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Post by dinkydoo on Jan 23, 2018 9:05:44 GMT
I am led to believe that if Solihull or Guisley escape relegation and Barrow or Gateshead go down with us (if we do)that would mean we would go into the vanarama South .this would be a total disaster going into the north would at least mean some local games but I would be really concerned for our attendances playing only southern teams
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Post by Lobster on Jan 23, 2018 9:09:09 GMT
This would not happen. They don't just take the clubs that get relegated and put the two northernmost and southernmost in the corresponding divisions. They take all the clubs at Conference North/South level and split them accordingly. Usually, it means a club like Gloucester, Oxford City or Bishop's Stortford gets shifted from North to South or vice versa. No way we'll be playing in the Conference South next season.
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Post by arthurmorris on Jan 23, 2018 10:06:06 GMT
This would not happen. They don't just take the clubs that get relegated and put the two northernmost and southernmost in the corresponding divisions. They take all the clubs at Conference North/South level and split them accordingly. Usually, it means a club like Gloucester, Oxford City or Bishop's Stortford gets shifted from North to South or vice versa. No way we'll be playing in the Conference South next season. I agree, it won't happen, although living in Norfolk, life would be lot easier for me if it did. As a matter of interest Lowestoft Town were promoted to the sixth tier in 2015 and, much to their frustration, were allocated to the then Conference North. They held on for two seasons but travelling times and costs were their undoing and they are now back in tier 7 and struggling to avoid relegation to tier 8. The permutations depend on the teams promoted to tier 6 as much as those relegated from tier 5.
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Post by Lobster on Jan 23, 2018 10:18:41 GMT
Yes, it's about taking everyone due to playing at tier 6 that season and splitting them across two divisions. Looking at the current Conference North, there are eight or nine clubs south of Chester in there, so no danger that we'll be moved to the Conference South.
The pre-2004 set-up of a Northern, Midland and Southern League at tier 6 actually worked much better than the current one. The issue with the pyramid at the moment is that it's bulked up with Southern teams. Two of the three leagues that feed into tier 6 are Southern, so inevitably this is going to affect the geography of the Conference North and South. This is also why a lot of tier 9 teams in the North East are reluctant to move up the divisions. They would have no local games and their travel costs would be enormous.
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Poppa
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Post by Poppa on Jan 23, 2018 10:24:43 GMT
Geography not your forte I take it?
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Post by canadianexile on Jan 23, 2018 11:45:30 GMT
Geography not your forte I take it? Calm down
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Post by Charfield Blue on Jan 23, 2018 12:17:31 GMT
Bath City, Chippenham, Weston Super Mare & Gloucester. Get in, I'm all for it. (one of those winking smiley things for the hard of thinking)
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Post by Rio Doherty on Jan 23, 2018 15:57:16 GMT
Bath City, Chippenham, Weston Super Mare & Gloucester. Get in, I'm all for it. (one of those winking smiley things for the hard of thinking) What about Truro? 😉
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Post by Charfield Blue on Jan 23, 2018 19:44:06 GMT
Bath City, Chippenham, Weston Super Mare & Gloucester. Get in, I'm all for it. (one of those winking smiley things for the hard of thinking) What about Truro? 😉 Bit too far for me that Rio.
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Post by hackett on Jan 23, 2018 20:38:25 GMT
Teams in Essex/Hertdordshire have often ended up in the Conference North so don't know why we wouldn't end up in the South.
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Post by Zvonimir Boban on Jan 23, 2018 20:47:45 GMT
Teams in Essex/Hertdordshire have often ended up in the Conference North so don't know why we wouldn't end up in the South. Thats the reason we wouldn't end up in the south tbh. There are that many southern based teams in the 48 clubs that make up National League North/South that they have had to put teams like Bishop Stortford, Oxford City etc etc in the North!
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