanks to one of the lucky two, Harry Barbrook, netting his first for the club to down Horsham 1-0. Better things may be on the cards for Chelmsford having now signed Lyle Taylor, formerly of Forest and Birmingham City. The battle of the newly-promoted sides saw AFC Totton run out winners 2-3 at Dover Ath, but two goals from George Nikaj and the late pressure they exerted on Totton suggest better may be to come from Whites. The relegation derby saw Ebbsfleet ease to a 0-2 win at Dagenham, but with a combination of Andy Carroll as minority shareholder and player and impending new Qatari ownership better times might not be far off for the Daggers. Weston Super Mare, after a week in which the town was made made to sound like Desolation Row in a newspaper article, fell to a late Nathan Bertram-Cooper winner at a Hornchurch side boasting Josh Hare and Angelo Balanta in their ranks. 3-2 suggested plenty of entertainment was on offer, as it was at relegated Maidenhead, who went down 1-2 to Chesham for whom Callum Adebiyi was the best of several impressive performers. Torquay, last season's runners-up, rather cruised it at home to Enfield 3-1, with the addition of the experienced Louis Dennis suggesting that this season they might just go one better.
Clever combination between Billy Clifford, who impressed throughout, and Rakish Bingham saw Farnborough come back to draw at home against Eastbourne. The presence of these players in their line-up together with the experienced Dom Poleon and Kai Jennings too could make Farnborough serious contenders. Alfie Rutherford grabbed a late equaliser for Dorking to grab a 2-2 draw at Chippenham. Hampton and Richmond and Salisbury ended in a stalemate 0-0. A 92nd-minute equaliser saw Hemel Hempstead grab a 1-1 home draw against Maidstone Utd, whilst Slough's superiority at Tonbridge Angels didn't make the scoresheet and they must have been disappointed to finish 0-0, whilst another late equaliser saw Bath snatch a point at ten-man Worthing, for whom Joel Colbran was given a straight red for a 35th minute high tackle.
National League Results Aug 9th
Altrincham 3-2 Aldershot Town
Boreham Wood 0-2 Rochdale
Boston Utd v Morecambe Match Postponed
Brackley Town 1-0 Eastleigh.
Braintree Town 3-0 FC Halifax.
Gateshead 0-3 Southend United
Solihull Moors 2-2 Forest Green Rovers.
Tamworth 1-2 Scunthorpe United.
Wealdstone 2-0 Truro City
Woking 0-2 Carlisle United
Yeovil Town 0-0 Hartlepool United
York City 2-2 Sutton Utd
Despite Brackley Town winning their first game at this level after six unsuccessful attempts to reach it, Mark Hughes managing in non-league and grabbing a good win at Woking, and Hartlepool's Chairman Raj Sin gh having written to all fellow National League clubs asking them to refuse boardroom access to broadcaster and former club President Jeff Stelling, the most telling and sad news has to be the postponed match due to the "crisis" at Morecambe. Boston played a National League Cup game instead.
Former EFL clubs scrambling to regain that status this season look to be setting the tone for the season. Southend cruised to a 0-3 victory after the long journey up to Gateshead, bringing on Andrew Dallas their new loan signing when the scoring was complete. Neil Ardley's high hopes for his Woking outfit were rather crushed by an impressive Carlisle side. Rochdale flattened Luke Garrard's hopes at Boreham Wood with two Emmanuel Dieseruvwe goals announcing his move from Hartlepool, and Scunthorpe celebrated having fought their way back to this level with Danny Whitehall scoring and starring at Tamworth. Twenty Three efforts on goal and nineteen corners saw Robbie Savage's Forest Green still only draw away at Solihull, but goals from substitutes Christain Doidge and Nick Houghton may be signs of even further game domination to come, whilst York City could not capitalise on an early strike form last season's 33-goal star Ollie Pearce slumping to a 2-2 at home due to a late Sutton Utd goal from Brandon Njoku. Yeovil and Hartlepool played out a goalless draw in a game in which there were as many yellow cards over all as shots on target from either side. Halifax, under new management, crashed at self-proclaimed pub team Braintree, under new management too, and Altrincham with Kahrel Reddin being appropriately red-hot proved too strong for Aldershot. Newly promoted Truro who are going to face some long trips (on cold Tuesday nights especially) only managed three shots at Wealdstone and went down 2-0, whilst Brackley deserved their opening win at home to Eastleigh in a game they dominated 1-0.
