national league

[Mick]

Or complete change with, premiership (20 teams with 3 down) championship (24 teams with 3 up, 4 down), then regional leagues there after (24 teams with 2 up/4 down) to improve the gates at games as there would be more local teams. May make it harder to get promoted though but improved gates would be offset

Sounds remarkably like the system that got binned in 1958 (apart from your unsatisfactory 8 teams going out of the League each year)

 

[Justleavingwork]

Sounds remarkably like the system that got binned in 1958 (apart from your unsatisfactory 8 teams going out of the League each year)

not sure why eight teams would go out the league they would just go to the regional league which were pro level? What was the reason the leagues changed in 1958, I don’t really understand the history of the change and the weird four down from league one to two?

 

[grif]

Still a chance of a trip to Weymouth next season for MM

 

[superblue24]

Perhaps a question already answered, but with Macclesfield out of business, how does it work with promotions and relegations between L2 and NL?

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Still a chance of a trip to Weymouth next season for MM

Hope not!.

 

[flangejackrabbit]

Perhaps a question already answered, but with Macclesfield out of business, how does it work with promotions and relegations between L2 and NL?

Good point, null and voiding N/S puts a different complexion on that

 

[Shrimper]

Good point, null and voiding N/S puts a different complexion on that

It doesn't really. No relegation and the usual 2 up/ down. It just means there'll be 23 teams next season.

 

[southendkid]

Good point, null and voiding N/S puts a different complexion on that

They'd need to relegate 3 sides from League 2 to make up the numbers (which won't happen since that would leave League 2 short, not to mention it's unfair to increase the relegation spots), they'll probably just do 23 teams again next season.

 

[rigsby]

Hope not!.

Why not?

Be a nice weekender for a preseason friendly In August. Possibly the first proper game any of us have seen for over a year.

Plus the good people of Weymouth will have a huge and much needed cash boost....When the red hot League 2 favourites rock up

 

[Stuart W]

They'd need to relegate 3 sides from League 2 to make up the numbers (which won't happen since that would leave League 2 short, not to mention it's unfair to increase the relegation spots), they'll probably just do 23 teams again next season.

It might only be 22 (so an even number), depending on what they do with Dover.

 

[superblue24]

It doesn't really. No relegation and the usual 2 up/ down. It just means there'll be 23 teams next season.

I wouldn't imagine that would be the case. That means that there will always be a team not playing every weekend. If Dover are kicked out, then that obviously changes things again.

 

[Shrimper]

I wouldn't imagine that would be the case. That means that there will always be a team not playing every weekend. If Dover are kicked out, then that obviously changes things again.

Would be the easiest outcome. Good luck promoting a team fron regional

 

[crangoner]

National League promotion 'to continue' - BBC Sport

Promotion and relegation between the EFL and National League will continue this season, says the National League's interim general manager Mark Ives.

www.bbc.com

 

[MisterStubbs]

National League promotion 'to continue' - BBC Sport

Promotion and relegation between the EFL and National League will continue this season, says the National League's interim general manager Mark Ives.

www.bbc.com

I don’t know how comfortable I am with this. On one hand I still believe that should we finish in the bottom two then we absolutely deserve to lose our football league status but on the other, how can we drop down in to a league and be replaced with a team where the integrity of the league is somewhat ruined. With no relegation from the NL and one team all but pulled out, the league is a right mess.

 

[brigg blue]

So the national league say they will have promotion but still no word from the FA or EFL to confirm it, It's like me saying I've shagged Kelly Brook, no-one should believe it until it is confirmed by her

 

[Medway Blue]

I don’t know how comfortable I am with this. On one hand I still believe that should we finish in the bottom two then we absolutely deserve to lose our football league status but on the other, how can we drop down in to a league and be replaced with a team where the integrity of the league is somewhat ruined. With no relegation from the NL and one team all but pulled out, the league is a right mess.

I agree. It's difficult because you don't want to come across as biased and looking for a way to weasel out of a deserved relegation. But the National League is a farce and anything other than null-and-void is, in my eyes, a bigger hit to 'sporting integrity' than null-and-void would be.

 

[Stan33]

I agree. It's difficult because you don't want to come across as biased and looking for a way to weasel out of a deserved relegation. But the National League is a farce and anything other than null-and-void is, in my eyes, a bigger hit to 'sporting integrity' than null-and-void would be.

Null & void x 2?????

 

[Rob1920]

So the national league say they will have promotion but still no word from the FA or EFL to confirm it, It's like me saying I've shagged Kelly Brook, no-one should believe it until it is confirmed by her

You as well?! Bloody hell she told me I was the only one.

 

[Dave Smiths Love Child]

Still a chance of a trip to Weymouth next season for MM

Be like when we went to Lincoln for Tilly/Brush, but other way around

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

I'm still wondering how the seven who voted against are surviving?
I suppose a reccy would provide the answer, but the money had run out at places like Wealdstone a month ago.
As for Dover, if they are kicked out, I'd like to see whether they mount a legal challenge.