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Post by pucklegas on Apr 19, 2020 13:38:49 GMT
See the papers are reporting they might split the league in two for next season North and south meaning we would play only half the games, to save travel and costs wondering how the club would then price season tickets at, and what happens to those of us who would have renewed, £410 for 11 games sounds expensive, what do you think and now we could do with a fans rep on the board to advise.
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Post by axegas on Apr 19, 2020 13:44:34 GMT
If they only played half the home games next season, they obviously wouldn't keep season ticket prices the same would they? That's just common sense. Can't see how it would really work anyway, there are a disproportionate number of clubs in the north compared with the south.
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Post by Marshy on Apr 19, 2020 13:44:38 GMT
See the papers are reporting they might split the league in two for next season North and south meaning we would play only half the games, to save travel and costs wondering how the club would then price season tickets at, and what happens to those of us who would have renewed, £410 for 11 games sounds expensive, what do you think and now we could do with a fans rep on the board to advise. Ken Masters? |
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Post by spiess1 on Apr 19, 2020 14:10:53 GMT
If they only played half the home games next season, they obviously wouldn't keep season ticket prices the same would they? That's just common sense. Can't see how it would really work anyway, there are a disproportionate number of clubs in the north compared with the south. eg Gloucester City....been in the south, been in the north. |
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Apr 19, 2020 14:14:55 GMT
Oh yea really cheap to get to southern teams like Southend, where you'll be doing more miles and travelling time than visiting some midland teams in the Northern Section..
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Post by darkbluegas on Apr 19, 2020 14:24:28 GMT
They may as well arrange games on the moon for all the chance there is of playing any games soon. The whole premier league and EFL talk of resumption is just a way of keeping the customers tied in.
We need to abandon this season before anyone even thinks about playing next season.
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Post by gasheadbatesy on Apr 19, 2020 15:19:36 GMT
They may as well arrange games on the moon for all the chance there is of playing any games soon. The whole premier league and EFL talk of resumption is just a way of keeping the customers tied in. We need to abandon this season before anyone even thinks about playing next season. Why abandon this season? Would it not be better to finish it when safe to do so, even if they can’t re-start it for a year? |
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Post by Charlton Hayes Gas on Apr 19, 2020 15:27:38 GMT
Would it only be league 1 teams or an amalgamation of league 1 and 2ne teams?
No idea how it would work and how you revert back to league 1 and 2 afterwards. But for one season only I wouldn’t be against being in a league with Swindon, Plymouth, forest green, Yeovil potentially, Newport, Cheltenham and Walsall.
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Post by lpgas on Apr 19, 2020 15:38:12 GMT
The problem is, if you go to a regional league system as was Div 1 North and South you would find it hard to go back to how it is now. Lets say next season in Division 1 South The winners of that league are Crawley and runners up Forest Green. Rovers finish in 14th place and Wycombe finish 15th. The season after they go back as it is now, technically the lower half of Division One South would be the following seasons League 2. ie Rovers and Wycombe are now in Div 2
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Post by lpgas on Apr 19, 2020 15:41:11 GMT
The Football League North and Football League South divisions of the Football League were created temporarily for the League to continue through the Second World War while limiting the amount of movement that was required by teams. The leagues started in 1940; however there was only one full season, in 1945–46. Previous seasons were, in a sense, bit-part leagues with clubs only playing teams that were generally local. An example of this is that in the 1942 Football League North Leeds United played Middlesbrough, Gateshead, Newcastle United, Doncaster Rovers, Sunderland, Bradford Park Avenue, York City, Halifax Town and Huddersfield Town, which they played Home and Away in succession.[1]
The two leagues consisted of all the members of The First and Second Divisions of the Football League split on a purely geographical basis. The 1945–46 full season was instituted as a precursor to the resumption of the previous divisional split in force prior to World War II. As the war had only just finished travel was sometimes difficult to arrange, many of the players were still away and the teams often included guests.
Sheffield United were the Champions of League North and Birmingham City were the Champions of League South for the only full season in 1945–46.
Results and players' contributions do not tend to be included in official statistics.
