[Devongone]

After the bookies reaction last season I can't say I'm surprised to see our odds. They just want to tempt people in to have a bet on the basis of very little information. At the moment smaller clubs like Barrow and Bromley are doing a good job of securing (quite decent) players anxious to get a team for next season and sort out their future. Bigger names like Notts County and Yeovil have only just discarded and are sorting themselves out for a new season at a different level. Fylde and Harrogate are the clubs with a bit of stability who could build on their current success, Solihull could join them if they can keep Tim Flowers, but if they don'tthen relegation might threaten once again ....... and then there's Wrexham forever grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory. I'm not sure about Stockport's mongrel version of part and full-time, and Torquay, despite the enthusiasm of the success-starved fans, is very much the Johnson show.

What we're doing now I've no idea, have you? Sheri did recruit us a good team once upon a time and clearly does know what he's doing, but he also failed to recruit at all the following season when his four-year contract provided him with so much security we were immediately relegated. No doubt he'll tell us he has irons in the fire. Personally I hope they're not EFL players on the way down, hoping for time, space and a slower pace in the National League. Cos they won't find it.

If they made me have a bet now I'd go for Fylde. But at the moment we'd don't even know if Gateshead or Aldershot will be the 24th team in the league do we?