The EFL are short one club anyway after Bury. If the EFL wanted then Barrow could go up, but that would mean the National League would have 23 teams unless someone worked out a play off between Nat North and South to fill that place.
If the EFL were to promote four from Div 2 to Div 1 and relegate just three then that would just be the start of the moving the absence of Bury down the pyramid. It would seem sensible to fill up the EFL, let our League run for a season a team short with only three to be relegated and complete the whole sad re-shuffle on a full season (hopefully at the end of next season).
The only bit of Barrow's case for promotion which falls flat to me is Evo's argument that the whole town will be devastated if they are denied promotion. As they struggle to get more than 2,000 through the gates it seems to me only extreme tunnel vision could lead anyone to conclude that this would amount to devastation.
If the EFL were to promote four from Div 2 to Div 1 and relegate just three then that would just be the start of the moving the absence of Bury down the pyramid. It would seem sensible to fill up the EFL, let our League run for a season a team short with only three to be relegated and complete the whole sad re-shuffle on a full season (hopefully at the end of next season).
The only bit of Barrow's case for promotion which falls flat to me is Evo's argument that the whole town will be devastated if they are denied promotion. As they struggle to get more than 2,000 through the gates it seems to me only extreme tunnel vision could lead anyone to conclude that this would amount to devastation.