A Look At Eastleigh F.C. Part 1 Full name: Eastleigh Football Club Nickname: The Spitfires Founded: 1946; 68 years ago as Swaythling Athletic Ground: Ten Acres or Silverlake Stadium For Sponsorship Reasons Year Ground Opened: 1957 Capacity: 3,500 (500 seated) Address: Ten Acres, Stoneham Lane, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO50 9HT Telephone No: 023 8061 3361 Chairman: Stewart Donald Manager: Richard Hill 2013–14 Season: Conference South, 1st (promoted) Current Position: 13th PLD 12 W 5 D 4 L 3 GF 20 GA 18 GD 2 PTS 19 Current League Form (last 5 games): D D D W L - 6pts from 15pts - Goals For 8 - Goals Against 10 Official Web Site: www.eastleighfc.com please log in to view this image
A Look At Eastleigh F.C. Part 2 - Results So Far A Nuneaton Town FC 0 - 3 Eastleigh FC H Eastleigh FC 1 - 0 Aldershot Town FC H Eastleigh FC 2 - 2 Gateshead A Dover Athletic 2 - 1 Eastleigh FC H Eastleigh FC 3 - 1 Welling United A Macclesfield Town 2 - 0 Eastleigh FC H Eastleigh FC 2 - 1 Southport A Dartford 2 - 2 Eastleigh FC A Altrincham 3 - 3 Eastleigh FC H Eastleigh FC 2 - 2 Forest Green Rovers H Eastleigh FC 1 - 0 Braintree Town A Wrexham 3 - 0 Eastleigh FC
They're a bit all over the place in terms of results, and bearing in mind their expensively assembled squad so I'm going for 1-1, especially if we sit back against them like we did against Southport.
Craig Stanley plays for them! I think we'll nick this one. Despite their decent home record they haven't hurt any of the big teams apart from Aldershot...
Worth a try maybe? Eastleigh have their very own internet site for commentary and banter. There is a live chat box on the commentary page where both set of fans can mingle and chat to the commentators http://www.radio-spitfire.talktalk.net/
A Look At Eastleigh F.C - Part 3 - History The club was formed by a group of friends in the Fleming Arms public house and originally known as Swaythling Athletic, which then changed to Swaythling. In 1950 they joined Hampshire League, and in 1980 were renamed Eastleigh. In 1986 they were accepted as one of the founding members of the Wessex League. In 2002â03 they won the league and were promoted to Division One East of the Southern League. After finishing fourth in their first season, the club were promoted due to the formation of the Conference North and South taking clubs from the division above, and were transferred into the Premier Division of the Isthmian League. The club finished third in its first season in the Premier Division, qualifying for the promotion play-offs. After beating Braintree Town 2â0 in the semi-final, they were promoted to the Conference South after a 2â1 victory over Leyton in the final. In 2008â09 they finished third, but lost to Hayes & Yeading United in the play-off semi-finals despite holding 4â0 advantage at one stage during the 1st leg. The ownership of the club changed in late 2011. On 26 November 2011, following a meeting of the Board, it was announced that an offer for the majority shareholding of the club from Bridle Insurance Limited had been recommended for acceptance by the current shareholders, who were the primary sponsor of Oxford United. The company, based in Witney, Oxfordshire, is known for providing financial backing to Glen Hoddle's football academies. Chief executive Stewart Donald and chief operations officer Neil Fox would both come on to the Eastleigh board as directors, with Paul Murray remaining as chairman. Part of Bridle's 5 year plan for the club is to get the ground up to league standard, by looking at financing a 7,500 all-seater stadium, and to get the club into the football league. The takeover by Bridle Insurance was eventually confirmed, when the club announced the company had acquired the club's shares on 1 February 2012. Later, on 9 February, Director of Football Dave Malone, who joined the club in May 2006, stood down from his post, in order to allow the new owners to take the club forward in the manner they see fit. On 23 March 2012, Chairman Paul Murray stood down from his post with immediate effect. Murray had stood down as Chairman when the club was sold to Bridle Insurance, but had remained at the club in the Non Executive Chairman role. Mick Geddes was later appointed as his successor. On Tuesday 11 September 2012, following 3 successive league defeats, the last 4â0 away to newly promoted side Billericay Town, the club announced following a meeting between manager Ian Baird and Stewart Donald, it was agreed that Ian Baird would leave the club with immediate effect. Baird's replacement was announced the following day as ex-Stevenage Borough manager Richard Hill. Hill has also had spells assisting John Gregory at both Wycombe Wanderers and QPR, and Brian Little at Aston Villa. He has also been employed as assistant manager at Gillingham, Tranmere Rovers and Northampton Town. Eastleigh came close to achieving promotion to the Conference Premier for the first time during the 2012â13 Season, by making the Conference South Play-Offs through finishing 4th in the league. After initially losing the 1st leg of the semi finals against Dover Athletic at home 3â1, Eastleigh overturned this with a 2â0 away win in the 2nd leg. Due to the absence of away goals advantage for either team, the match eventually went to penalties, with Eastleigh losing 4â2.Eastleigh won the Conference South in 2013â2014 sealing the title in front of over 1,500 fans on 18 April 2014 when they beat Basingstoke Town FC 2â1 and achieved promotion to the Conference Premier for the first time in the club's history for the 2014â2015 season.
