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Don’t think it’s going to happen, but is concerning that we are getting more southern teams in the league whilst losing northern and midlands clubs.
Isn't that inevitable though? When football started many southern towns would look down on football (and rugby league), preferring rugger and cricket. Nowadays it's pretty much the most popular sport in 95% of towns. Football has expanded along with the population, that's why we need 4 divisions in the Football League. If Sutton get into the league it will be the first-ever club in Surrey (although technically I think it's in Greater London now). |
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The National league, is as strong now as it has ever been. A team struggling in Div 2 of The Football League will find life tough in the league below. Anyone who thinks it will be easy to simply bounce back up, because of our history, will be in for a shock. We all know how hard it was last time. Well let me tell you having watched that level of football a fair bit over the last few years, it aint got any less competitive. A "good" National league team would be comfortable mid table Div 2. Just a heads up about next year, it won't be easy. UTM
I agree, you just have to look at all the ex league teams are in it. Chesterfield, Notts Cty, Hartlepool, Yeovil, Torquay, Stockport, Wrexham, Aldershot, Barnet, Halifax and Dagenham under other guises. Only 2 are going up and Sutton seem to be favourite, so probably one ex league team leaves loads of them. |
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If we go down then I agree with others that it will just not be a case of turning up and winning in the conference. For a start, how many of this years players, and I believe our game numbers is something like 45/46 players used, are better then most of the conference players. Also it’s a fair bet that Hurst will still be in charge, well it took him 5 years last time.
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Stockport were very confident that they would get out of the NL this season and have been a little bit surprised at the scrap they're having to get a play off place.
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Stockport were very confident that they would get out of the NL this season and have been a little bit surprised at the scrap they're having to get a play off place.
The problem is that with only one automatic promotion place, if a club spends big (like Crawley, Fleetwood, and Luton did in different seasons while we were down there), the best you can hope for is a scramble for the play offs. And as we saw, the play offs can be a bit of a lottery or decided by dubious refereeing decisions. There are now so many decent sized former EFL clubs down there that getting out is far from easy. If we go down this season there is no telling how long it will take to escape. |
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I think one of the only positives is that the vast majority of those 40 odd players are out of contract. A couple, yes will probably have to be paid up to get them off the books but hopefully we will be looking at a full scale rebuild, and a clean slate.
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You’d think that a lot of the teams in the NL will be skint next season and will have the extra expense of paying the debt that they’ve pretty much all saddled themselves with to finish this season which will give us an advantage. Hopefully we’ll escape but if we don’t the new owners will be looking for a quick return to the league and give us a more than competitive budget.
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You’d think that a lot of the teams in the NL will be skint next season and will have the extra expense of paying the debt that they’ve pretty much all saddled themselves with to finish this season which will give us an advantage. Hopefully we’ll escape but if we don’t the new owners will be looking for a quick return to the league and give us a more than competitive budget.
And don't we also get parachute payments too? With that, the possibility of the Dembele money coming in, proper investment from new owners and not being saddled with loans that the other clubs are burdened with, if the worst is to happen at least we'd be in a decent position to rebuild and have a proper go at coming straight back. Still hoping for a miracle and that this situation doesn't materialise. |
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Isn't that inevitable though? When football started many southern towns would look down on football (and rugby league), preferring rugger and cricket. Nowadays it's pretty much the most popular sport in 95% of towns.
Football has expanded along with the population, that's why we need 4 divisions in the Football League.
If Sutton get into the league it will be the first-ever club in Surrey (although technically I think it's in Greater London now).
I remember an article in WSC over 30 years ago about how geographically skewed League football was. It pointed out the size of MK and the lack of a League club there. IIRC it also mentioned Crawley, a growing new town that could support a football team. Sadly prophetic article. |
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