NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2022/23….

[MK Iron]

We are fortunate he wont be in this National League club.

I’m pretty sure I’ve played for Sunday league teams he probably wouldn’t have got a game with and certainly he wouldn’t have got two.

Bet he has a cracking YouTube highlights reel that convinced Cygnet he was a player.

[Anonymous]

GK – Foster

RB – Millen
RCB – Boyce, Rowe?
LCB – Taft, Young
LB – O’Malley, Lewis

RM – Feeney
CM – Beestin, Moore-Billam
CM – Gallimore, Shrimpton
LM – Wilson

CF – Nuttall, O’Neill
CF – Hallam

[Awaywego]

The national league salary cap as been kicked down the road for now, maybe not so good news for us.

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alcazar

[cassidystash]

Anonymous wrote:

GK – Foster

RB – Millen
RCB – Boyce, Rowe?
LCB – Taft, Young
LB – O’Malley, Lewis

RM – Feeney
CM – Beestin, Moore-Billam
CM – Gallimore, Shrimpton
LM – Wilson

CF – Nuttall, O’Neill
CF – Hallam

This squad has no place on a thread with this title.

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[Anonymous]

WIP.

[TwoWrights]

Anonymous wrote:

WIP.

Had Jonathan Ross died? 🙄

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[Deereyme66]

Women’s Institute Post (WIP)?

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[Northumbiron]

Work in progress.

Slow progress at that!

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cassidystash

[Anonymous]

Wrexham are 6/4 clear favourites to win the league in 22-23.

Chesterfield & Notts County come next on 10/1

Scunny are ‘mid table’ – 25/1 to finish as Champions.

[Sharp_Shooter24]

If this club (under the current shambolic owner) finish top 10 I’ll be gob smacked!

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alcazar

[Beefykeefy]

Our problem next season,apart from us being crap is, with us been an ex-league club, and a big club in the NL, the smaller clubs will up their game and see Scunny as a scalp….UTI

[Pat O’Cake]

I would rip your arm off to finish 1 place above the trap door right now.

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[Ferrite]

Beefykeefy wrote:

Our problem next season,apart from us being crap is, with us been an ex-league club, and a big club in the NL, the smaller clubs will up their game and see Scunny as a scalp….UTI

Do you reckon? I’m not sure we’re that much of a big noise, even in this league. We’ll get a bit of an idea when the TV games are announced but I doubt we’ll be on BT anywhere near as often as Notts County, Chesterfield, Wrexham or even the Cods were last season.

[MK Iron]

We will get on BT Sport if we manage to be challenging in and around Wrexham, Chesterfield and Notts County.

Not full of optimism on that front.

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alcazar

[Deereyme66]

I can see some opposition warming to the idea of thrashing a side who was in the Championship not so long ago and whose supporters may think they’re too big for non league. Big scalp? Kind of.

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[Iron-awe]

I never think we are too big or too small to be anywhere in football, division wise, except where we deserve to be based on the ability of the current team, whatever era. This crap you hear from some fans of bigger clubs who have fallen out of say the Premiership into the Championship and say, ” this is wrong we deserve to be in the Premiership because we are a big club “, absolute bull poop IMO. Performances over a season dictate where you end up as a football club, big small or medium sized club, you deserve your league position on that fact alone not who you are or how big you are.

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[Ferrite]

Deereyme66 wrote:

I can see some opposition warming to the idea of thrashing a side who was in the Championship not song long ago and whose supporters may think they’re too big for non league. Big scalp? Kind of.

Maybe – some of the clubs like Dorking which have come from way down the pyramid, for sure. But a lot of the clubs we’ll play will probably consider themselves to be “bigger” than us (whatever that means).

[Pat O’Cake]

I don’t believe we are too big to be in the NL, we are there because we were by some distance the worst side in the entire football league, and we were the worst side because of mind boggling ineptitude by the Swann family, not because of the size of our club.

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[Siderite]

Ferrite wrote:

Deereyme66 wrote:

I can see some opposition warming to the idea of thrashing a side who was in the Championship not song long ago and whose supporters may think they’re too big for non league. Big scalp? Kind of.

Maybe – some of the clubs like Dorking which have come from way down the pyramid, for sure. But a lot of the clubs we’ll play will probably consider themselves to be “bigger” than us (whatever that means).

That will only apply to Chesterfield, Notts County, Oldham, Southend and Wrexham.

Torquay, Halifax, Aldershot and York are on a par. The rest are definitely smaller. Not like it means anything.

I spoke to a Morecambe fan a year ago and they said they couldn’t believe they were ahead of the likes of Scunthorpe, who they saw as a traditional league club.

