Scunthorpe.

Quoted from It Bites

According to some of their faithful now the mighty Macclesfield aren’t going up , operation urine the league part 2 is on 😂😂😂 . Operating on half the budget with a novice manger

It will be interesting to see how their gates hold up going into a second season down there , I suspect the regular 4k might be a distant memory .

Quoted from Mappers

It will be interesting to see how their gates hold up going into a second season down there , I suspect the regular 4k might be a distant memory .

They haven’t really had a regular 4k - a couple of big crowds when it looked like they going out of business and a couple of big crowds near the end of season, including community day with free tickets. More like a regular 3-3.5k, still good considering they had loads of sub 2k crowds in previous periods in the 4th tier, but they’ve been watching a winning team.

A couple of years of mid-table NLN and numbers will drop off significantly.

Sorry, what’s Macclesfield got to do with anything?

Quoted from RonMariner

Sorry, what’s Macclesfield got to do with anything?

They’d have been another big club (relatively speaking) at Scunny’s level, had they been promoted. They’re are averaging 3,000 gates at the level below the NLN, and don’t carry quite the same baggage as Scunny - they’re on the ascendency, so they’d have posed a sizeable threat to their promotion hopes next season.

Macc were in the play-offs of the Northern Premier League (promotion to the Conf. North).  However they lost in the final to Marine.

I presume the Scunny link is their fans thinking Macc  would be a force if they were in their league and the absence of them makes their pending championship win much more straight forward.  Of course they've absolutely no recent reference point of underestimating anyone at that level, such as the mighty Tamworth or Boston.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Macc were in the play-offs of the Northern Premier League (promotion to the Conf. North).  However they lost in the final to Marine.

I presume the Scunny link is their fans thinking Macc  would be a force if they were in their league and the absence of them makes their pending championship win much more straight forward.  Of course they've absolutely no recent reference point of underestimating anyone at that level, such as the mighty Tamworth or Boston.

I think Bury are the biggest club in the northern section of the pyramid aren’t they. Three levels down at the moment. Might still get back to the EFL before Scunny or Macc.

Lost their own play-off final earlier this week.  Definitely a strong threat at that level now they seem to have solved the splits within their fanbase.

I don't follow it that closely but looks like they've had a few crowd trouble issues.  Not sure if they've somehow managed to attract a buffoon following or it's just a case that grounds at that level can't cope with their levels of support, just checked and they were issued just 350 tickets for their final at Wythenshawe Town (as the higher placed team in the league).

Sold over 1000 ST’s already , incredible effort too be fair

Funny how adversity can strengthen your fan base. Our spells in non league have given us much better support than we had before particularly away from home.