11-03-2021, 18:35
The only fact anyone knows about Sutton is the name of their ground. Playing elsewhere might work for a season, but their current team looks good enough to stay up no problem. What then?
As for finance, well their biggest ever signing is Harry Beautyman. Now I know about him, but what can anyone else tell me and he is one of their current stars. That doesn't sound like Harrogate where the millionaire chairman is the manager's dad to me. Commuter belt teams have the advantage of being able to recruit from rejected Premier League academy products - they have the disadvantage that everyone has the opportunity to be a fan of a big team and they don't feel the pull of a home town identity.
Sutton have often been up with the pacesetters in this league and have always fallen back. If Sutton was a racehorse the trainer would be reaching for blinkers.
All that said they are top because so far they have been the best team. But if we can beat Maidenhead I'm sure that given the choice between a blizzard putting the game off and a trip to Whittington Moor, Sutton would be choosing the former (and I wouldn't blame them!)
I think Chesterfield playing home games at Mansfield would have made social distancing look like congestion. Rotherham couldn't pack an athletics track down the road at Meadowhall.
As for finance, well their biggest ever signing is Harry Beautyman. Now I know about him, but what can anyone else tell me and he is one of their current stars. That doesn't sound like Harrogate where the millionaire chairman is the manager's dad to me. Commuter belt teams have the advantage of being able to recruit from rejected Premier League academy products - they have the disadvantage that everyone has the opportunity to be a fan of a big team and they don't feel the pull of a home town identity.
Sutton have often been up with the pacesetters in this league and have always fallen back. If Sutton was a racehorse the trainer would be reaching for blinkers.
All that said they are top because so far they have been the best team. But if we can beat Maidenhead I'm sure that given the choice between a blizzard putting the game off and a trip to Whittington Moor, Sutton would be choosing the former (and I wouldn't blame them!)
I think Chesterfield playing home games at Mansfield would have made social distancing look like congestion. Rotherham couldn't pack an athletics track down the road at Meadowhall.