We are where we deserve to be, but in terms of club size we are not akin to Maidenhead, Solihull or Eastleigh.

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Ferrite

[Deereyme66]

Absolutely deserve to be where we are. All about perceptions though. My comments about some clubs perhaps wanting to beat us more than others is more about opposition teams and fans under the illusion that our club and supporters think they / we are bigger and better than them, which is far from the case. Those clubs that haven’t fallen from grace like us will definitely raise their game though. Going to be tough.

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[Anonymous]

Deereyme66 wrote:

I can see some opposition warming to the idea of thrashing a side who was in the Championship not so long ago and whose supporters may think they’re too big for non league. Big scalp? Kind of.

Oldham as an ex Prem team are going to get it then!

[Anonymous]

Iron-awe wrote:

I never think we are too big or too small to be anywhere in football, division wise, except where we deserve to be based on the ability of the current team, whatever era. This crap you hear from some fans of bigger clubs who have fallen out of say the Premiership into the Championship and say, ” this is wrong we deserve to be in the Premiership because we are a big club “, absolute bull poop IMO. Performances over a season dictate where you end up as a football club, big small or medium sized club, you deserve your league position on that fact alone not who you are or how big you are.

True.
It is, what it is!

[Beefykeefy]

Beefykeefy wrote:

Our problem next season,apart from us being crap is, with us been an ex-league club, and a big club in the NL, the smaller clubs will up their game and see Scunny as a scalp….UTI

[Anonymous]

Siderite wrote:

Ferrite wrote:

Deereyme66 wrote:

I can see some opposition warming to the idea of thrashing a side who was in the Championship not song long ago and whose supporters may think they’re too big for non league. Big scalp? Kind of.

Maybe – some of the clubs like Dorking which have come from way down the pyramid, for sure. But a lot of the clubs we’ll play will probably consider themselves to be “bigger” than us (whatever that means).

That will only apply to Chesterfield, Notts County, Oldham, Southend and Wrexham.

Torquay, Halifax, Aldershot and York are on a par. The rest are definitely smaller. Not like it means anything.

I spoke to a Morecambe fan a year ago and they said they couldn’t believe they were ahead of the likes of Scunthorpe, who they saw as a traditional league club.

We are where we deserve to be, but in terms of club size we are not akin to Maidenhead, Solihull or Eastleigh.

How does one measure a clubs size?

Trophy’s won?
European exploits?
Stadium capacity?
Squad value?
Squad size?
Average attendance figures?
Season tickets sold?
Playing wage bill?
Transfer sales of Academy players?
Academy facilities?
First team facilities & training grounds?
Sky / BT appearances?
Broadsheet / tabloid coverage?
Shirt sales?
Medical facilities?
I guess the parameters go on and on?

In the attendance table, we were 20th of 24 with an average attendance of 2,781 in 2021-22.

That would have made us the 7th best supported at home in the NL last season.

I’m guessing that our attendances will dip next year – to probably an average of 2,250 ?

To be classed as a ‘big team’ in the NL
– I think you need to be averaging 5,000 plus per game?

[Northumbiron]

The biggest team in the National League will be Oldham.

They were Premier League thirty years ago!

[Siderite]

Notts County may scoff at that, being the former oldest league club and in the top division the season before the Premier League rebranding.

Club size has a lot of subjectivity to it, but given our long stint in the league I think we can say we’re a fair sized club for the division. I never claimed we’re too big for it, no club is for that matter, but we’re bigger than more than half going on history. We’d probably be around 7th or 8th biggest, if taking into account history and pedigree of clubs in the division.

However, I would stress this means little.

[Ferrite]

Anonymous wrote:

In the attendance table, we were 20th of 24 with an average attendance of 2,781 in 2021-22.

That would have made us the 7th best supported at home in the NL last season.

It will certainly fall with a reduction in visiting supporters next season – Borehamwood, Wealdstone, Woking, Maidenhead etc. aren’t going to bring the sort of numbers that Bradford or Mansfield did last season.

[Deereyme66]

That’s because they’re only small clubs. Not like us…only joking!

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[Anonymous]

GK – Foster

RB – Rowe
RCB – Boyce
LCB – Taft, Young
LB – O’Malley, Lewis

RM – Feeney
CM – Beestin, Moore-Billam
CM – Gallimore, Shrimpton
LM – Wilson

CF – Nuttall, O’Neill
CF – Hallam

[cassidystash]

If more than 6 of those are in the first starting 11 we’ve got big problems.

[Author]

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