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Post by darkbluegas on Apr 19, 2020 16:18:00 GMT
They may as well arrange games on the moon for all the chance there is of playing any games soon. The whole premier league and EFL talk of resumption is just a way of keeping the customers tied in. We need to abandon this season before anyone even thinks about playing next season. Why abandon this season? Would it not be better to finish it when safe to do so, even if they can’t re-start it for a year? [b I just feel it seems pointless now. Some clubs will be returning in a psychologically very difficult state having lost loved ones and friends. Most players will take an absolute age to get match fit again some will be fearful they’ll soon be losing their jobs as the clubs are going bust. It makes no sense, the remainder of this season will bear little resemblance to the season so far. It would, I believe be more respectful to those who have died and to those that are dealing with this issue on the front line to abandon the season and focus all our efforts in supporting each other. |
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 19, 2020 17:01:10 GMT
Oh yea really cheap to get to southern teams like Southend, where you'll be doing more miles and travelling time than visiting some midland teams in the Northern Section.. Yes. Welcome to the absurdity of some of the positioning of non league clubs at levels 6 and 7 (NLN and NLS and the Southern League and Northern Premier League). Gloucester City and Bishops Stortford have both been 8n the northern leagues at times. Of course what happens is that once they know the 22/24 teams in the league then judgements made about whether they are ‘north’ or ‘south’. At the moment every mad cap idea is circulating. Pretty sure this one won’t be adopted. UTG! |
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Post by Dirt Dogg on Apr 19, 2020 17:26:45 GMT
I’m all for abandoning this season and starting fresh when we can, forget all the legal cases etc, when people’s lives are at stake there should be no discussion.
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Post by Gassy on Apr 19, 2020 18:04:13 GMT
I’m all for abandoning this season and starting fresh when we can, forget all the legal cases etc, when people’s lives are at stake there should be no discussion.Whilst I agree, people don't unfortunately care. It will still happen anyway. I think all the talk is of games being played behind closed doors anyway. I reckon they'll be playing by June, tbh |
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 19, 2020 18:33:10 GMT
I think it'll be fun to have rather than north and south leagues to have a temporary system of quartered leagues. e.g. south west, north west, south east, north east. Just as a one off to limit excessive travel (and thus spread of disease once it quietens down)
Depending how it gets drawn up it could get interesting - could be us and city fighting it out for the south west!
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Post by lmgas on Apr 19, 2020 20:21:02 GMT
I think it'll be fun to have rather than north and south leagues to have a temporary system of quartered leagues. e.g. south west, north west, south east, north east. Just as a one off to limit excessive travel (and thus spread of disease once it quietens down) Depending how it gets drawn up it could get interesting - could be us and city fighting it out for the south west! Think you'd find Cardiff and Swansea are the best teams in our region! |
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Post by amgas on Apr 19, 2020 20:51:17 GMT
Sounds like an excuse to introduce regional leagues - sorry don't buy into this. If you needed less games in a season play teams once either home or away, there would need to be a random method to decide if you played each team home or away, sure someone can come up with a way of doing that.
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Post by gashead1981 on Apr 19, 2020 22:15:02 GMT
I think it'll be fun to have rather than north and south leagues to have a temporary system of quartered leagues. e.g. south west, north west, south east, north east. Just as a one off to limit excessive travel (and thus spread of disease once it quietens down) Depending how it gets drawn up it could get interesting - could be us and city fighting it out for the south west! Knowing us we would lose to Plymouth |
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Post by aghast on Apr 19, 2020 23:07:42 GMT
I think someone else already suggested that we should abandon next season, but should complete this season whenever it's allowed. Totally unfair to deprive clubs of the chance to win promotion and titles given we're so far into 2019-20.
The remaining time could be made up of one-off regional cup competitions.
I'm sure a mini cup of South West clubs would be very popular, given the circumstances. Perhaps non League clubs could compete too.
Torquay, Exeter, Plymouth, Yeovil, Bath City, Us, Them, FGR, Cheltenham, Weymouth, Swindon, and perhaps Bournemouth. And even Southampton and Pompey since they don't belong in the South East. A few tasty ties there.
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Post by spiess1 on Apr 20, 2020 6:00:58 GMT
That'll be Saints and Bournemouth's U'21s, then.
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