NL Relegation battle

[exilednorthwestu]

Noticing that currently the bottom 9 clubs are all based in the South East, will be interesting to see how they will juggle the teams in the North and South divisions for next season if all 4 relegated teams are Southern based.

[VCLXI]

Looks like it's pretty much nailed on seeing as Chesterfield have a 10 point cushion. What happens in this situation? Do the two most northern National South sides go to the National North? That's what I'd assume.

[exilednorthwestu]

I'm guessing that will be the case, could be a lot of travelling for a couple of those clubs who do have to move across.

[VCLXI]

Unless my geographical nous is seriously askew Oxford City look like one of the favourites for the move. Weirdly, I seem to remember Felixstowe having to make the move a couple of years ago, although they aren't in the mix this time.

I think that I remember that correctly! Someone will right my possible wrong I'm sure.

[guildrover]

It was Bishop's Stortford and Gloucester City have moved in the opposite direction in recent seasons due to mostly Northern teams going down from the National League in the last couple of years.

It isn't necessarily based on who is further north either, they take into account who would have easiest access to getting North i.e. being close to the M1, M40 or M5 etc.

[VCLXI]

Plus it also sounds like the Northern sides are better than the Southern.

[Andy K]

Braintree will be relegated on Saturday if they fail to beat Gateshead and Dover get a point at Solihull and Boreham Wood beat Barrow. Maidstone could well join then in a couple of weeks bearing in mind their next two games are against Harrogate and Salford.

Not surprising really as they finished 6th I believe last season and sneaked in via the play offs.

In terms of more South teams in the bottom half than the north, that's a little skewed by the fact there are 14 "South" and 10 "North" teams in the division, but that's not enough to really explain the disparity, especially when you look at the current play off spots - 5 North and 2 South in there. When you look at League 2, it's the other way round in terms of North/South sides - probably around 10 who would go into a South league and 14 that would go North.

Oh and in terms of being transferred between the two league, Gloucester are nailed on to be the first choice for that. But anyone remember when there were discussions about potentially Chelmsford or even Boreham Wood being moved from the South to the North?

[I'm leaving at 5 nil]

Are Carshalton guaranteed national south if promoted ? On a great run , right in the play off mix

[jr]

Mar 27, 2019 9:23:23 GMT Andy K said:

Braintree will be relegated on Saturday if they fail to beat Gateshead and Dover get a point at Solihull and Boreham Wood beat Barrow. Maidstone could well join then in a couple of weeks bearing in mind their next two games are against Harrogate and Salford.

Not surprising really as they finished 6th I believe last season and sneaked in via the play offs.

In terms of more South teams in the bottom half than the north, that's a little skewed by the fact there are 14 "South" and 10 "North" teams in the division, but that's not enough to really explain the disparity, especially when you look at the current play off spots - 5 North and 2 South in there. When you look at League 2, it's the other way round in terms of North/South sides - probably around 10 who would go into a South league and 14 that would go North.

Oh and in terms of being transferred between the two league, Gloucester are nailed on to be the first choice for that. But anyone remember when there were discussions about potentially Chelmsford or even Boreham Wood being moved from the South to the North?

I don't know if it's true but I was informed that Gloucester can't be put in the north as they've already done that and there's an agreement that they can't be put there again for a number of years.

[Andy K]

Mar 27, 2019 11:26:11 GMT jr said:

Mar 27, 2019 9:23:23 GMT Andy K said:

Braintree will be relegated on Saturday if they fail to beat Gateshead and Dover get a point at Solihull and Boreham Wood beat Barrow. Maidstone could well join then in a couple of weeks bearing in mind their next two games are against Harrogate and Salford.

Not surprising really as they finished 6th I believe last season and sneaked in via the play offs.

In terms of more South teams in the bottom half than the north, that's a little skewed by the fact there are 14 "South" and 10 "North" teams in the division, but that's not enough to really explain the disparity, especially when you look at the current play off spots - 5 North and 2 South in there. When you look at League 2, it's the other way round in terms of North/South sides - probably around 10 who would go into a South league and 14 that would go North.

Oh and in terms of being transferred between the two league, Gloucester are nailed on to be the first choice for that. But anyone remember when there were discussions about potentially Chelmsford or even Boreham Wood being moved from the South to the North?

I don't know if it's true but I was informed that Gloucester can't be put in the north as they've already done that and there's an agreement that they can't be put there again for a number of years.

I know that was put into place for Worcester a few years back - the league promised not to move them for 3 years, and during that time that forced Gloucester to move to the North, but I don't know if that agreement is still in place. May be a moot point of course as they are only 1 point above a relegation spot and could go down this year, then it could be all sorts of possibilities!!