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Non League Football.

Billericay Town hope to be in the football league in five years, and the next stage is to reach the Premier League. No one can say they are not setting their targets rather high..
 
Non league week during the the Int break - took in a game at Woking as was up there for the weekend

Slightly undeserved 1 - 0 win v Dagenham & Redbridge puts us into 3rd place (on goal diff) only 1 point behind the league leaders. Over 2500 crowd there which is good at this level for most of the clubs.

Decent start for us, but only 6 points between 1st & 10th (plus 3 or 4 clubs not that much further behind) - lose a game in this league & you can easily drop 6 places & we are a third of the way through the season already.
 
Truro City are the first team from Cornwall to reach the first round of the FA Cup in nearly 50 years.
 
Southern Premier League side Merthyr Town were beaten 13-1 at Chesham.

Merthyr saw 80% of their squad leave this week because of a financial crisis and fielded a development squad of teenagers and their goalkeeper is just 15 years old.
 
Woking still within sight of the playoff zone though clearly squad size is a problem - only named 3 subs today & brought all of them on in a draw v Maidenhead
 
Woking have got a good manager! And my friend is their strength and conditioning coach!
 
YoungWolf said:
Woking have got a good manager! And my friend is their strength and conditioning coach!
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Agree with that - previous manager had run out of time & nearly managed to get us relegated last season

Been impressed with the little I have seen of them this year. Still a struggle though as they are still not a fully prof (in the sense that they are not full time rather than the fact that they act in an amateur way) team in a league that a lot of other sides are ex league
 
Stourbridge are in the final of the Birmingham Senior Cup having beaten WBA 3-1 this evening.
 
Cyber-_-man said:
Sorry to go ressurecting an old thread but I somehow missed the play off changes in the national league for this season when they were announced. Looking at them now it looks a great system. Hope the league adopts it. The principle means that the higher up you finsih is an advantage either in a home match or less games close together. I like that. http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/the-national-league/new-playoff-plans-rolled-national-league/
if youre interested.
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Decent system, but not one that will affect my second team Woking this year - now in very serious danger of relegation to the Nat League South with 2 games to go. Even winning both won't guarantee survival.

Started really well this season with a new Manager, but have fallen away badly - cost him his job & was replaced by the celebrated (at least in Woking) Geoff Chapple, though he must be getting on a bit now as he was Manager for some of their better years which must 20+ yrs ago!
 
Isn't that the same system as MLS have used for a while now?

Much better than the Football League method where it doesn't really matter whether you're 3rd or 6th.
 
I wouldn't want shithouse teams who finish 8th or whatever in the Championship being rewarded.

We'd have made the playoffs under Hoddle, for instance.
 
They've made a mess of the structure a level below though and introduced a Midland League across the width of the country. Currently Hednesford will be playing Kings Lynn and Lowestoft next year, but potentially not their derby 8 miles up the road in Stafford.

I've always liked the old system at Step 3 and below. 2nd plays 5th at home, 3rd plays 4th with the highest placed winner staging the final. Financially that won't happen in the FL, but is the fairest in my view.
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
I wouldn't want $#@!house teams who finish 8th or whatever in the Championship being rewarded.

We'd have made the playoffs under Hoddle, for instance.
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We would have made the play offs in the first year back in the championship under KJ too, so every cloud and all that
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
I wouldn't want shithouse teams who finish 8th or whatever in the Championship being rewarded.

We'd have made the playoffs under Hoddle, for instance.
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"It's a tough league...46 games, Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday. Games against local rivals" (etc)

Well done on finishing 3rd...The team in 8th will now be promoted to the Premier League because their form over the season means they really deserve it!

Fucking hate the Play Offs, money making bollocks that Sky lap up for "the richest game in football"
 
The playoffs are a good idea, otherwise in so many seasons teams would have bugger all to play for after Christmas. What would have been the point in Millwall's run for instance if 3rd place was going up automatically?

Extending them though is a no for me. It's worked for 30 years, don't mess with it.
 
Looks like the same system as the NFL playoffs. Three rounds, automatic bye and home field advantage for the top seed, etc.
 
I guess it depends on if you subscribe to the theory that points won early in the season become less representative of the team as time goes on.

Personally, I'd just as soon have playoffs done away with entirely. If you must have them, they're best done in a Best of 5 or Best of 7 series.
 
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