I thought we'd beat Wycombe, or rather that they would lose to us. I don't think they can handle promotion, but I'm often wrong! I told our local shopkeeper on Saturday morning, who likes a football bet that his footie bet was going down, because Leicester had no hope at Palace, Liverpool wouldn't beat Stoke, and his own home town team, Newcastle would struggle against West Brom. Right every time. I also told him we'd beat Wycombe! Predictions turn all of us into fools. Nostradamus had the right idea, make predictions in such a way that anybody can interpret them to mean whatever comes to pass.
It was interesting to note that Evatt went for a more physically capable team, benched Weir and McCourt, brought in Binnom-Williams and Smith. Maybe Gozie can get 30 minutes in midweek.
I would have thought that we will shortly see some mutually agreed cancellation of contracts, because players and even their agents will not want to sink to the level that their wages might take us, even though their performances might suggest that is where they should be playing. If they take us to the Evo-Stick, they'll have become Evo-Stick players and their careers will be over.
I would have thought EVEN AC and DA would have plans for what they intended to do WHEN we were relegated. SURELY Dancing and I can't be the only geniuses who saw where we were going two years ago and by the first weeks of this season were totally convinced? Big red signs were flashing at Christmas, and once we'd looked at the new signings we'd spent weeks netting .........well .............. John Cleese an' the bleedin' obvious, surely even the slowest of learners had sussed which way the wind was blowing?
One point to take into account is that at the end of the season non-league is re-jigging its structure and below the National League promotion and relegation is taking account of that. The sudden dumping of a financially dubious former EFL club into this re-organisation is the last thing they want as would be Sutton winning the play-offs and refusing to dig up their pitch. It is certainly not good news for the Vanarama that Eastleigh's entire financial support just went to Sunderland. As Matt points out Macclesfield were promoted on a tiny budget. They remain in financial dire straits. Danny Whitaker is one of the favourites to be non-league player of the year, but his achievement in helping the club into the EFL again is one that will also be a headache for the club he loves. Dagenham have the nous of John Still to help them survive but they had to sell their big wage-earners for peanuts this year to even get to the end of the season. Hartlepool cost their new owner £1 and although they do have one prominent supporter backing them, the new owner has not got a great record in football. Chester and Torquay go down a level in financial turmoil .........
Although there are some good players at non-league level much of it is hanging financially by very thin threads.
It was interesting to note that Evatt went for a more physically capable team, benched Weir and McCourt, brought in Binnom-Williams and Smith. Maybe Gozie can get 30 minutes in midweek.
I would have thought that we will shortly see some mutually agreed cancellation of contracts, because players and even their agents will not want to sink to the level that their wages might take us, even though their performances might suggest that is where they should be playing. If they take us to the Evo-Stick, they'll have become Evo-Stick players and their careers will be over.
I would have thought EVEN AC and DA would have plans for what they intended to do WHEN we were relegated. SURELY Dancing and I can't be the only geniuses who saw where we were going two years ago and by the first weeks of this season were totally convinced? Big red signs were flashing at Christmas, and once we'd looked at the new signings we'd spent weeks netting .........well .............. John Cleese an' the bleedin' obvious, surely even the slowest of learners had sussed which way the wind was blowing?
One point to take into account is that at the end of the season non-league is re-jigging its structure and below the National League promotion and relegation is taking account of that. The sudden dumping of a financially dubious former EFL club into this re-organisation is the last thing they want as would be Sutton winning the play-offs and refusing to dig up their pitch. It is certainly not good news for the Vanarama that Eastleigh's entire financial support just went to Sunderland. As Matt points out Macclesfield were promoted on a tiny budget. They remain in financial dire straits. Danny Whitaker is one of the favourites to be non-league player of the year, but his achievement in helping the club into the EFL again is one that will also be a headache for the club he loves. Dagenham have the nous of John Still to help them survive but they had to sell their big wage-earners for peanuts this year to even get to the end of the season. Hartlepool cost their new owner £1 and although they do have one prominent supporter backing them, the new owner has not got a great record in football. Chester and Torquay go down a level in financial turmoil .........
Although there are some good players at non-league level much of it is hanging financially by very thin threads.