AFC Stoneham v Sholing

[purp1]

AFC Stoneham would be delighted to see as many Eastleigh fans as possible at our very first game tonight at our new stadium v Sholing in the Hampshire Senior cup 7.45 kick off

The new ground is situated approx 400 yards down Stoneham Lane from the Silverlake Stadium .

Everyone will be made very welcome !!

[tenacres]

1-1, with sholing winning on pens. Crowd was 226 I think.

Stoneham are second & have a good chance of winning the Wessex so will likely get quite a bit of interest this season I should think.

Would grading does the new ground have?

[spiritofeastleigh]

Read somewhere they already have a stand for seating which holds over 200 I believe, very good chance of promotion, in their last two away matches they've beaten the team currently top, Alresford Town and the third place side AFC Portchester. Seems to be built around a very strong defence, conceding only 19 goals in twenty league matches, while playing good entertaining attractive football. Win their game in hand and they would go top of the table. Double promotion back to back will see them in Step 4 next season. I think Sholing FC are part of our borough as well, so it would be remarkable were Stoneham to come up, Eastleigh would have three sides between Step 1 and 4 at non league level, not many boroughs could boast that I suspect, outside the big cities of London, Birmingham and Manchester.

[blueandwhite]

I don't think Sholing is in Eastleigh

[purp1]

Sholing is within Eastleigh BC boundary

[unknownquantity]

I think the question is whether their ground is located in the Eastleigh Borough as I would think that the centre of Sholing is not. The fact that they make planning applications to Eastleigh Borough Council suggest that it is.

[spiritofeastleigh]

I believe it is due to what area the local MP at parliament represents. The Eastleigh MP has parts of Sholing and Woolston as they form part of the borough of Eastleigh. It is however confusing, for example once you hit Hursley Road alongside Chandlers Ford Railway Station the representative is The Romsey MP. But if you take Oakmount Road just the other side of the motorway bridge where the old fire station used to be, and going up Leigh Road, all the houses on the right side to the Junction with Bournemouth Road the MP for that area is Winchester!!! So Winchester are responsible for planning applications and so forth.

[unknownquantity]

I think that at the local elections both Eastleigh Borough Council and Southampton City Council are split into wards and it would then be a case of whether that ward was part of Eastleigh Borough Council or Southampton City Council. The fact that Sholing football club make their planning applications to Eastleigh Borough Council suggests it is the former.

I believe there is a sign close to their ground which suggests they are very close to the border.

[blackie]

Who the MP is makes no difference to planning whatsoever as parliamentary boundaries are different to local authority boundaries.
Sholing FC’s ground on Portsmouth Road is within Eastleigh Borough Councils boundaries and they are the local authority that Sholing FC have to deal with.

[tenacres]

see they won their first league game at the new ground yesterday. Anyone know the attendance?

[nkc]

75 according to Wessex League site. I understand there were around 250 there on Tuesday for their initial game on site against Sholing in the HSC. Obviously a fair few groundhoppers that night ticking off a new venue but assume would have been even bigger turn out bar the atrocious wet and extremely windy weather Tuesday night.

Must say I have seen the three Eastleigh Academy games on there in the last two weeks and it is a very nice site and the truest artificial surface I have seen to date. Normally I hate watching games on them but not once in those three games did I think there was a questionable bounce. That said the Eastleigh youngsters scored against Dorchester where the ball went about twelve inches over the line, hit the wheel on the base of the portable goal and the ball bounced out with neither referee or linesman flinching and it was play on.

So surface may now be better but the portable goal certainly cost a goal. As the game ended 11-0 it was soon forgotten on this occasion though. Bit disappointed they had not added the cost of VAR to the developers contributions used to fund the centre. Just joking, VAR should really be confined to the swear word spell checker.