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Post by bucklandgull on Jul 22, 2011 18:38:12 GMT
Just seen on South Devon league site
Dawlish Town have folded owing Calesberg £27.000
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Post by keyberrygull on Jul 22, 2011 22:19:23 GMT
With only a handful of Devon teams- and none from the Duchy- currently playing in the Western League, surely the time has come for the ever improving SWPL to accommodate clubs wishing to progress into the southern League?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2011 7:49:16 GMT
With only a handful of Devon teams- and none from the Duchy- currently playing in the Western League, surely the time has come for the ever improving SWPL to accommodate clubs wishing to progress into the southern League? Sad news about Dawlish although it seems the club has lurched from crisis to crisis over the years - very much a case of boom-and-bust with the high point in 2007/08 when Dawlish won the Devon St Luke's and finished runners-up in the Western Premier. Unfortunately, whenever I was there in recent seasons, there was rarely more than 60-80 people watching irrespective of how the team was doing or who was playing for them. Indeed they've had some decent South Devon footballers who are capable at playing above the Peninsula League. Where will that standard of player now head? Keyberry's argument in favour of SWPL clubs progressing directly to the Southern League would involve the FA upgrading it to a step 5 league on a par with the Western Premier. But, with SWPL clubs so far far being reluctant to progress to the Western (and sometimes even between the league's two divisions), this might be unlikely for a while. |
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Post by keyberrygull on Jul 24, 2011 9:46:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2011 21:24:27 GMT
I'm not sure if they have folded yet but they have resigned from the Western league. The Devon & Exeter League's site says Dawlish have withdrawn their reserve team. That could have been a route back in the fashion of Exmouth who kept their reserve team going when they left the Western League a few seasons back. That enabled them to get into the Peninsula relatively quickly. Torrington also kept going in a similar way. |
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Post by dazgull on Jul 25, 2011 11:55:20 GMT
Very sad for local football if they go. Only a few years since Newton Abbot went.
I, like a lot of TUFC fans, have made many trips to watch league games there and of course plenty friendlies with theGulls and always had a warm welcome there with a lovely social club opposite.
It seems a few years ago that they started spending more money than what was coming in to get up the leagues but apart from that one season it didnt last and now paying for it in the worst way.
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Post by Jon on Jul 26, 2011 23:01:18 GMT
I think it was Oscar Wilde who said "To lose one football club may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness".
The demise of both Newton Abbot FC and Dawlish Town is down to the same person's mismanagement. What a terrible shame.
I wonder if Sandy Lane can be saved for soccer or will end up as a supermarket?
Dawlish has a great history as a soccer town, whilst its neighbour Teignmouth has always been a rugby town.
Torquay United's first ever competitive match was at Dawlish - losing an East Devon Senior League game there 5-1 on 6 October 1900. Dawlish was the only club ever to visit TUFC's first (of three) Barton Road pitch for a competitive game - winning 8-0 there in the East Devon Cup on 28 January 1905.
Will there be a new phoenix club or will Dawlish United be left to fly the flag for the town?
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Post by ricardo on Jul 26, 2011 23:41:41 GMT
As a Dawlish resident who occasionally frequented Sandy Lane when the Gulls were not at home I am particularly saddened by this news and hope that some form of recreational use will be found for the club's facilities which belong to Teignbridge Council. The pitch & putt course on the adjoining land has already been lost a few years ago.
Jon - I doubt that the ground will be developed as a supermarket. This was proposed by Tesco a few years ago with the offer of a new football ground at an alternative (I believe unspecified) location in return. Who knows, that might have been enough to avoid the eventual demise of the club.
The proposal was overwhelmingly opposed by residents and Tesco subsequently turned their attentions to an alternative site which then became very political. Sainsburys were granted consent for a site at Shutterton on the Exeter Road but Tesco were turned down for their own site less than a mile away on the basis that the town doesn't need two large stores (with which I agree). Tesco fought this decison all the way to judicial review but lost and the new Sainsburys is now due to open next month.
This leads to the inevitable debate about whether the out of town supermarket will improve local trade because folk will no longer travel to Newton or Exeter for their weekly shop or will it kill off the independent traders in the town centre where the Co-op has just invested £1m+ in refurbishing its store.
And while we're on the subject, Teignmouth is soon to see a Morrisons supermarket on the site of former football pitches at Broadmeadow although these were closed some years ago due to contaminated ground.
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Post by bbcgull on Apr 28, 2014 13:57:09 GMT
I believe it is now defo home to Dawlish United.
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It's not looking good 