A Look At Eastleigh F.C - Part 4 - Ten Acres (Silverlake Stadium) Ten Acres, known as the Silverlake Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football ground in Eastleigh, England. It is the home of Eastleigh F.C. of the Conference South.[1] The ground's record attendance of 3,191 was set for a friendly match against Southampton in July 2007; the competitive record is 2,283 for a match against AFC Wimbledon on 28 March 2009. The ground has four sides. The Grandstand is to the right of the entrance. It is raised above pitch level, and has a capacity of 371 seats. It is on the halfway line and stretches for just under a third of the pitch. To the sides of this is uncovered hard pitchside standing. To the right of this, behind the goal is the Silverlake stand. In 2006, the roof was widened to cover the whole length of the stand, and 150 seats were added to the middle. Like the Grandstand, there is hard standing to each side. When Eastleigh are attacking this end, the most vocal home fans congregate right next to the seats on the right hand side. Opposite the grandstand is the Premier Telecom stand. Until 2006, this was just hard standing backing into a hedge. During the summer of 2006, a metal back and roof like on the Silverlake stand were added, along with an electronic scoreboard on the roof. Opposite the Silverlake stand, behind the other goal is the clubhouse end. This is uncovered hard standing, in front of the clubhouse, which is next to the corner of the Premier telecom stand. The Silverlake Stadium Info Telephone: 023 8061 3361 Ticket information: This match is all ticket all tickets will be on sale until 12pm on Tuesday. We sold out our initial allocation of 800, and a further 300 are now on sale. Tickets cost £12 for adults, £7.50 for 65+/NUS, £4 for U16s and free for U7s. Capacity: 3,000 (Seats 370) How to get there: Leave the M27 at Junction 5 and take the Stoneham Lane exit towards Eastleigh. Continue to the end of the road and at the roundabout go completely around the roundabout to come back on yourself, back towards the motorway. Just as you pass the Concorde Club on your left turn right into Stoneham Lane. The entrance to the ground is around the bend on the left. There is a good sized car park at the ground which holds 500 cars, which is free. SatNav: SO50 9HT Distance: 96.5 miles Duration: 1 hours 36 minutes Away Facilities: The stadium has undergone some major changes during the Summer, with the erecting of covered terraces along the East side of the ground and also at the Clubhouse (North) End. When completed the Club hope to house away fans in the new 2,300 capacity Motorway End, however this is not going to be completed until October. There is a club bar at the ground called the Spitfire, which welcomes both home and away supporters. Disabled Facilities: For information on disabled facilities at The Merseyrail Stadium, Read more at http://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/article/eastleigh-ground-guide-1976559.aspx#IMFx7jhY3zrUWGce.99 please log in to view this image
All you need to know ahead of tonight's game Rovers will be going into tonight's game looking to continue their recent good form and make it six wins in a row. Opposition: Eastleigh come into the match on the back of a 3-0 loss away at Wrexham. The Spitfires currently sit in 13th place in the league, having won five, drawn four and lost three games so far. Darrell’s View: “They (Eastleigh) are having a good go, they’ve got a good manager in Richard Hill who knows this level very well. “They’ve had a really solid start, they’ve won four and drawn two at home and are unbeaten at home and it will be a very difficult place to go. “Eastleigh have a lot of players in there with football league experience, some of them have had great league careers and certainly aren’t finished by a long shot. “We will be taking a lot of support there and they have been fantastic for us this season – as always, so it will be a good game. “We will keep going - it’s just another game with three points available that’s the way we will look at it.” Opposition View: Manager Richard Hill said: "The club's come a long way in two years and we've earned the right to be where we are. "We're becoming a big football club in our own right and we are all looking forward to playing against Bristol Rovers in front of what will be possibly our biggest league crowd." "Irrespective of what the bookies see us as, we're the underdogs and for me that's quite unique. "Not so long ago we'd have to have been in the Football League to be playing teams like that. I just think it's amazing, I really do. Tough games like this and the chance to test ourselves against this sort of opposition is one of the reasons I decided to come to this club." Team News: Darrell should have a fully fit squad to choose from. Ground Guide: See Post 151 (above this one ) Last Meeting: This will be Rovers first visit to the Silverlake Stadium Listen Live: Unable to make the trip to the Silverlake Stadium tonight? Then you can follow all the action from 7.45pm as Bristol Rovers take on Eastleigh LIVE on Gas Player or listen on BBC Radio Bristol 94.9FM Frequency.
Hopefully they play some good football and dont drag us down to conference level football (hoofball) I notice alot of the part time teams do this to us, drag us down and beat us on experience.
same 16 that we took to southport but 2 changes to the starting 11. harrison starts and cunnington drops to the bench. clarke starts and martin drops to the bench.
starting 11: Mildenhall, Lockyer, Trotman, Parkes, Brown, Clarke, Mansell (C), Sinclair, Gosling, Harrison and Taylor. subs: Puddy, McChrystal, Martin, Cunnington and White.