NationaL League North results Aug 9th
AFC Fylde 3 - 2 Oxford City
Bedford Town 2 - 2 Alfreton Town
Buxton 2 - 1 Radcliffe
Chester 3 - 2 Peterborough Sports
Curzon Ashton 1 - 1 Leamington
Darlington 2 - 3 Chorley
Kidderminster Harriers 1 - 0 Scarborough Athletic
King's Lynn Town 1 - 1 AFC Telford United
Macclesfield 3 - 1 Worksop Town
Merthyr Town 2 - 0 Southport
South Shields 1 - 0 Marine
Spennymoor Town 2 - 0 Hereford
Successful substitutions always earn praise for the manager concerned so when Jon Ustabasi came on just before half time to pull back Fylde's deficit to Oxford City to just 2-1 that change had already succeeded. When immediately in the second half he equalised hope was growing and former Plymouth favourite Danny Mayor obliged with a a curling winner. At Chester a first half substitution also changed the course of the game, coming on at 1-1 against Peterborough Sports it took Dylan Mottley-Henry just five minutes to score, but a minute later his creaky defence conceded again. Nine minutes into the second half he scored what proved to be the winner - just shows what a few games for Chesterfield can do for a player. Makes the cynical wonder why the subs didn't start. Two goals from the travelled Tyrone Marsh might have been enough to give Bedford the points in their new campaign but goals from man of the match Siya Ligendsa and Fewster ensured Alfreton Town shared the points.
Luke Brennan and Connor Kirby scored to give Buxton a 2-1 win over Radcliffe at Silverlands. A debut goal from Miro Pais ensured Leamington a 1-1 draw at Curzon Ashton and Chorley overcame a late arrival at Darlington to win 2-3, despite going down to ten men when Lalkovic was red-carded. But geographically Merthyr were the stars celebrating surprise northern roots with a deserved home win 2-0 against Southport in front of a crowd of over 1,800. Despite a late flurry from Scarborough, title favourites Kidderminster Harriers found a 12th minute goal from Reece Devine was sufficient for a 1-0 home win.
Macclesfield showed that losing Robbie Savage doesn't mean they've lost their fight. Despite going behind to Worksop following a finger-tip goalkeeping save to keep out a Jordan Burrow sizzler which was tapped in by Starcenko, the Silkmen kept a home crowd of over 3,000 happy running out 3-1 winners. Glen Taylor was as usual on the mark for Spennymoor as they eased past Hereford 2-0. Michael Gyasi demonstrated brute strength and some crazy dribbling as well as the ability to score, but the new era in King's Lynn still only opened with a 1-1 draw against AFC Telford. Weathering a Marine storm South Shields were able to gain a 1-0 win when Dan Ward applied the finish to a blistering counter-attck.
[u]National League South Results Aug 9th[u]
Chelmsford City 1 - 0 Horsham
Chippenham Town 2 - 2 Dorking Wanderers
Dagenham & Redbridge 0 - 2 Ebbsfleet United
Dover Athletic 2 - 3 AFC Totton
Farnborough 1 - 1 Eastbourne Borough
Hampton & Richmond Borough 0 - 0 Salisbury
Hemel Hempstead Town 1 - 1 Maidstone United
Hornchurch 3 - 2 Weston-super-Mare
Maidenhead United 1 - 2 Chesham United
Tonbridge Angels 0 - 0 Slough Town
Torquay United 3 - 1 Enfield Town
Worthing 1 - 1 Bath City
Though draws were very much the order of the day throughout the division Chelmsford, with only two survivors from last season's squad after a summer of change managed to avoid that fate, thanks to one of the lucky two, Harry Barbrook, netting his first for the club to down Horsham 1-0. Better things may be on the cards for Chelmsford having now signed Lyle Taylor, formerly of Forest and Birmingham City. The battle of the newly-promoted sides saw AFC Totton run out winners 2-3 at Dover Ath, but two goals from George Nikaj and the late pressure they exerted on Totton suggest better may be to come from Whites. The relegation derby saw Ebbsfleet ease to a 0-2 win at Dagenham, but with a combination of Andy Carroll as minority shareholder and player and impending new Qatari ownership better times might not be far off for the Daggers. Weston Super Mare, after a week in which the town was made made to sound like Desolation Row in a newspaper article, fell to a late Nathan Bertram-Cooper winner at a Hornchurch side boasting Josh Hare and Angelo Balanta in their ranks. 3-2 suggested plenty of entertainment was on offer, as it was at relegated Maidenhead, who went down 1-2 to Chesham for whom Callum Adebiyi was the best of several impressive performers. Torquay, last season's runners-up, rather cruised it at home to Enfield 3-1, with the addition of the experienced Louis Dennis suggesting that this season they might just go one better.
Clever combination between Billy Clifford, who impressed throughout, and Rakish Bingham saw Farnborough come back to draw at home against Eastbourne. The presence of these players in their line-up together with the experienced Dom Poleon and Kai Jennings too could make Farnborough serious contenders. Alfie Rutherford grabbed a late equaliser for Dorking to grab a 2-2 draw at Chippenham. Hampton and Richmond and Salisbury ended in a stalemate 0-0. A 92nd-minute equaliser saw Hemel Hempstead grab a 1-1 home draw against Maidstone Utd, whilst Slough's superiority at Tonbridge Angels didn't make the scoresheet and they must have been disappointed to finish 0-0, whilst another late equaliser saw Bath snatch a point at ten-man Worthing, for whom Joel Colbran was given a straight red for a 35th minute high tackle.
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