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Three up - Three Down?

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Mappers
April 10, 2024, 7:56pm
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I'm doubtful it will happen now the NL has 'emptied out ' of the more well financed clubs , it's going to start looking very much a standard none league over the next couple of years i suspect . One minnow will make it up this season .

To put it in perspective only 5 NL clubs are averaging over 3k gates and one of those will be gone (Chesterfield ) it only then gives you Oldham , Hartlepool  Southend and York- who are well backed , who you would think could hold their own in the league.
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Being objective, I have always been in favour of 3 up and 3 down. The log-jam of ex-League teams in NL can never be argued as being fair.

More jeopardy, but a 50% better chance of getting promoted.  
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Lets hope we don't have to think about it again.


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Can I answer the question in a couple of weeks..
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Could the third down be based on financial responsibility. About time some punishment comes from unsustainable/unsuitable spending.

I don't know how you enforce that, but something is needed to whip the Colchester types into sense.
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No. The national league only promotes 2 from each of its north and south divisions so makes more sense to only have 2 from it's senior division too. There is usually a bigger difference I think in quality between NL and L2 than we have seen in recent years, the more typical difference might be returning now the bigger clubs have been cleared out. The EFL is a different entity to NL so I don't think it's automatic that it should be 3 promotion places necessarily. There has been a gradual reducing of the gap between the two entities and so maybe it should change, but I'm not 100% convinced of it yet.

I think there is less difference between L1 and L2 than between championship and L1 or premiership and championship, so in that respect more promotion spots between L2 and L1 makes sense.

Ask me in a couple of weeks and I might give a different though.
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I’d just have the one team going down out of league 2, starting from today
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I certainly think the top level of Non-League should be incorporated into the Football League. Most of the teams at that level are predominantly full- time professional with a high percentage of ex FL teams anyway. This would return the Football League back to the original structure of 92 teams.


It would be 96 but I agree with you!


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I’ve always thought 3 up 3 down would make sense in the football league so prem to L2, so I’d change that.
Even when we were there I believed the National league should be 2 up, for me non league should be harder to get out of and drop into, otherwise there is no separation of league/non league.
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It’s so easy to be swayed by your current circumstances. I was all for it , I’m not anymore 😬
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