Thinking ahead to next season

[BFR]

another has been making his calculations for his excellent website click here to give a picture of how the leagues will look next season. On the basis of league positions a few days ago Tony has suggested we will be moved over to the Southern Premier Division, along with Windsor and Staines.

 

The full division would be

 

Aylesbury, Banbury, Bath City, Bedford, Chesham, Cirencester, Evesham, Gloucester City, Halesowen, Hednesford, Hitchin, Maidenhead, Mangotsfield, Rugby Utd, Slough, Staines, Team Bath, Tiverton, Uxbridge, Willenhall, Windsor and Yate Town.

 

Would be interesting! That would be our sixth change of division in as many years. Long way to go this season before any of this is conclusive of course

[charlie]

HITCHIN! my home town.... awwww

[Woody SUFC]

i hope not! We'd miss out in AFC Wimbledon!

[Nathan]

i'd be glad to miss out on afc wimbledon

[Barry Scott]

why?

[Matt]

I'd love to play them personally. I don't think they'll steamroller whichever league they're in next season.

[Nathan]

that way we won't get stuffed and wound up on this forum

[GarySTFC]

Who's to say we'd get stuffed? Hendon beat them in an earlier round in the Trophy, Staines beat them in a friendly recently, so it appears they have to do a bit of work before being ready to stuff teams in this division.

[Woody SUFC]

Gary my bet is they'd get a whole new team in the summer. No point in having a team that would steam roll us lot this season when they've got worse but cheaper players now

[Chris]

AFC will need a clear out next summer when they go out I think as I don't think their current team are good enough to win the league. Have a lot of ex hendon players and have Ant Howard playing centre back, and although Ant is a good player - can be dodgy at CB. I think we'd beat them...

[A Rebel and a Saint]

why would we get moved? they only restructured it last year <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

[Woody SUFC]

ARAAS- It's so the numbers in each league are equal i guess. I can see us moving leauges every few seasons

[A Rebel and a Saint]

oh right....

 

i suppose it depends on who goes up and down?

[Woody SUFC]

you got it.

[A Rebel and a Saint]

<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/excited.gif" alt="" /> yay me!

[Staines-upon-Thames Rebel]

Woody is the "us" Windsor or "us" Slough your new adopted club.

[Tuffley Rebel]

A switch to the Southern League would be fine for me, that would put six matches within half hour of me.

Also I've watched Glos City a few times this season and the standard of football is rubbish, most of the Isthmian teams would find it easy in the Southern League. A lot of the SL teams have got fat, old blokes playing for them.

[BFR]

I've read many times on the Salisbury forum that they have found it difficult getting used to the ryman league style of play. Your description of fat blokes turning out runs true with a few of their porky players. However, as for finding it easy I'm not sure - after all two of the teams who went from Ryman to SPL are in the bottom four at the moment.